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2018 Berlin International Film Festival
The 68th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 15 to 25 February 2018. German filmmaker Tom Tykwer served as Jury President. American film director Wes Anderson's animated film ''Isle of Dogs'' opened the festival, becoming first animated film to open the fest. The Romanian film ''Touch Me Not'' directed by Adina Pintilie won the Golden Bear, which also served as the closing night film. Jury Main Competition The following people were named for the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: International jury * Tom Tykwer, film director, screenwriter, producer and composer (Germany) - Jury President * Cécile de France, actress (Belgium) * Chema Prado, journalist and film critic (Spain) * Adele Romanski, film producer (United States) * Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician and composer (Japan) * Stephanie Zacharek, journalist and film critic (United States) Best First Feature Award Jury The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature Award: * Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Dogs (film)
The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England, which includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts. The area was historically part of the Manor, Hamlet, Parish and, for a time, the wider borough of Poplar. The name had no official status until the 1987 creation of the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council. It has been known locally as simply "the Island" since the 19th century. The whole area was once known as Stepney Marsh; Anton van den Wyngaerde's "Panorama of London" dated 1543 depicts and refers to the Isle of Dogs. Records show that ships preparing to carry the English royal household to Calais in 1520 docked at the southern bank of the island. The name ''Isle of Dogges'' occurs in the ''Thamesis Descriptio'' of 1588, applied to a small island in the south-western part of the peninsula. The name is next applied to the ''Isle of Dogs Farm'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Carpignano
Jonas Carpignano (; born January 16, 1984) is an Italian-American film director. He is known for the films '' Mediterranea'', '' A Ciambra'', and '' A Chiara''. Early life and career Carpignano was born in The Bronx, New York City on January 16, 1984. His father, Paolo Carpignano is a graduate school professor from Rome, Italy. His mother Diane Benskin Carpignano is from a family originally from Barbados in the Caribbean. He grew up in New York but spent extensive periods of time in Rome, Italy where his father's family resided. At an early age he was surrounded by filmmakers and musicians. His paternal grandfather Vittorio Carpignano was a filmmaker and producer of some of the most memorable commercials of early Italian television, and a prolific artist in the latter part of his life. His uncle, Luciano Emmer, was an Italian film director. On his mother's side, his uncle Sammy Benskin was a well known jazz pianist and band leader. He was educated at the Fieldston School in River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Atef
Emily Atef (born 6 May 1973) is a German-French-Iranian director, screenwriter and producer based in Berlin. Early life At the age of 7, Atef moved from Berlin to Los Angeles with her French-Iranian parents and her brother the drummer Cyril Atef. She was 13 when they moved to France, where Atef finished school, and later she went to London to work as an actor in the London theater scene. Atef returned to Berlin to study film direction at the prestigious Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Career Her first feature-length film ''Molly's Way'' which, like her 2 following feature films was co-authored by Esther Bernstorff received an advancement award at the ''Filmfest München'' (film festival Munich) in 2005 for best script and the Grand Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the only A-Festival in South America as well as several other awards. Her second feature-length film ''The Stranger in Me'' which deals with a young mother having postnatal depression also rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Days In Quiberon
''3 Days in Quiberon'' (german: 3 Tage in Quiberon) is a 2018 drama film directed by Emily Atef. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In 1981 at a spa in Quiberon, the celebrated actress Romy Schneider is undergoing a cure. Ignoring the strict regime, she largely exists on tobacco, alcohol, and tranquillisers. Hilde, an old friend from Vienna, comes to spend a couple of days with her and she is also visited by another old friend, the photographer Robert Lebeck. He brings a journalist, , to whom Romy has agreed to give an in-depth interview for the German magazine ''Stern''. Michael does not attempt to ingratiate himself or first win her confidence but in a clinical way probes with continually penetrating questions. Their sessions take on the air of a Catholic confessional or a psychiatrist's consulting room, for Romy seems ready to be open and to put on record much about of her life. ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Toscano
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyoti Mistry
Jyoti means "divine light" in many Indian languages. Jyoti and variant spellings may refer to: Films and TV * ''Jothi'' (1939 film), a Tamil film * ''Jyothi'' (1976 film), a Telugu film * ''Jyoti'' (1981 film), a Hindi film * ''Jyoti'' (1988 film), a Bengali film * ''Jothi'' (2022 film), a Tamil film * ''Jyoti'' (TV series), an Indian daily soap opera on Imagine TV * ''Jothi'' (TV series), a 2021 Indian supernatural fantasy thriller Tamil language television series Hinduism * Jyoti (goddess), considered to be a Hindu goddess of light * Jyotirlinga, a set of consecrated Shiva lingams * Jyotir Math, one of four major Ādi Śaṅkara schools * Jyoti Kalash, a light festival associated with Durga Places * Jyotirmath, city in Uttarakhand, India * Jyoti Khuria, municipality in Uttarakhand, India * Jyothi Central High School, in Ekma, Chhapra, Bihar, India * Jyothy Kendriya Vidyalaya, an English medium school in Bangalore People with the name People in film * Jyoti Kapur Das ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Schlosser
Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books ''Fast Food Nation'' (2001), '' Reefer Madness'' (2003), and '' Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety'' (2013). Biography Schlosser was born in New York City, New York; he spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California. His parents are Judith (née Gassner) and Herbert Schlosser, a former Wall Street lawyer who turned to broadcasting later in his career, eventually becoming president of NBC in 1974 and later becoming a vice president of RCA. Schlosser graduated with an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 1982 after completing a 148-page-long senior thesis titled "Academic Freedom during the McCarthy Era: Anti-Communism, Conformity and Princeton." He then earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oriel College, University of Oxford. He tried playwrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrike Ottinger
Ulrike Ottinger (born 6 June 1942) is a German filmmaker and photographer. Early life From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter. Her mother, Maria Weinberg, was a journalist and her father, Ulrich Ottinger, was a painter. From 1962 to 1968, Ottinger worked as a freelance artist in Paris and studied etching with Johnny Friedlaender among other studies. They participated in several exhibitions. Film career The films of Ottinger have been said to "reject or parody the conventions of art cinema and search for new ways to construct visual pleasure, creating various spectator positions usually neglected or marginalized by cinematic address". Her films include strong elements of stylization and fantasy, as well as ethnographic explorations. In 1966 she wrote her first screenplay, entitled ''Die Mongolische Doppelschublade''. Ottinger returned to West Germany in 1969 and, in cooperation with the Film Seminar at the University of Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerusalem Film Festival
The Jerusalem Film Festival ( he, פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים, ar, مهرجان القدس السينمائي) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem, It was established in 1984 by the Director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer, and has since become the main Israeli event for filmmakers and enthusiasts. Over the course of ten days every summer, over 200 films from 60 countries are screened at the Festival, along with a variety of special events, panels, and meetings with prominent local and international filmmakers, as well as professional industry workshops and events. History The Festival was established by Israel Prize recipient and founder of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer. After being invited to serve on the jury at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Van Leer decided to create Israel's first international film festival. Already in its very first year, the Festival had the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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