2009
Talent Press 2009
The Mathematics of Love
By Tommaso TocciRudolf Thome, director of PINK (Germany), thinks that “a movie without a woman is not a movie”. Such a bizarre belief should put his latest effort – shown as a Berlinale Special – on the right track, since it entirely focuses on the eponymous character of a young poetess.
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Go Back to Your Goat
By Jonas HolmbergAs the hub of the Berlinale is the Potsdamer Platz area, an architectural celebration of a post industrial economy, THE EAGLE HUNTER’S SON might be a useful reminder to the festival goer that there are still places where the dream of an urbanised future lies in coal mining. What might be disturbing, though, for the postcolonial analyst, is the rather conservative moral of this German-Swedish adventure in Mongolia.
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Bringing Words to Life
by Marcos KurtinaitisThe Berlinale Talent Campus' Actors Workshop, in conjunction with the Script Station, offered a great opportunity for young screenwriters and actors to jointly exercise their skills. Held over four meetings, the mentors and the group worked on two scripts previously selected from those submitted by the scriptwriting talents: LOVE, TERESA, a romantic and delicate piece about coming to terms with the past by Colombian Tatiana Villacob, and VOICE, a CRASH-style, multi-plot, action drama by Carol Castro from Brazil.
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Beams of Life
By Matthew le CordeurRaw reality of lives beaten into the ground – with emotions as bankrupt as the wallet – is no easy feat to pull off in a film. MY ONLY SUNSHINE (Hayat Var) works like an existential trip in telling a harrowing tale of death, survival and growing up under the worst of conditions. It is a saga which is not easy to watch at times. But, that’s not to say this Turkish film by Reha Erdem is bad; quite on the contrary.
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Jungle Boogie
By Siddharth PillaiFor thirty-four years the images and sounds that make up the electric revelry in Jeffrey Levy-Hinte’s documentary SOUL POWER (USA) languished in a vault, first under a civil suit and then as outtakes from WHEN WE WERE KINGS, the Oscar-winning documentary.
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Crafting Talent
By Sitou AyitéChristophe Honoré, Rie Rasmussen and Til Schweiger are multi-talented experts in film who shared their experiences with the Berlinale Talent Campus Talents on February 11 at HAU 1. The session, organised in cooperation with the Panorama section, was moderated by Ben Gibson.
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STATEMENTS BY THE TALENT PRESS 2009
By Sitou Ayite, Matthew le Cordeur, Aaron W. Graham, Jonas Holmberg, Marcos Kurtinaitis, Siddharth Pillai, Eugenia Saul and Tommaso Toccimore