Bär worked on ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and contributed to ‘Tar’.
German casting director Simone Bär has died aged 57 in Berlin. She died on January 16, with the cause of death yet to be revealed.
Bär’s latest projects included Edward Berger’s German Netflix feature All Quiet On The Western Front – nominated for nine Oscars and 14 Baftas. She also contributed to Todd Field’s six-time Oscar nominated and five-time Bafta nominated Tar, with a location casting credit.
On the international circuit, Bär worked on Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse,...
German casting director Simone Bär has died aged 57 in Berlin. She died on January 16, with the cause of death yet to be revealed.
Bär’s latest projects included Edward Berger’s German Netflix feature All Quiet On The Western Front – nominated for nine Oscars and 14 Baftas. She also contributed to Todd Field’s six-time Oscar nominated and five-time Bafta nominated Tar, with a location casting credit.
On the international circuit, Bär worked on Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse,...
- 1/25/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Face to Face with German Films actor, producer, co-writer of Eline Gehring’s Nico, Sara Fazilat stated “I love the films of Andrea Arnold, Ken Loach, Susanne Bier and Asghar Farhadi.”
The seven filmmakers selected for the 7th annual Face to Face with German Films campaign are Jerry Hoffmann; Sarah Noa Bozenhardt (writer-director; Among Us Women); Matthias Luthardt (writer-director; Pingpong); Zamarin Wahdat [cinematographer and director; visual designer on Carol Dysinger’s Oscar-winning Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl)]; Sara Fazilat; Julia Kovalenko (film editor; Nora Fingscheidt’s System Crasher), and Anne Zander (actor; Barbara Ott’s For Jojo).
I asked them, as I did with Unifrance’s 10 Talents To Watch in 2022, which film or films they saw in 2021 they particularly enjoyed and why. Joachim Trier’s multiple Oscar-nominated The Worst Person In The World and the Oscar-nominated The Hand Of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and last year’s Oscar winner...
The seven filmmakers selected for the 7th annual Face to Face with German Films campaign are Jerry Hoffmann; Sarah Noa Bozenhardt (writer-director; Among Us Women); Matthias Luthardt (writer-director; Pingpong); Zamarin Wahdat [cinematographer and director; visual designer on Carol Dysinger’s Oscar-winning Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl)]; Sara Fazilat; Julia Kovalenko (film editor; Nora Fingscheidt’s System Crasher), and Anne Zander (actor; Barbara Ott’s For Jojo).
I asked them, as I did with Unifrance’s 10 Talents To Watch in 2022, which film or films they saw in 2021 they particularly enjoyed and why. Joachim Trier’s multiple Oscar-nominated The Worst Person In The World and the Oscar-nominated The Hand Of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and last year’s Oscar winner...
- 2/14/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marathon session between Angela Merkel, state leaders extends partial lockdown.
Hopes that German cinemas could be back in business from December 1 were dashed on Wednesday (November 25) after a seven hour-plus video conference between Federal chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the 16 regional states.
In a resolution announced late in the evening the politicians agreed to an extension of Germany’s current partial lockdown through the end of December.
The so-called “lockdown light” has been in force since November 4 and was due to expire on November 30.
Under the measure, doors have closed temporarily on cultural institutions such as theatres,...
Hopes that German cinemas could be back in business from December 1 were dashed on Wednesday (November 25) after a seven hour-plus video conference between Federal chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the 16 regional states.
In a resolution announced late in the evening the politicians agreed to an extension of Germany’s current partial lockdown through the end of December.
The so-called “lockdown light” has been in force since November 4 and was due to expire on November 30.
Under the measure, doors have closed temporarily on cultural institutions such as theatres,...
- 11/25/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Ten films have been chosen, produced by 14 different European nations.
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
- 5/26/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Stefan Ruzowitzky, director of the Oscar-winning “The Counterfeiters,” and “The Grudge” screenwriter Stephen Susco have boarded “Alone,” a remake of the 2007 supernatural Thai thriller by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom.
The new film follows conjoined twin sisters from an Asian family in Boston whose loving relationship is tested when one of them befriends a boy, leading to her demand for a surgical separation from her sibling. During the operation, the forsaken sister dies. Years later, the deceased girl’s vengeful ghost returns to haunt her twin.
Former 20th Century Fox exec Paul Higginson and Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner of Berlin-based Carte Blanche Intl. are producing the film. Budgeted at between $5 million and $10 million, “Alone” is set for a targeted 2021 Stateside shoot on the East Coast as a U.S.-European co-production.
Van Dülmen said he was a big fan of the original film and also acquired distribution rights...
The new film follows conjoined twin sisters from an Asian family in Boston whose loving relationship is tested when one of them befriends a boy, leading to her demand for a surgical separation from her sibling. During the operation, the forsaken sister dies. Years later, the deceased girl’s vengeful ghost returns to haunt her twin.
Former 20th Century Fox exec Paul Higginson and Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner of Berlin-based Carte Blanche Intl. are producing the film. Budgeted at between $5 million and $10 million, “Alone” is set for a targeted 2021 Stateside shoot on the East Coast as a U.S.-European co-production.
