Cologne-based The Match Factory, one of the world’s leading arthouse sales agencies, is at Mia Market in Rome with two German features and one upcoming Italian project, following a busy summer with 20 premieres between Cannes and Toronto.
Nana Neul, best known for her film “My Friend From Faro,” is back with an entertaining German-Italian-Greek feature “Daughters,” starring Birgit Minichmayr, Alexandra Maria Lara and Josef Bierbichler. Produced by Germany’s Heimatfilm and distributed by Warner Bros Germany, the comedy hit German cinemas last week and has its international market premiere at Mia on Friday. The international festival premiere will follow soon.
Andreas Kleinert’s “Dear Thomas” is an authentic portrait of Thomas Brasch, one of the most talked about German authors of the last 50 years. The film stars the German actor Albrecht Schuch from “System Crasher,” “Berlin Alexanderplatz” and “Fabian: Going to the Dogs.” It celebrated its world premiere in...
Nana Neul, best known for her film “My Friend From Faro,” is back with an entertaining German-Italian-Greek feature “Daughters,” starring Birgit Minichmayr, Alexandra Maria Lara and Josef Bierbichler. Produced by Germany’s Heimatfilm and distributed by Warner Bros Germany, the comedy hit German cinemas last week and has its international market premiere at Mia on Friday. The international festival premiere will follow soon.
Andreas Kleinert’s “Dear Thomas” is an authentic portrait of Thomas Brasch, one of the most talked about German authors of the last 50 years. The film stars the German actor Albrecht Schuch from “System Crasher,” “Berlin Alexanderplatz” and “Fabian: Going to the Dogs.” It celebrated its world premiere in...
- 10/15/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
While the German film industry is certainly proud of its past with big names such as Fritz Lang and Rainer Werner Fassbinder being named as two examples of filmmakers who have earned international success, it also has a troubled present when it comes to funding those projects which actually challenge the way people look at certain issues, both content-wise and aesthetically. When Mongolian-German filmmaker Uisenma Borchu decided to make her first feature and applied for financial support, German cultural institutions would reject her project titled “Don’t Look At Me That Way”, resulting in her making the film with a minimal budget, provided by the University of Television and Film Munich, where she had studied documentary filmmaking. In the end, “Don’t Look At Me That Way” was only awarded with awards such as The Fipresci Film Critics Prize in 2015, but is also a thought-provoking and intelligent feature challenging traditional gender roles...
- 12/21/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The dramatic road movie will star Birgit Minichmayr and Alexandra Maria Lara. German filmmaker Nana Neul, known for To Faro (My Friend from Faro) and Silent Summer, is readying a new film. Based on German author Lucy Fricke’s successful novel of the same name, Töchter (lit. “Daughters”) is currently in production and will centre on Betty and Martha, two women pushing 40, who set off from Germany to accompany their dying father to Switzerland. There, he is to fulfil his last wish: that of committing assisted suicide in a special institute. Their journey leads them through Italy and Greece. Töchter will star Birgit Minichmayr and Alexandra Maria Lara in the lead roles, while Josef Bierbichler, Giorgio Colangeli and Andreas Konstantinou are also among the cast of the upcoming dramatic road movie. Filming took place in Germany earlier this year and continued in...
Exclusive: Here’s a positive one for the Euro film industry – shooting has resumed on Tochter (English translation Daughter), a co-production between significant producers from Germany, Greece and Italy.
The project is being heralded as the first post-covid international co-pro to get back underway in Europe, a fact confirmed by two major bodies Eave (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and Ace (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes).
Pic is based on German author Lucy Fricke’s best-selling novel of the same title and is being directed by Nana Neul (To Faro). Producers include Bettina Brokemper of Heimatfilm, whose credits span Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built and Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs. Warner Bros Germany is a co-producer and will handle the local release.
Also onboard are Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis of Greek outfit Heretic, who won the European Film Academy prize for co-production in 2018 and have produced pics including festival hit Son Of Sofia.
The project is being heralded as the first post-covid international co-pro to get back underway in Europe, a fact confirmed by two major bodies Eave (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and Ace (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes).
Pic is based on German author Lucy Fricke’s best-selling novel of the same title and is being directed by Nana Neul (To Faro). Producers include Bettina Brokemper of Heimatfilm, whose credits span Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built and Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs. Warner Bros Germany is a co-producer and will handle the local release.
Also onboard are Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis of Greek outfit Heretic, who won the European Film Academy prize for co-production in 2018 and have produced pics including festival hit Son Of Sofia.
