BERLIN: FIPRESCI, the international critics association gave its top prizes for all three sections of the Berlinale programme at a special awards ceremony. The list of winners is here below and we also have a set of photos of the FIPRESCI Berlinale 2015 awards photographed by Christine Kisorsy. Click HERE.
BERLIN: Directorial talent from central and eastern Europe and regional coproduction triumphed at the 65 Berlinale International Film Festival (5-15 February 2015) with the international jury awarding the Silver Bear for Best Director Ex Aequo to Romania’s Radu Jude for Afterim!, a Romanian, Bulgarian and Czech coproduction and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska for Body.
BERLIN: Today and tomorrow FNE is proud to present the great line-up of films from our region that will be screening in Berlin over the next ten days. Be prepared for some exciting discoveries. See below.
Czech FITES Trilobit Beroun 2014 Award to Expert Supervision of the Sunrise
Czech Republic 19-01-2015PRAGUE: The Czech Film and Television Association FITES with the support of the town of Beroun awarded its top prize for best Czech feature film of 2014 to director Pavel Gőbl’s Expert Supervision of the Sunrise.
RIGA: Poland was celebrating the resounding win of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida in Riga Saturday night as the hit film made a clean sweep of the awards for best European film, best director, best script, best cinematography and the People’s Choice audience award.
RIGA: Mother, I Love You directed by Jānis Nords scooped the best Latvian feature film as well as the award for best director, best actress and the audience award at the awards ceremony of the Riga International Film Festival which honoured the best of Latvian national films on 11 December. The festival was held from 2-12 December 2014.
RIGA: The greatly expanded Riga Meetings kicks off today with four days of events, meetings and screenings for film professionals from around the world running 10-13 December in the Latvian capital.
VENICE: Turkish director Kaan Muideci’s debut feature Sivas might be a boy and a dog film but this definitely is not a Turkish Lassie. Set in an Anatolian village in Eastern Turkey Muideci does not follow the usual formula of idyllic and slow moving village life but shows us that village life has its own turgid and fast moving dynamic for the people who live there.
VENICE: German Turkish director Fatih Akin has described his latest film as “an epic film, a drama, an adventure movie and a western all rolled into one.”
VENICE: Russian master Andrei Konchalovsky is a Biennale veteran and The Postman’s White Nights is his fifth to screen in competition in Venice. Konchalovsky has used a group of non-professionals as his actors who essentially play themselves but the work is far from a documentary. Shot by Alexander Simonov using two RED cameras the breath-taking beauty of this still wild landscape is as much one of Konchalovksy’s players as his cast.
