The Swiss festival runs November 4-13.
The Geneva International Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 28th edition, as well as an honorary award for Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
The Swiss festival’s international competition includes Alice Diop’s Saint Omer which previously picked up the Silver Lion jury prize at Venice and is France’s Oscar submission for best international feature.
Also competing for the Reflet d’Or award for best film, worth CHF10,000 , is Japanese animation Inu-oh from Masaaki Yuasa. The Japan-China co-production premiered in Venice’s Horizons strand before screening as a special presentation at Toronto.
The Geneva International Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 28th edition, as well as an honorary award for Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
The Swiss festival’s international competition includes Alice Diop’s Saint Omer which previously picked up the Silver Lion jury prize at Venice and is France’s Oscar submission for best international feature.
Also competing for the Reflet d’Or award for best film, worth CHF10,000 , is Japanese animation Inu-oh from Masaaki Yuasa. The Japan-China co-production premiered in Venice’s Horizons strand before screening as a special presentation at Toronto.
- 10/13/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
It’s Only the End of the World: Groșan Navigates a Triptych of Displaced Women in Pre-Apocalyptic Intersection
What’s perhaps most fitting about the commonalities between three different women whose lives intersect in Ordinary Failures, the sophomore title from Hungarian-Romanian director Cristina Groșan, is they find a sense of peace and belonging just as the world as we know it is potentially ending. Opening with a quote from noted scholar Donna Haraway, Groșan divides her film into three chapters, each examining a woman stagnating in a transitional turning point.…...
What’s perhaps most fitting about the commonalities between three different women whose lives intersect in Ordinary Failures, the sophomore title from Hungarian-Romanian director Cristina Groșan, is they find a sense of peace and belonging just as the world as we know it is potentially ending. Opening with a quote from noted scholar Donna Haraway, Groșan divides her film into three chapters, each examining a woman stagnating in a transitional turning point.…...
- 9/5/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Cristina Grosan’s Ordinary Failures (Bezna Selhani) follows three people dealing with everyday problems against the backdrop of impending doom. Written by Klára Vlasáková, is about getting out of your head and experiencing the world in the present before it passes you by (or no longer exists). At first, the plot is confusing, but it eventually comes together in a satisfying (yet bleak) way.
The film starts with a bang–literally. There is an unexplained underground explosion in the city center, fires sparking out of thin air, electronics going kaput, and blackouts. These incidents are happening all over the place, and it’s starting to escalate. Hana (Tatjana Medvecká), an older widow, trying to move on after her husband’s death, is laid off from her job due to ageism. He leaves behind a furry companion named Arlo, that suddenly shuts down. Hana takes it to the mall to be serviced,...
The film starts with a bang–literally. There is an unexplained underground explosion in the city center, fires sparking out of thin air, electronics going kaput, and blackouts. These incidents are happening all over the place, and it’s starting to escalate. Hana (Tatjana Medvecká), an older widow, trying to move on after her husband’s death, is laid off from her job due to ageism. He leaves behind a furry companion named Arlo, that suddenly shuts down. Hana takes it to the mall to be serviced,...
- 9/5/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Spontaneous flames, dysfunctional warning alerts and a sense of impending catastrophe feature in Hungarian-Romanian director Cristina Grosan’s sophomore feature “Ordinary Failures,” premiering in Venice Days, a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival. Variety is launching the trailer for the film (below), which is being sold by Totem Films.
The Czech-Hungarian-Italian-Slovak co-production, filmed entirely in the Czech Republic, mainly in Prague but also featuring Pilsen, is based on a screenplay by Klára Vlasáková, which Grosan says evolved for three years and continued morphing right up through the shoot.
The ominous tale revolves around the lives of three strangers: a teenager, a young mother, and a woman in her early sixties, who cross paths during one day in which their city is rocked by mysterious explosions.
“I spent three years developing this story together with screenwriter Klára Vlasáková,” says Grosan, “during which plenty of input reached me, both fortunate and less fortunate,...