- 6/23/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The most defining and far-reaching decision made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her 15 years in office is the focus of a new film making its debut at Berlin’s European Film Market.
“Merkel — Anatomy of a Crisis,” directed by Stephen Wagner, stars Imogen Kogge as the German leader during the dramatic days leading up to her decision in 2015 to allow nearly a million refugees, mostly from war-torn Syria, to enter Germany.
“We can consider this the most important political weeks of Angela Merkel’s life as chancellor,” says Alexander van Dülmen, who produced the film with Wagner via their Potsdam-based company Carte Blanche International.
Penned by Florian Oeller, “Merkel” is based on journalist Robin Alexander’s 2017 bestselling book “The Driven Ones” (“Die Getriebenen”) and examines the political wrangling among Merkel’s cabinet members and European actors like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as they struggle to deal with a...
“Merkel — Anatomy of a Crisis,” directed by Stephen Wagner, stars Imogen Kogge as the German leader during the dramatic days leading up to her decision in 2015 to allow nearly a million refugees, mostly from war-torn Syria, to enter Germany.
“We can consider this the most important political weeks of Angela Merkel’s life as chancellor,” says Alexander van Dülmen, who produced the film with Wagner via their Potsdam-based company Carte Blanche International.
Penned by Florian Oeller, “Merkel” is based on journalist Robin Alexander’s 2017 bestselling book “The Driven Ones” (“Die Getriebenen”) and examines the political wrangling among Merkel’s cabinet members and European actors like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as they struggle to deal with a...
- 2/24/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has announced 11 additional titles for its Official Selection, taking the number of films in its international competition to 19 (read about the previously announced titles here.
Among the titles announced is Indian filmmaker's Rajat Kapoor's Kadakh. It could be considered a controversial choice as he has been accused of sexually inappropriate behaviour by three women. The film was dropped by Mumbai Film Festival as a result.
Three of the additional films will be world premieres - Still River, a Greek-French-Latvian production directed by Angelos Frantzis, Portguese director Vicente Alves do Ó's Sunburn and Australian film Slam, directed by Indian-born filmmaker Partho Sen Gupta. It marks the first time an Australian film has featured in competition
There are a further three European films, German director Josef Bierbichler's Two Men In Suits, Romanian Paul Negoescu's The Story...
Among the titles announced is Indian filmmaker's Rajat Kapoor's Kadakh. It could be considered a controversial choice as he has been accused of sexually inappropriate behaviour by three women. The film was dropped by Mumbai Film Festival as a result.
Three of the additional films will be world premieres - Still River, a Greek-French-Latvian production directed by Angelos Frantzis, Portguese director Vicente Alves do Ó's Sunburn and Australian film Slam, directed by Indian-born filmmaker Partho Sen Gupta. It marks the first time an Australian film has featured in competition
There are a further three European films, German director Josef Bierbichler's Two Men In Suits, Romanian Paul Negoescu's The Story...
- 10/18/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Historical romance, literary adaptations, arthouse drama, star-studded comedies, children’s pics, animated fare and a high-profile documentary are among the many German films and co-productions on offer at this year’s Cannes Film Market.
Unspooling as part of the festival are Wim Wenders’ “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” repped by Focus Features and bowing in Special Screenings; “In My Room,” Ulrich Koehler’s story of a man who suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared, which world premieres in Un Certain Regard; and, in Intl. Critics’ Week sidebar, Anja Kofmel’s Swiss co-production “Chris the Swiss,” a partially animated documentary from Urban Distribution that investigates the mysterious death of a young Swiss journalist during the Yugoslav wars.
On the market side, one historical niche that is proving particularly successful is that of the turn-of-the-century artist.
Picture Tree Intl. is following its 2016 hit “Egon Schiele — Death and the Maiden,...
Unspooling as part of the festival are Wim Wenders’ “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” repped by Focus Features and bowing in Special Screenings; “In My Room,” Ulrich Koehler’s story of a man who suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared, which world premieres in Un Certain Regard; and, in Intl. Critics’ Week sidebar, Anja Kofmel’s Swiss co-production “Chris the Swiss,” a partially animated documentary from Urban Distribution that investigates the mysterious death of a young Swiss journalist during the Yugoslav wars.
On the market side, one historical niche that is proving particularly successful is that of the turn-of-the-century artist.
Picture Tree Intl. is following its 2016 hit “Egon Schiele — Death and the Maiden,...
- 5/12/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
X Filme board Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his 2011 novel Mittelreich.
Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment has recruited Beta Cinema to handle international sales on veteran Bavarian actor-director Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his 2011 novel Mittelreich.
