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　　Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed.
　　Emily Beecham [pictured] - who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! - plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery.
　　The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau.
　　The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights.
　　Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother.
　　Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring Beecham.
　　The Daphne shoot kicks-off amid a high-profile year for The Bureau following the success of Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which won two Silver Bears for the lead performances of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay in Berlin last year, with Rampling also receiving an Oscar nomination, and is up for Outstanding British Film at tonight’s Baftas.
　　“Peter Mackie Burns has made some visceral performance driven shorts including the award-winning Milk,” said Lizzie Francke, BFI senior production and development executive. “It is great to be able to support him on the next stage of his film career

Helmed by Reema Kagti (Talaash: The Answer Lies Within) in her latest collaboration with producer Zoya Akhtar (Gully Boy), this uplifting story chronicles the life of Nasir Shaikh, whose no-budget, community-sourced movies turned his hometown into an unlikely dream factory.

The film centers on Dawn (Cosgrove), who is desperate to get to France for a once-in-a-lifetime art opportunity. Thus, she talks her way onto a Bachelor-type dating show set in Paris — only to discover the show is actually set in Paris, Texas as part of a ratings stunt by the producers. Now in jeopardy of losing out on her dreams, Dawn must find a way to get kicked off the show, until a real romance begins to blossom with Trey (Fode), the show’s handsome and charming bachelor.

　　In a world where mythical creatures are real, monsters and humans are forced to coexist and as prejudice and insecurity pulls everyone apart, three separate storylines manage to come together.

　　和丈夫争吵后，一位丰盈的德裔女子独自留宿兼营咖啡馆的汽车旅馆。争吵时遗落的保温高压水壶盛满咖啡尾随她到来，成了这场魔术的第一个道具。
　　咖啡馆女老板的丈夫愤然离家，她无法理解儿子的音乐、无法接受女儿的时髦、无法忍受襁褓中的哭闹，只得游离在三个孩子的生活之外充当局外人；她经营的咖啡馆内没有咖啡机，吧台积满灰尘；她管理的旅馆住着一位迟迟没有作品的画家，一位没有生意的纹身女郎。巴格达咖啡馆的女主人被生活的尘埃包裹，已经黯然失色，她无法再容忍一位不速之客。
　　德裔女子将目睹的一切当作一股可以理解的迷惑，并执意留下。一场大扫除之后，巴格达咖啡馆成了沙漠中的彩虹；男装改成时髦女装帮女老板的女儿度过青春期；端坐一旁，听女老板的儿子的钢琴演奏；利用丈夫的魔术道具学习魔术，并为咖啡馆奉上余兴节目。德裔女子所作的事只是生活中的常态，但是在巴格达沙漠中的这个咖啡馆看来，着实是一场魔术。

　　In Uruguay, they don't say cheese in front of the camera - they say whisky. Beneath the artificially photographed smiles, however, is a blueprint for the "South American Gothic," minus the farm and the forks. These Montevidean folks' stony expressions belie a life gripped frozen by accustomed routines. So it goes with an old Jewish bachelor who owns an ageing sock factory. When his estranged younger brother decides to visit for their mother's burial, he asks his employee Marta to pose as his wife. The resulting encounter creates clumsy silences that are uncomfortably comic. Grand Prize, Tokyo Film Festival and FIPRESCI prize from Cannes.
　　這一代的年輕人真係好老成好cool，兩個新導演還不到三十，便已拍出型到飛起黑色到痺的老人寂寞晚境。話說襪廠老闆阿積孤家寡人，寂寞到死，一天飛來鴻雁，巴西的弟弟話來拜訪。他要表面風光，唯有求忠厚下屬瑪泰暫充老婆。兩個名字同樣叫孤獨的六十幾歲人忽然親近，彆扭得不在話下。口若懸河的巴西弟弟一出現，畫面調子大轉彎。三人海邊度假，瑪泰沉睡的神經率先波動，往後發生的事估都估唔到。郭利斯馬基式冷面幽默扭橋扭到熱帶南美，黑色照舊輕描淡寫功力同樣高超，另一種風情絕對原創。去年康城驚艷，連奪國際影評人獎及原創觀點大獎。
　　Source: 29th HKIFF (2005)

