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Berlin International Film Festival
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the worlds leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany, founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival based on actual attendance rates. Up to 400 films are shown in sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick, the European Film Market, a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers, the Berlinale Talent Campus, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists, the festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists are responsible for the exposure in over 110 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet, the Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in West Berlin in 1951, alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened the first Berlinale. Although the film had premiered in 1940, many Germans had been unable to watch it until after the war ended, since 1978 the festival has been celebrated annually in February. The next-to-most recent festival, the 66th Berlinale, was held from 11 February to 21 February 2016, meryl Streep presided over the international jury. Joel and Ethan Coens film Hail, Caesar. was selected to open the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The 67th Berlin International Film Festival was held February 9 to February 19,2017, the festival is composed of seven different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include, Competition, comprises feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, films in the Competition section compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production. Panorama, comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles, films in the category are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBT issues
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Meryl Streep
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Mary Louise Meryl Streep is an American actress and philanthropist. Nominated for 20 Academy Awards, Streep has more nominations than any actor or actress. Streep has also received 30 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, Streep made her professional stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975, and in 1976 received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust and she went on to win Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, and Best Actress for Sophies Choice and The Iron Lady. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, in 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, Streep was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22,1949, in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Wolf Wilkinson, a commercial artist and art editor, the eldest child, she has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III. Streeps father Harry was of German and Swiss ancestry and her fathers lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor. Another line of her fathers family was from Giswil, Switzerland and her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streeps maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th-century immigrants from England and her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, Streeps maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the namesake of Streeps second daughter, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland. Streeps mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench, strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a young age. Streep has said, She was a mentor because she said to me, Meryl and she was saying, You can do whatever you put your mind to. If youre lazy, youre not going to get it done, but if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice. Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, in her Junior High debut, she starred as Lousie Heller in the play The Family Upstairs. In 1963 the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, after making her musical debut with her father on the song Lemon Incest at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the age of 15. More than 20 years passed before she released three albums as an adult to commercial and critical success, Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several directed by Lars von Trier, and has received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. Gainsbourg was born in London, to English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French actor, Gainsbourg was born at the height of her parents fame, they had made headlines several years earlier with the sexually explicit song Je taime. Moi non plus and by that point had become notorious for their turbulent relationship, as a result, her birth and childhood were well publicised. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell, and her uncle is screenwriter Andrew Birkin and she is a cousin of theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Her father was Jewish, and her mother is from a Protestant background, Gainsbourg attended École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris and Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland. French is Gainsbourgs first language, but she is fluent in English. Gainsbourg was raised in Paris alongside her half-sister from her mothers marriage to composer John Barry, Kate Barry, according to Birkin, both parents were somewhat neglectful, often spending their nights going out to parties and drinking. She has a brother, Lucien Lulu Gainsbourg, born in 1986 from her fathers relationship with Bambou. On her fathers side she also had two siblings born from his second marriage to Françoise-Antoinette Béatrice Pancrazzi. By 1980, her parents relationship had dissolved and her left her father for the director Jacques Doillon. Her half sister Lou Doillon was born in 1982 as a result of the union, Gainsbourg would go on to work with her stepfather in the film The Temptation of Isabelle in 1985 and later in Amoureuse in 1992, which also starred