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 Belinale Unbound: Fashioning Success in German Films
Germany may have lost its bid for best foreign language film at the Oscars this year (though The White Ribbon did conquer that category at the Golden Globes), but on their home turf, German films seem to be winning all kinds of attention. At the recently wrapped Berlin International Film Festival, for example, German entries were front and center once again, nabbing no less than 7 of the festival’s 26 competition slots thanks largely to the programming moxie of Dieter Kosslick, the ....
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 The tragic destiny of a film: Gravehopping.
I could never understand the logic of film distributors; avoiding picking up films that are considered "old" by their standards--sometimes even a single year can make a film "old" to them.I have a long list of great films that have lost their chance to be seen by any audiences because of such attitudes. Have we ever stopped watching Chaplin, Hitchcock, Truffaut or Bunuel films because they are old?Among the wonderful movies of the last four years, we had the Slovenian film entitled ....
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 Shahada, Immigration, Islam
Muslims in our society was a prominent theme at this year’s Berlinale. Two films portrayed Muslims in today's Berlin, each in its own yet very much related way, one fictitious, one real. Berinale competition entry FAITH (SHAHADA, 2010) by Afghan-German filmmaker Burhan Qurbani elegantly weaves together the stories of three young Muslims living in Berlin – all at a crossroads of their lives and forced to make grave decisions about their future. Maryram (Maryam Zaree) is a young ....
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