Just in time for Succession‘s end, let’s look at method acting. The Criterion Channel are highlighting the controversial practice in a 27-film series centered on Brando, Newman, Nicholson, and many other’s embodiment of “an intensely personal, internalized, and naturalistic approach to performance.” That series makes mention of Marilyn Monroe, who gets her own, 11-title highlight––the iconic commingling with deeper cuts.
Pride Month offers “Masc,” a consideration of “trans men, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming heroes” onscreen; the Michael Koresky-curated Queersighted returning with a study of the gay best friend; and the 20-film “LGBTQ+ Favorites.” Louis Garrel’s delightful The Innocent (about which I talked to him here), the director’s cut of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation, and Stanley Kwan’s hugely underseen Lan Yu make streaming premieres, while Araki’s Totally F***ed Up and Mysterious Skin also get a run. Criterion Editions include Five Easy Pieces,...
Pride Month offers “Masc,” a consideration of “trans men, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming heroes” onscreen; the Michael Koresky-curated Queersighted returning with a study of the gay best friend; and the 20-film “LGBTQ+ Favorites.” Louis Garrel’s delightful The Innocent (about which I talked to him here), the director’s cut of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation, and Stanley Kwan’s hugely underseen Lan Yu make streaming premieres, while Araki’s Totally F***ed Up and Mysterious Skin also get a run. Criterion Editions include Five Easy Pieces,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Now in its 35th year, the Teddy Awards are among the Berlinale’s most affectionately regarded institutions. Presented annually to standout LGBTQ-themed titles across the festival’s entire lineup, they have a looser, hipper, more inclusive reputation than other Berlin prizes: fittingly, they’re annually presented not at an exclusive black-tie affair, but a publicly accessible ceremony followed by an almighty dance-’til-dawn party.
Yet the Teddys’ prestige survives their informality. Surveying their list of past winners, it’s notable how many defining queer works have been recognized along the way: from Pedro Almodóvar’s “Law of Desire” to Cheryl Dunye’s “The Watermelon Woman,” from Derek Jarman’s “The Last of England” to John Cameron Mitchell’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” from Sebastian Lelio’s eventual Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman” to last year’s vibrantly intersectional “No Hard Feelings.”
As for which new film is going to join their ranks this year,...
Yet the Teddys’ prestige survives their informality. Surveying their list of past winners, it’s notable how many defining queer works have been recognized along the way: from Pedro Almodóvar’s “Law of Desire” to Cheryl Dunye’s “The Watermelon Woman,” from Derek Jarman’s “The Last of England” to John Cameron Mitchell’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” from Sebastian Lelio’s eventual Oscar-winner “A Fantastic Woman” to last year’s vibrantly intersectional “No Hard Feelings.”
As for which new film is going to join their ranks this year,...
- 3/5/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based Salzgeber has picked up international rights to Gitta Gsell’s award-winning Swiss drama “Beyto,” about a young man who is forced into an arranged marriage after coming out to his Turkish family.
Produced by Bern’s Lomotion in co-production with Peter Zwierko’s Sulaco Film in Basel, “Beyto” premiered last year at the Zurich Film Festival and went on to win the audience award at Switzerland’s Solothurn Film Festival in January.
Burak Ates plays Beyto, a talented young swimmer with a bright future ahead of him who falls in love with his coach Mike (Dimitri Stapfer). Shocked and ashamed when they find out, his conservative family lures him to their home village in Turkey, where they have planned his wedding to his childhood friend Seher. Back in Switzerland, Beyto finds himself in a wrenching love triangle.
Salzgeber just added the film to its international slate after having previously...
Produced by Bern’s Lomotion in co-production with Peter Zwierko’s Sulaco Film in Basel, “Beyto” premiered last year at the Zurich Film Festival and went on to win the audience award at Switzerland’s Solothurn Film Festival in January.
Burak Ates plays Beyto, a talented young swimmer with a bright future ahead of him who falls in love with his coach Mike (Dimitri Stapfer). Shocked and ashamed when they find out, his conservative family lures him to their home village in Turkey, where they have planned his wedding to his childhood friend Seher. Back in Switzerland, Beyto finds himself in a wrenching love triangle.
Salzgeber just added the film to its international slate after having previously...
- 3/3/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
New features from ‘Thunder Road’ director Jim Cummings and Denis Cote among line-up.
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the features that will comprise its Encounters and Panorama strands, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
Panorama will include 19 titles, of which 16 are world premieres, while Encounters includes 12 features, all world premieres.
Like other strands that have been slimmed down for this year’s first virtual edition, Panorama is nearly half of the 36 titles that were selected last year. However, the Encounters competition, now in its second year, is just three titles fewer...
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the features that will comprise its Encounters and Panorama strands, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
Panorama will include 19 titles, of which 16 are world premieres, while Encounters includes 12 features, all world premieres.
Like other strands that have been slimmed down for this year’s first virtual edition, Panorama is nearly half of the 36 titles that were selected last year. However, the Encounters competition, now in its second year, is just three titles fewer...
- 2/10/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed 12 titles from 16 countries that will compete in the festival’s Encounters strand, including Denis Côté’s “Social Hygiene” from Canada, Alice Diop’s “We” from France, and Fern Silva’s “Rock Bottom Riser” from the U.S.
The selections also take in “As I Want” (Egypt/France/Norway/Palestine) by Samaher Alqadi; “Azor” (Switzerland/France/Argentina) by Andreas Fontana; “The Beta Test” (U.S./U.K.) by Jim Cummings, Pj McCabe; and “Bloodsuckers (Germany) by Julian Radlmaier.
Also competing will be “The Girl and the Spider” (Switzerland) by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher; “District Terminal” (Iran/Germany) by Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini; “Moon, 66 Questions” (Greece/France) by Jacqueline Lentzou; “The Scary of Sixty-First” (U.S.) by Dasha Nekrasova; and “Taste” (Vietnam/Singapore/France/Thailand/Germany/Taiwan) by Lê Bảo.
The Encounters strand supports new or innovative voices in cinema. A jury will choose winners for best film,...
The selections also take in “As I Want” (Egypt/France/Norway/Palestine) by Samaher Alqadi; “Azor” (Switzerland/France/Argentina) by Andreas Fontana; “The Beta Test” (U.S./U.K.) by Jim Cummings, Pj McCabe; and “Bloodsuckers (Germany) by Julian Radlmaier.
