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We are thrilled to announce that Mario Piperides' SMUGGLING HENDRIX won the Best International Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival "for its unique, comedic exploration of a complicated absurd political situation told in a clear, personal compelling way".

Congratulations to all the team!!!

 

We are very excited to represent the following five titles at the Berlinale this year:

COMPETITION:
DAUGHTER OF MINE by Laura Bispuri
MY BROTHER'S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT by Philip Gröning
THE REAL ESTATE by Axel Petersén and Måns Månsson
TRANSIT by Christian Petzold

PANORAMA:
BOYS CRY by Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo

Congratulations to Tarik Saleh's THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT. The film received five Guldbagge Awards at the ceremony in Sweden:

- Best Film
- Best Actor (Fares Fares)
- Best Costume Design
- Best Sound Design
- Best Scenography

We are proud to announce that Icelandic director Ísold Uggadóttir's first feature AND BREATHE NORMALLY will world premiere in Word Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2018!

It will be joined by Samuel Maoz's FOXTROT in the Spotlight section.

Congratulations to Semih Kaplanoğlu and the team of GRAIN: the film received the Tokyo Grand Prix from an international Jury headed by Tommy Lee Jones at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival!

Congratulations to Samuel Maoz for just receiving the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize for FOXTROT at La Biennale di Venezia!

La Biennale di Venezia is coming up and we are very happy to world premiere

- FOXTROT by Samuel Maoz (Competition)
- ZAMA by Lucrecia Martel (Out of Competition)
- LOOKING FOR OUM KULTHUM by Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari (Venice Days)

The three movies will also travel to the Toronto Film Festival next month and be joined by the world premiere of 

- BOOM FOR REAL THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT by Sara Driver

and

- THREE PEAKS by Jan Zabeil
- IN THE FADE by Fatih Akin
- THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE by Aki Kaurismäki

We are proud that Semih Kaplanoğlu's GRAIN, his new feature after the universally acclaimed YUSUF TRILOGY (EGG/MILK/HONEY), will world premiere in Competition at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival this year!

Diane Kruger was named Best Actress for her riveting performance in Fatih Akin's IN THE FADE at the Festival de Cannes 2017. Congratulations!

The Lolas have been awarded and we congratulate the winners:

PAULA by Christian Schwochow
- Best Production Design
- Best Costume Design

TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade
- Best Film
- Best Screenplay
- Best Director
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Best Editing

WILD by Nicolette Krebitz
- Best Film (Bronze)
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Cinematography
- Best Sound Design

The Official Selection of this year's Festival de Cannes, Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week have been unveiled, and we are excited to announce that six of our titles are included:

Competition:
IN THE FADE by Fatih Akin
JUPITER'S MOON by Kornél Mundruczó

Un Certain Regard:
A MAN OF INTEGRITY by Mohammad Rasoulof

Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs):
ALIVE IN FRANCE by Abel Ferrara
THE INTRUDER by Leonardo Di Costanzo
PURE HEARTS by Roberto De Paolis

Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique) - Opening Film:
SICILIAN GHOST STORY by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

The Academy of the Arts Berlin awarded FRENZY director Emin Alper the Grand Berlin Art Prize for presenting a "profound picture of a Turkish society rent by everyday violence."

CHEVALIER director Athina Rachel Tsangari received the Berlin Art Prize in the Film and Media Arts section.

Congratulations to both!

The 67. Berlinale is coming to a close and the prizes have been awarded! We are especially proud that three of our films have been recognized by the festival:

Silver Bear for Best Director:
Aki Kaurismäki for THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE

Silver Bear for Best Actor:
Georg Friedrich for his performance in Thomas Arslan's BRIGHT NIGHTS

CICAE Art Cinema Award (Panorama):
CENTAUR by Aktan Arym Kubat

Congratulations to the filmmakers on this well-deserved honor!

We are proud to represent the following titles at the 67. Berlinale:

COMPETITION:
BRIGHT NIGHTS by Thomas Arslan
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE by Aki Kaurismäki
WILD MOUSE by Josef Hader

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA:
BYE BYE GERMANY by Sam Garbarski

PANORAMA:
CENTAUR by Aktan Arym Kubat

We are excited to announce that three of our titles are world premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival:

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION:
- AXOLOTL OVERKILL by Helene Hegemann
- THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT by Tarik Saleh

PREMIERES:
- MANIFESTO by Julian Rosefeldt

Deepak Rauniyar's WHITE SUN was named Best Feature Film at the Singapore International Film Festival 2016.

