Bosnian actor Nazif Mujic, who won the Silver Bear for best actor at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, has died. He was 48, according to Afp.
"The Berlin International Film Festival was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Nazif Mujic, who passed away on February 18, 2018," the festival said. It’s not clear how he died.
Mujic was celebrated in 2013 in Berlin when he appeared with Danis Tanovic’s documentary drama An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, in which he re-enacts an episode, together with his family, from his own life as scrap collector...
"The Berlin International Film Festival was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Nazif Mujic, who passed away on February 18, 2018," the festival said. It’s not clear how he died.
Mujic was celebrated in 2013 in Berlin when he appeared with Danis Tanovic’s documentary drama An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, in which he re-enacts an episode, together with his family, from his own life as scrap collector...
- 2/18/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There is no greater advert for the fundamental value of the NHS than Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s latest film, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker. Feeling almost like a fly-on-the-wall documentary, the film follows a Roma family in a remote, snowy part of Bosnia as they struggle to raise the funds needed to pay for a routine but life saving operation. Shot on a micro-budget of a few thousand Euros, Tanovic’s film is brutally minimalistic and takes an unflinching look at the realities of life for people living in the director’s homeland.
As the title suggests, we see what is most likely just another episode in a life of hardship. The titular iron picker is Nazif (Nazif Mujic), who spends his days chopping wood to heat his house, and stripping down cars to sell for scrap. Nazif’s family live hand-to-mouth, and their precariously...
As the title suggests, we see what is most likely just another episode in a life of hardship. The titular iron picker is Nazif (Nazif Mujic), who spends his days chopping wood to heat his house, and stripping down cars to sell for scrap. Nazif’s family live hand-to-mouth, and their precariously...
- 4/25/2014
- by Matt Seton
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This realist study about a Bosnian family who just scrape by is lit up by the couple's quiet love for each other
Danis Tanovic is the Bosnian film-maker whose No Man's Land (2001) was one of the most memorable films about the 1990s ex-Yugoslavia wars. This is very different in style: a lower-budget, handheld-realist study of a Roma family in a remote Bosnian village, living on the poverty borderline; it's a grim film in many ways, but strangely and unexpectedly affecting. Nazif (Nazif Mujic) is a guy who scrapes a living as an "iron picker": he finds wrecked cars and smashes them up with his axe to sell the bits for scrap. He uses the same axe to cut branches for firewood in the local forest.
His wife Senada (Senada Alimanovic) stays at home with their two kids and a third is on the way. The family get by, but they have no medical insurance,...
Danis Tanovic is the Bosnian film-maker whose No Man's Land (2001) was one of the most memorable films about the 1990s ex-Yugoslavia wars. This is very different in style: a lower-budget, handheld-realist study of a Roma family in a remote Bosnian village, living on the poverty borderline; it's a grim film in many ways, but strangely and unexpectedly affecting. Nazif (Nazif Mujic) is a guy who scrapes a living as an "iron picker": he finds wrecked cars and smashes them up with his axe to sell the bits for scrap. He uses the same axe to cut branches for firewood in the local forest.
His wife Senada (Senada Alimanovic) stays at home with their two kids and a third is on the way. The family get by, but they have no medical insurance,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆In 2011, Bosnian director Danis Tanović read a story in a newspaper about the touching travails of an impoverished Roma family before later taking it upon himself to tell their story. Three years later, his neorealist drama An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) arrives in selected UK cinemas having claimed the Jury Grand Prize at the 63rd Berlinale and being chosen as Bosnia's entry at this year's Academy Awards. Documentary-like in feel, Tanović has decided to recreate events by casting the family themselves in a film that raises important points yet lacks dramatic heft. With a camera trained over his shoulder, Nazif (Nazif Mujic) spends his days foraging for scrap metal in a remote township.