Also competing will be “The Girl and the Spider” (Switzerland) by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher; “District Terminal” (Iran/Germany) by Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini; “Moon, 66 Questions” (Greece/France) by Jacqueline Lentzou; “The Scary of Sixty-First” (U.S.) by Dasha Nekrasova; and “Taste” (Vietnam/Singapore/France/Thailand/Germany/Taiwan) by Lê Bảo.
The Encounters strand supports new or innovative voices in cinema. A jury will choose winners for best film,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Day 3 of this year’s Berlinale announcements contain the line-ups for Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Check back in tomorrow for the Competition program.
Encounters was first introduced at last year’s festival to support new voices in cinema. A three-member jury will award Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award during the industry event in March, with the prizes handed out physically at the summer event.
The selection consists of 12 titles from 16 countries, including seven debuts. Scroll down for the full list.
Over in Panorama, there are 19 titles including 14 world premieres. Several titles arrive from Sundance such as Prano Bailey-Bond’s UK feature Censor and Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino will again present new views on German cinema, with six titles, all of which are world premieres. The full lists are below.
This week so far has seen the Generation, Retrospective, Forum, Forum Expanded and Shorts programs announced.
Encounters was first introduced at last year’s festival to support new voices in cinema. A three-member jury will award Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award during the industry event in March, with the prizes handed out physically at the summer event.
The selection consists of 12 titles from 16 countries, including seven debuts. Scroll down for the full list.
Over in Panorama, there are 19 titles including 14 world premieres. Several titles arrive from Sundance such as Prano Bailey-Bond’s UK feature Censor and Ronny Trocker’s Human Factors.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino will again present new views on German cinema, with six titles, all of which are world premieres. The full lists are below.
This week so far has seen the Generation, Retrospective, Forum, Forum Expanded and Shorts programs announced.
- 2/10/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Ghost Town AnthologyThe titles for the 69th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 7-17, 2019. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONThe Ground Beneath My FeetThe Golden Glove (Faith Akin, Germany/France)By the Grace of GodThe Kindness of StrangersI Was at Home, but A Tale of Three SistersGhost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)Berlinale SPECIALGully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India)BrechtWatergate (Charles Ferguson, USA)Panorama 201937 Seconds (Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki), Japan)Dafne (Federico Bondi, Italy)The Day After I'm Gone (Nimrod Eldar, Israel)A Dog Called Money (Seamus Murphy, Ireland/UK)Waiting for the CarnivalChainedFlatland (Jenna Bass, South Africa/Germany/Luxembourg)Greta (Armando Praça, Brazil)Hellhole (Bas Devos, Belgium/Netherlands)Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)AcidMid90s (Jonah Hill, USA) Family MembersMonos (Alejandro Landes, Columbia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay) O Beautiful Night (Xaver Böhm,...
- 1/2/2019
- MUBI
German lesbian filmmaker Monika Treut will receive this year's Teddy Award for lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Teddy, the world's oldest award honoring queer cinema, turns 31 this year.
The 62-year-old Treut, whose movies include the dramas Virgin Machine (1988) and My Father Is Coming (1991), as well as documentaries such as Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities (1999) and Tigerwomen Grow Wings (2005), is considered a pioneer in queer filmmaking.
Treut's Virgin Machine premiered in Berlin's Panorama section, and Gendernauts won the Teddy in 1999 for best documentary.
Treut will be honored at a gala ceremony in...
The Teddy, the world's oldest award honoring queer cinema, turns 31 this year.
The 62-year-old Treut, whose movies include the dramas Virgin Machine (1988) and My Father Is Coming (1991), as well as documentaries such as Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities (1999) and Tigerwomen Grow Wings (2005), is considered a pioneer in queer filmmaking.
Treut's Virgin Machine premiered in Berlin's Panorama section, and Gendernauts won the Teddy in 1999 for best documentary.
Treut will be honored at a gala ceremony in...
- 1/17/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The lineup for the Berlinale's Panorama section is now complete. Today's additions include new work by Sérgio Andrade and Fábio Baldo, Aslı Özge, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, E J-yong, Rachid Bouchareb, Anna Muylaert, Alex Anwandter, Jordan Schiele, Ali Abbasi, Oliver Schmitz, Patric Chiha, Marcos Prado, Jan Gassmann, Sophia Luvarà, Sara Jordenö, Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan, Rob Cannan and Ross Adam, Lee Dong-ha, Fan Jian, Monika Treut—and Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann and Alexander Bodin Saphir. The festival's 66th edition runs from February 11 through 21. » - David Hudson...
- 1/21/2016
- Keyframe
The lineup for the Berlinale's Panorama section is now complete. Today's additions include new work by Sérgio Andrade and Fábio Baldo, Aslı Özge, Alejandro Fernández Almendras, E J-yong, Rachid Bouchareb, Anna Muylaert, Alex Anwandter, Jordan Schiele, Ali Abbasi, Oliver Schmitz, Patric Chiha, Marcos Prado, Jan Gassmann, Sophia Luvarà, Sara Jordenö, Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan, Rob Cannan and Ross Adam, Lee Dong-ha, Fan Jian, Monika Treut—and Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann and Alexander Bodin Saphir. The festival's 66th edition runs from February 11 through 21. » - David Hudson...
- 1/21/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Films include Shepherds and Butchers with Steve Coogan; Don’t Call Me Son from Anna Muylaert; and a documentary about a director and actress who were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il.
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer who faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself, in a case...
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer who faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself, in a case...
- 1/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Films include Shepherds and Butchers, starring Steve Coogan; Don’t Call Me Son from Anna Muylaert; and a documentary about a director and actress who were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il and forced to make films.
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself...
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself...
- 1/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other titles include Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan, starring Greta Gerwig, and David Farr’s The Ones Below, starring David Morrissey.Scroll down for full lists
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced the first titles in Panorama – its strand that comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles.
The initial features include three from the UK, with John Michael McDonagh returning to Berlin for the world premiere of War On Everyone.
The film, a satire centred on two corrupt cops in New Mexico, stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James and Tessa Thompson.
McDonagh was previously in Panorama in 2011 with The Guard and 2013 with Calvary.
Also from the UK is David Farr’s The Ones Below, which revolves around a couple expecting their first child who discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below. Receiving its European...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced the first titles in Panorama – its strand that comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles.
