French actress and Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche will serve as president of the International Jury at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Juliette Binoche to Serve as President of International Jury at 69th Berlin International Film Festival
Juliette Binoche in Doubles vies (Non-Fiction, 2018) by Olivier Assayas
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BLACKKKLANSMAN, ROMA, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Win 2018 San Francisco Film Critics Awards
BlacKkKlansman The San Francisco Film Critics Circle named Roma the Best Picture of 2018 along with Best Foreign Language Picture but gave the award for Best Director to Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman. BlacKkKlansman also won the awards for Best Original Score and Best Screenplay, Adapted.
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THE FAVOURITE Leads Nominations for 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards
The Favourite “The Favourite” leads the nominations for the 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Olivia Colman for Best Actress and Best Actress in a Comedy, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz both for Best Supporting Actress, Best Acting Ensemble, and Yorgos Lanthimos for Best Director.
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ROMA, SHIRKERS Among Winners of 2018 LA Film Critics Association Awards
Shirkers Roma continues to be the darling of the critics, winning Best Film at the 44th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (LAFCA). Roma also won Best Director and Best Cinematography for Alfonso Cuaron. The award for Best Foreign Language Film was tie and went to Burning and Shoplifters; and the award for Best Documentary went to Shirkers.
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34th IDA Documentary Awards, MINDING THE GAP Wins Best Feature Documentary
Minding the Gap Minding the Gap directed by Bing Liu won the award for Best Feature documentary at the 34th International Documentary Asociation IDA Documentary Awards on Saturday night in Los Angeles. The documentary also won the award for Best Editing.
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ROMA and IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Win Big with 2018 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
If Beale Street Could Talk Roma and If Beale Street Could Talk tied to win 3 awards, the most at the second annual Philadelphia Film Critics Circle awards. Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma took the top prize for Best Movie, along with Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography. If Beale Street Could Talk won the award for Best Director for Barry Jenkins , Best Supporting Actress for Regina King, and Best Breakthrough Performance for Kiki Layne.
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THE HATE U GIVE is Big Winner of 2019 Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards
THE HATE U GIVE The Hate U Give leads this year’s winners of the 2nd Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards with a total of four awards including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade followed closely with three awards including Best Independent Film, Best First Feature, and Best Performance by an Actress 23 and Under for Elsie Fisher.
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ROMA Leads 2018 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Nominations
Roma Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” is the clear favorite with the Chicago Film Critics Association, earning the most nominations of all for their 2018 film awards with nine. In addition to being one of the finalists for Best Picture, Cuaron himself was personally nominated in four additional categories for Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing, the latter alongside Adam Gough. Yalitza Aparicio, the non-professional chosen by Cuaron to star in the film received two nominations herself for Best Actress and Most Promising Performer and it also received nods for Art Direction/Production Design and Foreign Film.
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76th Golden Globe Awards Nominations List, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, ROMA, EIGHTH GRADE
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The nominations were announced this morning for the 76th Golden Globe Awards, and films nominated for the top prize – Best Motion Picture Drama include BlacKkKlansman, If Beale Street Could Talk along with Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born. In the Best Foreign Language Film category, Capernaum (Lebanon), Girl (Belgium), Never Look Away (Germany), Roma (Mexico) and Shoplifters (Japan) will compete for the Golden Glob
The 76th Golden Globes will take place at International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton on January 6th, 2019.
