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67th Berlin International Film Festival
The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as president of the jury. '' Django'', directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Hungarian film '' On Body and Soul'' directed by Ildikó Enyedi, which also served as closing film of the festival. Juries Main Competition * Paul Verhoeven, Dutch filmmaker - Jury President * Olafur Eliasson, Icelandic sculptor * Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Tunisian producer * Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress * Julia Jentsch, German actress * Diego Luna, Mexican actor and filmmaker * Wang Quan'an, Chinese filmmaker Best First Feature Award * Jayro Bustamante, Guatemalan filmmaker * Clotilde Courau, French actress (France) * Mahmoud Sabbagh, Saudi filmmaker, producer, and writer Documentary Award * Daniela Michel, Mexican film critic * Laura Poitras, American filmmaker and producer * Samir, Iraqi director and producer Short F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Django (2017 Film)
''Django'' is a 2017 French drama film about the life of Django Reinhardt, directed by Étienne Comar. It opened the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Reinhardt's music is performed in the film by the Rosenberg Trio. Cast *Reda Kateb as Django Reinhardt *Cécile de France as Louise de Klerk *Bea Palya as Naguine *Johnny Montreuil as Joseph Reinhardt *Raphaël Dever as Vola *Patrick Mille as Charlie Delaunay *Àlex Brendemühl as Hans Biber *Ulrich Brandhoff as Hammerstein Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 61% based on 23 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". References External links * 2017 films 2017 directorial debut films 2017 drama films 2017 biographical drama films French biographical drama films Films about music and musicians Films produced by Étienne Comar Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mahmoud Sabbagh
Mahmoud Sabbagh, or Mah Sabbagh (Arabic: مَحْمُود صباغ; born March 1983) is a Saudi film director, producer, and screenwriter. Sabbagh has been a major pioneer of independent cinema in Saudi Arabia since 2013. His debut feature, titled '' Barakah Meets Barakah'', premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 2016; becoming the first feature film from Saudi Arabia to screen in the festival. His debut film was also selected as the entry of Saudi Arabia for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. In 2015, Sabbagh founded Elhoush Productions, the first independent feature film production company, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Sabbagh opened the first official art house cinema in Jeddah in 2019. Cinema Elhoush opened with the screening of Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. It resumed its program in Winter 2022 at Alula, with a collection of recent and classic films Cinema Elhoush premiered a retrospective of Wong Kar-Wai screening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Dinner (2017 Film)
The Dinner may refer to: * ''The Dinner'' (1997 film), a 1997 American film directed by Bernie Casey Bernard Terry Casey (June 8, 1939 – September 19, 2017) was an American American football, professional football player and actor. He was a football player and All-America, All-American hurdler at Bowling Green Falcons, Bowling Green State Un ... * ''The Dinner'' or '' La cena'', a 1998 Italian film directed by Ettore Scola * ''The Dinner'' (novel), a 2009 Dutch novel by Herman Koch (original title: ''Het diner'') * ''The Dinner'' (2013 film), a 2013 Dutch film based on the novel by Herman Koch * ''The Dinner'' (2014 film), a 2014 Italian film * ''The Dinner'' (2017 film), a 2017 American film * "The Dinner" (''Amphibia''), an episode of ''Amphibia'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Dinner, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Teresa Villaverde
Teresa Villaverde (born 18 May 1966) is a Portuguese people, Portuguese film director. Her film ''The Mutants (film), Os Mutantes'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography *''A Idade Maior'' (1991) *''Três Irmãos'' (1994) *''The Mutants (film), Os Mutantes'' (1998) *''Água e Sal'' (2001) *''A Favor da Claridade'' (2004) *''Visions of Europe'' (2004) *''Transe'' (2006) *''Swan (2011 film), Swan'' (2011) *''Bridges of Sarajevo'' (2014) *''Paris 15/16'' *''Colo (film), Colo'' (2017) *''O Termometro de Galileu'' (2018) *''Six Portraits of Pain'' (2019) *''Où en êtes-vou, Teresa Villaverde?'' (2019) Awards *Nominated for the Golden Globe, Portugal in 1999 for Best Director in ''The Mutants (film), Os Mutantes''. *Nominated for the Golden Globe, Portugal in 1999 for Best Film in ''The Mutants (film), Os Mutantes''. *Nominated for the Golden Globe, Portugal in 2007 for Best Film in ''Transe''. References 1966 births Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Colo (film)
''Colo'' is a 2017 Portuguese drama film directed by Teresa Villaverde. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as president of the jury. '' Django'', directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the .... Plot In Lisboa, a mother has two jobs while her husband is homeless, the effects of the economic crisis two years 2010. They have a daughter, who tries to find her way through the new financial limitations. With the hardships that accumulate, gradually the members of this family grow at ease with each other, and a tension grows in silence and guilt. The homeless country spends its days smelling the landscape on the horizon that does not offer opportunities for the future. Mãe always returns home exhausted after working double shifts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Arslan
