The Berlin Film Festival officially kicked off Thursday evening with an eventful opening ceremony at the Berlinale Palast theater in the German capital.
After a divisive build-up to the fest, the opening ceremony was, in contrast, a relatively conventional affair. High-profile attendees included veteran German filmmakers Wim Wenders and Fatih Akin, Phantom Thread actress Vicky Krieps, and international jury president Lupita Nyong’o alongside her fellow jury members Brady Corbet, Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine Trinca and Oksana Zabuzhko.
The evening’s opening film was Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, who was in attendance with producer Matt Damon and co-star Emily Watson. Directed by Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders), Small Things Like These is the first Irish film to open the Berlinale.
Related: ‘Small Things Like These’ Review: Cillian Murphy Plays A Father In Torment In ’80s-Set Irish Trauma Tale
Before the pic opened, the crowd inside the...
After a divisive build-up to the fest, the opening ceremony was, in contrast, a relatively conventional affair. High-profile attendees included veteran German filmmakers Wim Wenders and Fatih Akin, Phantom Thread actress Vicky Krieps, and international jury president Lupita Nyong’o alongside her fellow jury members Brady Corbet, Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine Trinca and Oksana Zabuzhko.
The evening’s opening film was Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, who was in attendance with producer Matt Damon and co-star Emily Watson. Directed by Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders), Small Things Like These is the first Irish film to open the Berlinale.
Related: ‘Small Things Like These’ Review: Cillian Murphy Plays A Father In Torment In ’80s-Set Irish Trauma Tale
Before the pic opened, the crowd inside the...
- 2/15/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
After kicking off with a feisty press conference, the Berlin Film Festival got even more political as three groups of protesters descended on Potsdamer Platz before the start of opening night festivities.
The first saw around 50 members of the film industry walk the red carpet holding hands. The demonstrators then turned on their phone flashlights and chanted “defend democracy!” while the same phrase was displayed on the Palast’s big screen. The red carpet’s music was turned off for the occasion, and the demonstrators wore pins stating “movies unite, hate divides.” Berlinale organizers had planned this demonstration to highlight their decision to disinvite members of the far-right political party AfD.
Among the talent was Jonathan Berlin, Meret Becker, Luisa Gaffron, Pegah Ferydoni, Roshanak Khodabakhsh Anne Leppin, Jannis Niewöhner, Murali Perumal, Katja Riemann, Lavinia Wilson and Jessica Schwarz.
A group of demonstrators at Berlin Film Festival chant “defend democracy” ahead of tonight’s opening ceremony.
The first saw around 50 members of the film industry walk the red carpet holding hands. The demonstrators then turned on their phone flashlights and chanted “defend democracy!” while the same phrase was displayed on the Palast’s big screen. The red carpet’s music was turned off for the occasion, and the demonstrators wore pins stating “movies unite, hate divides.” Berlinale organizers had planned this demonstration to highlight their decision to disinvite members of the far-right political party AfD.
Among the talent was Jonathan Berlin, Meret Becker, Luisa Gaffron, Pegah Ferydoni, Roshanak Khodabakhsh Anne Leppin, Jannis Niewöhner, Murali Perumal, Katja Riemann, Lavinia Wilson and Jessica Schwarz.
A group of demonstrators at Berlin Film Festival chant “defend democracy” ahead of tonight’s opening ceremony.
- 2/15/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy and Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
"Something's coming to us. Nobody must know." Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for a German space mystery series titled The Signal, arriving for streaming in early March. (We also recommend the US indie film The Signal from 2014.) When an astronaut mysteriously vanishes during a mission, her husband goes to investigate while navigating life as a single parent to their daughter. The exciting mystery drama is a 4-part limited series from Netflix. Florian David Fitz stars as Sven, with Yuna Bennett as his daughter Charlie, and Peri Baumeister as his missing wife Paula, plus Hadi Khanjanpour, Sheeba Chadha, Katharina Schüttler, Nilam Farooq, Meret Becker, and guest star Katharina Thalbach. So what's going on here? She arrived back from Earth but never came back home... Where did she go? Paula was on the Iss. And up there, in the darkness of space, she discovered something. Or didn't she? "There are...
