Syndromes and a Century: German Jr.’s Existentialist State of Things
Aleksey German Jr., son of famed Russian auteur Aleksey German, comes into his own prominence with his third feature Under Electric Clouds, which took home a cinematography award following its premiere at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. Much like his father’s cinema, German announces similar interests in existentialist societal woes impervious to logical narrative format, and exchanges deliberations of the past (his previous title, Paper Soldier takes place in 1961) for the looming future of 2017 (a date that may dawn before the title premieres in certain international markets). With production delayed so German could put the finishing touches on his father’s posthumous masterpiece, Hard to Be a God, this indictment on the decaying cultural state of Russia tuned exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution is a critique as obscurely damning as it elusively oblique in tone. Some...
Aleksey German Jr., son of famed Russian auteur Aleksey German, comes into his own prominence with his third feature Under Electric Clouds, which took home a cinematography award following its premiere at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. Much like his father’s cinema, German announces similar interests in existentialist societal woes impervious to logical narrative format, and exchanges deliberations of the past (his previous title, Paper Soldier takes place in 1961) for the looming future of 2017 (a date that may dawn before the title premieres in certain international markets). With production delayed so German could put the finishing touches on his father’s posthumous masterpiece, Hard to Be a God, this indictment on the decaying cultural state of Russia tuned exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution is a critique as obscurely damning as it elusively oblique in tone. Some...
- 10/14/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Alexey German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds has become the first high-profile title to fall victim to Ukraine’s new distribution ban on Russian films and TV series, which came into effect last week.
One law entitled ¨On the Protection of the Information, TV and Radio Space of Ukraine¨ forbids all audiovisual works that contain the ¨popularization, agitation for, propagation about all law enforcement agencies, the armed forces, and other armed, military or security forces of the occupier state¨ from being shown on Ukrainian territory.
In addition, a law banning the distribution and showing of films and TV series produced in Russia after January 1, 2014, came into force at the same time, according to Unian Information Agency.
The ban coincided with the film’s theatrical opening by distributor Paradis in Russian cinemas and was all the more surprising given that German’s film was made as a co-production between Russia, Ukraine and Poland between Artem Vasiliev’s Metrafilm...
One law entitled ¨On the Protection of the Information, TV and Radio Space of Ukraine¨ forbids all audiovisual works that contain the ¨popularization, agitation for, propagation about all law enforcement agencies, the armed forces, and other armed, military or security forces of the occupier state¨ from being shown on Ukrainian territory.
In addition, a law banning the distribution and showing of films and TV series produced in Russia after January 1, 2014, came into force at the same time, according to Unian Information Agency.
The ban coincided with the film’s theatrical opening by distributor Paradis in Russian cinemas and was all the more surprising given that German’s film was made as a co-production between Russia, Ukraine and Poland between Artem Vasiliev’s Metrafilm...
- 6/10/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Golden Bear Winner – “Taxi" by Jafar Panahi. This is funny, subtly political and a pleasure to watch. Panahi’s niece steals the show but other passengers in Panahi’s taxi are also engaging and mysterious as they reveal ever so little, which is still a lot, of their lives during their ride. The job of driving a taxi, a job he took to stay attached within society even though he is not allowed to make movies, gives Panahi a perfect setting for being filmed and for meeting people who represent Iran today. How fitting it was that on my ride home from the airport after Berlin, my Iranian cabdriver knew all the films of Panahi. We had a talk worthy of “Taxi." Isa: Celluloid Dreams. Kino Lorber has U.S. Rights, Memento who distributed the Iranian Golden Bear and Academy Award winner “A Separation” for France has picked up French rights; Filmladen picked up Austria, Imovision has Brazil, Film Europe Med has Czech Republic; Golden Scene has Hong Kong.
Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) – “The Club" by Pablo Larraín. Isa: Funny Balloons. U.S. still available!! Network Releasing picked up U.K. and Wild Bunch picked up France before its screening in Berlin. It has sold to Imovision for Brazil, Angel for Denmark and Alambique for Portugal.
Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) – “ Ixcanul Volcano” by Jayro Bustamante, perhaps Guatamala’s only Silver Bear winning film, this critically acclaimed coproduction with France’s Tu Va Voir showed only once before as a Work in Progress; no advance screeners were sent out by its Isa Film Factory who is now negotiating U.S. It was acquired by Arp days before Berlin. After its screening it was acquired by Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red for Italy and Japan’s Gaga Communications. Cineart bought Benelux: Vision Sudest has rights to Switzerland, Vendetta acquired Australia/ New Zealand, Spentzos acquired Greece, Mediavision Turkey, Dexin former-Yugoslavia and Moving Turtle the Middle East.