her spouse Yvan Attal. In 1987 she was the target of a bungled kidnapping, after her parents separated, Gainsbourgs father descended into alcoholism, eventually dying of a heart attack in 1991. Gainsbourg remained devoted to preserving his legacy and preserved his home and she eventually abandoned the project and decided to maintain the house as a private residence instead. On 5 September 2007, Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where she underwent surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage and she had been experiencing headaches since a waterskiing accident in the United States several weeks earlier. Gainsbourg grew up on film sets, as both of her parents were involved in the film industry, in 1986, Gainsbourg won a César Award for Most Promising Actress for Leffrontée. That same year Gainsbourg appeared in the film Charlotte for Ever about a man who develops incestuous desires for his daughter after his wife dies
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician. In 2016, he starred in an Amazon original series, Goliath about a washed up attorney with a new case. He has been vocal about his disrespect for celebrity culture, choosing to keep his life out of the public eye, however, the attention of the media has proven unavoidable in certain cases, his marriage to Angelina Jolie being a notable example. Thornton has appeared in at least one film per year every year since 1991. Thornton has written a variety of films, usually set in the Southern United States and mainly co-written with Tom Epperson, including A Family Thing, after Sling Blade, he directed several other films, including Daddy and Them, All the Pretty Horses, and Jayne Mansfields Car. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award, four Golden Globes, in addition to film work, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released four albums and is the vocalist of a blues rock band The Boxmasters. His brother Jimmy Don wrote a number of songs, two of which Thornton has recorded on his solo albums, during his childhood, Thornton lived in numerous places in Arkansas, including Alpine, Mount Holly, and Malvern. He was raised a Methodist in a family in a shack that had neither electricity nor plumbing. He graduated from school in 1973. A good high school player, he tried out for the Kansas City Royals. After a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, he attended Henderson State University to pursue studies in psychology, in the mid-1980s, Thornton settled in Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor, with future writing partner Tom Epperson. He initially had a difficult time succeeding as an actor, and worked in telemarketing, offshore wind farming and he also played drums and sang with South African rock band Jack Hammer. While Thornton worked as a waiter for an event, he served film director. Thornton struck up a conversation with Wilder, who advised Thornton to consider a career as a screenwriter, thorntons first screen role was in 1980s South of Reno, where he played a small role as a counter man in a restaurant. He also made an appearance as a store clerk in the 1987 Matlock episode The Photographer. Another one of his screen roles was as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire. His role as the villain in 1992s One False Move, which he also co-wrote and he also had small roles in the 1990s films Indecent Proposal, On Deadly Ground, Bound by Honor, and Tombstone
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Anton Corbijn
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion. Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands and his father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard, took up the same position in Hoogland and Groningen, moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer, was a nurse and was raised in a parsons family, photographer and director Maarten Corbijn is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes van Willenswaard was an art teacher at Christian schools in Hilversum, Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, from the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express, a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man, in the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters and his first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsies second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R. E. M. The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke, Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and his first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single Pride. In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijns music video output as part of the Directors Label series, in 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007, the film is based on Deborah Curtis book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles. 2010 Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, on 26 October 2011 Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014, the John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he start filming his next project Life about James Dean, author William Gibson refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel Spook Country
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Asghar Farhadi
