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Brave, beautiful, and strong – PINK TAXI and MARRY ME at the Women's Film Festival in Bern vom: 07.12.11
At the Women's Film Festival in Bern, strong female protagonists from all over the world are the center of attention. All of them have under more or less difficult circumstances decided to take their lives in their own hands. Among them there are Gladis
( MARRY ME ) and our heroines of the movie PINK TAXI .

Frauenfilmfest

THE LONELIEST PLANET at Hof International Film Festivalvom: 24.10.11
After its participation at the Festivals of New York and Toronto, THE LONELIEST PLANET can be seen in Germany this week. On Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27, the movie will be screened at the Hof International Film Festival .

Wed 21:00 Cinema Classic
Thu 12:30 Cinema Classic

THE LONELIEST PLANET at Toronto and New York!vom: 13.09.11
THE LONELIEST PLANET premiered yesterday, September 12, 8:00pm at Toronto International Film Festival . Further screenings will take place on September 13, 9:00am and September 18, 10:00am.
The next chance to see the film is in two weeks at New York Film Festival on October 1, 3:00 pm and October 4, 9:00 pm.
Enjoy the screening!

URVILLE - Little Shots of Happinessvom: 11.08.11
On Thursday August 18 and Tuesday August 23 URVILLE will be shown at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe in the context of the series "Little shots of Happiness"

Thursday, August 18, 19:00 Tuesday, August 23, 19:00

Two pearls by Flying Moon are shown in August on TVvom: 03.08.11
Uli Gaulke’s wonderful documentary PINK TAXI about loving and living of women taxidrivers in today’s Moscow has its free tv premiere on Arte on August 12th at 10:45 pm (repetition on august 19th at 10:15 am).

Award-winning darling of the public FULL METAL VILLAGE by Sung-Hyung Cho about Wacken Open Air - taking place within the next few days – will be broadcast on August 6th at 6:25 pm as well as at 12:00 am by ZDFkultur .

THE LONELIEST PLANET at Locarnovom: 18.07.11

THE LONELIEST PLANET by Julia Loktev will be shown at the Locarno Film Festival (August 3 -13) in the International Competition.

The movie tells the story of a young couple - portrayed by Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg - in the breathtaking langscape of Georgia.

Locarno Film Festival

The Loneliest Planet

Theatrical Release of SWANSvom: 14.07.11
SWANS will be released on July the 14th in the following towns:

Berlin – fsk am Oranienplatz, Acud, Krokodil, Xenon
Dortmund - Sweet Sixteen
Düsseldorf – Metropol
Erlangen – Manhattan
Frankfurt am Main - Mal Seh’n
Hamburg - 3001 Kino
Köln – Filmpalette
München – Arena
Nürnberg – Casablanca
Rostock – LiWu
Saarbrücken - Kino im Filmhaus
Stuttgart - EM Kinos
Weimar – Lichthaus

Find the actual screening dates here.

FOOTBALL UNDER COVERvom: 03.06.11
This summer the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup takes place in Germany! On this occation, we would like to call your attention to our movie FOOTBALL UNDER COVER, in which a girls’ team from Berlin faces the Iranian women’s national team. The DVD is available in our shop, in the menu "DVDs". In case of any problems do not hesitate to contact us.

Swans & Lovesongvom: 07.04.11
After a sold out stint in the section of the International Forum of New Cinema at the 2011 Berlinale International Film Festival SWANS now plays at the Argentinean festival BAFICI In Buenos Aires. In April SWANS will also play at the Las Palmas International Film Festival in Gran Canaria. Furthermore, Germany's ZDF airs LOVESONG with Jan Plewka and Nicolette Krebitz as part of the Kleine Fernsehspiel on the 11th of April at 00:25.

The Flying Moon Bus at the International Film Festival Berlinvom: 09.02.11

Flying Moon can be met at this year's Berlinale in a very special location. In the Flying Moon Bus near the European Film Market (Niederkircher St./Stresemannst.) we present our Berlinale entry SWANS by Portuguese director Hugo Viera da Silva.
Our cosy doubledeck bus is an extraordinary location for meetings, watching films and much more with coffee service and free internet access.

SWANS at Berlinale 2011vom: 27.01.11
A father and his teenage son travel to winter gloomy Berlin to visit the boy’s mother who is in a coma. A film about desire and anonymity, and the coming- of-age of two people.

