Berlin Film Festival 2008
Berlin Film Festival ( 7 - 17 February 2008) with all its mega and mini features is under preparation. We have all the details below. We plan to feature all Indian entries.
To begin with, we are profiling Shariqua Badar Khan, a student from India's Film and Television Institute of Pune, whose diploma film 'Three of Us' has been selected for a screening at the Berlin Festival events.
Jan 14, 2008 - Berlinale-Kindergarten 2008 now also open for the public
For two years now the Berlinale has been offering
child-care services for accredited festival guests in the Berlinale
Kindergarten, at the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings) at Potsdamer
Platz. This service has been enthusiastically received and will for the
first time be available for the Berlinale public in 2008
Jan 11, 2008 - European Film Market 2008 Expands Rapidly
Just a few weeks before the Berlinale begins, the European Film Market (EFM)
2008 can report a positive trend: more than 400 companies from 50
countries will participate in the first big industry event of the year
(February 7 to 17, 2008) and present themselves at the exhibition
venues in the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the “EFM Exhibitor Offices”. The EFM is also happy to report nearly 10 percent growth in the number of accreditations
Jan 3, 2008 - Retrospective 2008: Luis Buñuel and Specials
This year’s Luis Buñuel Retrospective will commence and conclude at the Volksbühne with two special presentations focusing on Buñuel’s famous directorial debut: his silent film Un chien andalou (France 1929) is to be screened four times, and each time it will be accompanied live by different works of contemporary music. In addition to Buñuel’s 32 directorial works, the Retrospective will present a program of eight films to introduce his contributions as assistant director, producer and screenwriter. Besides its comprehensive program on Buñuel, the Retrospective will also show four recent restorations of silent films by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Robert Reiner, Willi Wolff, and Harry O. Hoyt at special eventsJan 14, 2008:
Berlinale 2008: Generation Programme Complete
The selection for Generation
– the Berlinale section for children and youth - has been finalised. 24
feature and 31 short films from 20 countries will be screening this
year. This includes eight world and seven international feature film
premieres.
The competition Generation Kplus will open on February 8 at the Zoo Palast with the Dutch film Waar is het Paard van Sinterklaas?.
Director Mischa Kamp already captivated audiences with her first film
about the Chinese-Dutch girl Winky at the Berlinale 2006.
Compelling genre films will join the arthouse productions already selected for Generation Kplus.
A French adaptation of the legendary comics series Lucky Luke will
screen at the Zoo Palast to old and new fans of the timeless Western: TOUS A L’OUEST, Une aventure de Lucky Luke. Shochiku, a Japanese company with a long tradition, will be showing its adaptation of a comic with Kung Fu Kun which is about a Shaolin monk who though only a small child is already a powerful kicker.
Generation 14plus will open on February 8 with the Australian film The Black Balloon
by Elissa Down. This world premiere starring Toni Collette, Rhys
Wakefield, Luke Ford and supermodel Gemma Ward will kick off a strong
competition with 14 feature films.
For the first time two documentaries will also be competing in the Generation 14plus programme: love, peace & beatbox by Volker Meyer-Dabisch takes a rhythmic and atmospheric look at a form of Berlin subculture, human beatboxing. And in War Child,
director Christian Karim Chrobog accompanies hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal
on a journey into his past as a child soldier in Sudan. Jal himself
will present the film in Berlin.
In the world premiere of the zany road movie Dunya & Desie,
Eva van de Wijdeven and Maryam Hassouni (Netherlands’ Shooting Star
2008) set out on a trip through the chaos of a generation caught
between cultures.
Somers Town, a new film by Shane Meadows (This is England),
has also been selected. The director has again joined forces with actor
Thomas Turgoose, who was in Meadows’ last film, to make this
black-and-white study of a milieu in London.
The DVD edition Berlinale Generation is releasing two new titles for the Festival: Schickt mehr Süßes (Send More Candy) and Der Italiener (An Italian) were past audience favourites. They will go on sale in February.