The Czech-Hungarian-Italian-Slovak co-production, filmed entirely in the Czech Republic, mainly in Prague but also featuring Pilsen, is based on a screenplay by Klára Vlasáková, which Grosan says evolved for three years and continued morphing right up through the shoot.
The ominous tale revolves around the lives of three strangers: a teenager, a young mother, and a woman in her early sixties, who cross paths during one day in which their city is rocked by mysterious explosions.
“I spent three years developing this story together with screenwriter Klára Vlasáková,” says Grosan, “during which plenty of input reached me, both fortunate and less fortunate,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Wissam Charaf’s Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous will open the Venice sidebar.
Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio, Steve Buscemi’s The Listener and rising UK director Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean are among the world premieres in this year’s Giornate degli Autori (GdA) , the independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
Lebanese director Wissam Charaf’s Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous will open the programme in competition. The film entwines multiple love stories against the backdrop of Lebanon’s near collapse.
UK director Fyzal Boulifa’s The Damned Don’t Cry is also playing in competition. The film is a...
Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio, Steve Buscemi’s The Listener and rising UK director Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean are among the world premieres in this year’s Giornate degli Autori (GdA) , the independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
Lebanese director Wissam Charaf’s Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous will open the programme in competition. The film entwines multiple love stories against the backdrop of Lebanon’s near collapse.
UK director Fyzal Boulifa’s The Damned Don’t Cry is also playing in competition. The film is a...
- 7/28/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
White NoiseCOMPETITIONWhite Noise (Noah Baumbach)Il Signore Delle Formiche (Gianni Amelio)The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)L’Immensita (Emanuele Crialese)Saint Omer (Alice Diop)Blonde (Andrew Dominik)Tár (Todd Field)Love Life (Koji Fukada)Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Alejandro G. Inarritu)Athena (Romain Gavras)Bones & All (Luca Guadagnino)The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)Beyond The Wall (Vahid Jalilvand)The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)Chiara (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Monica (Andrea Pallaoro)No Bears (Jafar Panahi)All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)The Son (Florian Zeller)Our Ties (Roschdy Zem)Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)Out Of COMPETITIONFictionThe Hanging Sun (Francesco Carrozzini)When The Waves Are Gone (Lav Diaz)Living (Oliver Hermanus)Dead For A Dollar (Walter Hill)Call Of God (Kim Ki-duk)Dreamin’ Wild (Bill Pohlad)Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)Siccità (Paolo Virzi)Pearl (Ti West)Don’t Worry Darling...
- 7/28/2022
- MUBI
Abel Ferrara’s “Padre Pio,” starring Shia Labeouf as an Italian monk who gained rock-star status among the Catholic faithful, is among the titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Giornate Degli Autori.
The section, also known as Venice Days, will see Labeouf back on the big screen after the actor — best known for his roles in the Transformers and Indiana Jones franchises — took a break from acting in 2020 following allegations made by his ex-girlfriend Tahliah Debrett Barnett. The singer, known as FKA twigs, sued the actor for sexual battery, assault and emotional distress.
It is not yet known whether Labeouf will be on the Lido to promote “Padre Pio.”
In the latest film by Ferrara, who is known for cult classics such as “Bad Lieutenant,” Labeouf puts in what Giornate chief Gaia Furrer called an “extraordinary” performance as the “mystic and feverish” Capuchin monk...
The section, also known as Venice Days, will see Labeouf back on the big screen after the actor — best known for his roles in the Transformers and Indiana Jones franchises — took a break from acting in 2020 following allegations made by his ex-girlfriend Tahliah Debrett Barnett. The singer, known as FKA twigs, sued the actor for sexual battery, assault and emotional distress.
It is not yet known whether Labeouf will be on the Lido to promote “Padre Pio.”
In the latest film by Ferrara, who is known for cult classics such as “Bad Lieutenant,” Labeouf puts in what Giornate chief Gaia Furrer called an “extraordinary” performance as the “mystic and feverish” Capuchin monk...