The film SWANS by portuguese director Hugo Vieira da Silva will have its world premiere at this year's International Film Festival Berlin in the 41st International Forum of New Cinema section.

+++Screening Dates+++

Sat 12.02.11 19:00  Delphi- Filmpalast
Mon 14.02.11 19:00  CineStar 8
Tue 15.02.11 12:30  Cubix 7
Fri 18.02.11 12:30  Arsenal

All screenings are open to the public and tickets are available by the beginning of February at http://www.berlinale.de/en!

More information about the film can be found here

Happy New Year 2011 with Flying Docsvom: 11.01.11

Sungs-Hyung Cho's award winning documentary FULL METAL VILLAGE plays from January 12th - 15th at NORIENT Musikfilm Festival in the Reitschule Bern theatre in Switzerland.
Chos second Heimatfilm about three best aged Germans who follow their Korean wives to live in the „German Village“ in Korea will be brodcast by 3sat on January 16th at 9.45 p.m. See here for more information.
URVILLE, director Angela Christlieb's experimental documentary about an imaginary city and its real-life french counterparts plays from January 21st - 25th at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe.

Urville en salles!vom: 22.11.10
Hof International Film Festival, Festival des Deutschen Films, Max Ophüls Preis, Visions du Réel, Nyon and New York Anthology Film Archives. After numerous festivals in Germany and abroad the entire Flying Moon Team is pleased to announce that on Thursday the 18th of November Angela Christlieb’s URVILLE celebrated its official premiere at the cinemas Eiszeit and Sputnik in Berlin, Germany. Yvonne Mohr (DoP), Andreas Ruft (Sound), Takis Sariannidis (Sound Design) as well as Eric Hubel und Wharton Tiers (Sound Track) joined the director on her quest of finding the real residents of an unreal city. The film’s main theme “Urville” by Stereo Total can be found: here.

THE LONELIEST PLANET, URVILLE & HOME FROM HOMEvom: 20.09.10
Prior to its German theatrical release Angela Christlieb’s URVILLE will close its festival circuit with a stint in New York at the Anthology Film Archives . The film will run for a full week.
Following its wrap in the Republic of Georgia production for THE LONELIEST PLANET with Gael García Bernal has moved to the cutting room in New York. Distributor “With Cinema” will release Sung-Hyung Cho’s Heimatfilm HOME FROM HOME to Korean theaters.

"It's a wrap!" - Principal Photography Completed on THE LONELIEST PLANET vom: 06.09.10
Filming on Julia Loktev's (Day Night Day Night) THE LONELIEST PLANET wrapped on September 5th in the Republic of Georgia after 35 days of shooting.
The thriller is about a young couple, played by Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg, whose relationship is put to a test while traveling the Caucasus Mountains. Post-production will take place in both Frankfurt, Germany and New York, USA. The film will be edited by Michael Taylor.

Flying Moon productions on festival and TV, DVD-newsvom: 18.08.10
Nora Hoppe's feature film LA FINE DEL MARE will be broadcast tonight at 10:35 pm on Arte.

A lot of amazing news is to announce for our DVD department. The long awaited DVD of HOME FROM HOME is available in our online shop by August 20th, 2010. On this occasion we offer our customers the Sung-Hyung Cho Heimatfilm special: the two DVDs of FULL METAL VILLAGE and HOME FROM HOME for the price of 24.99 Euro (valid until revoked). The brandnew International Edition of COMRADES IN DREAMS is now available with Korean subtitles in our online shop.

URVILLE Angela Christlieb's experimental documentary on an imaginary city and its realities is currently heading for Finland, where it's screened at Espoo Ciné International Film Festival in the section Tales from the Periphery on August 27th.

Shooting of THE LONELIEST PLANET is about to startvom: 23.07.10
Our production THE LONELIEST PLANET starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg starts shooting on July 26th.
The thriller is about a young couple backpacking through the mountains of Georgia, where their relationship is soon put to the test. Julia Loktev’s (director) and Inti Briones’ (DOP) crew will be shooting in the astonishing landscape of the Caucasian mountains for six weeks.
The feature film is a co-production with ZDF and Parts & Labor(USA), funded by Hessen Invest.

DVD of LOVESONG now availablevom: 23.07.10
The DVD of LIEBESLIED (LOVESONG) is now available at Good Movies. In this touching Rock-Musical a young couple, played by Nicolette Krebitz and Rock musician Jan Plewka has to face a severe stroke of faith and needs to find a new way to each other. For more infos about the film please see here. The soundtrack by Selig musicians Jan Plewka and Christian Neander is available at Universal Music.

