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Patricia Kaiser from the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 finds Alberto Fuguet's COUNTRY MUSIC to be a touching and brillantly acted city-road movie about a Chilean in Nashvill.
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Sebastián Santillán of the talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 sees new directions of film production and distribution discussed at the panel “New Forms: Beyond Cinema”.
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Sergio Zapata of the Talent Press Buenos Aires 2011 reports from a panel discussion about filmmaking in the era of new technologies and reproducibility.
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Pablo Larrain’s 2010 film POST MORTEM masterfully opens up a new approach of the Southern American nations to deal with their past, writes Jacqueline Venet of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara.
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Bill Plympton's IDIOTS AND ANGELS is a case study of both the benefits and the perils of individual artistic freedom, writes Ulisés Pérez Mancilla of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara
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Jaqueline Venet of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara reviews Bill Plympton's animated feature film IDIOTS AND ANGELS.
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The Berlinale Retrospective offers a chance to rediscover an early gem by Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman - a review of IT RAINS ON OUR LOVE.
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A lack of subtlety and ambition prevents Berlinale Forum's STATE OF VIOLENCE from being more than just an entertaining revenge tale.
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The "Dial F for Fiction" event discusses the scripts the participants of the Berlinale Talent Campus Script Station have worked on.
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A road trip through Argentinian vineyards – Nicolás Carreras´ WAYS OF WINE – followed by an amazing dinner inspired by the film and cooked by chef Sonja Frühsammer: the perfect recipe to enjoy cinema.
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Can a Chinese educational and cautionary tale about AIDS reach the broader audience of the Berlinale Panorama?
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Documentary filmmakers Andres Veiel and Heddy Honigmann meet Talents for the “Too Good to Be True: Directing Reality” panel.
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THE TERRORISTS (Berlinale Forum) uses transgression as a way to unsettle its viewers and lure them in.
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Two films by Director Joe Swanberg are screening in the Berlinale Forum, and there's no shortage of controversy in both.
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Interview
A conversation with Beatrice Kruger, casting director for filmmakers such as Tom Tykwer and Anton Corbijn.
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Interview
The great Harry Belafonte shares his thoughts on activism, art and the challenges for the next generation.
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German short film ICE FLOWERS is well executed, but suffers the shortcomings of its own ambition.
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Active in Berlin as the Jury President of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, actress Isabella Rossellini visited the Campus to discuss her craft and love of juries.
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The controversial story of a man who became involved at a young age in the horrors of Pinochet's Chilean dictatorship: a documentary in the Berlinale Forum.
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Three award-winning directors come together to discuss the status of a genre inextricably tied to the dangers of reality.
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Animation expert Michel Ocelot visits the Berlinale with his unique 3D puppetry film TALES OF THE NIGHT.
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Actress Kerry Fox joined the Campus panel “The Rules of Engagement” along with Swedish author and screenwriter Henning Mankell and 2008 Golden Bear winner José Padilha.
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The limits of the world that SUICIDE ROOM aims to investigate end up being the limits of the film itself - a review of the Berlinale Panorama entry by director Jan Komasa.
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Director Ulrich Köhler tackles some long-standing issues in SLEEPING SICKNESS, shown in the Berlinale Competition.
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It's come a long way - from the viral campaign on Youtube to Berlin. The global documentary LIFE IN A DAY (Berlinale Panorama) comprises glimpses of existence of its many subjects: us.
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Who says networking must be boring or intimidating? Gifted girls meet talented boys in search of their professional soulmates - an odd yet enjoyable kick-off of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011.
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Interviews & Features
I’m sure it did not happen deliberately, like a well-hatched plan from an expertly crafted heist film. And unlike dear Alexis Tioseco’s important pronouncements about film criticism, that it be fueled not by anything else but love, my almost accidental foray into film writing was borne out of frustration and a tinge of subtle rebellion.
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Interviews & Features
Let’s get lost in film festivals. They are the best places to keep you awake and hold off the routine. To give you nausea, headaches, heart attacks, cold sweats and goose-flesh.
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Interviews & Features
Film criticism was never really something I decided to do, but it's something that I've always done. Criticism is an act, not a profession. You do it because the artwork requires it; and if the artwork doesn't require it, if there's nothing necessary for criticism to contribute to it, then you don't do it.
