Country Focus 16.cdr - Pune International Film Festival

Country Focus - Germany
2012
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas
1984-DVD-English-Color-148-Germany
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Wim Wenders, Anatole
Dauman
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean
Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson
Screenplay: Sam Shepard
Cinematographer: Robby Müller
Editor: Peter Przygodda
Music Composer: Ry Cooder
Costume Designer: Birgitta Bjerke
Production Designer: Kate Altman
Production Company: Road Movies Filmproduktion,
Argos Films
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and
helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son
four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from
his past.
Festival / Awards: BAFTA Awards : Best Direction, Best
Film (1985)
Bavarian Film Awards : Best Cinematography
(Kamerapreis) (1985)
German Film Awards: Shaping of a Feature Film (1985)
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics : Best Foreign Film
(1985)
Cannes Film Festival : FIPRESCI Prize, Palme d'Or, Prize
of the Ecumenical Jury (1984)
German Camera Award : Feature Film (Spielfilm) (1984)
Country Focus - Germany
2012
Pina
Pina
2011-DVD-German, English, Spanish, French-Color-100-Germany
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Gian-Piero Ringel, Wim Wenders, Claudie
Ossard, Chris Bolzli
Cast: Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante
Screenplay: Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Hélène Louvart
Editor: Toni Froschhammer
Music Composer: Thom Hanreich
Costume Designer: Rolf Börzik, Marion Cito
Production Company: Neue Road Movies
Ackerstr. 14-15, 4. HH
D-10115 Berlin
tel: +49 30 47 98 48 82
fax: +49 30 47 98 48 84
World Sale Address: HANWAY FILMS
24 Hanway Street
London, W1T 1UH
+44 0 207 290 0750
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater
Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German
choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. Pina is a film for Pina Bausch by Wim
Wenders. He takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery
into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater
Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the
city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was the
home and centre for Pina Bausch's creativity.
Festival / Awards: German Film Awards : Film Award in
Gold - Best Documentary (2011)
Country Focus - Germany
2012
Room 666
Chambre 666
1982-DVD-German, English, French-Color-50-Germany
"During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of film directors from
around the world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel room, turn on the camera and
sound recorder, and, in solitude, answer a simple question: "What is the future of
cinema?".
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Michel Boujut, Chris Sievernich, Claude
Ventura, Wim Wenders
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Yimaz Güney,
Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Spielberg, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder
Screenplay: Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Agnès Godard
Editor: Chantal de Vismes
Music Composer: Jürgen Knieper
Production Company: Wim Wenders Productions
The State of Things
Stand der Dinge
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Chris Sievernich,Wim Wenders
1982-DVD-English, French-B & W-121-Germany
A German film crew is in Portugal to shoot a black-and-white remake of Roger
Corman's 1955 movie, Day the World Ended. The production runs out of film and
money and the director, Friedrich Munro, cannot reach his producer, Gordon, and so
sets off to find him. The crew waits for Friedrich's return in an abandoned hotel. As they
grow restless and bored, the film depicts some of their philosophical thoughts and
emotional reactions, focusing on the themes of cinema, illusion and reality. Friedrich
eventually manages to track the producer in Los Angeles, who is in mortal danger
because of money he owes to the Mafia.
Cast: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten,
Patrick Bauchau, Rebecca Pauly, Jeffrey Kime
Screenplay: Wim Wenders,Robert Kramer
Cinematographer: Henri Alekan
Editor: Barbara von Weitershausen, Peter Przygodda
Music Composer: Jürgen Knieper
Production Designer: Zé Branco
Production Company: Road Movies
Filmproduktion/Berlin, Wim Wenders Produktion
Festival / Awards: German Film Awards:Outstanding
Individual Achievement-Cinematography,Outstanding
Feature Film (1983)
Venice Film Festival:Golden Lion-Wim Wenders (1982)
Country Focus - Germany
2012
The American Friend
Der Amerikanische Freund
1977-DVD-German, English, French-Color-126-Germany
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Wim Wenders
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
Screenplay: Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Robby Müller
Editor: Peter Przygodda
Music Composer: Jürgen Knieper
Costume Designer: Isolde Nist
Production Designer: Heidi Lüdi
Production Company: Road Movies
Filmproduktion/Berlin,Wim Wenders Produktion Les Films
du Losange/Paris
Festival / Awards: Sant Jordi Awards : Best Foreign
Performer (1979)
German Film Awards : Film Award in Gold, Film Award in
Silver(Outstanding Feature Film) (1978)
At an auction, the art dealer Ripley meets Jonathan, a picture framer who is suffering
from a rare blood disease, and targets him as a potential mob assassin. Jonathan will
not be suspected because he has no motive. When Jonathan is led to believe that his
illness is terminal, he agrees to the murder plot so that he can leave his wife and family
financial security upon his death. Through the lonely streets of New York, Paris and
Hamburg, the two men form an unlikely bond, as Ripley begins to regret his past and
the once scrupulous Jonathan faces the exhilaration of cold-blooded murder.