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Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Among other awards, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well as two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his movies A Separation and The Salesman in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine in 2012, Farhadi was born in Khomeyni Shahr, a city located in the Isfahan province near the city of Isfahan. He is a graduate of theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from University of Tehran and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in the Isfahan branch of the Iranian Young Cinema Society and he also directed such TV series as A Tale of a City and co-wrote the screenplay for Ebrahim Hatamikia’s Low Heights. Dancing in the Dust was his film debut, which he followed with A Beautiful City. His third film, Fireworks Wednesday, won the Gold Hugo at the 2006 Chicago International Film Festival and his fourth film, About Elly, won him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 59th International Berlin Film Festival and also Best Picture at the Tribeca Film Festival. The latter film is about a group of Iranians who take a trip to the Iranian beaches of Caspian Sea that turns tragic, Film theorist and critic David Bordwell has called About Elly a masterpiece. His film A Separation premiered on 9 February 2011 at the 29th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran and it won Farhadi four awards including Best Director. On 15 February 2011, it played in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In June 2011, A Separation won the Sydney Film Prize in competition with Cannes Festivals winner The Tree of Life, on 19 December 2011, Farhadi was announced as being on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2012. On 15 January 2012, A Separation won the Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film, on 26 February 2012, A Separation became the first Iranian movie to win an Oscar for the best foreign language film at the 84th edition of the Academy Awards. This marked Farhadi as the first Iranian to have won an Academy Award in any of the competitive categories and he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. A Separation also won the César Award for Best Foreign Film and his 2013 film The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Bejo won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance in the film and his 2016 film The Salesman, starring Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The Salesman won two Awards, Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini and Best Screenplay for Farhadi, on 26 February 2017, he won his second Oscar for Best Foreign Film for The Salesman at the 89th Academy Awards. The Salesman had already won the award for the Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and he then has announced two prominent Iranian Americans, Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi to representing him in the ceremony. Anousheh Ansari is famed for being the first female space tourist and first Iranian in space, a few hours before the ceremony, he addressed a group of protesters in London via a video link from Iran
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Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jacob Benjamin Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor. He subsequently appeared in indie film, The Good Girl. In 2005, Gyllenhaal portrayed Anthony Swoff Swofford in Jarhead, Gwyneth Paltrows love interest in Proof, Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, his sister, appeared with him in the film Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaals father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent, jakes last ancestor to be born in Sweden was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal. Jakes mother is Jewish, she was born in New York City, to a family from Russia, Gyllenhaal has said that he considers himself Jewish. His parents insisted that he have summer jobs to support himself and he worked as a lifeguard. Gyllenhaal said his parents encouraged artistic expression, I do have parents who supported me in certain ways. In other ways, they were lacking, definitely, its in expression and creativity where my family has always been best at. As a child, Gyllenhaal was regularly exposed to filmmaking due to his familys ties to the industry. He made his debut as Billy Crystals son in the 1991 comedy film City Slickers. His parents did not allow him to appear in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks because it would have required his leaving home for two months, in subsequent years, his parents allowed him to audition for roles but regularly forbade him to take them if he were chosen. He was allowed to appear in his fathers films several times, Gyllenhaal appeared in the 1993 film A Dangerous Woman, in Bop Gun, a 1994 episode of Homicide, Life on the Street, and in the 1998 comedy Homegrown. Along with their mother, Jake and Maggie appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network. Prior to his year in high school, the only other film not directed by his father, in which Gyllenhaal was allowed to perform, was the 1993 film Josh. Gyllenhaal dropped out two years to concentrate on acting but has expressed intentions to eventually finish his degree. The film earned $32 million and was described in the Sacramento News, Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaals second film, was not a box office success upon its initial 2001 release but eventually became a cult favorite. After the critical success of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaals next role was as Pilot Kelston in 2002s Highway alongside Jared Leto and his performance was described by one critic as silly, cliched and straight to video
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War Witch
