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30th European Film Awards
The 30th European Film Awards were presented on 9 December 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The nominations and winners are selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Selection * A Ciambra * A Date for Mad Mary * A Gentle Creature * A Jew Must Die * A Monster Calls * Afterimage * Ana, mon amour * Big Big World * BPM (Beats per Minute) * Bright Sunshine In * Brimstone * Fortunata * Frantz * Frost * Godless * Happy End * Heartstone * Home * Ice Mother * In Times of Fading Light * Indivisible * Insyriated * Istanbul Red * Jupiter's Moon * Lady Macbeth * Layla M. * Loveless * My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan * On Body and Soul * Paradise * Requiem for Mrs. J. * Return to Montauk * Sami Blood * Son of Sofia * Spoor * Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe * Summer 1993 * The Constitution * The Fury of a Patient Man * The Killing of a Sacred Deer * The King's Choice * The Last Family * The Nothing Factory * The Other Side of Hope * The Party * The Squar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haus Der Berliner Festspiele
The Haus der Berliner Festspiele is a theater in Berlin (Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin). It was opened on 1 May 1963 as the "Theater der Freien Volksbühne". Previously, the West Berlin part of the former Volksbühne Berlin, the , which was founded in 1948, had used the as its venue from 1949 to 1963. Under the direction of Erwin Piscator, the theatre moved into its own new building in 1963. The architect was Fritz Bornemann, who also designed the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the America Memorial Library in Berlin, among others. Rolf Hochhuth's tragedy '' Der Stellvertreter'', which Intendant Piscator had premiered at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in February 1963, was reopened here on 1 July 1963. Under artistic director (1973–1986), directors such as Peter Zadek, Klaus Michael Grüber and Hans Neuenfels offered avant-garde and risk-taking productions without a permanent ensemble. From 1986 to 1990 Neuenfels was artistic director, from 1990 to 1992 . In 1992, the Senate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterimage (film)
''Afterimage'' ( pl, Powidoki) is a 2016 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was screened in the Masters section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It was the Opening film at Indian Film Festival. It is the final film by Wajda who died in October 2016. Cast * Bogusław Linda – Władysław Strzemiński *Bronislawa Zamachowska – Nika Strzemińska * Zofia Wichłacz – Hania * Andrzej Konopka – personalny *Krzysztof Pieczyński – Julian Przyboś *Szymon Bobrowski – Włodzimierz Sokorski *Mariusz Bonaszewski – Madejski *Anna Majcher – Strzemiński's neighbor *Paulina Gałązka as Wasińska *Aleksander Fabisiak – Rajner *Magdalena Warzecha – museum worker *Irena Melcer – Jadzia *Tomasz Chodorowski – Tomek *Filip Gurłacz – Konrad *Mateusz Rusin – Stefan *Mateusz Rzeźniczak – Mateusz *Adrian Zaremba – Wojt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Mother
''Ice Mother'' ( cs, Bába z ledu) is a 2017 Czech drama film directed by Bohdan Sláma. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Hana, a happy 67-year-old mother and grandmother, experiences a series of life-changing events. Cast * Zuzana Kronerová as Hana * Pavel Nový as Broňa * Václav Neužil as Ivan * Tatiana Vilhelmová as Kateřina * Petra Špalková as Věra * Marek Daniel as Petr * Alena Mihulová as Zuzana * Marie Ludvíková as Květa * Božena Černá as Boženka * Josef Ježek as Bohouš See also * List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Czech submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Czech Republic has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1994 (after the split of Czechoslovakia in January 1993). However, there were also Czech films submitted by Czech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home (2016 Belgian Film)
''Home'' is a 2016 Belgian drama film directed by Fien Troch. It was screened in the Platform section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. At the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, Troch won the award for Best Director in the Horizons section. ''Home'' received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). It also received four nominations at the 8th Magritte Awards, winning Best Flemish Film. Plot Kevin is released from youth prison. He got there after he knocked down a man and left him behind as being dead. As his father does not want him to come back, Kevin moves in at his aunt Sonja and uncle Willem who have a son Sammy. Sammy is befriended with the shy, introvert John. John’s mother is a lunatic. Besides a separation anxiety disorder she has mysophobia and thinks her son smells. That’s why the boy must shower multiple times a day. She also divided the living room in imaginary areas which John may or may not enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartstone (film)
''Heartstone'' (''Hjartasteinn'') is a 2016 Icelandic drama film directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson. It tells the story of a strong friendship between two preteen boys in a small Icelandic fishing village and the emotional and sexual turbulence of adolescence. It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. On 9 September 2016, the film won the Queer Lion at the 73rd Venice Film Festival. It was the first Icelandic film to be shown in a competitive section of the Venice Film Festival. It was also nominated for the 2017 Nordic Council Film Prize and won the 2017 Icelandic Edda Awards. Cast * Baldur Einarsson as Þór/ Thor * Blær Hinriksson as Kristján/ Christian * Diljá Valsdóttir as Beta/ Beth * Katla Njálsdóttir as Hanna/ Hannah * Jónína Þórdís Karlsdóttir as Rakel * Rán Ragnarsdóttir as Hafdís * Søren Malling as Sven * Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir as Hulda * Gunnar Jónsson as Ásgeir * Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy End (2017 Film)