The initial features include three from the UK, with John Michael McDonagh returning to Berlin for the world premiere of War On Everyone.
The film, a satire centred on two corrupt cops in New Mexico, stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James and Tessa Thompson.
McDonagh was previously in Panorama in 2011 with The Guard and 2013 with Calvary.
Also from the UK is David Farr’s The Ones Below, which revolves around a couple expecting their first child who discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below. Receiving its European...
- 12/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A lovely film with a compassionate appreciation for how teen girls can often find a sort of comfort in clinging to their woundedness and pain. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
German filmmaker Monika Treut is renowned as the creator of groundbreaking narrative and documentary films with lesbian and feminist themes, but if there’s anything in the least bit radical about Of Girls and Horses, it’s not what you imagine it to be. This is the gentle tale of Alex (German TV star Ceci Chuh), a troubled, lonely 16-year-old who’s been “consoling” herself with drugs and cutting who is sent on an internship to a horse farm in the quiet countryside, and the charm and delight of her interior journey for us is all about watching her slowly transform from a sullen mope to a vibrant,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
German filmmaker Monika Treut is renowned as the creator of groundbreaking narrative and documentary films with lesbian and feminist themes, but if there’s anything in the least bit radical about Of Girls and Horses, it’s not what you imagine it to be. This is the gentle tale of Alex (German TV star Ceci Chuh), a troubled, lonely 16-year-old who’s been “consoling” herself with drugs and cutting who is sent on an internship to a horse farm in the quiet countryside, and the charm and delight of her interior journey for us is all about watching her slowly transform from a sullen mope to a vibrant,...
- 7/31/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A legend in lesbian cinema, Monika Treut has been making films for 30 years, starting with her 1985 narrative feature Seduction: The Cruel Woman (featuring Udo Kier – not bad for a debut film), and right through to this year’s Of Girls and Horses, a poetic coming-of-age tale that also serves as a celebration of nature’s transformational power. Along the way Treut has also explored the nonfiction realm, turning her lens on everything from gender identity (1999’s Gendernauts) to Taiwanese food (2012’s The Raw and the Cooked). Filmmaker was fortunate enough to catch up with the Hyena Films co-founder (along […]...
- 6/30/2015
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A legend in lesbian cinema, Monika Treut has been making films for 30 years, starting with her 1985 narrative feature Seduction: The Cruel Woman (featuring Udo Kier – not bad for a debut film), and right through to this year’s Of Girls and Horses, a poetic coming-of-age tale that also serves as a celebration of nature’s transformational power. Along the way Treut has also explored the nonfiction realm, turning her lens on everything from gender identity (1999’s Gendernauts) to Taiwanese food (2012’s The Raw and the Cooked). Filmmaker was fortunate enough to catch up with the Hyena Films co-founder (along […]...
- 6/30/2015
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Norway’s submission to the Oscars to open 56th edition; Jihlava docfest winners revealed.
Bent Hamer’s latest feature film 1001 Grams will be the opening film tonight for Lübeck’s Nordic Film Days (Oct 29 – Nov 2), which has a programme of 172 films screening from the North and North-East of Europe.
Norway’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar was co-produced by Cologne-based Pandora Film Produktion and will be released theatrically in Germany by Pandora’s distribution arm, Pandora Film Verleih, on December 18.
Ahead of 1001 Grams’ German premiere in Lübeck, co-producer Claudia Steffen and her partners at Pandora issued a statement expressing their concern „that one of our most important allies, the Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw, has faced significant cut-backs from its two main shareholders.“
Earlier this month, public broadcaster Wdr had revealed its intention to reduce its voluntary annual contribution to Germany’s leading regional film fund by $ 3.82m (€ 3m), and the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia...
Bent Hamer’s latest feature film 1001 Grams will be the opening film tonight for Lübeck’s Nordic Film Days (Oct 29 – Nov 2), which has a programme of 172 films screening from the North and North-East of Europe.
Norway’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar was co-produced by Cologne-based Pandora Film Produktion and will be released theatrically in Germany by Pandora’s distribution arm, Pandora Film Verleih, on December 18.
Ahead of 1001 Grams’ German premiere in Lübeck, co-producer Claudia Steffen and her partners at Pandora issued a statement expressing their concern „that one of our most important allies, the Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw, has faced significant cut-backs from its two main shareholders.“
Earlier this month, public broadcaster Wdr had revealed its intention to reduce its voluntary annual contribution to Germany’s leading regional film fund by $ 3.82m (€ 3m), and the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia...
- 10/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 2014 Viennale gets underway on October 23rd and runs to November 6th. The festival has published a preview of their lineup:
Features
Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Two Day, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Li'l Quinguin (Bruno Demont)
Hard to Be a God (Aeksej German)
Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
Mambo Cool (Chris Gude)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)
The Last Summer of the Rich (Peter Kern)
Time Lapse (Bradley King)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Sorrow and Joy (Nils Malmros)
Suddarth (Richie Mehta)
Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
I'm Not Him (Tayfun Pirselimoglu)
Favula (Raúl Perrone)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
A Proletarian Winter's Tale (Julian Radlmaier)
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
Mauro (Hernán Rosselli)
The Sad Smell of Flesh (Cristóbal Arteaga Rozas)
Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?...
Features
Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Two Day, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Li'l Quinguin (Bruno Demont)
Hard to Be a God (Aeksej German)
Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
Mambo Cool (Chris Gude)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)
The Last Summer of the Rich (Peter Kern)
Time Lapse (Bradley King)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Sorrow and Joy (Nils Malmros)
Suddarth (Richie Mehta)
Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
I'm Not Him (Tayfun Pirselimoglu)
Favula (Raúl Perrone)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
A Proletarian Winter's Tale (Julian Radlmaier)
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
Mauro (Hernán Rosselli)
The Sad Smell of Flesh (Cristóbal Arteaga Rozas)
Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?...
- 8/22/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Vienna film festival to include a tribute to Viggo Mortensen and a retrospective on John Ford.Scroll down for list of higlights
Highlights of the 52nd Vienna International Film Festival (Oct 23-Nov 6) have been unveiled, including buzz titles from Cannes and Sundance as well as a tribute to actor Viggo Mortensen and a retrospective on director John Ford.
The feature film programme includes Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria and the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night. Other titles include Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Ruben Ostlund’s Turist and Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank.