- 7/28/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The 56th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival will host the launch of Kviff Talents, its new year-round program, whose goal is to identify talented filmmakers, and support the creation of projects with international ambition, and a high level of originality.
The first flight of 11 creative teams will present their projects in person during a showcase on July 4 at 12:30 p.m. in Kviff.TV Park.
“We’ve always considered the festival to be a bridge between the creative potential of Central and Eastern European filmmakers and the international stage where they can shine,” Kryštof Mucha, the festival’s executive director, said. “The Kviff Talents program represents a new, bolder and more progressive step in that direction, as it broadens its spotlight to include audiovisual works of formats and genres beyond feature or documentary films. It offers an alternative way to secure financing and, thanks to the ‘Kviff Talent’ label, better...
The first flight of 11 creative teams will present their projects in person during a showcase on July 4 at 12:30 p.m. in Kviff.TV Park.
“We’ve always considered the festival to be a bridge between the creative potential of Central and Eastern European filmmakers and the international stage where they can shine,” Kryštof Mucha, the festival’s executive director, said. “The Kviff Talents program represents a new, bolder and more progressive step in that direction, as it broadens its spotlight to include audiovisual works of formats and genres beyond feature or documentary films. It offers an alternative way to secure financing and, thanks to the ‘Kviff Talent’ label, better...
- 6/25/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Will.i.am, Ashley Banjo, Charlene White to Headline ITV’s Black History Month Shows- Global Bulletin
Programming
Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am, “Britain’s Got Talent” judge Ashley Banjo, presenter Charlene White and actor Jimmy Akingbola (“In the Long Run”) will lead U.K. broadcaster ITV’s programming for Black History Month this October.
The programming includes “Will.i.am: The Blackprint,” a one-hour documentary that follows Will.i.am’s personal exploration of what it means to be Black and British, in the country he calls his second home.
In summer 2020, Banjo was thrust into the centre of the Black Lives Matter movement when the pro equality routine performed by his troupe Diversity became one of the most complained about moments in U.K. media regulator Ofcom’s history. A year on from then, “Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White” (working title), and having won a BAFTA as a recognition of the importance of his routine, Banjo goes on a journey into his own past...
Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am, “Britain’s Got Talent” judge Ashley Banjo, presenter Charlene White and actor Jimmy Akingbola (“In the Long Run”) will lead U.K. broadcaster ITV’s programming for Black History Month this October.
The programming includes “Will.i.am: The Blackprint,” a one-hour documentary that follows Will.i.am’s personal exploration of what it means to be Black and British, in the country he calls his second home.
In summer 2020, Banjo was thrust into the centre of the Black Lives Matter movement when the pro equality routine performed by his troupe Diversity became one of the most complained about moments in U.K. media regulator Ofcom’s history. A year on from then, “Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White” (working title), and having won a BAFTA as a recognition of the importance of his routine, Banjo goes on a journey into his own past...
- 7/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
10 feature world premieres in the selection.
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
- 7/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
10 feature world premieres in the selection.
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
- 7/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A total of 47 films will compete at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival across its four competitive sections. The event will feature 18 world premieres and three international premieres.
The program is open for films from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbejan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.
Awards on offer include the Heart of Sarajevo for Feature Film, for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor.