As the year draws to a close, Maren Ade's TONI ERDMANN continues its successes:

- #1 on the Sight & Sound International Critics Poll 2016
- #1 on Cahiers du Cinéma's Top Films of the Year 2016
- Best Foreign Language Film: New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2016
- Nominee, Best Foreign Language Film: Critics' Choice Awards 2016

Eran Kolirin’s BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS was named Best Feature Film by the jury at the UK Jewish Film Festival 2016. Congratulations!

The score of Wolfgang Becker's ME AND KAMINSKI was named Best Film Music at the annual German Film Music Awards on October 28. Congratulations to composer Lorenz Dangel and the team!

TONI ERDMANN was awarded Best Feature Film in International Competition (LOUVE D'OR) and Best Actor - Peter Simonischek at Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Canada over the weekend. Congratulations!

We are happy to announce that four of our titles will be presented at the San Sebastian Film Festival:

HORIZONTES LATINOS:
THE UNTAMED by Amat Escalante

PEARLS:
TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade

THE ACT OF KILLING: CINEMA AND GLOBAL VIOLENCE:
CIRKUS COLUMBIA by Danis Tanovic
THE STATE I AM IN by Christian Petzold

The Toronto International Film Festival 2016 has started and we are happy to announce that five of our titles will be presented there:

VANGARD:
THE UNTAMED by Amat Escalante

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA:
WHITE SUN by Deepak Rauniyar
DEATH IN SARAJEVO by Danis Tanović

MASTERS:
SWEET DREAMS by Marco Bellocchio

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS:
TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade

The pre-selection for the 2016 EFA's are out! 7 titles of ours are in it:

- BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS
   by Eran Kolirin
- CHEVALIER by Athina Rachel Tsangari
- DEATH IN SARAJEVO by Danis Tanović
- FRENZY by Emin Alper
- LETTERS FROM WAR by Ivo M. Ferreira
- TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade
- LOST AND BEAUTIFUL by Pietro Marcello

The line-up for La Biennale di Venezia has been published. We are happy to announce that five of our titles will have their world premieres there:

IN COMPETITION:
THE UNTAMED by Amat Escalante
SPIRA MIRABILIS by Massimo D’Anolfi & Martina Parenti

ORIZZONTI:
THROUGH THE WALL by Rama Burshtein
WHITE SUN by Deepak Rauniyar

SIC@SIC, INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS' WEEK:
CLOWNS by Marco Bellocchio

And TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade conquered the critics in Cannes getting the Fipresci Award.

Good news start arriving from ‪Festival de Cannes‬! The France 4 Visionary Award goes to ALBÜM by Mehmet Can Mertoğlu.

Good news arrive from the Tribeca Film Festival! JUNCTION 48 by Udi Aloni has won the prize for Best International Narrative Feature! ‪

 

DEATH IN SARAJEVO by Danis Tanović harvests the SILVER BEAR for the GRAND JURY PRIZE as well as the FIPRESCI AWARD at this year's Berlinale! Congratulations!

GREETINGS FROM FUKUSHIMA has harvested three awards at this year's edition of the Berlinale:

- 2nd Place Panorama Audience Award
- Cicae Art Cinema Award
- Heiner Carow Award

 

Good news arrive from the other side of the ocean. Felix van Groeningen has been awarded as best director for BELGICA at this year's edition of the Sundance Film Festival!

All the films of this year's Berlinale line-up have been published already, being seven of our titles among the announced ones:

IN COMPETITION:
- A DRAGON ARRIVES! by Mani Haghighi
- DEATH IN SARAJEVO by Danis Tanović
- LETTERS FROM WAR by Ivo M. Ferreira
- SOY NERO by Rafi Pitts

PANORAMA:
- GREETINGS FROM FUKUSHIMA by Doris Dörrie
- JUNCTION 48 by Udi Aloni
- REMAINDER by Omer Fast 

 

Good news arrive from Asia. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR by Apichatpong Weerasethakul was awarded as Best Film and FRENZY by Emin Alper received the Grand Jury Prize!

The full nominee list of the 2015 British Independent Film Awards has been published with 6 nominations for 45 YEARS by Andrew Haigh. The nominations include:

- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Screenplay
- Best Actress (Charlotte Rampling)
- Best Actor (Tom Courtenay)
- Producer of the Year (Tristan Goligher)

 

Our beloved director Micah Magee was awarded with the Best Director Prize at the European Competition of the Filmfestival Münster for PETTING ZOO!

More good news for ‪FRENZY by Emin Alper. The film won 5 awards in its national premiere in Adana Golden Ball Film Festival's National Competition: Best Film, Best Editing, Best Art Director, Promising Actor (Berkay Ates) and People's Choice for Best Film.

