60th Berlinale Prizes Released
Prizes of the International Jury:
Golden Bear for the Best Film: Bal (Honey) by Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey)
Jury Grand Prix- Sliver Bear: Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) by Florin Şerban (Romania)
Sliver Bear for Best Director: Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer (France, Germany and United Kingdom)
Sliver Bear for Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima in Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
Sliver Bear for Best Actor: Grigori Dobrygin ex aequo Sergei Puskepalis for Kak ya provyol etim letom by Alexei Popogrebski (Russia)
Sliver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Achievement in the Category Camera: Pavel Kostomarov for the camera in Kak ya provyol etim letom by Alexei Popogrebski (Russia)
Silver Bear for the Best Script: Wang Quan'an and Na Jin for Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) by Wang Quan'an (China)
Alfred Bauer Prize, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation: Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) by Florin Şerban (Romania)
Best First Feature Jury:
Best First Feature Award, endowed with 50,000 Euros founded by GWFFSebbe by Babak Najafi
Prizes of the International Short Film Jury:
Golden Bear: Händelse Vid Bank (Incident by a Bank) by Ruben Ostlund
The Jury Prize- Sliver Bear: Hayerida (The Desent) by Shai Miedzinski
Berlinale Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2010: Venus vs Me by Nathelie Teirlinck
DAAD Short Film Award: Colivia (The Cage) by Adrian Sitaru
James Cameron announces DVD/Blu-ray date for 'Avatar'
Director James Cameron has announced that his epic blockbuster hit Avatar will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in April, although the first version released will not be in 3D.The original Cameron quote is as follows: "It's all right on schedule. We'll do the Blu-ray and the standard def DVD April 22nd, that's our plan as of right now, and that'll be pretty much bare bones. And then we'll do a value-added DVD and a 3-D Blu-ray in I think November sometime."
Fox however, has stated that the 3D version is not coming out in November. Says the spokesperson: "3-D is in the conceptual stage and 'Avatar' will not be out on 3-D Blu-ray in November."
'Avatar,' released in December, has quickly become the highest-grossing film of all-time (not adjusted for ticket inflation), and is the highest-grossing film in U.S., Chinese, Russian, Spanish, U.K history.
Source from: Afterdawn
Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) - 60th Berlinale Opening Film
—— Diretor Wang Quan'an Talked about Apart Together "Life is more than edited things"Chian Director Wang Quan'an always try to make a simple yet profound flim. It seems his new film Apart Together let him realize his dream. In the 60th Berlinale, this opening film got a very great response.
This is a very simple story, an old man came back to Shanghai after leaving the army in Taiwan, hoping to find his lost wife and bring her back to Taiwan to live together. After many years, his wife has already remarried and lived a peaceful life with her current husband. His coming back broke their peaceful life. Finally, her current husband agree the wife to go back to Taiwan with the old man while he was sufferring for such reality. And the wife also involved in the complication emotions between love and familial affection. A history, two compassions, three old men delibrated sometimes peaceful sometimes passionate emotional journey.
"It happened to occure me to create this film after getting a news for a soldier looked for his wife in Shanghai from Taiwan. It seems to be just a marriage relationship in the surface, however, it contains our covered pain in the last century." The director said.
" Chinese especially concerns family unit which always contains happiness and worry. Sometimes together would not the same as we imagined since we cannot surpass wall bulit with passing time. However, we still pursue such concept with eager. That is the main meaning I try to convey in this movie." said Wang Quan'an, "This movie uses Chinese specific emotional expressed way to convey Chinese emotion through several conversation and dinner."
In fact, Wang Quan'an thought Simple but sincere descriptive way can more like his style, "Besides reflecting ture world, I cannot imagine what else we can creat. Life is more than edited things. And my job is to discover life. I hope to stick in this road and continue to go deeper, which is my main interests. Everyone has different understanding for creation, I want to try a depth with going through one direction ability. That would be possible more valuable than the surface trial."
60th Berlinale and Competition Flim List
Within 26 flims on competition, there are 7 flims from Germany or flimes shot by Geramany and other countries together while 6 flims from US or from US and other country together. There are 2 films from China, Japan and Danmark seperately. Other flims are from British, France, India, Norway, Argentina, Russia, etc.
Here is the List for the flims selected in competition for the Golden Bear award:
Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) by Wang Quan'an (China)
Bal by Semih Kaplanoğlu (Turkey)
Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
Der Räuber by Benjamin Heisenberg (Germany)
En Familie by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Denmark)
En ganske snill mann by Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier by Florin Şerban (Romania)
Greenberg by Noah Baumbach (United States)
Howl by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (United States)
Kak ya provyol etim letom by Alexei Popogrebski (Russia)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen by Oskar Roehler (Austria/Germany)
Mammuth by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern (France)
Na putu by Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany and Croatia) Rompecabezas by Natalia Smirnoff (Argentina and France)
San qiang pai an jing qi by Zhang Yimou (China)
Shahada by Burhan Qurbani (Germany)
Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese (United States)
Shekarchi by Rafi Pitts (Iran, Germany)
Submarino by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski (France, Germany and United Kingdom)
The Killer Inside Me by Michael Winterbottom (United States)
The following films will make their international debut by screening out of competition at the festival:
About Her Brother (Otouto) by Yoji Yamada (Japan)
Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy (United Kingdom)
My Name Is Khan by Karan Johar (India)
Please Give by Nicole Holofcener (United States)
The Kids are All Right by Lisa Cholodenko (United States)
Berlin International Film Festival - General Introduction
Berlin International Film Festival, which also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading flim festival and most reputable media events held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1987 and considered the largest publicly-attended film festival wordlwide. There are up to 400 films are shown in several sections to represent a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films is competing for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears.The Golden Bear, which includes Best Motion Picture and Lifetime Achievement prize, is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. There are eight prizes for Silver Bear including Jury Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Film Music, Extraordinary achievement by a single artist and Grand Prize of the Jury. There are also some other prizes to award other items. For example, Berlinale Camera is a special award for services to the Festival while Shooting Stars Award is for young European acting talent.
