Ivan Sen's 'Limbo' and Rolf de Heer's 'Survival of Kindness' will be in the mix for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival next month, the first Australian films to screen in the official competition since 2006's 'Candy'.
An air hostess escaping a cult, an Afghan refugee saving his family, an Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat trying to contain a national scandal each struggle – to the limits of their sanity – with an immigration system that is itself struggling.
Jub Clerc's debut feature 'Sweet As' will make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month in the Generation Kplus strand, which is aimed at a youth audience.
Danny and Michael Philippou's debut feature 'Talk to Me' is shaping up to have quite the international festival run, due to make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February. Also announced for the festival is short 'Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)', created by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and artist Matthew Thorne.
Jub Clerc's 'Sweet As' took home the Crystal Bear in the Berlin Film Festival Generation Kplus competition over the weekend, while short film 'Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)' won the Silver Bear Jury Prize and Rolf de Heer's 'The Survival of Kindness' collected the top critics’ award, the FIPRESCI Prize.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s directorial debut ‘A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl’ has been awarded the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film by the Youth Jury in the Generation KPlus section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
One of the first participants in the inaugural IndiVision Project Lab last year, $1.2 million indie film Black Water, opened on 60 screens across the United Kingdom today.
Franswa Sharl has won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival