Berlinale Shorts 2021 program of the Berlin International Film Festival will showcase 20 short films from 16 countries featuring different languages and ranging from fictional formats to experimental films, animations, hybrid and documentary forms
Film Festivals
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Unveils Short Film Lineup
Diana Neves Silva in Luz de Presença (A Present Light)
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Berlin Film Festival Reveals 15 Films in Generation 2021 Program
Kristine Kujath Thorp, Nader Khademi in Ninjababy Berlinale revealed the 15 films including seven world premieres and six debuts for the Generation program in the two competitions Kplus and 14plus.
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Berlinale 2021 Retrospective ‘No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard’ to Showcase Classic Comedies
Mae West in I’m No Angel | Wesley Ruggles, USA, 1933 Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC For the Retrospective of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, the festival will showcase a program of 27 comedies featuring three different American actresses under the title “No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard”. The films were chosen with a focus on the strict morality rules of the Motion Picture Production Code, which were increasingly enforced after 1934. Officially adopted in 1930 and dubbed the “Hays Code”, it was a voluntary system by which the Hollywood Studios agreed to uphold moral standards in filmmaking to avoid the censors’ knife. But the Hays Office soon became an even stricter arbiter than the actual censorship office of what could and couldn’t be shown on screen. The code prohibited explicit depictions of sex and promiscuity, as well as the use of profanity. Yet during that period, these three women succeeded in shaping their own film roles, finding their own style, and subtly subverting the Hays Code rules.
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Award Winners – PEBBLES Wins Tiger Award
Pebbles directed by Vinothraj P.S Southern India-set Pebbles by Vinothraj P.S won the Tiger Award, while I Comete – A Corsican Summer by French filmmaker Pascal Tagnati and Looking for Venera by Norika Sefa from Kosovo both won Special Jury Awards at the expanded 50th anniversary edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The VPRO Big Screen Award went to El perro que no calla by Ana Katz from Argentina and Quo Vadis, Aida? by Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award.
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Netflix Animated Series CITY OF GHOSTS to Open New York International Children’s Film Festival 2021
Elizabeth Ito’s Netflix animated series “City of Ghosts” Completely virtual for the first time, the 24th edition of New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) will open on March 5th with a premiere event for Elizabeth Ito’s new Netflix animated series City of Ghosts. The animated feature Nahuel and the Magic Book, directed by Germán Acuña, will make its North American premiere on March 6th as the 2021 Opening Spotlight program, and the Festival will conclude with a Closing Spotlight screening of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon with an exclusive, live conversation with the film’s directors Don Hall and Carlos López-Estrada and appearances by lead voice cast member Kelly Marie Tran.
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HAVANA LIBRE to Open, MANZANAR, DIVERTED to Close Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2021
Havana Libre directed by Corey McLean The world premiere of Corey McLean’s Havana Libre, documenting the fight to legitimize surfing in Cuba will open the 2021 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula. The festival will close with Ann Kaneko’s Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust, a documentary on a fresh interpretation of the Japanese American confinement site by examining the environmental and political history behind the World War II camp.
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71st Berlin International Film Festival Unveils Official Poster
71st Berlin International Film Festival Poster Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the official poster for the upcoming 71st edition of the festival taking place in two stages – Industry event and the Summer Special.
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Miami Film Festival Announces 2021 Line-Up, Opens with Edson Jean’s Ludi
Ludi directed by Edson Jean Miami Film Festival will present its 38th annual edition from March 5 – 14, 2021 in a hybrid format, with both in-theater and virtual presentations of more than 100 feature narratives, documentaries and short films of all genres, from 40 different countries.
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Hong Kong International Film Festival Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Shochiku Cinema
Gohatto (1999) The 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival will mark the 100th anniversary of Shochiku Cinema with a retrospective program, showcasing ten masterpieces from ten revered Japanese maestros, including Ozu Yasujiro, Shimizu Hiroshi, Imamura Shohei, and Oshima Nagisa.
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Questlove’s ‘Summer Of Soul’ and Siân Heder’s ‘CODA’ Win Top Sundance 2021 Awards
CODA by Siân Heder, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. At the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, jurors presented 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films.
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Directors of Golden Bear Winning Films to Serve as Jury of Berlin International Film Festival 2021
International Jury of the 71st Berlinale (from t. l. to b. l. clockwise): Adina Pintilie, Nadav Lapid, Mohammad Rasoulof, Jasmila Žbanić, Gianfranco Rosi, Ildikó Enyedi. As part of the festival format in 2021, the directors of six Golden Bear winning films will decide on the prizes in the International Competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and will view the films on the big screen in Berlin. A jury presidency is not planned for this year.
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Clint Bentley’s JOCKEY Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance
Clifton Collins Jr. appears in Jockey by Clint Bently, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Adolpho Veloso. Sony Pictures Classics acquired Clint Bentley’s Jockey premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section. Jockey stars Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker, and Moises Arias.