Country Focus: Germany
2012
The Scarlet Letter
Der scharlochrote Buchstabe
1973-35mm-German-Color-90-Germany
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Thomas Schamoni,Wim Wenders
Cast: Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Lou Caste,
Rüdiger Vogler,Yella Rottländer
Screenplay: Nathaniel Hawthorne (novel), Bernardo
Fernández,Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Robby Müller
Editor: Peter Przygodda
Music Composer: Jürgen Knieper
Costume Designer: Carmen Marín
Production Designer: Adolfo Cofiño, Manfred Luetz
Production Company: Wim Wenders Produktion
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet 'A' because she is an
adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the
father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others
as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and
searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young
overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies
psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and
Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will
Dimmesdale flee with her?
Country Focus: Germany
2012
Wings of Desire
Der Himmel über Berlin
1987-DVD-German, English, French-Color, B & W-128-Germany
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Wim Wenders, Anatole Dauman
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt
Bois, Peter Falk
Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke
Cinematographer: Henri Alekan
Editor: Peter Przygodda
Music Composer: Jürgen Knieper
Costume Designer: Monika Jacobs
Production Designer: Heidi Lüdi
Production Company: Road Movies
Filmproduktion/Berlin, Argos Films/Pari
This Wim Wenders film centers around the story of two angels wandering in a mixture
of post-war and modern Berlin. They are invisible to humans. They nevertheless give
their help and comfort to all the lonely and depressed souls they meet. Finally, after
many centuries, one of the angels becomes unhappy with his immortal state and
wishes to become human in order to experience the joys of everyday life. He meets a
circus acrobat and finds in her the fufillment of all his mortal desires. He also discovers
that he is not alone in making this cross over, and that a purely spiritual experience is
not enough to satisfy anyone.
Festival / Awards: Guild of German Art House Cinemas :
Guild Film Award - Silver((Best German Film) (1989)
Bavarian Film Awards : Best Direction (988)
German Film Awards : Film Award in Gold (Outstanding
Feature Film, Cinematography) (1988)
Cannes Film Festival : Best Director (1987)
Retrospective
Hsiao - Hsien Hou
Hsiao - Hsien Hou was born on 8 April
1947, Meixian, Guangdong, China.In
1948, his family moved to Taiwan and, like
all children raised there, he went through
an extremely demanding educational
system. In 1969, he studied film at the
National Taiwan Arts Academy. After
graduation in 1972, he worked briefly as a
salesman. Later he began his film career
as a scriptwriter and assistant director.
Hou's films are often concerned with his
experiences of growing up in rural Taiwan
in the 1950s and 1960s, the period which
saw the beginning of the most significant
social change in modern Taiwan. Hou's
films have been awarded prizes from
prestigious international festivals such as
the Venice Film Festival, Berlin Film
Festival. Six of his films to date have been
nominated for the Palme d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival, though the prize
has so far eluded him. Hou was voted
"Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a
poll of American and international critics.
Hou is also a singer, having contributed
two songs to the 1992 soundtrack of Dust
of Angels, a movie he also produced. Hou
has also had some acting experience,
appearing as the lead in fellow Taiwanese
New Wave auteur Edward Yang's 1984
film, Taipei Story.
Retrospective : Hsiao - Hsien Hou
2012
A Summer at Grandpa's
Dong Dong de Jia Qi
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Cast: Yen Zheng Guo, C. Chen Li and Mei-Feng
1984-35 mm-Mandarin,Hakka, Chinese-Color-93-Taiwan
Cinematographer: Kun Hao Chen
Music Composer: Edward Yang
Production Company: Central Motion Pictures
Corporation
Tel. No.02 2371-5191
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Festival / Awards: Nantes Three Continents
Festival:Golden Montgolfiere Award(1985)
Asia-Pacific Film Festival:Best Director(1984)
Locarno International Film Festival:Prize of the
Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention(1985)
A young boy, Dong-Dong and his sister spend a summer vacation at their
grandparents' house in the country while their mother recuperates from an illness;
they while away the hours climbing trees, swimming in a stream, searching for missing
cattle, and coming uneasily to grips with the enigmatic and sometimes threatening
realities of adult life.
