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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: [...]
ERA New Horizons Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Style
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010A cinematic feast of riches was served up this year by the ERA New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, from 22 July to 1 August as Poland’s biggest film festival entered its 10th year.
Over 500 films from 50 countries, including 240 features, were shown over the 11 days, with retrospectives dedicated to the [...]
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 [...]
Cluj’s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) celebrates a record edition
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong receiving the Transilvania Trophy from veteran German director Wim Wenders for her debut feature Mundane History and the gathering of the Romanian film community young and old on the stage of Cluj’s National Theatre at the awards ceremony – these are images which will stay etched in the mind from [...]
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 cinema well represented at Locarno International Film Festival
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009German cinema is very well represented at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival (August 5-15) which will be the artistic director Frederic Maire’s fourth and last edition before he hands over the reins to Olivier Pere and takes up the running of the Swiss Cinematheque this autumn.
Cannes 2009 Festival Report
Monday, August 3rd, 2009When Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Das weisse Band (The White Ribbon) was awarded the Golden Palm at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, few in the press corps would disagree. After all, this was Haneke’s sixth appearance ‘in competition’, so in a sense he had already paid his dues and thus seemed, throughout the festival, to [...]
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 [...]
37th FEST Belgrade
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Alone the fact that over 90,000 admission tickets were sold made the 37th Belgrade International Film Festival – FEST (20 February to 1 March 2009) one for the books. Thanks for a roving festival staff headed by Miroljub “Mica” Vukovic, top quality entries were booked from Europe’s leading film festivals (Cannes, Venice, Locarno): Stephen Daldry’s [...]
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