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Deutscher Filmpreis 2015
The 65th German Film Award took place on 19 June 2015, organised by the Deutsche Filmakademie. The award ceremony was held at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin and broadcast by the ZDF. Jan Josef Liefers hosted the event. Winners and nominees Best Fiction Feature Film :''Labyrinth of Lies'' – Produced by: Uli Putz, Sabine Lamby and Jakob Claussen, directed by: Giulio Ricciarelli :'' Who Am I – No System Is Safe'' – Produced by: Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg, directed by: Baran bo Odar :''We Are Young. We Are Strong.'' – Produced by: Jochen Laube and Leif Alexis, directed by: Burhan Qurbani Best Documentary Feature Film ''Citizenfour'' – Produced by: Dirk Wilutzky, Laura Poitras and Mathilde Bonnefoy, directed by: Laura Poitras :''Beyond Punishment'' – Produced and directed by: Hubertus Siegert :'' Nowitzki. The Perfect Shot'' – Produced by: Leopold Hoesch, directed by: Sebastian Dehnhardt Best Children's Feature Film ''The Pasta Detectives'' – Produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Film Award
The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important film award in Germany, it is also the most highly endowed German cultural award, with cash prizes in its current 20 categories totalling nearly three million euros. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, but since 2005 the award has been organized by the German Film Academy ( Deutsche Filmakademie). The Federal Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs has been responsible for the administration of the prize since 1999. The awards ceremony is traditionally held in Berlin. History The award was created in 1951 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and was first given out during the Berlin Film Festival. A practice that was kept for the upcoming decades. Since 1999 it is commissioned by the Federal Government Commissioner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Ricciarelli
Giulio Ricciarelli (born 2 August 1965 in Milan) is an Italian-German actor, director and film producer. Career After his training at the Munich Otto-Falckenberg-Schule (1985–1987), Ricciarelli began his career on stage. Thus he was engaged at the Theater Basel in 1989–1990; In 1991, he played at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and at the Theater Oberhausen; In 1992 a two-year engagement took place at Bonn. At the Bavarian State Theater Munich, he played the Alba in ''Don Carlos'' in 1994/1995 as well as the leading role Jean in ''Zazou'' under the direction of Jérôme Savary. At this time, his first lead role in a television film, the Tonino in ''Tonino and Toinette'' by Xaver Schwarzenberger. From 1995 onwards roles in series like ''Dr. Schwarz and Dr. Martin'', ''Zugriff'', and ''Im Visier der Zielfahnder'', in which he played the main commissioner Silvio Kreutzer. In the cinema, Ricciarelli had a smaller role in ' among others in 1996. In 2000, he founded the ''Naked Eye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Punishment
Beyond may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Beyond'' (1921 film), an American silent film * ''Beyond'' (2000 film), a Danish film directed by Åke Sandgren, OT: ''Dykkerne'' * ''Beyond'' (2010 film), a Swedish film directed by Pernilla August, OT: ''Svinalängorna'' * ''Beyond'' (2012 film), an American thriller directed by Josef Rusnak * ''Beyond'' (2014 film), a British science fiction film * "Beyond" (''The Animatrix''), a segment of the short-film collection ''The Animatrix'' *'' Star Trek Beyond'', a 2016 American science fiction film in the ''Star Trek'' film franchise Games *Beyond Games, a U.S. video game developer founded in 1992 *Beyond Software, a 1980s UK video game developer *'' Beyond: Two Souls'', a video game for the PlayStation 3, developed by Quantic Dream *''Beyond the Supernatural'', a 1980s role-playing game *Stormfront Studios, a U.S. video game developer originally named Beyond Software 1988–1991 Literature * ''Beyond'' (book), a 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film '' Run Lola Run'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''Citizenfour'' (2014). She and her husband Dirk Wilutzky additionally served as producers of ''Citizenfour'' with its director Laura Poitras, and the three received the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Bonnefoy was born in Paris, and is the daughter of the French poet Yves Bonnefoy and Lucy Vines, an American; she has dual citizenship in France and the United States. From 1990 to 1991 she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, but she abandoned her studies to move to Berlin. By 1995 she was working as an assistant editor, and in 1997 she was credited as the " Avid assistant" for the German film '' Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' (directed by Wolfgang Becker). ''Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' was one of the first films produced by the film company X ... [...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] |
Dirk Wilutzky
Dirk Wilutzky (born 1965 in Herleshausen, West Germany) is a German film producer and director. He won the shared Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the 2014 documentary ''Citizenfour'' at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He is married to film editor Mathilde Bonnefoy, with whom he produced ''Citizenfour''. Filmography (selected) Director * 2005: The Fleetingness * 2007: Pitching in Hollywood * 2011: Was tun? Producer * 2009: Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation * 2010: Soul Boy * 2011: Und wir sind nicht die Einzigen * 2014: Citizenfour Production management * 1998: Wolffs Revier (TV series) * 1998: Der Clown (TV series) * 2002: Bowling for Columbine ''Bowling for Columbine'' is a 2002 documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Moore suggests are the primary causes for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and other acts of gun ... * 2003: The Soul of a Man Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, at the BFI London Film Festival. The film features Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, and was co-produced by Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, and Dirk Wilutzky, with Steven Soderbergh and others serving as executive producers. ''Citizenfour'' received critical acclaim upon release, and was the recipient of numerous accolades, including Best Documentary Feature at the 87th Academy Awards. This film is the third part to a 9/11 trilogy following ''My Country, My Country'' (2006) and ''The Oath'' (2010). Synopsis In January 2013, Laura Poitras, an American documentary film director/producer who had been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the United States that were the result of the September 11 attacks, receives an encryp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burhan Qurbani
