Munich, 15 May 2012. Beta Cinema is bringing a row of upcomings to the Cannes Film Festival, including the Hungarian-German War drama THE NOTEBOOK by János Szász (European Film Award for WOYZECK) and from Spain Imanol Uribe’s political thriller ORANGE HONEY about the partisan’s struggle against the Franco dictatorship, which was honored with the award for Best Director and Best New Screenplay at the Malaga Film Festival in late April.

Munich, 19 April 2012. Beta Cinema welcomes Thorsten Ritter, formerly head of Bavaria Film International, to its team.

Berlin, 10 February 2012. Beta Cinema has gotten off to a brisk start at this year’s European Film Market at the Berlinale led by Academy Award nominee IN DARKNESS and the thriller HELL.

Munich, 25 January 2012. At this year’s Berlinale, Beta Cinema will be presenting the world premieres of MERCY (official competition), BLISS (Berlinale Special) and SÜSKIND (EFM) as well as IN DARKNESS by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, which is nominated for the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film.

Munich, 24 Jan 2012. Agnieszka Holland’s IN DARKNESS has been nominated for the Academy Award in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

Munich, 31 October 2011. Beta Cinema is premiering six films – from an East-West melodrama to a culture-clash comedy and a children’s adventure film – at this year’s American Film Market in Santa Monica, California.

HELL won the Best Cinematography Award at 44th Sitges Film Festival in Spain and got a special mention for the Silver Méliès

Beta Film is proud to announce that Agusti Villaronga's "BLACK BREAD" has been selected as Spain's foreign-language Oscar candidate.

Munich, July 1 2011. This year's Young German Cinema Award for Best Director at the Munich Film Festival goes to Tim Fehlbaum for his debut film HELL (WT).

Munich, 27 May 2011. Beta Cinema has returned from the Cannes Film Market packed with contracts.

Munich, 4 May 2011. Beta Cinema is presenting the new Til Schweiger film KOKOWÄÄH – the most successful German film of the year – at the International Film Festival in Cannes.

Munich, 11 April 2011. Beta Cinema’s titles have been honoured with seven German Film awards (“Lola”) at this year’s ceremony in Berlin, among them “Best Feature Film”, “Best Script” and “Best Actor”.

Munich, 22 February 2011. At this year’s European Film Market, Beta Cinema signed over 35 deals, making it one of its most successful Berlin markets of all time.

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all US rights to Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland’s IN DARKNESS from sales agent Beta Cinema.

Agusti Villaronga's "Black Bread" grabbed top kudos, including film, director and actress (Nora Navas) Sunday night at the 25th Spanish Academy Goya Awards, Spain's equivalent to the Oscars.

“Goethe!” sold to the U.S. and Japan

Munich, 2 February 2011. Beta Cinema is heading for this year’s Berlinale Film Market with a full docket: 16 titles, including two competition films, one Panorama and one Forum film each as well as five LOLA@BERLINALE entries will be presented at the EFM to German and foreign buyers.

Munich, 17 January 2011. Three Beta Cinema titles have been honoured with the Bavarian Film Award, one of Germany's most prestigious film honours.

Munich, 21 October 2010. Beta Film’s children’s label Wunderbox has sold young people’s whodunit Little Robbers to Germany’s children’s broadcaster KI.KA.

First sales in the U.S., Great Britain and Australia

Competition films in Venice, Toronto, Montreal and San Sebastian

Munich, 23 July 2010. The Icelandic film KING’S ROAD will celebrate its international premiere this summer at the Festival del Film in Locarno.

Munich, 27 May 2010. Beta Cinema reports extensive sales throughout its current feature film line-up at this year’s Marché du Film at the International Film Festival in Cannes.

Munich, 13 May 2010. Beta Cinema has just added the new Icelandic film KING'S ROAD by director Valdis Óskarsdóttir (COUNTRY WEDDING) to its world-sales portfolio.

Munich, 6 May 2010. Beta Cinema is bringing the surprise hit of Germany's spring movie season to Cannes: the road movie VINCENT WANTS TO SEA will be given its international premiere at the Marché du Film.

Munich, 26 February 2010. The Taiwanese film AU REVOIR TAIPEI (director: Arvin Chen) stands out as one of the surprise hits of this year's Berlin International Film Festival.