- 4/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Berlin -- Nazif Mujic was the toast of the Berlin festival last year, winning the Silver Bear for Danis Tanovic's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker. A year on, the Romani man from Bosnia is back in the German capital, this time seeking asylum for himself and his family. A non-professional actor, Mujic played himself in Tanovic's drama -- which recounts his real-life struggles as a scrap iron collector whose wife suffered a miscarriage. When the family tried to seek medical help, there were turned away from Bosnian hospitals because of being Roma. Berlin Review: An Episode
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- 2/7/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In more Berlinale news, two new episodes of House of Cards to be shown on festival closing day.
The award will be presented to Baumgartner after laudatory speeches by Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick and Aki Kaurismäki on Feb 8 before a screening of Kaurismäki’s 1991 film La Vie de Bohème.
In 1982, Baumgartner and Reinhard Brundig founded the distrubution company Pandora Filmverleih in Frankfurt, which became one of the leading players in the world of interational arthouse cinema, discovering such talents as Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurimäki, Sally Potter, Andrei Tarkovsky and Kim Ki Duk.
Pandora’s move into production has seen the company backing films by Emir Kusturica (Underground), Sam Garbarski (Irina Palm), Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre), Sergey Dvorstevoy (Tulpan), Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive), Claire Denis (Bastards), and, most recently, Fatih Akin (The Cut), to mention just a handful.
Apart from Cologne-based Pandora Filmproduktion, Baumgartner is also a partner with Thanassis Karathanos in Pallas Film, which...
The award will be presented to Baumgartner after laudatory speeches by Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick and Aki Kaurismäki on Feb 8 before a screening of Kaurismäki’s 1991 film La Vie de Bohème.
In 1982, Baumgartner and Reinhard Brundig founded the distrubution company Pandora Filmverleih in Frankfurt, which became one of the leading players in the world of interational arthouse cinema, discovering such talents as Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurimäki, Sally Potter, Andrei Tarkovsky and Kim Ki Duk.
Pandora’s move into production has seen the company backing films by Emir Kusturica (Underground), Sam Garbarski (Irina Palm), Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre), Sergey Dvorstevoy (Tulpan), Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive), Claire Denis (Bastards), and, most recently, Fatih Akin (The Cut), to mention just a handful.
Apart from Cologne-based Pandora Filmproduktion, Baumgartner is also a partner with Thanassis Karathanos in Pallas Film, which...
- 1/28/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014 semi-finalists (photo: ‘Two Lives,’ with Liv Ullmann and Julia Bache-Wiig) Out of 76 submissions, nine movies have been selected as semi-finalists for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Listed in alphabetical order by country, the films are: Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix van Groeningen, director. Best Actress European Film Award winner Veerle Baetens and Johan Heldenbergh star as a couple whose love is put to the test after their daughter falls seriously ill. Bosnia and Herzegovina, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker / Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza, Danis Tanovic, director. Set in Bosnia’s Roma (gypsy) community and based on real-life events, this 2013 Berlin Film Festival Grand Prix winner stars Berlin’s Best Actor Nazif Mujic as a scrap-metal collector and salesman desperately trying to save the life of his wife, who has been denied medical assistance because she lacks health insurance.
- 12/24/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
★★★☆☆ An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) is the fifth feature from Academy Award-winning director Danis Tanovic. A darkly naturalistic piece of social realism, Tanovic's latest examines the discrimination of the Roma community and the oppression of the socially underprivileged in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nazif (Nazif Mujic) struggles to provide for his family, literally scraping together whatever he can harvest from the streets and forests of this rundown village to sell at the local scrap merchant. With two young daughters and a wife pregnant with their third child, Nazif struggles to put food on the table.
One day, Nazif returns home to discover that his wife is unwell. He takes her to hospital, where the prognosis reveals that she's had a miscarriage and is in a critical condition. They could operate on her straight away, however, Nazif doesn't have health insurance and with the operation costing a small fortune,...
One day, Nazif returns home to discover that his wife is unwell. He takes her to hospital, where the prognosis reveals that she's had a miscarriage and is in a critical condition. They could operate on her straight away, however, Nazif doesn't have health insurance and with the operation costing a small fortune,...
- 10/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Plans for Bosnian release of Danis Tanovic’s award-winning film include year-long tour to smaller towns and VoD release.
Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, winner of the Jury Grand Prize and Silver Bear for best actor at this year’s Berlinale, has opened the Sarajevo Film Festival. The film was picked up in Berlin by joint Operation Kino programme of the Sff, Sofia Film Festival, Transylvania International Film Festival and Istanbul Film Festival.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the film will be released on Sept 19 through distribution arm of Obala Art Centar, which is one of the founders of the Sff. In the territory that has only 21 screens for its 4 million inhabitants, Obala is releasing day-and-date in 15 cities with existing cinemas. After that the film will go on a year-long tour using the Operation Kino’s travelling cinema infrastructure in order to reach the audiences in towns without functional theatres — those...
Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, winner of the Jury Grand Prize and Silver Bear for best actor at this year’s Berlinale, has opened the Sarajevo Film Festival. The film was picked up in Berlin by joint Operation Kino programme of the Sff, Sofia Film Festival, Transylvania International Film Festival and Istanbul Film Festival.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the film will be released on Sept 19 through distribution arm of Obala Art Centar, which is one of the founders of the Sff. In the territory that has only 21 screens for its 4 million inhabitants, Obala is releasing day-and-date in 15 cities with existing cinemas. After that the film will go on a year-long tour using the Operation Kino’s travelling cinema infrastructure in order to reach the audiences in towns without functional theatres — those...
- 8/17/2013
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival has set its Contemporary World Cinema lineup featuring the best in cinema from around the globe. Here are the films: A Place In Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) Yossi Madmony, Israel North American Premiere. Jewish religious law permits the trade of a seemingly non-transferrable concept: another person’s place in heaven. This is the story of a highly-decorated retired general who, in a moment of arrogance during his youth, sold his place in heaven to an army cook for a plate of shakshouka. A Wolf At The Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) Fernando Coimbra, Brazil World Premiere. A child is kidnapped. At the police station, Sylvia and Bernardo, the victim’s parents, and Rosa, the main suspect and Bernardo’s lover, give contradictory evidence which will take audiences to the gloomiest corners of desires, lies, needs and wickedness in the relationship of these three characters.
- 8/13/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Danis Tanovic, director of the Oscar-winning No Man's Land (2001), brings a shocking real story to the big screen with his latest film, An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker. The film was a great success at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix for Tanovic and Best Actor Award for Nazif Mujic, as well as Special Mention for Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It feels like a personal film and the subject matter is clearly one that is dear to Tanovic's heart.The film is a micro-budget docudrama that carries important messages. Shot on handheld camera, viewers get to take a close look at a socially underprivileged Roma family in Bosnia and Herzegovina living in conditions that...
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- 6/12/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Two low-budget films, one from Romania and the other from Bosnia, take top prizes for portrayals of post-communist life
Eastern European film-makers basked in the limelight at the weekend after two low-budget pictures snapped up the top prizes at Berlin's international film festival.
The Berlinale's first prize, the Golden Bear, was awarded to a quasi-documentary-style Romanian film, Pozitia Copilului, or Child's Pose, directed by Calin Peter Netzer, a standard-bearer for the critically acclaimed new wave of film-making in his country. Starring Luminita Gheorghiu in a fearsome performance, the film tells the story of a mother's desperate and often illegal attempts to save her son from prosecution after he knocks down and kills an impoverished teenager.
Netzer said it reflected the "moral malaise of Romania's corruption-ridden middle classes". It also fitted the festival's penchant for delivering contemporary social drama with a strong political message.
The Bosnian documentary drama An Episode in...
Eastern European film-makers basked in the limelight at the weekend after two low-budget pictures snapped up the top prizes at Berlin's international film festival.
The Berlinale's first prize, the Golden Bear, was awarded to a quasi-documentary-style Romanian film, Pozitia Copilului, or Child's Pose, directed by Calin Peter Netzer, a standard-bearer for the critically acclaimed new wave of film-making in his country. Starring Luminita Gheorghiu in a fearsome performance, the film tells the story of a mother's desperate and often illegal attempts to save her son from prosecution after he knocks down and kills an impoverished teenager.