Burhan Qurbani ( fa, برهان قربانی) (born in Erkelenz on 15 November 1980) is a German film director, writer and actor of Afghan origin. His directing, writing, and acting works include ''Shahada'' (2010), ''20xBrandenburg'' (2010 TV documentary), and ''Illusion'' (2007 short film). His modern day adaption of Alfred Döblin's modern classic novel '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' was selected for the main competition of the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival. Notable works ''Shahada'' Shahada is a 2010 German drama film which narrates the fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin whose paths collide as they struggle to find a middle ground between faith and modern life in western society. The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. ''20xBrandenburg'' ''20xBrandenburg'' is a 16-minute German TV documentary directed by Qurbani, released in October 2010. ''We Are Young. We Are Strong'' ''We Are Young. We Are Strong'' (i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Alexis
Leif is a male given name of Scandinavian origin. It is derived from the Old Norse name ''Leifr'' ( nominative case), meaning "heir", "descendant". Use in the Nordic countries Spelling and prevalence Across the Nordic countries, the most commonly occurring spelling of the name is ''Leif'', however, there are some well-established regional variants: * – Leiv * – Lejf * – Leifur * – Leivur In Norway, about 17,000 men have Leif as their first (or only) name. In Sweden, 70,000 men have the name Leif, about 60% of them as a first name. As of 2018, about 15,000 Danish men have Leif as their first name. In Finland, as of 2012, 4,628 men have Leif as a first name. In the U.S. , as of 2015, 6,415 men have Leif as a first name. Pronunciation Because the Scandinavian languages differ in their pronunciation of the digraphs and , the name Leif may be either pronounced as an approximate rhyme for "safe", or approximately like the English word "life", In Sweden, Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jochen Laube
Jochen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Jochen Asche, East German luger, competed during the 1960s *Jochen Böhler (born 1969), German historian, specializing in the history of World War II *Jochen Babock (born 1953), East German bobsledder *Jochen Bachfeld (born 1952), retired boxer from East Germany * Jochen Balke (1917–1944), German breaststroke swimmer *Jochen Behle (born 1960), former (West) German cross-country skier *Jochen Bleicken (1926–2005), German professor of ancient history *Jochen Borchert (born 1940), German politician and member of the CDU * Jochen Breiholz, German opera manager *Jochen Busse (born 1941), German television actor *Jochen Carow (born 1944), German former footballer *Jochen Cassel (born 1981), German badminton player * Jochen Danneberg (born 1953), East German ski jumper * Jochen Dornbusch, the coach for the men's Hong Kong national team *Jochen Endreß (born 1972), retired German football player *Jochen Förster (born 1942) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Are Young
"We Are Young" is a song recorded by American band Fun, featuring American singer Janelle Monáe. It is the third track on the group's second studio album, '' Some Nights'' (2012). The song was released on September 20, 2011 as the lead single from the album. The song quickly received acclaim from music critics, with many noting the song as a breakthrough for the indie genre and praising the song's catchiness. "We Are Young" attained commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in several countries. Initially, the track only gained online media attention, in addition to its first commercial radio airplay on Tampa Bay alt radio station 97X, debuting on September 19, 2011. After this, it was soon covered by the television show ''Glee''. With the ''Glee'' version having success on the charts, the song was licensed for use in a Chevrolet Sonic commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLVI. This song alone propelled the band into mainstream success, topping the digital charts i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baran Bo Odar
Baran bo Odar (born 18 April 1978) is a German film and television director and screenwriter. He is known for co-creating the Netflix series ''Dark'' (2017–2020) and '' 1899'' (2022) with his creative and romantic partner, Jantje Friese. His film ''Who Am I'' reached the top of the German cinema charts and was nominated for a German Film Award for Best Fiction Feature Film and Best Screenplay in 2015. Odar directed and co-wrote the film with Friese. Early life Odar was born in Switzerland. He is of Turkish descent on his mother's side and has Russian ancestry from his paternal grandfather, a former doctor who fled Russia after the October Revolution. Career Odar's first feature film, produced as a final project for his University of Television and Film Munich diploma, was ''Under the Sun'' (German: ), a sixty-minute coming-of-age story about a twelve-year-old boy who is infatuated with his older niece. It was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2006 and Utah's Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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