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We are pleased to inform you that the 23rd International ContraVision Film Festival has launched its 2015 call for entries.
The deadline for submission is Monday, December 1st 2014.
There is no submission fee, just our own online entry form and upload.
The films should not be longer than 30 minutes and there are no restrictions regarding genre, style or topic.
You find the online submission form at http://www.contravision.de
The 23rd ContraVision will run from March 20th until 28th 2015 at Cinema Central in Berlin, Germany. It presents action, comedy, horror, animation, romance... and more... from all over the world. The audience will vote the winners of the ContraVision Awards.
The Berlin International Film Festival is supporting the “Berlinale in Sendai” event for the second time. The event will take place on July 26 and 27 in Sendai City, a municipality in the Tohoku region that was severely damaged by the earthquakes and tsunami in March 2011.
For “Berlinale in Sendai”, the Berlinale section Generation is curating a programme with two emphases: films that entertain, and films that focus on coping positively in problem...
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Silent Ones by Ricky Rijneke winner Berlin Independent Film Festival
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The Berlin Independent Film Festival is at the epicentre for low-budget filmmaking in Europe. After 4 years working under the auspices of the European Film Festival, BIFF now launches one of the hottest indie f...
Director: Nigel Dick.
Berlin Calling is possibly the first film about the holocaust seen through the eyes of a Clash fan.
A punk-chick from Los Angeles traces her father's roots back to pre-war Berlin and confronts her
family's dark past. Her journey takes her from LA to Houston, Paris, Berlin, Prague and finally the
Concentration Camp where her father spent two years. During this voyage she discovers not only
how she and her whole family were effected by Hitler's Final Solution but also that her family is
larger than anyone dared imagine. She is finally able to leave a tribute to her family on the
streets of Berlin and watch while her father is welcomed back to the city of his birth by the Mayor of Berlin.
When the Football World Cup starts on 12th of June, the whole world will look to Brazil. In contrast, the fact that there a military coup occurred exactly 50 years ago, barely attracted attention internationally.
In the four-part film documentary „Memórias do Chumbo – O Futebol nos Tempos do Condor” (2013 ), the Brazilian director Lúcio de Castro is addressing to the influence of the military dictatorships in Brazil, Chi...
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"Footprints in the Sand?" Exhibition
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The 28th TEDDY AWARD will be presented on 14 February 2014 at a gala ceremony in the Komische Oper Berlin. This year the Special TEDDY AWARD goes to two filmmakers whose works have had a remarkable impact on queer cinema.
Rosa Von Praunheim
Rosa Von Praunheim is particularly well known for his pioneering 1970/71 film Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt [It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives] that played a cruci...
EFM Industry Debates 2014: Talks on Recent Artistic Forms of Documentaries, Experiences of Renowned Producers, New Sales Strategies in Asia, and Changing Mediascapes in the Age of Digitisation
In 2014, the EFM Industry Debates will again discuss topical issues related to the film and media industry. These issues have to do with the situation of documentaries and how they are changing artistically; with successful producers, the industry’s unsung heroes, and their in...
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival European Film Market (EFM) is set to go for 2014, with exhibit spaces fully booked at Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. The EFM is one of the most important platforms for international trade in film distribution rights and audiovisual content. Taking place from February 6 - 14, the first annual industry meeting, the EFM opens the international film year. A new initiative with Berlinale Talents, and new features like the Ca...
Through film, art, and gender studies, Imperfectu: International Film and Gender Festival celebrates and examines the diversity of gender identities and expressions, as well as of sexual identities and orientations, while embracing varied and alternative feminisms.
Imperfectu explores the infinite possibilities that sex, gender and sexuality fields offer to us, questioning the primacy of the conventions to which the binary gender system and heteronormativity limit us. Furthermore, this festival gives room to feminist expressions that know how to include these infinite possibilities in their discourses.
PLACE
The festival will take place in Tijuana, Mexico.
A selection of the screened works in Tijuana will also be presented in Berlin, Germany.
VENUES
Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT)
Tijuana University CUT
Berlin venue TBD
DATES
The festival will be held from April 1st to 6th, 2014 (Tijuana, Mexico).
The dates for the Berlin screenings will be announced later.
MEANING
Through the word “imperfectu” we want to give a new value to the concept of imperfection within the gender studies framework. The “-tu” ending avoids the gender morpheme that in Spanish language is used when the noun “imperfection” becomes an adjective. At the same time, this ending makes a reference to the Spanish pronoun “tú” (“you”) in order to create closeness to the individual.
“Imperfectu” is an invented adjective that seeks identification and fraternity between those who somehow transgress the binary system of sex and gender and heteronormativity and, therefore, are seen as outsiders of “normality” and even as “imperfect beings”. Through this festival, what a binary and heteronormative culture reads as “imperfect” is simply read as “non-normative” and, consequently, considered “normal” and celebrated from a second reading that becomes liberal and intelligent.
OBJECTIVES
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1. To encourage education, analysis and discussion about the relationship that cinema, art and popular culture maintain with gender studies.
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2. To open a cultural space that creates visibility for all those communities whose tendencies are different from the conventional concepts of sex, gender and sexuality.
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3. To promote art with a gender focus.
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4. To celebrate sexual and gender diversity.
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5. To create identification and fraternity among all those individuals whose tendencies are different from the conventional concepts of sex, gender and sexuality.
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6. To express alternative feminisms that know how to combine their ideologies and movements and sexual and gender diversity.
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7. To include. This festival in any way excludes cisgender communities; on the contrary, it seeks the integration of all types of gender and transgender manifestations.
