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NewsFrederic Boyer appointed as Directors' Fortnight artistic director
The Societe des Realisateurs de Films (SRF), the organisation behind Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, has appointed Frederic Boyer as artistic director.
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NewsThe Other Bank wins Golden Lily
Georgian director George Ovashvili’s film debut The Other Bank (Gagma Napiri) picked up the GoldenLily for best film and the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at this year’s goEast Festival.
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French animation Les Lascars receives Critics' Week slot
Albert Pereira-Lazaro and Emmanual Klotz’s animated feature LesLascars will receive a special out of competition screening at Cannes Critics’Week, which runs from May 14 – 22.
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Cannes announces Cinefondation and short films line-up
Cannes Film Festival organisers have announced the line-up for the Cinefondation and short films competition.
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NewsNordic countries to promote region to producers
An alliance of Nordic film commissions has launched a new strategy to promote the region as an attractive location to international producers.
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund appoints Doreen Boonekamp as director
Doreen Boonekamp, currently the festival director at the Netherlands Film Festival, has been appointed as the new head of the region’s film fund.
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MK2 picks up Dogtooth, The Misfortunates, Rien De Personnel
MK2 has announced pick-ups of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Felix van Groeningen’s The Misfortunates.
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Who's Afraid Of The Wolf named Best Feature in Plzen
An international jury led by Czech scriptwriter Milena Jelinek awarded the Golden Kingfisher to Maria Prochazkova’s film Who’s Afraid Of The Wolf atthe 22nd Finale festival of Czech film in Plzen.
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NewsNorwegian Film Institute backs Terje Rangnes' debut
Norwegian director Terje Rangnes’ feature debut, An Ordinary Day at Work (En Helt Vanlig Dag På Jobben), about the daily life of an unscrupulous journalist, will be backed by $1.4m (NOK 9m) from the Norwegian Film Institute.
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NewsDanish director Boe starts shooting fourth feature
Danish director Christoffer Boe has begun shooting his fourth feature, which has the working title Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen).
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Coach 14 acquires international sales rights for Police, Adjective
French sales house Coach 14 has acquired Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective for internationalsales. The film is running in the Un Certain Regard section of next month’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Roissy closes sales deals for Singing Nun tale Soeur Sourire
Shortly after announcing it had acquired Soeur Sourire; Roissy Films has closed sales with Canada andSwitzerland.
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Medienboard boosts 2009 budget by $1.3m
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), the German regional fund, will invest an additional $1.3m(Euros 1m) in the film projects this year.
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Pretty Pictures acquires three Chinese features
French distributor Pretty Pictures has acquired three films produced by China’s August First Studios: My Long March, The First Of August and Night Attack.
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NewsWrong Rosary wins Crossing Europe
Turkish director Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s Wrong Rosary has won the European Competition at the 6th Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz.
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Florian Gallenberger’s epic drama John Rabe wins four Lolas
Florian Gallenberger’s epic drama John Rabe about the “Oskar Schindler of China” was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards, taking home four Golden Lolas, including for Best Film and Best Lead Actor for Ulrich Tukur as John Rabe.
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NewsMilos Forman to head jury for 4th Rome Film Festival
The International Rome Film Festival has announced celebrated director Milos Forman as president of the jury for the upcoming 4th edition, which runs from October 15 – 23.
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Focus and Universal Pictures strike deal with UFA Cinema
Focus Features International (FFI) and Universal Pictures International (UPI) have formed a distributionand co-financing partnership with German film production and distribution operationUFA Cinema(UFA).
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Liv Ullman to star in Bergman sequel
Norwegian director-actress Liv Ullmann, the muse of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, will star in Swedishdirector’s Stig Bjorkman’s Scenes From An Artistry (Scener Ur Ett Konstnärskap), the sequel to ImagesFrom The Playground (Bilder Från Lekstugan).
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Bleiberg takes international rights to The Vicious Kind
Bleiberg Entertainment has acquired international rights to Lee Toland Krieger’s romantic thriller The Vicious Kindand will launch the film at the Cannes market.