Van Dülmen said he was a big fan of the original film and also acquired distribution rights...
- 2/20/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Barbara Ott writes and directs.
The Yellow Affair has boarded sales for Barbara Ott’s Kids Run, the opening film in Berlin’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.
Ott writes and directs. Gabriele Simon and Martin Heisler produce for Flare Film, with co-producers Stefanie Plattner and Ekrem Ergün from Storming Donkey Productions. Farbfilm distributes in Germany and Austria, where Zdf has broadcast rights.
The film is about a former boxer, a single dad to his three children, who loses his job, and tries to win an amateur boxing competition to pay off his debts.
The cast features Jannis Niewöhner, Lena Tronina (Once Were Rebels), Eline Doenst,...
The Yellow Affair has boarded sales for Barbara Ott’s Kids Run, the opening film in Berlin’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.
Ott writes and directs. Gabriele Simon and Martin Heisler produce for Flare Film, with co-producers Stefanie Plattner and Ekrem Ergün from Storming Donkey Productions. Farbfilm distributes in Germany and Austria, where Zdf has broadcast rights.
The film is about a former boxer, a single dad to his three children, who loses his job, and tries to win an amateur boxing competition to pay off his debts.
The cast features Jannis Niewöhner, Lena Tronina (Once Were Rebels), Eline Doenst,...
- 2/14/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Matteo Garrone to present ‘Pinocchio’ as the first Berlinale Special Gala.
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
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The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
- 12/17/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Matteo Garrone to present ‘Pinocchio’ as the first Berlinale Special Gala.
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
The Berlinale has revealed the first films set to be screened at the 70th edition of the festival.
They include the live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, from Italian director Matteo Garrone, which is the first Berlinale Special Gala to be announced – a category that replaces ‘out of competition’. It will mark the international premiere of the film, starring Roberto Benigni, which is released in Italy this weekend.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The first 18 films selected for the Panorama strand have also been named, including 11 world premieres.
Among...
- 12/17/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The 2020 Berlin Film Festival, the first edition under new artistic director Carlo Chatrian, has unveiled its first wave of titles.
Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio, starring Roberto Benigni, will have its international premiere at the festival as a Berlinale Special Gala. The team have removed the ‘out of competition’ classification this year and those films will now play as Special Galas. Pinocchio is released theatrically in Italy this weekend and Berlin will mark its festival premiere.
“Garrone succeeds in re-telling the well-known story with his very own world of images. Although he is faithful to Carlo Collodi’s ideas, he has nevertheless created a very personal Pinocchio that is much more cheerful than we’ve experienced before,” commented Carlo Chatrian on the selection.
Also announced today were four films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program, which presents debut features. The section will open with Kids Run from Barbara Ott, whose graduation...
Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio, starring Roberto Benigni, will have its international premiere at the festival as a Berlinale Special Gala. The team have removed the ‘out of competition’ classification this year and those films will now play as Special Galas. Pinocchio is released theatrically in Italy this weekend and Berlin will mark its festival premiere.
“Garrone succeeds in re-telling the well-known story with his very own world of images. Although he is faithful to Carlo Collodi’s ideas, he has nevertheless created a very personal Pinocchio that is much more cheerful than we’ve experienced before,” commented Carlo Chatrian on the selection.
Also announced today were four films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program, which presents debut features. The section will open with Kids Run from Barbara Ott, whose graduation...
- 12/17/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Berlin-based Flare Film is continuing its focus on international productions with German filmmaker Bastian Günther’s “Avalanche,” which just wrapped principal photography in Louisiana.
The timely social drama, which stars Carrie Preston (“Claws”) and British thesp Joe Cole (“A Prayer Before Dawn”), is set in America’s troubled social and cultural environment and explores the caustic repercussions of extreme capitalism that exploits underprivileged people for profit and entertainment.
The story follows the marketing manager of a small-town car dealership, played by Preston, who organizes an endurance contest in which 20 down-on-their-luck contenders compete to win a new pickup truck, and a young contestant (Cole) hoping for a better life.
The drama marks producer and Flare Film managing director Martin Heisler’s third collaboration with Günther after his debut feature, “Autopilots,” and his 2013 Sundance screener “Houston,” which was likewise set in the U.S.
“Avalanche” is produced by Heisler and Los Angeles-based co-producer Peter Veverka,...
The timely social drama, which stars Carrie Preston (“Claws”) and British thesp Joe Cole (“A Prayer Before Dawn”), is set in America’s troubled social and cultural environment and explores the caustic repercussions of extreme capitalism that exploits underprivileged people for profit and entertainment.
The story follows the marketing manager of a small-town car dealership, played by Preston, who organizes an endurance contest in which 20 down-on-their-luck contenders compete to win a new pickup truck, and a young contestant (Cole) hoping for a better life.
The drama marks producer and Flare Film managing director Martin Heisler’s third collaboration with Günther after his debut feature, “Autopilots,” and his 2013 Sundance screener “Houston,” which was likewise set in the U.S.
“Avalanche” is produced by Heisler and Los Angeles-based co-producer Peter Veverka,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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