In the documentary line-up, highlights include Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days On Earth, from directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard; Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery; and Tessa Louise Salome’s Mr Leos Carax.
The Viennale will pay tribute to American-Danish actor Viggo Mortensen, whose films range from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to David Cronenberg features...
Highlights of the 52nd Vienna International Film Festival (Oct 23-Nov 6) have been unveiled, including buzz titles from Cannes and Sundance as well as a tribute to actor Viggo Mortensen and a retrospective on director John Ford.
The feature film programme includes Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria and the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night. Other titles include Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Ruben Ostlund’s Turist and Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank.
In the documentary line-up, highlights include Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days On Earth, from directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard; Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery; and Tessa Louise Salome’s Mr Leos Carax.
The Viennale will pay tribute to American-Danish actor Viggo Mortensen, whose films range from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to David Cronenberg features...
- 8/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentary filmmakers take note: Sundance Institute invites you to its inaugural day-long ShortsLab in Los Angeles. The program is slated for September 13 at La's independent rep house Cinefamily, and will focus on short-form documentary films. This intensive seminar will host screenings, discussions and insight into the world of short-form documentary storytelling, production and exhibition. Attendees include acclaimed filmmakers Rodney Ascher ("Room 237"), Kirby Dick ("The Invisible War"), Lauren Greenfield ("The Queen of Versailles"), Aj Schnack ("Kurt Cobain: About a Son") and Oscar nominee Lucy Walker ("The Crash Reel"). Sundance's Documentary Film Program director Tabitha Jackson will be there, as will programmers from the Sundance Film Festival. Among the Sundance Institute alumni documentarians who work in the short form are Lauren Greenfield, Albert Maysles, Ondi Timoner, Monika Treut, Ava DuVernay, Errol Morris, Werner...
- 8/14/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Festival will also see director Rowan Joffe and novelist Sj Watson present Before I Go To Sleep, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong.
The 34th edition of the Cambridge Film Festival (Aug 28 - Sept 7) is to open with The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq, Guillaume Nicloux’s comedy-drama based in part on true events.
It recounts the disapperance of reclusive French novelist Michel Houellebecq during a book tour in 2011. The rumours of his whereabouts led to endless speculation, including a kidnapping. The film, which stars the novelist as himself, will be presented at the festival by Nicloux.
Special guests at this year’s festival include writer-director Rowan Joffe and novelist Sj Watson who will present Before I Go To Sleep, an amnesiac thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong.
Skip Kite will present his timely tribute to late politican Tony Benn: Will and Testament, while Andrew Sinclair, director of 1972’s...
The 34th edition of the Cambridge Film Festival (Aug 28 - Sept 7) is to open with The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq, Guillaume Nicloux’s comedy-drama based in part on true events.
It recounts the disapperance of reclusive French novelist Michel Houellebecq during a book tour in 2011. The rumours of his whereabouts led to endless speculation, including a kidnapping. The film, which stars the novelist as himself, will be presented at the festival by Nicloux.
Special guests at this year’s festival include writer-director Rowan Joffe and novelist Sj Watson who will present Before I Go To Sleep, an amnesiac thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong.
Skip Kite will present his timely tribute to late politican Tony Benn: Will and Testament, while Andrew Sinclair, director of 1972’s...
- 8/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Wolfe Releasing has acquired Us digital and DVD rights to Mark Herzog and Sandrine Orabona’s Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, Monika Treut’s Of Girls And Horses and David Au’s Eat With Me.
Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story premiered at SXSW this year and is a documentary about a transgender former Navy Seal.
Of Girls And Horses is a coming-of-age love story involving a misfit school drop-out and a privileged upper-class girl in Germany.
Comedy-drama Eat With Me tells of a mother and her gay son who connect as the son’s Chinese restaurant faces foreclosure.
Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story premiered at SXSW this year and is a documentary about a transgender former Navy Seal.
Of Girls And Horses is a coming-of-age love story involving a misfit school drop-out and a privileged upper-class girl in Germany.
Comedy-drama Eat With Me tells of a mother and her gay son who connect as the son’s Chinese restaurant faces foreclosure.
- 7/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Title: The Raw And The Cooked: A Culinary Journey Through Taiwan First Run Features Director: Monika Treut Screenwriter: Monika Treut Cast: Monika Treut, Robin Winkler, Wang Fu-yu, Ladibisse, Sumi, Miao Ming, Liu Heng-hong Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 11/14/12 Opens: November 13, 2012 on DVD On his website http://hillmanwonders.com/top_10_world_cuisines/top_10_world_cuisines.htm, noted food critic Howard Hillman knocks out what he considers the world’s best cuisines. In doing so, he mimics the choices of many others of his specialty, naming, in order: Chinese, French, Italian, Moroccan, Japanese, Spanish. He surely does not mean the chop suey and chow mein that constituted Chinese food in the 1950s. Does he mean that Kee’s of Roslyn [ Read More ]
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- 11/15/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Back in December, we got our first look at Forum Expanded, a program of exhibitions, performances and other works that don't necessarily entail lowering the lights and peering straight ahead at the big white screen. So we already know that we'll be seeing new work by Luke Fowler, Harun Farocki and many others. The first of today's announcements from the Berlinale (February 9 through 19) fills in the details.
The addition, for example, of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (image above) by Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation, "a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city," solidifies the impression that Forum Expanded is a rough equivalent of Toronto's Future Projections program and Sundance's New Frontier since, by the time it rolls into Berlin, it'll already have been presented by both.
Other notable additions since December's announcement: Luc Moullet's "uncompleted project about two thieves (mother and daughter...
The addition, for example, of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (image above) by Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation, "a film edited live in real time which shows a man under surveillance in a fictional East European city," solidifies the impression that Forum Expanded is a rough equivalent of Toronto's Future Projections program and Sundance's New Frontier since, by the time it rolls into Berlin, it'll already have been presented by both.
Other notable additions since December's announcement: Luc Moullet's "uncompleted project about two thieves (mother and daughter...
- 1/23/2012
- MUBI
The 4th Samsung Women’s International Film Festival will be held in Chennai from July 15-23, 2011. The festival will focus on a strong Korean and Indian slate of feature films, short films and documentaries.
135 films from 51 countries will be screened over 9 days of the festival, at The Russian Centre of Science & Culture, 74 Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600018.
The World Cinema section of the festival will showcase films from countries like Algeria, China, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuadar, Ghana, Holland, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and South Africa.