URVILLE relocates to the Festival des Deutschen Filmsvom: 17.06.10
URVILLE, the experimental documentary by director Angela Christlieb (CINEMANIA) with its fantastique title song by Stereo Total is screened from today at the Festival des Deutschen Films in Ludwigshafen.

To learn more about URVILLE please take this route.

Uli Gaulke Matinéevom: 23.03.10
After the success of PINK TAXI we are delighted to announce a special screening of three Uli Gaulke films on April 11th at Kino Krokodil (Greifenhagener Str. 32, 10437 Berlin).
Don't miss your chance to watch his award winning debut HAVANNA Mi AMOR, his hommage to cinema COMRADES IN DREAMS and his most recent film PINK TAXI on the big screen again. The three films will be shown at 5 pm, 7pm and 9 pm.

32 A at Britfilms School Film Festivalvom: 17.03.10
The British School Film Festival Britfilms screens 32A by Irish Filmmaker Marian Quinn in Yorck theaters in Berlin. For schedules see hier.

PINK TAXI theatrical release and special eventsvom: 04.03.10
As of today PINK TAXI can be seen on the big screen at Kino Krokodil and Central (Berlin).

On Friday, March 5th, director Uli Gaulke will be present for a Q and A after the showing at Kino Krokodil (the film starts at 8 p.m.)

To celebrate the Women's Day on March, 8th women will be offered sparkling wine at Kino Krokodil. Uli Gaulke and hopefully his direction assistant Lena Rem are going to be present for a discussion afterwards.

PINK TAXI premierevom: 23.02.10
Our film PINK TAXI premieres publicly on March, 2nd 2010 at Central Kino, Berlin. The showing starts at 7 p.m. Director Uli Gaulke and the film team are going to be present.

Following the screening, starting 10 p.m. Kaffee Burger will be hosting our premiere party with "Russian Disco". Guests with a movie ticket will be granted free entry.

We hope to see you there.

Official release date for PINK TAXI is March, 4th 2010. The film can be seen in Central-Kino and Kino Krokodil (Berlin).

ANSTOß IN TEHERAN on TVvom: 05.02.10
On Thursday, 11.02.10 at 23:30pm the RBB shows ANSTOß IN TEHERAN (FOOTBALL UNDERCOVER).
Have fun watching.

PINK TAXI Trailervom: 29.01.10
We present the trailer for PINK TAXI:



Direct link: click here

Release date for Berlin: 4. March 2010

LOVESONG in Hallevom: 14.01.10
We are delighted to inform you that LOVESONG will be shown in LUX.Kino in Hall form 28.01..
Anne Høegh Krohns cinema feature was shot in Halle between November 2007 and January 2008.
For more information look up: http://www.luxkino.de/

Theatrical Release of LOVESONGvom: 10.12.09
LOVESONG will be released on December the 10th in the following towns:

Berlin – Babylon Mitte, Blow Up
Essen – Galerie Cinema
Heidelberg – Gloria
Karlsruhe – Schauburg
München – Monopol
Dresden – Metropolis
Nürnberg - Meisengeige
Stuttgart – EM
Hamburg – Abaton
Jena – Schillerhof
Augsburg - Savoy
Ulm - Mephisto
Freiburg – Apollo
Chemnitz - Luxor

On December the 13th at 5.30pm there will be a screening of LIEBESLIED in Kino Babylon Mitte in Berlin. The director Anne Høegh Krohn, our main characters Jan Plewka and Nicolette Krebitz and composer Christian Neander will be attending. Before the film starts Jan Plewka (singer) and Christian Neander (guitar) will present some of the songs live. Additionally there will be a little Q & A with Anne and Jan after the screening.

Theatrical Release of LOVESONG on December 10, 2009vom: 13.11.09
The touching lovestory directed by Anne Høegh Krohn, starring Nicolette Krebitz and Jan Plewka will be released in German cinemas by Zorro Film on December 10, 2009.

More information:

www.zorrofilm.de
www.liebeslied-derfilm.de

Arsenal cinema shows Rome Rather Than Youvom: 10.11.09
The Arsenal cinema in Berlin screens ROME RATHER THAN YOU on Thursday (11/12/2009) at 19:00. Taric Teguia's movie is part of a selection of films that explores the current state of African Cinema ( AFRIKAMERA 09).

