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2017 Berlin International Film Festival
The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as President of the Jury. '' Django'', directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Hungarian film ''On Body and Soul'' directed by Ildikó Enyedi, which also served as closing film of the festival. Jury Main Competition The following people were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: International jury * Paul Verhoeven, film director and screenwriter (Netherlands) - Jury President * Olafur Eliasson, sculptor (Iceland) * Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, producer (Tunisia) * Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress (United States) * Julia Jentsch, actress (Germany) * Diego Luna, actor and film director (Mexico) * Wang Quan'an, film director and screenwriter (China) Best First Feature Award Jury The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature Award: * Jayro Bustamante, film director (Guatemala) * Clotilde Coura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django (2017 Film)
''Django'' is a 2017 French drama film about the life of Django Reinhardt, directed by Étienne Comar. It opened the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Reinhardt's music is performed in the film by the Rosenberg Trio. Cast *Reda Kateb as Django Reinhardt *Cécile de France as Louise de Klerk *Bea Palya as Naguine *Johnny Montreuil as Joseph Reinhardt *Raphaël Dever as Vola *Patrick Mille as Charlie Delaunay *Àlex Brendemühl as Hans Biber *Ulrich Brandhoff as Hammerstein Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 61% based on 23 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. On Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ..., the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayro Bustamante
Jayro Bustamante (; born 7 May 1977) is a Guatemalan film director and screenwriter. He directed the 2015 film ''Ixcanul'', which was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. He was named on the jury for the Best First Feature Award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Filmography * ''Ixcanul'' - 2015 * '' Tremors (Temblores)'' - 2019 * ''La Llorona ''La Llorona'' (; "The Weeping Woman" or "The Wailer") is a Hispanic-American mythical vengeful ghost who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned. Origins Early colonial times provided evidence that the lore ...'' - 2019 References External links * 1977 births Living people Guatemalan film directors People from Guatemala City Guatemalan screenwriters Male screenwriters Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala alumni {{Guatemala-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres Veiel
Andres Veiel (born 16 October 1959) is a German film and theater director and writer. Biography From 1982 to 1988, Veiel studied Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and attended the director's class of Krzysztof Kieślowski at the Independent Berlin Artist Center Künstlerhaus Bethanien from 1985 to 1989. As professors, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien gathered other renowned International and European directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Patrice Chéreau and Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson. Veiel's first documentary film ''Winternachtstraum'' (''Winter Night's Dream'') resulted from his theatrical work with a group of senior actresses and premiered 1992 at the Duisburger Filmwoche, an annual festival for German-speaking documentaries. His next documentary about a Jewish-Palestinian theater group in Israel, ''Balagan'', won in 1993 the Findling Award than was screened at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and awarded with the Peace Film Award, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beuys (film)
''Beuys'' is a 2017 German documentary film directed by Andres Veiel about the German artist Joseph Beuys. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Noting that the film emphasizes the "social conscience" behind Beuys's art, Glenn Kenny, writing for ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...'', called it "an exhilarating portrait of a unique truth-teller".Kenny, Glenn (16 January 2018).Review: In ‘Beuys,’ a Portrait of the Artist as a Socially Conscious Provocateur. ''New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 20 January 2018. Print version, 17 January 2018, p. C5, under title "A Conceptual Artist and Provocateur". References External links * 2017 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Călin Peter Netzer
Călin Peter Netzer (; born 1 May 1975) is a Romanian film director who won the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Born in Petroșani to a family of Romanian and German origins, Netzer emigrated with his family to West Germany in 1983. In 1994, he returned to Romania in order to study film direction at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. His first feature film, ''Maria'' (2003), won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival, among other prizes at this and other film festivals. ''Poziția copilului'' ('' Child's Pose'', 2013), his third feature film, won him the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana, Mon Amour
''Ana, mon amour'' is a 2017 Romanian drama film directed by Călin Peter Netzer. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Editor Dana Bunescu received the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution. Plot Ana (Diana Cavallioti) and Toma (Mircea Postelnicu) are in a heated debate over Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. As the argument continues they both end up in bed and have sex. Later it is revealed that Ana has anxiety attacks that border on mental illness. Cast * Mircea Postelnicu as Toma * Diana Cavallioti as Ana * Carmen Tănase as Toma's mother * as Toma's father *Adrian Titieni as Psychologist *Tania Popa as Ana's mother *Vlad Ivanov as Priest Adrian *Ioana Flora as Irina Production The film was a joint production of Parada Film (Romania), Augenschein Filmproduktion (Germany), and Sophie Dulac Productions (France). The casting for the film began in August 2014 with Christina Paul of Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Nuñez (film Producer)
Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere * Carlos (crater), Montes Apenninus, LQ12, Moon; a lunar crater near Mons Hadley People * Carlos (given name), including a list of name holders * Carlos (surname), including a list of name holders Sportspeople * Carlos (Timorese footballer) (born 1986) * Carlos (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian footballer * Carlos (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian footballer Others * Carlos (Calusa) (died 1567), king or paramount chief of the Calusa people of Southwest Florida * Carlos (DJ) (born 1966), British DJ * Carlos (singer) (1943—2008), French entertainer * Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist *Carlos (DJ) (born 2010) Guyanese DJ Arts and entertainment * ''Carlos'' (miniseries), 2010 biopic about the terrorist Carlos the Jackal * ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski (born 1968 in Göttingen, West Germany) is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation art, installation and photography. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. Work Jankowski's work has been associated with New Gothic Art and compared with artists like Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gillian Wearing, and Pierre Huyghe. Using various media formats, the collaborative nature of his practice is paramount as each participant unwittingly contributes his or her own texture to the work.Christian Jankowski: Casting Jesus 7 September – 1 October 2011 Lisson Gallery, London ''The Hunt'' (1992), a performance video piece, is one of the artists earliest works. For one week the artist visited supermarkets and ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Drew
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Samir (filmmaker)
Samir Jamal al Din (born 29 July 1955), known professionally as Samir, is a Swiss filmmaker, film producer and director. Life and work Samir was born the son of a Swiss mother and an Iraqi father in Baghdad. Samir's full name is Samir Jamal al Din / Samir Jamal Aldin. His family moved to Switzerland in 1961, where he went to school. He attended the School of Design in Zurich (today's ZHdK), completed an apprenticeship as a typographer (1971–73) and subsequently trained as a cameraman with Condor Films. From 1983, he worked as a freelance director and cinematographer. From 1984 to 1991 he was a writer and member of Videoladen Zurich (Video Store Zurich). In 1994, he and documentary filmmaker Werner Schweizer overtook the film production company. From the mid-1980s, Samir began to produce his own films. In the 1990s he worked on behalf of Condor Films as a director of series like ''Eurocops'' and television films for German TV stations. His list of works – as a writer, directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edward Snowden, while ''My Country, My Country'' received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 2022, her documentary film, ''All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'', which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family, was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, the creator of ''Field of Vision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
