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Releases - Greece - Costa Gavras returns with humanistic Odyssey
2009-02-05 09:00:11The kindness, tenderness and dignity of strangers amongst the people of Europe, as opposed to the formalistic relentlessness of its law enforcement officers, is what Costa Gavras seems to be mainly seeking in his humanistic, heart-warming modern take on the Odyssey. Eden is West, which is set to close the Berlin Film Festival on February 14 and reach theatres in Greece on February 19, is...
Peter Aalbæk Jensen - CEO Zentropa: Proud to work with European talent
2009-02-05 09:00:11Danish film maverick Peter Aalbæk Jensen has three films in competition at the Berlinale, from Denmark (Little Soldier), Sweden (Mammoth) and Germany (Storm), reflecting his Europe-wide strategy for Zentropa. He spoke to Cineuropa about his plans to expand in Eastern Europe and to create a “North Atlantic alliance” with Scotland and Ireland. Cineuropa: You have a record three...
Berlinale 2009 - Scandinavia - TrustNordisk with biggest ever festival line-up
2009-02-06 09:00:28Scandinavian sales company TrustNordisk has a record three films vying for the Golden Bear, directed by some of Europe's most promising talents: Little Soldier by Denmark's Annette K. Olesen, screening this afternoon at the Berlinale Palast; Storm by Germany's Hans-Christian Schmid and Mammoth by Sweden's Lukas Moodysson. “With Storm, Mammoth and Little Soldier, I feel we are heading...
Distribution - Scandinavia - NonStop hooks up with Warp X
2009-02-07 09:00:30Pan-Scandinavian distribution group NonStop Entertainment, which has three films selected at the Berlinale, announced yesterday a groundbreaking alliance with Warp X - the UK-based innovative digital film studio behind, among other titles, This Is England - to co-produce the latter's upcoming projects. The long-term deal will give NonStop first-look options on Warp X films for...
Berlinale 2009 - Competition/Sweden - Longing for more with Mammoth
2009-02-09 09:00:07Ten years after introducing world and Berlin audiences to his powerful voice with Fucking Amål, Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson is back at the Berlinale, miles away in budget size from his debut and a voice somewhat less striking yet very much with the same obsessions. Three years, three continents (the film was shot in Sweden, the US and Thailand) and 23 script drafts in the making,...
Production - Spain - Almodóvar returns to shorts with La concejala antropófaga
2009-02-10 09:00:09Just over a month before the release of Broken Embraces (see news), Pedro Almodóvar has announced his return to short film, after a 30-year break from the form. La concejala antropófaga (“The Man-Eating Town Councillor”) will be broadcast simultaneously on Canal + and the network's website on Friday, February 13, as part of a special programme dedicated to the director. The...
Production - Italy/France - Amelio makes French-language debut with Camus adaptation
2009-02-12 09:00:25Shooting will begin in April, in France and Algeria, on Il Primo Uomo (“The First Man”) by Gianni Amelio. This is the first French-language film for the director of Stolen Children (Grand Jury Prize, Cannes 1992) and The Way We Laughed (Golden Lion, Venice 1998). Based on the unfinished and posthumously published novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, Il...
Oscars 2009 - Winners - Slumdog celebrates tryst with destiny
2009-02-23 11:42:04Pundits said it was inevitable; the general consensus was that it was a shoo-in, but the tension was palpable on the faces of Slumdog Millionaire's cast and crew at the biggest awards ceremony of all - the 81st Annual Academy Awards. In the event, to paraphrase one of the opening lines in the film, “It was written”. Danny Boyle's tribute to Mumbai, and India, won an astounding...
Funding - Italy/Ireland/International - Film Investment Piedmont kicks off with €12m budget
2009-02-23 11:42:04Created last September during the Venice Film Festival (see news), Film Investment Piedmont (FIP), the investment company founded by the Turin Piedmont Film Commission and US company Endgame Entertainment, was presented last week at the Berlinale. This marks a new model of film financing for Italy, combining private and public funds. With a budget of €12m, FIP would annually invest...
Production - France/UK - Le Bureau with projects on the go
2009-03-07 09:00:08After an exceptional Berlinale, where his French company Le Bureau - Le Petit Bureau and UK firm The Bureau had four productions and co-productions selected - London River (Competition), Welcome (Panorama), My Greatest Escape (Forum) and Unmade Beds (Generation) - producer Bertrand Faivre continues to forge ahead and take on numerous projects. In the second half of 2009, shooting will...
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