Netflix has furthered its commitment to German production with an expanded slate of local projects.
At a showcase event in Berlin last night (March 13), Netflix announced a number of new titles, including feature Brick, which is currently being filmed and stars Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee and Frederick Lau.
Brick, about the residents of an apartment seeking a way out when their building is suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall, is written and directed by Philip Koch and produced through Nocturna Productions and W&b Television.
Netflix’s focus on the German market is notable for coming at a time...
At a showcase event in Berlin last night (March 13), Netflix announced a number of new titles, including feature Brick, which is currently being filmed and stars Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee and Frederick Lau.
Brick, about the residents of an apartment seeking a way out when their building is suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall, is written and directed by Philip Koch and produced through Nocturna Productions and W&b Television.
Netflix’s focus on the German market is notable for coming at a time...
- 3/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Confirming Germany’s importance as a growth market, Netfix on Wednesday announced 17 new and returning shows and movies produced by some of the country’s leading producers, including docuseries “Kaulitz & Kaulitz,” about the Tokio Hotel popstar siblings, and sci-fi drama “Cassandra,” about an overzealous electronic household helper.
Netflix presented 17 feature films, series, documentaries and reality shows at a special event in Berlin.
“We have seen again and again how local stories can captivate viewers here and around the world,” said Katja Hofem, Netflix’s VP of content for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “We aim to continue this successful journey together with our partners, sharing a common goal of creating exceptional entertainment that moves and inspires people.”
Produced by Constantin Entertainment and premiering in June, “Kaulitz & Kaulitz” accompanies Tokio Hotel frontmen Bill and Tom Kaulitz, twin brothers from Magdeburg, Germany, on tour with their band and in their new home in Hollywood.
Netflix presented 17 feature films, series, documentaries and reality shows at a special event in Berlin.
“We have seen again and again how local stories can captivate viewers here and around the world,” said Katja Hofem, Netflix’s VP of content for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “We aim to continue this successful journey together with our partners, sharing a common goal of creating exceptional entertainment that moves and inspires people.”
Produced by Constantin Entertainment and premiering in June, “Kaulitz & Kaulitz” accompanies Tokio Hotel frontmen Bill and Tom Kaulitz, twin brothers from Magdeburg, Germany, on tour with their band and in their new home in Hollywood.
- 3/13/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix Germany unveiled a pair of feature films, including Wiedemann & Berg title Brick, true-crime docs and a reality competition series this evening at a showcase in Berlin.
The sizeable slate announcement, which comes a day before a similar UK event, is notable given that Germany’s TV producers have seen the likes of Sky Deutschland pull out of originals and Paramount+ changing direction in their local production efforts.
Among the new titles is feature Brick (working title), which is currently being filmed and stars the likes of Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee and Frederick Lau. Slated to launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Dach) in 2025, the film follows a couple, Tim and Olivia, whose apartment building suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall. They are forced to work with their neighbors to find a way out.
Philip Koch is the creator and Director of Photography. He produces alongside Quirin Berg,...
The sizeable slate announcement, which comes a day before a similar UK event, is notable given that Germany’s TV producers have seen the likes of Sky Deutschland pull out of originals and Paramount+ changing direction in their local production efforts.
Among the new titles is feature Brick (working title), which is currently being filmed and stars the likes of Matthias Schweighöfer, Ruby O. Fee and Frederick Lau. Slated to launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Dach) in 2025, the film follows a couple, Tim and Olivia, whose apartment building suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall. They are forced to work with their neighbors to find a way out.
Philip Koch is the creator and Director of Photography. He produces alongside Quirin Berg,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is all set to release its new German-language action thriller, Sixty Minutes, directed by Oliver Kienle and co-written by Philip Koch. The film centers around a mixed martial arts fighter, Octavio Bergmann, who ditches an important match just to arrive at his ex-wife Mina’s place to attend his daughter’s birthday. Mina gives him an ultimatum of one hour and expects him to come on time, or else she will take her daughter away from him forever. Desperate to make it up to his daughter, Octavio not only abandons his over-hyped ring match but also makes some dangerous enemies on the way. Sixty Minutes is all about Octavio’s desperate efforts to attend his daughter’s birthday in time, which fills his journey with some heart-pounding actions and a nonstop adrenaline rush. Let’s get a better idea of all the major characters in Sixty Minutes to know...
- 1/19/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
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
Each year we are proud to partner with the European Film Promotion to celebrate ten emerging European talents as part of their ongoing Efp Shooting Stars programme. Today we’re pleased to join the reveal of 2023’s cohort, who we’ll be getting to know better next year at the 73rd Berlinale.
Here are 2023’s European Shooting Stars:
Joely Mbundu (Belgium), Alina Tomnikov (Finland), Leonie Benesch (Germany), Thorvaldur Kristjansson (Iceland), Benedetta Porcaroli (Italy), Yannick Jozefzoon (The Netherlands), Kristine Kujath Thorp (Norway), Judith State (Romania), Gizem Erdogan (Sweden) and Kayije Kagame (Switzerland).
We’ll be meeting with each of the Shooting Stars out in Berlin next February and speaking to them. So, remember to check back next year for those interviews.
In the meantime, here are more details about each of the intake from the Efp themselves.
