Maren Ade named best director as female filmmakers flourish.
Toni Erdmann continued its triumphant run at the German Film Awards on Friday night, taking home six coveted Lola statuettes in an evening dominated by strong women filmmakers.
Maren Ade’s tragicomedy received the Golden Lola for Best Feature Film as well as double honours for Ade (pictured at left) herself as director and screenwriter, plus statuettes for her lead actors Sandra Hueller (pictured at right) and Peter Simonischek, and a Lola for the film’s editor Heike Parplies.
Handled internationally by The Match Factory, Toni Erdmann began winning the hearts of critics and audiences around the globe following its premiere in Cannes’ Official Competition last year.
It picked up five European Film Awards in Poland’s Wroclaw last December – in the same categories as the Lolas except for editing – as well as Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.
Hours before Friday night’s ceremony in Berlin, the film’s...
Toni Erdmann continued its triumphant run at the German Film Awards on Friday night, taking home six coveted Lola statuettes in an evening dominated by strong women filmmakers.
Maren Ade’s tragicomedy received the Golden Lola for Best Feature Film as well as double honours for Ade (pictured at left) herself as director and screenwriter, plus statuettes for her lead actors Sandra Hueller (pictured at right) and Peter Simonischek, and a Lola for the film’s editor Heike Parplies.
Handled internationally by The Match Factory, Toni Erdmann began winning the hearts of critics and audiences around the globe following its premiere in Cannes’ Official Competition last year.
It picked up five European Film Awards in Poland’s Wroclaw last December – in the same categories as the Lolas except for editing – as well as Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.
Hours before Friday night’s ceremony in Berlin, the film’s...
- 4/28/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
German government reveals bold plan to increase film funding to €150m from 2018; Toni Erdmann scores six German Film Awards nominations.
The German government has approved a major increase in film funding in a bold bid to grow the local and international film business in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has authorized a €50m boost to approximately $150m in film funding for 2018.
Culture secretary Monika Grütters confirmed on Thursday morning during the announcement of the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (Lolas) that the budget from 2018 would comprise of €25m for culturally-oriented funding, €50m for the existing German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) cash rebate incentive programme, and €75m for the Dfff II scheme.
The latter is targeted at attracting and retaining major national and international productions in Germany as well as providing support for production service producers such as studios and VFX companies operating out of Germany.
This latest move to put Germany on a more...
The German government has approved a major increase in film funding in a bold bid to grow the local and international film business in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has authorized a €50m boost to approximately $150m in film funding for 2018.
Culture secretary Monika Grütters confirmed on Thursday morning during the announcement of the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (Lolas) that the budget from 2018 would comprise of €25m for culturally-oriented funding, €50m for the existing German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) cash rebate incentive programme, and €75m for the Dfff II scheme.
The latter is targeted at attracting and retaining major national and international productions in Germany as well as providing support for production service producers such as studios and VFX companies operating out of Germany.
This latest move to put Germany on a more...
- 3/16/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
German government reveals bold plan to increase film funding to €150m from 2018; Toni Ermann scores six German Film Awards nominations.
The German government has approved a major increase in film funding in a bold bid to grow the local and international film business in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has authorized a €50m boost to approximately $150m in film funding for 2018.
Culture secretary Monika Grütters confirmed on Thursday morning during the announcement of the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (Lolas) that the budget from 2018 would comprise of €25m for culturally-oriented funding, €50m for the existing German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) cash rebate incentive programme, and €75m for the Dfff II scheme.
The latter is targeted at attracting and retaining major national and international productions in Germany as well as providing support for production service producers such as studios and VFX companies operating out of Germany.
This latest move to put Germany on a more...
The German government has approved a major increase in film funding in a bold bid to grow the local and international film business in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has authorized a €50m boost to approximately $150m in film funding for 2018.
Culture secretary Monika Grütters confirmed on Thursday morning during the announcement of the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (Lolas) that the budget from 2018 would comprise of €25m for culturally-oriented funding, €50m for the existing German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) cash rebate incentive programme, and €75m for the Dfff II scheme.
