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Encounters (Berlinale)
Encounters is a section of the Berlin International Film Festival 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 fest ...'s official selection. It was established in 2020 when the new leadership inaugurated, and the competitive section was aimed to introduce both narrative films and documentaries with innovative and independent perspective. Award winners Best film Other awards References External linksBerlin International Film Festival {{Berlin International Film Festival Berlin International Film Festival Lists of films by award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
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] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
70th Berlin International Film Festival
The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival heads, business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian. The festival opened with the opening gala presented by actor Samuel Finzi followed by the world premiere of the film ''My Salinger Year'' which was selected for the Berlinale Special section. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Iranian film ''There Is No Evil'', directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Jury Main competition The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: International jury * Jeremy Irons, actor (United Kingdom) - Jury President * Bérénice Bejo, actress (France / Argentina) * Bettina Brokemper, producer (Germany) * Annemarie Jacir, filmmaker and poet (Palestine) * Kenneth Lonergan, playwright and filmmaker (United States) * Luca Marinelli, actor (Italy) * Kleber Mendonça Filho, film director, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Works And Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri In The Shiotani Basin)
''The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)'' is a 2020 fiction film directed by C.W. Winter and Anders Edström. It describes life in a farming village, population 47, in the Shiotani basin in the Japanese prefecture of Kyoto. It is the second feature-length collaboration between C.W. Winter and Anders Edström after their 2009 film, ''The Anchorage''. Plot The film, which takes its title from Hesiod's Ancient Greek farmer's almanac ''Works and Days'', is presented in five chapters as it examines the daily routine of Tayoko, an elderly woman and farmer who lives in Shiotani. The film follows Tayoko as she cares for and prepares to mourn her husband, Junji, and features excerpts read from Tayoko's real life diaries. Cast * Tayoko Shiojiri as Tayoko * Hiroharu Shikata as Hiroharu * Ryo Kase as Ryo Sasaki * Mai Edström as Mai * Kaoru Iwahana as Junji * Jun Tsunoda as Kagawa * Masahiro Motoki as NPC Production The film was inspired by a series of conver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
71st Berlin International Film Festival
The 71st annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 1 to 5 March 2021 as a virtual festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An in-person event has also been tentatively scheduled for June, pending the resolution of the COVID-19 issue.Scott Roxborough"Berlin Film Festival Unveils Panorama, Encounters Titles" ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 10 February 2021. The Romanian film '' Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn'' directed by Radu Jude won the Golden Bear. It was the third victory of Romania in the last nine years. Jury Competition The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: * Ildikó Enyedi, film director and screenwriter (Hungary) * Nadav Lapid, film director and screenwriter (Israel) * Adina Pintilie, film director and screenwriter (Romania) * Mohammad Rasoulof, film director and screenwriter (Iran) * Gianfranco Rosi, documentary filmmaker (Italy) * Jasmila Žbanić, film director and screenwriter (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Encounters The follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Diop
Alice Diop (b. 1979) is a French filmmaker, who makes films about contemporary French society. Early life and education Born in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 1979, daughter of Senegalese parents, Alice Diop was raised in the Cité des 3000 housing project In Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris. At University, she began studying history, then studied sociology in Évry gaining her DESS degree. Fifteen years after leaving Aulnay-sous-Bois, she returned to film the cultural diversity of the area she grew up in for her first documentary ''La Tour du monde''. Filmography * ''La Tour du monde'' (2005) - documentary * ''Clichy pour l'exemple'' (2005) - documentary * ''Les Sénégalaises et la sénégauloise'' (2007) - documentary * ''La mort de Danton'' (2011) - documentary * ''La permanence'' (2016) - documentary * ''Vers la tendresse'' (2016) - documentary * ''Nous'' (2020) - documentary * '' Saint Omer'' (2022) - feature film Awards * ''La mort de Danton'' (2011) ** ''Prix des Bibliothèques'' - Ciné ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Wollner
Sandra Wollner (born 1983) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She made her feature directorial debut with ''The Impossible Picture'' (2016), and also directed and co-wrote '' The Trouble with Being Born'' (2020). Education and career In 2012, Wollner began studying documentary filmmaking at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. She has directed several short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...s, and directed her first feature film, ''The Impossible Picture'' (2016), while still a student at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. ''The Impossible Picture'' garnered a number of awards, including the German Film Critics' Award in 2019. Wollner directed and co-wrote '' The Trouble with Being Born'', which premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trouble With Being Born (film)