The chronicle of a rural Bavarian community facing the challenges of technological and social change during the last century began shooting in Thuringia a week ago with Bierbichler directing as well as playing the central role of the village innkeeper.
The cast includes Bierbichler’s son Simon Donatz who plays the innkeeper character as a young man and had appeared with his father in Tom Tykwer’s Winter Sleepers 20 years ago as father and son, as well as Martina Gedeck, known to international audiences from The Lives of Others and last year’s Original Bliss.
On the eve of this year’s Berlinale, X Filme and Beta Film announced a strategic partnership between the two companies as they unveiled the first...
Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment has recruited Beta Cinema to handle international sales on veteran Bavarian actor-director Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his 2011 novel Mittelreich.
The chronicle of a rural Bavarian community facing the challenges of technological and social change during the last century began shooting in Thuringia a week ago with Bierbichler directing as well as playing the central role of the village innkeeper.
The cast includes Bierbichler’s son Simon Donatz who plays the innkeeper character as a young man and had appeared with his father in Tom Tykwer’s Winter Sleepers 20 years ago as father and son, as well as Martina Gedeck, known to international audiences from The Lives of Others and last year’s Original Bliss.
On the eve of this year’s Berlinale, X Filme and Beta Film announced a strategic partnership between the two companies as they unveiled the first...
- 2/9/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
X Filme board Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his 2011 novel Mittelreich.
Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment has recruited Beta Cinema to handle international sales on veteran Bavarian actor-director Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his 2011 novel Mittelreich.
The chronicle of a rural Bavarian community facing the challenges of technological and social change during the last century began shooting in Thuringia a week ago with Bierbichler directing as well as playing the central role of the village innkeeper.
The cast includes Bierbichler’s son Simon Donatz who plays the innkeeper character as a young man and had appeared with his father in Tom Tykwer’s Winter Sleepers 20 years ago as father and son, as well as Martina Gedeck, known to international audiences from The Lives of Others and last year’s Original Bliss.
On the eve of this year’s Berlinale, X Filme and Beta Film unveiled the first footage of the 16-part high-end TV series Babylon Berlin which...
Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment has recruited Beta Cinema to handle international sales on veteran Bavarian actor-director Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his 2011 novel Mittelreich.
The chronicle of a rural Bavarian community facing the challenges of technological and social change during the last century began shooting in Thuringia a week ago with Bierbichler directing as well as playing the central role of the village innkeeper.
The cast includes Bierbichler’s son Simon Donatz who plays the innkeeper character as a young man and had appeared with his father in Tom Tykwer’s Winter Sleepers 20 years ago as father and son, as well as Martina Gedeck, known to international audiences from The Lives of Others and last year’s Original Bliss.
On the eve of this year’s Berlinale, X Filme and Beta Film unveiled the first footage of the 16-part high-end TV series Babylon Berlin which...
- 2/9/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Guy Maddin with Kim Morgan in photo booth in Yves Montmayeur's The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Maddin
The director of Michael H - Profession: Director, the documentary about Michael Haneke which features Jean-Louis Trintignant, Susanne Lothar, Josef Bierbichler, Béatrice Dalle, Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert, is off to Beijing, Taipei and Tokyo. Yves Montmayeur has his sights on Shu Qi (Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin), Michelle Yeoh and Cheng Pei-Pei (Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Zhao Wei (Ma Jingle and Dong Wei's Mulan: Rise Of A Warrior) and Eihi Shiina (Audition, Tokyo Gore Police) for his "new documentary film on 'Amazons in the Asian Pop Culture'! Or how Asian warrior women are dealing with martial arts and feminism."
The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Maddin director Yves Montmayeur Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
His latest film, The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Maddin, which stars Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kenneth Anger, John Waters,...
The director of Michael H - Profession: Director, the documentary about Michael Haneke which features Jean-Louis Trintignant, Susanne Lothar, Josef Bierbichler, Béatrice Dalle, Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert, is off to Beijing, Taipei and Tokyo. Yves Montmayeur has his sights on Shu Qi (Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin), Michelle Yeoh and Cheng Pei-Pei (Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Zhao Wei (Ma Jingle and Dong Wei's Mulan: Rise Of A Warrior) and Eihi Shiina (Audition, Tokyo Gore Police) for his "new documentary film on 'Amazons in the Asian Pop Culture'! Or how Asian warrior women are dealing with martial arts and feminism."
The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Maddin director Yves Montmayeur Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
His latest film, The 1000 Eyes Of Dr Maddin, which stars Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kenneth Anger, John Waters,...