''Happy End'' is a 2017 drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and starring Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant, who had also played daughter and father in Haneke's 2012 film '' Amour''. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Released in the United States on 22 December 2017 by Sony Pictures Classics, it was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Huppert and Trintignant were nominated for European Film Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively. Synopsis The film starts with clips secretly filmed with a smartphone by Eve Laurent, a teenager, showing her mother and overlaid with text messages from Eve saying that her mother is selfish and uncaring. Eve feeds her hamster one of the sedatives and it dies. The last clip shows Eve's mother unconscious and Eve admitting that she poisoned her too with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godless (film)
''Godless'' ( bg, Безбог, Bezbog) is a 2016 Bulgarian drama film directed by . It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Cast * Irena Ivanova as Gana * Ventzislav Konstantinov as Aleko * Ivan Nalbantov as Yoan * Dimitar Petkov as The Judge * Alexandr Triffonov as Pavel Accolades and awards ''Godless'' won the prestigious Golden Leopard at the 2016 Locarno International Film Festival; Irena Ivanova also won the best actress award at Locarno for the film. At the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2016, ''Godless'' won the Special Jury Prize (an award of 10,000 €) and Ivanova won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress (an award of 2.500 €). At the 2016 Golden Rose National Film Festival in Varna, ''Godless'' won the top prize—the Golden Rose Award—as well as the prizes for best director (Petrova), best actress (Ivanova) and best actor (Nalbantov); Krum Rodriguez was awarded the prize for best cinematography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frost (2017 Film)
''Frost'' ( lt, Šerkšnas) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Šarūnas Bartas. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot The young Lithuanian Rokas (played by Mantas Janciauskas) drives with his girlfriend Inga (Lyja Maknaviciute) a humanitarian aid truck to Donbas region of Ukraine where, amid the violence and death of the war in Donbas, they meet different war reporters, one of whom is played by Vanessa Paradis.Film about Russia’s war in Ukraine receives standing ovation in Cannes |
Frantz (film)
''Frantz'' is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by François Ozon and starring Paula Beer and Pierre Niney. It is about a young German woman whose fiancé has been killed in World War I and the French soldier who comes bearing a secret about her fiancé. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, where Beer won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. At the 42nd César Awards, ''Frantz'' was nominated in eleven categories, winning one for Best Cinematography. ''Frantz'' is a loose adaptation of the 1932 Ernst Lubitsch film '' Broken Lullaby'', which in turn was based on Maurice Rostand's 1930 French play ''L'homme que j'ai tué''. Plot In Quedlinburg, Germany, in 1919, Anna, a young German woman (Paula Beer) grieving over the death of her fiancé, Frantz Hoffmeister, in World War I, leaves flowers at his grave. She sees there fresh ones and realizes that these are from Adrien (Pierre Niney), a young Frenchman, she doesn't ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortunata (film)
''Fortunata'' is a 2017 Italian drama directed by Sergio Castellitto. It was screened in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Jasmine Trinca won the ''Un Certain Regard'' Jury Award for Best Performance. Cast * Jasmine Trinca as Fortunata * Hanna Schygulla as Lotte * Stefano Accorsi as Patrizio * Alessandro Borghi as Chicano * Edoardo Pesce Edoardo Pesce (born 12 September 1979) is an Italian actor. Biography A student of the actor Enzo Garinei, Pesce began his career on stage, but gained notoriety with the TV series ''Romanzo criminale'' and ''I Cesaroni''. He received critical ac ... as Franco References External links * 2017 films 2017 drama films Films directed by Sergio Castellitto Italian drama films 2010s Italian-language films 2010s Italian films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brimstone (2016 Film)
''Brimstone'' is a 2016 psychological western horror film written and directed by Martin Koolhoven, starring Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington, and Carice van Houten. The film is a Dutch-American as well as French, German, Belgian and Swedish international production. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2016, where it caused controversy. It premiered in the Netherlands on 12 January 2017, where it was very well received, as in the rest of Europe and was released on 10 March in the United States, where it received mixed reviews from critics. Plot The plot consists of four acts, which are presented in anachronic order. The chronological order is acts 3 (Genesis), 2 (Exodus), 1 (Revelation), 4 (Retribution). So, after the first act, Revelation, the following acts are what happened before and the fourth act is chronologically the last. 1. Revelation Liz lives in the old west with her hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Sunshine In
''Let the Sunshine In'' (french: Un beau soleil intérieur), or ''Bright Sunshine In'', is a 2017 French romantic drama film directed by Claire Denis. The film is an adaptation of Roland Barthes's 1977 text '' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments'' (French: ''Fragments d’un discours amoureux'')''.'' Novelist Christine Angot and frequent Denis collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau have both been reported as Denis's co-writers on the project. It opened the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, it won the SACD Award. Plot Isabelle, a middle-aged divorced artist, has an unsatisfying relationship with a married banker, Vincent, who enjoys the sex with her but is committed emotionally to his wife. Looking for love, she begins a series of other relationships. She meets and feels an instant connection with an actor who, after she sleeps with him, reveals he is not separated from his wife despite what he had said earlier. She begins sleeping with her ex-husband but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
