The Competition section of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival is almost complete, with seven titles having been added to the programme, so that the Berlinale’s most important section currently includes 22 selections, of which 18 premieres. Of these 22 films, 17 are in the running for the Bears, the others will be screened out of competition.
The new additions to the features in the running are: Frédéric Videau’s À moi seule (France) ; En kongelig affære (photo) by Danish screenwriter and director Nikolaj Arcel (to whom we owe the screenplay for Millénium), with Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander (Denmark/Czech Republic/Germany/Sweden); the Canadian film Rebelle by Kim Nguyen.
Out of competition, festival attendees will be able to discover : British title ''Bel Ami'', first film by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci ; James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer, with Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough and Gillian Anderson ; Hark Tsui’s 3D film Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate (Hong Kong/China) ; Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, starring Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender, which will feature as a special screening.
The Euro-noir series Babylon – the first pan-European TV drama about fraud and corruption within the EU, backed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)– will be staged by Denmark’s Zentropa Entertainments. Scripts for the 24x50min programme will be ready in February, for shooting to commence later this year in collaboration with Danish and Swedish pubcasters DR and SVT, ARTE France and RTÉ Ireland. The show is internationally marketed by Denmark’s
Writer/Director Jon S. Baird (Cass) has commenced principal photography in Glasgow for Filth, based on the best-selling novel by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting). The film will also shoot at other Scottish locations as well as in Sweden, Belgium and Hamburg.
After the pre-Christmas announcement of the first five titles selected in competition at the
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One of the first Norwegian-German co-productions in 34 years, German director Georg Maas’s drama-thriller Two Lives, began principal photography on location in Bergen this week (December 6). Norwegian producer Axel Helgeland has worked with Mass for eight years to prepare the film, which will shoot in Norway until Christmas, then in Germany until January 31.
When Denmark takes over the EU Presidency on January 1 for a six-month period, the Danish Film Institute (DFI) will launch a promotion campaign for Danish cinema in the EU countries, which aims to go behind the usual headlines of Lars von Trier's European Film Awards for
It was a glittering Sunday night at London’s Old Billingsgate and it shone brightest for actor turned director Paddy Considine as his
The European Commission announced its detailed proposal for 
Winner of the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present section at the latest Locarno Film Festival, Alessandro Comodin’s debut feature
Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Los Angeles will present BAFTA winning British director David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Winner of nine gongs, including Best Film, at this year’s Goyas, Agustí Villaronga’s Black Bread will be presented on Monday, June 21 before a Parisian audience at a screening attended by the director and its producer Isona Passola, as part of Dífferent 4! L'Autre Cinéma Espagnol. The film will be released in France on August 24 by Alfama Films.
Having bagged the Golden Lion for Best Film, Best Director Award, Best Cinematography (Adam Sikora), Best Score (Pawel Mykietyn) and Best Editing (Réka Lemhényi and Maciej Pawliński), Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing dominated the prize list at the 36th Gdynia Polish Film Festival, which closed last weekend. The main prize also rewards the film’s producers: Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska.
Presented as a special screening at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), after screening at Tribeca in April, the documentary Our School certainly hit close to home.
Shooting has been underway in Tel Aviv for the past two weeks on Lorraine Levy’s third feature: Le Fils de l’Autre (“The Son of the Other”). After her two comedies (The First Time I Was 20 in 2004 and London Mon Amour in 2008, which amassed 169,000 and 674,000 admissions, respectively), the director is tackling a more sensitive family subject which touches on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Revered British film and stage actress and Oscar winner Judi Dench will be presented with the Crystal Globe Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-19).