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Im Rahmen des Länderfokus Österreich wird Bernhard Wengers Tragikomödie „Pfau – Bin ich echt?“ beim Glasgow Film Festival seine UK-Premiere feiern.

Bernhard Wengers „Pfau – Bin ich echt? feiert beim Glasgow Film Festival seine UK-Premiere (Credit: Wild Bunch)

Unter dem Titel „From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen” widmet das Glasgow Film Festival den Länderschwerpunkt seiner vom 26. Februar bis 9. März 2025 stattfindenden Ausgabe Österreich. Das gab das Festival jetzt bekannt.

Im Rahmen des Länderschwerpunkts Österreich wird Bernhard Wengers Tragikomödie „Pfau – Bin ich echt?“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) mit Albrecht Schuch in der Hauptrolle, nach ihrer Weltpremiere in der Mostra-Reihe Settimana Internazionale della Critica in Glasgow ihre UK-Premiere feiern.

Darüber hinaus werden auf dem Festival im Rahmen des Länderschwerpunkts Österreich Josef Haders „Andrea lässt sich scheiden“, Ulrike Koflers „Gina“, Christoph Schwarz Debütfilm „Sparschwein“, der im Januar auch auf dem Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis zu sehen sein wird, „Veni Vidi Vici“ von...

Bernhard Wenger’sPeacockwill screen as part of a special focus on Austria taking place at the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff), running from February 26 to March 9, 2025 in Scotland.

It will be the final edition for festival director Allison Gardner after 30 years with the organisation.

Peacock,which screened first at the Venice Film Festival, is Wenger’s debut feature. It starsAll Quiet On The Western Frontactor Albrecht Schuch as a man working at a friend-for-hire scheme who grows to realise he can pretend to be anyone but himself.

Gff’s ’From The Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen’ programme will also showcase...

Ulrike Kofler hat mit „Gina“ den Publikumspreis des Festivals Univerciné Nantes Allemand gewonnen. Weltpremiere feierte die zweite Regiearbeit der Österreicherin beim 41. Filmfest München. Die Jury zeichnete „Alle die Du bist“ von Michael Fetter Nathansky aus.

„Gina“ von Ulrike Kofler (Credit: Film Ag)

Mit ihrem ungeschminkten Sozialdrama „Gina“ wurde Ulrike Kofler beim Festival Univerciné Nantes Allemand (5.-11. November) mit dem Publikumspreis ausgezeichnet. Ebenso wie ihr Debüt als Regisseurin, „Was wir wollten“, entstand „Gina“ mit der Film Ag als Produktionsfirma. Weltpremiere feierte der Film beim 41. Filmfest München. In die österreichischen Kinos kommt er über Filmladen am 22. November. Kofler ist eine sehr renommierte Editorin und schneidet meist die Filme von Marie Kreutzer. Zuletzt hat sie mehr und mehr Gefallen am Regieführen und Drehbuchschreiben gefunden. Bei „Gina“ ist Picture Tree International Weltvertrieb.

Der Jurypreis des Univerciné Allemand Nantes ging an Michael Fetter Nathanskys „Alle die Du bist“ mit Aenne Schwarz, der seine Weltpremiere bei der 74. Berlinale feierte.

For the second year running, the Munich International Film Festival has secured six world premieres as part of its strategy to position the event as an attractive launchpad for international titles.

Luxembourg-born actress Desirée Nosbusch will be in Munich with her directorial debut Poison, starring Trine Dyrholm and Tim Roth.

The drama about an estranged couple who meet up nine years after their son’s death at the cemetery where he is buried is an adaptation of the Dutch dramatist Lot Vekemans’ much acclaimed 2009 play Gif (poison in Dutch). Poison is a co-production between Nosbusch’s Deal Productions, Dutch company...

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and is about to make award show history? Sponge! Bob! Square! Pants!

With his best friend Patrick Star by his side, the porous icon will host the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2024, marking the first time (ever!) that animated characters will host a full-length award show. SpongeBob and Patrick are voiced by Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke, respectively.

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It would be nearly impossible to underestimate the excitement triggered by Gina Lollobrigida during her many visits to the Venice Film Festival.