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Interviews & Features
I was never interested in filmmaking. I find the shootings absolutely boring, and my real interest is the analysis, research and study of cinematographical phenomena.
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Interview
Mexican filmmaker David Pablos talks about his time at the Berlinale Talent Campus and his new film ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS
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Talent Press alumna Erzsébet Plájás about the shooting of Eva Pervolovici's LITTLE RED, one of the five finalists of the Berlin Today Award, the short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus
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We've seen one face of the industry - now it's time to look at the other reality of Philippine cinema, with a report from the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
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One of the Talent Press writers shares memories of his friend, filmmaker and Talent Campus Alumnus El Hadj Samba Sarr.
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A big budget, the country’s biggest stars, and a Big Brother-like film studio. It’s a day in the life of the Philippines’ biggest commercial director filming her next big blockbuster.
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The lasting impact of a 2004 sex tape involving New Delhi students serves as inspiration for Indian filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, who reflects on voyeurism in the digital era with LOVE SEX AUR DHOKHA.
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The first part of a journey of discovery into the world of borrowed images - the act of collecting frames out of control can lead to interesting pieces of filmmaking. From Duchamp to WW2 propaganda by Frank Capra.
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Bolivian film SOUTH DISTRICT goes inside a family house to explore what's outside of it.
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Screened at the Guadalajara Film Festival, THE GOOD HERBS is the latest effort by director Maria Novaro, who takes Alzheimer's disease as a metaphor for the abandonment to which the healing power of herbs has been condemned by contemporary world.
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The founders of Canana Films discuss with the students of the Talent Campus the importance of good casting in film.
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Turkish director Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu in Competition at the Berlinale with HONEY, the final installment of his trilogy about a child and its difficulties in growing up.
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In only his second departure in eight years from the wuxia genre, Zhang Yimou's A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP is a retelling of an early Coens' classic.
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Interview
Veteran production designer Sir Ken Adam looks back on his career and shares his views about the current state of his business.
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Restoration brings to life a piece of film history never seen outside of Germany ― NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY. From 1948 to Berlinale Special.
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No matter how bad it gets, there's still hope in this latest effort from Dogma 95 co-founder Thomas Vinterberg that premiered at the Berlinale Competition.
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Heavily autobiographical account of a director's family quest, ALL MY FATHERS adds to the 2010 Berlinale trend of troubled parenthood.
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Griselda Soriano of the Talent Press Buenos Aires writes about Karin Idelson's experimental documentary LOVE SONG.
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Daniela Espejo of the Talent Press Buenos Aires attended a panel on the the latest trend in viewing films - online movies.
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The Chilean documentary NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT by Patricio Guzman fuses a mesmerizing cinematographic discourse with the personal desire of an author to explore his nation's past, writes Ulises Perez Mancilla of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara.
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Werner Herzog's CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS not only tells us about the prehistoric past but also about our complex and paradoxical point of view when dealing with our history, says Rubén Padrón Astorga of the Talent Press Guadalajara.
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Guillermo Gonzalez Montes' debut feature MUD FLOWER feels rather ill-conceived, writes Daniel Campos of the 2011 Talent Press Guadalajara.
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Rubén Padrón Astorga of the Talent Press Guadalajara reports from a three-hour workshop of screenwriting legend Guillermo Arriaga at the 2011 Talent Campus Guadalajara.
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Interview
2009 Golden Bear-winning director Claudia Llosa talks about relating to her audience, cultural differences and controversial subjects.
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First-time director Ralph Fiennes makes some bold choices in this Shakespeare adaptation, and they don't always work - but Vanessa Redgrave saves the day.
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Berlinale Generation 14plus' SHE MONKEYS deals with sex, power and gender issues.
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Interview
John Greyson, filmmaker, academic and gay rights activist talks about the current state of queer cinema and its future prospectives.
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A look at JC Chandor’s Berlinale Competition film MARGIN CALL, a positive byproduct of the financial crisis.
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A richly assembled team of filmmakers gets together to discuss the art of building narrative worlds.