Netzer said it reflected the "moral malaise of Romania's corruption-ridden middle classes". It also fitted the festival's penchant for delivering contemporary social drama with a strong political message.
The Bosnian documentary drama An Episode in...
- 2/18/2013
- by Kate Connolly
- The Guardian - Film News
Jose here. The Berlin Film Festival came to its end a few hours ago and the big winners came from Romania and Bosnia. Călin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose won the prestigious Golden Bear, while Danis Tanovic's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker picked up the Jury Grand Prix as well as the Best Actor award for Nazif Mujic.
The winners as selected by the jury headlined by Wong Kar-wai were:
Golden Bear: Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer Jury Grand Prix: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
Tanović's movie has a real life family recreate an event that almost cost them their son's life. Not only does this sound like an interesting project but it also shows a two year trend in the festival where real life people dramatizing events have taken the main prizes. Last year's Golden Bear winner,...
The winners as selected by the jury headlined by Wong Kar-wai were:
Golden Bear: Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer Jury Grand Prix: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
Tanović's movie has a real life family recreate an event that almost cost them their son's life. Not only does this sound like an interesting project but it also shows a two year trend in the festival where real life people dramatizing events have taken the main prizes. Last year's Golden Bear winner,...
- 2/17/2013
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
This year's Berlinale top winner: Romanian drama Child's Pose The 2013 Berlin Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Bear, was handed out at a ceremony earlier this evening. The winner was Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose / Pozitia copilului, co-written by Netzer and Razvan Radulescu. The Romanian drama depicts the travails of a rich, controlling mother's efforts to buy freedom for her selfish son, who, in a traffic accident, has killed a child from a poor family. Little regard is shown for the victim's family, while local authorities (much like those elsewhere, for that matter) are all too eager to side with the wealthy and powerful. (Pictured above: Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2006 Best Supporting Actress winner Luminita Gheorghiu in the Romanian drama Child's Pose.) In Child's Pose, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu's co-star Luminita Gheorghiu plays the domineering mother, Bogdan Dumitrache is her submissive son, while 4 Months, 3 Weeks and...
- 2/17/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Berlin — A Romanian drama that centers on a woman's effort to cover up her son's responsibility for an accident in which a boy is fatally injured won the Berlin film festival's top Golden Bear award on Saturday.
"Child's Pose," directed by Calin Peter Netzer, emerged as the winner from a field of 19 films that included a strong eastern European contingent this year – the 63rd edition of the event, the first of the year's major European film festivals. Netzer said he was "a little bit speechless" at the award.
The tale of corruption and guilt depicts the efforts of an upper-class mother, played by Luminita Gheorghiu, to bribe witnesses to give false statements and keep her son – the driver, who was speeding at the time of the accident – out of prison.
"This is about a ... pathological relationship between mother and son," he told reporters later. "The rest is really just a backdrop,...
"Child's Pose," directed by Calin Peter Netzer, emerged as the winner from a field of 19 films that included a strong eastern European contingent this year – the 63rd edition of the event, the first of the year's major European film festivals. Netzer said he was "a little bit speechless" at the award.
The tale of corruption and guilt depicts the efforts of an upper-class mother, played by Luminita Gheorghiu, to bribe witnesses to give false statements and keep her son – the driver, who was speeding at the time of the accident – out of prison.
"This is about a ... pathological relationship between mother and son," he told reporters later. "The rest is really just a backdrop,...
- 2/16/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer has won this year's Golden Bear Award at the 2013 Berlinale. The Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize (runner-up to the Golden Bear) went to "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker." The Silver Bear for Best Director was a surprise win for U.S. director David Gordon Green whose "Prince Avalanche" brought him to the podium, where he thanked the Berinale for giving him this award and for giving his debut film "George Washington" a platform in 1993. Golden Bear: "Child's Pose" by Calin Peter Netzer (Romania) Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prize: "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker" by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzeogvina/France/Slovenia) Silver Bear - Best Director: David Gordon Green, "Prince Avalanche" (USA) Silver Bear - Best Actress: Paulina Garcia in "Gloria" (Chile/Spain) Silver Bear - Best Actor: Nazif Mujic in "An Episode in the Life of.