- 1/20/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"I look upon the volcano, the lava bubbles with fury and the Earth spits fire. It's the end of days and tells of a near future where all we know will be burned and left in ashes." Werner Herzog never said that, but it sounds to me like something he would say were he to look upon a pool of molten lava, considering whether this means the end of the Earth as we know it, even though he may be looking at an active volcano that's been spewing lava for thousands of years with no immediate effect on the state of the Earth or humanity. Herzog has such a unique view of the world that he can do this. It's almost as if he is able to separate words from reality, looking for a deeper meaning of not only what he's looking at, but what he's describing. When it comes...
- 7/14/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Riding up on the elevator at the Hilton Fashion District Hotel, I overheard a man with a French accent speak about journalists and their tendency to impose opinions and then search for confirmation from a director. Upon reaching the 22nd floor, we both exited and I introduced myself to Yves Montmayeur and thanked him for the warning. After this slightly Hanekian start, we had a conversation about Picasso, Buñuel and David Lynch's nightmares and, of course, cats.
Montmayeur's penetrating documentary about Michael Haneke's career starts with the word "coward" spoken in his 1992 film Benny's Video and features interviews with Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Béatrice Dalle, and Josef Bierbichler.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Jean-Louis Trintignant at one point in your film says, "we don't have fun", Haneke has the fun. Did you have fun making this film?
Yves Montmayeur: Yes! As you can see,...
Montmayeur's penetrating documentary about Michael Haneke's career starts with the word "coward" spoken in his 1992 film Benny's Video and features interviews with Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Béatrice Dalle, and Josef Bierbichler.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Jean-Louis Trintignant at one point in your film says, "we don't have fun", Haneke has the fun. Did you have fun making this film?
Yves Montmayeur: Yes! As you can see,...
- 4/26/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Here’s the new international trailer for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or winner, The White Ribbon.
The White Ribbon is directed by Michael Haneke’s and stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi.
Set in a village in northern Germany on the eve of World War I, this is the mysterious story of the children in a school choir and their families. Who is behind the series of strange accidents that befall them?
I’m expecting this movie to only be on in a few cinemas which always seems the same with foreign movies but I encourage your to seek it out. We can expect to see it 13th November.
The White Ribbon is directed by Michael Haneke’s and stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi.
Set in a village in northern Germany on the eve of World War I, this is the mysterious story of the children in a school choir and their families. Who is behind the series of strange accidents that befall them?
I’m expecting this movie to only be on in a few cinemas which always seems the same with foreign movies but I encourage your to seek it out. We can expect to see it 13th November.
- 10/21/2009
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Check out new international trailer for Michael Haneke’s Cannes-winning masterpiece, “The White Ribbon“
“The White Ribbon” focuses on a rural German school in 1913, which seems to be the sight of ritual punishment. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Does the ritual punishment have an affect on the school system and is this a precursor to the rise of fascism?
The movie stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi.
The White Ribbon Poster
“The White Ribbon” will be released in limited theaters onDecember 30, 2009.
“The White Ribbon” focuses on a rural German school in 1913, which seems to be the sight of ritual punishment. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Does the ritual punishment have an affect on the school system and is this a precursor to the rise of fascism?
The movie stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur, Theo Trebs, Michael Schenk, Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaussner, Steffi Kuhnert and Ursina Lardi.
The White Ribbon Poster
“The White Ribbon” will be released in limited theaters onDecember 30, 2009.
- 10/21/2009
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
"The White Ribbon" ("Das weiße Band") comes from Sony Pictures Classics and is directed by Michael Haneke. The film is a multiple award nominee and winner of three 2009 Cannes Film Festival awards including the Fipresci Prize, Golden Palm and Cinema Prize of the French National Education System. Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film and X-Filme Creative Pool. Starring are Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart Klaußner, Marisa Growaldt, Josef Bierbichler and Janina Fautz.
- 9/28/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Berlin – "John Rabe," an historic biopic about the German business man who saved 200,000 Chinese civilians from the Nanking massacre, is the front runner for this year's German Film Awards – or Lolas – with seven nominations.
The film's nominations include best film, best director for Florian Gallenberger and a best actor for star Ulrich Tukur as Rabe.
Steve Buscemi also picked up a nomination as best supporting actor for his role as an idealistic American doctor who helps Rabe. It was one of the few Lola nominations ever given to a non-German actor.
Uli Edel's Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex" picked up four Lola noms, including best film and best actress for Johanna Wokalek.