''The Trouble with Being Born'' is a 2020 science fiction drama film directed and co-written by Sandra Wollner. An international co-production of Austria and Germany, the film depicts an android (Lena Watson) living with a man ( Dominik Warta) as a replicant in place of his young daughter who had disappeared years prior. On its premier at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, the film garnered controversy for its depiction of a relationship between a man and a 10-year-old child, albeit an android, that also resembles his daughter. Plot The film explores the topos of the artificial human, presented here in an unusual way with a focus on the emotional level. Elli is an android, a machine, in the shape of a girl, as well as a sex robot. Elli lives with Georg, whom she calls "Papa". They drift through a summer, swimming in the pool during the day and in the evening he takes her to bed with him. Georg created Elli from a personal memory, to make himself happy. A memory tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristi Puiu
Cristi Puiu (; born 3 April 1967) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora. Early life, education and career Cristian Emilian Puiu was born to Iuliana and Emilian Puiu in Bucharest, Romania. Puiu's first interest in art was painting. In 1992, he was admitted as a student to the Painting Department of ''École Supérieure d'Arts Visuels'' in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school, where he graduated in 1996. He started working in film after his return to Romania. He is married to Anca Puiu. He and Anca have three children: Smaranda, Ileana and Zoe. Career Director Cristi Puiu's debut as a director was in 2001 with the low-budget road movie ''Stuff and Dough'' (''Marfa și banii''), starring Alexandru Papadopol and Dragoș Bucur. The film received several awards in international film festivals and competed in the Quinzaines des Real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmkrog
''Malmkrog'' is a 2020 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Cristi Puiu. Set in turn-of-the-20th-century Transylvania, at the snowy hillside manor of a blithe aristocrat named Nikolai (Frédéric Schulz-Richard), the film follows for nearly the entirety of its 200 minutes a series of winding conversations between a group of bourgeois elite—among them a Russian general's wife (Diana Sakalauskaité), a devout young Christian girl (Marina Palii), a Franco-Russian nobleman (Ugo Broussot), and a middle-aged woman (Agathe Bosch) whose pessimistic worldview seems to embody the essence of Solovyov's book. The conversations always return to a central topic: whether one should adopt a non-violent approach to the organisation of society (Tolstoy's attitude, which Solovyov abhorred), or approach the duty of fighting war in a fervently committed, Christian spirit. It was shown in the Encounters section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival The 70th annual Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl And The Spider
''The Girl and the Spider'' (german: Das Mädchen und die Spinne) is a Swiss drama film, directed by Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher and released in 2021. The film centres on Mara (Henriette Confurius) and Lisa (Liliane Amuat), two women who have been living together, and portrays the emotional complications as Lisa moves out to a new apartment. The cast also includes Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger, André Hennicke, Ivan Georgiev, Dagna Litzenberger-Vinet, Lea Draeger, Sabine Timoteo and Birte Schnöink. The film premiered in the Encounters program at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, where the Zürchers won the award for Best Director in the program alongside Denis Côté for ''Social Hygiene (Hygiène sociale)''. It had its North American premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.Anthony D'Alessandro"TIFF Unveils Docs, Midnight Madness & Wavelengths Lineup With Palme d’Or Winner ‘Titane’, Liz Garbus’ ‘Becoming Cousteau’ & More" ''Deadline Hollywood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Côté
Denis Côté (born November 16, 1973) is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, of Brayon origin. His experimental films have been shown at major film festivals around the world. Life and career Côté was born in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, Canada. He studied film at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal and founded nihilproductions around 1994. He made a number of short films, including ''Kosovolove'' (2000) and ''La sphatte'' (2003). He has also been a film critic on radio, at ici magazine from 1999 to 2005, and vice-president of the Quebec association of film critics (''Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma'', or AQCC). In 2005, his first feature film, '' Drifting States (Les états nordiques)'', won the Golden Leopard - Video at the Locarno International Film Festival (in a tie with '' The Masseur''), as well as the Woosuk Award (Indie Vision) at the Jeonju International Film Festival. His 2007 film '' Our Private Lives (Nos vies privées)'' was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