The latter is targeted at attracting and retaining major national and international productions in Germany as well as providing support for production service producers such as studios and VFX companies operating out of Germany.
This latest move to put Germany on a more...
- 3/16/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
German government reveals bold plan to increase film funding to €150m from 2018; Toni Ermann scores six German Film Awards nominations.
The German government has approved a major increase in film funding in a bold bid to grow the local and international film business in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has authorized a €50m boost to approximately $150m in film funding for 2018.
Culture secretary Monika Grütters confirmed on Thursday morning during the announcement of the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (Lolas) that the budget from 2018 would comprise of €25m for culturally-oriented funding, €50m for the existing German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) cash rebate incentive programme, and €75m for the so-called Dfff II scheme.
The latter is targeted at attracting and retaining major national and international productions in Germany as well as providing support for production service producers such as studios and VFX companies operating out of Germany.
This latest...
The German government has approved a major increase in film funding in a bold bid to grow the local and international film business in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has authorized a €50m boost to approximately $150m in film funding for 2018.
Culture secretary Monika Grütters confirmed on Thursday morning during the announcement of the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (Lolas) that the budget from 2018 would comprise of €25m for culturally-oriented funding, €50m for the existing German Federal Film Fund (Dfff) cash rebate incentive programme, and €75m for the so-called Dfff II scheme.
The latter is targeted at attracting and retaining major national and international productions in Germany as well as providing support for production service producers such as studios and VFX companies operating out of Germany.
This latest...
- 3/16/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ At its primeval heart, Nicolette Krebitz's Wild is the story of a lonely girl, Ania (Lilith Stangenberg), and a wolf whom she happens upon while making her daily walk to a dead-end job. A cautious, frightened distance initially held between beauty and beast will be slowly eroded by a magnetic, inexorable fascination, obsession even, which sees established boundaries between human and animal broken - in some instances literally. Beginning with the sombre greys and muted colours of a wintry urban setting, reflecting the monotonous drudgery of Ania's unfulfilled existence, Wild will beat darker and burn more vividly as a bestial union.
- 10/8/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
Down Under
Set against a backdrop of real-life race riots that occurred in the Sydney suburbs in 2005, this Australian black comedy may take place a decade ago, but it couldn’t feel more of-the-moment with its withering takedown of bigotry as, obviously, ignorant and insular, and — perhaps less obviously — as a brand of tribalism that it can be difficult for even those who are not ignorant and insular to extricate themselves from. Two bands of idiots, one white-supremacist and one Middle Eastern immigrants, head out of an evening to make trouble and “defend” and “protect” their own: they will, inevitably, run into one another, with bitter, ironic results. (If only bigotry always backfired on bigots in reality the way it does here.) Reminiscent of the brilliant 2010 British film Four Lions, about four moron wannabe jihadis in Sheffield,...
Down Under
Set against a backdrop of real-life race riots that occurred in the Sydney suburbs in 2005, this Australian black comedy may take place a decade ago, but it couldn’t feel more of-the-moment with its withering takedown of bigotry as, obviously, ignorant and insular, and — perhaps less obviously — as a brand of tribalism that it can be difficult for even those who are not ignorant and insular to extricate themselves from. Two bands of idiots, one white-supremacist and one Middle Eastern immigrants, head out of an evening to make trouble and “defend” and “protect” their own: they will, inevitably, run into one another, with bitter, ironic results. (If only bigotry always backfired on bigots in reality the way it does here.) Reminiscent of the brilliant 2010 British film Four Lions, about four moron wannabe jihadis in Sheffield,...
- 9/22/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The festival will also honour Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith.
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren and Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith will be guests of honour at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff, May 27 – June 5).
The festival kicks off this evening with the world premiere of Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9. On The Richter Scale.
