- After a crazy year where they brought six or seven titles to Cannes (including Tulpan, Waltz with Bashir) in various competition categories, this year The Match Factory bring only a pair of titles in Ajami and Kinatay. Nonetheless, they also bring along their batch of well-performing films from Berlin. They aren't a production company, but highly selective sales company that work with producer's from all over the world. And that is why I'm including them in this producer's patch series. Update: they just included Aktan Arym Kubat’s next feature The Light to their stable. Contact High by Michael Glawogger - Completed The Dust Of Time by Theo Angelopoulos - Completed Ajami by Scandar Copti - Completed Dorfpunks by Lars Jessen - Completed Germany 09 (Deutschland 09) by Fatih Akin - CompletedGIGANTE by Adrián Biniez - Completed Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza - Completed The Milk Of Sorrow by Claudia Llosa -
- 5/14/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Berlin -- Punks, killers and other upstanding citizens are the stars of the Berlin International Film Festival's 2009 Perspectives on German Cinema section.
Director Lars Jessen returns to his youth -- Germany of the 1980s -- for his Perspectives entry: "Dorfpunks." Based on the cult novel by Rocko Schamoni, it tells the story of a group a punk rockers who move to a tiny village in rural Switzerland. Jessen's tongue-in-cheek take on the '80s is familiar to fans of his debut, "The Day Bobby Ewing Died" (2005), which won the Max Ophuls Prize.
There's little to laugh about in Lars-Gunnar Lotz's psychodrama "For Miriam," which examines how a teacher is undone by an accident that results in the death of her best pupil's sister.
"Jedem das Seine" (Each to his Own) also looks at crime and punishment as two brothers meet up after years apart: one as a police officer, the...
Director Lars Jessen returns to his youth -- Germany of the 1980s -- for his Perspectives entry: "Dorfpunks." Based on the cult novel by Rocko Schamoni, it tells the story of a group a punk rockers who move to a tiny village in rural Switzerland. Jessen's tongue-in-cheek take on the '80s is familiar to fans of his debut, "The Day Bobby Ewing Died" (2005), which won the Max Ophuls Prize.
There's little to laugh about in Lars-Gunnar Lotz's psychodrama "For Miriam," which examines how a teacher is undone by an accident that results in the death of her best pupil's sister.
"Jedem das Seine" (Each to his Own) also looks at crime and punishment as two brothers meet up after years apart: one as a police officer, the...
- 1/13/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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