Competition Program – Feature Film
The Elegy Of Laurel, Dušan Kasalica – World premiere
Things Worth Weeping For, Cristina Grosan (Hungary) – World premiere
Bebia, À Mon Seul DÉSIR, Juja Dobrachkous – Regional premiere
Celts, Milica Tomović (Serbia) – Regional premiere
Great Freedom, Sebastian Meise – Regional premiere
Looking For Venera, Norika Sefa (Kosovo) – Regional premiere
Moon, 66 Questions, Jacqueline Lentzou – Regional premiere
Murina, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović – Regional premiere
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, Luàna Bajrami – Regional premiere
Competition Program – Documentary Film
Bosnian Broadway, Jasmina Beširević (Croatia) – World premiere
Disturbed Earth, Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi – World premiere
Divas, Máté Kőrösi (Hungary) – World premiere
Every Sunday, Keti Papadema (Cyprus) – World premiere
Horizon, Tanja Deman (Croatia) – World premiere
The Same Dream (Romania) – World premiere
When We Were Them, Danis Tanović, Damir Šagolj (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – World premiere
ŽŽŽ (Journal About ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK), Janko Baljak (Serbia) – World premiere
Sunny, Keti Machavariani (Georgia) – European premiere
Factory To The Workers, Srđan Kovačević (Croatia) – Regional premiere
Les Enfants Terribles, Ahmet Necdet Çupur – Regional premiere
Looking For Horses, Stefan Pavlović – Regional premiere
Recipe For Hate, Filip Čolović (Serbia) – Regional premiere
Reconciliation, Marija Zidar – Regional premiere
Soldat Ahmet, Jannis Lenz (Austria) – Regional premiere
Landscapes Of Resistance, Marta Popivoda – B&h premiere...
The program is open for films from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbejan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.
Awards on offer include the Heart of Sarajevo for Feature Film, for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor.
Competition Program – Feature Film
The Elegy Of Laurel, Dušan Kasalica – World premiere
Things Worth Weeping For, Cristina Grosan (Hungary) – World premiere
Bebia, À Mon Seul DÉSIR, Juja Dobrachkous – Regional premiere
Celts, Milica Tomović (Serbia) – Regional premiere
Great Freedom, Sebastian Meise – Regional premiere
Looking For Venera, Norika Sefa (Kosovo) – Regional premiere
Moon, 66 Questions, Jacqueline Lentzou – Regional premiere
Murina, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović – Regional premiere
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, Luàna Bajrami – Regional premiere
Competition Program – Documentary Film
Bosnian Broadway, Jasmina Beširević (Croatia) – World premiere
Disturbed Earth, Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi – World premiere
Divas, Máté Kőrösi (Hungary) – World premiere
Every Sunday, Keti Papadema (Cyprus) – World premiere
Horizon, Tanja Deman (Croatia) – World premiere
The Same Dream (Romania) – World premiere
When We Were Them, Danis Tanović, Damir Šagolj (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – World premiere
ŽŽŽ (Journal About ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK), Janko Baljak (Serbia) – World premiere
Sunny, Keti Machavariani (Georgia) – European premiere
Factory To The Workers, Srđan Kovačević (Croatia) – Regional premiere
Les Enfants Terribles, Ahmet Necdet Çupur – Regional premiere
Looking For Horses, Stefan Pavlović – Regional premiere
Recipe For Hate, Filip Čolović (Serbia) – Regional premiere
Reconciliation, Marija Zidar – Regional premiere
Soldat Ahmet, Jannis Lenz (Austria) – Regional premiere
Landscapes Of Resistance, Marta Popivoda – B&h premiere...
- 7/22/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Milcho Manchevski, Pablo Berger.
Co-productions from French director Michel Hazanavicius and Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among 24 selected for funding in the latest Eurimages round.
Hazanavicius, whose 2011 title The Artist which won five Oscars including best picture and director, receives €470,000 towards Franco-Belgian animation The Most Precious Of Cargoes.
Adapted from a 2019 novel by French writer Jean-Claude Grumberg, the animated film is set during the Second World War, when a Jewish father throws one of his twins from the train to Auschwitz in a desperate attempt to save him. The boy is then discovered by a childless Polish couple.
Co-productions from French director Michel Hazanavicius and Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among 24 selected for funding in the latest Eurimages round.
Hazanavicius, whose 2011 title The Artist which won five Oscars including best picture and director, receives €470,000 towards Franco-Belgian animation The Most Precious Of Cargoes.
