Press Conference Highlights "Aloft" by Claudia Llosa (Spanien / Kanada / Frankreich) Claudia Llosa (Director, Screenwriter)  Jennifer Connelly (Actress)  Mélanie Laurent (Actress)  Cillian Murphy (Actor)  William Shimell (Actor)  Jose Maria Morales (Producer)  Ibon Cormenzana (Producer)  Mark Johnson (Executive Producer) Moderation: Anatol Weber   ...

 

The 64th Berlinale is distinguishing the British director Ken Loach with the Honorary Golden Bear for his outstanding body of work.   ...

 

20,000 Days on Earth, a new film featuring Nick Cave and directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2014, picking up awards for best directing and editing, where the jury described it as "documentary storytelling at its most visionary and mind blowing". More info: http://www.20000daysonearth.com Berlinale Press Conference Excerpt ...

 

George Clooney and the cast for his new film "Monuments Men" seemed to be in good mood at the press conference in Berlin, when they suddently started to sing (and whistle again during Q&A).    ...

 

Shia LaBeouf, being not famous anymore, George Clooney, whistling the "Monuments Men" theme, or Tilda Swinton, offering Dieter Kosslick to come an clean sometime - we put together the highights of the first days of the festival for you. Enjoy!   ...

 

 

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Embargo for Berlinale press who may not report about the work in process by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi  The screening of Untitled New York Review of Books Documentary by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is a work in progress and will be presented in three separate excerpts. It is not the completed film, with picture and audio unfinished. For this reason it’s not allowed to publish any kind of reviews after the screening. The screening takes place at February 14, 3....

 

By Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com> "Zwischen Welten" (Between Worlds) a Stark new drama about a German military unit on a peacekeeping mission in a most inhospitable Afghan village has Golden Bear written all over it. It's German, it's political, it's timely, it's depressing, it's unhappy, it's a damn well made military thriller --  and the director, Feo Aladag, is a woman ~ what more could a Berlinale Jury ask for! Of course there are other emoti...

 

Ken Loach Homage Berlinale 2014 The British director talked about his films and working methods. He will receive a Honorary Golden Bear. Ken Loach will be at 16.25 for his Photo Call, followed at 16.35 by a Q&A The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will award British director Ken Loach the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievements at 10 pm in the Berlinale Palast. Polish director Jiří Menzel will give the laudation.. After t...

 

Somewhere in Oaxaca, southern Mexico: 16 years old Mateo lives here in a rural community, where the traditional Zapotec culture is still alive. But on the other hand it´s a poor region from where a lot of the young people migrate to the US. Mateo itself prepares his – dangerous – crossing of the border to reach the almost mythical city of Los Angeles. For this reason he joins a local gang, so that he can draw on their support over there. To be accepted into their circles, he ...

 

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The WCF invites all friends of the WCF, as well as international representatives of the trade and press to the WCF Day on February 12, 2014.   After welcoming words from Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, and WCF project managers Sonja Heinen and Vincenzo Bugno, Jorge Sánchez, director of the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía will present the IMCINE Award. This new prize will be awarded by IMCINE to all Mexican films that receive funding from the World Cinema Fund in the ...

 

After getting off to an exuberant start with the opening film, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, the days that followed saw a superb line-up of stars: Bob Balaban, Christian Bale, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hugh Bonneville, Pierce Brosnan, Nick Cave, Toni Collette, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Brendan Gleeson, Jeff Goldblum, John Goodman, Hannah Herzsprung, Nick Hornby, Diane Kruger, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Aaron Paul...

 

RADiUS-TWC is proud to announceD it has acquired North American rights to PARADISE LOST starring Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro as Pablo Escobar and Josh Hutcherson as a young man who finds himself unexpectedly pulled into the family business after marrying Escobar’s niece.  The film also stars Brady Corbet (MARTHA, MARCY, MAY, MARLENE) and newcomer Claudia Traisac in a breakout performance.   Directed by Andrea Di Stefano making his feature debut, the film w...

 

1999 in Mexico City: „Fede”, his roommate Santos and Fede´s younger brother Tomás hanging out in a spartan housing block apartment somewhere in the big city. They have nothing to do, because the university is currently on strike, the power is turned off and the fridge almost empty. And Fede, also called „Sombra” (shade), is afraid of going to be crazy – because of the Tiger, who is haunting in his head. What fairly desolate starts, becomes in &bd...

 

from Alex at Berlin     A new Nymphomaniac poster has been revealed by the Lars von Trier work shop. Uppity and coming American actor Shia Labeouf wearing glasses like a true intellectual should is pictured approaching an intellectually detached Charlotte Gainsbourg to lap up some love juice. Charlotte holds a half eaten apple of temptation aloft but is absorbed in her reading. Both actors are of course nude. The inspired graphic artist of this thinking man's movie poster must...

 

Shootout at the Norskie Corral is grand Finale of Snowplow Opera  "in Order of Disappearance". Old Bruno Ganz is still full of P. and V.  and Skarsgard is literally awesome. "In Order of Disappearance" (Kraftidioten, or "Power freaks" in German) is the surprise of the week at Berlin. Stellan Skarsgård is a snowplow driver who will stop at nothing to reap revenge on his son's druglord killers in this wildly ribtickling Norwe...

 

 

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Production and acquisitions executive Lars Wiebe has joined leading German distributor SquareOne in the newly created role of Head of German Productions as part of the company’s new strategy to enhance its production division, it was announced today by company CEO, Al Munteanu. On making the announcement Munteanu said: " We are very pleased to add one of the most experienced and successful professionals in the industry to our production and acquisitions team.  Lars is a popula...

 

(From left to right): Nikola Rakocevic (Serbia), Cosmnia Stratan (Romania), Miriam Karlkvist (Italy), Danica Curcic (Denmark), George MacKay (UK), Maria Dragus (Germany),  Marwan Kenzari (The Netherlands), Jakob Oftebro (Norway), Edda Magnason (Sweden) and in front Mateusz Kosciukiewicz (Poland) with Dieter Kosslick (Festival director Berlin International Film Festival) Photo: Harald Fuhr  >>> Download here     Berlin, Monday 10th February 2...

 

Veteran photojournalist's work explored in "The Last Safari" documentary capturing the rich cultural heritage of African region   The Last Safari follows the story of a photojournalist's quest for meaning through the unforgiving landscape of remote Kenya as she sets out in search of the tribes-people she documented a decade earlier, dodging everything from bullets and floods, to heat strokes along the way.  Elizabeth L. Gilbert began her caree...

 

 

As in recent years, the Berlinale has again faced enormous technical and logistical tasks that have arisen from the film industry’s digitisation.   Now that the rollout of digital cinema is nearing completion, one of the greatest challenges for the Festival is distributing the films with their ever larger data volumes. For the first time, the digital screenings at the Berlinale are all being presented in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format. This involved converting the films in adva...