　　故事发生在堪萨斯州的一个小城里，当地的一名专替黑帮打官司的律师查理（约翰•库萨克 John Cusack 饰）平时运气平平，圣诞前夜却交了天大的好运。他和律师楼的拍档维克（比利•鲍伯•松顿 Billy Bob Thornton 饰）从当地黑帮老大比尔（兰迪•奎德 Randy Quaid 饰）那里弄到整整两百万美金！两人打算在圣诞节那天就携款远走高飞，查理还打算带上自己的红颜知己雷纳塔（康妮•尼尔森 Connie Nielsen 饰）一起。两人的美梦却在圣诞节当天被一场暴风雪击得粉碎。因为暴风雪的原因，当地的交通完全瘫痪，所有人都被困在了这个小城镇。眼看着比尔派来的杀手在步步逼近，警察也在追寻他们，查理和维克怎样度过这个风雪圣诞夜？

　　Three talented teens enter a local competition to be the next big Girl Band, thwarted at every turn, by bad luck, bad timing, bad neighbors and bad boyfriends, but aided by a crazy uncle and a moody sister, they must seek their bands missing key to become the success they deserve!

　　Ambitious mid-life careerist Hanna just needs one more kid before her life is perfect. Instead, her baby daddy unexpectedly dumps her. Suddenly she finds herself without a place to live, job or family. With every fiber of her being calibrated for success, Hanna is set on getting it all back. But getting there means having to win something much more important, love and desire for herself and who she is.
　　"The Year I Started Masturbating" is Erika Wasserman's (Silent Roar, Border) first full-length film as director.

　　奇利·帕尔默（约翰·特拉沃尔塔 John Travolta 饰）曾经是混迹黑道的嚣张人物，不过黑道混久了，或许是因为厌倦，很多人开始洗白自己，找份体面的工作，得到社会的认可。奇利也不例外，从黑道退役后，他摇身变作好莱坞电影制片人，纯熟的社交手段使他的事业蒸蒸日上，名气大增，尝到甜头的奇利开始进军乐坛。他找来一位开唱片公司的朋友，不料朋友却意外死亡，奇利只好寄望于这位朋友的妻子艾迪（乌玛·瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰），艾迪也是个狠角色，两人磨合良久才达成共识，决意捧红一名有着优异音乐天赋的黑人女孩琳达，然而事情却并非想象中顺利，琳达的经纪人为了留住琳达，使尽刁钻权术，而更令人意想不到的是，琳达竟然同时在被俄罗斯的黑手党秘密追杀。面对混乱的局面，已金盆洗手的奇利是否要重操旧业，摆平一切呢？
　　本片为1995年经典喜剧片《黑道之家》续集，改编自畅销作家艾尔蒙·里欧纳德（Elmore Leonard）的同名小说。

　　黑森林有一个村庄，三个经典童话按照既定脉络展开：饱受压迫的灰姑娘（安娜·肯德里克 Anna Kendrick 饰）想参加国王的舞会，但是坏心眼的继母和姐妹们想尽办法折磨她；杰克（丹尼尔·赫特斯通 Daniel Huttlestone 饰）将那头不再产奶的白色乳牛当做朋友，而妈妈却命令他将牛卖掉；小红帽（莉拉·克劳馥 Lilla Crawford 饰）装满好吃的面包，一蹦一跳朝着外婆所在的黑森林深处走去。小红帽刚刚离开，邪恶的女巫（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）突然出现，她对面包师（詹姆斯·柯登 James Corden 饰）施以可怕的诅咒，除非他在三天后能准备好四样东西：白色乳牛、红色斗篷、金黄色头发以及黄金鞋。
　　在命运的驱使下，童话人物聚首黑森林……

　　本片描述纽约的一名年青乐师试图帮忙给一名女店员堕胎，虽然徒劳无功，但年青乐师已经通过短暂的接触，对女店员暗萌爱意，于是决定娶她为妻。本片是最早以“堕胎问题"为题材的写实爱情影片之一，大量的纽约街头实景与两名主角的精彩演出使本片的内容看来相当生动逼真，但导演罗伯特·马利根的表现平平，并未达到其最高水平。