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32nd European Film Awards
The 32nd European Film Awards were presented in Berlin, Germany on 7 December 2019. Selection Feature The list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards. * '' I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians'' - director: Radu Jude (Romania/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria/Germany) * '' A Tale of Three Sisters'' - director: Emin Alper (Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece) * ''A Twelve-Year Night'' - director: Álvaro Brechner (Uruguay/Spain/Argentina/France/Germany) * '' A White, White Day'' - director: Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden) * ''An Officer and a Spy'' - director: Roman Polanski (France) * '' All Good'' - director: Eva Trobisch (Germany) * '' And Then We Danced'' - director: Levan Akin (Sweden/Georgia/France) * '' Bad Poems'' - director: Gábor Reisz (Hungary/France) * '' Beanpole'' - director: Kantemir Balagov (Russia) * ''By the Grace of God'' - director: François Ozon (France/Belgium) * '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's States of Germany, sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the Brandenburg, State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Metropolitan regions in Germany, Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree (river), Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emin Alper
Emin Alper (born 13 August 1974, Karaman) is a Turkish filmmaker and historian. His directorial debut, ''Beyond the Hill'' won the Caligari Film Prize in the 62nd Berlinale and Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His second feature ''Frenzy (2015 film), Frenzy'' won the Special Jury Prize after premiering in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. Life During his university years, Emin Alper was an active member of the cinema club at Boğaziçi University, spending most of his time with friends thinking on and discussing about cinema. They would organize seminars with the prominent filmmakers of their time, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Zeki Demirkubuz. He began writing scripts and film reviews. Together with his friends, he published the film magazine “Görüntü.” It was during his university years that his lifelong love for cinema shaped, persuading him to pursue filmmaking as a career. After graduating from the university with a degree in Economics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beanpole (film)
''Beanpole'' (russian: Дылда, Dylda) is a 2019 Russian drama film directed by Kantemir Balagov. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Balagov won the Un Certain Regard Best Director Award and the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the Un Certain Regard section. It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. The film was inspired by Svetlana Alexievich's book ''War's Unwomanly Face''. Plot At the end of the Second World War, Iya Sergeyevna, a tall woman nicknamed "Beanpole" (Дылда), works as a nurse in a Leningrad hospital under Dr. Nikolay Ivanovich. Iya sometimes has fits where she is temporarily immobile, just slightly trembling. She lives in a communal apartment with Pashka, a diminutive three-year-old boy. One day, Iya accidentally smothers the child to death while suffering an episode. Days later, Masha arrives at Iya's room, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Reisz
Gábor (sometimes written Gabor) may refer to: * Gábor (given name) * Gabor (surname) * Gabor sisters, the three famous actresses, Eva, Magda and Zsa Zsa * Several scientific terms named after Dennis Gabor ** Gabor atom ** Gabor filter In image processing, a Gabor filter, named after Dennis Gabor, is a linear filter used for texture analysis, which essentially means that it analyzes whether there is any specific frequency content in the image in specific directions in a local ..., a linear filter used in image processing ** Gabor transform ** Gabor Medal, a medal of Royal Society awarded to biologists {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Poems
Bad or BAD may refer to: Common meanings *Evil, the opposite of moral good * Erroneous, inaccurate or incorrect * Unhealthy, or counter to well-being *Antagonist, the threat or obstacle of moral good Acronyms * BAD-2, a Soviet armored trolley car * Bank account debits tax, an Australian tax * Bcl-2-associated death promoter, a pro-apoptotic protein * Team B.A.D., a professional wrestling tag team Films * ''Andy Warhol's Bad'', a 1977 film * ''Bad'', an unfinished film by Theo van Gogh Music Performers * B. A. D., the Taiwanese boy band, who formed in 1998 * Big Audio Dynamite, Mick Jones' post-Clash band, from London * Royce da 5'9", the American rapper known as Bad, in the group Bad Meets Evil Albums * ''Bad'' (album), a 1987 album by Michael Jackson * ''BAD'', or ''Bigger and Deffer'', the second album by LL Cool J, 1987 Songs * "Bad" (U2 song), 1984 * "Bad" (Michael Jackson song), 1987 * "Bad", from the 2011 album '' Symphony Soldier'' by The Cab * "Bad" (Wale son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levan Akin