TV noticevom: 10.11.09
PINK TAXI is featured in tonight's episode of Filmvorführer on German channel RBB. The show airs at 22:35.

For more information check the official website.

More cinemas to show Home from Homevom: 26.10.09

Flying Moon is delighted that the new film by Sung-Hyung Cho will start in even more Movie-Theatres. The film is also confirmed for the following cities and venues.

Braunschweig - Universum
Freiburg – Harmonie
Kassel – Filmladen
München – Atelier
Nürnberg - Metropolis



Prix Europa for FOOTBALL UNDER COVERvom: 26.10.09

The shorter TV-Version of Flying Moon's FOOTBALL UNDER COVER has won the Prix Europa IRIS award as best Multicultural Television Programme. The Jury states: “... is a film which explores a mixture of powerful human values: the desire for freedom; following one’s dreams; and equality. ...” The complete Citation of the Jury and all the other awarded programmes can be found on the web-site of Prix Europa:

prix-europa.de


Theatrical release of Sung-Hyung Cho’s ENDSTATION DER SEHNSÜCHTEvom: 23.10.09

Sung Hyung Cho’s latest Heimatfilm ENDSTATION DER SEHNSÜCHTE (int. Title HOME FROM HOME) will hit the German cinemas next thursday (10/29/2009) distributed by Zorro Film.
The film will be shown in the following cities and cinemas:

Berlin ... Blow Up ... Broadway ... York ... Dresden ... Schauburg ... Frankfurt ... Harmonie ... Hamburg ... Abaton ... Elbe ... Karlsruhe ... Schauburg ... Köln ... Filmpalette ... Rex ... Mainz ... Palatin ... München ... Monopol ... Münster ... Cinema ... Potsdam ... Thalia ... Weimar ... Mon Ami

Sung-Hyung Cho will present her film in some of the cities. Further information about the Cinema-Tour on her webpage

sung-hyung.de


Flying Moon Premieres at 43rd Hof International Filmfestivalvom: 19.10.09
Two Flying Moon productions will receive their premiere at the reknown filmfestival in Hof later this month. The festival will screen the new feature Documentary by Uli Gaulke, PINK TAXI, and Angela Christlieb’s experimental documentary URVILLE. As of now the screening dates are:

PINK TAXI by Uli Gaulke:

Thu October 29 - 4.30pm Central
Fri October 30 - 9.30pm Casino
Sat October 31 - 7.30pm Club

URVILLE by Angela Christlieb:

Wed October 28 - 4.30pm Classic
Fri October 30 - 1.15pm City

For information about possible changes of screening dates and ticket purchase please see

www.hofer- filmtage.de.

TV-Snippets of HOME FROM HOMEvom: 14.10.09

BR, a German regional TV channel will broadcast a feature about Home From Home in the TV show Cappriccio tomorrow night.

Airtime: October 15th 2009, 10.30pm BR

HOME FROM HOME about to hit German Cinemasvom: 14.10.09

Sung-Hyung Cho’s latest Heimatfilm Home from Home is going to be released in German cinemas on October 29 distributed by Zorro Film. Sung-Hyung is going to travel around in Germany with her film to celebrate its release with the audience.

More about the film’s release and the cinema-tour on www.sung-hyung.de

Flying Moon Co-Production screens at Underdox Festival in Munichvom: 29.09.09

BETTER THINGS the Feature Debut of Duane Hopkins will screen in this year's edition of Underdox Filmfestival in Munich on October 3rd in its Original English Language Version. The screening at the local Filmmuseum starts at 8.30pm and is open to the public.

Want to know more about the Festival?
Go to www.underdox-festival.de

Special Mention for "LOVESONG" at Oldenburg International Filmfestivalvom: 21.09.09


German Independents Award Nomenee LOVESONG received a Special Mention from the International Jury at yesterdays Awards Ceremony in the Cinemaxx Oldenburg.

The Jury Members were: Sylvia Caminer, Patrick Cassavetti, Buddy Giovinazzo, Chris Gore and Aida LiPera

Prix Europa nomination for a Flying Moon Productionvom: 15.09.09

KICK OFF IN TEHERAN, the shorter TV-Version of FOOTBALL UNDER COVER has been nominated for the Prix Europa.

The Prix Europa is awarded to outstanding TV- and Radio-Productions and will screen all nominations during its own Festival from the 17th until the 24th of October in Berlin.