- 2/7/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Where did she go? Netflix has revealed a first look teaser trailer for a new German limited series titled The Signal, arriving for streaming in March. (Also recommend the US indie film The Signal from 2014.) Ever since the success of the series "Dark" on Netflix, they've been trying to replicate that and make more sci-fi thrillers. When an astronaut mysteriously vanishes during a mission, her husband goes to investigate while navigating life as a single parent to their daughter. The exciting mystery drama with Florian David Fitz as the lead writer & lead actor is a 4-part limited series from Netflix. Fitz stars as Sven, with Yuna Bennett as his daughter Charlie, and Peri Baumeister as his missing wife Paula, plus Hadi Khanjanpour, Sheeba Chadha, Katharina Schüttler, Nilam Farooq, Meret Becker, and guest star Katharina Thalbach. She arrived back from Earth but never came back home... Where did she go? What happened?...
- 1/10/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with top German talent agency Players. Headed up by Mechthild Holter and Fabian Haslob, the duo have clients that have worked across recent projects such as Babylon Berlin, Unorthodox and Deutchland ’89. In a rare interview, they tell us why now is a great time for German-speaking talent to cross borders.
With film and television sectors more globalized than ever, international talent has fast become a premium for streamers as they lean in on local language productions in foreign markets to offset stagnant domestic growth. One company at the sharp end of this change is Germany’s Players Agency. The company, which was founded by Mechthild Holter in 1994, represents around 180 actors, writers, directors and cinematographers and is...
With film and television sectors more globalized than ever, international talent has fast become a premium for streamers as they lean in on local language productions in foreign markets to offset stagnant domestic growth. One company at the sharp end of this change is Germany’s Players Agency. The company, which was founded by Mechthild Holter in 1994, represents around 180 actors, writers, directors and cinematographers and is...
- 6/22/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
A series of ironic and satiric videos from some of Germany’s most prominent film and television actors criticizing and mocking new government lockdown measures have sparked a furious online debate, and support from an unlikely source.
Many in the media here have sharply criticized the videos, but members of the far right are applauding
Around 50 well-known German and German-speaking actors, including Vicky Kriebs (The Phantom Thread), Ulrich Tukur (The Lives of Others), Volker Bruch (Babylon Berlin), Heike Makatsch (Love, Actually), and TV stars such as Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker and Ulrike Folkerts, all posted short videos in which ...
Many in the media here have sharply criticized the videos, but members of the far right are applauding
Around 50 well-known German and German-speaking actors, including Vicky Kriebs (The Phantom Thread), Ulrich Tukur (The Lives of Others), Volker Bruch (Babylon Berlin), Heike Makatsch (Love, Actually), and TV stars such as Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker and Ulrike Folkerts, all posted short videos in which ...
- 4/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A series of ironic and satiric videos from some of Germany’s most prominent film and television actors criticizing and mocking new government lockdown measures have sparked a furious online debate, and support from an unlikely source.
Many in the media here have sharply criticized the videos, but members of the far right are applauding
Around 50 well-known German and German-speaking actors, including Vicky Kriebs (The Phantom Thread), Ulrich Tukur (The Lives of Others), Volker Bruch (Babylon Berlin), Heike Makatsch (Love, Actually), and TV stars such as Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker and Ulrike Folkerts, all posted short videos in which ...
Many in the media here have sharply criticized the videos, but members of the far right are applauding
Around 50 well-known German and German-speaking actors, including Vicky Kriebs (The Phantom Thread), Ulrich Tukur (The Lives of Others), Volker Bruch (Babylon Berlin), Heike Makatsch (Love, Actually), and TV stars such as Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker and Ulrike Folkerts, all posted short videos in which ...
- 4/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though little known in the English-speaking world, Erich Kästner’s slim novel originally translated in 1932 as “Fabian. The Story of a Moralist” is a brilliantly astute rendering of life in Weimar Berlin, straightforward and yet surreal, witty and perverse. To tackle it in cinema would seem like an impossible task, and while Dominik Graf’s “Fabian – Going to the Dogs” is to be commended for getting quite a lot right, the movie is blowsy where the book is succinct, awkwardly paced and portentous where Kästner is consistently rhythmical and unpretentious. Set in a teetering world of dissoluteness and disillusion in which a good man without professional ambition awakens to life’s promise only to have it all torn away, the story has modern resonances that Graf (“The Beloved Sisters” among many others) keenly underlines, and while the film’s core is affectingly developed, the rest tries too hard to expose...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Fabian
German director Dominik Graf ends a six year hiatus next year with Fabian, a period piece produced by Felix von Boehm of Lupa Film and Daniel Blum of Zdf. Graf lands Tom Schilling in the lead, with a supporting cast of Saskia Rosendahl. Albrecht Schuch, Eva Medusa Gühne and Meret Becker. Revered for his detective and police television dramas, Graf has twice competed for the Golden Bear in Berlin, with 2002’s A Map of the Heart and his last feature, 2014’s Beloved Sisters. Notably, his participation in the trilogy omnibus Dreileben premiered in Berlin (which included two other segments directed by Christoph Hochhausler and Christian Petzold).…...