76th Golden Globe Awards Nominations
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
BLACK PANTHER Marvel Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures BLACKKKLANSMAN QC Entertainment / Blumhouse / Monkeypaw / 40 Acres and a Mule; Focus Features BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Twentieth Century Fox / Regency Enterprises; Twentieth Century Fox IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Annapurna Pictures / Plan B Entertainment / We Pastel; Annapurna Pictures A STAR IS BORN Warner Bros. Pictures / Live Nation Productions / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures / Jon Peters Production / Bill Gerber Production / Joint Effort Production; Warner Bros. PicturesBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
GLENN CLOSE – THE WIFE LADY GAGA – A STAR IS BORN NICOLE KIDMAN – DESTROYER MELISSA MCCARTHY – CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? ROSAMUND PIKE – A PRIVATE WARBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
BRADLEY COOPER – A STAR IS BORN WILLEM DAFOE – AT ETERNITY’S GATE LUCAS HEDGES – BOY ERASED RAMI MALEK – BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON – BLACKKKLANSMANBEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
CRAZY RICH ASIANS Warner Bros. Pictures / SK Global / Starlight Culture / Color Force / Ivanhoe Pictures / Electric Somewhere; Warner Bros. Pictures THE FAVOURITE Element Pictures / Scarlet Films / Film4 / Waypoint Entertainment; Fox Searchlight Pictures GREEN BOOK Participant Media / DreamWorks Pictures; Universal Pictures MARY POPPINS RETURNS Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures VICE Annapurna Pictures / Gary Sanchez Productions / Plan B Entertainment; Annapurna PicturesBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
EMILY BLUNT – MARY POPPINS RETURNS OLIVIA COLMAN – THE FAVOURITE ELSIE FISHER – EIGHTH GRADE CHARLIZE THERON – TULLY CONSTANCE WU – CRAZY RICH ASIANSBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
CHRISTIAN BALE – VICE LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA – MARY POPPINS RETURNS VIGGO MORTENSEN – GREEN BOOK ROBERT REDFORD – THE OLD MAN & THE GUN JOHN REILLY – STAN & OLLIEBEST MOTION PICTURE – ANIMATED
INCREDIBLES 2 Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ISLE OF DOGS Indian Paintbrush / American Empirical Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures MIRAI Studio Chizu; GKIDS RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures ReleasingBEST MOTION PICTURE – FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CAPERNAUM (LEBANON) Mooz Films; Sony Pictures Classics GIRL (BELGIUM) Menuet / Topkapi Films / Frakas Productions; Netflix NEVER LOOK AWAY (GERMANY) Pergamon Film / Wiedemann & Berg Film / in coproduction with Beta Cinema / ARD Degeto / Bayrischer Rundfunk; Sony Pictures Classics ROMA (MEXICO) Netflix / Participant Media / EsperantoFilmoj; Netflix SHOPLIFTERS (JAPAN) Gaga / AOI Promotion / Fuji Television Network; Magnolia PicturesBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
AMY ADAMS – VICE CLAIRE FOY – FIRST MAN REGINA KING – IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK EMMA STONE – THE FAVOURITE RACHEL WEISZ – THE FAVOURITEBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
MAHERSHALA ALI – GREEN BOOK TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET – BEAUTIFUL BOY ADAM DRIVER – BLACKKKLANSMAN RICHARD GRANT – CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? SAM ROCKWELL – VICEBEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
BRADLEY COOPER – A STAR IS BORN ALFONSO CUARÓN – ROMA PETER FARRELLY – GREEN BOOK SPIKE LEE – BLACKKKLANSMAN ADAM MCKAY – VICEBEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
ALFONSO CUARÓN – ROMA DEBORAH DAVIS, TONYMCNAMARA – THE FAVOURITE BARRY JENKINS – IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK ADAM MCKAY – VICE NICK VALLELONGA, BRIAN CURRIE, PETER FARRELLY – GREEN BOOKBEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
MARCO BELTRAMI – A QUIET PLACE ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – ISLE OF DOGS LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – BLACK PANTHER JUSTIN HURWITZ – FIRST MAN MARC SHAIMAN – MARY POPPINS RETURNSBEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
