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All Middle East articles – Page 164
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Cherry Blossoms (Kirschblüten - Hanami)
Dir: Doris Dorrie, Germany, 2008, 127minsDoris Dorrie's bittersweet film is a story of mourning and the futility of trying to recover something lost. A Bavarian husband who is nearing retirement loses his wife suddenly, and flies to Japan to visit sites that she never had a chance to see while ...
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IFC takes US, Lionsgate takes UK on Maximum's Waiting Room
IFC Films has taken US rights and Lionsgate has acquired the UK from Maximum Films International to Roger Goldby's drama The Waiting Room.Maximum Films Distribution is handling the Canadian release on the interwoven tale of the lives and loves of a group of young Londoners. Anne-Marie Duff and Ralf Little ...
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Hungary plans three new studio facilities
Despite industry jitters over the future security of Hungary's 20% tax rebate for film production, developers have announced plans for three new facilities. The Hungarian press reports that construction should begin this spring on a studio complex located on a 15,000-hectare site in Rakospalota in northeast Budapest. Luxembourg-based Orco Group ...
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Miromar lays out slate of films in English and German
Michel Morales's German company Miromar Entertainment, co-producer on the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal and the Viggo Mortensen drama Good, has unveiled a slate of English and German-language feature projects in development.The English language genre projects - with budgets up to Euros 7m - include the action film ...
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Rezo takes on sales for Mikhail Khodorovsky documentary
Rezo Films is handling international sales on Cyril Tuschi's feature documentary Rise And Fall of Mikhail B Khodorovsky which begins shooting in Moscow today (Feb 11).The film will feature interviews being conducted with members of the former oil magnate's family and schoolfriends. The co-production between Tuschi's LaLa Films and Leipzig-based ...
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Transylvanian Film Festival to launch development fund for local writers
Cluj's Transylvanian International Film Festival (TIFF) is to launch a development fund dedicated to local screenwriters at this year's edition from May 30 to June 8. 'We are looking for new stories and new people in Romania in the first year', TIFF's honorary director Tudor Giurgiu told Screendaily.com. 'Euros ...
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CJ Entertainment sells four-pack to Germany's Splendid
Korea's CJ Entertainment had a busy weekend selling to both Europe and Asia - sealing a four-picture deal with Germany's Splendid and selling three Asian territories on A Man Who Was Superman, starring Jun Ji-hyun.Splendid has pre-bought all German rights to The Divine Weapon, which wrapped two weeks ago, on ...
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Fandango Portobello stirs up deals for Quiet Chaos
Fandango Portobello has seen chaotic interest in Competition title Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo). The Italian drama, directed by Antonello Grimaldi and sarring Nanni Moretti and Valeria Golino, has sold to nine territories ahead of official Competition screening tomorrow. Deals have been struck with France (BAC), Spain (Alta), Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland ...
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Slingshot Hip Hop finds sales home in Celluloid Dreams
Celluloid Dreams has picked up international sales rights to Sundance documentary competition entry Slingshot Hip Hop.The film was directed by Jackie Reem Salloum and produced by Rumzi Araj, Jackie Reem Salloum and Waleed Zaiter. Featuring the Palestinian Artists: DAM, Abeer, PR, Mahmoud Shalabi and Arapeyat. The deal was brokered between ...
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Schmid explores industry options in break from legal woes
Andreas Schmid, former CEO of VIP Medienfonds, who was sentenced by a Munich court to six years in prison for tax evasion last November, was in characteristically fighting mood on a visit to Berlin this week.At the festival to refresh old and forge new contacts, Schmid said that he had ...
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Nordisk, Trust rack up EFM sales, with US deal on Bornedal thriller
Nordisk Film has sold Ole Bornedal's Just Another Love Story to Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment and Koch Lorber Films in the US following on from its screening in world dramatic competition at Sundance last month.The deal was negotiated by Thom Zadra of Red Envelope Entertainment, Richard Lorber of Koch Lorber ...
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Norwegian Film Institute bids farewell to Vigdis Lian
As she steps down today from her position as managing director of the Norwegian Film Institute, Vigdis Lian is being honoured tonight (Tuesday Feb 12) with a farewell reception in Berlin on her last working day.Her departure from the Institute follows from the decision to merge The Norwegian Film Fund, ...
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Beta Cinema takes on Norwegian Film Fund-backed Orange Girl
Norwegian director Eva Dahr's The Orange Girl (Appelsinpiken), from Jostein Gaarder's novel, is one of six new Norwegian features the Norwegian Film Fund gave the go-ahead by channelling $9.1m (NOK 50.3 million) production funding into the projects, closing almost half of the $20.4m (NOK 112 million) budgets.At the European Film ...
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Petzold's Yella named best feature film by German critics
Christian Petzold's Berlinale 2007 competition film Yella picked up two prizes for Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the German Film Critics Awards presented in Berlin on Monday evening. Other prizewinners included Pia Marais' The Unpolished (Best Feature Debut), Ulrich Noethen (Bst Actor for Mein Fuehrer), Maren Kroymann (Best ...
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Beeson, Engel launch new UK distributor New Wave Films
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel have launched a new UK distribution company called New Wave Films. The London-based outfit is planning to release films theatrically while also setting up a label for 'classic' DVDs.Here at the EFM, New Wave has already made its first acquisition, picking up UK rights to ...
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Montage, Quality, MGN among buyers for IM Global's Shelter
IM Global has reporting a storming business on the upcoming $25m supernatural thriller Shelter set to star Julianne Moore. Jonathan Rhys Myers is a recent addition to the cast.Deals have closed in South Korea (Montage), Latin America (Quality), Russia (MGN), Benelux (RCV), the Middle East (Gulf), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey ...
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SPE buys North America on Leiner's Balls Out
Sony Pictures Entertainment picked up North American rights to Danny Leiner's comedy Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story (aka Gary The Tennis Coach) in an eight-figure deal that closed late on Sunday night [Feb 11].Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group's (SPWAG) Scott Shooman brokered the agreement with UTA acting on behalf ...
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Love And Other Crimes (Liebe und andere Verbrechen)
Dir. Stefan Arsenijevic, Ger/Serb/Aust/Slovenia 2008, 105minsIn Love and Other Crimes, Anica (Dobra) is a woman approaching middle age who decides to leave her dreary high-rise Belgrade suburb with the money that she plans to steal from a solarium run by an older mobster (Stojanovic) who is her boss and lover. ...
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Berlin Today short prize goes to Pakistan's Maheen Zia
At a Sunday night dinner at the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Berlin Today Award 2008 went to Maheen Zia from Pakistan for her short Match Factor.Wim Wenders presented the prize, now in its fifth year. Zia's short is about an Iraqi man who finds himself the subject of a manhunt ...
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Be Like Others
Dir: Tamaz Eshaghian. USA, Canada, Iran, 2008. 74minsBe Like Others , a documentary on a topic that seems almost like the start of a joke -- did you know that in Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death, but sex-change operations are not only sanctioned by the governing clerics but almost ...