German director Dominik Graf ends a six year hiatus next year with Fabian, a period piece produced by Felix von Boehm of Lupa Film and Daniel Blum of Zdf. Graf lands Tom Schilling in the lead, with a supporting cast of Saskia Rosendahl. Albrecht Schuch, Eva Medusa Gühne and Meret Becker. Revered for his detective and police television dramas, Graf has twice competed for the Golden Bear in Berlin, with 2002’s A Map of the Heart and his last feature, 2014’s Beloved Sisters. Notably, his participation in the trilogy omnibus Dreileben premiered in Berlin (which included two other segments directed by Christoph Hochhausler and Christian Petzold).…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A visibly moved Dieter Kosslick received a standing ovation at the opening of the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday as he took to the stage to welcome international stars, filmmakers, and cinephiles for the final time as festival director.
The 69th Berlinale opened with a 1920s-style serenade dedicated to Kosslick by popular German singer Max Raabe and entertainer Anke Engelke, who also hosted the ceremony.
Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture and media commissioner, praised Kosslick for his 18 years at the head of one of the world’s largest film festivals.
Kosslick succeeded in sharpening the festival’s political profile, attracting international stars and filmmakers and ensuring the glamour factor, Grütters said.
“Our Berliner Bear in gold and silver, our beautiful trophy, is our most famous ambassador of film, but only one person can compete with him. That’s you, dear Dieter. And at the opening of your 18th and our 69th Berlinale,...
The 69th Berlinale opened with a 1920s-style serenade dedicated to Kosslick by popular German singer Max Raabe and entertainer Anke Engelke, who also hosted the ceremony.
Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture and media commissioner, praised Kosslick for his 18 years at the head of one of the world’s largest film festivals.
Kosslick succeeded in sharpening the festival’s political profile, attracting international stars and filmmakers and ensuring the glamour factor, Grütters said.
“Our Berliner Bear in gold and silver, our beautiful trophy, is our most famous ambassador of film, but only one person can compete with him. That’s you, dear Dieter. And at the opening of your 18th and our 69th Berlinale,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
A disused newspaper factory in the south of England is to be converted into a film studio complex. The Daily Mail printing press in Oxfordshire has been acquired by media company Rebellion, the games developer, motion capture firm and publishing outfit which owns the 2000 Ad comic book IP, which includes Judge Dredd. The complex is being lined up as a home for Duncan Jones’s Rogue Trooper film and Judge Dredd TV show Mega-City One. Six sound stages will be available at the 220,000 sq ft site, which is due to open in the spring. Rebellion founders Jason Kingsley and Chris Kingsley were producers on the 2012 feature film Dredd and set up Rebellion Productions in 2017 to develop and produce film and TV based on the company’s IP. Variety first reported news of the studio.
Shoot on hit German crime series Babylon Berlin by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and...
Shoot on hit German crime series Babylon Berlin by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and...
- 11/26/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Dozens of European and German film industry reps gathered for a vigil Tuesday outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin to protest the imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and demand his immediate release.
Sentsov, a vocal opponent of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian government and of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, has been held by Russia for more than four years. He was convicted by a military court of terrorism in a trial described by Amnesty International as unfair.
Attendees at the vigil in Berlin held yellow signs saying “Free Oleg Sentsov.” The European Film Academy, which organized the event, issued a grave appeal: “Do not let Oleg die!”, alluding to the fact that the filmmaker has been on a hunger strike in prison since May 14.
Sentsov participated in the 2013 protests in Kiev that brought down the pro-Russian government of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Several months later, in May 2014, he...
Sentsov, a vocal opponent of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian government and of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, has been held by Russia for more than four years. He was convicted by a military court of terrorism in a trial described by Amnesty International as unfair.
Attendees at the vigil in Berlin held yellow signs saying “Free Oleg Sentsov.” The European Film Academy, which organized the event, issued a grave appeal: “Do not let Oleg die!”, alluding to the fact that the filmmaker has been on a hunger strike in prison since May 14.