Levan Akin (born 14 December 1979) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter, best known for his film '' And Then We Danced'', that received critical acclaim and won the 2019 Guldbagge Award for Best Film. Biography Levan Akin was born and raised in Tumba, Sweden. His parents, of Georgian origin, had moved to Sweden in the 1960s, when Georgia was one of the republics of the Soviet Union. Levan Akin returns to Georgia every year with his sister for the summer holidays. There he consolidates his knowledge of Georgian culture and the practice of the Georgian language. Career Levan Akin started out as an assistant director in film productions, mainly at Sveriges Television. He worked at Studio 24 for the production of ''You, the Living'' (''Du Levande'') by Roy Andersson (2007). In 2008, he won two awards at the Hamburg Film Festival alongside film designer and producer Erika Stark for the short film ''De sista sakerna'' (2008). Levan Akin then directed series such as ''Secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Then We Danced
''And Then We Danced'' ( ka, და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ, ) is a 2019 Georgian drama film directed by Levan Akin. It was premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where it received a fifteen-minute standing ovation. It was one of the most favourably reviewed films out of Cannes that year. It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Screening of the film in Georgia sparked protests, due to its portrayal of a gay love affair. Development In an interview with the Zurich Film Festival, director Levin Akin said that he was inspired by images of the 2013 Tbilisi anti-homophobia rally protests where dozens of young people protesting homophobia were violently attacked by thousands of counter-protesters from the Georgian Orthodox Church. He visited Tbilisi in 2016 to do research on the situation and was inspired to make the film as a discussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Trobisch
Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * Eva (''Metal Gear''), a fictional character in the ''Metal Gear'' video games series * Evangelion (mecha), commonly referred to as "Eva" or "EVA", a fictional cyborg in the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise Films * ''Eva'' (1948 film), a Swedish film * ''Eva'' (1953 film), a Greek drama film * ''Eva'' (1958 film), an Austrian film * ''Eva'' (1962 film), a French-Italian film in English * ''Eva'' (2010 film), an English-language Romanian film * ''Eva'' (2011 film), a Spanish film * ''Eva'' (2018 film), a French film Music Artists *Eva (singer), French singer * E.V.A. (band) (Eve Versus Adam), an Italian female pop band * Banda Eva, a Brazilian axé band formerly fronted by Ivete Sang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Good (film)
All Good may refer to: * " All Good?", a 2000 song by De La Soul * ''All Good'' (album), a 2013 album by Nina * All Good Music Festival See also * All the Good, a Thoroughbred racehorse {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a ( né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, nine César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. His Polish–Jewish parents moved the family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937.Paul Werner, ''Polański. Biografia'', Poznań: Rebis, 2013, p. 13. Two years later, the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany started World War II, and the family found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes, surviving the Holocaust by adopting a false identity and concealing his Jewish heritage. Polanski's first feature-length film, '' Knife in the Water'' (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Officer And A Spy (film)
''An Officer and a Spy'' (french: J'Accuse, link=no) is a 2019 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski about the Dreyfus affair, with a screenplay by Polanski and Robert Harris based on Harris's 2013 novel of the same name. The name J'Accuse has its origins in Émile Zola's bold article in ''l'Aurore'' in January 1898 in which the famous author accused many persons of France of continuing to support the increasingly blatantly erroneous accusations against Dreyfus. The film had its premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2019, winning the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize. It received twelve nominations for the 45th César Awards, the most nominations of any eligible film, and eventually won the awards for Best Adaptation, Best Costume Design, and Best Director. The film was also nominated in four categories at the 32nd European Film Awards, including for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenwriter, ultimately win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hlynur Pálmason
Hlynur Pálmason (born 30 September 1984) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter.Wendy Mitchell"Hylnur Palmason on his Iceland-set Critics' Week selection 'A White, White Day'" ''Screen Daily'', 16 May 2019. A native of Hornafjörður, Iceland, he studied film at the National Film School of Denmark. His debut feature film '' Winter Brothers (Vinterbrødre)'' debuted at the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, and went on to win the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and the Robert Award for Best Danish Film, with Pálmason also winning the Robert Award for Best Director. His second feature film, '' A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur)'', was selected to screen in the International Critics' Week section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and was selected as Iceland's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. He followed up in 2022 with '' Godland (Vanskabte Land)'', which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
