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Bénédicte Prot


1633 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 15/07/2019.

More cinema-goers in 2011 thanks to German films

2011 was a good year for German cinemas, with 3 million admissions more than last year overall, and 7 million more admissions for German films.  

05/03/2012 | Box Office | Germany

Interview: Christian Petzold • Director

“Collapsing regimes and how you can survive in them”

In Competition at the Berlinale for the third time, Christian Petzold won the Silver Bear for Best Director with Barbara. Read here extracts from the press conference.  

02/03/2012

A successful Berlinale for The Match Factory

Cologne-based international sales agency The Match Factory did very well at the Berlinale this year, with several of its films awarded, much to the happiness of its director, Michael Weber....  

21/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Market/Germany

Bel Ami: a great hommage to Maupassant’s boldness and modernity

It’s not by chance that Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami (in English also called The history of a scoundrel: a novel), first published in the magazine Gil Blas as a series of episodes, keeps...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Out of competition/UK

A Royal Affair: a delightful triangle of love and politics

With his fourth film as director, the Danish Nicolaj Arcel proves once again, with Berlinale’s second-to-last film in competition, A Royal Affair, that he and Rasmus Heisterberg are a brilliant...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition /Denmark

Mercy: happiness regained in hostile territory

As is often the case with the work of German director Matthias Glasner, Mercy is a film that one has to get into, just like its setting, the town of Hammerfest on the edge of the Arctic Sea, an...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Germany

Glück : le bonheur, tout simplement

Avec un titre pareil, Glück (c'est-à-dire "Bonheur"), on pouvait compter sur l'excellente réalisatrice allemande Doris Dörrie pour produire la quintessence de ce que l'anglais appelle un...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Special | Allemagne

Postcards from the Zoo: a little girl found

Indonesia has for the first time joined the hunt for a Golden Bear with a film full of majestuous animals. Postcards from the Zoo by Edwin, supported by the Torino Film Lab and co-produced by the...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/German/Indonesia/Hong-Kong

Our beloved Tabu

In the style of a colonial film from the 1960s shot in 16mm, the prologue of Tabu by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Our Beloved Month of August) tells of how a crocodile became inconsolable...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Portugal/Germany/Brasil/France

Home for the Weekend: the portrait of a modern family

Even when he treads on a new path, films by German director Hans-Christian Schmid are decidedly always impeccable. After Storm, a legal thriller that doubles as a psychological drama, the director...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Germany

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