Sentsov participated in the 2013 protests in Kiev that brought down the pro-Russian government of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Several months later, in May 2014, he...
- 7/10/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Eva Trobisch’s drama also secured a local deal.
Eva Trobisch’s graduation film All Good (Alles Ist Gut) was the big winner at this year’s Munich Filmfest (28 June - 7 July) which closed at the weekend with the German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s sci-fi thriller Anon.
Trobisch’s drama about a woman who is raped and the impact it has on her life took home the German Cinema New Talent Award for best director for Trobisch and best actor for Aenne Schwarz, as well as the prize from the Fipresci international critics jury. It screend in the New German Cinema section.
Eva Trobisch’s graduation film All Good (Alles Ist Gut) was the big winner at this year’s Munich Filmfest (28 June - 7 July) which closed at the weekend with the German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s sci-fi thriller Anon.
Trobisch’s drama about a woman who is raped and the impact it has on her life took home the German Cinema New Talent Award for best director for Trobisch and best actor for Aenne Schwarz, as well as the prize from the Fipresci international critics jury. It screend in the New German Cinema section.
- 7/9/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The German festival runs from June 28 to July 7.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
- 6/26/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Ukrainian filmmaker was sentenced to 20 years in a Russian jail for alleged terrorist activities.
German actresses Meret Becker and Katja Riemann have joined an initiative of the European and German Film Academies and Amnesty International to show continued solidarity with the imprisoned Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov at this year’s Berlinale.
A demonstration to highlight the case of Sentsov, who was transferred to a hard labour camp in Siberia last week, will be held before the world premiere of Mantas Kvedaravicius’s documentary Mariupolis in the CineStar 7 cinema at the festival on Sunday (Feb 14).
In August 2015, Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Russian military court for alleged “terrorist activities”.
German actresses Meret Becker and Katja Riemann have joined an initiative of the European and German Film Academies and Amnesty International to show continued solidarity with the imprisoned Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov at this year’s Berlinale.
A demonstration to highlight the case of Sentsov, who was transferred to a hard labour camp in Siberia last week, will be held before the world premiere of Mantas Kvedaravicius’s documentary Mariupolis in the CineStar 7 cinema at the festival on Sunday (Feb 14).
In August 2015, Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Russian military court for alleged “terrorist activities”.
- 2/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Sebastian Schipper’s Victoria was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards, taking home six statuettes from its seven nominations including the Golden Lolas for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Lead Actor.
Schipper’s one-shot thriller set during a breathless night on the streets of Berlin also picked up Lolas for the Spanish actress Laia Costa, the title character, and the Danish cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen.
Victoria premiered in the Berlinale’s main competition last February where Grøvlen received a Silver Bear, was released in German cinemas on 11 June and is being handled internationally by The Match Factory.
The Silver Lola for Best Film was awarded by the members of the German Film Academy to Edward Berger’s social-realist drama Jack, with the Bronze Lola going to Johannes Naber’s black comedy Age Of Cannibals which deservedly also received the Lola for Best Screenplay for the searing dialogues by the author Stefan Weigl.
Both...
Schipper’s one-shot thriller set during a breathless night on the streets of Berlin also picked up Lolas for the Spanish actress Laia Costa, the title character, and the Danish cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen.
Victoria premiered in the Berlinale’s main competition last February where Grøvlen received a Silver Bear, was released in German cinemas on 11 June and is being handled internationally by The Match Factory.
The Silver Lola for Best Film was awarded by the members of the German Film Academy to Edward Berger’s social-realist drama Jack, with the Bronze Lola going to Johannes Naber’s black comedy Age Of Cannibals which deservedly also received the Lola for Best Screenplay for the searing dialogues by the author Stefan Weigl.
Both...
- 6/22/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Soggy Bottoms: Wnendt’s Latest an Extravaganza of Delightful Perversity
German director David Wnendt’s adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel, Wetlands, is a bildungsroman unlike any other; a perverse, crassly uninhibited sexual memoir of aggressive note, lending itself to a select group of films that manages to be as titillating as it is genuinely and shockingly repulsive. If the dramatic tension of the narrative, which concerns an adolescent female’s struggle to cope with her parents’ messy divorce some years ago, seems a bit banal, it’s because there’s not storyline out there that could possibly combat the overriding hedonistic and gloriously unabashed sexual adventures of a young woman (and film) unfettered by sanitized attitudes toward the human body and its various functions.