As per a press release, efforts will be made to initiate and deepen discussions with film practitioners and viewers to enhance understanding of the debatable question of what constitutes “a woman’s film”.
The festival is being organized by Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd and InKo Centre, Chennai in association with the Women’s International Film Festival, Seoul, The National Film Development Corporation,...
135 films from 51 countries will be screened over 9 days of the festival, at The Russian Centre of Science & Culture, 74 Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600018.
The World Cinema section of the festival will showcase films from countries like Algeria, China, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuadar, Ghana, Holland, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and South Africa.
As per a press release, efforts will be made to initiate and deepen discussions with film practitioners and viewers to enhance understanding of the debatable question of what constitutes “a woman’s film”.
The festival is being organized by Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd and InKo Centre, Chennai in association with the Women’s International Film Festival, Seoul, The National Film Development Corporation,...
- 7/13/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Américo Ortiz de Zárate’s Otra historia de amor / Another Love Story (1986), Monika Treut’s My Father Is Coming (1982), and Evgeny Afineevsky’s Oy Vey! My Son is Gay! (2009) are a few of the screenings to be held at the 25th Torino Glbt Film Festival on its closing night, Thursday, April 22. Ortiz de Zárate’s directorial debut, Another Love Story follows a young man who falls in love with his boss, a married businessman with two children in mid-1980s Buenos Aires. Another Love Story turned out to be Ortiz de Zárate last film as well; the filmmaker died of AIDS in 1989. Set in New York’s East Village, My Father Is Coming is described by the festival’s press release as [...]...
- 4/22/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Monika Treut's Ghosted is an abject lesson in how good intentions can overwhelm a film, whatever the director's talent. Her latest production in a twenty-year career in which she's already repeatedly explored lesbian and transgender themes, Ghosted is fundamentally a very simple love story - girl finds girl, loses girl, needs to learn to move on. But for all the obvious empathy and understanding Treut lavishes on the material she wanders much too far off track with her insistence on pushing the kind of heavily weighted dialogue and symbolism that suggest this is supposed to be a narrative for the ages.
Hopping repeatedly from Taipei to Hamburg, Ghosted first introduces us to Ai-Ling (Ke-Huan Ru), newly arrived in Germany to stay with her uncle (ubiquitous character actor Jack Kao) while she investigates some sensitive family history.
Skipping forward in time, we meet artist Sophie Schmitt (TV actress Inga Busch...
Hopping repeatedly from Taipei to Hamburg, Ghosted first introduces us to Ai-Ling (Ke-Huan Ru), newly arrived in Germany to stay with her uncle (ubiquitous character actor Jack Kao) while she investigates some sensitive family history.
Skipping forward in time, we meet artist Sophie Schmitt (TV actress Inga Busch...
- 3/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
"Lars von Trier doesn't like to fly." "Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood. I have it on good authority that he refused to eat his sandwiches until the crusts were cut off, and he slept with a night light until he was fifteen. Seriously, though, I came out of Antichrist -- von Trier's latest film which has been freaking out audiences from Cannes forward -- aching to delve further into it. And with the director (did you know he got atomic wedgies every day after gym?) unavailable, I decided to carry on the conversation with a couple of people who could provide some intriguing perspectives on the film: Monika Treut, director of Seduction:...
- 10/28/2009
- by Dan Persons
- Huffington Post
The 22ndd edition of the Image Nation film festival (Montreal's only Glbt film fest) will pay tribute to the horror genre with a festival focus that runs the gamut from the deadpan southern gothic thriller Drool [1] to the twisted Dream Boy [2] and the silly and ultimately good old fashioned blood n gore zombie flick, Zombies of Mass Destruction. [3] The festival is no stranger to showing gay and lesbian themed horror films, having screened the likes of Dead Boy Don't Scream, Otto; or, Up with Dead People, and the first ever homo horror film Hellebent. In addition to the line up is Kevin Hamedani, Ghosted, [4] Dan Faltz's Weak Species [5] and Cowboy. Image+Nation marks its anticipated return to the fall film from October 22nd to November 1st. Check out some of the trailers below. Zombies of Mass Destruction Directed by Kevin Hamedani Ghosted Directed by Monika Treut Weak Species Directed by Dan Faltz [1] http://www.
- 10/21/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Warning: minor spoilers
Out German director Monika Treut (Female Misbehaviour, Gendernauts) set out to make a film about lesbians whose sexuality is a non-issue. Consequently, the focus in Ghosted isn't on the relationships between the central characters, but the unfolding mystery about one of their deaths.
Ghosted starts by focusing on Ai-Ling (Huan-Ru Ke), a Taiwanese woman interested in finding out more about her dead father. The only one who could tell her anything would be his brother, Ai-Ling's uncle, who lives in Hamburg, Germany, where he owns a restaurant.
Ai-Ling's mother is not happy about her going to dig up family history, but gives her daughter permission to go.
Ai-Ling (Huan-Ru Ke)
Once in Germany, Ai-Ling meets Sophie (Inga Busch), an artist she falls for after sitting next to her at a movie.
They soon move in together (in true lesbian fashion) and Ai-Ling is able to concentrate on...
Out German director Monika Treut (Female Misbehaviour, Gendernauts) set out to make a film about lesbians whose sexuality is a non-issue. Consequently, the focus in Ghosted isn't on the relationships between the central characters, but the unfolding mystery about one of their deaths.
Ghosted starts by focusing on Ai-Ling (Huan-Ru Ke), a Taiwanese woman interested in finding out more about her dead father. The only one who could tell her anything would be his brother, Ai-Ling's uncle, who lives in Hamburg, Germany, where he owns a restaurant.
Ai-Ling's mother is not happy about her going to dig up family history, but gives her daughter permission to go.
Ai-Ling (Huan-Ru Ke)
Once in Germany, Ai-Ling meets Sophie (Inga Busch), an artist she falls for after sitting next to her at a movie.
They soon move in together (in true lesbian fashion) and Ai-Ling is able to concentrate on...
- 8/27/2009
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
The new movie Ghosted is about a lesbian love triangle. Are you intrigued? I was, and I had to know more. The New York Times gave it a so-so review, saying the film "generates an aura of thoughtful storytelling without actually possessing any notable thoughts," but also notes it "offers a refreshingly matter-of-fact view of lesbian relationships — although ones marked by schematic tragedy and intimations of the supernatural — and depicts its cross-cultural milieu with maturity and tact."