More information about the award, the festivaal and all nominated projects on

www.prix-europa.de

Sung-Hyung Cho's Websitevom: 14.09.09

Sung-Hyung Cho the director of HOME FROM HOME and FULL METAL VILLAGE has a new homepage packed with interesting facts about herself and her filmprojects ...

Don't miss it! www.sung-hyung.de

LOVESONG at Oldenburg International Filmfestivalvom: 09.09.09

LOVESONG by Anne Høegh Krohn will screen in the Independents-Section of the 16th Oldenburg International Filmfestival (09/16 - 09/20 2009) and has been nominated for the German Independents Award as best German Feature Film.

+++Screening Dates+++

Thu, 09/17 8pm Cinemaxx 3 Anne Høegh Krohn and Jan Plewka will be present
Sat, 09/19 4pm JVA Oldenburg Anne Høegh Krohn will be present

All Screenings are open to the public and tickets on sale now!

For more info visit: www.filmfest-oldenburg.de

Flying Moon Productions on TVvom: 23.07.09
In August, ARTE will screen the film „Comrades in Dreams“ and „Anstoß in Teheran“, the 55- minutes TV-version of the film „Football under Cover“.

COMRADES IN DREAMS – Saturday, 01.08.2009, 23:05
(Repeat Wednesday, 05.08.2009, 03:00)

ANSTOSS IN TEHERAN – Saturday, 08.08.2009, 18:05
(Repeat Friday, 14.08.2009, 10:50 and Wednesday, 26.08.2009, 01:35)

HAVANNA MI AMOR now on DVD!vom: 23.06.09


HAVANNA MI AMOR by award winning director Uli Gaulke is now available on DVD on www.flyingmoon.com, including bonus material such as an early short by the director, deleted scenes and audio commentary! MARRY ME is shortly to follow.


INVESTIGATION at the cinema Arsenal, Berlinvom: 18.06.09
The film INVESTIGATION / RAZSLEDVANE about the involvement between the suspect in a fratricide case and a female investigator will be shown during the program "Ausgerechnet Bulgarien!" of the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art on 23 june 2009, 20:00 o’clock. Rali Raltschev, the director of photography, will be present.

For further information visit: www.arsenal- berlin.de

32A by Marian Quinn in theatres from june 25thvom: 30.04.09
Dublin 1979. Maeve is nearly 14, and still doesn't wear a bra. Her best pals Ruth, Claire and Orla think this has to be changed as Maeve hasn’t been kissed yet either, and perhaps, a bra might help her to finally get a boyfriend. But suddenly it seems that the curly-haired 16-year-old heartthrob Brian could be interested…

Becoming a woman is a lot harder than expected. The spirited film 32 A by the Irish director Marian Quinn was screened in section Generation 14plus at the International Film Festival Berlin 2008 and won the award for the Best First Feature Film at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Tiernan MacBride International Screenwriting Award. On time with the summer holidays our Irish-German Coming-of-age- comedy-drama will be shown in German cinemas.

For further information visit: www.fugu-films.de

COMRADES IN DREAMS now on DVD!vom: 31.03.09

COMRADES IN DREAMS is a fascinating, poetic round-the-world trip to four remote places on three continents, where cinema is still a true event. Follow Anup with his Indian tent cinema, see how Hang Yong-Sil tries to push north-korean crops with her village cinema, how cinematic passion unfolds under the skies of Burkina Faso and share Pennys american celluloid dreams. All of them are united in a touching and opinionated passion for cinema and its stories, reflecting both private destinies and desires.

COMRADES IN DREAMS will be out on DVD April 9th, 2009. Order now at our online shop!

Discussion on FOOTBALL UNDER COVER vom: 20.02.09
Discussion and presentation of FOOTBALL UNDER COVER
Date: 26. February 2009 (Thurday), 19.00 o'clock
Location: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Information: Mekonnen Mesghena, E citizenship@boell.de T 030-28534-240

"Home from home" at Berlinale 2009vom: 19.01.09
The new documentary by director Sung-Hyung Cho ("Full Metal Village") will be presented at this year's International Film Festival Berlin in the Panorama section.

Football Under Cover DVD vom: 21.11.08
The Football Under Cover DVD is now available. You can also purchase it directly in our shop. In case of any problems do not hesitate to contact us.

New online presencevom: 21.11.08
The new Flying Moon website is online. The site is still under construstions and may not perfect. Bit by bit we fill our shop with items and the film section with information.