Silver Bear for Best Director
Radu Jude for “Aferim!” Isa: Beta. All rights still available! Małgorzata Szumowska for “Body” A female directed story of healing in Poland today told as intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, his anorexic daughter and her therapist who claims she can communicate with the dead loved ones. Isa: Memento. All rights still available! Silver Bear for Best Actress - Charlotte Rampling for “45 Years”. Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Sundance Selects, Canada--Skeye, Germany--The Match Factory, Benelux -Abc - Cinemien, U.K. -Curzon Film Wor and Artificial Eye.
Silver Bear for Best Actor – Tom Courtenay for “ 45 Years”
Silver Bear for Best Script – Patricio Guzmán for “The Pearl Button”Isa: Pyramide sold to trigon for Switzerland. U.S. still available! Continuing Patricio Guzmán’s theme of remembrance, this documentary ties together Chile’s natives population’s disappearance with the disappearance of family, friends and strangers during the Pinochet dictatorship in a surprising metaphor of water and The Button.
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for “ Victoria”. All shot in one take! Isa: The Match Factory. U.S.: Adopt Films, Germany – Senator.
Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for “ Under Electric Clouds” Isa: Films Boutique. U.S. available! Best First Feature Award – “600 Miles” by Gabriel Ripstein.Isa: Ndm. U.S. still available! Sold to Brazil--Tucumán Distrib, Serbia--Mcf Megacom Fil, Thailand-- Coral Culture C
Panorama Audience Award[20]
1st Place: “ The Second Mother ” by Anna Muylaert Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Oscilloscope . Soda picked up U.K. and Canada. It had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where stars Regina Case and Camila Mardila won the Special Jury Award for Acting. Read our review Here
2nd Place: “Stories of Our Lives” by Jim Chuchu. A collection of five vignettes about Kenya's Lgbt community. Bannes in Kenya. All rights available! 3rd Place: “Tough Love” by Rosa von Praunheim. Isa: M-appeal. U.S. available. France: Arte, Germany: Missing films. Teddy Award : “Nasty Baby “ bySebastián Silva. Isa: Funny Balloons. North American rights acquired by The Orchard.
Fipresci Prize [22]
Competiton: “Taxi” by Jafar Panahi Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi For other titles from the Berlinale still available, see Indiewire’s
Memo to Distributors: Buy these 2015 Berlin International Film Festival movies...
Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) – “The Club" by Pablo Larraín. Isa: Funny Balloons. U.S. still available!! Network Releasing picked up U.K. and Wild Bunch picked up France before its screening in Berlin. It has sold to Imovision for Brazil, Angel for Denmark and Alambique for Portugal.
Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) – “ Ixcanul Volcano” by Jayro Bustamante, perhaps Guatamala’s only Silver Bear winning film, this critically acclaimed coproduction with France’s Tu Va Voir showed only once before as a Work in Progress; no advance screeners were sent out by its Isa Film Factory who is now negotiating U.S. It was acquired by Arp days before Berlin. After its screening it was acquired by Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red for Italy and Japan’s Gaga Communications. Cineart bought Benelux: Vision Sudest has rights to Switzerland, Vendetta acquired Australia/ New Zealand, Spentzos acquired Greece, Mediavision Turkey, Dexin former-Yugoslavia and Moving Turtle the Middle East.
Silver Bear for Best Director
Radu Jude for “Aferim!” Isa: Beta. All rights still available! Małgorzata Szumowska for “Body” A female directed story of healing in Poland today told as intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, his anorexic daughter and her therapist who claims she can communicate with the dead loved ones. Isa: Memento. All rights still available! Silver Bear for Best Actress - Charlotte Rampling for “45 Years”. Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Sundance Selects, Canada--Skeye, Germany--The Match Factory, Benelux -Abc - Cinemien, U.K. -Curzon Film Wor and Artificial Eye.
Silver Bear for Best Actor – Tom Courtenay for “ 45 Years”
Silver Bear for Best Script – Patricio Guzmán for “The Pearl Button”Isa: Pyramide sold to trigon for Switzerland. U.S. still available! Continuing Patricio Guzmán’s theme of remembrance, this documentary ties together Chile’s natives population’s disappearance with the disappearance of family, friends and strangers during the Pinochet dictatorship in a surprising metaphor of water and The Button.
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for “ Victoria”. All shot in one take! Isa: The Match Factory. U.S.: Adopt Films, Germany – Senator.
Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for “ Under Electric Clouds” Isa: Films Boutique. U.S. available! Best First Feature Award – “600 Miles” by Gabriel Ripstein.Isa: Ndm. U.S. still available! Sold to Brazil--Tucumán Distrib, Serbia--Mcf Megacom Fil, Thailand-- Coral Culture C
Panorama Audience Award[20]
1st Place: “ The Second Mother ” by Anna Muylaert Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Oscilloscope . Soda picked up U.K. and Canada. It had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where stars Regina Case and Camila Mardila won the Special Jury Award for Acting. Read our review Here
2nd Place: “Stories of Our Lives” by Jim Chuchu. A collection of five vignettes about Kenya's Lgbt community. Bannes in Kenya. All rights available! 3rd Place: “Tough Love” by Rosa von Praunheim. Isa: M-appeal. U.S. available. France: Arte, Germany: Missing films. Teddy Award : “Nasty Baby “ bySebastián Silva. Isa: Funny Balloons. North American rights acquired by The Orchard.
Fipresci Prize [22]
Competiton: “Taxi” by Jafar Panahi Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi For other titles from the Berlinale still available, see Indiewire’s
Memo to Distributors: Buy these 2015 Berlin International Film Festival movies...
- 2/24/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Taxi
The Notebook's Adam Cook and Daniel Kasman have been covering the Berlin International Film Festival since its opening day, and the 2015 awards have just been announced. The jury this year consisted of Darren Aronofsky, Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha de Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou, and Matthew Weiner.
Golden Bear
Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
Our takes: 1, 2
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
The Club (Pablo Larraín)
Our takes: 1, 2
Alfred Bauer Prize
Ixcancul Volcano (Jayro Bustamente)
Our take: 1
Best Director
Radu Jude (Aferim)
Malgorzata Szumowska (Body)
Best Actress
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Our take: 1
Best Actor
Tom Courtenay (45 Years)
Our take: 1
Best Script
Patricio Guzmán (The Pearl Button)
Our take: 1
Outstanding Artistic Contribution
"Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for the camera in Victoria"
"Evgeniy Privin and Sergey Mikhalchuk for the camera in Under Electric Clouds"...
The Notebook's Adam Cook and Daniel Kasman have been covering the Berlin International Film Festival since its opening day, and the 2015 awards have just been announced. The jury this year consisted of Darren Aronofsky, Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha de Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou, and Matthew Weiner.
Golden Bear
Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
Our takes: 1, 2
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
The Club (Pablo Larraín)
Our takes: 1, 2
Alfred Bauer Prize
Ixcancul Volcano (Jayro Bustamente)
Our take: 1
Best Director
Radu Jude (Aferim)
Malgorzata Szumowska (Body)
Best Actress
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Our take: 1
Best Actor
Tom Courtenay (45 Years)
Our take: 1
Best Script
Patricio Guzmán (The Pearl Button)
Our take: 1
Outstanding Artistic Contribution
"Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for the camera in Victoria"
"Evgeniy Privin and Sergey Mikhalchuk for the camera in Under Electric Clouds"...
- 2/14/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival has drawn to a close with Darren Aronofsky's jury settling on awards for films in competition. Jafar Panahi's "Taxi" walked away with top honors, while the "45 Years" duo of Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling won acting honors. Following big lifts for films like "Boyhood" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" at the 2014 edition, however, this year's fest didn't sound as loud a thunderclap. But the current Oscar season was still on the brain for reviewers who couldn't resist noting a film like "Victoria's" place in the wake of "Birdman" (the Sebastian Schipper heist thriller was filmed in one continuous take and picked up a prize Saturday for cinematography). Check out the full list of Berlinale winners below. Golden Bear (Best Film) Jafar Panahi, "Taxi" Silver Bear (Grand Jury Prize) Pablo Larrain, "El Club" Silver Bear (Best Director) Radu Jude, "Aferim!" Malgorzata Szumowska,...
- 2/14/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Other prizes saw British actors Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling wins Silver Bears for their roles in 45 Years.Scroll down for full list of winners
Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Taxi won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear on Saturday (Feb 14).
The film captures life in contemporary Iran through interactions with passengers in a Tehran cab. Taxi is Panahi’s third feature since the Iranian authorities banned him from making films at the end of 2010, following This is Not a Film and Closed Curtain, which was in competition in Berlin 2013.
Panahi, who was also banned from travelling and giving interviews in 2010 sentence, was not able to travel to Berlin for the premiere of his film.
This time around, Panahi has circumvented the ban by turning a yellow cab into a mobile film studio with a camera placed on the dashboard. As the cab drives through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran, it picks up...
Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Taxi won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear on Saturday (Feb 14).
The film captures life in contemporary Iran through interactions with passengers in a Tehran cab. Taxi is Panahi’s third feature since the Iranian authorities banned him from making films at the end of 2010, following This is Not a Film and Closed Curtain, which was in competition in Berlin 2013.
Panahi, who was also banned from travelling and giving interviews in 2010 sentence, was not able to travel to Berlin for the premiere of his film.