Adapted from a 2019 novel by French writer Jean-Claude Grumberg, the animated film is set during the Second World War, when a Jewish father throws one of his twins from the train to Auschwitz in a desperate attempt to save him. The boy is then discovered by a childless Polish couple.
- 3/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The psychological drama by the up-and-coming Romanian-Hungarian filmmaker sees the lives of the three protagonists turned upside down by a series of mysterious explosions. Mysterious explosions rock a city in Cristina Grosan’s sophomore fiction feature, Ordinary Failures, which is being prepared for a spring and summer 2021 shoot, in the wake of her feature debut, Things Worth Weeping For (see the news). The catastrophe acts as a catalyst, spurring on the three main protagonists, Hana, Silva and Tereza, each belonging to a different age group: a teenager, a thirtysomething and a sexagenarian. “The story connects three different characters through their will to do things differently. They use the explosions as an opportunity to change and to grow. They are stuck in their lives at this point,” explains the director. “But together with writer Klára Vlasáková, we shaped the story in such a way that it also reflects a greater overarching.
Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova are prepping a new project based on on true events.
Bulgarian filmmakers Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova received the top award at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production market, which ran 19-21 Jan.
The duo were awarded the Film Center Serbia Development Prize for their second fiction project, Women Do Cry, which follows their fiction debut Cat In The Wall, which premiered at Locarno last year.
Based on true events and Kazakova’s own family history, the new feature ”will encompass what being a woman means in the backdrop of funny and absurd contradictions in current Bulgarian society,...
Bulgarian filmmakers Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova received the top award at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production market, which ran 19-21 Jan.
The duo were awarded the Film Center Serbia Development Prize for their second fiction project, Women Do Cry, which follows their fiction debut Cat In The Wall, which premiered at Locarno last year.
Based on true events and Kazakova’s own family history, the new feature ”will encompass what being a woman means in the backdrop of funny and absurd contradictions in current Bulgarian society,...
- 1/22/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Competition jury member Teona Strugar Mitevska won the top co-production prize.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry arm CineLink has crowned the winners for its 25th edition, in a ceremony at the city’s National Theatre on Thursday (August 22).
Winners included North Macedonian project The Happiest Man In The World, or Lessons In Love from director Teona Strugar Mitevska and her family-run company Sisters and Brother Mitevski, which took the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award.
See below for the full list of winners.
Mitevska recently directed Berlinale 2019 competition title God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, and was on the Competition jury at...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry arm CineLink has crowned the winners for its 25th edition, in a ceremony at the city’s National Theatre on Thursday (August 22).
Winners included North Macedonian project The Happiest Man In The World, or Lessons In Love from director Teona Strugar Mitevska and her family-run company Sisters and Brother Mitevski, which took the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award.
See below for the full list of winners.
Mitevska recently directed Berlinale 2019 competition title God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, and was on the Competition jury at...
- 8/23/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Tinatin Kajrishvili, Aida Begic, Hüseyin Karabey films among lineup.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s co-production market CineLink, which will take place during the final days of the festival’s 21st edition (Aug 14-22), has unveiled its full selection.
Nine projects have been added to the previously announced eight, including three guest projects from Qatar, Syria and Russia.
The selection targets projects from established regional names, which are in advanced stage of development and financing.
The line-up includes Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili’s Manji, the filmmaker’s second feature after 2014 Berlinale title Brides.
Also featured is A Ballad, the third film by Bosnian film-maker Aida Begić, who won awards at Cannes with Snow in 2008 and Children Of Sarajevo in 2012.
Coming from Turkey is Hamarat Apartment, the new feature by Hüseyin Karabey, whose feature debut My Marlon And Brando received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress for Ayca Damgaci in 2008, and whose last outing Come To My Voice won the...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s co-production market CineLink, which will take place during the final days of the festival’s 21st edition (Aug 14-22), has unveiled its full selection.
Nine projects have been added to the previously announced eight, including three guest projects from Qatar, Syria and Russia.