Supernatural lesbians? Sounds like my kind of movie.
Ghosted, which opened for limited release over the weekend, follows German artist Sophie Schmitt (Inga Busch), whose girlfriend Ai-Ling (Han-Ru Ke) recently died. Sophie becomes involved with a journalist, Mei Li (Ting Ting Hu), who wants to know all about her work, and they begin a relationship. However, Sophie finds out that Mei-li is a little too interested in her deceased girlfriend, and that she...
Supernatural lesbians? Sounds like my kind of movie.
Ghosted, which opened for limited release over the weekend, follows German artist Sophie Schmitt (Inga Busch), whose girlfriend Ai-Ling (Han-Ru Ke) recently died. Sophie becomes involved with a journalist, Mei Li (Ting Ting Hu), who wants to know all about her work, and they begin a relationship. However, Sophie finds out that Mei-li is a little too interested in her deceased girlfriend, and that she...
- 8/4/2009
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
Postcard views of Hamburg and Taipei are the main asset of "Ghosted," the return of pioneering lesbian auteur Monika Treut to narrative films after a long stretch devoted to documentaries and teaching in the United States.
Inga Busch plays a German artist who is touring China with a video installation devoted to her late Taiwanese lover (Huan-Ru Ke).
Our heroine rejects the overtures of a sexy Chinese journalist (Ting-Ting Hu) but succumbs when the latter turns up in Hamburg.
Inga Busch plays a German artist who is touring China with a video installation devoted to her late Taiwanese lover (Huan-Ru Ke).
Our heroine rejects the overtures of a sexy Chinese journalist (Ting-Ting Hu) but succumbs when the latter turns up in Hamburg.
- 7/31/2009
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
It's turning out to be a pretty good year for unexpected international co-productions -- check out the Mmp ep on the superb Israeli/Australian stop-motion animated film $9.99 if you don't believe me. Now Germany and Taiwan have joined forces, not for the exquisitely designed yet affordable home entertainment system you might expect, but for German director Monika Treut's mystery/fantasy/romantic hybrid, Ghosted. Over the years, Treut has built a reputation for work that dared to venture into the more esoteric realms of human sexuality. Her Seduction: The Cruel Woman was based on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, while Gendernauts was a documentary that focused on people who challenged conventional notions of sexual identity. But with Ghosted, she backs away from the cutting edge for a more conventional love story -- albeit one from a lesbian perspective -- about a German artist...
- 7/29/2009
- by Dan Persons
- Huffington Post
This week plays host to a release slate so big that when it's finished doing the rounds in theaters we expect it to climb out of the sea and attack Japan.
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"Act of God"
Following "Manufactured Landscapes," her compelling 2006 portrait of photographer Edward Burtynsky and the paradoxical beauty of his images of industry, Canadian documentary filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal turns her attention to one of nature's most dynamic phenomenon. Collecting a multitude of testimony from lightning strike survivors and witnesses, Baichwal explores a host of ideas and explanations for this awe-inspiring experience, from the miraculously divine to the maddeningly random.
Opens in Chicago.
"Adam"
With an actual medical condition taking the place of the now-nearly-obligatory dose of quirk, writer/director Max Mayer's gentle story of boy meets girl -- his first film since 1998's...
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"Act of God"
Following "Manufactured Landscapes," her compelling 2006 portrait of photographer Edward Burtynsky and the paradoxical beauty of his images of industry, Canadian documentary filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal turns her attention to one of nature's most dynamic phenomenon. Collecting a multitude of testimony from lightning strike survivors and witnesses, Baichwal explores a host of ideas and explanations for this awe-inspiring experience, from the miraculously divine to the maddeningly random.
Opens in Chicago.
"Adam"
With an actual medical condition taking the place of the now-nearly-obligatory dose of quirk, writer/director Max Mayer's gentle story of boy meets girl -- his first film since 1998's...
- 7/28/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Ghosted (Directed by Monica Treut and written by Astrid Stroner), It Came From Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, and El Niño Pez (The Fish Child) are stand-out genre films by women playing at the 2009 Outfest Film Festival.
These award-winning women directors deal with subjects like murder, revenge, twisted love, unsolved murders, and the absolutely awesome B-movie industry in their films...
Writer-director Lucía Puenzo won awards - including two prizes at Cannes - and critical acclaim all over the world for Xxy, and now the Argentine filmmaker returns with a lesbian romance that’s also a Chabrol-esque mystery thriller and a scathing examination of class differences in the South American nation. Lala (Inés Efron, whose performance has inspired comparisons to the early film roles of both Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny), the privileged daughter of a powerful judge, wants to run off with her Paraguayan lover La Guayi (Mariela Vitale), a maid...
These award-winning women directors deal with subjects like murder, revenge, twisted love, unsolved murders, and the absolutely awesome B-movie industry in their films...
Writer-director Lucía Puenzo won awards - including two prizes at Cannes - and critical acclaim all over the world for Xxy, and now the Argentine filmmaker returns with a lesbian romance that’s also a Chabrol-esque mystery thriller and a scathing examination of class differences in the South American nation. Lala (Inés Efron, whose performance has inspired comparisons to the early film roles of both Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny), the privileged daughter of a powerful judge, wants to run off with her Paraguayan lover La Guayi (Mariela Vitale), a maid...
- 6/3/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Photos: V. Francesco (Ducastel/Martineau), Luca Gallizio (Pansittivorakul, Keegan, Treut) Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (with festival programmers Cosimo Santoro and Luca Castelletti) were at the 2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival to present their feature film Nés en 68 /Born in 68, which spans twenty years in the lives of three students. Thusnka Pansittivorakul (above, with festival programmer Santoro) presented the documentary This Area Is Under Quarantine, about two young Thai men — one Buddhist, one Muslim — who discuss political, personal, and sexual issues. Tom Keegan introduced his documentary Out in India: A Family’s Journey, in which a gay couple from Los Angeles sets out to India to raise AIDS awareness. German filmmaker Monika Treut was given a special award at the 2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival, which also screened her latest effort, Ghosted, a cross-cultural tale (Germany-Taiwan) mixing romance, murder, and the supernatural.
- 4/26/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Berlin -- Richard Loncraine's "My One and Only," a '50s-era comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Kevin Bacon, was squeezed into the competition lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival, barely a week before the event kicks off.