The festival’s closing gala on June 4 will see Loren [pictured in 2014 short Human Voice] – who is visiting Romania for the first time - receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Smith – who came to Romania to produce Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain in 2003 - will be presented with the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema on the same evening in Cluj’s National Theatre.
Competition
This year’s 12-strong Competition includes nine first features such as Bogdan Mirică’s Balkan anti-Western Dogs, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s horror film Shelley, and [link=nm...
Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren and Mad Max: Fury Road producer Iain Smith will be guests of honour at the 15th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff, May 27 – June 5).
The festival kicks off this evening with the world premiere of Romanian director Nae Caranfil’s comedy 6.9. On The Richter Scale.
The festival’s closing gala on June 4 will see Loren [pictured in 2014 short Human Voice] – who is visiting Romania for the first time - receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Smith – who came to Romania to produce Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain in 2003 - will be presented with the Transilvania Trophy for Special Contribution to World Cinema on the same evening in Cluj’s National Theatre.
Competition
This year’s 12-strong Competition includes nine first features such as Bogdan Mirică’s Balkan anti-Western Dogs, Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s horror film Shelley, and [link=nm...
- 5/27/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
It’s love at first sight for Ania and a young handsome stranger lurking in the woods. Animal magnetism finds a new meaning in Wild, an intriguing, passionate drama between a woman and a wolf that falters only in that it doesn’t go quite far enough with its bestialistic premise.
For Ania (Lilith Stangenberg, utterly committed), life is drab, living in a monstrous high-rise apartment in an unnamed German city and working for a faceless city firm where the most interesting part of the day is making coffee for her misogynist boss Boris (Georg Fridrich).
But she’s awoken from her slumber when she stumbles upon a set of eyes in a park one evening, the figure of a full-grown wolf. It’s an interest that engulfs her entire world, starting with her placing bits of uncooked steak in the forest before she plots a trap to capture her unrequited lover.
For Ania (Lilith Stangenberg, utterly committed), life is drab, living in a monstrous high-rise apartment in an unnamed German city and working for a faceless city firm where the most interesting part of the day is making coffee for her misogynist boss Boris (Georg Fridrich).
But she’s awoken from her slumber when she stumbles upon a set of eyes in a park one evening, the figure of a full-grown wolf. It’s an interest that engulfs her entire world, starting with her placing bits of uncooked steak in the forest before she plots a trap to capture her unrequited lover.
- 2/8/2016
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
The Rotterdam International Film Festival had many, many world premieres this year, and some almost-world premieres as well, like German director Nicolette Krebitz' new film Wild, which had its first-ever screening mere days earlier at Sundance. Which made it a big unknown candidate when I acquired my ticket, as nobody I knew had seen it yet. Thankfully my gamble paid off, as Wild is a well-made and marvelously acted psychological drama. In Wild we follow Ania, a young woman working at an It firm. She is intelligent and attractive, but doesn't quite fit in with the loud and hip crowd at her work, and tends to keep to herself. Then, one day when she walks past a city park on her way to work, she...
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- 2/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Easily the best film I saw at Sundance this year. Written and directed by Nicolette Krebitz, "Wild" is a German feature (German language) about a woman descending into madness.
I was completely mesmerized beginning to end as the female lead character drives herself into a strange dangerous world from which she can never escape. Set in a non descript German town today the young woman character is driven down by her mundane existence, job and life. A fateful encounter in a park changes her life and puts her onto a dangerous path. She never looks back even as we are horrified watching her path to the edge.
I also want to say that the female nature of this film - director, writer and actress - gives a powerful feeling to this bizarre and fascinating story. I could not take my eyes off the screen.
Bravo!!
From the catalog:
A strange encounter with a wild wolf at the edge of Ania’s cold, mundane town sets off a deep-seated passion within her, shattering the drudgery of her dull days. Determined to hunt the untamed creature, she finds herself pulled to the natural world as a fearless lust for the wolf grows, eliciting a desire for her own sexuality and a disregard for social graces, repulsing yet attracting everyone around her. As the balance between the natural world and modern civilization begins to tip, so too do Ania's inhibitions, forcing her to question the glaring hypocrisies closing in on her.