“ALL THE STARS” — BLACK PANTHER Music by: Kendrick Lamar, Anthony Tiffith, Mark Spears, Solana Rowe, Al Shuckburgh Lyrics by: Kendrick Lamar, Anthony Tiffith, Mark Spears, Solana Rowe, Al Shuckburgh “GIRL IN THE MOVIES” — DUMPLIN’ Music by: Dolly Parton, Linda Perry Lyrics by: Dolly Parton, Linda Perry “REQUIEM FOR A PRIVATE WAR” — A PRIVATE WAR Music by: Annie Lennox Lyrics by: Annie Lennox “REVELATION” — BOY ERASED Music by: Troye Sivan, Jónsi Lyrics by: Jon Thor Birgisson, Troye Sivan, Brett McLaughlin “SHALLOW” — A STAR IS BORN Music by: Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt Lyrics by: Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew WyattBEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
THE AMERICANS FX NETWORKS Fox 21 Television Studios / FX Productions BODYGUARD NETFLIX World Productions / an ITV Studios company HOMECOMING PRIME VIDEO Universal Cable Productions LLA / Amazon Studios KILLING EVE BBC AMERICA BBC AMERICA / Sid Gentle Films Ltd POSE FX NETWORKS Fox 21 Television Studios / FX ProductionsBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
CAITRIONA BALFE – OUTLANDER ELISABETH MOSS – THE HANDMAID’S TALE SANDRA OH – KILLING EVE JULIA ROBERTS – HOMECOMING KERI RUSSELL – THE AMERICANSBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
JASON BATEMAN – OZARK STEPHAN JAMES – HOMECOMING RICHARD MADDEN – BODYGUARD BILLY PORTER – POSE MATTHEW RHYS – THE AMERICANSBEST TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
BARRY HBO HBO Entertainment / Alec Berg / Hanarply THE GOOD PLACE NBC Universal Television / Fremulon / 3 Arts Entertainment KIDDING SHOWTIME SHOWTIME / SOME KIND OF GARDEN / Aggregate Films / Broadlawn Films THE KOMINSKY METHOD NETFLIX Warner Bros. Television THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL PRIME VIDEO Amazon StudiosBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
KRISTEN BELL – THE GOOD PLACE CANDICE BERGEN – MURPHY BROWN ALISON BRIE – GLOW RACHEL BROSNAHAN – THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL DEBRA MESSING – WILL & GRACEBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
SACHA BARON COHEN – WHO IS AMERICA JIM CARREY – KIDDING MICHAEL DOUGLAS – THE KOMINSKY METHOD DONALD GLOVER – ATLANTA BILL HADER – BARRYBEST TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
THE ALIENIST – TNT The Alienist / Paramount Television / Turner’s Studio T THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY – FX NETWORKS Fox 21 Television Studios / FX Productions ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA – SHOWTIME SHOWTIME / Red Hour Productions / Michael De Luca Productions / The White Mountain Company / BZ Entertainment / Busyhands SHARP OBJECTS – HBO HBO Entertainment / eOne / Tiny Pyro Productions / Blumhouse Television / Fourth Born / crazyrose Productions A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL – PRIME VIDEO Blueprint / Amazon StudiosBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
AMY ADAMS – SHARP OBJECTS PATRICIA ARQUETTE – ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA CONNIE BRITTON – DIRTY JOHN LAURA DERN – THE TALE REGINA KING – SEVEN SECONDSBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
ANTONIO BANDERAS – GENIUS: PICASSO DANIEL BRÜHL – ALIENIST, THE DARREN CRISS – THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH – PATRICK MELROSE HUGH GRANT – A VERY ENGLISH SCANDALBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
ALEX BORSTEIN – THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL PATRICIA CLARKSON – SHARP OBJECTS PENÉLOPE CRUZ – THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY THANDIE NEWTON – WESTWORLD YVONNE STRAHOVSKI – THE HANDMAID’S TALEBEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
ALAN ARKIN – THE KOMINSKY METHOD KIERAN CULKIN – SUCCESSION EDGAR RAMÍREZ – THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY BEN WHISHAW – A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL HENRY WINKLER – BARRY
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International Film Festival Rotterdam Reveals First Films in 2019 Bright Future Program
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the first films for in the 2019 Bright Future program that spotlights upcoming filmmakers with their own style and vision. The Bright Future section comprises features, mid-lengths and shorts, and includes the feature film debuts competing for the Bright Future Award worth €10,000.
