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PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Winner of this year’s Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival, “Elite Squad” is one of those movies that few people can feel indifferent about. “Elite Squad” takes a closer look at police brutality in combating favela violence in Brazil. Director José Padilha spent two years investigating Rio de Janeiro’s Special Police [...]
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Film News: 'Squad' director set for WB film -- Jose Padilha, whose "Elite Squad" won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear this year, is set to direct a Jason Keller-scripted action thriller for Warner Bros.
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Defamer (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
Jose Padilha's Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) took home the Golden Bear prize for Best Film at the 58th Annual Berlin Film Festival this weekend. The film is described by Beyond Hollywood as "a kind of...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
Message films duly delivered at the Berlin Film Festival Saturday as the top Golden Bear award went to the Brazilian film The Elite Squad about a corrupt and violent ...
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
After the reported confusion about the many happy, entertaining and openly non-political films taking part in this year’s Berlin Film Festival competition, it was at first not at all clear if the jury would krieg die Kurve (make that sharp corner) and settle on giving the Golden Bear to a highly-political and therefore politically correct [...]
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
The English film director Mike Leigh, one of the favourites to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday for his comedy Happy-Go-Lucky, lost out to Jose [...more]
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Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 17/02/2008
Deutsche Welle reported the movie won the festival's Golden Bear trophy for its depiction of police corruption and violence in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro....
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 17/02/2008
Filed under: Drama , Foreign Language , Awards , Berlin , Cinematical Indie The 2008 Berlin International Film Festival awards have been announced , and while I've only seen one of the films that picked up prizes, I'm very excited about the results. The top honor, the Golden Bear, went to Tropa de Elite ( The Elite Squad ) , which is the first fiction film directed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilla...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 17/02/2008
A police political thriller by Brazilian director Jose Padilha won the Berlin Film Festival's coveted Golden Bear for best film.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
A blood-soaked Brazilian drama about police brutality, "The Elite Squad", beat out favourites from Hollywood and Britain to win the Golden Bear for best picture Saturday at the 58th Berlin Film Festival.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Brazilian entry "The Elite Squad" won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for best film on Saturday.
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
At least one film can be ruled out of contention for the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival this weekend - Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom. Despite the [...more]
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
BERLIN - The Berlin Film Festival will start with a bang Thursday with the premiere of a Rolling Stones documentary by Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese, kicking off 11 days of star turns, live music and a race for the Golden Bear top prize.
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Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 30/01/2008
The ' National Treasure ' beauty has been chosen by the 58th Berlin Film Festival's organizers as one of the eight jury to select the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears winners.
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Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
As the Berlin film festival organizers announced the competitors for the 2008 Golden Bear Awards, the drama movie secured its place in the Berlinale's Competition program.