Nicolette Krebitz's bold, anarchistic love story is a fairy tale for the ages. Along with Krebitz's sharp vision, Lilith Stangenberg's daring performance with her co-star, a wolf, takes us into the mind of a woman led by the deepest and wildest forces to break free of a world controlled by commodity, female dependence on male sexuality, and the mundane minutia of modern life. Visually poetic and sexually charged, Wild is a cinematic accomplishment of revolutionary fantasy.
"Wild" Director: Nicolette Krebitz Screenwriter: Nicolette Krebitz Cast: Georg Friedrich, Lilith Stangenberg Germany / 97 Min
Director / Writer bio -
Nicolette Krebitz was born and raised in Berlin. After graduating from a three-year acting program at Fritz-Kirchhoff-Schule in 1992, she initially worked in German film and television productions. Nicolette has worked as a director since 2000, and she also writes her own screenplays.
I was completely mesmerized beginning to end as the female lead character drives herself into a strange dangerous world from which she can never escape. Set in a non descript German town today the young woman character is driven down by her mundane existence, job and life. A fateful encounter in a park changes her life and puts her onto a dangerous path. She never looks back even as we are horrified watching her path to the edge.
I also want to say that the female nature of this film - director, writer and actress - gives a powerful feeling to this bizarre and fascinating story. I could not take my eyes off the screen.
Bravo!!
From the catalog:
A strange encounter with a wild wolf at the edge of Ania’s cold, mundane town sets off a deep-seated passion within her, shattering the drudgery of her dull days. Determined to hunt the untamed creature, she finds herself pulled to the natural world as a fearless lust for the wolf grows, eliciting a desire for her own sexuality and a disregard for social graces, repulsing yet attracting everyone around her. As the balance between the natural world and modern civilization begins to tip, so too do Ania's inhibitions, forcing her to question the glaring hypocrisies closing in on her.
Nicolette Krebitz's bold, anarchistic love story is a fairy tale for the ages. Along with Krebitz's sharp vision, Lilith Stangenberg's daring performance with her co-star, a wolf, takes us into the mind of a woman led by the deepest and wildest forces to break free of a world controlled by commodity, female dependence on male sexuality, and the mundane minutia of modern life. Visually poetic and sexually charged, Wild is a cinematic accomplishment of revolutionary fantasy.
"Wild" Director: Nicolette Krebitz Screenwriter: Nicolette Krebitz Cast: Georg Friedrich, Lilith Stangenberg Germany / 97 Min
Director / Writer bio -
Nicolette Krebitz was born and raised in Berlin. After graduating from a three-year acting program at Fritz-Kirchhoff-Schule in 1992, she initially worked in German film and television productions. Nicolette has worked as a director since 2000, and she also writes her own screenplays.
- 2/5/2016
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Germany is well represented at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with films by both debutants and returning filmmakers. Scattered around the festival's program, German films are among the most daring productions and co-productions that will premier this week in Park City to eager audiences.
Here is a list of German films at Sundance this year:
German Productions
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
"Wild"
by Nicolette Krebitz
Producer: Heimatfilm
World sales: The Match Factory
Press contact: Required Viewing, Steven Raphael
Us Dramatic Competition
"Morris from America"
by Chad Hartigan (De/Us)
German producers: Lichtblick Media & Indi Film
World sales: Visit Films
Press contact: Brigade Marketing, Adam Kersch
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
"Halal Love (And Sex)"
by Assad Fouladkar (De/Lb)
German producer: Razor Film
World sales: Films Distribution
Press contacts: Required Viewing, Steven Raphael & Denise Sinelov
World Cinema Documentary Competition
"Sonita"
by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (De/Ir/Ch)
German producer: Tag/Traum
World sales: Cat & Docs
Press contact: Entertainment Communications, David C. Magdael
German Co-productions
World Cinema Documentary Competition
"The Light of the Enlightened"
by Pieter-Jan de Pue (Be/Nl/Ie/De)
"The Settlers"
by Shimon Dotan (Fr/CA/Il/De)
Documentary Premieres
"Eat That Question- Frank Zappra in His Own Word"
by Thorsten Schütte (Fr/De)
Spotlight
"Cemetery of Splendour"
by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Th/Gb/De/Fr/My)
"Land of Mine"
by Martin Zandvliet (Dk/De)...