The Toronto International Film Festival have expanded their line up for this year's edition. The next titles will so far represent The Match Factory in Toronto this September:

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA:
- BLOOD OF MY BLOOD by Marco Bellocchio
- FRENZY by Emin Alper
- BOX by Florin Serban
- CHEVALIER by Athina Rachel Tsangari

WAVELENGTHS:
- ARABIAN NIGHTS by Miguel Gomes
- LOST AND BEAUTIFUL by Pietro Marcello  

MASTERS:
- CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS:
- 45 YEARS by Andrew Haigh
- VICTORIA by Sebastian Schipper

 

The official line up of this year's Venice International Film Festival has been published revealing Marco Bellocchio's BLOOD OF MY BLOOD and Emin Alper's FRENZY being part of the official competition.

LIGHT YEARS by Esther May Campbell will premiere at the International Critics' week and INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES by Grant Gee will be shown for the first time worldwide in the Venice Days section. 

Congratulations to all the team of BOX by by Florin Șerban for the Fipresci Award the film received in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival!

 

More good news arrive this time from Malta! Anna Muylaert received the Best Director award for THE SECOND MOTHER (Que horas ela volta?) at the first edition of the Valletta Film Festival.

Two of our titles will be at this year's edition of the Edinburgh IFF competing for the Michael Powell Award in the Best of British section. BRAND NEW-U by Simon Pummell will premiere worldwide on Saturday the 20th. Attendees of the festival will have also the chance of watching 45 YEARS by Andrew Haigh.

This year's Cannes' line up unveils three titles of ours:

UN CERTAIN REGARD:
- CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
- AFTERTHOUGHT by Elad Keidan 

DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT:
- ARABIAN NIGHTS by Miguel Gomes

 

SCREENING DATES:

CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (122´)
MON 18 MAY / 11:00 / DEBUSSY / WORLD PREMIERE
MON 18 MAY / 16:30 / DEBUSSY / PUBLIC SCR.
TUE 19 MAY / 09:45 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCR.
TUE 19 MAY / 15:30 / SALLE BAZIN / PUBLIC SCR.
WED 20 MAY / 09:45 / ARCADES 2 / MARKET SCR.
FRI 22 MAY / 12:15 / PALAIS K / MARKET SCR.

AFTERTHOUGHT (105´)
THU 14 MAY / 13:00 / SALLE BAZIN / PRESS SCR.
FRI 15 MAY / 19:45 / SALLE DU 60IEME / WORLD PREM.
SUN 17 MAY / 16:00 / OLYMPIA 4 / MARKET SCR.
TUE 19 MAY / 15:30 / OLYMPIA 3 / MARKET SCR.
WED 20 MAY / 12:00 / PALAIS I / MARKET SCR.
FRI 22 MAY / 12:00 / PALAIS J / MARKET SCR.

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL.1 (125´)
SAT 16 MAY / 11:45 / THEAT. CROISETTE / PRESS SCR.
SAT 16 MAY /17:30/THEAT. CROISETTE/WORLD PREM.
SAT 16 MAY / 18:00 / STAR 1 / MARKET SCR.
SUN 17 MAY / 18:30 / STUDIO 13 / PUBLIC SCR.
MON 18 MAY / 16:00 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCR.

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL.2 (132´)
MON 18 MAY / 09:00 / THEAT. CROISETTE / PRESS SCR.
MON 18 MAY/17:30/THEAT. CROISETTE/WORLD PREM.
MON 18 MAY / 18:15 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCR.
TUE 19 MAY / 18:30 / STUDIO 13 / PUBLIC SCR.

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL 3 (126´)
WED 20 MAY / 09:00 / THEAT. CROISETTE / PRESS SCR.
WED 20 MAY/17:15 /THEAT. CROISETTE/WORLD PREM.
THU 21 MAY / 18:30 / STUDIO 13 / PUBLIC SCR.

SWORN VIRGIN (90´)
FRI 15 MAY / 15:30 / OLYMPIA 6 / MARKET SCR.

VICTORIA (140´)
FRI 15 MAY / 17:30 /  STAR 3 / MARKET SCR.

AS WE WERE DREAMING (117´)
SAT 16 MAY / 15:30 / ARCADES 3 / MARKET SCR.

HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK (92´)
MON 18 MAY / 11:30 / ARCADES 3 / MARKET SCR.

QUEEN OF EARTH  (90´)
MON 18 MAY / 12:00 / OLYMPIA 5 / MARKET SCR.

PETTING ZOO (95´)
WED 20 MAY / 11:30 / RIVIERA 4 / MARKET SCR.

7 nominations for VICTORIA, 3 for THE CUT and 2 for PHOENIX. Very exciting news from the German Film Academy!