"Chiko," a gangster movie by first time director Ozgur Yildirim, surprised many by also nabbing a best film nom along with ones for Yildirim's screenplay, for lead actor Denis Moschitto and for editor Sebastian Thumler.
The film's nominations include best film, best director for Florian Gallenberger and a best actor for star Ulrich Tukur as Rabe.
Steve Buscemi also picked up a nomination as best supporting actor for his role as an idealistic American doctor who helps Rabe. It was one of the few Lola nominations ever given to a non-German actor.
Uli Edel's Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex" picked up four Lola noms, including best film and best actress for Johanna Wokalek.
"Chiko," a gangster movie by first time director Ozgur Yildirim, surprised many by also nabbing a best film nom along with ones for Yildirim's screenplay, for lead actor Denis Moschitto and for editor Sebastian Thumler.
- 3/13/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
That Ina Weisse’s Der Architekt comes from the same German outfit behind much of Wim Wenders’ work should tell you one thing: this is intelligent, sharply crafted stuff. And, yep, it’s got one intelligent, sharply crafted trailer. German film tends not to travel very much for some reason but this one looks very likely to be doing the fest circuit in the coming year. Here’s the synopsis:
The successful Hamburg architect Georg Winter (Josef Bierbichler), his wife (Hilde Van Mieghem) and two grown-up children (Sandra Hüller and Matthias Schweighöfer) travel to attend Georg’s mother’s funeral in a snowy mountain village where he grew up as a child.
At the funeral the mysterious Hannah (Sophie Rois) and her son Alex (Lucas Zolgar) suddenly appear. She unearths a truth which drags the family into a vortex of desires and confusion. When a snow avalanche cuts the village off from the outside world,...
The successful Hamburg architect Georg Winter (Josef Bierbichler), his wife (Hilde Van Mieghem) and two grown-up children (Sandra Hüller and Matthias Schweighöfer) travel to attend Georg’s mother’s funeral in a snowy mountain village where he grew up as a child.
At the funeral the mysterious Hannah (Sophie Rois) and her son Alex (Lucas Zolgar) suddenly appear. She unearths a truth which drags the family into a vortex of desires and confusion. When a snow avalanche cuts the village off from the outside world,...
- 1/18/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
The Panorama section will comprise a total of 50 titles with about a third of those being documentaries and here's the first 21 of the list. Oddly enough Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin' will be playing although it's having it's premier at Sundance. Another film we reported on, Uli Lommel's Absolute Evil starring David Carradine will also be playing, and I'm still wondering how the hell they got that in there.
You can check out the list of all 21 titles after the break.
Absolute Evil by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere)
With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa
Ander by Roberto Castón, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodríguez, Leire Ucha
At Stake by Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad Ichsan, Lucky Kuswandi, Ucu Agustin, Ani Ema Susanti, Indonesia
Panorama Dokumente
Coyote by Chema Rodríguez, Spain (world premiere)
Panorama Dokumente
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) by Wolfgang Murnberger,...
You can check out the list of all 21 titles after the break.
Absolute Evil by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere)
With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa
Ander by Roberto Castón, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodríguez, Leire Ucha
At Stake by Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad Ichsan, Lucky Kuswandi, Ucu Agustin, Ani Ema Susanti, Indonesia
Panorama Dokumente
Coyote by Chema Rodríguez, Spain (world premiere)
Panorama Dokumente
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) by Wolfgang Murnberger,...
- 1/7/2009
- QuietEarth.us
A few films will be pulling out the stop when Toronto unfurls early next month. The list of gala presentations is interesting: Caroline Link’s A Year Ago in Winter; starring Karoline Herfurth, Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch, Hanns Zischler and Mišel Maticevic Toa Fraser’s Dean Spanley, starring Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown Jodie Markell’s The [...]...
- 8/20/2008
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
For a total of 312 films from 64 different countries. Wow, I wish I could go. Of the remaining announcements in 3 different sections, the most intriguing would have to be Vincent Cassel playing legendary French gangster Jacques Mesrine in Public Enemy No. 1. It's listed as a "work-in-progress" so I guess that means what will be screened is not the final cut. Another I'm looking forward to is The Lucky Ones which stars one of my favorites, Tim Robbins. It's about some returning soldiers who go on a road trip across America. Check out the full list following.
Real To Reel
Paris, Not France Adria Petty, USA
World Premiere
Polls show that in certain demographics, more people identify the name Paris with "Hilton" than with "France." Gaining intimate access to the glamorous and chaotic day-to-day life of one of the world's biggest icons, director Adria Petty explores the businesswoman and the human...