Belgium / Joely Mbundu ©Tina Herbots
Joely Mbundu hails from Villeneuve-St-Georges, France and attended school in Flanders,...
Here are 2023’s European Shooting Stars:
Joely Mbundu (Belgium), Alina Tomnikov (Finland), Leonie Benesch (Germany), Thorvaldur Kristjansson (Iceland), Benedetta Porcaroli (Italy), Yannick Jozefzoon (The Netherlands), Kristine Kujath Thorp (Norway), Judith State (Romania), Gizem Erdogan (Sweden) and Kayije Kagame (Switzerland).
We’ll be meeting with each of the Shooting Stars out in Berlin next February and speaking to them. So, remember to check back next year for those interviews.
In the meantime, here are more details about each of the intake from the Efp themselves.
Belgium / Joely Mbundu ©Tina Herbots
Joely Mbundu hails from Villeneuve-St-Georges, France and attended school in Flanders,...
- 12/14/2022
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Post-apocalyptic adventure series “Tribes of Europa,” which bows Friday on Netflix, is the latest sci-fi/fantasy show out of Germany, where the genre is heating up.
Created by Philip Koch and produced by Wiedemann & Berg Television, the company behind Netflix hit “Dark,” “Tribes of Europa” follows three siblings as they struggle to survive in a new Europe emerging from cataclysm. Henriette Confurius, Emilio Sakraya (“Warrior Nun”), David Ali Rashed and Oliver Masucci (“Enfant Terrible”) star.
Set in 2074, the story unfolds in a land divided into micro-states and tribes — some peaceful, others bloodthirsty.
It was 2016’s Brexit referendum that inspired the series, Koch tells Variety. As a supporter of the European Union, Koch found the decision “very shocking.”
Since then, however, the pandemic, a growing political divide in the U.S., not to mention the Capitol Insurrection in Washington, D.C., have made the premise of a show about the collapse...
Created by Philip Koch and produced by Wiedemann & Berg Television, the company behind Netflix hit “Dark,” “Tribes of Europa” follows three siblings as they struggle to survive in a new Europe emerging from cataclysm. Henriette Confurius, Emilio Sakraya (“Warrior Nun”), David Ali Rashed and Oliver Masucci (“Enfant Terrible”) star.
Set in 2074, the story unfolds in a land divided into micro-states and tribes — some peaceful, others bloodthirsty.
It was 2016’s Brexit referendum that inspired the series, Koch tells Variety. As a supporter of the European Union, Koch found the decision “very shocking.”
Since then, however, the pandemic, a growing political divide in the U.S., not to mention the Capitol Insurrection in Washington, D.C., have made the premise of a show about the collapse...
- 2/19/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The way that our world is headed, with natural disasters, global warming and political big shots at constant loggerheads, would it be that hard to imagine everything we know crumbling before our eyes? Netflix’s new sci-fi drama Tribes of Europa focuses on three siblings that set out to change the course of the world after a global disaster that happened 45 years prior to 2074, when the series is set.
We’re not exactly sure how this dystopian, post-apocalyptic world came to be the norm. All that is revealed of what once was is the mention of ‘Black December’, when the lights went black and Europe was plunged into darkness.
The team behind Tribes of Europa were also the creators for Netflix’s first German-language series, Dark, and the Oscar-winning The Life of Others. Creator Philip Koch is said to have come up with the idea for the series after the Brexit vote was cast.
We’re not exactly sure how this dystopian, post-apocalyptic world came to be the norm. All that is revealed of what once was is the mention of ‘Black December’, when the lights went black and Europe was plunged into darkness.
The team behind Tribes of Europa were also the creators for Netflix’s first German-language series, Dark, and the Oscar-winning The Life of Others. Creator Philip Koch is said to have come up with the idea for the series after the Brexit vote was cast.
- 2/19/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
In the German sci-fi series Tribes of Europa, a global disaster has resulted in warring tribes emerging from the wreckage of Europe. The idea for the series came to creator Philip Koch after the Brexit vote resulted in the United Kingdom deciding to leave the European Union. As the production notes state, Koch was so “shocked by the […]
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- 2/6/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Tribes of Europa Trailer 2 — Netflix‘s Tribes of Europa (2021) teaser trailer has been released and stars Henriette Confurius, Oliver Masucci, David Ali Rashed, Emilio Sakraya, Melika Foroutan, James Faulkner, Igor Pecenjev, Marie Mouroum, Alain Blazevic, David Bowles, Benjamin Sadler, Matteo van der Grijn, Hoji Fortuna, and Jeanette Hain. Crew Philip Koch and [...]
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- 2/5/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Tribes of Europa" is a live-action, science fiction original series, created by Philip Koch, starring Henriette Confurius, Oliver Masucci and David Ali Rashed, streaming February 19, 2021 on Netflix:
"...in 2074, three siblings set out to change the fate of Europe after a global catastrophe causes the continent to fracture into dystopian warring tribal micro-states, who vie for dominance over the other states. Three siblings get caught up in the conflict when they come into possession of a mysterious cube.
"The future is not what you expected as 'Kiano' (Emilio Sakraya), 'Liv' (Confurius) and 'Elja' get caught in the middle of this bloody war and forced to forge their own paths...."
