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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Rage in the running for Golden Bear

British director Sally Potter’s Rage has been chosen to screen in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15, 2009). The film was co-funded by UK Film Council’s (UKFC)...  

17/12/2008 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition

Alle Anderen to vie for Golden Bear

The 11 films in official selection announced by the organisers of the Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15, 2009) include German title Alle Anderen by Maren Ade (The Forest for the...  

16/12/2008 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition

First ten titles unveiled

On Friday, the organisers of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15, 2009) announced the first ten titles selected in official competition (including four out of competition)....  

15/12/2008 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition

Bouchareb’s London River to screen in competition

A French initiative production is included in the initial list of six titles set to screen in competition at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15, 2009): Rachid Bouchareb’s...  

15/12/2008 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/France

Corsicato turns pop in Il seme della discordia

Seven years after the commercial failure of Chimera, Pappi Corsicato returns to the big screen with Il seme della discordia (“The Seed of Discord”), the last Italian title presented in competition...  

05/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland

Malek is a surveyor; he measures places and borders, calculates distances and symbolically marks out the geopolitical lines of territories. In Inland – whose original title, Gabbla, means...  

04/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Algeria-France

Kafkaesque atmosphere in Schroeter’s That Night

A first-time contender for the Golden Lion (although a regular at international festivals and former award-winner at the Berlinale with Palermo or Wolfsburg), Germany’s Werner Schroeter presents...  

02/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

Haile Gerima returns to the past to look to the future

African film has for some time been all but excluded from selections and above all from prize lists at most international festivals. Selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Haile...  

02/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Ethiopia-Germany-France

Bechis explores land of dispossessed in Birdwatchers

"We just want a chance to survive". Eliane Juca da Silva didn’t hold back the tears before journalists who had just applauded Marco Bechis’s film Birdwatchers. Eliane stars in the film and belongs...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/Italy

Venice’s got Milk

Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu’s Milk, the second part in a proposed trilogy, is the Turkish feature in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. The co-production between Turkey,...  

01/09/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition

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