Real To Reel
Paris, Not France Adria Petty, USA
World Premiere
Polls show that in certain demographics, more people identify the name Paris with "Hilton" than with "France." Gaining intimate access to the glamorous and chaotic day-to-day life of one of the world's biggest icons, director Adria Petty explores the businesswoman and the human...
- 8/19/2008
- QuietEarth.us
- Following the critical and commercial shortfall of his self-remake Funny Games, famed Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke will return to Europe for his next film Das Weisse Band (The White Tape). Shooting is set to begin in June and throughout the summer, with additional shooting in the winter. Set in a countryside school in pre-Nazi Germany 1913, the film will examine the educational system that paved the way for Hitler’s fascist machinations and its subsequent indoctrination of a generation. This marks Haneke’s first German production since the original Funny Games in 1997. Obvious subject matter for the minimalist-auteur, Band continues his fascination with human cruelty and society, here in the form of ritual punishment and subjugation. One has to wonder how Haneke’s predilection for long, bordering on pretentious, static shots and aversion to a musical score will translate to a project of this scope. The film will most likely
- 4/27/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Last year The Lives of Others cleaned up the "German Oscars", with eight nominations apiece, this year we find a tight race between Tom Tykwer's take on the Patrick Suskind novel a prison drama by helmer Chris Kraus. Perfume - The Story of a Murderer got a theatrical release stateside in late December. The Golden and Silver Lolas will be presented in a gala ceremony in Berlin on May 4. Here are the noms:Best Feature Film Emma's Bliss (dir: Sven Taddicken)The Counterfeiters (dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky)Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer (dir: Tom Tykwer)Four Minutes (dir: Chris Kraus)Grave Decisions (dir: Marcus H. Rosenmueller)Winter Journey (dir: Hans Steinbichler)Best Documentary The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez (dir: Heidi Specogna)Working Man's Death (dir: Michael Glawogger)Best Children's and Youth Film Hände Weg Vom Mississippi (dir: Detlev Buck)The Cloud (dir: Gregor Schnitzler)Best Direction
- 3/19/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
'Perfume' leads Lola noms
BERLIN -- There is no clear favorite for this year's German Film Prizes, the Lolas, as several films picked up multiple nominations Friday.
Tom Tykwer's opulent story of a scent-obsessed serial killer, "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," and Chris Kraus' low-budget drama "Four Minutes" led the nominations with eight each, including mentions in the best picture and best director categories.
Close behind was Stefan Ruzowitzky's "The Counterfeiters", the true story of concentration camp inmates who were forced to forge money to help finance the Nazi war machine. It received seven Lola nominations, missing out in the best director category but picking up a nom Karl Markovics' starmaking turn as a Jewish con-man and expert forger caught between his conscience and his instinct for survival.
The best actor category will see Markovics go up against two established German actors at the top of their game -- Josef Bierbichler, for his caustic performance in Hans Steinbichler's "Winter Journey", and Juergen Vogel, nominated for "The Free Will", in which he plays a serial rapist trying to resist his urges.
25-year-old Hannah Herzsprung proved she has successfully made the jump from TV to film with two Lola nominations -- a best acting nom for her feature debut in "Four Minutes" and a best supporting mention for her performance in "Life Actually". In the best actress category, Herzsprung will face off with her "Four Minutes" co-star Monica Bleibtreu.
There is no newcomer of the year Lola, but if there were, it would likely go to first-time director Marcus H. Rosenmueller. His debut, the black comedy "Grave Decisions", received five nominations, including best picture and best director, while his follow-up film, the bobsled laffer "Heavyweights", snagged a Lola nomination for best costume design.
Tom Tykwer's opulent story of a scent-obsessed serial killer, "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer," and Chris Kraus' low-budget drama "Four Minutes" led the nominations with eight each, including mentions in the best picture and best director categories.
Close behind was Stefan Ruzowitzky's "The Counterfeiters", the true story of concentration camp inmates who were forced to forge money to help finance the Nazi war machine. It received seven Lola nominations, missing out in the best director category but picking up a nom Karl Markovics' starmaking turn as a Jewish con-man and expert forger caught between his conscience and his instinct for survival.
The best actor category will see Markovics go up against two established German actors at the top of their game -- Josef Bierbichler, for his caustic performance in Hans Steinbichler's "Winter Journey", and Juergen Vogel, nominated for "The Free Will", in which he plays a serial rapist trying to resist his urges.