Among the films selected so far are the world premieres of Viktor van der Valk’s neo-noir Nocturne (the Netherlands); Argentinian actress Romina Paula’s directing debut De nuevo otra vez; Ico Costa’s debut feature Alva (from the producers of Djon África, which was in IFFR 2018’s Tiger Competition); and Dreissig by Berlin-based filmmaker Simona Kostova. The international premiere of Fabiana, Brunna Laboissière’s portrait of a transgender truck driver, also screens in the Bright Future Competition.
In addition to feature films, IFFR’s Bright Future section devotes plenty of space to mid-length and short films. Titles confirmed for Bright Future Mid-length include Derrière les volets by Messaline Raverdy and the world premiere of L’inconnu de Collegno by Maïder Fortuné. Stefano Canapa’s The Sound Drifts and Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Walled Unwalled will both world premiere in Bright Future Short.
The full Bright Future line-up will consist of approximately 50 feature films. The eight films in Tiger Competition, which is also part of the Bright Future section, will be announced early January 2019.
Bright Future Competition
Algiers By Night, Yanis Koussim, 2019, Algeria/France/Norway/Qatar, world premiere. As the sun sets over Algiers, a young photographer and various creatures of the night start to emerge. Alva, Ico Costa, 2019, Portugal/France/Argentina, world premiere. After his children are taken away by social services, a troubled loner seeks revenge and flees into the inhospitable forest. De nuevo otra vez/Again Once Again, Romina Paula, 2019, Argentina, world premiere. A delicate self-portrait about aging, maternity and sexuality. Romina Paula fictionalizes reality and explores being a daughter and new mother. Dreissig/Thirty, Simona Kostova, 2019, Germany, world premiere. Twenty-four hours in the lives of a group of colorful Berliners in their late twenties/early thirties, oscillating between a carefree existence and emptiness. Fabiana, Brunna Laboissière, 2018, Brazil, international premiere. As she approaches retirement, a transgender truck driver looks back on her life on the road, with a different sweetheart in every town Nocturne, Viktor van der Valk, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere. Lyrical film noir about two producers, an investor, a deadline, a woman, a gun and a hopelessly romantic boy. A volta ao mundo quando tinhas 30 anos/Around the World When You Were My Age, Aya Koretzky, 2018, Portugal, international premiere. Loving, captivating portrait of the director’s father based on the latter’s 1970 round the world journey.Bright Future
Black Mother, Khalik Allah, 2018, Jamaica/USA Life’s key elements come together in this visual film symphony and ode to today’s colorful Jamaica. Core of the World, Natalya Meshchaninova, 2018, Russia/Lithuania Compassion and cruelty are not far apart in the work of a shy vet at a Russian stock farm. The Day I Lost My Shadow, Soudade Kaadan, 2018, Lebanon A young Syrian mother’s search for bottled gas ends in a panic-stricken journey. Awarded Best Debut in Venice. Introduzione all’oscuro, Gastón Solnicki, 2018, Argentina/Austria A personal, cinematic gesture born of sadness over the death of a friend. It’s also a unique guide to Viennese culture. The Load, Ognjen Glavonić, 2018, Serbia/France/Croatia/Iran/Qatar During the NATO bombardments of 1999, a truck driver has to take a mysterious load to Belgrade. Subtle narrative bursting with menace. Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan, 2018, China/France Past and present intertwine in this visually stunning, partially 3D second film by Chinese talent Bi Gan. The Man Who Surprised Everyone, Aleksey Chupov/Natasha Merkulova, 2018, Russia/Estonia/France A terminally ill forest ranger wants to live out his final months as a woman. In a remote Siberian community he pays dearly. Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them, Camila José Donoso, 2019, Chile, world premiere. A hybrid fiction featuring the director’s intriguing grandmother as an anarchist warrior in a Chilean town ravaged by forest fires. The Proposal, Jill Magid, 2018, USA Strange things happen in the struggle to make the hidden archives of architect Luis Barragán public again. The Seven Last Words, Kaveh Nabatian/Ariane Lorrain/Sophie Goyette/Juan Andrés Arango/Sophie Deraspe/Karl Lemieux/Caroline Monnet, 2019, Canada, world premiere. Challenging and varied omnibus film by seven Canadian filmmakers, inspired by Joseph Haydn’s composition around the last words of Jesus. Sophia Antipolis, Virgil Vernier, 2018, France In southern France, mysterious links appear in the fortunes of five people connected to an elusive young woman called Sophia. Tarde para morir joven/Too Late to Die Young, Dominga Sotomayor, 2018, Chile/Brazil/Argentina/Netherlands/Qatar Coming-of-age story about three Chilean teenagers reflects the growing pains of Chile’s new democracy in the early 1990s.Bright Future Mid-length
