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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm – The Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Films – aka DOK Leipzig – is the most prominent German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animation films. The festival was founded in 1955 by the Club der Filmschaffenden der DDR (Club of […]
Connie Walter’s Schattenwelt – Terrorist’s Long Shadows
Friday, December 19th, 2008In November 2004, German Film Services launched German Premieres, an ongoing presentation of new and noteworthy German films for the US market. This very successful screening series opened with Dennis Gansel’s Napola. Since then, German Film Service NY representative Oliver Mahrdt has presented more than 15 films to the NY industry, ranging from such high-end […]
KINO! 2008 – German Films at MoMA New York
Saturday, November 29th, 2008Each autumn, for the past 29 years, the Museum of Modern Art – together with the Goethe Institute New York, the German Consulate General, and German Films – presents an annual slate of new noteworthy films from emerging and established German filmmakers. This year’s opening film at KINO! 2008 (5-13 November 2008) was Doris Dörrie’s […]
Manfred Schmidt Interview – MDM Leipzig
Monday, November 24th, 2008From 1998 to the present, Manfred Schmidt is the Executive Director of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM). From 1969 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater. This followed a seven-year period of freelance work as author and dramatic adviser. In 1988, he started working as script analyst and author at […]
Progress Film-Verleih – Golzow Premiere at Kino Toni 2008
Monday, August 25th, 2008On 3 April 2008, at Kino Toni in Berlin-Weissensee, the gala premiere of Barbara and Winfried Junge’s …dann leben sie noch heute: Die Kinder von Golzow, das Ende der unendlichen Geschichte (…Then They Are Living Happily Ever After: The Children of Golzow, The End of the Neverending Story), the final episode of The Children of […]
From Filmverlag der Autoren to New German Cinema
Sunday, August 24th, 2008When Dominik Wessely’s documentary Gegenschuss – Aufbruch der Filmemacher (Germany, 2008), a Kinowelt film production, was screened in the middle of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2008) as a “Berlinale Special,” it prompted lengthy essays in the press and talkshows on television. Indeed, Reverse Angle – Rebellion of the Filmmakers scored as […]
Die Kinder von Golzow – KINO Film of the Year 2008
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The story of Barbara and Winfried Junge’s Die Kinder von Golzow, the longest running documentary portrait in the history of the cinema, began in August of 1961 right after the erection of the Berlin Wall and fence separating two Germanys. The idea for The Children of Golzow came from Karl Gass at the DEFA Documentary […]
4th Achtung Berlin! – New Berlin Film Award 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The Fourth Achtung Berlin! – New Berlin Film Award (16-22 April 2008) under Hajo Schäfer added on extra screenings to accommodate an overall attendance topping 10,000 at Kino Babylon. Indeed, Achtung Berlin has become an vital showcase of films produced in Berlin and surrounding Land Brandenburg. This year, five juries were summoned to decide on […]
Volker Hassemer on Dieter Kosslick and Berlinale 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Under Dieter Kosslick Berlin and Berlinale become ever more similar: Dieter Kosslick copied the youth of Berlin, and the Talent Campus was launched. And for Berlin the Talent Campus became one of its grand youth projects. Already, at the very beginning, the Berliners had elevated the Berlinale to a great festival for the public. And […]
Ziegler Film celebrates 35 Years – 1973-2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Back in the early 1970s, when I was asked by my Variety editor if I could pen a couple reviews on German cinema, I looked around to see what was available. Fortunately, I had seen Wolf Gremm’s Ich dachte, ich wäre tot (I Had a Feeling I Was Dead) (Germany, 1973) and Meine Sorgen möcht’ […]
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