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"...in 2074, three siblings set out to change the fate of Europe after a global catastrophe causes the continent to fracture into dystopian warring tribal micro-states, who vie for dominance over the other states. Three siblings get caught up in the conflict when they come into possession of a mysterious cube.
"The future is not what you expected as 'Kiano' (Emilio Sakraya), 'Liv' (Confurius) and 'Elja' get caught in the middle of this bloody war and forced to forge their own paths...."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 12/25/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Tribes of Europa Trailer — Netflix‘s Tribes of Europa (2021) teaser trailer has been released and stars Henriette Confurius, Oliver Masucci, David Ali Rashed, Emilio Sakraya, Melika Foroutan, James Faulkner, Igor Pecenjev, Marie Mouroum, Alain Blazevic, David Bowles, Benjamin Sadler, Matteo van der Grijn, Hoji Fortuna, and Jeanette Hain. Crew Philip Koch and Florian Baxmeyer [...]
Continue reading: Tribes Of Europa (2021) Teaser Trailer: Tribal states fight for dominance in a Future Europe [Netflix]...
Continue reading: Tribes Of Europa (2021) Teaser Trailer: Tribal states fight for dominance in a Future Europe [Netflix]...
- 12/20/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Funded projects include ‘Charlie’s Angels’ and ‘The King’s Man’.
Fff Bayern, Bavaria’s regional film fund, will see its budget for 2019 reach €40m following the federal state’s decision to increase its financial commitment by 10% to €22m this year.
Bavaria’s Digital Minister Judith Gerlach announced that - as Fff Bayern’s major shareholder - the federal state would be making an additional €1.5m available for film funding this year.
“The competition in the area of film is enormous,” said Gerlach. “Therefore, it is important for me that Bavarian films can continue to keep pace - and also...
Fff Bayern, Bavaria’s regional film fund, will see its budget for 2019 reach €40m following the federal state’s decision to increase its financial commitment by 10% to €22m this year.
Bavaria’s Digital Minister Judith Gerlach announced that - as Fff Bayern’s major shareholder - the federal state would be making an additional €1.5m available for film funding this year.
“The competition in the area of film is enormous,” said Gerlach. “Therefore, it is important for me that Bavarian films can continue to keep pace - and also...
- 10/15/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Netflix’s VP for Original Series, Kelly Luegenbiehl, has unveiled five new German originals which will launch on the streaming service in 2019. Speaking at the Medientage München conference this morning, she said the titles will be available in all of the markets where Netflix is present. The projects include Skylines, a contemporary drama produced by Maren Ade who directed, wrote and produced Oscar nominee Toni Erdmann.
The five projects are a variety of genres and formats, including historical and futuristic works, crime drama, a quirky coming-of-age story and a family saga. They add to Netflix’s current slate of three local originals including Dark, Dogs Of Berlin and The Wave which are in various stages of development and production. Dogs Of Berlin is led by showrunner Christian Alvart and launches on December 7.
This represents a significant investment in the German market and Luegenbiehl said, “We want to tell local stories with global appeal.
The five projects are a variety of genres and formats, including historical and futuristic works, crime drama, a quirky coming-of-age story and a family saga. They add to Netflix’s current slate of three local originals including Dark, Dogs Of Berlin and The Wave which are in various stages of development and production. Dogs Of Berlin is led by showrunner Christian Alvart and launches on December 7.
This represents a significant investment in the German market and Luegenbiehl said, “We want to tell local stories with global appeal.
- 10/25/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Following on the success of supernatural drama “Dark,” Netflix is set to produce five new German originals, including an ambitious historical series that chronicles a bloody and decisive battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire.
Kelly Luegenbiehl, Netflix’s vice president of original series for Europe, announced the development and production of the five new projects on Thursday at the Medientage München media conference in Munich. The slate will launch online beginning in 2019.
“At Netflix, we want to tell local stories with global appeal. We are excited to have found this in these five projects, which – each in their unique way – are both undeniably German and at the same time tell stories that are relevant to viewers all over the world,” Luegenbiehl said.
The famous battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in which Germanic warriors halted the northward advance of the Roman Empire in Ad 9, is the focus of “The Barbarians.
Kelly Luegenbiehl, Netflix’s vice president of original series for Europe, announced the development and production of the five new projects on Thursday at the Medientage München media conference in Munich. The slate will launch online beginning in 2019.
“At Netflix, we want to tell local stories with global appeal. We are excited to have found this in these five projects, which – each in their unique way – are both undeniably German and at the same time tell stories that are relevant to viewers all over the world,” Luegenbiehl said.
The famous battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in which Germanic warriors halted the northward advance of the Roman Empire in Ad 9, is the focus of “The Barbarians.
- 10/25/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Social media outlets like Facebook are supposed to bring people together, but anyone who has an online account nowadays knows that isn’t always the case, and it especially isn’t true for a college student named Marina (Liesl Ahlers) in Friend Request, a new horror film featuring witchcraft, disturbing visions, and face-eating wasps. But perhaps the most haunting thing of all is the number lurking under the friends tab on Marina’s page: “0.”
