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Foziye’s husband, an employee in the regional oil company, has vanished into thin air. Although her questions remain unanswered about his whereabouts, her faith prevails that he is still alive. During her visit at the local pension centre, she still replies “married” when her marital status is requested. Her life has metamorphosed into an arduous journey, considering her financial hardship and lack of work. Her mother incriminates her inertia, whilst her daughter ince...
Meager, for the most part, is the attempt by Fatih Akin to recreate the unambitious life of Fritz Honka, a schizophrenic killer who, in the seventies of Hamburg, brutally murders and dismembers four prostitutes in his hideous attic.
Unquestionably crowned the most abominable film of 2019, Akin&...
Xaver Böhm is a Berlin based filmmaker. O Beautiful Night, a dark and poetic interpretation of one's fear of death, is his first feature film and it premiered at the Panorama section at the 69th Berlinale, February 7-17 2019.
How did you get the idea to do a film about being afraid of dying?
The fear of dying has always been very present in my life and I wanted to make an honest film, something very personal.
Also, growing up somehow takes ...
Marie Kreuzer is an Austrian writer director and producer. Her latest film, The Ground beneath my feet (Den Boden unter den Fußen) is in official completion at the 69th Berlinale. It tells the story of Lola, a successful consultant who struggles between finding her identity, sexuality and freedom, while being divided between a comfortable lifestyle and her past and her schizophrenic sister.
What was your starting point for the script?
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Sondre Fristad (28) is an award-winning short film director from Bærum, Norway, and is best known for Alex, Kepaza, and Quiet by the River. He has contributed on Swiss Army Man, The King's Choice, Haram, The Dextape and Operation Arctic. He has a bachelor's degree in Creative Arts Film & TV from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. The Writer is his first comedy feature about a young wr...
The Writer is a comedy feature about a young writer with nightmares and problems with his girlfriend. Who ends up playing the lead role in his own movie, things doesn't exactly turn out the way he want it too.
Written & Directed by Sondre Fristad. Produced by Sigurd Fristad.
Country of Production: Norway, 2018
The Film has so far been awarded at the following festivals:
Southern States Fanfilmfestival
Biloxi, ...
(Nora Fingscheidt and Helena Zengel, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
The amazing cast and crew of Systemsprenger (System Crasher), running in Competition at this year's Berlinale, were clearly overjoyed while attending the photo-call and press conference for their remarkable film directed by Nora Fingscheidt. One would never expect that this is her first narrative feature film. She's made a name for herself with directing documentary films....
Alexandr Gorchilin is a breakthrough talent from Russia who surfaced in the festival world from projects by his mentor Kirill Serebrennikov.
Alexandr’s first feature film Acid, part of this year’s Berlinale Panorama section, is a coming of age drama for the reality of Russian teenagers and their struggle to embrace the changes coming in their life, adulthood, family and sexuality. It is a portrayal of Russia’s youngest generations and their heightened sense of ...
(Delphi Filmpalast, Ulrich Seidl with Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska and members of their film team, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
Berlinale 2019 Forum Section opened tonight at Delphi Filmpalast with the world premiere of the Ulrich Seidl-produced Die Kinder Der Toten (The Children of the Dead), a loose adaptation of Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek's 666 page novel that she penned in 1995. Filmmakers Kelly Copper, Pav...
Ramón Salazar arrived at Berlinale 2018 with his spectacular fourth feature "La enfermedad del domingo" (Sunday’s Illness), starring the fierce Spanish actresses Susi Sánchez – as uptight wealthy mother Anabel who left her daughter 35 years before – and Bárbara Lennie – who vividly paints a picture of the pain the adult Chiara carries after having been abandoned at a young age. It's a bit of a surprise and a shame that "...
(Courtesy of Berlin International Film Festival)
Filipino auteur Lav Diaz may not be a household name, but among the film festival circuit he is held in high regard. This was clear at the first two press screenings at Berlinale 2018 that were so packed they turned away quite a few journalists. His rock opera "Ang panahon ng halimaw" (Season of the Devil) clocks in at almost four hours, but hardly feels that long, although those who left mid-screening m...
Carlo Chatrian © Locarno Festival, Michela Di Savino / Mariette Rissenbeek © German Films, Kurt Krieger
Chaired by Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters, the Board of Supervisors of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH (KBB) today approved the selection committee’s proposal to appoint Carlo Chatrian as artistic director and Mariette Rissenbeek as executive director of the Berlin International Film Festival startin...
Eili Harboe - Norway - European Shooting Stars 2018
Interview / Editing: Martin I. Petrov
How are your first impressions from being part of a team of young actors here in
Berlin?
I did not anticipate to be part of it but I am really proud, it is a wonderful opportunity for
everyone, it’s an investment for the future.
You already happen to be part of a successful project, Joachim Trier’s Thelma. How
was your expe...
Jonas Smulders - The Netherlands - European Shooting Stars 2018
Interview / editing: Martin I. Petrov
Have you been to Berlin before, how is your experience before your country’s shooting
star?
I was here once before with a short film and once as a visitor at the festival, it is a great
experience to meet all these people. Also, I have great support from my country and the
Dutch Film institute, really feel empowered and it’s n...