Generation Kplus Feature Films
Buda Az Sharm Foru Rikht (Buddha collapsed out of shame) by Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran/France 2007
Chop Shop by Ramin Bahrani, USA 2007
Cykelmyggen og Dansemyggen (A Tale of Two Mozzies) by Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist-Møller, Denmark 2007
Flower in the Pocket by Liew Seng Tat, Malaysia 2007
Hey Hey it's Esther Blueburger by Cathy Randall, Australia 2007
Kung Fu Kun (Kung Fu Kid) by Issei Oda, Japan 2007
Mutum by Sandra Kogut, Brazil/France 2007
Titanics ti liv (The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat) by Grethe Bøe, Norway 2007
TOUS A L’OUEST, Une aventure de Lucky Luke (GO WEST! A Lucky Luke adventure) by Olivier Jean-Marie, France 2007
Waar is het Paard van Sinterklaas? (Where is Winky's Horse?) by Mischa Kamp, The Netherlands 2007
Generation Kplus Short Films
A Little Night Fright by Mischa Livingstone, USA 2007
Andante Mezzo Forte by Annarita Zambrano, France 2007
Chepogi by Leon Estrin, Russian Federation 2007
Golden Guy by Julia Tews, Germany 2007
Girls Room by Maria Gigante, USA 2007
Jauna Suga (The New Species) by ?valds L?cis, Latvia 2007
Kroshechka-Khavroshechka by Inga Korzhneva, Russian Federation 2007
KuyGorozh by Sergey Merinov, Russian Federation 2007
Medvezhii istorii (Bears’ Stories) by Marina Karpova, Russian Federation 2007
Min morbror tyckte mycket om gult (My Uncle Loved the Colour Yellow) by Mats Olof Olsson, Sweden 2007
Nana by Warwick Thornton, Australia 2007
New Boy by Steph Green, Ireland 2007
Run by Mark Albiston, New Zealand 2007
Rybka (The Tiny Fish) by Sergei Ryabov, Russian Federation 2007
POST! by Christian Asmussen and Matthias Bruhn, Germany 2007
Taua (War Party) by Tearepa Kahi, New Zealand 2007
The Trophy by Justine Simei-Barton, New Zealand 2007
The Air Ace by Svilen Dimitrov, Bulgaria 2007
Generation 14plus Feature Films
32A by Marian Quinn, Ireland/Germany 2007
Ben X by Nic Balthazar, Belgium/The Netherlands 2007
The Black Balloon by Elissa Down, Australia 2007
Ciao bella by Mani Maserrat-Agah, Sweden 2007
Cidade dos Homens (City of Men) by Paulo Morelli, Brazil 2007
Dunya & Desie by Dana Nechushtan, The Netherlands/Belgium 2007
Fighter by Natasha Arthy, Denmark 2007
love, peace & beatbox by Volker Meyer-Dabisch, Germany 2007
Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) by Lee Isaac Chung, USA/Rwanda 2007
September by Peter Carstairs, Australia 2007
Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley, USA 2007
Somers Town by Shane Meadows, Great Britain 2008
To Verdener (Worlds Apart) by Niels Arden Oplev, Denmark 2008
War Child by Christian Karim Chrobog, USA 2008
Generation 14plus Short Films
Café com Leite (You, Me and Him) by Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil 2007
Cherries by Tom Harper, Great Britain 2007
Firewood by Miikka Leskinen, Great Britain/Finland 2007
First by Tinge Krishnan, Great Britain 2007
João e o Cão (John and the Dog) by André Marques, Portugal 2007
Juvenile by China Moo-Young, Great Britain 2007
Kompisar (Flatmates) by Magnus Mork, Sweden/Norway 2007
Les Vulnerables (The Vulnerable Ones) by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, USA 2007
Bool-eul Ji-pyeo-ra (Light my Fire) by LEE Jong-pil, Republic Korea 2007
Meditations on a Name by Bonnie Elliott, Australia 2007
Myskväll (Spending the Night) by Amanda Adolfsson, Sweden 2007
Take 3 by Roseanne Liang, New Zealand 2007
Yolk by Stephen Lance, Australia 2007