This time around, Panahi has circumvented the ban by turning a yellow cab into a mobile film studio with a camera placed on the dashboard. As the cab drives through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran, it picks up...
- 2/14/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The International Jury of the 65th Berlinale, presided over by Darren Aronofsky and whose other members are Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha De Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou and Matthew Weiner, has presented the Golden Bear to Jafar Panahi's Taxi. Pablo Larraín's The Club wins the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. More awards: Alfred Bauer Prize: Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul Volcano. Two directors win Silver Bears: Radu Jude (Affirm!) and Małgorzata Szumowska (Body). The two acting Silver Bears go to the leads of Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Best Script: Patricio Guzmán for The Pearl Button. Two Silver Bears for Outstanding Artistic Contribution go to cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria and to cinematographers Evgeniy Privin and Sergey Mikhalchuk for Under Electric Clouds. The complete list goes on—and we've got it. » - David Hudson...
- 2/14/2015
- Keyframe
The International Jury of the 65th Berlinale, presided over by Darren Aronofsky and whose other members are Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha De Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou and Matthew Weiner, has presented the Golden Bear to Jafar Panahi's Taxi. Pablo Larraín's The Club wins the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. More awards: Alfred Bauer Prize: Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul Volcano. Two directors win Silver Bears: Radu Jude (Affirm!) and Małgorzata Szumowska (Body). The two acting Silver Bears go to the leads of Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Best Script: Patricio Guzmán for The Pearl Button. Two Silver Bears for Outstanding Artistic Contribution go to cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria and to cinematographers Evgeniy Privin and Sergey Mikhalchuk for Under Electric Clouds. The complete list goes on—and we've got it. » - David Hudson...
- 2/14/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation won the Grand Prix at this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), overshadowed in its final days by the shooting down of a Malaysian Airways plane.
Lavie’s debut feature, handled internationally by The Match Factory, was voted by the festival-goers to receive the Golden Duke statuette and the $12,000 cash prize.
Director Lavie and actress Shani Klein were accompanied on stage by the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory to accept the Grand Prix from the hands of the Oiff president Viktoriya Tigipko.
News of the Malaysian Airways plane tragedy broke early on Thursday evening during a reception in honour of Turkish films showing at the festival.
A minute’s silence was held in memory of the crash victims ahead of Gogol Wives’ documentary Pussy vs Putin that evening.
On Friday, another minute of silence was held at the beginning of the awards ceremony in memory of the aeroplane’s passengers as well...
Lavie’s debut feature, handled internationally by The Match Factory, was voted by the festival-goers to receive the Golden Duke statuette and the $12,000 cash prize.
Director Lavie and actress Shani Klein were accompanied on stage by the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory to accept the Grand Prix from the hands of the Oiff president Viktoriya Tigipko.
News of the Malaysian Airways plane tragedy broke early on Thursday evening during a reception in honour of Turkish films showing at the festival.
A minute’s silence was held in memory of the crash victims ahead of Gogol Wives’ documentary Pussy vs Putin that evening.
On Friday, another minute of silence was held at the beginning of the awards ceremony in memory of the aeroplane’s passengers as well...
- 7/21/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Talya Lavie’s Zero Motivation won the Grand Prix at this year’s Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), overshadowed in its final days by the shooting down of a Malaysian Airways plane.
Lavie’s debut feature, handled internationally by The Match Factory, was voted by the festival-goers to receive the Golden Duke statuette and the $12,000 cash prize.
Director Lavie and actress Shani Klein were accompanied on stage by the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory to accept the Grand Prix from the hands of the Oiff president Viktoriya Tigipko.
News of the Malaysian Airways plane tragedy broke early on Thursday evening during a reception in honour of Turkish films showing at the festival.
A minute’s silence was held in memory of the crash victims ahead of Gogol Wives’ documentary Pussy vs Putin that evening.
On Friday, another minute of silence was held at the beginning of the awards ceremony in memory of the aeroplane’s passengers as well...
Lavie’s debut feature, handled internationally by The Match Factory, was voted by the festival-goers to receive the Golden Duke statuette and the $12,000 cash prize.
Director Lavie and actress Shani Klein were accompanied on stage by the Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory to accept the Grand Prix from the hands of the Oiff president Viktoriya Tigipko.
News of the Malaysian Airways plane tragedy broke early on Thursday evening during a reception in honour of Turkish films showing at the festival.
A minute’s silence was held in memory of the crash victims ahead of Gogol Wives’ documentary Pussy vs Putin that evening.
On Friday, another minute of silence was held at the beginning of the awards ceremony in memory of the aeroplane’s passengers as well...
- 7/21/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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