Das Festival des deutschen Films in Ludwigshafen hat heute 28 Filme benannt, die neben den elf für den Filmkunstpreis nominierten Filmen bei der 20. Ausgabe des Festivals um den Rheingold Publikumspreis konkurrieren.
Das Festival des deutschen Films in Ludwigshafen feiert in diesem Jahr sein 20. Jubiläum (Credit: Festival des deutschen Films)
Neben den elf für den Filmkunstpreis nominierten Filmen hat das Festival des deutschen Films jetzt 28 weitere Filme benannt, die bei der 20. Ausgabe des Festivals (21. August bis 8. September) um den Rheingold Publikumspreis konkurrieren.
Festivalintendant Michael Kötz betonte dazu in einer Presseerklärung: „Die Zeiten, in denen sich deutsche Filme sehr oft um das Ego drehten, um Selbstverwirklichung im weitesten Sinne, die sind ziemlich vorbei. Man hat offenbar entdeckt, dass niemand eine Insel ist und wie wichtig die gesellschaftliche Zusammenarbeit ist. Gesellschaft überhaupt, wenn das Leben des Einzelnen glücken soll. Man erinnert sich auch, wie wichtig die Familie ist und wie verhängnisvoll es war, in...
Das Festival des deutschen Films in Ludwigshafen feiert in diesem Jahr sein 20. Jubiläum (Credit: Festival des deutschen Films)
Neben den elf für den Filmkunstpreis nominierten Filmen hat das Festival des deutschen Films jetzt 28 weitere Filme benannt, die bei der 20. Ausgabe des Festivals (21. August bis 8. September) um den Rheingold Publikumspreis konkurrieren.
Festivalintendant Michael Kötz betonte dazu in einer Presseerklärung: „Die Zeiten, in denen sich deutsche Filme sehr oft um das Ego drehten, um Selbstverwirklichung im weitesten Sinne, die sind ziemlich vorbei. Man hat offenbar entdeckt, dass niemand eine Insel ist und wie wichtig die gesellschaftliche Zusammenarbeit ist. Gesellschaft überhaupt, wenn das Leben des Einzelnen glücken soll. Man erinnert sich auch, wie wichtig die Familie ist und wie verhängnisvoll es war, in...
- 8/7/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
The recently created Saint-Petersburg-based Point Of View (Pov) Development Fund has backed three film projects a total of $86,000 (€65,000).
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
- 9/2/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Germany has a long and trivia-crazy history with the Oscars that didn’t just begin with Sandra Bullock speaking German in her Blind Side acceptance speech or Christoph Waltz, an Austrian-German talent winning two Tarantino-Flavored Oscars for multi-lingual performances. We’ll get to more trivia in a minute but first the German shortlist. We await their choice for Oscar’s Foreign Language Film submission with curiousity because they’re always a threat for the eventual shortlist. Germany has received 18 nominations and 3 wins over the years. They’re weighing the quality of nine different pictures before deciding. Which will they send our way?
The finalists are…
My Beautiful Country Michaela Kezele
This one skews international - a romance between a young Serbian widow and an Albanian soldier The German Friend Jeanine Meerapfel
A coproduction with Argentina Free Fall Stephan Lacant
A gay romantic drama about two cops The Girl With Nine...
The finalists are…
My Beautiful Country Michaela Kezele
This one skews international - a romance between a young Serbian widow and an Albanian soldier The German Friend Jeanine Meerapfel
A coproduction with Argentina Free Fall Stephan Lacant
A gay romantic drama about two cops The Girl With Nine...
- 8/20/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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