Exclusive: German broadcasting network Ard has been accused of censorship following its decision to pull a scheduled broadcast of Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s 2017 feature Wajib due to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The film’s German co-producer Titus Kreyenberg told Deadline that Wajib had been due to air this Sunday (November 19), with the programming slot set for months and already announced in TV listings.
“It’s been taken off the schedule. Internally, we were told that it was decided that this was not the time to show a Palestinian film,” said Kreyenberg who works under the banner of Berlin and Cologne-based Unafilm with recent credits including Octopus Skin and A Woman.
Deadline has contacted Ard – a joint network involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – as well as Hamburg-based member Ndr, which backed the production. The networks have yet to respond.
Jacir’s drama Wajib is a gentle comedy-drama capturing the reality of Palestinians living within Israeli borders.
The film’s German co-producer Titus Kreyenberg told Deadline that Wajib had been due to air this Sunday (November 19), with the programming slot set for months and already announced in TV listings.
“It’s been taken off the schedule. Internally, we were told that it was decided that this was not the time to show a Palestinian film,” said Kreyenberg who works under the banner of Berlin and Cologne-based Unafilm with recent credits including Octopus Skin and A Woman.
Deadline has contacted Ard – a joint network involving 10 German regional public broadcasters – as well as Hamburg-based member Ndr, which backed the production. The networks have yet to respond.
Jacir’s drama Wajib is a gentle comedy-drama capturing the reality of Palestinians living within Israeli borders.
- 11/16/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
We take a look at the 14 projects selected for the 30th instalment of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s Development Grant. Tomorrow, Tuesday 20 October, will mark the beginning of the Cinemed Meetings: three days of professional meetings organised within the 42nd Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (read our news and interview with Christophe Leparc). Standing out on the agenda is the 30th instalment of the Development Grant, which has supported 101 feature film projects since 1991. This year, the 14 selected fiction projects hail from 14 Mediterranean countries and will be presented by their directors and producers to a jury composed of Georges Goldenstern (director of Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation), Marianne Dumoulin (Jba Production), Michel Zana (Sophie Dulac Distribution) and Catherine Bizern (Céci Moulin d’Andé). Two Development Grants will be handed out at the event (funded by the Cnc and the Occitanie region and further consisting of technical expertise from...
- 10/19/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
With the first Sundance Film Festival of the new decade wrapping up today, the award winners have been announced. Leading the pack is Minari, which picked up U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, and Boys State, which was awarded U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. It was also announced that Tabitha Jackson will be the new director of the festival, following John Cooper’s departure.
Check out the full winner list below, along with links to our reviews where available, and return for our wrap-up. See our complete coverage here.
2020 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, for Boys State / U.S.A. — In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Lee Isaac Chung,...
Check out the full winner list below, along with links to our reviews where available, and return for our wrap-up. See our complete coverage here.
2020 Sundance Film Festival Feature Film Awards
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, for Boys State / U.S.A. — In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Lee Isaac Chung,...
- 2/2/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Massoud Bakhshi’s second feature, “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness,” has its world premiere in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, to be screened without the director.
The pic’s production company, Jba Production, and sales outfit, Pyramide International, issued a joint statement on Jan. 14 explaining that the director won’t be attending due to the U.S.-Iran crisis, adding that Bakhshi’s “position is delicate, given the current tensions between the two countries.”
In an exclusive interview with Variety, Jba Production’s Jacques Bidou and Marianne Dumoulin, chronicled the complex task of producing Bakhshi’s second feature. They also produced his 2012 Cannes-player, “A Respectable Family,” about corruption in his country, which is still banned in Iran.
Bidou and Dumoulin have been working together for 27 years and as joint producers at Jba Production for the past 20 years. They have produced 44 feature films, shot in 22 countries, and have enjoyed a...
The pic’s production company, Jba Production, and sales outfit, Pyramide International, issued a joint statement on Jan. 14 explaining that the director won’t be attending due to the U.S.-Iran crisis, adding that Bakhshi’s “position is delicate, given the current tensions between the two countries.”
In an exclusive interview with Variety, Jba Production’s Jacques Bidou and Marianne Dumoulin, chronicled the complex task of producing Bakhshi’s second feature. They also produced his 2012 Cannes-player, “A Respectable Family,” about corruption in his country, which is still banned in Iran.
