Author: CWB News Department

THE CUT by Fatih Akin will have its world premiere in the Venezia 71 Competition at the Venice International Film Festival. The competition for the Golden Lion also features the debut film by the German-Turkish film-maker Kaan Müjdeci SIVAS (TR/DE, Müjdeci GmbH) as well as two other German co-productions. Director Philip Gröning is a member of the jury. The German film FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER by Rüdiger Suchsland (Looks Filmproduktionen) will screen in Venice Classics. Apart from THE CUT and SIVAS, the Competition also includes 3 HEARTS by Benoît Jacquot (FR/DE/BE, Pandora Filmproduktion) and A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH…

Cinema Without Borders offers a pair of tickets for screening of the “The Guest” to one of our readers that enters his/her name here by sending an email to us. ‘The Guest’ will be screened at Sundance Next Fest n LA on August 10th.THE GUESTSynopsis:A soldier (Dan Stevens) introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.THE GUEST visits theatres in September.Release Date:September 17, 2014Studio:PicturehouseDirector:Adam WingardWriter:Simon BarrettStarring:Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe,…

CANNES, France (AP) — The richly ruminative Chekhovian drama “Winter Sleep” was awarded the Palme d’Or on Saturday, bestowing the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor on an intimate, wintery epic set on Turkey’s Anatolian steppe.Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan accepted the award, handed out by Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman at the French Riviera festival. In his speech, Ceylan alluded to anti-government protests in Istanbul that began a year ago and have raged following a recent mining disaster that killed hundreds.”I want to dedicate the prize to the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives during the last…

Iranian actress Leila Hatami is in trouble with authorities of the Islamic Republic after she was photographed kissing the president of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.A picture published by Iranian media shows the 41-year-old actress shaking hands with the 83-year-old Gilles Jacob and kissing him on the cheeks. Under Islamic law, which has been in force in Iran since 1979, a woman cannot have physical contact with a man who is not a family member.Iran’s Deputy Culture Minister Hossein Noushabadi criticised Hatami’s act at the Cannes Festival, saying it undermined the image of chastity.”I hope that those who attend international…

SEATTLE — May 15, 2014 — This evening, at the Opening Night Gala in McCaw Hall, the Seattle International Film Festival announced that it has purchased the SIFF Cinema Uptown (with the “Angels of the Uptown”) and has also signed a lease for the Egyptian Theatre, (thank you, Seattle Central Community College) securing these two neighborhood landmarks as year-round SIFF Cinema and Festival venues. Managing Director Mary Bacarella and Artistic Director Carl Spence took to the stage to make the announcement, which signals a tremendous future of growth for the organization that’s now celebrating its 40th anniversary. SIFF Cinema UptownIn October…

Since the 1960s, Croatian cinema has combined a haunting, often savagely bleak outcry against political and personal repression with humor, lyricism and a tenderness born of constant conflict and adversity. However, it was little known before late 2000, when the American Cinematheque and CAMEO presented “Wednesdays in Croatia,” the first comprehensive overview of Croatian cinema ever mounted on the West Coast. This year Kino Croatia’s series opens with the latest hit comedy from director Vinko Brešan, THE PRIEST’S CHILDREN. A priest – albeit a phony one – plays a central role in Krsto Papić’s FLOWER SQUARE. Dalibor Matanić’s HANDYMEN follows…

On May 17th a new exhibition opens at Tara Gallery, to learn more about this event we talked to Homa Taraji, Director of Tara Gallery. Cinema Without Borders:  Please tell us about Tara Gallery, its background and your involvement with it. Homa Taraji: Tara gallery came to being 7 months ago under the sponsorship of the American foundation for contemporary Iranian art (AFCIA) which is a nonprofit, 501 c(3) organization for promotion of Iranian art. I am the cofounder and president of AFCIA and owner and director of Tara gallery. Most of the work presented in Tara gallery is by…

NEW YORK – Building on 35 years at the Museum of Modern Art, KINO! reboots at new locations –bringing the latest of German cinema to New York audiences. Programmed by an independent jury, KINO! presents ten films, four of which are North American premieres. Selected by New York industry professionals Denise Kassell, Ian Stimler and Karl Rozemeyer and organized by Munich-based German Films, KINO! kicks off with the June 12 opening night gala screening of WEST by the critically acclaimed director Christian Schwochow at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens. Having won the FIPRESCI award and the Best Actress…

Chytilova stood at the birth of the new wave of Czechoslovak film in the 1960s. She amply used satirical hyperbole in her films that took no pity on the state of society and interpersonal relations.Chytilova became famous for her films Daisies, The Apple Game, The Very Late Afternoon of the Faun, The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodbye or Panelstory.Some of her films were awarded at international festivals. These include “Something Different” that won the 1963 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival Grand Prize and “Daisies” that aawon the Bergamo Film Festival Grand Prix in 1966. Though her post-communist productions were not praised as much…

12 Years a Slave, the Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards, is a 2013 British-American historical epic drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup’s memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate.This is the third feature film…