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The Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival also called the Berlinale is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. The festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978 and the 62^nd Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 19 February 2012. With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections and about 20 films compete for the awards in the film festival and about 20 000 professionals from over 130 countries attend the Berlin International Film Festival.

Awards are divided into sections and the highest prize is known as the ‘Golden Bear’ and it is awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The ‘Silver Bear’ is also an award for individual achievement in acting and directing best short films. It can be seen that The Berlin International Film Festival is segmented into different areas and this allows the audience, actors and actresses to be engaged with the film festival.

I was able to detect 7 different film sections throughout the film festival as it is evident and diverse films from its country of origin; compete in the segment of Competition and Berlinale Shorts. It also contains Gay and Lesbian icons as it is shown in the segment of Panorama and aesthetic styles of films are introduced and transgendered issues are also brought up in this category. This category of issues may also be shared with one another or between countries and I think that it is reasonable to understand the different interpretation of films and icons and optimistically view these typical film genres.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_International_Film_Festival

 

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The Cannes International Film Festival

The Cannes International Film is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is the world's most prestigious and publicized film festival. The 65^th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from May 16 to May 27, 2012.

In the Cannes International Film invites actors and actresses all over the world and diverse awards are given out on the festival. The most prestigious award is known as the Palme d’Or (“Golden Palm”) and it is given out at Cannes for the best film. In the 2012 Cannes Film festival, the Palme d’Or was given out to the movie AMOUR (LOVE) directed by Michael Haneke. Different films from diverse countries are introduced in this film festival including Hollywood, French, Belgium, Germany, Canadian, Korean, Japanese, English, Russian, Indian, Spanish, Mexican, Bosnian, Chinese, Australian, Brazilian, Thai, Turkish, New Zealand, Lebanese, Iran, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Bulgarian.

In my personal opinion, Cannes film festival consists of short films and these films are represented at the Competition and workshops and conferences are set aside for people to meet, exchange ideas and promote films. I think that this famous Cannes Film Festival has opened the doors to diverse films from different countries and it has allowed the directors, casts to get together and form a sense of unity in sharing ideas and thoughts in exploring the world of films. 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival

HONG KONG MOVIE_2

GIRL

is a 2010 movie.

Directed by: Kenneth Bi
Written by: Kin Hung Ng
Produced by: Kin Hung Ng

Cast

• Michelle Wai
• Seli Xian
• Minyi Wang
• Una Lin
• Deep Ng
• kwok Cheung Tsang
• Eric Tse

Introduction

This movie is about serious problem - youth prostitution in Hong Kong. The aim of this movie is to show the effect of youth prostitution for all youth teenages in Hong Kong, in order to against prostitution.

Trailer of the movie - GIRL$

Reference: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%A1%E5%9B%A1_(%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1)

This is great movie like Masato Harada’s BOUNCE CO GALS have proven a long time ago that contemporary cinema can deal with the harsh reality out there and make it all mean something, without being a boring discourse on changing times. That does not require a huge budget or funny tricks, all it requires is real insight and detailed observation. Something Mr. Bi does not prove to have: GIRL has probably been written with a couple of newspaper articles as source material and a bit of he said she said that he said that she told him gossip.
GIRL$ could have been an insightful film providing us with a proper learning curve about what makes the youth tick, what they really want and what their state of mind is. Instead it turns out feeling like a “desk job”: a case made up more or less well, without ever reaching the depth you’d achieve if you had ever left that desk in the first place.

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THE NEW SHAOLIN TEMPLE

is a 2010 movie.

Directed by: Benny Chan 
Written by: Chi Kwong Cheung, Cheung Tan, Alan Yuen
Produced by: Benny Chan
Cinematography:  Anthony Pun

Cast

• Andy Lau - Hou Jie
• Nicholas Tse - Cao Man
• Jackie - Wudao
• Xing Yu - Jingkong
• Fan Bingbing - Yan Xi
• Wu Jing - Jingneng
• Hung Yanyan - Suoxiangtu

Introduction

The film is set in Dengfeng, Henan, during the warlord era of early Republican China. The warlord Hou Jie (Andy Lau) defeats a rival, Huo Long, and seizes control of Dengfeng. Huo Long flees to Shaolin Temple to hide but Hou Jie appears and shoots him after getting his Huo's treasure map. Hou Jie ridicules the Shaolin monks before leaving.

Trailer of the movie - THE NEW SHAOLIN TEMPLE

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_(film)

SHAOLIN or THE NEW SHAOLIN TEMPLE is an update of Jet Li’s debut from 1982, but is mostly related by name and concept, not so much through storyline or characters. Released closely to Chinese New Year 2011 it is one of the less commercial almost-CNY-films, however tries to draw in the crowds with household names (Andy Lau, Jackie Chan et.al.) and big PR (concentrating on budgets, locations, stars etc.).





 

SHAOLIN is by the book, featuring ideas like brotherhood, hierarchy, code of honor, love, trust and betrayal in A-Z order, ticking off one by one from the must-have-ingredients list. The most remarkable message of the film, especially bearing in mind that Chinese New Year was around the corner, is that materialism and pursuit of money shouldn’t be our main goals in life (SHAOLIN doesn’t really answer the question what should be instead, though). So in light of the ever money-centered CNY SHAOLIN tries to make a point, but I am not sure if the audience will really get it or mostly miss the one or two respective lines of dialogue by Andy Lau’s character.

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