Marina’s classmate Laura (Fear The Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey) has an opposite online life. Her social media friends are in the healthy 800+ range, but more importantly, she enjoys spending time with a tight-knit group of pals in real life, including the tech-savvy Kobe (Stake Land’s Connor Paolo) and her boyfriend, Tyler (William Moseley).
Admiring Marina’s dark fantasy digital artwork, Laura becomes friends with her reclusive classmate online, but as that dreaded “0” is...
Marina’s classmate Laura (Fear The Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey) has an opposite online life. Her social media friends are in the healthy 800+ range, but more importantly, she enjoys spending time with a tight-knit group of pals in real life, including the tech-savvy Kobe (Stake Land’s Connor Paolo) and her boyfriend, Tyler (William Moseley).
Admiring Marina’s dark fantasy digital artwork, Laura becomes friends with her reclusive classmate online, but as that dreaded “0” is...
- 9/22/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
MaryAnn’s quick take… We’ve literally just seen this, in 2015’s Unfriended. Tedious wannabe scarefest misses the true horrors of Facebook and cultivates a personality-free blandness. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): not a big horror fan
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you’ve seen 2015’s Unfriended — about a bunch of high school students who are tormented online by the evil spirit of a classmate who was recently bullied into suicide — then you’ve already seen Friend Request, which is about a bunch of college students who are tormented online by the evil spirit of a classmate who recently committed suicide as the ultimate passive-aggressive response to being ignored. And in fact, this “new” movie has been languishing unreleased in the Us for a year and a half, perhaps to get more air between it and the earlier film.
I’m “biast” (con): not a big horror fan
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you’ve seen 2015’s Unfriended — about a bunch of high school students who are tormented online by the evil spirit of a classmate who was recently bullied into suicide — then you’ve already seen Friend Request, which is about a bunch of college students who are tormented online by the evil spirit of a classmate who recently committed suicide as the ultimate passive-aggressive response to being ignored. And in fact, this “new” movie has been languishing unreleased in the Us for a year and a half, perhaps to get more air between it and the earlier film.
- 9/19/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
While today’s technology-laden world makes a lot of things easier, it also comes at a price. Things may be easier than ever before, allowing us to be more productive in ways we never imagined, but it can sometimes open up all sorts of unexpected dangers.
There have been all kinds of horror movies that use technology at its center. One Missed Call used the cell phone, Unfriended was a horror film that took place over an extensive Skype conversation, and now, Friend Request takes the idea of social media and mixes it with a dash of more traditional horror elements, including witchcraft. But is it enough to make this film anything more than another gimmick?
Based on the trailer, it’s difficult to say. At some points, the concepts seems pretty interesting, but at others, it comes across as more of a cringefest. This one also has an interesting release history.
There have been all kinds of horror movies that use technology at its center. One Missed Call used the cell phone, Unfriended was a horror film that took place over an extensive Skype conversation, and now, Friend Request takes the idea of social media and mixes it with a dash of more traditional horror elements, including witchcraft. But is it enough to make this film anything more than another gimmick?
Based on the trailer, it’s difficult to say. At some points, the concepts seems pretty interesting, but at others, it comes across as more of a cringefest. This one also has an interesting release history.
- 8/30/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Cannes competition title Loveless wins best international film.
Films by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Pedro Pinho and Tom Lass were among the winners at the 35th Filmfest München which came to a close on Saturday evening with a gala awards ceremony before the German premiere of Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest with actor Bill Nighy and producer Stephen Woolley in attendance.
The €50,000 Arri/Osram award for the best international film in the CineMasters sidebar went to Zvyagintsev’s Cannes competition film Loveless which opened in Russian cinemas through Wdssr on June 1 and will be released in Germany by Wild Bunch.
Producers Alexander Rodnyansky and Serguey Melkumov accepted the award in Munich from the hands of the international jury comprising German director Valeska Grisebach (whose latest feature Western premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in May), producer Markus Zimmer, and actress Nastassja Kinski.
This is the second time Zvyagintsev received the Munich award after his previous feature Leviathan had won...
Films by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Pedro Pinho and Tom Lass were among the winners at the 35th Filmfest München which came to a close on Saturday evening with a gala awards ceremony before the German premiere of Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest with actor Bill Nighy and producer Stephen Woolley in attendance.
The €50,000 Arri/Osram award for the best international film in the CineMasters sidebar went to Zvyagintsev’s Cannes competition film Loveless which opened in Russian cinemas through Wdssr on June 1 and will be released in Germany by Wild Bunch.
Producers Alexander Rodnyansky and Serguey Melkumov accepted the award in Munich from the hands of the international jury comprising German director Valeska Grisebach (whose latest feature Western premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in May), producer Markus Zimmer, and actress Nastassja Kinski.
This is the second time Zvyagintsev received the Munich award after his previous feature Leviathan had won...
- 7/3/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
As society continues to further the threshold of technological advancement, horror cinema must adapt accordingly. More than any other genre, horror films mirror social phenomenons to exploit generational norms. Wireless carriers rarely drop service, smartphones can be tracked via Gps locators, handheld devices can research data on-the-spot – it’s getting harder and harder for on-screen killers to dupe victims these days. That’s why movies like Unfriended, The Den and Cam2Cam have ushered in a new cyber-terror scourge, something that Simon Verhoeven’s Friend Request looks to upgrade.
