All Middle East articles – Page 186
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Earth
Dir: Alastair Fothergill/Mark Linfield. UK/Germany 2007. 98 mins.Probably the most ambitious nature documentary ever produced, Earth is a feature-length condensation of the eleven-part BBC series Planet Earth, broadcast in the UK in 2006 and on Discovery Channel in the US in spring 2007. Better than a trip to the zoo, ...
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Beta Film picks up Wehling's desert-set drama Kronos
Beta Film has picked up the international distribution rights for Olav F. Wehling's Kronos which began shooting Monday on location in the Moroccan desert near Ouarzazate and Merzouga. The family drama is being produce d by Lisa Groezinger and Christopher Zwickler of the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg with the ZDFtheaterkanal, CP Medien, ...
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Von Trotta comes to Utrecht for Binger & Screen International talk
Margarethe von Trotta will discuss her work and the future of European cinema during this year's Binger - Screen International Interview at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht on Sept 28. Screen International's US Editor Mike Goodridge will conduct the public interview with the lauded German director, actress and screenwriter. ...
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Croatia selects Svilicic's Armin for Oscar consideration
The Croatian Association of Film Makers has chosen Ognjen Svilicic's Armin as its foreign language submission for the Academy Awards. The project is winner of numerous festival awards, including best screenplay at Croatia 's national Pula Film Festival and at Festroia, best actor for Emir Hadzihafizbegovic in Pula and Durban ...
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You, The Living enters Oscar race for Sweden
Swedish director Roy Andersson's You, The Living (Du levanda), which was launched in competition at Cannes, will be Sweden's official candidate for the Academy Award nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature. The selection, which was announced at a press conference in Stockholm today (Sept 25), was made by the 15-member committee ...
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Ulrich Thomsen and Jack McGee join cast of Tykwer's The International
Festen's Ulrich Thomsen, Crash's Jack McGee and Million Dollar Baby's Brian F. O'Byrne have joined the multi-national cast for Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International, headlined by Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. The film started shooting earlier today at the Babelsberg studios outside of Berlin after a week of location ...
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In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia)
Dir. Jose Luis Guerin. Spain / France, 2007. 90 min.In the City of Sylvia is likely to be defined by some as 'a work of genius' and by others as like 'watching paint dry'. An audience in search of a plot with a beginning middle and end should look elsewhere. ...
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The Obscure (Xiaoshuo)
Dir. Lu Yue. China 2006. 84 min.Potentiallya powerful soporific for any audience not fluent in Mandarin, Lu Yue's combination of documentary and improvised live action is almost self-defeating in its insistence to stick, for the first hour, to a purely theoretical seminar. As it is, Lu's picture could interest scholars ...
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The Trap and Short Circuits enter foreign Oscar race
The Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has selected Srdan Golubovic's The Trap (Klopka) for the Oscar race. The Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production is a thriller about a man who decides to take on a hitman's task in order to be able to pay for a life-saving operation for his son. ...
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Foul Gesture (Tnuah Meguna)
Dir: Tzahi Grad. Israel 2006. 96 mins.A satirical social comedy turns into a terrific, slow-burn revenge drama in Israeli actor Tzahi Grad's second directorial outing. Though the rough, low-budget production values will put off mainstream distributors, arthouse and genre specialists should take a look at this title, whose strong script ...
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Cuerda starts shoot in Galicia for Blind Sunflowers
Spanish director Jose Luis Cuerda started shooting in Galicia for his 10th feature film, The Blind Sunflowers, based on Alberto Mendez's novel by the same name. Javier Camara and Meribel Verdu star. The film follows Elena (Verdu), who is living in post-war Spain hiding secrets about her family. Her teenage ...
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Wild Bunch closes a slew of deals on Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame
The screening of Hana Makhmalbaf's French-Iranian drama Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame in official competition at San Sebastian has sparked a flurry of international sales. Wild Bunch has secured sales of Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's first feature to the UK (Slingshot), Spain (Wanda), Canada (Crystal), Portugal (Lusomundo), Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina adds It's Hard To Be Nice to Oscar list
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Association of Film Makers chose Srdjan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice (Tesko Je Biti Fin) as the country's foreign language submission for the Academy Awards.The drama, about a Sarajevo taxi driver who involuntarily gets mixed up in a series of complicated situations, opened this year's Sarajevo Film ...
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Latido secures more sales for Saura's Fados
Spanish sales outfit Latido Films has sold Carlos Saura's film Fados to countries across North, Central and South America. The musical drama, co-produced by Spain's Zebra Producciones and Portugal's Fado Filmes, has been sold to Canada (K Films Amerique), Mexico and Central America (Latino Vision), Venezuela (Amazonia). Deals were also ...
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The Class enters foreign Oscar race for Estonia
The Class has been put forward as the Estonian contender for the foreign-language Oscar.Ilmar Raag's debut feature beat out the other Estonian choice, The Autumn Ball, among the local Oscar committee.The drama, based on true events, is about a class geek and a friend who stands up for him to ...
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Berlin's EFM tightens access and starts premium first weekend rates
Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) is introducing new access restrictions to its venue in the Martin Gropius Bau for the first weekend (Feb 9-10), which may lead some accredited professionals looking to go elsewhere to do business at the festival. Moreover, new premium screening rates will be introduced for the ...
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Bourne stays ahead with $13m international weekend
Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum once again set the pace at the international box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $13m from 4,269 dates in 48 territories. The marketplace's only new entrant, Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction, opened in Mexico day-and-date with its chart-topping domestic launch and came in number one with ...
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Biblob and Antoniou join foreign-language film competitors
Bangladesh has selected Golam Rabbany Biblob's directorial debut On The Wings Of Dreams, while Greece has picked Angeliki Antoniou's Eduart for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the forthcoming 80th Academy Awards. Both films are being handled internationally by the Berlin-based sales agent MDC International who is also representing ...
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Films from Attenborough, Freedman and Ruzowitzky open Ghent
The 34th edition of the Ghent International Film Festival is to feature three opening films on October 9.They are:The European premiere of Richard Attenborough's Closing the RingStefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher) Paul Freedman's Sand And SorrowClosing the Ring, starring Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell and Mischa Barton, opens ...
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Strategic Partners projects include Indigenes writer's debut
At the recent Strategic Partners co-production market in Canada, producers revealed a number of new projects currently in the works. In total almost 200 industry figures from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK were given the chance to pitch their projects to fellow ...