A letter to the editor graces the opening credits, which addresses a reluctance to adapt the novel to film, a quick precursor to a blaring...
German director David Wnendt’s adaptation of Charlotte Roche’s novel, Wetlands, is a bildungsroman unlike any other; a perverse, crassly uninhibited sexual memoir of aggressive note, lending itself to a select group of films that manages to be as titillating as it is genuinely and shockingly repulsive. If the dramatic tension of the narrative, which concerns an adolescent female’s struggle to cope with her parents’ messy divorce some years ago, seems a bit banal, it’s because there’s not storyline out there that could possibly combat the overriding hedonistic and gloriously unabashed sexual adventures of a young woman (and film) unfettered by sanitized attitudes toward the human body and its various functions.
A letter to the editor graces the opening credits, which addresses a reluctance to adapt the novel to film, a quick precursor to a blaring...
- 9/4/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Wetlands has released a new trailer.
David Wnendt's scatological German film won critical acclaim when it screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Based on Charlotte Roche's novel Feuchtgebiete, the film centres around Helen (Carla Juri), a young woman proudly disinterested in hygiene.
When a shaving accident sees her confined to hospital, she uses her time to mix fantasy and reality and flirt with a handsome nurse.
Christoph Letkowski, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse and Edgar Selge also star in the film.
Wetlands will receive a limited release in the Us from September 5. It is yet to announce a UK release date.
David Wnendt's scatological German film won critical acclaim when it screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Based on Charlotte Roche's novel Feuchtgebiete, the film centres around Helen (Carla Juri), a young woman proudly disinterested in hygiene.
When a shaving accident sees her confined to hospital, she uses her time to mix fantasy and reality and flirt with a handsome nurse.
Christoph Letkowski, Meret Becker, Axel Milberg, Marlen Kruse and Edgar Selge also star in the film.
Wetlands will receive a limited release in the Us from September 5. It is yet to announce a UK release date.
- 8/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Sundance just ended, and we are already preparing for the next big film festival, South By Southwest. Not too long ago, the festival announced a few of the films premiering this year, but now they’ve announced the main slate. The midnight selections and some inevitable late-breaking additions are still to be announced, but this should be more than enough to get you excited. Along with many World Premieres, and Sundance favorites like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2, the line up also includes an anniversary screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and an extended Q&A screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel with Wes Anderson. SXSW 2014 runs March 7 through 15 in Austin, Texas. Check out the line up after the jump.
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Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,324 films submitted to SXSW 2014. Films screening in Narrative...
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Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,324 films submitted to SXSW 2014. Films screening in Narrative...
- 1/31/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Today the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced a diverse features lineup for this year’s Festival, the 21st edition and running March 7 – 15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. The 2014 program expands on SXSW tradition of embracing a range of genres and span of budgets, featuring a wealth of vision from experienced and developing filmmakers alike.
For more information visit http://sxsw.com/film.
Listed in the announcement are 115 of the features that will screen over the course of nine days at SXSW 2014. The lineup below includes 68 films from first-time filmmakers, and consists of 76 World Premieres, 10 North American Premieres and 7 U.S. Premieres. These films were selected from a record 2,215 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,540 U.S. and 675 international feature-length films. With a record number of 6,482 submissions total, the overall increase was 14% over 2013. The Midnighters feature section and the Short Film program will be announced on February 5, with the complete...
For more information visit http://sxsw.com/film.
Listed in the announcement are 115 of the features that will screen over the course of nine days at SXSW 2014. The lineup below includes 68 films from first-time filmmakers, and consists of 76 World Premieres, 10 North American Premieres and 7 U.S. Premieres. These films were selected from a record 2,215 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,540 U.S. and 675 international feature-length films. With a record number of 6,482 submissions total, the overall increase was 14% over 2013. The Midnighters feature section and the Short Film program will be announced on February 5, with the complete...
- 1/31/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After announcing earlier this month that Jon Favreau’s Chef and the Veronica Mars movie will be making their world debuts at SXSW this year, the festival has revealed its full line-up, including further very promising world premieres, alongside appearances from some of the year’s most high-profile films.
The Midnight programme will be announced early next month, along with the Shorts line-up, and the complete Conference slate a little later as well.
Led by Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Nicholas Stoller’s anticipated R-rated comedy, Neighbors, will be making its world debut at the festival, notably marked out as a ‘work-in-progress’ ahead of its theatrical release in May.
