With cinemas and film festivals in Canada, Germany and across the world currently closed or postponing their live programming, we are discovering the virtues of streaming. Among the offerings, one of the best is Kanopy. The platform is an award-winning video streaming service providing access to more than 30,000 independent and documentary films ─ titles of unique social and cultural value from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Media Education Foundation, and thousands of independent filmmakers.You can use it for free for example through many public library cards in Canada and elsewhere. Download the Kanopy app, log in with your library account, and a portal of high-quality global content awaits.
To sift through the catalogue, I am curating a little series of personal film recommendations here and on social media #MyKanopyKanon. #Docs #features #shorts #femalefilmmakers #arthouse #mainstream ... Let me know your favourites and film viewing experiences and let's turn social distancing into social connecting.
☆ Vicky Krieps before "Phantom Thread" fame! Frederick Lau fresh off the success of one-shot wonder "Victoria"! Here he is back again as a hapless bank robber. If you missed "Gutland" in the TIFF17 Discovery section, here's your chance to catch up on this surreal Luxemburghish-German rural noir. Official submission of Luxembourg for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, and you can learn some German & Letzeburgesch too. Continue reading "#MyKanopyKanon streaming tips 7" »
Congratulations to filmmaker Marc Wiese, who just won the FACT:AWARD at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, with this new documentary "We Hold the Line", which had its world premiere at the prestigious Danish festival.
The winning films of the German Film Board FFA short film award Short Tiger 2020 have been chosen. “Due to the restrictions required to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the award ceremony for the 10th annual Short Tiger Awards was not only quieter than in previous years, but practically silent,” says Frank Völkert, deputy FFA board member. “Nevertheless, I would like to warmly congratulate the winners for their funny, thoughtful and also formally innovative films. And of course for the prize money and the deserved distribution they will have once cinemas are showing films and festivals are taking place again.”
Berlinale, Oberhausen, Oldenburg, DOK Leipzig, goEast Wiesbaden, Genrenale ... Germany flows over with film festivals big and small, some over 60 years old, some founded last year. Many attract international audiences, A-list juries, or niche fans. Here are 5 you might have never heard of until now:
It was a successful 64th Berlinale for German films. German cinema already had a high profile in this year's Competition with four titles, and it also featured prominently among the prize-winners: a total of ten awards went to German films and co-productions at the weekend. Anna and Dietrich Brüggemann received the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for STATIONS OF THE CROSS (KREUZWEG), which screened in the Competition. The film also won the Award of the Ecumenical Jury.