The legendary actress, who died Jan. 16 at 95, always created a stir. Journalist Oriana Fallaci, writing in L’Europeo magazine, described Lollobrigida’s arrival in 1956: “A roar rose up from the crowd. The metal barricades risked snapping like twigs, the 156 policemen trying to hold back all those bodies were on the verge of being overwhelmed by the crush. Gina alighted from a taxi. … The photographers rushed towards her. [Her] bodyguard enclosed her in a circle of arms. … All of this took place at 10 in the evening on … the day of the inauguration of the 17th Film Festival, also known as Lollo’s Festival, for the heroine of our time.”

In an interview with Eilidh Hargreaves of The Daily Telegraph, Lollobrigida recalled a similar scene in 1962: “Before we could...

Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has picked up “Woodland” (“Wald”), written and directed by Elisabeth Scharang, which has its world premiere in the Centrepiece section at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film’s trailer has also just been launched.

Picture Tree Intl. also handled world sales on Scharang’s sophomore feature film, “Jack,” which also played at Toronto.

“Woodland” is inspired by the novel “Wald” from bestselling author Doris Knecht, and the personal experience of Scharang, who witnessed the attack of a terrorist shooter in Vienna in 2020 in which four people were killed and 23 others were injured. The film marks Scharang’s second collaboration with Dop Jörg Widmer, who is a frequent collaborator with Terrence Malick.

Brigitte Hobmeier as Marian Malin in “Woodland”

In “Woodland,” Marian Malin (Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could wish for — a passion, a job and love — until she and her husband (Bogdan Dumitrache...

The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to late Italian icon Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January, with a pre-opening event featuring a double bill of freshly restored works in which she stars.

The Lido’s annual pre-opening event on Aug. 29 will feature a 27-minute short by Orson Welles titled “Portrait of Gina.” In 1968, Welles interviewed Lollobrigida in her villa on the Appian Way as the pilot for an ABC TV series — a U.S. version of “Around the World With Orson Welles”– that ABC rejected.

Welles’ portrait of the diva remained in the vaults until 1986, when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival one year after Orson Welles’ death. This piece has been defined by Welles as a “personal essay” on Lollobrigida. Interestingly, when Lollobrigida saw “Portrait of Gina” in Venice in 1986, she reportedly tried to have it banned. The short’s restoration was done by the Munich...

Picture Tree Intl. has picked up global sales rights to “Gina” (working title), by Ulrike Kofler, which follows her Netflix debut “What We Wanted.”

“Gina” tells the story of a 9-year-old girl longing for a home and family while having to take care of her younger siblings and mother, who is too overwhelmed to take care of herself, let alone her children.

The film, produced by Film Ag, is the second feature by Kofler, who is a long-time editor for Austrian director Marie Kreutzer. Kofler’s editing work includes “Corsage,” which won best film at the London Film Festival and three nominations for the European Film Awards in 2022, “The Ground Beneath My Feet”, and Josef Hader’s “Wild Mouse”.

Kolfer’s directorial debut “What We Wanted,” starring Elyas M’Barek and Lavinia Wilson, was sold by Pti exclusively to Netflix, and was Austria’s official entry for the Academy Awards in...

The Bitter Ash

A rather precious thing happened in Montreal in the mid 1970s. Canadian cinema had been dominated by the National Film Board since its formation in 1940, and the generally-perceived character of Canadian film was all educational documentary, and not a lot of fun. Directors such as Claude Jutra, Don Owen, and Gilles Groulx struck off on their own to make the first Canadian new wave fiction films (A tout prendre [1963], Nobody Waved Goodbye, and Le chat dans le sac [both 1964] respectively), on the back of independents like Sydney J. Furie’s groundbreaking A Dangerous Age (1959) and Larry Kent’s student feature The Bitter Ash (1963), but for all their youthful, semi-bohemian trappings, these were still quite po-faced affairs. Then came the “genial loser” films of the 70s, led by Owen’s Goin’ Down The Road (1970), and others such as The Rowdyman (Peter Carter, 1972) and Paperback Hero (Peter Pearson, 1973), for the...