David Gordon Green’s acclaimed Joe will make its Us premiere, having bowed at Venice and then Toronto last year. Early reviews have Nicolas Cage giving one of the finest performances of his career, with Tye Sheridan (Mud) excellent alongside him.
The Midnight programme will be announced early next month, along with the Shorts line-up, and the complete Conference slate a little later as well.
Led by Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Nicholas Stoller’s anticipated R-rated comedy, Neighbors, will be making its world debut at the festival, notably marked out as a ‘work-in-progress’ ahead of its theatrical release in May.
David Gordon Green’s acclaimed Joe will make its Us premiere, having bowed at Venice and then Toronto last year. Early reviews have Nicolas Cage giving one of the finest performances of his career, with Tye Sheridan (Mud) excellent alongside him.
- 1/30/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Not sure if there is a Short Term 12 equivalent in this year’s Narrative Feature Comp, but on paper SXSW programmers are serving up a mean (and the usual lean group of 8 out of a whopping 1,324 film entries) for the upcoming competitiuon of eight which includes notable entries (that we’ve been tracking for a good time now) such as Zachary Wigon’s The Heart Machine, John Magary’s The Mend, Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns and Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries. Undoubtedly one of the most anticipated docs of the year, on the non-fiction side we find Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible. Below you’ll find a breakdown of the other sections (notable world preems in We’ll Never Have Paris and Faults (see Mary Elizabeth Winstead above), some Sundance items with Texan connections and other nuggets.
Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight...
Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight...
- 1/30/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival is right around the corner, and the Sundance Institute has released the full line-up for the competition films that will be premiering!
This year there were 12,218 total submissions, and 117 films were accepted from 37 countries around the world. It looks like there's a lot of good selection of films this year.
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 runs from January 16th to the 26th, and the GeekTyrant team will be there to cover as many movies as we possibly can.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are world premieres and, unless otherwise noted, are from the U.S.
“Camp X-Ray” — Directed and written by Peter Sattler. A young female guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria, John Carroll Lynch.
“Cold in July” — Directed by Jim Mickle, written by Nick Damici.
This year there were 12,218 total submissions, and 117 films were accepted from 37 countries around the world. It looks like there's a lot of good selection of films this year.
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 runs from January 16th to the 26th, and the GeekTyrant team will be there to cover as many movies as we possibly can.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are world premieres and, unless otherwise noted, are from the U.S.
“Camp X-Ray” — Directed and written by Peter Sattler. A young female guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria, John Carroll Lynch.
“Cold in July” — Directed by Jim Mickle, written by Nick Damici.
- 12/5/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Sundance Film Festival continues to be one of the most popular, and arguably one of the most important, events on the industry calendar, launching as it does some of the most prominent independent films at the start of each year.
This year will be no different, with Sundance announcing last night the initial line-up of films screening in competition, led by Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart; Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana; Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, and Swanberg himself; The Skeleton Twins, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell; Life After Beth, with Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and John C. Reilly; Listen Up Philip, with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss; Whiplash, starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and many, many more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films,...
This year will be no different, with Sundance announcing last night the initial line-up of films screening in competition, led by Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart; Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana; Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, and Swanberg himself; The Skeleton Twins, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell; Life After Beth, with Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and John C. Reilly; Listen Up Philip, with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss; Whiplash, starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and many, many more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films,...
- 12/5/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
God’S Pocket
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”
For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. 97 feature films at...
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”
For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. 97 feature films at...
- 12/5/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s among the two sections that we usually don’t put much focus on (yes, we love subtitles, but we’re more concerned, naturally more inclined to cover the deluge of American Indie film offerings) but among the dozen film selections in the World Cinema Dramatic Comp section we find the latest from Argentinean director Natalia Smirnoff (she gave us the Berlin Film Fest winner The Puzzle) who returns with Lock Charmer, we find the highly anticipated film from Hong Khaou (Lilting) and a title which we start speculating on last year in Stuart Murdoch’s God Help the Girl which stars Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray (see pic above). Also worth the mention is the directing debut from writer Eskil Vogt – who co-wrote Reprise and Oslo, August 31st for Joachim Trier. Here are the dozen selected.
“52 Tuesdays” (Australia) — Directed by Sophie Hyde, written by Matthew Cormack.
“52 Tuesdays” (Australia) — Directed by Sophie Hyde, written by Matthew Cormack.