Alycia Debnam-Carey stars as Laura, a popular college co-ed with a healthy social following on Facebook (it’s never spoken, but it’s Facebook). Out of the blue one night, she receives a friend request from one of her loner classmates (Marina Mills, played by Liesl Ahlers). Laura initially sees no harm in befriending the quiet new student, and spends the...
Alycia Debnam-Carey stars as Laura, a popular college co-ed with a healthy social following on Facebook (it’s never spoken, but it’s Facebook). Out of the blue one night, she receives a friend request from one of her loner classmates (Marina Mills, played by Liesl Ahlers). Laura initially sees no harm in befriending the quiet new student, and spends the...
- 12/5/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
France’s Diaphana Distribution has picked up Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s long-gestating project, The Young Karl Marx.
The film centres on the budding friendship between Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.
The title character is played by August Diehl. Stefan Konarske, one of the stars of Philip Koch’s Outside The Box, plays Engels.
Konarske replaces Alexander Fehling, who left the role to play the boyfriend of Claire Danes’ character in Us TV drama Homeland.
The film is a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film.
Shooting began at the beginning of September and continue for nine weeks to Nov 7.
Sales agent Films Distribution pre-sold the feature to Germany’s Neue Visionen Filmverleih at this year’s Berlinale.
The film centres on the budding friendship between Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.
The title character is played by August Diehl. Stefan Konarske, one of the stars of Philip Koch’s Outside The Box, plays Engels.
Konarske replaces Alexander Fehling, who left the role to play the boyfriend of Claire Danes’ character in Us TV drama Homeland.
The film is a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film.
Shooting began at the beginning of September and continue for nine weeks to Nov 7.
Sales agent Films Distribution pre-sold the feature to Germany’s Neue Visionen Filmverleih at this year’s Berlinale.
- 9/29/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
New films by Dietrich Brüggemann, Alex Ranisch and Philip Koch are to be judged by Munich Film Festival’s first ever Fipresci jury in its New German Cinema sidebar at this year’s forthcoming edition (June 25 - July 4).
Swiss film critic Beat Glur, Berlin-based, New Zealand-born Carmen Gray, and Israel’s Nachum Mochiach will choose their winner from 18 world premieres - 13 fiction feature films and five documentaries - including two titles which will then have their international premieres in Karlovy Vary: Brüggemann’s Heil, a politically incorrect satire on German neo-Nazis, and Kosovo-born Visar Morina’s feature debut Babai, which will be released in Germany by missingFilms .
The line-up also includes:
Özgur Yildirim’s dystopian sci-fi thriller Boy 7, starring David Kross and Emilia Schüle, based on the bestselling Dutch book by Mirjam Mous, to be distributed in Germany by Koch Media;
Florian Cossen and Elena von Saucken’s Canada-set black indie comedy Coconut Hero, which is being...
Swiss film critic Beat Glur, Berlin-based, New Zealand-born Carmen Gray, and Israel’s Nachum Mochiach will choose their winner from 18 world premieres - 13 fiction feature films and five documentaries - including two titles which will then have their international premieres in Karlovy Vary: Brüggemann’s Heil, a politically incorrect satire on German neo-Nazis, and Kosovo-born Visar Morina’s feature debut Babai, which will be released in Germany by missingFilms .
The line-up also includes:
Özgur Yildirim’s dystopian sci-fi thriller Boy 7, starring David Kross and Emilia Schüle, based on the bestselling Dutch book by Mirjam Mous, to be distributed in Germany by Koch Media;
Florian Cossen and Elena von Saucken’s Canada-set black indie comedy Coconut Hero, which is being...
- 6/4/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
"The Chronicles of Narnia" star William Moseley is looking busy, signing for two projects and seeing an already completed film of his acquired by Millennium Entertainment.
First to film is Brett Ryan Green's indie drama "The Veil," in which Moseley plays a war-besieged tribesman who attempts to lead his people and their princess on a campaign against their oppressors. Serinda Swain and William Levy also star with filming to take place in Oklahoma.
After that, he heads to South Africa to shoot Philip Koch and Simon Verhoeven's "Unfriend" for Warner Bros International. That story follows a group of college friends confronted by a dark force.
Moseley has already shot Simone Bartesaghi's "Run," an 3D indie parkour-centric crime thriller in which he plays an American teenager who uses his free-running skills to pull off small robberies with his father (Adrian Pasdar).
Soon though, a new girlfriend (Kelsey Chow...
First to film is Brett Ryan Green's indie drama "The Veil," in which Moseley plays a war-besieged tribesman who attempts to lead his people and their princess on a campaign against their oppressors. Serinda Swain and William Levy also star with filming to take place in Oklahoma.
After that, he heads to South Africa to shoot Philip Koch and Simon Verhoeven's "Unfriend" for Warner Bros International. That story follows a group of college friends confronted by a dark force.
Moseley has already shot Simone Bartesaghi's "Run," an 3D indie parkour-centric crime thriller in which he plays an American teenager who uses his free-running skills to pull off small robberies with his father (Adrian Pasdar).
Soon though, a new girlfriend (Kelsey Chow...