- 2/16/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
Danis Tanovic's "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker" has plenty to say, but as tragic observations go it's curiously dry. A dramatically compelling social realist parable about the underprivileged Bosnian and Herzegovinian lower class, it's closer to conventional cinema verite than to fiction. Shot in nine days with lightweight handheld cameras, the movie reconstructs the experiences of an uninsured war veteran struggling to scrounge resources that will save his wife's life. The director cast a family who actually went through this ordeal and realizes their story with a pared-down efficiency that foregrounds its authentic roots When we first meet the iron picker in question, Nazif Mujic goes about a modest routine on autopilot: He and his colleagues travel around the desolate, snowy landscape rummaging through garbage and scrapping abandoned cars before cashing them in. A long day dovetails into casual after-work drinks and dinner at home with his.
- 2/14/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Films from Poland, Romania and Slovenia will screen in the 2013 Berlinale Official Competition. The Official Competition, Panorama, Forum and Generation sections have also selected films from Turkey, Georgia, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic and Latvia.
The Polish director Małgośka Szumowska returns to the Berlinale after Elles (2012), starring Juliette Binoche, with W imię... /In the Name of, selected for the Official Competition. The film is produced by Mental Disorder 4 in coproduction with Canal +, and it follows Father Adam who takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere and has to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. The main characters are played by Andrzej Chyra and Mateusz Kościukieiwcz. Memento Films is the sales agent.
Danis Tanovic makes his entrance in the Official Competition of the Berlinale with Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, the story of a 31 year old woman pregnant with her third child who needs emergency surgery, but has no health inssurance. The film is a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Slovenia, involving Pro.ba, Emotionfilm and Asap Film France. The cast includes Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, and Semsa Mujic.
This is also the first Berlinale for the Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer, who screens in the Official Competition with Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose, a mixture of drama, emotion and humour about the relationship between an overbearing mother and her adult son. Răzvan Rădulescu and Călin Peter Netzer wrote the script and the main characters are played by Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu/The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) and Bogdan Dumitrache (Cu cele mai bune intenţii/Best Intentions). Child's Pose is a 100% Romanian production between Parada Film and HaiHui Entertainment.
After travelling with the first two parts of his Paradise film trilogy to Cannes and Venice, ground-breaking Austrian director Ulrich Seidl is a newcomer to the Berlinale where the third film in the series is to be screened in the Official Competition. Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope is a coproduction between Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH (Austria, www.ulrichseidl.com), Tatfilm (Germany, www.tatfilm.de) and Société Parisienne de Production ( France, www.coproductionoffice.eu).
Georgia sends two films to Berlin. On 7 February, the Panorama’s main programme will openwith the GeorgianChemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze. Produced by director’s production companyZazarfilm with the support of the Georgian National Film Centre, the film tells the story of a young man returning to his home town after studying abroad. Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, and Zura Kipshidze are the main actors. Media Luna New Films is the sales agent.
A Georgian-German coproduction will be screened in Forum. Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom, the first feature by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, is focusing on two young female friends in a country marked by civil war and poverty in 1992.
Two Turkish films were also selected for Panorama. Asli Ozge's Hayatboyu/Lifelong is a Turkish-German-Dutch coproduction between Razor Film Produktion, Augustus Film, Kaliber Film, Bulut Filmand, and Soda Media. The cast includes Defne Halman, Haka Cimenser, and Gizem Akman. Uğur Yücel's Soğuk/Cold is a 100% Turkish production starring Cenk Alibeyoğlu, A. Rıfat Şungar, and Valeria Skorohodova.
Croatia is also represented with two films selected for the Forum section. Krugovi/Circles Srdan Golubović’s drama of three parallel stories about heroism is produced by the Serbian company Bas Celik and the German company Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, in coproduction with the Slovenian company Vertigo/E-motion Film, the Croatian company Propeler Film and the French company La Cinefacture.
