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69th Berlin International Film Festival
The 69th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 7 to 17 February 2019. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. Lone Scherfig's drama film ''The Kindness of Strangers (film), The Kindness of Strangers'' opened the festival. The Golden Bear was won by Israeli-French drama ''Synonyms (film), Synonyms'' directed by Nadav Lapid, which also served as the closing film of the festival. Jury Main competition The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: International jury * Juliette Binoche, actress (France) - Jury President * Justin Chang, journalist and film critic (United States) * Sandra Hüller, actress (Germany) * Sebastián Lelio, film director and screenwriter (Chile) * Rajendra Roy, chief curator of Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (United States) * Trudie Styler, actress, producer and film director (United Kingdom) First Feature Award Jury The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature Award: * Katj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kindness Of Strangers (film)
''The Kindness of Strangers'' is a 2019 internationally co-produced drama film, written and directed by Lone Scherfig. It stars Zoe Kazan, Tahar Rahim, Esben Smed, Andrea Riseborough, and Caleb Landry Jones. It had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 7, 2019. It was released in the United States on February 14, 2020, by Vertical Entertainment. Plot On the run from an abusive husband, Clara tries to survive on the New York streets with her two children during a harsh winter. She has the help of lonely Alice, doltish Jeff, and the sad chef Marc. Cast * Zoe Kazan as Clara Scott * Tahar Rahim as Marc * Esben Smed as Richard Scott * Andrea Riseborough as Alice * Caleb Landry Jones as Jeff * Bill Nighy as Timofey * Jay Baruchel as John * Jack Fulton as Anthony Scott * Finlay Wojtak-Hissong as Jude Scott * Nicolaj Kopernikus as Sergei Scott * Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll as Laundry Worker #1 Production In February 2017, it was announced Lone Scherfig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, and electronic media. The MoMA Library includes about 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It attracted 1,160,686 visitors in 2021, an increase of 64% from 2020. It ranked 15th on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2021.'' The Art Newspaper'' an ... [...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] |
Koyo Kouoh
Koyo Kouoh (born 1967) is Cameroonian-born curator who has been serving as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town since 2019. In 2015, the ''New York Times'' called her "one of Africa’s pre-eminent art curators and managers." She lives and works in Cape Town and Dakar. Early life and education Having grown up in Douala Kouoh studied business administration and banking in Switzerland as well as cultural management in France. She is fluent in French, German, English and Italian. Career Inspired by Margaret Busby’s anthology of writings by women of African descent, '' Daughters of Africa'' (1992), Kouoh jointly edited a German-language equivalent, ''Töchter Afrikas'', that was published in 1994. In 2001 and 2003, Kouoh served as co-curator – alongside writer Simon Njami – on Bamako Encounters (Rencontres de Bamako), a photography biennial held in Mali. From 2008 until 2019, Kouoh served as the founding artisti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MUBI
Mubi (; stylized as MUBI; The Auteurs before 2010) is a global curated film streaming platform, production company and film distributor. Mubi produces and theatrically distributes films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are exclusively available on its platform. Additionally, it publishes ''Notebook'', a film criticism and news publication, and provides weekly cinema tickets to selected new-release films through Mubi Go. Mubi's streaming platform is available in over 190 countries on the web, Android TV, Chromecast, Roku devices, PlayStation, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and LG and Samsung Smart TVs, as well as on mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and Android. History The Auteurs was founded in 2007 by Efe Çakarel, who began work on the business model for Mubi after being unable to watch '' In the Mood for Love'' online while in a café in Tokyo. The Criterion Collection began to provide video-on-demand (VOD) in partnership with The Auteurs in 2008. In 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanja Kaludjercic
Vanja is a given name. It was originally a nickname for Ivan. People with this name include: *Vanja Blomberg (born 1929), Swedish gymnast and Olympic champion *Vanja Džaferović (born 1983), Bosnian and Croatian footballer *Vanja Drach (1932–2009), Croatian actor *Vanja Ejdus (born 1976), Serbian actress *Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova (born 1960), Bulgarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s *Vanja Grubač (born 1971), Montenegrin footballer *Vanja Iveša (born 1977), Croatian football goalkeeper, currently playing for Eskişehirspor *Vanja Milinković-Savić (born 1997), Serbian footballer *Vanja Rogulj (born 1982), 3-time Olympics breaststroke swimmer from Croatia *Vanja Sutlić (1925–1989), Croatian philosopher *Vanja Udovičić (born 1982), professional water polo player from Serbia See also *Vanya (other) *Wanja __NOTOC__ Wanja is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: First name * Astrid Wanja Brune Olsen (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Bowers
Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Jeffrey'' (1995 film), a 1995 film by Paul Rudnick, based on Rudnick's play of the same name * ''Jeffrey'' (2016 film), a 2016 Dominican Republic documentary film *Jeffrey's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada *Jeffrey City, Wyoming, United States *Jeffrey Street, Sydney, Australia * Jeffrey's sketch, a sketch on American TV show ''Saturday Night Live'' *'' Nurse Jeffrey'', a spin-off miniseries from the American medical drama series ''House, MD'' *Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape, South Africa People with the surname * Alexander Jeffrey (1806–1874), Scottish solicitor and historian * Charles Jeffrey (footballer) (died 1915), Scottish footballer * E. C. Jeffrey (1866–1952), Canadian-American botanist *Grant Jeffrey (1948–2012), Canadian writer *Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934), American activist, suffragist and community organizer *Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002), American philosopher, logician, and pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ramos
Maria Ramos (born 1959) is a South African businesswoman, banker and corporate executive who has been serving the chairperson of AngloGold Ashanti since 2020. She previously served as chief executive officer (CEO) of Absa Group Limited. Prior to joining Absa in March 2009, she was the CEO of Transnet. This was after serving as director-general of the National Treasury. Early life Ramos was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 February 1959, the oldest of four daughters. Her parents emigrated to Mozambique and then South Africa in the mid 1960s. Ramos was six when her family began their new life in Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg. Ramos matriculated in 1977 and went to work for Barclays in Vereeniging as a waste clerk, which involved collecting paperwork such as deposit slips and cheques, from behind the tellers and manually processing them. Ramos applied for a scholarship under the bank's in-house scheme for employees to complete a university commerce degree, but discovered that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Nava
Gregory James Nava (born April 10, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Personal life Nava was born in San Diego, of Mexican and Basque heritage. Nava graduated from St. Augustine High School (San Diego), St. Augustine High School in San Diego and went on to attend film school at UCLA where he earned an Master of Fine Arts, MFA in 1976. At UCLA he directed the short film ''The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva'' (based on the life of Federico García Lorca, García Lorca), and for this work, won the Best Dramatic Film Award at the National Student Film Festival. Nava married Anna Thomas in 1975. They collaborated on many projects, and had sons Christopher (born 1984) and Teddy (born 1985) before legal separation, separating in 1995. They eventually divorced in 2006. Nava married Barbara Martinez in 2013. Career While an instructor at Moorpark College teaching classes in cinematography, Nava's first feature film, ''The Confessions of Amans (film), The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Bonsanti
Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon Terrestrial *Maria, Maevatanana, Madagascar *Maria, Quebec, Canada * Maria, Siquijor, the Philippines *María, Spain, in Andalusia *Îles Maria, French Polynesia *María de Huerva, Aragon, Spain *Villa Maria (other) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Maria'' (1947 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (1975 film), Swedish film * ''Maria'' (2003 film), Romanian film * ''Maria'' (2019 film), Filipino film * ''Maria'' (2021 film), Canadian film directed by Alec Pronovost * ''Maria'' (Sinhala film), Sri Lankan upcoming film Literature * ''María'' (novel), an 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs * ''Maria'' (Ukrainian novel), a 1934 novel by the Ukrainian writer Ulas Samchuk * ''Maria'' (play), a 1935 play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Qu
Vivian Qu (; Wen Yan) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the award-winning 2013 film ''Trap Street (film), Trap Street''. She also produced ''Night Train (2007 film), Night Train'', released in 2007, ''Knitting (film), Knitting'', in 2008 and ''Black Coal, Thin Ice'' in 2014, which won that year's Golden Bear, Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2017, her second directing feature ''Angels Wear White'' was entered into the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival and later won her a Golden Horse Award for Best Director in Taiwan. Early life and education Qu was born and brought up in Beijing, China. She went to the United States in the 1990s and studied art history and fine arts in New York City. She says that the subject of cinema combined all her interests, in "writing, photography, music... together in one art form". Life and career In 2003, Qu returned to Beijing, in order to become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