VICTORIA by Sebastian Schipper:
- Best Film
- Best Director ( Sebastian Schipper )
- Best Leading Actress ( Laia Costa )
- Best Leading Actor ( Frederick Lau )
- Best Cinematography ( Sturla Brandth Grøvlen )
- Best Score ( Nils Frahm )
- Best Sound (Magnus Pflüger, Fabian Schmidt, Matthias Lempert)

THE CUT by Fatih Akin:
- Best Costume Design (Katrin Aschendorf)
- Best Make-up (Waldemar Pokromski, Sabine Schumann)
- Best Score ( Alexander Hacke )

PHOENIX by Christian Petzold:
- Best Leading Actress ( Nina Hoss )
- Best Supporting Actress ( Nina Kunzendorf )

 

VICTORIA turns out to be one of the most succesful titles at current festivals.

It has just been awarded as Best Film in the Baltic Gaze Competition at Vilnius International Film Festival.

Congratulations once more to Sebastian Schipper and team!

After PETTING ZOO's showcase at Berlinale 2015 Micah Magee will present her first feature in Austin, next to San Antonio, in this year's edition of SXSW.

We are finally proud to present our complete line-up for this year's Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival:

IN COMPETITION:
- 45 YEARS by Andrew Haigh
- VICTORIA by Sebastian Schipper
- AS WE WERE DREAMING by Andreas Dresen
- SWORN VIRGIN by Laura Bispuri

PANORAMA:
- THE SECOND MOTHER by Anna Muylaert
- PETTING ZOO by Micah Magee

FORUM:
- HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK by Sonja Heiss

 

Good news arrive from Argentina. LE MERAVIGLIE by Alice Rohrwacher has won the Astor de Plata Award for best script at the Mar de Plata International Film Festival 2014.

Additionally the ACCA (Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de Argentina) awarded Rohrwacher's title with the Best Film of the International Competition Prize.

 

Very good Saturday news. Three of our films just were awarded!

SEVILLE EUROPEAN FF: LE MERAVIGLIE by Alice Rohrwacher won the Special jury Award and Maria Alexandra Lungu got the Best Actress Award for her role as Gelsomina.

EURIMAGES AWARD: WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó was awarded with the Eurimages Award.

BRAUNSCHWEIG IFF: THE GOOD LIFE by Jean Denizot received the "Heinrich" Audience Award.

Congratulations to all three!

 

We are proud to congratulate Feo Aladag for the Best Film award INBETWEEN WORLDS has won at the São Paulo IFF 2014 in the category of New Filmmakers Competition for 1st and 2nd feature film).

We are excited and looking forward to the participation of our two titles at the 2014 Rome IFF:

THE LIES OF THE VICTORS by Christoph Hochhäusler (World Premiere at Cinema D'Oggi)
PHOENIX by Christian Petzold (Gala)

 

We are happy to announce the FIPRESCI AWARD PHOENIX by Christian Petzold has won at 2014 San Sebastian International Film Festival. As for TIGERS by Danis Tanović the film obtained the GUIPUZCOAN BLOOD-DONORS’ ASSOCIATION CORRESPONDING TO THE SOLIDARITY AWARD. 

We proudly congratulate Alex Ross Perry and his crew for LISTEN UP PHILIP's Special Jury Prize at this year's edition of Locarno International Film Festival.

We are excited and are proudly looking forward to the participation of our five titles at the 67th Locarno Internation Film Festival:

DANCING ARABS by Eran Riklis at Piazza Grande
LOVE ISLAND by Jasmila Žbanic at Piazza Grande
LISTEN UP PHILIP by Alex Ross Perry at Concorso Internazionale
TEZA by Haile Gerima at Open Doors
GOLD by Thomas Arslan at Film Del Giurie

Great news arrive from this year's Festival de Cannes, where two out of our three titles that took part of the festival have been awarded.

LE MERAVIGLIE by Aliche Rohrwacher received the Grand Prix du Jury in the Competition section and WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó won the Prize of Un Certain Regard.

Congratulations to both teams for their great work!

 

Great news arrive from the other side of the ocean. Talya Lavie's ZERO MOTIVATION was awarded with The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Nora Ephron Prize at this year's edition of Tribeca IFF.

Congratulations to all the team!

 

It's official: we are proud to announce our 5 titles that will take part in this year's Berlinale.

COMPETITION:
- INBETWEEN WORLDS by Feo Aladag
- STRATOS by Yannis Economides
- PRAIA DO FUTURO by Karim Aïnouz
- THE THIRD SIDE OF THE RIVER by Celina Murga

PANORAMA:
- LAST HIJACK by Tommy Pallotta & Femke Wolting