All Berlin articles – Page 225

  • News

    NonStop Entertainment picks up Berlinale Forum selected Burrowing

    2009-02-05T11:38:00Z

    Stockholm based NonStop Entertainment has signed on Nordic and Baltic distribution for Swedishdirectorial debut Burrowing (Man Tänker Sitt) from production outfit Fasad.

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    Berlin reviews roundup

    2009-02-05T11:11:00Z

    In CompetitionAbout Elly (Asghar Farhadi)Cheri (Stephen Frears)Deutschland 09 (various)The Dust Of Time (Theo Angelopoulous)Eden Is West (Costa-Gavras)Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (Maren Ade)Forever Enthralled (Mei Lanfang)Germany 09 (Deutschland 09) (Various directors)Happy Tears (Mitchell Lichtenstein)In The Electric Mist (Bertrand Tavernier)Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland)Little Soldier (Annette K Olesen)London River (Rachid Bouchareb)Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson)The ...

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    Robert Redford and TerryGilliam projects spark up at Voltage Pictures

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Nicolas Chartier's high-flying Los Angeles financing and sales company Voltage Pictures arrives at EFM with its most prestigious slate to date led by new work from Robert Redford and Terry Gilliam.Chartier is in Berlin to introduce buyers to Robert Redford's romantic thriller The Company You Keep that is ready to ...

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    Fortissimo rounds out Berlin slate with Asian auteurs

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has arrived in Berlin with several additions to its slate including new titles from threefilmmakers that the company regularly works with - Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-liang, Thailand’s Pen-ekRatanaruang and Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam.

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    Vantage International gets lucky with 13 sales

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Paramount Vantage International has closed major sales on 13, Gela Babluani's star-studded English language remake of his 2005 French crime picture 13 Tzameti that just wrapped principal photography in and around New York.Senior vice president of international sales Alex Walton arrives at the EFM having completed sales to Icon for ...

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    Memento closes pre-Berlin sales on Katalin Varga, Treeless Mountain

    2009-02-04T22:14:00Z

    Aggressive French sales outfit Memento has announced a raft of deals on films on its EFM slate.

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    UK 's Goalpost Film announces Berlin slate

    2009-02-04T19:14:00Z

    Goalpost Film’s has announced its Berlin slate, which includes Closed For Winter and Little Sister, thecompany has also acquired international sales and licensing rights for Dances With Wolves.

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    Number of buyers at EFM increases year-on-year by almost 40%

    2009-02-02T18:45:00Z

    The number of international buyers attending this year's European Film Market (EFM) at the Berlinale is set to increase by almost 40% year-on-year. While a total of 1,073 attended the EFM's 2008 edition, this year's market has 1,474 buyers from 60 countries accredited (as of Feb 2, ...

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    Maple acquires Canadian rights to Private Lives Of Pippa Lee

    2009-01-30T16:49:00Z

    Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures has acquired all Canadian rights to director Rebecca Miller's upcoming Berlin title The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. The film's ensemble cast features Robin Wright Penn in the title role, along with Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci.Adapted by ...

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    Interview: EFM director Beki Probst

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    As director of the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) for 20 years, Beki Probst has borne witness to seismic changes at both the festival and the international film business. One of the most striking changes she has observed is in the attitudes of people attending the market.'When they come to ...

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    Summit arrives at EFM with Furry Vengeance, Next Day Air

    2009-01-29T20:45:00Z

    Summit International arrives at EFM with the $50m family adventure Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser and urban comedy caper Next Day Air starring Mos Def and Mike Epps.Summit Entertainment plans a 2010 North American release on Furry Vengeance, in which Fraser plays a conniving developer whose cruel intentions meet with ...

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    Fortissimo to start pre-sales at EFM on Todd Solondz's Forgiveness

    2009-01-28T18:09:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has confirmed that it has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works to Todd Solondz's Forgiveness and will commence pre-sales at EFM next month on the loose sequel to the director's 1998 dark comedy Happiness.Fortissimo has always been connected to the project but the film has undergone several ...

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    Elle Driver to take London River and Samson & Delilah to EFM

    2009-01-27T18:39:00Z

    After a successful Sundance, French sales house Elle Driver is revving up for the European Film Market with new titles from Rachid Bouchareb and Warwick Thornton. Bouchareb's latest, London River, has its world premiere in competition at Berlin. It is his first film since the Oscar-nominated Days Of Glory which ...

  • Reviews

    The Strength Of Water

    2009-01-27T17:37:00Z

    Dir: Armagan Ballantyne. New Zealand-Germany. 2009. 86mins.

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    Berlinale Official Selection 2009

    2009-01-27T17:04:00Z

    The 59th edition of the Berlin International film festival has confirmed the complete lineup for its 2009 official selection.Please click highlighted titles to see Screen review.BERLINALE OFFICIAL SELECTIONIN COMPETITION All The Others (Ger) - Dir: Maren Ade Cheri (UK-Ger) - Dir: Stephen Frears Darbareye Elly (About Elly) (Iran) - Asghar ...

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    The Match Factory to present five world premieres at EFM

    2009-01-27T16:46:00Z

    Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will handle international sales on four new films invited to screen in Berlinale's Competition. The films are: Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's comedy Gigante, starring Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas; The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada), from Barcelona-based Peruvian director Claudia Llosa; Veteran Greek director ...

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    Films by Loncraine, Scherfig and Guggenheim complete Berlinale programme

    2009-01-27T16:27:00Z

    Richard Loncraine's 1950s-set My One And Only, starring Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and Logan Lerman, will screen as a world premiere in Competition, while Scherfig's An Education, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, will be coming direct from Sundance for a gala presentation at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the ...

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    High Point Films picks up Dutch hit Winter In Wartime for EFM

    2009-01-26T18:11:00Z

    Winter In Wartime, the biggest Dutch box-office hit of recent months, has been picked up for international sales by London-based High Point Films. The first market screenings of the film are planned for Berlin next month. The film is proving a minor box-office phenomenon in the Netherlands and attracted over ...

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    Bavaria Film International adds six Berlinale world premieres to EFM sales slate

    2009-01-26T17:34:00Z

    Bavaria Film International has added six of the forthcoming Berlinale's world premieres to its sales slate for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM). The six titles are: Maren Ade's competition film Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) about a couple during a holiday on Sardinia and their futile attempt to be as ...

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    Film Europe picks up five films for EFM

    2009-01-23T16:24:00Z

    SPI International’s new sales arm, Film Europe, has picked up five completed films premiering atBerlin next month.