Acclaimed Austrian documentary director Ruth Beckermann portrays a dying culture of Viennese urban history in HOMEMAD(E). The entertaining as well as insightful doc was shown at the Forum section of the Berlinale. The Marc-Aurel-Strae in Vienna. The last Jewish shop owner in the former textile disctrict, the Iranian hotelier, the cafe Salzgries with its regular customers. From...
At the Wailing Wall or in the spotlight of a stage, wearing a Zorro costume or a designer dress, solemn or rollicking: crossing the threshold to the adult world can take place in very different ways. This film accompanies four 12-year-olds as they prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
"I don't know exactly why I traveled east this winter," filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her documentary journey through Eastern Europe. "I think I was just curious to know whether there was still any resemblance to the stories I grew up with." Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust; her father was a war refugee from Romania and her mother was a native of Vienn...
Initially, there's that moment of happiness: an African-American celebrating in Harlem cheers "We're free!" as if Barack Obama's victory meant the ultimate end of slavery.
AMERICAN PASSAGES is an associative journey through the United States: a disillusioned Iraq veteran, gay adoptive fathers, black judges, white party animals and a pimp at a casino table in Las Vegas.
The extr...
It is an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories–leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily, drunk nationalists in Vienna, three veiled women trying to cross a busy road in Alexandria.
柏林当地时间2月16日晚,第72届柏林国际电影节举行了颁奖典礼。本届柏林电影节将于当地时间20日闭幕,受疫情影响,今年的颁奖典礼提前至16日举行。女导演卡拉·西蒙凭借《阿尔卡拉斯》获得最佳影片金熊奖,洪尚秀凭借《小说家的电影》获得评审团大奖银熊奖,克莱尔·德尼凭借《双刃剑》斩获最佳导演银熊奖,唯一入围主竞赛单元的中国影片李睿珺《隐入尘烟》遗憾落选。完整名单如下:
主竞赛单元获奖名单
最佳影片金熊奖:《阿尔卡拉斯》卡拉·西蒙
评审团大奖银熊奖: 《小说家的电影》洪常秀
评审团奖银熊奖:《宝石长袍》 娜塔莉亚·洛佩兹·加拉多
最佳导演银熊奖:克莱尔·德尼《双刃剑》
最佳主角银熊奖:梅尔滕·卡普坦《库尔纳兹诉小布什》
最佳配角银熊奖:劳拉·巴苏基《过去,如今和之后》
最佳剧本银熊奖:莱拉·斯蒂勒《库尔纳兹诉小布什》
特别艺术贡献银熊奖:潘礼德《一切安好》
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