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8. To fight homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia and transphobia, encouraging acceptance and tolerance of all those individuals whose tendencies are different from the conventional concepts of sex, gender and sexuality. Although all these objectives will have an impact directly on Tijuana society, they will also reach the Baja California and the Mexican societies as well as Spanish speaking and English speaking communities through the festival’s publications.
Largest American festival of German-Language Cinema brings broad slate of celebrated pictures to Castro Theatre this January
The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival (Jan 15-21) marks its 18th year with a return to its original exhibition schedule at the head of the calendar in January and a selection of some of the best and brightest award-winning films and talents of European cinema. It is the fourth year under the direction of festival director Sophoan Sorn, and his third in collab...
Spacemen
Age of Cannibals
Lamento
The Innocents
Amma & papa
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme have been invited: four feature films and two documentaries. "This year, I paid special attention to variety in content and cinematic aesthetics," says section head Linda Söffker in describing her selections. "Directors who tell familiar stories using new images, with an interesting script, or filmmakers who ta...
Already twelve films produced and co-produced in ten countries have been invited to the Berlinale Generation section. The complete Generation programme will be announced in mid January.
Generation will be returning to the recently reopened Zoo Palast cinema. Here, as well as at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, it will celebrate film premieres and repetition screenings. The section’s short film competition has been given a new home in the CinemaxX at Potsdamer Platz.
Genera...
Watch manufacturer Glashütte Original is extending its co-partnership with the Berlinale until 2016, and continuing its support of a talented young director from the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section with the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship”. Conceived for the development of a project, material and screenplay, the €15,000 fellowship is funded by Glashütte Original. “We are very pleased that for the third time now we will be able to awar...
Guests attending from all over the world praised the fantastic film selection, the great atmosphere, locations, parties and events.
The 80 interfilm programmes (130 screenings) and 14 KUKI programmes (31 screenings) at seven cinema locations were well attended: a new interfilm record was achieved with 19,000 cinema-goers. All the work we poured into creating new event ideas truly paid off and many innovations are set to return in 2014, we're delighted with the overwhelming ...
KUKI - Shorts for kids drew a record number of 5,400 young and not-so-young cineastes to the cinemas at Filmtheaters am Friedrichshain and Passage Kino Neukölln.
The school programmes alone registered more than 4,000 guests, with the most popular being the Spanish Foreign Language Programme "Que Onda?", which was viewed by a total of 700 students and teachers. In addition to the Opening Matinee which burst with an audience of 350, the Competition Programme for ages ...
The XPOSED International Queer Film Festival is Berlin's only Queer Film Festival which kicks off the Berlin Pride Month. The Festival focuses each year on a specific land or region dedicated to screening independent, artistic, experimental and smart short and feature films. XPOSED also screens a Queer German Shorts program as well as the widely popular International Queer Shorts Program. All films screening in competition are up for the coveted LOLLY AWARDS!
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your film: no limitation as to subject or genre. not longer than 30 minutes.
all nominated films take part in the competition. the seven winners of the contravision awards are elected by the audience.
submission form: http://www.contravision.de
no entry fee, online form and film upload instead.
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e-mail: filmfestival@contravision.de
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Actor John Corbett as 'Bobby' in 'The Lookalike' (2013).
Crime drama ‘The Lookalike’ (2013) wrapped filming in late January just in time to cut a trailer for buyers at the 2013 EFM (European Film Market) in Berlin. Sales company Arclight Films acquired the film for world rights and began pre-sale negotiations at the EFM.
Filmmaker Richard Gray and his DOP Thomas Scott Stanton attended the 63rd Berlinale to promote 'The Lookalike' along with Richard...
Actor John Corbett as 'Bobby' in 'The Lookalike' (2013).
Crime drama ‘The Lookalike’ (2013) wrapped filming in late January just in time to cut a trailer for buyers at the 2013 Berlinale EFM. Sales company Arclight Films acquired the film for world rights and began pre-sale negotiations at the EFM. Filmmaker Richard Gray and his DOP Thomas Scott Stanton attended the 63rd Berlinale to promote 'The Lookalike' along with Richard Gray’s other film...
By Liza Foreman
The Solution Entertainment Group has joined forces with Jonathan Zucker of 25A Productions and Robert Teitel to produce and co-finance the action crime thriller "The Harbor."
Bobby Moresco ("Crash") is set to write and direct the film about a New Orleans PI investigating the mysterious death of a woman. He uncovers a conspiracy leading him into a shadowy realm involving rogue agents from the government’s top spy agency.
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The Distinguished Filmmaker William Greaves, who was an invited guest to the Berlin Film Festival and Actress-Painter, Audrey Henningham. Both were kind enough to accept an invitation to appear on THE COLLEGIUM Forum & Television Program Berlin, during their Berlin visit.
Production & Direction:
Fountainhead Tanz Theatre Berlin
Only when Lions have historians, will hunters cease being heroes.
African Proverb.
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Prof. Alfred Prettyman, Dr. Doudou Diene-UNESCO-The Slave Route Project, Ode to Carnell - Mr Magic Feet - Lyons, Guests,Tap & Tray,
Cinema, A Man Without Limits, Featuring Carnell Lyons, Teaching & Performing.
"I may not make it if I try, but I damn sure won't if I don't...Oscar Brown Jr
Only when Lions have Historians, will hunters cease being heroes.
African Proverb
Production & Direction: Fountainhead Tanz Theatre, Black International Cinema Berlin, Footprin...
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