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European Film Academy Ambassadors

Maria de Medeiros (top); Belén Rueda (middle); Kim Rossi Stuart (bottom)

The European Film Academy (EFA) has enlisted a group of Ambassadors of European Film to cooperate in the promotion of European cinema and the European Film Awards.
From the European Film Academy’s press release, the EFA Ambassadors are:

Moritz Bleibtreu, actor, Germany
One of the best-known German faces in international cinema, Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the EFA People’s Choice Award for THE EXPERIMENT by Oliver Hirschbiegel and is now nominated for European Actor for his role as Andreas Baader in THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX by Uli Edel.
Stephen Daldry, director, UK
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Fatih Akin’s SOUL KITCHEN Photos

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen is a comedy set at a Hamburg restaurant inhabited by a disparate group of Hamburgese.
At IFC, Stephen Saito calls Soul Kitchen "a lark, but an enjoyable one. The film sees the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven doing schtick for the first time — not as odd a transition as one might think from his previous dramas, which have in common a deeply felt human touch and sense of interconnection."
"As far as European comedies go," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE, "it’s fairly by the numbers, assembling a motley crew of emphatically crazy characters [...]

Venice 2009: Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, George A. Romero

Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Dorka Gryllus, Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu at the Soul Kitchen premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Alberto Petrolini, Caterina Varzi, Tinto Brass, Vincenzo Varzi at the Hotel Courbet photocall

George A. Romero
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Venice 2009: Jared Leto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Joe Dante

Jared Leto at the Mr. Nobody premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
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Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, two of the stars of Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen, winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize

Filmmaker and Venice jury member Joe Dante

Monica Bleibtreu

Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years.
Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are a presentation of Bertold Brecht’s play Mother (1971), the series Doctors in the mid-1990s, and the made-for-television movie Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas (2000), starring The Lives of Others‘ Martina Gedeck.
In 1975, she won a German Television Award for best actress for her performance in the made-for-TV movie Marias letzte [...]

Berlin 2006 Winners

There weren’t many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year’s favorites, Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana Karanovic) who discovers that she is the end result of a Bosnian war crime — namely, rape — was awarded the Golden Bear for best film.
Also on the political side, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross took home the Silver Bear for best director for The Road to Guantanamo, which follows three British Muslims held at the notorious U.S. prison (located on the island of Cuba) where suspected terrorists — without having been formally charged and without access to legal representation — have been systematically tortured and abused.
The acting [...]

Berlin Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Berlin Film Festival Awards
2006 Berlin Film Festival: February 9–19, 2006
2006 Berlin Film Festival Winners
Photos: © Berlinale 2006
 

Golden Bear : GRBAVICA, by Jasmila Zbanic
Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix 2006 (ex-aequo): EN SOAP / A SOAP, by Pernille Fischer Christensen, and OFFSIDE, by Jafar Panahi

Silver Bear – Best Director : Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO

Silver Bear – Best Actor : Moritz Bleibtreu in ELEMENTARTEILCHEN / THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, by Oskar Roehler

Silver Bear – Best Actress : Sandra Hüller in REQUIEM, by Hans-Christian Schmid
Silver Bear – Artistic Contribution : Jürgen Vogel as actor, co-writer and co-producer of the film DER FREIE WILLE / THE FREE WILL, by Matthias Glasner
Silver Bear – Best Film Music [...]

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