"Au Revoir, Taipei," a romantic comedy featuring Taipei City, won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010 Saturday, beating 11 other Asian entries.

Munich, 8 February 2010. Beta Cinema is bringing four international premieres to this year's European Film Market.

Munich, 21 January 2010. Beta Cinema has acquired the international and German rights to the bittersweet love story AU REVOIR TAIPEI and is presenting the film in the Forum section of this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Munich-based sales company BETA CINEMA has taken on international rights to “North Face” director Philipp Stölz's next feature film “GOETHE !”...

Beta Cinema is premiering six films – from war drama to horror and romantic comedy – at this year's American Film Market (AFM)...

Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe."

Munich, 4 May 2009. Beta Cinema is presenting four international film premieres along with four-time German Film Award winner JOHN RABE at this year's film market at the Cannes Film Festival.

Florian Gallenberger’s epic drama JOHN RABE about the “Oskar Schindler of China” was the big winner at this year’s German Film Awards...

Munich, March 13, 2009. Of the 45 nominations for the German Film Awards 2009 ("Lola"), 18 went to theatrical feature films which are sold internationally by Beta.

Munich, 18 February 2009. With extensive sales throughout its latest film portfolio, Beta Cinema can look back on a successful European Film Market at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Max Faerberboeck's "A Woman In Berlin" from Beta Cinema.

Giulio Andreotti pic won Cannes jury prize

Max Farberbock's second world war survival tale A Woman In Berlin was named best international film at the 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival

With JOHN RABE, EFFI BRIEST and HILDE, Beta Cinema boasts three world premieres as GALA presentations at this year's Berlinale Specials.

JOHN RABE, the new film by Oscar winner Florian Gallenberger, has received two prestigious Bavarian Film Awards.

Marco Pontecorvo’s PA-RA-DA has risen attention at this years Mar del Plata Film Festival...

Beta Cinema announced its first U.S. sale at the American Film Market: Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo...

As the American Film Market kicks off in Santa Monica, California, Beta Cinema announces the sale of the spectacular opera filming of La Bohème with world-famous singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón to film distributors in Great Britain and Japan...

Beta Cinema brings three world premieres to the American Film Market, which begins in Santa Monica, California, on 5 November...

Beta Cinema has picked up the rights of “Ceasefire," the first German-language feature to deal with the war in Iraq.

At this year’s summer festivals in Venice and Toronto, Beta Cinema will roll out the red carpet seven times for its movies.

The film Heart of Fire about the fate of a child soldier in Eritrea has won an Audience Award at the European Film Festival in Brussels.

With nearly 40 contracts concluded with distributors in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, Beta Cinema can look back on a very successful market at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

An intensely political film so wildly inventive and witty that it will become a touchstone for years to come, "Il Divo" is a masterpiece for maverick helmer-scribe Paolo Sorrentino.

The competition entry Il Divo about the legendary but highly controversial Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti tops Beta Cinema´s portfolio at this year´s Cannes Film Market.

For the second time in a row, international film distributor Beta Cinema boasts an Oscar winner in its portfolio.

Associated Press: ''The Counterfeiters,'' the Austrian tale of a master forger forced to work for Nazis in a concentration camp, won the foreign-language Oscar on Sunday.

Beta Cinema is bringing no fewer than six highlights to this year's European Film Market (EFM).

The international film sales organization Beta Cinema has two of this year's Oscar candidates in its portfolio.

Beverly Hills — Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 80th Academy Awards®. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category.

Andrea Occhipinti (Lucky Red) has announced today that Beta Cinema will handle international sales on IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino

New US independent Dokument Films has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). Dokument is a subsidiary of Illinois-based MPI Media Group.

Following on from its success with Downfall and The Lives of Others, German sales outfit Beta Cinema is scoring global heat on two new German epics.

The Works UK Distribution continues its AFM deals by picking up UK rights to Mongol.

Germany’s Hannes Stoehr's third feature Berlin Calling which shoots in Berlin this week, is to be sold internationally by Beta Cinema.

