Berlinale

  1. Balcony Set to Release "Budrus"

    indieWIRE News &bull Aug 31, 2010

    The award-winning feature doc "Budrus," from director Julia Bacha, will be coming to select theaters nationwide this fall via Balcony Releasing. A hit on the festival circuit, and winner at Tribeca and Berlinale, Balcony will open "Budrus" in New York… Full Story »


  2. Burlinque

    Film Experience Blog &bull Aug 30, 2010

    Behold: The Poster for Burlesque. I think the marketing department deserves kudos for managing to pay homage to both of their leading ladies simultaneously in a way that's flattering to both. Although the hot pink "they airbrushed my face" quality… Full Story »

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  3. Isabella Rossellini tapped to lead Berlin film festival jury

    Hollywood Entertainment Network &bull Aug 30, 2010

    Hollywood Awards. By Sean O'ConnellHollywoodnews.com: The Berlin International Film Festival announced this morning that Isabella Rossellini will lead the festival jury for the 61st annual event, which will be held Feb. 10-20, 2011. It's fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be… Full Story »

  4. U.S. coalition in Rome

    Variety &bull Aug 30, 2010

    Looking to build a real bridge between European producers and the U.S. indie scene, the Rome Film Festival's New Cinema Network co-production mart is launching a partnership with the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program. Five years after its inception, NCN… Full Story »

  5. Isabella Rossellini to preside over Berlinale 2011 Jury

    Dear Cinema &bull Aug 30, 2010

    The Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20, 2011). "It's fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011," says… Full Story »

  6. Isabella Rossellini to head Berlin festival jury

    Kansas City Star &bull Aug 30, 2010

    Actress Isabella Rossellini will lead the jury at the annual Berlin International Film Festival in February. Full Story »

  7. German helmer Schlingensief dies

    Variety &bull Aug 25, 2010

    Schlingensief cemented his reputation early on as an eclectic and influential enfant terrible whose works of political expression included satirical film works such as 1989's "100 Years of Adolph Hitler," which screened at the Berlin Film Festival, and 1990's "The German Chainsaw Massacre," a gory post-unification tale about a brutal West German… Full Story »


  8. German director Schlingensief dies at age 49

    Boston.com &bull Aug 21, 2010

    ARCHIV - Regisseur Christoph Schlingensief, aufgenommen am 5. Februar 2009 in Berlin. Der Theaterregisseur und Drehbuchautor Christoph Schlingensief ist tot. Er starb am Samstag, 21. August 2010, nach einem zweieinhalbjaehrigen Krebsleiden im Alter von 49 Jahren. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski) ---… Full Story »

  9. Strand Heads to the "Red Hill" in November

    indieWIRE &bull Aug 20, 2010

    Strand Releasing has picked up U.S. rights to the Australian thriller "Red Hill." The film, Patrick Hughes's directorial debut that premiered at the Berlinale, stars Ryan Kwanten (Sookie Stackhouse's sexy brother on "True Blood") as Shane Cooper, a fresh arrival… Full Story »


  10. Film Movement acquires 'Whistle'

    Variety Online &bull Aug 18, 2010

    Film Festivals: Film won Grand Jury, Alfred Bauer prizes at Berlin -- Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Romanian thriller "If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle," which won the Grand Jury and Alfred Bauer prizes at the Berlin… Full Story »


  11. All's unfair in love and war

    The Japan Times Online &bull Aug 12, 2010

    Once an enfant terrible, who as a young filmmaker challenged censors and outraged conservative critics with everything from surreal SM sex to sympathetic portrayals of Palestinian radicals, Koji Wakamatsu has not mellowed so much as ripened. Unlike many older directors, Wakamatsu still makes films that probe deep into controversial subjects, from the inner and outer journey of a teenage killer ("17-sai no Fukai: Shonen wa Nani o Mita ka [Cycling… Full Story »

  12. Debt Collector Protocol Signs First Clients

    Deadline Hollywood Daily &bull Aug 6, 2010

    These six include banks, sales agents and producers. Unlike other collecting agencies -- which it describes as being more like collecting societies monitoring and distributing cash a Protocol International actually goes out and gets money owed. However, it stresses a… Full Story »


  13. Conversations With Actors

    Screen Comment &bull Aug 6, 2010

    By ALI NADERZAD - August 6, 2010 Before the Locarno Film Festival which opened this week Screen Comment sat down with Golshifteh Farahani, a member of the festival jury.The first thing you notice about her is her eyes. Big, intense, and a gaze that is at times uneasy. She wears almost no make-up-her only whim a pair of fashionable sunglasses which she quickly removes after sitting down… Full Story »


  14. >i/i< named Best First Feature Film at Durban film fest

    Rediff India &bull Aug 3, 2010

    Aamir Khan's much talked about home production Peepli Live has been named the Best First Feature Film at the recently concluded 31st Durban International Film Festival. Helmed and written by Anusha Rizvi in her first directorial venture, the film is a satire on the farmers' suicides and subsequent media and political response in India [ Images ]. South Africa… Full Story »

  15. Berlin Talent Campus seeks applicants

    Variety Online &bull Jul 21, 2010

    BERLIN -- The Berlinale Talent Campus, an educational platform that runs during the Berlin Film Festival, announced on Wednesday it is now accepting applicants for the 350 slots available for its ninth edition, which runs from Feb. 12 to 17.… Full Story »

  16. German Films event draws buyers

    Variety Online &bull Jul 15, 2010

    The attendees rep a record crowd for the annual showcase of German productions that was launched in Munich before moving to Cologne for the past three years, and has now docked in the northern port city of Hamburg. Among the… Full Story »

  17. Bitart boards 'Tontos'

    Variety Online &bull Jul 8, 2010

    PARIS -- Spain's Bitart New Media and Ilusion Optica, the companies behind Roberto Caston's Berlin sales hit "Ander," are reteaming on Caston's sophomore pic, "Los Tontos y los estupidos." A sensitive portrait of a repressed Basque gay farmer, "Ander" rolled… Full Story »

  18. World Cinema Fund hands out coin

    Variety Online &bull Jul 6, 2010

    BERLIN -- "The Prize," the feature film debut of Argentine writer-director Paula Markovitch, is among three projects selected for funding by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund. Produced by Mexican shingle Kung Works, "The Prize" is set in 1977 Argentina during… Full Story »

  19. Kosslick wins Heart of Sarajevo

    Variety Online &bull Jun 24, 2010

    LONDON - The head of the Berlin Film Festival, Dieter Kosslick, is to receive the "Heart of Sarajevo" award from the Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his work to promote film from Southeast Europe. Kosslick, who works closely with… Full Story »

  20. Action Movie Montage 'Pure' Examines Genre Through Visual Repetition

    MTV Movies Blog &bull Jun 8, 2010

    I love this new trend on the Internet of taking a bunch of movies and cutting them up into a montage video, exposing through repetition the artifice of filmmaking. Or to put it another, cutting together a bunch of similar… Full Story »

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