Award Winning Director Wolfgang Becker (“Good Bye Lenin!”) will open the festival at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre with “Me and Kaminski” bringing outstanding German cinema and its stars to Los Angeles from October 20 to 23rd.
Full Program Line Up Announced with a selection of the best new German, Austrian and Swiss Cinema
Celebrating its 10th year, German Currents features an expanded program including screenings of ten La premieres, conversations with prolific German directors, writers and actors, as well as the return of the free family matinee film screening for local schools.
“Me and Kaminski” starring Daniel Brühl and directed by Wolfgang Becker
2016 has been a successful year for German language cinema, not only in Europe, but across the globe. Beginning on Thursday, October 20th 2016 German Currents will open this year’s 4 day festival with the red carpet event Los Angeles premiere of Wolfgang Becker’s (“Goodbye Lenin”) five-time...
Full Program Line Up Announced with a selection of the best new German, Austrian and Swiss Cinema
Celebrating its 10th year, German Currents features an expanded program including screenings of ten La premieres, conversations with prolific German directors, writers and actors, as well as the return of the free family matinee film screening for local schools.
“Me and Kaminski” starring Daniel Brühl and directed by Wolfgang Becker
2016 has been a successful year for German language cinema, not only in Europe, but across the globe. Beginning on Thursday, October 20th 2016 German Currents will open this year’s 4 day festival with the red carpet event Los Angeles premiere of Wolfgang Becker’s (“Goodbye Lenin”) five-time...
- 10/4/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Plus: Santa Barbara festival heads unveil winners
Film Movement has acquired Us rights from Studiocanal to Maïwenn’s French drama My King, which has been nominated for eight César Awards and won the best actress prize in Cannes last year for Emmanuelle Bercot.
The film will receive its Us premiere at Rendez-vous With French Cinema in New York on March 9. Bercot plays a rehabilitating woman who looks back on a turbulent relationship. Vincent Cassel also stars.
Gerd Schneider’s The Culpable won the 31st Santa Barbara International Film Festival audience award on Saturday. Johannes Kuhnke and Neil Konigsberg chose Ville-Marie as the recipient of the Best International Film Award. For the full list of winners click here.
Film Movement has acquired Us rights from Studiocanal to Maïwenn’s French drama My King, which has been nominated for eight César Awards and won the best actress prize in Cannes last year for Emmanuelle Bercot.
The film will receive its Us premiere at Rendez-vous With French Cinema in New York on March 9. Bercot plays a rehabilitating woman who looks back on a turbulent relationship. Vincent Cassel also stars.
Gerd Schneider’s The Culpable won the 31st Santa Barbara International Film Festival audience award on Saturday. Johannes Kuhnke and Neil Konigsberg chose Ville-Marie as the recipient of the Best International Film Award. For the full list of winners click here.
- 2/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar submission Labyrinth of Lies and comedy drama Summers Downstairs are among films on the shortlist for the Metropolis 2015 directing prize awarded by the German Directors’ Guild.
Giulio Ricciarelli’s Labyrinth of Lies played at Zurich Film Festival 2014 and is Germany’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Feature at the Academy Awards.
Tom Sommerlatte’s Summers Downstairs is nominated for the European Discovery - Prix Fipresci after winning a top prize at Oldenburg International Film Festival.
Both will compete in the New Directing Talent category against Gerd Schneider’s drama The Culpable.
The Best Fiction Feature Direction category will see Oliver Hirschbiegel (13 Minutes) compete against Sönke Wortmann (Frau Müller muss weg), Baran Bo Odar (Who Am I - No System Is Safe) and Markus Sehr (Die Kleinen und die Bösen).
Sebastian Dehnhardt’s basketball portrait Dirk Nowitzki - The Perfect Shot is one of three titles selected for the Best Documentary Direction category.
Other categories...
Giulio Ricciarelli’s Labyrinth of Lies played at Zurich Film Festival 2014 and is Germany’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Feature at the Academy Awards.
Tom Sommerlatte’s Summers Downstairs is nominated for the European Discovery - Prix Fipresci after winning a top prize at Oldenburg International Film Festival.
Both will compete in the New Directing Talent category against Gerd Schneider’s drama The Culpable.
The Best Fiction Feature Direction category will see Oliver Hirschbiegel (13 Minutes) compete against Sönke Wortmann (Frau Müller muss weg), Baran Bo Odar (Who Am I - No System Is Safe) and Markus Sehr (Die Kleinen und die Bösen).
Sebastian Dehnhardt’s basketball portrait Dirk Nowitzki - The Perfect Shot is one of three titles selected for the Best Documentary Direction category.
Other categories...
- 9/25/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Films by Petri Kotwica and Jan Prusinovský are among four new titles acquired by Media Luna New Films ahead of next week’s Cannes Marché.
The first new addition to Media Luna’s sales line-up is Petri Kotwica’s Finnish-Irish drama Absolution, starring Laura Birn (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Mari Rantasila and Eero Aho.
Also new to the slate is Dutch filmmaker Joost van Ginkel’s Amsterdam-set drama The Paradise Suite, with Magnus Krepper (The Girl Who Played With Fire), and Slovenian Blaz Zavrsnik’s comedy Juliet And Alfa Romeo.