- 12/4/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competition lineups for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival were announced today and just below I have featured pictures from the 16 films that will be competing in the U.S. Dramatic competition and they feature a lot of names you're going to recognize. The titles begin with Camp X-Ray, which stars Kristen Stewart as a guard in Guantanamo Bay, where she forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Jim Mickle made an impact earlier this year with We Are What We Are and he returns with Michael C. Hall with Cold in July. Fishing Without Nets looks to tell a story similar to that of Captain Phillips, only this time from the Somali side of things; God's Pocket is "Mad Men" star John Slattery's writing and directorial debut and he's lined up an impressive cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins,...
- 12/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Versatile actor at Berlin's Schaubühne theatre who made films with Wim Wenders and Eric Rohmer
The German actor Otto Sander, who has died aged 72 after suffering from cancer, made his name as one of the members of Peter Stein's Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, where he developed a versatile but precise stage presence that he brought to all kinds of roles. Sander also had more than 100 credits in film and TV productions, most notably Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (The Boat, 1981), as a drunk and disillusioned U-boat captain, and Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), as one of the two angels in Wim Wenders's magical survey of the divided city.
Born in Hanover, Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated from the Friederichsgymnasium in 1961. He did his military service as a naval reserve officer. In 1965, in his first engagement at the Düsseldorf Kammerspiele, he showed a natural...
The German actor Otto Sander, who has died aged 72 after suffering from cancer, made his name as one of the members of Peter Stein's Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, where he developed a versatile but precise stage presence that he brought to all kinds of roles. Sander also had more than 100 credits in film and TV productions, most notably Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (The Boat, 1981), as a drunk and disillusioned U-boat captain, and Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), as one of the two angels in Wim Wenders's magical survey of the divided city.
Born in Hanover, Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated from the Friederichsgymnasium in 1961. He did his military service as a naval reserve officer. In 1965, in his first engagement at the Düsseldorf Kammerspiele, he showed a natural...
- 9/13/2013
- by Hugh Rorrison
- The Guardian - Film News
Screened
Locarno International Film Festival In Competition
The impact on his friends and family of a man's five-year disappearance forms the basis of Florian Hoffmeister's absorbing drama 3 Degrees Colder, but his screenplay with Mona King could have used more development to make the most of the theme.
Well crafted and acted, the film will draw audiences to its Big Chill-like atmosphere but they may be disappointed by the lack of genuine depth.
On a trip to Spain, Jan Sebastian Blomberg) goes missing and when his friends Frank (Johann von Bulow) and Steini (Alexander Beyer), and his lover Marie (Bibiana Beglau), exhaust any means of finding him, they return to Germany. Frank, however, has spotted Jan alone on the beach but does not reveal this to the others.
Jan stays away for five years and meanwhile Frank and Marie have married, and so has the philandering Steini to the oft-pregnant Jenny (Meret Becker). Jan's brother Olli Florian David Fitz) has met a lovely young musician named Babette (Katharina Schuttler) while his mother (Grischa Huber) pines for her oldest son and endures a distant relationship with their lawyer father (Hubert Mulzer).
Marie also pines for Jan and writes emotional letters to him that she never tries to send. When Frank finds one, however, he decides to mail it to Jan via his family and that is what finally brings Jan home.
Frank's motive in sending the letter and Marie's response to seeing the lover she has yearned for provide rich fodder for an examination of love and loving, but the film fails to go much beneath the surface. All the players do good work with Von Bulow and Beglau especially strong and Fitz and Schuttler very appealing in support.
The film relies greatly on its music to provide emotional resonance and it's a good thing the beautiful score for strings composed by Adrian Corker and Paul Conboy is more than up to it.
Blue Eyes Fiction, Sabotage Films
No MPAA rating
Running time 113 mins.
Locarno International Film Festival In Competition
The impact on his friends and family of a man's five-year disappearance forms the basis of Florian Hoffmeister's absorbing drama 3 Degrees Colder, but his screenplay with Mona King could have used more development to make the most of the theme.
Well crafted and acted, the film will draw audiences to its Big Chill-like atmosphere but they may be disappointed by the lack of genuine depth.
On a trip to Spain, Jan Sebastian Blomberg) goes missing and when his friends Frank (Johann von Bulow) and Steini (Alexander Beyer), and his lover Marie (Bibiana Beglau), exhaust any means of finding him, they return to Germany. Frank, however, has spotted Jan alone on the beach but does not reveal this to the others.
