Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov will be in the spotlight, alongside Anca Damian, Adina Dulcu, Miha Mazzini, Robert Budina, Uta Beria and Nana Janelidze. Running within the 20th Arras Film Festival (scheduled from 8 to 17 November 2019 – read our news), the 8th edition of Arras Days will unveil seven projects currently being written which are set to be pitched to a jury of three professionals on Saturday 16 November, and which will be battling it out for two development grants. Also intended to act as a coproduction and funding platform, Arras Days will provide any producers, distributers and sales agents interested in these projects with an opportunity to discover them in situ. One project which stands out amongst others in the running is Triumph, written by the Bulgarians Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov and Decho Taralezhkov, which...
- 10/22/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Triple F-Rated feature named Film of the Festival.
Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder’s Triple F-Rated feature The Planters - the rating given to films directed and/or written by women, which also includes women in significant roles on screen – has been named Film of the Festival at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival (September 18-29).
Written, directed and starring Kotcheff and Leder, The Planters is a dark comedy about a reclusive telemarketer who befriends a homeless woman with multiple personalities.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénarddocumentary By the Name of Tania, another F-Rated winner,...
Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder’s Triple F-Rated feature The Planters - the rating given to films directed and/or written by women, which also includes women in significant roles on screen – has been named Film of the Festival at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival (September 18-29).
Written, directed and starring Kotcheff and Leder, The Planters is a dark comedy about a reclusive telemarketer who befriends a homeless woman with multiple personalities.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénarddocumentary By the Name of Tania, another F-Rated winner,...
- 9/27/2019
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Rungano Nyoni’s UK foreign-language Oscar submission I Am Not A Witch, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Poland-set drama Cold War, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters will screen in the Panama International Film Festival’s International Portal strand next month.
Rungano Nyoni’s UK foreign-language Oscar submission I Am Not A Witch, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Poland-set drama Cold War, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters will screen in the Panama International Film Festival’s International Portal strand next month.
The programme also features Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated Lebanese drama Capernaum,...
Rungano Nyoni’s UK foreign-language Oscar submission I Am Not A Witch, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Poland-set drama Cold War, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese Cannes Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters will screen in the Panama International Film Festival’s International Portal strand next month.
The programme also features Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated Lebanese drama Capernaum,...
- 3/13/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Eleven films to play in competition.
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 16 – December 2) has added twelve titles to its First Feature Competition.
Among the new entries are Spanish director Victor Cabaco’s A March To Remember, a 1976-set thriller following a radio journalist during a workers’ strike in a provincial capital.
From India is Hello Arsi, chronicling the day in the life of two strangers who have met on a highway and go on to share a car ride and conversation. Director Sambit Mohanty passed away last year soon after shooting completed.
Eleven of the new titles are in competition,...
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 16 – December 2) has added twelve titles to its First Feature Competition.
Among the new entries are Spanish director Victor Cabaco’s A March To Remember, a 1976-set thriller following a radio journalist during a workers’ strike in a provincial capital.
From India is Hello Arsi, chronicling the day in the life of two strangers who have met on a highway and go on to share a car ride and conversation. Director Sambit Mohanty passed away last year soon after shooting completed.
Eleven of the new titles are in competition,...
- 10/26/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has announced the first seven titles of the films that will compete in this year's First Feature Competition - four of which are world premieres.
The films include five from across Europe, one from Japan one from Iran. Among the world premieres is Ernestas Jankauskas' Sasha Was Here, a Lithuanian-Finnish co-production set over the course of a day in which a young couple spend time with a child they are potentially going to adopt in unexpected circumstances. Jankauskas has already enjoyed a lengthy career as a second unit and assistant director and won a Silver Crane at the Lithuanian Film Awards for his short film The Queen Of England Stole My Parents.
Miha Mazzini's Erased - a Slovenia-Croatia-Serbia co-production - will also have its world premiere at the festival. Mazzini's film - which featured in San Sebastian's non-hegemonic...
The films include five from across Europe, one from Japan one from Iran. Among the world premieres is Ernestas Jankauskas' Sasha Was Here, a Lithuanian-Finnish co-production set over the course of a day in which a young couple spend time with a child they are potentially going to adopt in unexpected circumstances. Jankauskas has already enjoyed a lengthy career as a second unit and assistant director and won a Silver Crane at the Lithuanian Film Awards for his short film The Queen Of England Stole My Parents.
Miha Mazzini's Erased - a Slovenia-Croatia-Serbia co-production - will also have its world premiere at the festival. Mazzini's film - which featured in San Sebastian's non-hegemonic...
- 10/11/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Berlin-based sales agent boards debut feature.
Berlin-based sales agent Pluto Film has added Henrika Kull’s Jibril to its slate ahead of this month’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
The film is Kull’s feature debut and will have its world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama strand on Feb 16. It stars Susana Abdulmajid as a divorced mother of three girls who becomes embroiled in a love affair with a prison inmate.
Kull produced with Sophie Lakow, and Carolina Steinbrecher.
Pluto Film’s slate also includes Panorama title Lemonade, which Screen unveiled the first trailer for this week, and Malene Choi’s The Return, which won a special jury mention in Rotterdam this year.
At the Efm, Pluto Film will also be touting Veit Helmer’s comedy The Bra, Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among The Clouds, Miha Mazzini’s Erased, and Roman Bondarchuk’s Volcano, Rasko Miljkovic’s The Witch Hunters, and Jan Speckenbach’s Freedom...
Berlin-based sales agent Pluto Film has added Henrika Kull’s Jibril to its slate ahead of this month’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
The film is Kull’s feature debut and will have its world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama strand on Feb 16. It stars Susana Abdulmajid as a divorced mother of three girls who becomes embroiled in a love affair with a prison inmate.
Kull produced with Sophie Lakow, and Carolina Steinbrecher.
Pluto Film’s slate also includes Panorama title Lemonade, which Screen unveiled the first trailer for this week, and Malene Choi’s The Return, which won a special jury mention in Rotterdam this year.
At the Efm, Pluto Film will also be touting Veit Helmer’s comedy The Bra, Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among The Clouds, Miha Mazzini’s Erased, and Roman Bondarchuk’s Volcano, Rasko Miljkovic’s The Witch Hunters, and Jan Speckenbach’s Freedom...
- 2/8/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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