The selection targets projects from established regional names, which are in advanced stage of development and financing.
The line-up includes Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili’s Manji, the filmmaker’s second feature after 2014 Berlinale title Brides.
Also featured is A Ballad, the third film by Bosnian film-maker Aida Begić, who won awards at Cannes with Snow in 2008 and Children Of Sarajevo in 2012.
Coming from Turkey is Hamarat Apartment, the new feature by Hüseyin Karabey, whose feature debut My Marlon And Brando received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress for Ayca Damgaci in 2008, and whose last outing Come To My Voice won the...
- 6/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Sarajevo’s co-production market’s first batch of projects includes new films by Erol Mintas, Ivana Mladenovic
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced first eight selected projects for this year’s edition of CineLink.
They have been chosen from the first call for entries which was intended for projects from first- and second-time directors interested in the preparatory workshop, set for April 3-7.
The selection includesx Crows by director Erol Mintas and producer Asli Erdem from Turkey, who return to Sarajevo one year after winning the Heart of Sarajevo for best film with The Song Of My Mother, and best actor for Feyyaz Duman.
Serbian-born and Romanian-based director Ivana Mladenovic, whose film Turn off the Lights won the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary in 2012, teams up with producer Ada Solomon for her first fiction feature, Soldiers.
Greece’s Dimitris Bavellas whose Runaway Day was in competition in 2013, is coming with the project In the Strange Pursuit...
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced first eight selected projects for this year’s edition of CineLink.
They have been chosen from the first call for entries which was intended for projects from first- and second-time directors interested in the preparatory workshop, set for April 3-7.
The selection includesx Crows by director Erol Mintas and producer Asli Erdem from Turkey, who return to Sarajevo one year after winning the Heart of Sarajevo for best film with The Song Of My Mother, and best actor for Feyyaz Duman.
Serbian-born and Romanian-based director Ivana Mladenovic, whose film Turn off the Lights won the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary in 2012, teams up with producer Ada Solomon for her first fiction feature, Soldiers.
Greece’s Dimitris Bavellas whose Runaway Day was in competition in 2013, is coming with the project In the Strange Pursuit...
- 4/1/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Russia big winner at FilmFestival Cottbus for second consecutive year.
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
- 11/10/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
An observational documentary and two fiction films are the first projects to be supported by the Transilvania Film Festival Fund (Tfff).
Launched at this year’s 13th Transilvania International Film Festival, the winners receiving cash or in-kind post-production services are:
Fifteen Zero Thirty Three by Iulia Matei, an observational documentary which promises to be one of the most ambitious of its kind in Romania;
Alexandru Capataiou’s love triangle with a difference, Under A Good Sign, which was developed at the Transilvania TalentLab in Cluj last year;
Cristina Grosan’s fiction short Openings, to be produced by Mindwax and HiFilm Productions, which was developed within the European Short Pitch programme and nominated for the 2014 (and final) edition of the Film Prize for International Cooperation sponsored by Germany’s Robert Bosch Foundation.
The thinking behind the creation of Tfff which attracted 35 entries is to promote the development and production in the Romanian region of Transilvania by supporting short fiction...
Launched at this year’s 13th Transilvania International Film Festival, the winners receiving cash or in-kind post-production services are:
Fifteen Zero Thirty Three by Iulia Matei, an observational documentary which promises to be one of the most ambitious of its kind in Romania;
Alexandru Capataiou’s love triangle with a difference, Under A Good Sign, which was developed at the Transilvania TalentLab in Cluj last year;
Cristina Grosan’s fiction short Openings, to be produced by Mindwax and HiFilm Productions, which was developed within the European Short Pitch programme and nominated for the 2014 (and final) edition of the Film Prize for International Cooperation sponsored by Germany’s Robert Bosch Foundation.
The thinking behind the creation of Tfff which attracted 35 entries is to promote the development and production in the Romanian region of Transilvania by supporting short fiction...
- 6/6/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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