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A panel discussion with Wim Wenders and his team about PINA and the future of 3D filmmaking.
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Interview
Acting coach Jean-Louis Rodrigue believes actors should get back in touch with their primal nature, and explains how he helps them achieve this goal.
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An interview with editor Andrew Bird, a mentor at the Campus Editing Studio who also edited the Berlinale Competition film THE FUTURE.
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SACRIFICE is a beautiful and labyrinthine classical drama - for unconditional aficionados of sword plays and twisty plots only.
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'Dura lex, sed lex': two experts brief Talents on the insidious legal aspects of filmmaking.
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A look at the short films in the Berlinale Generation Kplus section.
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A conversation with director Kyoko Miyake about her Berlin Today Award winning HACKNEY LULLABIES.
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From Berlinale Forum, HI-SO by Aditya Assarat frames the themes of alienation and identity with architectural rigour.
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One of the best filmmakers in the world should have been in Berlin as part of the International Jury. Instead, he has been silenced and shackled in his own country. A profile of Jafar Panahi.
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German maestro Wim Wenders experiments with 3D in his latest work PINA, a tribute to legendary choreographer Pina Bausch.
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The Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 is off to a great start - we zoom in on one of the participants to learn his story.
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From drama to comedy and back: Berlinale Forum’s E-LOVE mixes old tragedies and new remedies in a woman's journey to self-discovery.
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Yasemin Samdereli's Berlinale Competition entry ALMANYA is a feel-good immigration tale.
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From the Berlinale Forum 2011, DAY IS DONE by director Thomas Imbach invites viewers to re-think their perspective of the mundane - there is certainly more than meets the eye here.
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Ever since I was old enough to collect money – and propel myself by means other than bipedalism – I have been a passionate filmgoer. Those early years were filled with the sort of vacuous Hollywood tripe that I now rail against; but with age my passion grew and became more refined.
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Turkish cinema hides so many dilemmas and questions within that it is only natural film criticism turns into an act of reasoning here.
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Interviews & Features
Film criticism is a conspicuously absent topic within the Kenyan film circles. With the exception of 2008 when the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together participants to train them on film criticism, no other efforts have been in place.
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Interviews & Features
Cinema seizes life and dresses it up, making it happen in a delimited space and time. I’m obsessed with the halo of mystery that surrounds it.
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Interview
With LA YUMA, a film that depicts the daily lives of Nicaraguans, French-born filmmaker Florence Jaugey leaves her mark on the cinema of Latin America.
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Talent Press alumna Suchandrika Chakrabarti about the shooting of Kyoko Miyake's HACKNEY LULLABIES, one of the five finalists of the Berlin Today Award, the short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus
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The true story of a Nazi deportation in 1942 Paris strives for historical accuracy but fails to find a balance. Directed by Roselyne Bosch.
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Shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, Yin Lichuan's KNITTING finally got released in China in early 2010. Was it worth the wait?
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Talent Press interviews Terry Gilliam after the release of THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS.
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Following our first descent into the world of found footage, we now look at further examples of how filmmakers can manipulate existing images to convey new meanings.
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Alberto Rodriguez brings his last work AFTER to the Guadalajara Film Festival
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The director of TROPA DE ELITE turns to the documentary form with GARAPA, an intense account of the lives of three family in a region stricken by famine.
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How does a screenwriter survive? What films do Hollywood studios look for? The power of original stories and the importance of creative freedom are discussed in the early days of the Talent Campus Guadalajara.
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As one of the guests at the Campus in Guadalajara, screenwriter Barry Gifford met with the Talents and shared some insight on his work with David Lynch.
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Shaking up the Berlinale Competition, Florin Şerban's IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE is a minimalist tale of brotherhood morphed into parenthood, with gaps in between.
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A Hollywood Maestro tries his hand at a psychological thriller, but his fourth partnership with DiCaprio might be the worst of them all.
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The Berlinale Talent Campus series "In the Limelight" gives the Japanese director the chance to retrace the different steps of his career.
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Stellan Skarsgård gives a wonderful physical performance in Hans Petter Moland's A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, shown in Competition at the Berlinale.
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"Directing Actors": a speech by Johanna ter Steege on the work of the performer and its relationship with the director.
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