Luna Wedler - Switzerland - European Shooting Stars 2018
Interview / Editing: Martin I. Petrov
Congratulations on being a shooting star. How does it feel to be representing your
country and to have this sudden extra exposure?
It is very exciting, really great to be meeting the rest nine stars, they are all beautiful
humans. I feel very connected to all of them and look forward to exciting times ahead.
You did ballet before g...
Matteo Simoni - Belgium - European Shooting Stars 2018
Interview / editing: Martin I. Petrov
What’s the greatest thing about being in Berlin as a shooting star?
It’s great to meet people with the same goals. I believe in luck and coincidence and that
always the coin will fall on the right side in the right moment. I’m really proud to be
representing Belgium and I am open to see where this journey is going to take me. I am
fort...
One of the most anticipated films of this year's festival, Don't worry, he won't get far on foot by Gus Van Sant premiered yesterday at the Berlinale Palast, part of this year's festival competition programme.
Joaquin Phoenix, who plays John Callahan, a renowned American cartoonist who was bound to a wheelchair after a car accident, became an alcoholic and later on dedicated his life to his art, published in numerous magazines, newpapers and publications. Gus Van Sant ad...
A star-studded press conference opened the 2018 Berlinale, with the full cast of Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs in attendance for the tonight's premiere at the Berlinale Palast.
The stop motion animation takes us to near future Japan, where dogs are being extradited to a trash island away from humans, due to an infectious virus. When the mayor's nephew escapes in an attempt to find his dog Spots, the first that was sent away by his tyrannnic uncle, he sets off to a lifechanging...
This year, Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art is putting on the Forum as part of the Berlinale for the 48th time. The main programme consists of 44 films, 35 of which world premieres. This year’s Special Screenings will be announced in a second press release.
21 years after his directorial debut The Day a Pig Fell into the Well, Korean director Hong Sangsoo makes a more auspicious return to the Forum. Grass is another cheerfully melancholy story about the guests at a...
by Martin I. Petrov
Many years after his last film and having starred in numerous other titles, Stanley Tucci returns behind the camera with Final Portrait, a period biopic drama that follows the last few years of the life of Swiss-Italian painter Alberto Giacometti. Geoffrey Rush stars as the famous painter alongside Clémence Poésy as his prostitute mistress and Armie Hammer as an American writer who becomes Giacometti’s obsession for the perfect portrait...
by Martin I. Petrov
One of the films premiering on the Berlinale red carpet today is The Dinner starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall. The film is directed by Oren Moverman and based on the novel by Herman Koch.
Initially the film had been developed for Cate Blanchett, who had expressed interest in having her directorial debut, but was later attached to Moverman.
A lot of interesting fac...
The Dutch director and screenwriter Paul Verhoeven will serve as jury president of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, held February 9 - 19 2017. The rest of the jury will be announced soon.
“With Paul Verhoeven as jury president, we have a filmmaker who has worked in a variety of genres in Europe and Hollywood. His creative, multifaceted boldness and his willingness to experiment are reflected in the spectrum of his works,” says Dieter Kosslick, director of the Ber...
Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata alongwith Culture Monks , are delighted to present to the cinema lovers in Kolkata the Film Festivals from Europe, 2016. The festival will held from September 30 – October 2, 2016. The venue is the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata.
This festival will feature a selection of films & documentaries, in both long & short format, from film festival circuit around Europe, including, RIFF (Rome Independent Film Festival), Festival del film Locarno, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, & FIFA (Festival International du Film d’Amour de Mons)
Please fill up this form to request for passes. http://goo.gl/forms/T6i1LjEKdUZzfst83
or get your free pass from Explara - http://bit.ly/2cgEnZl
The following eminent personalities from European film circuit, will be in Kolkata for the festival , to interact with the film lovers and speak about their experience in the various aspects of film making and distribution as also about the festival circuit. There will also be a live performance of a tabla recital & other live performances, art installations and exhibition.
From Locarno: Lionel Baier (Film Director)
From FIFA Mons: Mr. André Ceuterick, Executive Officer of the ‘Festival du Film d’Amour de Mons’ (aka FIFA).
From Rome RIFF: Simone Mariani (film director) and Sanjay Kansa Banik (tabla maestro)
The festival is been supported by Iris Home Fragrance, Friends FM & Sampark Publishing.
For more details please visit this link : http://bit.ly/2cKqpOg
by Martin I. Petrov
United States of Love is Tomasz Wasilewski's third feature film, premiering today at the Berlinale Competition. It tells the story of four women in post-communist Poland in early 1990. A dark and simultaneously humorous insight in the lives of female figures and their fights for love.
At the press conference, held early this morning, Wasilewski and the cast presented the film at the last day of competition screenings at the Berlinale.
Julia Kijows...
by Martin I. Petrov
Maggie’s Plan, Rebecca Miller’s new dramatic comedy starring Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke received its European premiere at the 66th Berlinale Panorama section yesterday evening at the Friedrichstadt Palast Theatre.
The film is a contemporary story, following young Maggie who leaves and works in NYC. She is convinced that at the approach of her thirties, she wants to have a child and is seeking a sperm donor....
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