Yella Articles

2008 German Film Critics Association Awards 2008 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlin on Feb. 11, 2008   Nina Hoss in Yella   Best Film: Yella by Christian Petzold Best First Film: Die Unerzogenen by Pia Marais Best Documentary: Prater by Ulrike Ottinger Best Actor: Ulrich Noethen Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (Direction: Dani Levy) Best Actress: Maren Kroymann [...]

Yu Nan in Tuya's Marriage "When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams. This film made my dreams come true," remarked Chinese director Wang Quan'an upon accepting the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his rural drama Tuya's Marriage, a portrait of the social and environmental costs of China's unbridled economic growth. In Tuya's Marriage, a woman (Yu Nan) living [...]

300 by Zack Snyder (top); Nina Hoss in Yella (middle); In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo (bottom) Berlin Film Festival 2007: Part I A few other titles that sound intriguing: Inspired by Frank Miller's drawings and directed by Zack Snyder, 300 depicts the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C.E. At that decisive battle, King Leonidas of Sparta and a mere 300 followers [...]