- 11/8/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The French Sales Agent, Theatrical Distribution and Production company based out of Paris comes to the fest with a pair of items (Cristian Jimenez's Bonsai and Liza Johnson's Return) but Rezo also got a pair of must sees in Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York (which we could technically find at Tiff and will once again back a Stéphane Brize project -- his A Few Hours of Spring is currently in pre-production. Khodorkovsky by Cyril Tuschi - Completed Le Tableau by Jean-François Laguionie - Post-Production Resistance by Amit Gupta - Post-Production Return by Liza Johnson - Completed 2 Days In New York by Julie Delpy - Post-Production A Few Hours Of Spring by Stéphane BRIZÉ - Pre-Production BONSÁI by Cristian Jimenez - Completed Magic Valley by Jaffe Zinn - Completed Neon Flesh (Carne De Neon) by Paco Cabezas - Completed Prey (Proie) by Antoine Blossier - Completed Amigo by John Sayles...
- 5/31/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s a cliché in prison movies (or any films involving incarceration) that you get to know the bad guys right away. In writer/director Philip Koch’s debut movie Picco, which plays like a cross between the 2001 German psychological shocker Das Experiment (remade this year as The Experiment) and the 1979 British classic drama Scum, the interesting thing is that you never know who’s going to turn nasty, or why.
- 9/30/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Marcelle Perks)
- Fangoria
Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago, Alexei Popgrebsky’s How I Ended This Summer, Kelly Reichhardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, Xavier Beauvois’ Of Gods and Men, Catherine Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty and Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives are also competing. It’s the 2nd year that the BFI London Film Festival has run an awards ceremony. Actress Patricia Clarkson chairs this year’s Best Film jury, which includes actor Gabriel Byrne, costumier Sandy Powell and director Shekhar Kapur. Jacques Audiard's powerful crime drama, won Best Film last year. Best British Newcomer will choose from writer/director Richard Ayoade (Submarine), writer/director Clio Barnard (The Arbor), producer Michelle Eastwood (In Our Name), actor Conor McCarron (Neds), producer Tracy O'Riordan (The Arbor), actor Craig Roberts (Submarine),actress Manjinder Virk (The Arbor) and writer...
- 9/29/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
Cologne, Germany – "Picco," a hard-hitting prison drama from debut director Philip Koch, has won the German Independence Award at the 17th Oldenburg Film Festival.
The drama is based on a real-life event in a German youth prison where inmates tortured and killed a cellmate.
"A portrait of a true hell on earth," is how the Oldenburg International Jury, headed by actress Deborah Kara Unger, described "Picco," calling the film "clear and heartbreaking in any language."
Oldenburg's regular film fans preferred the lighter fare of Paul Gordon's "The Happy Poet." The comedy about a man trying to set up an organic heath food stand won Oldenburg's audience award.
Germany's leading indie film fest wrapped Sunday night with the world premiere of "Pound of Flesh," a drama directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs and starring Timothy Bottoms, Whitney Able and Malcolm McDowell.
The drama is based on a real-life event in a German youth prison where inmates tortured and killed a cellmate.
"A portrait of a true hell on earth," is how the Oldenburg International Jury, headed by actress Deborah Kara Unger, described "Picco," calling the film "clear and heartbreaking in any language."
Oldenburg's regular film fans preferred the lighter fare of Paul Gordon's "The Happy Poet." The comedy about a man trying to set up an organic heath food stand won Oldenburg's audience award.
Germany's leading indie film fest wrapped Sunday night with the world premiere of "Pound of Flesh," a drama directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs and starring Timothy Bottoms, Whitney Able and Malcolm McDowell.
- 9/19/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- The next generation of German directors likes a bit of rough.
Nominations, announced today, for the First Steps Award for debut films, includes unflinching looks at drug abuse, prison violence and religious unrest.
Philip Koch's "Picco," which debuted in Cannes and is being sold by France's Rezo Films, is a harrowing tale of a juvenile delinquent systematically tortured and killed by his cellmates in a German prison. Oliver Kienle's "Bis aufs Blut" follows two friends and drug dealers who survive the hell of youth prison and emerge ready to make one final deal. And Burhan Qurbani's "Shahada," a competition entry at the Berlin Festival this year, sets the religious ferment of Germany's Muslim community against the background of a hostile, often violent, Berlin.
The other two nominees for First Step's feature length film prize provide some relief: Sebastian Stern's "Die Hummel" (Bumblebee) is...
Nominations, announced today, for the First Steps Award for debut films, includes unflinching looks at drug abuse, prison violence and religious unrest.
Philip Koch's "Picco," which debuted in Cannes and is being sold by France's Rezo Films, is a harrowing tale of a juvenile delinquent systematically tortured and killed by his cellmates in a German prison. Oliver Kienle's "Bis aufs Blut" follows two friends and drug dealers who survive the hell of youth prison and emerge ready to make one final deal. And Burhan Qurbani's "Shahada," a competition entry at the Berlin Festival this year, sets the religious ferment of Germany's Muslim community against the background of a hostile, often violent, Berlin.
The other two nominees for First Step's feature length film prize provide some relief: Sebastian Stern's "Die Hummel" (Bumblebee) is...
- 7/29/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- Two of Europe's most distinctive female film talents, German actress Sibel Kekilli and Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic, will be honored with the top two awards at this year's Munich Film Festival.