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War Witch is a 2012 Canadian dramatic war film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda. It is about a child soldier forced into a war in Africa. The film was shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the French. After premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival, the received positive reviews. It won several honours, including 10 at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, War Witch was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. During a civil war in sub-saharan Africa, a 12-year-old girl named Komona is abducted by forces to become a child soldier under a warlord known as the Great Tiger. The rebels compel Komona to kill her own parents, after drinking tree sap, she begins to experience vivid illusions. When her visions enable her to survive an attack, she is considered to be a witch and is viewed as an asset by the Great Tiger. Komona and her love interest, an albino boy known as Magician, eventually escape the rebels. He hopes to marry her, but she is kidnapped by the Great Tigers forces, Komona, who was raped and is now pregnant, narrates her life story to her fetus. Montreal director Kim Nguyen wrote the screenplay over a period of 10 years, in researching the film, Nguyen met real child soldiers and humanitarian staff. He envisioned his project as a story about a child who lives through war. War Witch was primarily filmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nguyen discovered Rachel Mwanza and numerous other child actors for his cast in Kinshasa, DRC, after open audiontions. Mwanza had never acted before, and was 15 by September 2012, Nguyen said that Rachel was living in the streets before we did the film. Most of War Witch was filmed in the order of the story and it was only the second film shot in the DRC in 25 years, and due to security concerns, the crew was accompanied by soldiers with AK-47s, and insurance was challenging to obtain. The film had its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival on 17 February 2012, Nguyen became the first Canadian to compete for the Silver Bear in 13 years. In the spring, it played in North America for the first time at the Tribeca Film Festival and it also screened from 14 to 15 September at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It had a release in Toronto and Ottawa on 21 September 2012
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Farewell, My Queen
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Farewell, My Queen is a 2012 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas, who won the Prix Femina in 2002. It gives an account of the last days of Marie Antoinette in power seen through the eyes of Sidonie Laborde. The film stars Diane Kruger as the Queen, Léa Seydoux and it opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012 and has subsequently been screened at other festivals. Its release date was 21 March 2012 in France, in 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, the court at the Palace of Versailles still live their routines, relatively unconcerned by the increasing turmoil in Paris a mere twenty miles away. The routines are seen through the eyes of the young Sidonie Laborde, when news about the storming of the Bastille reaches the Court, most aristocrats and servants desert the Palace and abandon the Royal Family, fearing that the government is falling. But Sidonie, a believer in the monarchy, refuses to flee. She feels secure under the protection of the Royal Family and she does not know these are the last three days she will spend by the Queens side. The Queen orders Sidonie to disguise herself as Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac and this Sidonie does, despite a prior warning from one of the Queens ladies in waiting. Sidonie is stripped naked and then redressed in a green gown, the coach carrying Sidonie is also occupied by the real Duchess and her husband, dressed as her servants. They treat her with disdain during the journey but she plays her role convincingly enough to enable the party to cross the border. As the film ends, she remarks that she has no other than her position as reader to the Queen. Farewell, My Queen was directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on a script by him, Chantal Thomas and they adapted the script from the novel of the same name by Thomas. She won the Prix Femina for her book in 2002, after reading Chantals feminist novel, Jacquot wanted to create a film from this perspective. The German actress Diane Kruger was cast as Marie Antoinette, recognizing that many audience members had preconceptions of Marie Antoinette, Kruger approached the role by trying not to judge her. We have the origins, the same age. I could relate to her as a woman, while the actress Léa Seydoux is younger than the age of the lectrice character in the novel, Jacquot cast her as Laborde because she brought this carnal dimension. He also added to the plot the relationship between the Queen and duchess of Polignac, he thought it might be possible, given womens strong relationships with each other in that time period. The film opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, farewell, My Queen opened in theaters in France on 21 March 2012, and was released on a limited basis to American theaters on 13 July 2012
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Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
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Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters. They are brothers, who have worked together, each directing alternate scenes. Paolo Tavianis wife Lina Nerli Taviani has been costume designer of many of their films, at the Cannes Film Festival the Taviani brothers won the Palme dOr and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre padrone in 1977 and Grand Prix du Jury for La notte di San Lorenzo. In 2012 they reached again the top prize in a major festival, both born in San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy, the Taviani brothers began their careers as journalists. In 1960 they came to the world of cinema, directing with Joris Ivens the documentary LItalia non è un paese povero and they went on to direct two films with Valentino Orsini Un uomo da bruciare and I fuorilegge del matrimonio. Their first autonomous film was I sovversivi, with which they anticipated the events of 1968, with actor Gian Maria Volontè they gained attention with Sotto il segno dello scorpione (Under the Sign of Scorpio, where one can see the echoes of Brecht, Pasolini and Godard. In 1971 they co-signed the media campaign against Milans police commissioner Luigi Calabresi and their next film Padre padrone, taken from a novel by Gavino Ledda, speaks of the struggle of a Sardinian shepherd against the cruel rules of his patriarchal society. The film was awarded the Special Jury Award in Cannes, Kaos —another literary adaptation—is a poignantly beautiful and poetical film in episodes, taken from Luigi Pirandellos Short Stories for a year. In Il sole anche di notte the Taviani brothers transposed in 18th century Naples the story from Tolstoys Father Sergius, from then onwards, the Tavianis inspiration proved faltering. In the 2000s, the two brothers turned successfully to directing films and miniseries. They gave a respectful adaptation of Tolstoys Resurrection and Luisa Sanfelice a sort of romantic-popular ballad from a book by Alexandre Dumas, literary adaptations continue with La masseria delle allodole, presented at the Berlin Film Festival in the section Berlinale Special. Their film Caesar Must Die won the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, the film was also selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. 