25-year-old Hannah Herzsprung proved she has successfully made the jump from TV to film with two Lola nominations -- a best acting nom for her feature debut in "Four Minutes" and a best supporting mention for her performance in "Life Actually". In the best actress category, Herzsprung will face off with her "Four Minutes" co-star Monica Bleibtreu.
There is no newcomer of the year Lola, but if there were, it would likely go to first-time director Marcus H. Rosenmueller. His debut, the black comedy "Grave Decisions", received five nominations, including best picture and best director, while his follow-up film, the bobsled laffer "Heavyweights", snagged a Lola nomination for best costume design.
- 3/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
German 'Winter' calls Link
COLOGNE, Germany -- Caroline Link, a foreign-language Oscar winner in 2003 with "Nowhere in Africa", is returning to Germany for her new film, "Im Winter ein Jahr" (A Year in Winter), an adaptation of the Scott Campbell novel "Aftermath".
The project, which will be produced by Constantin Film and Bavaria Filmproduktion, tells the story of a painter who develops a special bond with a young woman whose portrait he is commissioned to paint.
Link wrote the screenplay to "Im Winter", which was initially conceived as her English-language debut. Instead, the film will be shot in German this year and star German actors Josef Bierbichler, Karoline Herfurth, Corinna Harfouch and Hanns Zischler.
Constantin production head Martin Moszkowicz will produce together with Bavaria's Uschi Reich.
Constantin Film will release the drama in Germany.
The project, which will be produced by Constantin Film and Bavaria Filmproduktion, tells the story of a painter who develops a special bond with a young woman whose portrait he is commissioned to paint.
Link wrote the screenplay to "Im Winter", which was initially conceived as her English-language debut. Instead, the film will be shot in German this year and star German actors Josef Bierbichler, Karoline Herfurth, Corinna Harfouch and Hanns Zischler.
Constantin production head Martin Moszkowicz will produce together with Bavaria's Uschi Reich.
Constantin Film will release the drama in Germany.
- 3/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film review: 'Winter Sleepers'
Director Tom Tykwer's international success with "Run Lola Run" has inspired distributors to rummage through his earlier films, looking for anything to release with his name above the title. "Winter Sleepers", made in 1997, makes its way into U.S. theaters under these circumstances.
While clues to Tykwer's considerable talent are to be found, they get buried in an avalanche of self-absorbed, maddeningly obtuse characters whose lives interest one not in the least.
The film will undoubtedly draw some fans of "Lola", but forget about the wildfire word-of-mouth that propelled that film into an art house wonder.
What will captivate Tykwer's admirers in "Winter Sleepers" is the knockout camerawork. Tykwer, working in Cinemascope with director of photography Frank Griebe, lets the camera restlessly prowl the snowy peaks and mountain passages of a German skiing village. He uses his camera to edit, to move from one shot to another without a cut. And the film ends with a breathtaking sequence -- a death plunge by a skier filmed with several cameras, including a helmet-mounted one worn by a stuntman.
It is also clear that Tykwer is a fine director of young actors. Here he coaxes performances from a small cast that capture something of the young generation's malaise and dissatisfaction with contemporary life and their intense focus on themselves.
These are not necessarily the kind of individuals you want to spend a two-hour movie with, however. Tykwer's roaming camera can distract one from such mundane lives only so much.
The script by Tykwer and Anne-Francoise Pyszora, based on her novel "Expense of Spirit", concentrates on two men and two women holed up for winter in a ski resort. Rebecca (Floriane Daniel), a beautiful translator of romance novels, is involved with dumb-blonde ski instructor Marco (Heino Ferch). But other than his well-sculpted body, her attraction to this man with little intellectual curiosity or sense of morals is hard to fathom.
Laura (Marie-Lou Sellem), a nurse and amateur actress, is sufficiently bored to drift into a relationship with the town's reclusive movie projectionist, Rene (Ulrich Matthes). It turns out that an army accident has left him with a lack of short-term memory, which he compensates for by taking endless photos, simply to remind himself of what he did the day before.
The film pivots around a terrible road accident on an icy mountain passage, an incident that apparently was not in the novel but does introduce the Tykwerian theme of fate and the role it plays in people's lives. This accident has put the daughter of a local farmer Theo (Josef Bierbichler) into a coma. Both of the main male characters are linked to this accident, but one doesn't remember it and the other is unaware of the involvement of his stolen car.
Despite the mobile camera, this movie crawls at a snail's pace, seemingly in the thrall of characters whose lives cannot bare such scrutiny. Few movies achieve the urgency Tykwer injected into "Lola". But here, in the film he made directly before "Lola", Tykwer keeps the narrative gears in neutral for virtually the entire movie.