Kekilli takes Munich's best actress prize for her comeback role in Feo Aladag's "When We Leave," where she plays a Muslim woman rejected by her family after she defies her abusive husband. Kekilli's performance has already earned her honors in Tribeca and at this year's German Film Awards, where she took the best actress nod.
Zbanic's latest, "On the Path," has won Munich's top prize, the Bernhard Wicki Award. The film also focuses on the plight of a woman struggling with her Muslim heritage. In this case it is an urbanite Bosnian whose husband embraces Islamic fundamentalism.
In case anyone didn't get Munich's feminist message, the festival will also give a special, honorary award to Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat,...
Kekilli takes Munich's best actress prize for her comeback role in Feo Aladag's "When We Leave," where she plays a Muslim woman rejected by her family after she defies her abusive husband. Kekilli's performance has already earned her honors in Tribeca and at this year's German Film Awards, where she took the best actress nod.
Zbanic's latest, "On the Path," has won Munich's top prize, the Bernhard Wicki Award. The film also focuses on the plight of a woman struggling with her Muslim heritage. In this case it is an urbanite Bosnian whose husband embraces Islamic fundamentalism.
In case anyone didn't get Munich's feminist message, the festival will also give a special, honorary award to Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat,...
- 6/17/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Last year the sales/production/distribution company hit a triple (in the prize category) with Dolan's I Killed My Mother, this year they move up a section into the Ucr with Heartbeats (see pic above). Worth noting in the sales department is Antoine Blossier's debut horror film Prey (which I was hoping would find a spot in Cannes this year) and Julie Delpy is calling up her parents for a sequel to her rom com, 2 Days in Paris. with 2 Days in New York. - Rezo started off the year by grabbing international headlines with their controversial doc film about ordinary folk playing with kilowatts in a social experiment designed game show. Now they hit the Croisette once again by pairing off with wunderkid Quebecois helmer Xavier Dolan for 2 in 2. Last year the sales/production/distribution company hit a triple (in the prize category) with Dolan's I Killed My Mother,...
- 5/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Rezo started off the year by grabbing international headlines with their controversial doc film about ordinary folk playing with kilowatts in a social experiment designed game show. Now they hit the Croisette once again by pairing off with wunderkid Quebecois helmer Xavier Dolan for 2 in 2. Last year the sales/production/distribution company hit a triple (in the prize category) with Dolan's I Killed My Mother, this year they move up a section into the Ucr with Heartbeats (see pic above). Worth noting in the sales department is Antoine Blossier's debut horror film Prey (which I was hoping would find a spot in Cannes this year) and Julie Delpy is calling up her parents for a sequel to her rom com, 2 Days in Paris. with 2 Days in New York. Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires) by Xavier Dolan - Completed Magic Valley by Jaffe Zinn - Post-Production Picco by Philip Koch -...
- 5/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The artistic directors of both Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine de realisateurs) and Critics' Week (La Semaine de la critique) have stated they did not want to pick from Sundance titles. "We try to show films that don't pass through Sundance first", Critics Week’s Artistic Director Jean-Christophe Berjon said, “although U.S. indie entries are well represented this year." "I wanted to change things up and not take any Sundance films unless they were exceptional," said Frederic Boyer said in an interview. Considering how many Sundance titles went to the Berlinale, and that Cannes is 6 months later, singling out Sundance is somewhat odd. We in Us already know that Sundance has a certain sort of American film, and that other films are continually being made that might be just as good but not to the taste of Sundance programmers or simply not timed for the Sundance slot. That the two Cannes...
- 5/1/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Sorry, we're a day late on this one, been busy, but there's some great stuff coming our way, that is if you like arthouse fare.
Among other things will be a story about two violent teenage girls in France called Des filles en noir, along with Christoffer Boe's incredible looking Everyting will be fine (trailer).
There's a couple more gems we'll be reporting on shortly.
Full list after the break.
Directors' Fortnight
"All Good Children," U.K., Alicia Duffy
"Benda Bilili!," France, Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye (opening film)
"Cleveland vs. Wall Street," Switzerland-France, Jean-Stephane Bron
"Des filles en noir," France, Jean-Paul Civeyrac
"Everything Will Be Fine," Denmark-Sweden-France, Christoffer Boe
"Illegal," Belgium-Luxembourg-France, Olivier Masset-Depasse
"The Invisible Eye," Argentina-France-Spain, Diego Lerman
"Joy," Brazil, Marina Meliande, Felipe Braganca
"Le quattro volte," Italy-Germany-Switzerland, Michelangelo Frammartino
"Leap Year," Mexico, Michael Rowe
"The Light Thief," Kyrgyzstan, Aktan Arym Kubat
"Lily Sometimes," France, Fabienne Berthaud...
Among other things will be a story about two violent teenage girls in France called Des filles en noir, along with Christoffer Boe's incredible looking Everyting will be fine (trailer).
There's a couple more gems we'll be reporting on shortly.
Full list after the break.