Here is a list of German films at Sundance this year:
German Productions
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
"Wild"
by Nicolette Krebitz
Producer: Heimatfilm
World sales: The Match Factory
Press contact: Required Viewing, Steven Raphael
Us Dramatic Competition
"Morris from America"
by Chad Hartigan (De/Us)
German producers: Lichtblick Media & Indi Film
World sales: Visit Films
Press contact: Brigade Marketing, Adam Kersch
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
"Halal Love (And Sex)"
by Assad Fouladkar (De/Lb)
German producer: Razor Film
World sales: Films Distribution
Press contacts: Required Viewing, Steven Raphael & Denise Sinelov
World Cinema Documentary Competition
"Sonita"
by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (De/Ir/Ch)
German producer: Tag/Traum
World sales: Cat & Docs
Press contact: Entertainment Communications, David C. Magdael
German Co-productions
World Cinema Documentary Competition
"The Light of the Enlightened"
by Pieter-Jan de Pue (Be/Nl/Ie/De)
"The Settlers"
by Shimon Dotan (Fr/CA/Il/De)
Documentary Premieres
"Eat That Question- Frank Zappra in His Own Word"
by Thorsten Schütte (Fr/De)
Spotlight
"Cemetery of Splendour"
by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Th/Gb/De/Fr/My)
"Land of Mine"
by Martin Zandvliet (Dk/De)...
- 1/22/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Promotional campaigns for six European films are being boosted with Films Sales Support (Fss) from European Film Promotion (Efp) at this year’s Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31).
A total of $27,000 (€25,000) towards sales companies’ campaigns has been earmarked by Efp in total to facilitate sales of European films to North America and to strengthen networking with buyers at the festival. Fss is backed by the Creative Europe - Media Programme of the European Union.
French sales company Films Distribution premieres Agnus Dei by Anne Fontaine, who will attend Sundance to present her film that is set in Poland 1945.
German sales company Films Boutique has two films at the festival: documentary Land Of The Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue and Mirjana Karanovic’s feature A Good Wife.
The Match Factory focusses on Wild, a feature by Nicolette Krebitz, and on Felix van Groeningen’s new film Belgica (Belgium).
All of the films are screening in Competition as well...
A total of $27,000 (€25,000) towards sales companies’ campaigns has been earmarked by Efp in total to facilitate sales of European films to North America and to strengthen networking with buyers at the festival. Fss is backed by the Creative Europe - Media Programme of the European Union.
French sales company Films Distribution premieres Agnus Dei by Anne Fontaine, who will attend Sundance to present her film that is set in Poland 1945.
German sales company Films Boutique has two films at the festival: documentary Land Of The Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue and Mirjana Karanovic’s feature A Good Wife.
The Match Factory focusses on Wild, a feature by Nicolette Krebitz, and on Felix van Groeningen’s new film Belgica (Belgium).
All of the films are screening in Competition as well...
- 1/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
In last year’s section which included Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan and Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick, it was John Maclean’s debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangailé landed the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Umrika was the audience’s won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic. In this year’s dozen offerings we have names we normally associate with Cannes in The Misfortunates‘ Felix van Groeningen (Belgica), The Other Side of Sleep‘s Rebecca Daly (Mammal – see pic above) and A Stray Girlfriend‘s Ana Katz (Mi Amiga del Parque). Here are the selections.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
- 12/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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