Bidou and Dumoulin have been working together for 27 years and as joint producers at Jba Production for the past 20 years. They have produced 44 feature films, shot in 22 countries, and have enjoyed a...
- 1/20/2020
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Director will not attend festival due to flare-up in tensions between Us and Iran.
Iranian drama Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness will premiere in Sundance as planned even if director Massoud Bakhshi will not attend due to the flare-up in tensions between the Us and Iran, its French producers and sales agent have confirmed.
“Massoud Bakhshi is proud the film was selected by Sundance and is happy for it to be screened in public there,” Paris-based Jba Production company and sales company Pyramide International said in a statement. “He has never considered asking for it to be withdrawn, on the contrary,...
Iranian drama Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness will premiere in Sundance as planned even if director Massoud Bakhshi will not attend due to the flare-up in tensions between the Us and Iran, its French producers and sales agent have confirmed.
“Massoud Bakhshi is proud the film was selected by Sundance and is happy for it to be screened in public there,” Paris-based Jba Production company and sales company Pyramide International said in a statement. “He has never considered asking for it to be withdrawn, on the contrary,...
- 1/14/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Jesús premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last autumn.
Breaking Glass Pictures, who acquired North American rights to Chilean writer-director Fernando Guzzoni’s Jesús last November, has unveiled release dates for the film.
Jesús will open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on September 1, New Orleans on September 8, with other markets to follow leading up to the DVD/VOD release on September 19.
Nicolás Durán and Alejandro Goic star in the film that centres on eighteen-year-old Jesús, who is trapped in a dead end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence.
After he and his friends attack a young boy, Jesús has no choice but to turn to his father for help, despite their troubled relationship.
The film held its Us premiere at the Neighboring Scenes Series held by the Film Society of the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Giancarlo Nasi produced, while [link=nm...
Breaking Glass Pictures, who acquired North American rights to Chilean writer-director Fernando Guzzoni’s Jesús last November, has unveiled release dates for the film.
Jesús will open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on September 1, New Orleans on September 8, with other markets to follow leading up to the DVD/VOD release on September 19.
Nicolás Durán and Alejandro Goic star in the film that centres on eighteen-year-old Jesús, who is trapped in a dead end cycle of drugs, sex, apathy, and an obsession with violence.
After he and his friends attack a young boy, Jesús has no choice but to turn to his father for help, despite their troubled relationship.
The film held its Us premiere at the Neighboring Scenes Series held by the Film Society of the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Giancarlo Nasi produced, while [link=nm...
- 8/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
The film industries of Latin America and Europe collaborated during the past San Sebastian International Film festival in a co-production forum that brought creators, producers, distributors, and other important figures in the film industry together in order to tighten and expand relationships, and promote new and developing projects.
Read more about the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Here
Chosen as the best project presented at the forum was Pavel Giroud's El Acompañante , a Cuban-French Co-Production from production company Areté Audiovisual. As a result,and as an extension of the different alliances between Producers Network of the Marché du Film (Festival de Cannes) and Argentina’s Incaa (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) Giroud's and several other projects will be able to participate in the Ventana Sur market and in the coming edition of the Cannes Producers Network. Both of these international events will provide the filmmakers and their films crucial exposure in the international film business.
Another special mention during the forum was the one sponsored by Egeda, (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association) who went to the Colombian-French project La Tierra y la Sobra directed by César Augusto Acevedo and produced by Burning Blue.
See below the full list of projects benefited by the forum's initiatives and which will form part of the Ventana Sur market:
Pedro Aguilera Londaiz from Pedro Aguilera P.C.(Demonios tus ojos)
Edgar Tenembaum from Tu Vas Voir (El Acompañante)
José María Lara from Shangri-la P.C. S.L. (La puerta del amor)
Marianne Dumoulin from Jba Production (Niño nadie)
Alberto Gerrikabeitia from Abra Prod S.L. (Operaciòn concha)
Eugenia Mumenthaler from Alina Film (Pozo de aire)...
Read more about the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Here
Chosen as the best project presented at the forum was Pavel Giroud's El Acompañante , a Cuban-French Co-Production from production company Areté Audiovisual. As a result,and as an extension of the different alliances between Producers Network of the Marché du Film (Festival de Cannes) and Argentina’s Incaa (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) Giroud's and several other projects will be able to participate in the Ventana Sur market and in the coming edition of the Cannes Producers Network. Both of these international events will provide the filmmakers and their films crucial exposure in the international film business.