Another Croatian coproduction, this time with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also selected in Forum. The story from Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger aka The Bridge, written and directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director Bobo Jelčić, is set in Mostar, a town still divided into the Croatian and the Bosnian side 20 years after the war. The film is a tale about prejudice, human weaknesses and conflict between the individual and the society played by: Bogdan Diklić, Nada Đurevska, Ivana Roščić, and Izudin Bajrović. The project involves Spiritus Movens, Produkcija Kadar and Croatian Radio and Television.
Two Austrian films will be shown in the Forum section, beginning with the world premiere of Gustav Deutsch's Shirley – Visions of Reality. This Austrian production of Kgp Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production uses 13 cinematically vivified paintings by Edward Hopper in order to tell the story of a woman who lives in a reality she sees as a made up construct. The cast includes Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, and Florentin Groll.
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (also in Forum) is a documentary experiment of 21 binational couples sharing personal moments of their love stories, forming one complete story of how love can rise above the written law. The 80 minite film is produced by Amour Fou Vienna.
The German-Polish coproduction Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak, screening in Forum, is a lyrical portrait of post-socialist reality between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, conceived of as a mix of fictional staging and documentary representation of a dilapidated mental asylum and a landscape scarred by coal mining
Reha Erdem's Jîn (Turkey), selected in Generation 14plus, sees the war between guerrillas and the army in Kurdish areas in Turkey through the eyes of a 17 year old girl, a young fighter (played by Deniz Hasgüler). The film is produced by Ömer Atay through Atlantik Film.
Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues (Poland), will have its European premiere in Generation 14plus. After Mall Girls, Kasia Rosłaniec made a teenage mother’s tour de force through a world of daily chores, nappies fashion and drugs. Zentropa International Poland is producing.
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by the Latvian director Jānis Nords, selected in Generation Kplus, is the touching story of a misunderstood adolescent who tries to negociate his relationship with his mother while delving into the world of the petty crime. The film is produced by Tanka ( alise@tanka.lv) and stars Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, and Matiss Livcans.
Cee Films At The Berlinale:
Official Competition:
W imię... /In the Name of by Małgośka Szumowska (Poland)
Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France -Slovenia)
Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)
Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl (Austria-Germany-France)
Panorama:
Chemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia)
Hayatboyu/Lifelong by Asli Ozge (Turkey-Germany)
Soğuk/Cold by Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
Forum:
Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia-Germany)
Krugovi/Circles by Srdan Golubović (Serbia-Germany-Slovenia-Croatia-France)
Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger by Bobo Jelčić (Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak (Germany-Poland)
Generation 14plus:
Jîn by Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Generation Kplus:
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by Jānis Nords (Latvia)...
The Polish director Małgośka Szumowska returns to the Berlinale after Elles (2012), starring Juliette Binoche, with W imię... /In the Name of, selected for the Official Competition. The film is produced by Mental Disorder 4 in coproduction with Canal +, and it follows Father Adam who takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere and has to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. The main characters are played by Andrzej Chyra and Mateusz Kościukieiwcz. Memento Films is the sales agent.
Danis Tanovic makes his entrance in the Official Competition of the Berlinale with Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, the story of a 31 year old woman pregnant with her third child who needs emergency surgery, but has no health inssurance. The film is a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Slovenia, involving Pro.ba, Emotionfilm and Asap Film France. The cast includes Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, and Semsa Mujic.
This is also the first Berlinale for the Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer, who screens in the Official Competition with Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose, a mixture of drama, emotion and humour about the relationship between an overbearing mother and her adult son. Răzvan Rădulescu and Călin Peter Netzer wrote the script and the main characters are played by Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu/The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) and Bogdan Dumitrache (Cu cele mai bune intenţii/Best Intentions). Child's Pose is a 100% Romanian production between Parada Film and HaiHui Entertainment.
After travelling with the first two parts of his Paradise film trilogy to Cannes and Venice, ground-breaking Austrian director Ulrich Seidl is a newcomer to the Berlinale where the third film in the series is to be screened in the Official Competition. Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope is a coproduction between Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH (Austria, www.ulrichseidl.com), Tatfilm (Germany, www.tatfilm.de) and Société Parisienne de Production ( France, www.coproductionoffice.eu).
