Nobody wants the night
(Nadie quiere la noche), dir. Isabel Coixet, Berlinale 2015 Competition - Opening Film
by Martin I. Petrov
As Plato wrote in his allegory of the cave thousands of years ago, a caveman feels secure in the darkness, but it is the excitement of the light above that defines the beauty of his human nature. Isabel Coixet comes two thousand years closer in history to depict this exact same thirst for knowledge in Nobody wants the light, opening film of ...
Interview with Lirio Ferreira, director of Blue Blood - opening film of Berlinale Panorama 2015
Lirio Ferreira was born in Recife in 1965. He started directing films while studying journalism. His first feature Baile Perfumado premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 1997, followed by Árido movie (2005) and many documentaries that have won numerous prizes in Brazil and beyond. Blue blood is his third feature film, opening this year’s Berlinale Panorama.&nbs...
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EXHIBITION OF 50 FILM POSTERS BY DESIGNER COUPLE MARGRIT AND PETER SICKERT AT HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE
The Berlin International Film Festival will exhibit 50 selected film posters by graphic design artists Margrit and Peter Sickert at Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
© Wim Wenders Stiftung
Film poster for Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend) created by Margrit and Peter Sickert
"For decades, the first vis...
With the announcement that the Berlin IFF will have its man, Dieter Kosslick on board as festival director till 2019, the festival is in full preps for the upcoming 65th edition which will hit the German capital 5 -15 of February.
So far the news are thrilling…
Jury president of this year’s edition will be American director Darren Arronofsky.
Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement will be awarded to German dir...
At the 20th jury session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF), the jury recommended four new film projects for production funding and one work for distribution funding.
Since its establishment in October 2004, the WCF has awarded production and distribution funding to a total of 119 projects chosen from 2,261 submissions from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia, and the Caucasus. All WCF-funded films produced to date have screened in cinemas and/...
Claus Mueller: You noted several years ago that too many films are produced. At the changing market panel I mentioned the overproduction issue because some panelists seem to encourage more production though there is hardly a market for all these films. What do you think accounts for this problem?
Beki Probst: One reason they are producing so much is that there has been a reduction in the cost of making a film. Frankl...
Berlinale 2014: Crystal Bears and the Awards by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung) in Generation 14plus
The members of the Youth Jury in Generation 14plus
Simon Kalmbach
Luca Kokol
Karla Laitko
Leonie Mo Munder
Paula Noack
Nicola Scholz
Florian Stündel
give the following awards:
Crystal Bear for the Best Film: 52 Tuesdays
by Sophie Hyde, Australia 2013
The situation is exceptional but familiar. This...
BERLIN FEBRUARY 14, 2014...Ambiance Scorcese...
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Somewhere in Oaxaca, southern Mexico: 16 years old Mateo lives here in a rural community, where the traditional Zapotec culture is still alive. But on the other hand it´s a poor region from where a lot of the young people migrate to the US. Mateo itself prepares his – dangerous – crossing of the border to reach the almost mythical city of Los Angeles. For this reason he joins a local gang, so that he can draw on their support over there. To be accepted into their circles, he ...
Dawn Westlake is featured in Roberto Christo's blog on February 13, 2014: http://robertochristo.blogspot.com.br/
Translation: Long live Dawn Westlake!
Only a few people can make a living in art and culture, even with incentive laws and government edicts (like in Brazil) such a task sometimes seems impossible. But everyone in the world faces such hurdles, especially those who are just starting out. Getting sponsorship is difficult in times of economic surplus, so just imagine during crisis...
Somewhere in Oaxaca, southern Mexico: 16 years old Mateo lives here in a rural community, where the traditional Zapotec culture is still alive. But on the other hand it´s a poor region from where a lot of the young people migrate to the US. Mateo itself prepares his – dangerous – crossing of the border to reach the almost mythical city of Los Angeles. For this reason he joins a local gang, so that he can draw on their support over there. To be accepted into their circles, he ...
1999 in Mexico City: „Fede”, his roommate Santos and Fede´s younger brother Tomás hanging out in a spartan housing block apartment somewhere in the big city. They have nothing to do, because the university is currently on strike, the power is turned off and the fridge almost empty. And Fede, also called „Sombra” (shade), is afraid of going to be crazy – because of the Tiger, who is haunting in his head.
What fairly desolate starts, becomes in &bd...
1999 in Mexico City: „Fede”, his roommate Santos and Fede´s younger brother Tomás hanging out in a spartan housing block apartment somewhere in the big city. They have nothing to do, because the university is currently on strike, the power is turned off and the fridge almost empty. And Fede, also called „Sombra” (shade), is afraid of going to be crazy – because of the Tiger, who is haunting in his head.
What fairly desolate starts, becomes in &bd...
As in recent years, the Berlinale has again faced enormous technical and logistical tasks that have arisen from the film industry’s digitisation.
Now that the rollout of digital cinema is nearing completion, one of the greatest challenges for the Festival is distributing the films with their ever larger data volumes. For the first time, the digital screenings at the Berlinale are all being presented in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format. This involved converting the films in adva...
Daazo - European Film Centre of Budapest, Hungary released the 2014 Berlinale edition of their WORLD OF SHORTS Magazine this week. Featured along with BAFTA-shortlisted filmmaker Toby Fell-Holden of the UK, Sorayos Prapapan of Thailand, Christina Grosan of Romania/Hungary, Joonas Makkonen of Finland, and Toma Waszarow of Bulgaria, Dawn Westlake of the USA answered the question "Why Make Short Films?" To read all the responses, pick up the magazine at the Berlinale Film Festival and tur...
Bill Murray on the red carpet giving an interview...what did he say? Stay tuned!
video by Laurie Gordon
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