Retrospective : Hsiao - Hsien Hou
2012
Cafe Lumiere
Kôhî jikô
2003-35 mm-Japanese, English-Color-103-Japan,Taiwan
Director: Hsiao - Hsien Hou
Producer: Liao Ching-Song, Miyajima Hideji, Osaka
Fumiko, Yamamoto Ichirô
Cast: Hitoto Yo,Asano Tadanobu,Hagiwara Masato,Yo
Kimiko,Kobayashi Nenji
Screenplay: Hsiao - Hsien Hou, Chu T'ien-wen
Cinematographer: Mark Lee Ping Bin
Editor: Liao Ching-Song
Music Composer: Inoue Yousui
Production Designer: Toshiharu Aida
Production Company: Shochiku4-1-1 Togeki Bldg,
Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-8422
World Sale Address: Shochiku4-1-1, Togeki Bldg. 13F,
Tsukiji, Chuo-ku Tokyo, 104-8422
JapanWebsite:www.shochikufilms.com
World Sale E-Mail: [email protected]
One of today's greatest filmmakers, Hou Hsiao-Hsien pays homage to one of the
masters, Yasujiro^ Ozu, commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth. In a residential
Tokyo neighborhood, Yoko, a young freelance writer defies her strongly traditional
parents with news that she is pregnant and has no desire to marry the father. She
calmly accepts this reality and stoically deals with the worried reactions of her family. In
an effort to alleviate her loneliness, she befriends the owner of a second-hand
bookstore. He falls in love with her, but keeps his feelings silent. Gradually, Yoko
begins to re-evaluate everything in her life in this meditative masterpiece of young
urban solitude.
Festival / Awards:Istanbul/Golden Tulip(05) Venice /
Competition (04)Toronto(04)Vancouver(04)Awards of the
Japanese Academy : Newcomer of the Year (2005)
Retrospective : Hsiao - Hsien Hou
2012
Daughter of the Nile
Ni Luo He Nu Er
1987-35 mm-Mandarin-Color-91-Taiwan
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer: Wen-jen Lu
Cast: Jack Kao, Tianlu Li, Fu Sheng Tsui, Fan Yang, Lin
Yang
Screenplay: T'ien-wen Chu
Cinematographer: Huai-en Chen
Editor: Ching-Song Liao
Sound Designer: Yang Ta-ch'ing
Music Composer: Hung-yi Chang,Ch'en Cihyuan
Production Designer: Lin Chu
Production Company: Fu-Film
Festival / Awards: Torino International Festival of Young
Cinema:Jury Special Prize(1987)Cannes Film Festival :
Directors' Fortnight (nominated)
'Ah-Sang (Fan Yang) is a college-going young woman living with her sister, a school
going teenager, her brother, a lifelong thief, now escalating the ladders of the mafia
and her grandfather. Ah-Sang tries to find some happiness in the relationships with her
family and friends, but is continually hampered by the ever-increasing brutality of the
world around her. She tries to escape the bleakness by imagining herself as Carol, a
manga character who leaves her family and flees to ancient Egypt only to be killed at
22. Surely, Ah-Sang is no better than the fish in the tank in her apartment. Even amidst
this desolation, she remains hopeful of a meaningful relationship with one of her
brothers mafia friends, only to be disappointed later. These are, truly, victims of the
neon god.
Retrospective : Hsiao - Hsien Hou
2012
Good Bye South Goodbye
Nan Guo Zai Jian, Nan Guo
1996-35 mm-Mandarin,Hokkien-Color-124-Taiwan
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer: Katsuhiro Mizuno, Shozo Ichiyama, King Jiehwen, Huang Chong, Ben Hsieh
Cast: Hsiang HSI,Kuei-Ying HSU,Annie Shizuka
INOH,Jack KAO,Ming KAO
Screenplay: Chu Tien-wen
Cinematographer: Lee Ping-bin, Chen Hwai-en
Editor: Liao Ching-song
Sound Designer: Tu Du-che
Music Composer: Lim Giong
Costume Designer: Chiu Yun-ru
Production Company: Shochiku
World Sale Address: Shochiku4-1-1, Togeki Bldg. 13F,
Tsukiji, Chuo-ku Tokyo, 104-8422
JapanWebsite:www.shochikufilms.com
World Sale E-Mail: [email protected]
Tattooed mobster, Kao, and his quick-tempered, aptly named protégé, Flathead,
along with their girlfriends, Ying and Pretzel, are desperately trying to make it big. Their
master plan is open a restaurant in Shanghai, but that scheme seems less and less
likely with each call they get from their cell phone. Corrupt mainland potentates want a
king's ransom in kickbacks while Pretzel has racked up a king's ransom of debt herself
at the mahjong table, prompting her to make a half-hearted suicide attempt. To make
ends meet, these would-be entrepreneurs make a stab at swindling the government
over swine -- selling sows when they are supposed to be the more valuable studs.
They wine and dine the farmers in rural backwater Chiayi only to get cut out of the deal
and kidnapped by the corrupt police.
Festival/Award: Golden Horse Award-Best Original Song
"Giong Lim" Nominated:Cannes Film Festival(Palme d'Or)Hsiao-hsien Hou