Georgia sends two films to Berlin. On 7 February, the Panorama’s main programme will openwith the GeorgianChemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze. Produced by director’s production companyZazarfilm with the support of the Georgian National Film Centre, the film tells the story of a young man returning to his home town after studying abroad. Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, and Zura Kipshidze are the main actors. Media Luna New Films is the sales agent.
A Georgian-German coproduction will be screened in Forum. Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom, the first feature by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, is focusing on two young female friends in a country marked by civil war and poverty in 1992.
Two Turkish films were also selected for Panorama. Asli Ozge's Hayatboyu/Lifelong is a Turkish-German-Dutch coproduction between Razor Film Produktion, Augustus Film, Kaliber Film, Bulut Filmand, and Soda Media. The cast includes Defne Halman, Haka Cimenser, and Gizem Akman. Uğur Yücel's Soğuk/Cold is a 100% Turkish production starring Cenk Alibeyoğlu, A. Rıfat Şungar, and Valeria Skorohodova.
Croatia is also represented with two films selected for the Forum section. Krugovi/Circles Srdan Golubović’s drama of three parallel stories about heroism is produced by the Serbian company Bas Celik and the German company Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, in coproduction with the Slovenian company Vertigo/E-motion Film, the Croatian company Propeler Film and the French company La Cinefacture.
Another Croatian coproduction, this time with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also selected in Forum. The story from Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger aka The Bridge, written and directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director Bobo Jelčić, is set in Mostar, a town still divided into the Croatian and the Bosnian side 20 years after the war. The film is a tale about prejudice, human weaknesses and conflict between the individual and the society played by: Bogdan Diklić, Nada Đurevska, Ivana Roščić, and Izudin Bajrović. The project involves Spiritus Movens, Produkcija Kadar and Croatian Radio and Television.
Two Austrian films will be shown in the Forum section, beginning with the world premiere of Gustav Deutsch's Shirley – Visions of Reality. This Austrian production of Kgp Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production uses 13 cinematically vivified paintings by Edward Hopper in order to tell the story of a woman who lives in a reality she sees as a made up construct. The cast includes Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, and Florentin Groll.
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (also in Forum) is a documentary experiment of 21 binational couples sharing personal moments of their love stories, forming one complete story of how love can rise above the written law. The 80 minite film is produced by Amour Fou Vienna.
The German-Polish coproduction Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak, screening in Forum, is a lyrical portrait of post-socialist reality between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, conceived of as a mix of fictional staging and documentary representation of a dilapidated mental asylum and a landscape scarred by coal mining
Reha Erdem's Jîn (Turkey), selected in Generation 14plus, sees the war between guerrillas and the army in Kurdish areas in Turkey through the eyes of a 17 year old girl, a young fighter (played by Deniz Hasgüler). The film is produced by Ömer Atay through Atlantik Film.
Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues (Poland), will have its European premiere in Generation 14plus. After Mall Girls, Kasia Rosłaniec made a teenage mother’s tour de force through a world of daily chores, nappies fashion and drugs. Zentropa International Poland is producing.
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by the Latvian director Jānis Nords, selected in Generation Kplus, is the touching story of a misunderstood adolescent who tries to negociate his relationship with his mother while delving into the world of the petty crime. The film is produced by Tanka ( alise@tanka.lv) and stars Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, and Matiss Livcans.
Cee Films At The Berlinale:
Official Competition:
W imię... /In the Name of by Małgośka Szumowska (Poland)
Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France -Slovenia)
Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)
Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl (Austria-Germany-France)
Panorama:
Chemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia)
Hayatboyu/Lifelong by Asli Ozge (Turkey-Germany)
Soğuk/Cold by Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
Forum:
Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia-Germany)
Krugovi/Circles by Srdan Golubović (Serbia-Germany-Slovenia-Croatia-France)
Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger by Bobo Jelčić (Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak (Germany-Poland)
Generation 14plus:
Jîn by Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Generation Kplus:
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by Jānis Nords (Latvia)...
- 2/12/2013
- by Iulia Blaga
- Sydney's Buzz
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