Derrière les volets, Messaline Raverdy, 2018, Belgium Poetic research into the Raverdy coffee plant as a record for the next generation. The filmmaker searches for her past and the women in the factory. L’inconnu de Collegno, Maïder Fortuné, 2019, France, world premiere. In an attempt to reveal his past, a man is interrogated in an empty room. Several characters are brought in to solve the mystery.Bright Future Short
Fog, Inger Lise Hansen, 2018, Norway The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, the Azores, Beijing and Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various film formats. The Sound Drifts, Stefano Canapa, 2019, France, world premiere. Hypnotizing audio tracks dance to the soundtrack of Canapa’s previous film about Jérôme Noetinger, Metamkine’s sound artist. Cinema for your ears! Van ver staat het stil/Still from afar, Eva van Tongeren, 2018, Belgium, international premiere. An exchange of letters between the filmmaker and a pedophile evokes powerful emotions. But she wants to understand his motives. Walled Unwalled, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 2019, Lebanon, world premiere. A monologue staged inside a trio of Cold War Era sound effect studios in East Berlin unfolding a narrative derived from legal cases that revolve around evidence heard or experienced through walls. what remains, belit sağ, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere Many people in the Kurdish city of Cizre are trapped between life and death. belit sağ conjures up apparitions in her images.
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World Premiere of THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS to Open 69th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 69th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 7, 2019 with the world premiere of Lone Scherfig’s newest film The Kindness of Strangers. The Kindness of Strangers is a contemporary drama following a disparate ensemble of characters, all in their own way struggling to survive in a New York City winter, who find laughter, love and kindness in each other. The opening film will participate in the international competition.
“How lovely that Lone Scherfig is back and that her most recent work will open the 2019 Berlinale. Her feel for characters, strong emotions and subtle humor promises a wonderful start to the festival”, says Dieter Kosslick, director of the Berlinale.
Lone Scherfig comments: “I am truly honored that Dieter Kosslick has selected our film to celebrate such a festive and important evening. It will be a great joy to watch it for the first time alongside the renowned Berlinale audience.”
Since the beginning of her career, the Danish director and screenwriter Lone Scherfig has been a guest of the Berlinale numerous times. In 1990 she presented The Birthday Trip (Kaj’s fødselsdag) in Panorama, and in 1998 her film On Our Own (Når mor kommer hjem…) screened in the Kinderfilmfest (now known as Generation).
Her breakthrough and the start of her international career was the Dogme film Italian For Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere), which won the Jury Prize Silver Bear at the 2001 Berlinale. Two years later, her film Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself (Wilbur begår selvmord) was presented in a Competition Special Screening.
Her film An Education screened at the 2009 festival in Berlinale Special and received three Academy Award nominations.
In addition, Lone Scherfig wrote the script for A Serious Game (Den allvarsamma leken directed by Pernilla August), which opened at Berlinale Special Gala in 2016.
The ensemble cast of The Kindness of Strangers – based on the screenplay written by Lone Scherfig herself – stars Zoe Kazan, Tahar Rahim, Andrea Riseborough, Caleb Landry Jones, with Jay Baruchel and Bill Nighy.
The English-language Denmark-Canada co-production with Sweden, France and Germany was filmed in Toronto, Copenhagen and New York.