1977, Palme dor at Cannes Film Festival for Padre Padrone - Father and Master,1977, Grand Prix for Padre Padrone - Father and Master, Berlin International Film Festival 1978, Special David di Donatello for Padre Padrone - Father and Master. 1982, Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival for The Night of the Shooting Stars,1983, David di Donatello for Best Film and David di Donatello for Best Director for The Night of the Shooting Stars. 1984, Italian Golden Globes Golden Globe for Best Film for The Night of the Shooting Stars,1985, Italian Golden Globes Golden Globe for Best Film for Kaos. 1985, David di Donatello for Best Script for Kaos,1986, Leone dOro Life Career of the Venice International Film Festival. 2002, Golden St. George at the 24th Moscow International Film Festival for Resurrection 2005, Italian Golden Globes Career Prize 2007,2008, Laurea Honoris Causa in Cinema, Theatre and Multimedia Production by the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Pisa. 2012, Golden Bear and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlin International Film Festival for Caesar Must Die,2012, David di Donatello for Best Film and David di Donatello for Best Director for Caesar Must Die
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Brillante Mendoza
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Brillante Mendoza is a Filipino film director. He was born and raised in San Fernando, Pampanga and he took Advertising Arts of the then College of Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. He has directed sixteen films since 2005 and he won the award for Best Director for his film Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. His 2009 film Lola won the award for Best Film at the 6th Dubai International Film Festival and his 2012 film Captive was shown in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. His 2012 film Thy Womb competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival and his film Taklub has been selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. On July 25,2016, he directed the first State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, brillante Mendoza at the Internet Movie Database
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Sister (2012 film)
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Sister is a 2012 Swiss drama film directed by Ursula Meier. The film competed in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Special Award, the film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, making the January shortlist. Twelve-year-old Simon lives with his older sister Louise in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort, despite his age, he supports both him and his sister by stealing equipment from the resort, refurbishing them to look new before reselling them to children at a discounted price. Though he makes a substantial sum of money through these sales, he spends most of it on Louise, buying her clothes, Louise is selfish and irresponsible, unable to hold down a job and frequently going off with men, leaving Simon alone at home. Though Simon tries to teach her how to refurbish the skis, at the ski resort, Simon meets tourist Kristin by helping her with her sons equipment. He introduces himself as Julien, explaining that he is alone because his parents are running a hotel. Later he eats lunch with her and is surprised when she insists on paying for the food and he also meets Mike, an employee of the resort who catches him hoarding stolen skis. Mike is furious, but after Simon explains that he sells the skis to pay for food, Simon continues to steal equipment, and in return for some of it, Mike gives him more access to hide the stolen skis. Mike asks Simon about his parents, and Simon explains that they died in a car accident, Louise returns from her trip with Bruno, who stays the night. Louise explains that Simon is only staying at their home temporarily, when Bruno asks Simon where he lives, Simon replies with my parents and says that they have a fucked-up family. Bruno takes the siblings out driving in his BMW the next morning so that Louise can pick out a car, after Simon sees Bruno and Louise flirting with each other, he confesses that Louise is not his sister, but his mother. Upset, Louise begins to cry, telling her boyfriend that she was going to him eventually. A furious Bruno kicks them out of the car and leaves them to home by themselves. Louise, livid, demands that Simon follow her at a large distance and she says that he has been her ball and chain for twelve years, and he, furious, states that shes his, pointing out that he pays for her. That night, Simon pays money to sleep beside his mother, Simon accepts, and Louise admits that she didnt want to keep him. When Simon asks why she did, she tells him that she only did so because everyone pressured her not to, after Simon falls asleep, Louise sneaks out of the house with the money and gets drunk. Shes found passed out in a field the next morning, Simon realizes that shed spent all of their money and they are broke. Simon returns to the ski resort with another child, and Mike, angered at the sight of a boy stealing, rebukes Simon
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