Sergei Bodrov’s Genghis Khan epic Mongol will launch at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 6 to 15) as a special presentation in association with the North American distributors Picturehouse / Odeon and international sales agent Beta Cinema. Beta Cinema has pre-sold the title to more than 30 territories and arrives in Toronto with freshly inked deals for France (Metropolitan Filmexport) and Italy (BIM Distribution).

Stefan Ruzowitzky's Second World War drama The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher), which was first shown in competition at last February's Berlinale, has been selected as the Austrian entry for the 80th Academy Awards.

Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, Julia Jentsch and Sebastian Koch will play the main roles Beta Cinema will distribute worldwide

The producer is Guenter Rohrbach (DAS BOOT, THE WHITE MASAI).The film is based on the autobiographical best-seller of journalist Marta Hiller, who passed away in 2001. It tells the story of a nameless young woman in Berlin at the time of Germany's capitulation in spring 1945.

The international sales company Beta Cinema is presenting 15 films from a variety of genres at this year's Marché du Film in Cannes (16 to 26 May).

Of the altogether 15 German Film Awards ("Lola") which were announced during a festive gala on Friday, 4th May, eight went to theatrical productions which are sold internationally by Beta Cinema.

Stefan Ruzowitzky's forgery drama sold in 60 countries even before theatrical launch in Germany

Of the altogether 48 nominations for the German Film Prize ("Lola") which were announced today, 25 went to 6 theatrical productions which are sold internationally by Beta Cinema.

Variety: Distributor Beta has the real deal with their buzz pic "The Counterfeiters."

Screen International: A serious contender for one of this year's Bears, even a Golden one, Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters retells the Nazi attempt to sink the Allied economy by flooding it with counterfeit money.

The Stasi thriller The Lives of Others made its successful theatrical debut in France.

Beta Cinema is presenting the Berlinale competition entry The Counterfeiters at this year's European Film Market.

Two weeks before the start of the Berlin Film Festival, Beta Cinema has scooped up the international sales rights to Eight Miles High.

The Lives of Others ("Das Leben der Anderen") by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has received an Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Beta Cinema has acquired the international sales rights to the new Dani Levy film Mein Fuehrer – The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler.

Variety: The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has been nominated by representatives of the Hollywood-based foreign press (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) for the "Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe Award".

Variety: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck wins three European Film Awards 2006.

Beta Cinema posts a positive sales performance after the close of the American Film Market (AFM).

Beta Cinema ("Downfall") is bringing a wide range of programming and a number of high-ranking market premieres to this fall's American Film Market.

Variety: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's hard-hitting feature debut "The Lives of Others," about East Germany's dreaded Stasi and its terrifying system of domestic spying, has been selected as Germany's entry in the foreign-language Oscar race.

After its outstanding success at the Shanghai Film Festival, the Chris Kraus film Four Minutes also performed sensationally at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Toronto Line-up with Four Minutes, Winter Journey and The Lives of Others

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter: Oscar hopefuls such as "Volver," "Babel," "Little Children," "The Last King of Scotland," "Infamous" and "Fur" had movie fans buzzing at the 33rd annual Telluride Film Festival, which wrapped in the Colorado Rockies resort Monday.

Screen Daily.com: Germany's Beta Cinema has taken on world sales for Marian Quinn's bittersweet comedy 32A which is now in principal photography in Ireland.

Beta Cinema closed more deals than ever before at this year's Marché du Film in Cannes.

Beta Cinema has acquired the distribution rights to the Spanish Cannes Film Festival entry Salvador.

Beta Cinema comes to this year's Marché du Film in Cannes with a line-up of eight new films.

Beta Cinema takes over three new productions for world distribution.

Mongol, the film about the rise of the young Temudzhin to become Genghis Khan, is turning into one of the hottest-selling productions in the Berlinale's European Film Market.

Beta Cinema is attending this year's Berlinale with a line-up of black comedies, sweeping dramas and exciting adventures.

The movie Mongol - The Early Years of Genghis Khan will be released in the USA by Picturehouse.

Beta Cinema has acquired the world distribution rights to Mongol – The Early Years of Genghis Khan, the ten-million-dollar film project of the Russian production company CTB.

The international sales company Beta Cinema has worldwide distribution rights to "One Day in Europe", in competition at the Berlinale 2005.