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Wim Wenders
Beat Wismer (Generaldirektor der Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast), Bernd Desinger (Direktor Filmmuseum Düsseldorf), Hans-Georg Lohe (Kulturdezernent Stadt Düsseldorf), Donata und Wim Wenders, Petra Müller(Geschäftsführerin der Film- und Medienstiftung NRW), Marc Jan Eumann (Medienstaatssekretär des Landes NRW).
People around the globe have seen the films of Wim Wenders, many have been affected by them, and some of these f...
Peter Zumthor at his Atelier with black canvas. A Short film by Wim Wenders. Arsenale, Venice. Sketch by Nesta 30/08/12 Venice.
Bringing together a uniquely interdisciplinary team of scientists, filmmakers and industry leaders 3D FLIC (3D Film Innovation Consortium) bridges fundamental research in stereoscopic perception with the development of stereoscopic 3D (S3D) film language and production, while building the capacity of the S3D production clusters in the Greater Toronto Area.
Initiated by York University, the 3D Film Innovation Consortium brings together a uniquely interdisciplinary team ...
He was born in August 1912. At twelve years-old, he became a paper boy, at seventeen, a criminal reporter for The New York Graphic, at twenty, a ghost writer, at thirty, a decorated soldier. Scorsese said of him that “when you respond to a Fuller film, what you’re responding to is cinema at its essence. Motion as emotion. Fuller’s pictures move convulsively, violently. Just like life when it’s being lived with genuine passion”. This week, we celebrate Samuel Fuller’s centennial.
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European Film
Melancholia Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany (130 min.) Director: Lars von Trier
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth
European Director
Susanne Bier In A Better World / Hævnen
European Actor
Colin Firth The King's Speech
European Actress
Tilda Swinton We Need To Talk About Kevin
European Screenwriter
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne The Kid with a Bike / Le gamin au vélo
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award
Manu...
The President:
Wim Wenders, Director, Germany
Wim Wenders attended the Academy of Film & Television in Munich, worked as a film critic for various German publications, and was a founding member of Filmverlag der Autoren. In 1976 he set up his own production company, Road Movies, and, in 2002, Reverse Angle. Often hailed as one of the most important German directors on the international scene, Wenders has received various international awards, including the Golden Lion (TH...
Members of the Board of the prestigious film institution European Film Academy have been honorary guests of the Cinema City 2012 in Novi Sad.
Krzysztof Zanussi
One of the annual board meetings of this world-renowned institution took place at Cinema City International Film Festival. The president of EFA is the renowned director Wim Wenders, the chairman of Board is French producer Yves Marmion, while Deputy Chairmen are German Oscar-winning director Volker Schlöndorff...
The new edition of Cinema City International Film Festival 2012 officially starts Saturday, 16 of June with the projection of "La Conquete," by Xavier Durringer, witty story based on biography of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. During the eight-days of festival it will be screened about 100 films most of which are premieres!
The unique opportunity to see films from international festivals familiarize with the exotic, high-quality cinema from around the world,...
If you love beautiful things and you want to be moved, you must see PINA, the documentary by Wim Wenders.
It captures some of the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch’s 40 dances, using 3-D technology that draws you into the dance in a way that’s never been filmed before. And it’s earthy! Where else have you seen dancers ooze into actual dirt, fling themselves into water and rock, burst through woods in spring, or dance a lonely arabesque on a concrete island surrounded...
These two films got
big audience responses last week at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.
“Pina,” a 3-D documentary
about the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch, starts with her
re-envisioning of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” as a thrilling discovery of
female sexuality. The film jumps—you cannot gently segue away from “Rite”—into
other dances she choreographed, along with brief interviews with her dancers.
When Wenders voices that this is no...
2nd. Malatya International Film Festival will be held from 18th to 24th November 2011. With the support of the Malatya Apricot Research, Development and Promotion Foundation and Malatya Governorship, festival is led by Malatya Governor Ulvi Saran and organized by World Mass Media Research Foundation. The Festival will be bringing the best Wim Wenders films to the festival goers in Malatya this year. One of the most important representatives of the ‘New German Cinema’, Wim Wend...
More good news for the South East European film community! CINEMA KOMUNISTO, a documentary about the Yugoslav movie industry, has just won the 2011 Gold Hugo Award for Best Documentary at Chicago International Film Festival. The doc's tagline is " When reality has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves?"
