Saturday, December 23, 2023

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MeeraSahib Online: 74th Berlin International Film Festival will award...: The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will award US-director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese the Honorary Golden Bear for h...

74th Berlin International Film Festival will award the honorary Golden Bear to Martin Scorsese.





The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will award US-director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement in an award ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 20, 2024.

“For anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unmatched role model. His films have accompanied our history as spectators and human beings, his characters have lived and grown within us, his view of history and mankind has helped us to understand and question who we are and where we come from 

Killers of the Flower Moon, his latest film, is one of his greatest achievements. As Scorsese himself so eloquently has said, the film is an ‘offering that acknowledges the extent of the terror the Osage community experienced, and one that might also give some kind of solace’. It is a great pleasure to welcome once more a good friend of the festival and offer him our most prestigious prize of honour,“ says the Berlinale director duo MariĆ«tte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian.

Since the 1970s, the Oscar-winning director has been one of the most influential filmmakers in the world of cinema. The directorial works of the Italian American with Sicilian roots alone comprise more than 70 films. Many of his works have written film history and the versatility of his oeuvre is unique. His best-known films include Taxi Driver (1975, Palme d'Or Cannes 1976), Raging Bull (1980, Berlinale Competition - Out of Competition 1981), After Hours (1985, Best Director at Cannes 1986), The Color of Money (1986), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991, Berlinale Competition 1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995), Gangs of New York (2002, Berlinale Competition - Out of competition 2003 and Retrospective 2010), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shine a Light (2008 Berlinale Opening Film), Shutter Island (2010, Berlinale Competition - Out of competition), Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Silence (2016) and The Irishman (2019). Another presentation at the Berlinale was the work in progress Untitled New York Review of Books Documentary (2014), which was later launched by HBO as The 50 Year Argument.

His latest film, Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon, was recently voted the best film of 2023 by the renowned US film association National Board of Review and has been named one of the top 10 films of the year by the American Film Institute, as well as No. 1 Best Film of 2023 by “The New York Times”, “The New Yorker” and The New York Film Critics Circle.

Martin Scorsese is also very committed to historical film heritage. With The Film Foundation, he supports the restoration and distribution of classic films.

The Berlinale associates Scorsese with presenting many of his films – including the spectacular concert film Shine a Light about the Rolling Stones, which opened the Berlinale 2008. In addition, some Berlinale Classics were supported by The Film Foundation and the world's first exhibition on the director was shown by the Deutsche Kinemathek from January to May 2013.




source: https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/honorary-golden-bear.html


Thursday, December 7, 2023

MeeraSahib Online: 28th edition of the International Film Festival of...

MeeraSahib Online: 28th edition of the International Film Festival of...:   Opening Film Goodbye Julia 2023 Arabic ...

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28th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)- Opening Film -Goodbye Julia

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Opening Film

Goodbye Julia

2023 Arabic
Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Directors: Mohamed Kordofani
Director's bio
Mohamed Kordofani is a Sudanese filmmaker whose short film Nyerkuk won the Black Elephant Award for Best Sudanese Film, NAAS Award for Best Arab Film at the Carthage Film Festival, Jury Award at the Oran International Arab Film Festival, and Arnone-Belavite Pellegrini Award at the FCAAA in Milan. His second short Kejers Prison was screened during the Sudanese revolution at the sit-in square in front of thousands of protesters, and his documentary A Tour in Love Republic was the first pro-revolution film to be broadcast on Sudan’s national TV. His latest work was the film This Sudan, which was commissioned by Sudan’s former prime minister Abdallah Hamadok to promote Sudan’s potential for investment.
Synopsis
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona, a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage, tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.
Details of Cast
Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany, Stephanos James Peter
Details of Crew
(DoP) Pierre de Villiers (Editor) Heba Othman (Music) Mazin Hamid (Sound Design) Rana Eid
Producer Details
Amjad Abu Alala
Writer Details
Mohamed Kordofani

 Coutesy: iffk website

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