The final new addition is Czech director Jan Prusinovský’s local box-office hit The Snake Brothers with Kryštof Hádek and Matěj Hádek.
Ida Martins’ Cologne-based outfit is also handling international sales for veteran director Stijn Coninx’s feelgood drama Marina, based on the childhood memories of the Italian-Belgian singer Rocco Granata, which has been selected for the Cannes Écrans Juniors competition this year.
Global Screen...
The first new addition to Media Luna’s sales line-up is Petri Kotwica’s Finnish-Irish drama Absolution, starring Laura Birn (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Mari Rantasila and Eero Aho.
Also new to the slate is Dutch filmmaker Joost van Ginkel’s Amsterdam-set drama The Paradise Suite, with Magnus Krepper (The Girl Who Played With Fire), and Slovenian Blaz Zavrsnik’s comedy Juliet And Alfa Romeo.
The final new addition is Czech director Jan Prusinovský’s local box-office hit The Snake Brothers with Kryštof Hádek and Matěj Hádek.
Ida Martins’ Cologne-based outfit is also handling international sales for veteran director Stijn Coninx’s feelgood drama Marina, based on the childhood memories of the Italian-Belgian singer Rocco Granata, which has been selected for the Cannes Écrans Juniors competition this year.
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- 5/8/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ivan Ostrochovský’s boxer drama Goat (Koza) has been named Best Film at the 20th Vilnius International Film Festival.
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
The film, which had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February, won the ¨New Europe - New Names¨ competition at the festival, which ran from March 19 to April 2.
The film, about a former Olympic boxer who goes on a punishing ‘tour’ to raise some fast cash, also took home the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Goat (Koza), which won the works in progress prize at last year’s Karlovy Vary, is handled internationally by fledgling sales company Pluto Film.
The ¨New Europe - New Names¨ jury, which included Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, Israeli actress Hadas Yaron, and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, gave its award for Best Director to Ukraine’s Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for The Tribe and its acting honours to Hungary’s Márton Kristóf (Afterlife) and Bulgaria’s Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Meanwhile, the Baltic...
- 4/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Hot projects new to Screenbase include Nicolas Winding Refn feature The Neon Demon, Pope Francis biopic Francisco, Brady Corbet’s directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader and a new adaptation by Wim Wenders.Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
- 2/18/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Verfehlung is the German sales agent’s first acquisition at the Efm.
Fledgling German sales agent Pluto Film has made its first acquisition at the Efm by acquiring Gerd Schneider’s highly topically feature debut Verfehlung (The Culpable) which premiered at last month’s Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken.
Schneider’s screenplay centres on the Catholic prison chaplain Jakob Völz (played by Sebastian Blomberg) faced with a painful dilemma - an acid test for his faith and understanding of his calling as a priest - when his best friend and colleague Dominik Bertram (Kai Schumann) is remanded in custody under suspicion of sexual abuse.
The choice of subject matter for Schneider’s debut is particularly apposite given that he had originally studied Catholic Theology and was then preparing to enter the priesthood before he changed track to study at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg.
In 2006, Schneider received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award at the Sarajevo...
Fledgling German sales agent Pluto Film has made its first acquisition at the Efm by acquiring Gerd Schneider’s highly topically feature debut Verfehlung (The Culpable) which premiered at last month’s Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken.
Schneider’s screenplay centres on the Catholic prison chaplain Jakob Völz (played by Sebastian Blomberg) faced with a painful dilemma - an acid test for his faith and understanding of his calling as a priest - when his best friend and colleague Dominik Bertram (Kai Schumann) is remanded in custody under suspicion of sexual abuse.
The choice of subject matter for Schneider’s debut is particularly apposite given that he had originally studied Catholic Theology and was then preparing to enter the priesthood before he changed track to study at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg.
In 2006, Schneider received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award at the Sarajevo...
- 2/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Verfehlung [pictured] is the German sales agent’s first acquisition at the Efm.
Fledgling German sales agent Pluto Film has made its first acquisition at the Efm by acquiring Gerd Schneider’s highly topically feature debut Verfehlung (in English: Transgression) which premiered at last month’s Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken.
Schneider’s screenplay centres on the Catholic prison chaplain Jakob Völz (played by Sebastian Blomberg) faced with a painful dilemma - an acid test for his faith and understanding of his calling as a priest - when his best friend and colleague Dominik Bertram (Kai Schumann) is remanded in custody under suspicion of sexual abuse.
The choice of subject matter for Schneider’s debut is particularly apposite given that he had originally studied Catholic Theology and was then preparing to enter the priesthood before he changed track to study at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg.
In 2006, Schneider received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award at the...
Fledgling German sales agent Pluto Film has made its first acquisition at the Efm by acquiring Gerd Schneider’s highly topically feature debut Verfehlung (in English: Transgression) which premiered at last month’s Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken.
Schneider’s screenplay centres on the Catholic prison chaplain Jakob Völz (played by Sebastian Blomberg) faced with a painful dilemma - an acid test for his faith and understanding of his calling as a priest - when his best friend and colleague Dominik Bertram (Kai Schumann) is remanded in custody under suspicion of sexual abuse.
The choice of subject matter for Schneider’s debut is particularly apposite given that he had originally studied Catholic Theology and was then preparing to enter the priesthood before he changed track to study at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg.
In 2006, Schneider received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award at the...
- 2/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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