Mila Turajlić, the film’s director, had the honor of having her first feature doc in the internationa...
sehsüchte 2011's retrospective was dedicated to German filmmaker Wim Wenders.
Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, draws to a close today following a spectacular weekend of diverse programming, surprise screenings and special guests.
Telluride Film Festival screened twenty-eight new feature films in its main program, six film revivals selected by Guest Director Caetano Veloso, nine Backlot programs, nine classics and restorations, 30 shorts and student films, and hosted nine seminars and conversations between...
At a film festival that totals more than 250 feature films (not to mention an additional 250 features in the accompanying European Film Market), one can only skim the surface of an event as wide-ranging as the Berlinale. Film choices are often based on schedule availability....grabbing a screening in between meetings or making sure one is awake to catch the early morning press screenings of the Competition program. In a sense, one only gets a random taste of the very far-flung program...
Impressions of the Berlinale. Red carpet "Closing Night"
VIPs: Dieter Kosslick, Heike Makatsch, Wim Wenders, Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Asghar Farhadi,
Diane Kruger, Isabella Rossellini
Impressions of the Berlinale. Red carpet "PINA"
VIPs: Wim Wenders, Herbert Grönemeyer, Claudia Roth, Marie Bäumer, Dieter Kosslik, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of
the Federal Republic of Germany, Christian Wulff, Federal President of Germany
On Saturday, February 19, the 61st Berlin International Film Festival will come to a splendid conclusion with the award ceremony. 1600 guests are expected at the gala in the Berlinale Palast, where from 7.00 pm onwards the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears, the Golden and Silver Bears for the Short Films, the Alfred Bauer Prize as well as the Best First Feature Award will be announced. Following the ceremony, the winner of the Golden Bear will be presented as closing film of this...
Storytelling expanded at the Berlinale Talent Campus #9: Panels with Wim Wenders, Heddy Honigmann, Andres Veiel, and Michel Reilhac.“New Horizons in 3D – Storytelling and Producing Redefined” with Wim Wenders, Alain Derobe, Gian-Piero Ringel and Erwin M. SchmidtWhile the Berlinale Talent Campus brings together filmmakers who represent the future of cinema, this year's Campus programme will also address the future look and feel of cinema. Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders, director of masterp...
The first eight titles for the Competition programme of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival have been confirmed. In addition to the opening film True Grit by Joel and Ethan Coen (which is screening out of competition, as announced in the press release on December 7, 2010) another seven productions and co-productions have been selected. They include films from Turkey, the Netherlands, Israel, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the USA.So far the following films have been selected:Biz...
25th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, that will take place from Saturday 13th to Sunday 21st November, confirmed the presence of Bruno Ganz and John Sayles, and the International Competition Jury.Bruno Ganz: angel and evil.An existentialist angel in Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1978), or Adolf Hitler in his last hours in Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2005): two roles that show the diversity of an actor of indelible image and which stayed in every movie-buff’s imagery. Two out of ma...
Wim Wenders at Plus Camerimage Festival
At the 23rd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will Honour Swiss ActorWhether it is as an angel in WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) by Wim Wenders, in the Italian comedy BREAD & TULIPS (2000) by Silvio Soldini, or impersonating Adolf Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel's THE DOWNFALL (2004), Bruno Ganz has lent his face to some of cinema's most unforgettable moments. In the 70s and 80s Bruno Ganz has worked with the greats of German auteur cinema like Werner Herzog (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, 1979), Vol...
This unique festival is an i nterface between theatre,
music and media. It will be held every two years, each time with a
different focus. In 2010 the focus will be on music. Following the Motto
"Music on Screen" filmmakers, media representatives, musicians,
theatre people and directors as well as students and interested
non-professionals will consider this complex subject in all its
diversity in workshops, podium and panel discussions.
Internationsal Artists like Wim Wenders, Irmin Schmidt or the
Catalonian performance group La Fura dels Baus will be our guests at this years Festival.
Stage on
Screen/Screen on Stage - International Festival of Performing Arts &
Media Ludwigsburg, as this three-day event is officially called, has
been initiated by the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg,
the Academy for Performing Arts
Baden-Wuerttemberg ADK, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele
and the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH.
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