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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010The change of Locarno Film Festival’s artistic director from Frédéric Maire to Frenchman Olivier Père this year didn’t see any great change in the festival’s traditional support for films from Germany or made with German partners.
No less than four of the 18 titles selected by Père for the International Competition were produced with German involvement: [...]
German Films Previews Turn 10
Friday, July 23rd, 2010The 10th edition of the German Films Previews saw the showcase of new German productions being presented to around 90
international buyers in Hamburg for the first time from July 15-18. Previously, the event had been held in Munich (six times) and Cologne (the past three years), but the promotion agency German Films decided to travel further [...]
Turkish Delight and 3D: Filmstiftung NRW’s International Film Conference at Medienforum NRW
Monday, July 12th, 2010The regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in May meant that the Medienforum NRW saw its dates this year at the end of June head-to-head with Filmfest München and the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Despite having to cope with this competition as well as sweltering temperatures, the Filmstiftung NRW brought to a compact and [...]
KINO! 2010: New Films from Germany at MoMA, New York (April 2010)
Monday, May 17th, 2010Since last year’s edition New York’s Museum of Modern Art has moved the dates of its annual survey of German films from a dark November slot to a sunny spring one in order to benefit from the new crop of German productions premiering at the Berlinale.
And so this year’s KINO! 2010: New Films from Germany [...]
Edgar – a short film by Fabian Busch
Monday, May 17th, 2010Internationally, German actor Fabian Busch may be best known for his role in Hans-Christian Schmid’s 23 (1998), playing opposite August Diehl, in Oliver Hirschspiegel’s Academy Award-nominated Downfall (Der Untergang, 2004), and, most recently, as Kate Winslet’s defense lawyer in Stephen Daldry’s Oscar winner The Reader (2008). Besides an impressive list of feature film and television [...]
German Films Previews in July 2009
Friday, July 31st, 2009New films by Andreas Dresen, Alain Gsponer, Kaspar Heidelbach and Feo Aladag were among 20 titles presented at the 8th edition of German Films Previews which was held in Cologne for the third time from July 12-15, 2009.
The annual showcase of films in the lineups of German sales companies, which was supported this year by [...]
Panorama Documentaries – Berlinale 2009
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Documentaries are an important part of the Berlinale – and the track record of the last 10 Panorama Audience Awards further confirms this: André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer’s Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (Blind Spot – Hitler’s Secretary) (Austria) won in 2002, Andres Veiel’s Die Spielwütigen (Addicted to Acting) (Germany) in 2004, Tomer Heymann’s [...]
Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Thirtysomething filmmaker Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe, a biopic of a card carrying member of the Nazi party who saved around 250,000 lives in Nanking, China during the Sino-Japanese War, is a nuanced and skillfully crafted narrative. It features fine performances, multifaceted realism and dramatic ironies that make this particular true story truly worth telling. Despite [...]
Deutschland ‘09 – 13 short films about the state of the nation
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009One of the highly anticipated films in the main section of the Berlinale was the German Anthology Collection Deutschland ‘09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (Germany ‘09 – 13 Short Films about the State of the Nation) (Germany, 2009). Initiated and produced by Tom Tykwer and Dirk Wilutzky’s production company Herbstfilm, the [...]
Kai Wessel’s Hilde
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Hildegard Knef – German actress, singer and writer – was an icon of postwar Germany. Born in 1925, she studied acting at the UFA film studios during the Second World War, became a theater and film actress, then a celebrated Broadway star, chansonnier, and later on in life a best selling author. Kai Wessel’s feature [...]
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