Thomas Arslan (born 16 July 1962) is a German-Turkish film director. He directed more than ten films since 1990. Selected filmography References External links * 1962 births Living people Film directors from Lower Saxony Mass media people from Braunschweig German people of Turkish descent {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bright Nights
''Bright Nights'' () is a 2017 German drama film directed by Thomas Arslan. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, Georg Friedrich won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award. Cast * Georg Friedrich as Michael * Tristan Göbel as Luis * Marie Leuenberger Marie may refer to the following. People Given name * Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** List of people named Marie * Marie (Japanese given name) Surname * Jean Gabriel-Marie, French compose ... as Leyla * Hanna Karlberg as Cecilia References External links * 2017 films 2017 drama films German drama films 2010s German-language films 2010s German films German-language drama films {{2010s-Germany-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Andres Veiel
Andres Veiel (; born 16 October 1959) is a German film and theater director and writer. Biography From 1982 to 1988, Veiel studied Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and attended the director's class of Krzysztof Kieślowski at the Independent Berlin Artist Center Künstlerhaus Bethanien from 1985 to 1989. As professors, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien gathered other renowned International and European directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Patrice Chéreau and Robert Wilson. Veiel's first documentary film ''Winternachtstraum'' (''Winter Night's Dream'') resulted from his theatrical work with a group of senior actresses and premiered 1992 at the Duisburger Filmwoche, an annual festival for German-speaking documentaries. His next documentary about a Jewish-Palestinian theater group in Israel, ''Balagan'', won in 1993 the Findling Award than was screened at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and awarded with the Peace Film Award, the Camera Award and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beuys (film)
''Beuys'' is a 2017 German documentary film directed by Andres Veiel about the German artist Joseph Beuys. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Noting that the film emphasizes the "social conscience" behind Beuys's art, Glenn Kenny, writing for ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...'', called it "an exhilarating portrait of a unique truth-teller".Kenny, Glenn (16 January 2018).Review: In ‘Beuys,’ a Portrait of the Artist as a Socially Conscious Provocateur. ''New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 20 January 2018. Print version, 17 January 2018, p. C5, under title "A Conceptual Artist and Provocateur". References External links * 2017 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Călin Peter Netzer
Călin Peter Netzer (; born 1 May 1975) is a Romanian film director who won the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Born in Petroșani to a family of Romanian and German origins, Netzer emigrated with his family to West Germany in 1983. In 1994, he returned to Romania in order to study film direction at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. His first feature film, ''Maria'' (2003), won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival, among other prizes at this and other film festivals. ''Poziția copilului'' ('' Child's Pose'', 2013), his third feature film, won him the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best 2013 in film, films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ana, Mon Amour
''Ana, mon amour'' is a 2017 Romanian drama film directed by Călin Peter Netzer. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Editor Dana Bunescu received the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. Plot Ana (Diana Cavallioti) and Toma (Mircea Postelnicu) are in a heated debate over Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. As the argument continues they both end up in bed and have sex. Later it is revealed that Ana has anxiety attacks that border on mental illness. Cast * Mircea Postelnicu as Toma *Diana Cavallioti as Ana *Carmen Tănase as Toma's mother * as Toma's father *Adrian Titieni as Psychologist *Tania Popa as Ana's mother *Vlad Ivanov as Priest Adrian *Ioana Flora as Irina Production The film was a joint production of Parada Film (Romania), Augenschein Filmproduktion (Germany), and Sophie Dulac Productions (France). The casting for the film began in August 2014 with Christina Paul of Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Silver Bear
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's " Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the " Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors 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 ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