Directors' Fortnight
"All Good Children," U.K., Alicia Duffy
"Benda Bilili!," France, Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye (opening film)
"Cleveland vs. Wall Street," Switzerland-France, Jean-Stephane Bron
"Des filles en noir," France, Jean-Paul Civeyrac
"Everything Will Be Fine," Denmark-Sweden-France, Christoffer Boe
"Illegal," Belgium-Luxembourg-France, Olivier Masset-Depasse
"The Invisible Eye," Argentina-France-Spain, Diego Lerman
"Joy," Brazil, Marina Meliande, Felipe Braganca
"Le quattro volte," Italy-Germany-Switzerland, Michelangelo Frammartino
"Leap Year," Mexico, Michael Rowe
"The Light Thief," Kyrgyzstan, Aktan Arym Kubat
"Lily Sometimes," France, Fabienne Berthaud...
- 4/21/2010
- QuietEarth.us
La Mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye) - Diego Lerman. Winner of the Sundance/Nhk Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes' Atelier de la Cinefondation, this is set in 1982's Buenos Aires, close to the end of the military dictatorship and focuses on the tensions between teachers and students. Picco - Philip Koch. German debut from Koch is actually based on true events, Picco is the first picture to shed light on the every-day life of youth prison inmates in Germany and shows in a gripping and merciless way that the contemporary judiciary system is by no means able to properly re-educate these lost youths... - La Mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye) - Diego Lerman Winner of the Sundance/Nhk Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes' Atelier de la Cinefondation, this is set in 1982's Buenos Aires, close to the end of the military dictatorship and focuses on the tensions between teachers and students.
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The lineup for the 2010 edition of Directors’ Fortnight has been announced. There are eleven first films in the lineup which will compete for the Camera d’Or prize which goes to a first film from across all the sections.
In 2010 Directors’ Fortnight, the Carrosse d’Or award will be awarded to Agnes Varda, the celebrated woman auteur-director of the french independant cinema. The Carrosse d’or (Golden Coach) Prize is a tribute to a director chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this prize has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Sembene Ousmane, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch and Naomie Kawasé in 2009.
Directors’ Fortnight will run from May 13 to 23 on the sidelines of the official selection at Cannes International Film festival.
Feature films
(* denotes films competing for Caméra d'Or Prize)
Alegria,...
In 2010 Directors’ Fortnight, the Carrosse d’Or award will be awarded to Agnes Varda, the celebrated woman auteur-director of the french independant cinema. The Carrosse d’or (Golden Coach) Prize is a tribute to a director chosen from the international filmmaking community for the innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work. Since its creation in 2002, this prize has been given to Jacques Rozier, Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, Sembene Ousmane, David Cronenberg, Alain Cavalier, Jim Jarmusch and Naomie Kawasé in 2009.
Directors’ Fortnight will run from May 13 to 23 on the sidelines of the official selection at Cannes International Film festival.
Feature films
(* denotes films competing for Caméra d'Or Prize)
Alegria,...
- 4/20/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile.. - You can say that there'll be plenty of virgins in this year's Director's Fortnight section. Quickly looking at the list of 22 feature films, Frédéric Boyer's very first edition appears to be heavy on first time works - exactly half of the section are newbies.
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
You can say that there'll be plenty of virgins in this year's Director's Fortnight section. Quickly looking at the list of 22 feature films, Frédéric Boyer's very first edition appears to be heavy on first time works - exactly half of the section are newbies. In the list we find three items on my "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of the Year in: Fabienne Berthaud's Pieds nus sur les limaces (see pic of Diane Kruger above), Cam Archer's Shit Year and Alistair Banks Griffin's debut film, Two Gates Of Sleep. Also included in the section is a doc-essay film from Michelangelo Frammartino that I'll be itching to see as well. Of the veteran auteurs, we have works from Christoffer Boe, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, old school High School doc filmmaker Frederik Wiseman and look for the Rolling Stones to be on hand for Stephen Kijak's Stones In Exile. Here are...
- 4/20/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris -- Cam Archer's sophomore film, "Shit Year," starring Ellen Barkin will be among the films screening in the 42nd annual Directors' Fortnight during the Festival de Cannes.
The sidebar's new artistic director, Frederic Boyer, announced the eclectic lineup Tuesday in Paris.
In "Shit Year," Barkin plays a has-been Hollywood actress who has an affair with a much younger actor, played by Luke Grimes. Alistair Banks Griffin will also represent the U.S. in the sidebar with his first feature, "Two Gates of Sleep," starring Brady Corbet, about two brothers who embark on a difficult journey to honor their dying mother's final request.
The Directors' Fortnight will open and close with a French accent this year. Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary about an orchestra made up of disabled people "Banda Bilili!" was picked as the opening-night film. The sidebar will close with a more glitzy red carpet premiere,...
The sidebar's new artistic director, Frederic Boyer, announced the eclectic lineup Tuesday in Paris.
In "Shit Year," Barkin plays a has-been Hollywood actress who has an affair with a much younger actor, played by Luke Grimes. Alistair Banks Griffin will also represent the U.S. in the sidebar with his first feature, "Two Gates of Sleep," starring Brady Corbet, about two brothers who embark on a difficult journey to honor their dying mother's final request.
The Directors' Fortnight will open and close with a French accent this year. Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's documentary about an orchestra made up of disabled people "Banda Bilili!" was picked as the opening-night film. The sidebar will close with a more glitzy red carpet premiere,...
- 4/20/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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