Another special mention during the forum was the one sponsored by Egeda, (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association) who went to the Colombian-French project La Tierra y la Sobra directed by César Augusto Acevedo and produced by Burning Blue.
See below the full list of projects benefited by the forum's initiatives and which will form part of the Ventana Sur market:
Pedro Aguilera Londaiz from Pedro Aguilera P.C.(Demonios tus ojos)
Edgar Tenembaum from Tu Vas Voir (El Acompañante)
José María Lara from Shangri-la P.C. S.L. (La puerta del amor)
Marianne Dumoulin from Jba Production (Niño nadie)
Alberto Gerrikabeitia from Abra Prod S.L. (Operaciòn concha)
Eugenia Mumenthaler from Alina Film (Pozo de aire)...
- 10/17/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Film Review: Salt of This Sea, Cannes, Un Certain Regard
Boldly grabbing hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- namely, whose land it is that is being contended by both sides -- “Salt of This Sea” will certainly make people talk, even while it fails to fully involve them in its artificial drama.
Making her first feature film, Palestinian Annemarie Jacir shows she is a courageous director able to articulate Palestinian pain and longing to return to the land of their ancestors. But the drama of a Brooklyn-born waitress who naively travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in “her homeland” is depressingly one-note, a story that never springs to life.
Arriving at Tel Aviv airport, the American Soraya (a fascinatingly stubborn Suheir Hammad) is hassled by the authorities for her Arab name. But bare minutes later, she has reached Ramallah, then finds an apartment and a good-looking escort Emad (Saleh Bakri, son of famed actor Mohammed Bakri).
Since they won’t give her back her grandfather’s savings, lost in 1948 when the family was forced into Lebanon, she simply robs a bank with Emad and pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis). Then everybody slips through a checkpoint back into Israel, without passports, disguised as Jews.
Viewers still with the film at this point can savor the shock of the film’s crucial scene, when Suheir is hosted by the current renter of her family home in Jaffa, a disarmingly liberal Israeli girl. “We had lives here. We were robbed, ” Suheir tells the girl, who naturally has no reply.
Cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis. Director: Annemarie Jacir. Screenwriters: Annemarie Jacir. Producers: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin. Director of photography: Benoit Chamaillard. Production designer: Francoise Joset. Music: Kamran Rastegar. Sound: Eric Vaucher, Peter Flamman. Editor: Michele Hubinon
Sales Agent: Pyramide International, Paris
No MPAA rating. 109 minutes.
Boldly grabbing hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- namely, whose land it is that is being contended by both sides -- “Salt of This Sea” will certainly make people talk, even while it fails to fully involve them in its artificial drama.
Making her first feature film, Palestinian Annemarie Jacir shows she is a courageous director able to articulate Palestinian pain and longing to return to the land of their ancestors. But the drama of a Brooklyn-born waitress who naively travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in “her homeland” is depressingly one-note, a story that never springs to life.
Arriving at Tel Aviv airport, the American Soraya (a fascinatingly stubborn Suheir Hammad) is hassled by the authorities for her Arab name. But bare minutes later, she has reached Ramallah, then finds an apartment and a good-looking escort Emad (Saleh Bakri, son of famed actor Mohammed Bakri).
Since they won’t give her back her grandfather’s savings, lost in 1948 when the family was forced into Lebanon, she simply robs a bank with Emad and pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis). Then everybody slips through a checkpoint back into Israel, without passports, disguised as Jews.
Viewers still with the film at this point can savor the shock of the film’s crucial scene, when Suheir is hosted by the current renter of her family home in Jaffa, a disarmingly liberal Israeli girl. “We had lives here. We were robbed, ” Suheir tells the girl, who naturally has no reply.
Cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis. Director: Annemarie Jacir. Screenwriters: Annemarie Jacir. Producers: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin. Director of photography: Benoit Chamaillard. Production designer: Francoise Joset. Music: Kamran Rastegar. Sound: Eric Vaucher, Peter Flamman. Editor: Michele Hubinon
Sales Agent: Pyramide International, Paris
No MPAA rating. 109 minutes.
- 5/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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