Jan stays away for five years and meanwhile Frank and Marie have married, and so has the philandering Steini to the oft-pregnant Jenny (Meret Becker). Jan's brother Olli Florian David Fitz) has met a lovely young musician named Babette (Katharina Schuttler) while his mother (Grischa Huber) pines for her oldest son and endures a distant relationship with their lawyer father (Hubert Mulzer).
Marie also pines for Jan and writes emotional letters to him that she never tries to send. When Frank finds one, however, he decides to mail it to Jan via his family and that is what finally brings Jan home.
Frank's motive in sending the letter and Marie's response to seeing the lover she has yearned for provide rich fodder for an examination of love and loving, but the film fails to go much beneath the surface. All the players do good work with Von Bulow and Beglau especially strong and Fitz and Schuttler very appealing in support.
The film relies greatly on its music to provide emotional resonance and it's a good thing the beautiful score for strings composed by Adrian Corker and Paul Conboy is more than up to it.
Blue Eyes Fiction, Sabotage Films
No MPAA rating
Running time 113 mins.
Screened
Locarno International Film Festival In Competition
The impact on his friends and family of a man's five-year disappearance forms the basis of Florian Hoffmeister's absorbing drama 3 Degrees Cooler, but his screenplay with Mona King could have used more development to make the most of the theme.
Well crafted and acted, the film will draw audiences to its Big Chill-like atmosphere but they may be disappointed by the lack of genuine depth.
On a trip to Spain, Jan Sebastian Blomberg) goes missing and when his friends Frank (Johann von Bulow) and Steini (Alexander Beyer), and his lover Marie (Bibiana Beglau), exhaust any means of finding him, they return to Germany. Frank, however, has spotted Jan alone on the beach but does not reveal this to the others.
Jan stays away for five years and meanwhile Frank and Marie have married, and so has the philandering Steini to the oft-pregnant Jenny (Meret Becker). Jan's brother Olli Florian David Fitz) has met a lovely young musician named Babette (Katharina Schuttler) while his mother (Grischa Huber) pines for her oldest son and endures a distant relationship with their lawyer father (Hubert Mulzer).
Marie also pines for Jan and writes emotional letters to him that she never tries to send. When Frank finds one, however, he decides to mail it to Jan via his family and that is what finally brings Jan home.
Frank's motive in sending the letter and Marie's response to seeing the lover she has yearned for provide rich fodder for an examination of love and loving, but the film fails to go much beneath the surface. All the players do good work with Von Bulow and Beglau especially strong and Fitz and Schuttler very appealing in support.
The film relies greatly on its music to provide emotional resonance and it's a good thing the beautiful score for strings composed by Adrian Corker and Paul Conboy is more than up to it.
Blue Eyes Fiction, Sabotage Films
No MPAA rating
Running time 113 mins.
Locarno International Film Festival In Competition
The impact on his friends and family of a man's five-year disappearance forms the basis of Florian Hoffmeister's absorbing drama 3 Degrees Cooler, but his screenplay with Mona King could have used more development to make the most of the theme.
Well crafted and acted, the film will draw audiences to its Big Chill-like atmosphere but they may be disappointed by the lack of genuine depth.
On a trip to Spain, Jan Sebastian Blomberg) goes missing and when his friends Frank (Johann von Bulow) and Steini (Alexander Beyer), and his lover Marie (Bibiana Beglau), exhaust any means of finding him, they return to Germany. Frank, however, has spotted Jan alone on the beach but does not reveal this to the others.
Jan stays away for five years and meanwhile Frank and Marie have married, and so has the philandering Steini to the oft-pregnant Jenny (Meret Becker). Jan's brother Olli Florian David Fitz) has met a lovely young musician named Babette (Katharina Schuttler) while his mother (Grischa Huber) pines for her oldest son and endures a distant relationship with their lawyer father (Hubert Mulzer).
Marie also pines for Jan and writes emotional letters to him that she never tries to send. When Frank finds one, however, he decides to mail it to Jan via his family and that is what finally brings Jan home.
Frank's motive in sending the letter and Marie's response to seeing the lover she has yearned for provide rich fodder for an examination of love and loving, but the film fails to go much beneath the surface. All the players do good work with Von Bulow and Beglau especially strong and Fitz and Schuttler very appealing in support.
The film relies greatly on its music to provide emotional resonance and it's a good thing the beautiful score for strings composed by Adrian Corker and Paul Conboy is more than up to it.
Blue Eyes Fiction, Sabotage Films
No MPAA rating
Running time 113 mins.
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