The production itself is highly sophisticated. Along with the sterling camerawork, Aphrodite Kondos' costumes are on-the-button, and production designer Alexander Manasse's cozy alpine lodge and cabins serve as a refuge from the snowy landscape.
One almost senses Tykwer's impatience with this small and static tale, with his need to run with a character determined to take her life in her own hands. Lola obviously rescued him.
WINTER SLEEPERS
WinStar Cinema
Bavaria Films International presents
an X-Filme Creative Pool GmbH. production
Producer: Stefan Arndt
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writers: Tom Tykwer, Anne-Francoise Pyszora
Based on the novel "Expense of Spirit" by: Anne-Francoise Pyszora
Director of photography: Frank Griebe
Production designer: Alexander Manasse
Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
Costume designer: Aphrodite Kondos
Editor: Katja Dringenberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rene: Ulrich Matthes
Laura: Marie-Lou Sellem
Rebecca: Floriane Daniel
Marco: Heino Ferch
Theo: Josef Bierbichler
Running time -- 124 minutes
No MPAA rating...
While clues to Tykwer's considerable talent are to be found, they get buried in an avalanche of self-absorbed, maddeningly obtuse characters whose lives interest one not in the least.
The film will undoubtedly draw some fans of "Lola", but forget about the wildfire word-of-mouth that propelled that film into an art house wonder.
What will captivate Tykwer's admirers in "Winter Sleepers" is the knockout camerawork. Tykwer, working in Cinemascope with director of photography Frank Griebe, lets the camera restlessly prowl the snowy peaks and mountain passages of a German skiing village. He uses his camera to edit, to move from one shot to another without a cut. And the film ends with a breathtaking sequence -- a death plunge by a skier filmed with several cameras, including a helmet-mounted one worn by a stuntman.
It is also clear that Tykwer is a fine director of young actors. Here he coaxes performances from a small cast that capture something of the young generation's malaise and dissatisfaction with contemporary life and their intense focus on themselves.
These are not necessarily the kind of individuals you want to spend a two-hour movie with, however. Tykwer's roaming camera can distract one from such mundane lives only so much.
The script by Tykwer and Anne-Francoise Pyszora, based on her novel "Expense of Spirit", concentrates on two men and two women holed up for winter in a ski resort. Rebecca (Floriane Daniel), a beautiful translator of romance novels, is involved with dumb-blonde ski instructor Marco (Heino Ferch). But other than his well-sculpted body, her attraction to this man with little intellectual curiosity or sense of morals is hard to fathom.
Laura (Marie-Lou Sellem), a nurse and amateur actress, is sufficiently bored to drift into a relationship with the town's reclusive movie projectionist, Rene (Ulrich Matthes). It turns out that an army accident has left him with a lack of short-term memory, which he compensates for by taking endless photos, simply to remind himself of what he did the day before.
The film pivots around a terrible road accident on an icy mountain passage, an incident that apparently was not in the novel but does introduce the Tykwerian theme of fate and the role it plays in people's lives. This accident has put the daughter of a local farmer Theo (Josef Bierbichler) into a coma. Both of the main male characters are linked to this accident, but one doesn't remember it and the other is unaware of the involvement of his stolen car.
Despite the mobile camera, this movie crawls at a snail's pace, seemingly in the thrall of characters whose lives cannot bare such scrutiny. Few movies achieve the urgency Tykwer injected into "Lola". But here, in the film he made directly before "Lola", Tykwer keeps the narrative gears in neutral for virtually the entire movie.
The production itself is highly sophisticated. Along with the sterling camerawork, Aphrodite Kondos' costumes are on-the-button, and production designer Alexander Manasse's cozy alpine lodge and cabins serve as a refuge from the snowy landscape.
One almost senses Tykwer's impatience with this small and static tale, with his need to run with a character determined to take her life in her own hands. Lola obviously rescued him.
WINTER SLEEPERS
WinStar Cinema
Bavaria Films International presents
an X-Filme Creative Pool GmbH. production
Producer: Stefan Arndt
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writers: Tom Tykwer, Anne-Francoise Pyszora
Based on the novel "Expense of Spirit" by: Anne-Francoise Pyszora
Director of photography: Frank Griebe
Production designer: Alexander Manasse
Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
Costume designer: Aphrodite Kondos
Editor: Katja Dringenberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rene: Ulrich Matthes
Laura: Marie-Lou Sellem
Rebecca: Floriane Daniel
Marco: Heino Ferch
Theo: Josef Bierbichler
Running time -- 124 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/17/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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