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
- 1/27/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Panorama section will comprise a total of 50 titles with about a third of those being documentaries and here's the first 21 of the list. Oddly enough Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin' will be playing although it's having it's premier at Sundance. Another film we reported on, Uli Lommel's Absolute Evil starring David Carradine will also be playing, and I'm still wondering how the hell they got that in there.
You can check out the list of all 21 titles after the break.
Absolute Evil by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere)
With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa
Ander by Roberto Castón, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodríguez, Leire Ucha
At Stake by Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad Ichsan, Lucky Kuswandi, Ucu Agustin, Ani Ema Susanti, Indonesia
Panorama Dokumente
Coyote by Chema Rodríguez, Spain (world premiere)
Panorama Dokumente
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) by Wolfgang Murnberger,...
You can check out the list of all 21 titles after the break.
Absolute Evil by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere)
With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa
Ander by Roberto Castón, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodríguez, Leire Ucha
At Stake by Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad Ichsan, Lucky Kuswandi, Ucu Agustin, Ani Ema Susanti, Indonesia
Panorama Dokumente
Coyote by Chema Rodríguez, Spain (world premiere)
Panorama Dokumente
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) by Wolfgang Murnberger,...
- 1/7/2009
- QuietEarth.us
New Yorker Films
NEW YORK -- Director Monika Treut approaches a subject far less controversial than her usual sexually themed projects with this documentary about Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, a Brazilian socialite who has achieved fame for her efforts to improve the lives of the street children of Rio de Janeiro.
Straightforward and very moving, "Warrior of Light" already has been widely seen and acclaimed on the festival circuit, and is now playing in an exclusive theatrical engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinema.
De Mello's life story would not serve as the usual primer for a career in social activism. Educated at the Sorbonne, she married a Swedish diplomat, with whom she had three kids before getting a divorce and returning to Rio, where she married a wealthy hotelier. While making a name for herself as a sculptor, writer and equestrian, she also began reaching out to Brazil's huge contingent of homeless street children. She became truly galvanized after the notorious 1993 Candelaria massacre of street children by Rio's military police, founding the organization Projeto Uere (Children of Light) to provide them with education, medical assistance, protection, shelter, etc.
Treut details her personal biography and social crusade in clear fashion, providing both de Mello and the beneficiaries of her dedication with ample opportunity to provide personal testimonies. De Mello is a charismatic and articulate figure, and her passionate descriptions of her work and ideals are both compelling and inspiring. Even more moving are the personal stories of the children she has helped, many of them suffering from AIDS.
The film does sag in certain sections, and it sometimes has the feel of an elongated "60 Minutes" segment. But overall it provides a touching portrait of a woman whose dedication and courage in the face of fierce opposition are highly inspirational.
NEW YORK -- Director Monika Treut approaches a subject far less controversial than her usual sexually themed projects with this documentary about Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, a Brazilian socialite who has achieved fame for her efforts to improve the lives of the street children of Rio de Janeiro.
Straightforward and very moving, "Warrior of Light" already has been widely seen and acclaimed on the festival circuit, and is now playing in an exclusive theatrical engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinema.
De Mello's life story would not serve as the usual primer for a career in social activism. Educated at the Sorbonne, she married a Swedish diplomat, with whom she had three kids before getting a divorce and returning to Rio, where she married a wealthy hotelier. While making a name for herself as a sculptor, writer and equestrian, she also began reaching out to Brazil's huge contingent of homeless street children. She became truly galvanized after the notorious 1993 Candelaria massacre of street children by Rio's military police, founding the organization Projeto Uere (Children of Light) to provide them with education, medical assistance, protection, shelter, etc.
Treut details her personal biography and social crusade in clear fashion, providing both de Mello and the beneficiaries of her dedication with ample opportunity to provide personal testimonies. De Mello is a charismatic and articulate figure, and her passionate descriptions of her work and ideals are both compelling and inspiring. Even more moving are the personal stories of the children she has helped, many of them suffering from AIDS.
The film does sag in certain sections, and it sometimes has the feel of an elongated "60 Minutes" segment. But overall it provides a touching portrait of a woman whose dedication and courage in the face of fierce opposition are highly inspirational.
- 10/1/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmaker Monika Treut has spent much of her career examining various aspects of sexuality in both fiction and documentary features, and her latest, an examination of people who alter their sexual personas through artificial means, is no departure.
A chatty portrait of different types of transsexuals -- or, as the film dubs them, "cyborgs" -- living and working in the San Francisco area, "Gendernauts" is less illuminating than it is illustrative, but it does offer some interesting perspectives for the uninitiated. And how many times does one get to witness a close-up of a hyena's clitoris? The film won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
The loosely structured feature is hosted by one Sandy Stone, a college professor at the University of Texas who has dubbed herself the "goddess of cyberspace." She introduces a gallery of colorful types, including Susan Styker, a male-to-female transsexual who specializes in gender studies (the film contains a great deal of academic doublespeak); Texas Tomboy, a video artist who has been virtually adopted by her surrogate mom, Tornado, a former Penthouse model; Stafford, who has created Web sites devoted to gender issues and whose answer to the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" is "Yes"; and Max Valerio, whose initial transition from woman to man was documented in Treut's earlier "Female Misbehavior". Also on display is Les Nichols, an "intersexed" woman (or hermaphrodite, for those of you not up on the latest terminology) who has both female and (artificial) male sex organs.
Unquestionably, the film's highlight is the graphic scene in which Nichols attempts sexual relations with performance artist and former porn star Annie Sprinkle, who here demonstrates both true patience and a genial tolerance.
GENDERNAUTS
First Run Features
Director-screenwriter-producer:Monika Treut
Director of photography:Eifi Mikesch
Editor:Eric Shefter
Music:Georg Kajanus
Color/stereo
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A chatty portrait of different types of transsexuals -- or, as the film dubs them, "cyborgs" -- living and working in the San Francisco area, "Gendernauts" is less illuminating than it is illustrative, but it does offer some interesting perspectives for the uninitiated. And how many times does one get to witness a close-up of a hyena's clitoris? The film won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
The loosely structured feature is hosted by one Sandy Stone, a college professor at the University of Texas who has dubbed herself the "goddess of cyberspace." She introduces a gallery of colorful types, including Susan Styker, a male-to-female transsexual who specializes in gender studies (the film contains a great deal of academic doublespeak); Texas Tomboy, a video artist who has been virtually adopted by her surrogate mom, Tornado, a former Penthouse model; Stafford, who has created Web sites devoted to gender issues and whose answer to the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" is "Yes"; and Max Valerio, whose initial transition from woman to man was documented in Treut's earlier "Female Misbehavior". Also on display is Les Nichols, an "intersexed" woman (or hermaphrodite, for those of you not up on the latest terminology) who has both female and (artificial) male sex organs.
Unquestionably, the film's highlight is the graphic scene in which Nichols attempts sexual relations with performance artist and former porn star Annie Sprinkle, who here demonstrates both true patience and a genial tolerance.
GENDERNAUTS
First Run Features
Director-screenwriter-producer:Monika Treut
Director of photography:Eifi Mikesch
Editor:Eric Shefter
Music:Georg Kajanus
Color/stereo
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/15/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- ''My Father Is Coming'' is nothing to get too excited about. It is an off-beat attempt to make an off-beat film, but it tries so hard to get off the beaten path that it goes nowhere.
German filmmaker Monika Treut's questionable homage to New York City, particularly the East Village, is fun in parts, slow in others and ambiguous overall.
Still, its forced hipness and the fact that it's a ''different'' kind of film may appeal to the art-house crowd. The inclusion of porn star Annie Sprinkle and her massive mammaries may lure some unsuspecting lustful viewers, though this is no porn flick.
What it is is an outsider's depiction of the downtown Manhattan scene, and a myopic view of the apparently never-ending sexual revolution. If only there were a real story to go along with this . . .
The film revolves around Vicky (Shelley Kastner), an actress and waitress who seems distressed that her father, Hans Alfred Edel), is coming from Germany to pay her a visit. When he does arrive we can see why.
Hans is a stuffy, prudish, opinionated man who criticizes Vicky's entire existence. For this reason Vicky forces her gay roommate, Ben David Bronstein), to pretend to be her husband. (It's not a very convincing performance.)
Accompanying Vicky on one of her auditions, Hans is outraged to discover it is for a porn film. He changes his tune, however, when the film's star Annie Sprinkle) ingratiates herself by going to the bathroom in front of him. A minute later Hans lands himself a job in a commercial, much to Vicky's envy and chagrin.
The rest of the film is a disjointed series of encounters, sexual and otherwise, with a lesbian, a male transsexual, drag queens, a body piercing guru and some unusual people as well.
It's all supposed to be a mind-opening journey for both father and daughter, but someone definitely loses the map along the way.
Sometimes using non-actors gives a film a natural quality, but in this case all it adds is bad acting. Kastner as Vicky, the would-be actress, is the only one who truly passes the audition. Not that there is much call in this film for any real acting, but Kastner is the only credible element to be found. This is her film debut, and she demonstrates a raw sensuality that holds promise for future performances.
''My Father Is Coming'' is not an unpleasant film, except for the unwatchably gross scene with the pierced Fakir Musafar. There are several lines of dialogue and an occasional visual that make us laugh or at least smile. It's just that much of what appears in this film seems to have been randomly placed for no discernible reason. A film doesn't always have to make sense, but if it goes that route then it should at least be distracting enough so you won't mind.
MY FATHER IS COMING
Tara Releasing/Hyena Films
Director-producer Monika Treut
Writers Monika Treut, Bruce Benderson
Cinematographer Elfi Mikesch
Editor Steve Brown
Music David van Tieghem
Color
In English and German, with subtitles
Cast:
Hans Alfred Edel
Vicky Shelley Kastner
Annie Annie Sprinkle
Joe Michael Massee
Lisa Mary Lou Graulau
Ben David Bronstein
Running time -- 82 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
German filmmaker Monika Treut's questionable homage to New York City, particularly the East Village, is fun in parts, slow in others and ambiguous overall.
Still, its forced hipness and the fact that it's a ''different'' kind of film may appeal to the art-house crowd. The inclusion of porn star Annie Sprinkle and her massive mammaries may lure some unsuspecting lustful viewers, though this is no porn flick.
What it is is an outsider's depiction of the downtown Manhattan scene, and a myopic view of the apparently never-ending sexual revolution. If only there were a real story to go along with this . . .
The film revolves around Vicky (Shelley Kastner), an actress and waitress who seems distressed that her father, Hans Alfred Edel), is coming from Germany to pay her a visit. When he does arrive we can see why.
Hans is a stuffy, prudish, opinionated man who criticizes Vicky's entire existence. For this reason Vicky forces her gay roommate, Ben David Bronstein), to pretend to be her husband. (It's not a very convincing performance.)
Accompanying Vicky on one of her auditions, Hans is outraged to discover it is for a porn film. He changes his tune, however, when the film's star Annie Sprinkle) ingratiates herself by going to the bathroom in front of him. A minute later Hans lands himself a job in a commercial, much to Vicky's envy and chagrin.
The rest of the film is a disjointed series of encounters, sexual and otherwise, with a lesbian, a male transsexual, drag queens, a body piercing guru and some unusual people as well.
It's all supposed to be a mind-opening journey for both father and daughter, but someone definitely loses the map along the way.
Sometimes using non-actors gives a film a natural quality, but in this case all it adds is bad acting. Kastner as Vicky, the would-be actress, is the only one who truly passes the audition. Not that there is much call in this film for any real acting, but Kastner is the only credible element to be found. This is her film debut, and she demonstrates a raw sensuality that holds promise for future performances.
''My Father Is Coming'' is not an unpleasant film, except for the unwatchably gross scene with the pierced Fakir Musafar. There are several lines of dialogue and an occasional visual that make us laugh or at least smile. It's just that much of what appears in this film seems to have been randomly placed for no discernible reason. A film doesn't always have to make sense, but if it goes that route then it should at least be distracting enough so you won't mind.
MY FATHER IS COMING
Tara Releasing/Hyena Films
Director-producer Monika Treut
Writers Monika Treut, Bruce Benderson
Cinematographer Elfi Mikesch
Editor Steve Brown
Music David van Tieghem
Color
In English and German, with subtitles
Cast:
Hans Alfred Edel
Vicky Shelley Kastner
Annie Annie Sprinkle
Joe Michael Massee
Lisa Mary Lou Graulau
Ben David Bronstein
Running time -- 82 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 11/25/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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