Stars: Vica Kerekes, Radka Caldová, Dana Droppová | Written by Mariana Cengel-Solcanská, Hana Lasicová | Directed by Mariana Cengel-Solcanská
Before World War I breaks out, 15-year-old Anka (Dana Droppová) swaps life in a small Slovak town with her parents for the big city of Prague, working as a maid for a wealthy family. Due to be married off, daughter Resi (Radka Caldová) initially comes off as cruel but is masquerading in a social standing that expects a lot from her. As the two grow closer, they must figure out how their fledgling relationship fits into the bigger picture.
Typically, queer stories are few and far between, but the subgenre of sapphic period drama is unusually awash with choice. Big hitters such as Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Ammonite, and Tipping The Velvet have been cornerstones for helping young queer women to come to terms with their sexuality, and have understandably made...
Before World War I breaks out, 15-year-old Anka (Dana Droppová) swaps life in a small Slovak town with her parents for the big city of Prague, working as a maid for a wealthy family. Due to be married off, daughter Resi (Radka Caldová) initially comes off as cruel but is masquerading in a social standing that expects a lot from her. As the two grow closer, they must figure out how their fledgling relationship fits into the bigger picture.
Typically, queer stories are few and far between, but the subgenre of sapphic period drama is unusually awash with choice. Big hitters such as Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Ammonite, and Tipping The Velvet have been cornerstones for helping young queer women to come to terms with their sexuality, and have understandably made...
- 3/31/2023
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
The 38th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which will run Feb. 8-18, will open with Miranda’s Victim, one of 52 world premieres in this year’s lineup, and will close with the U.S. premiere of I Like Movies, one of 78 U.S. premieres, the fest announced Wednesday.
These are, of course, in addition to a slew of the career-retrospective tributes for which the fest is famous, which this year will celebrate the likes of Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as well as panels with breakthrough artists, artisans, directors, writers, producers, female creatives and international filmmakers.
The fest will also offer a variety of free educational programs, including Mike’s Field Trip to the Movies (for 4,000-plus fourth through sixth grade students from low-income schools throughout Santa Barbara County), which this year will feature a screening of Guillermo del Toro...
These are, of course, in addition to a slew of the career-retrospective tributes for which the fest is famous, which this year will celebrate the likes of Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as well as panels with breakthrough artists, artisans, directors, writers, producers, female creatives and international filmmakers.
The fest will also offer a variety of free educational programs, including Mike’s Field Trip to the Movies (for 4,000-plus fourth through sixth grade students from low-income schools throughout Santa Barbara County), which this year will feature a screening of Guillermo del Toro...
- 1/18/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Santa Barbara Film Festival To Open With Abigail Breslin Drama ‘Miranda’s Victim’ As Full Lineup Set
The Santa Barbara Film Festival has today unveiled the lineup for its 38th edition, taking place in-person from February 8-18.
The festival will open with the world premiere of the courtroom drama Miranda’s Victim, from director Michelle Danner. Pic tells the true story of Trish Weir (Abigail Breslin), who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation. Ryan Phillippe, Luke Wilson, Donald Sutherland, Mireille Enos, Andy Garcia and more also star.
Closing out Sbiff 2023 is the Chandler Levack-directed I Like Movies, which makes its U.S. premiere. The film starring Isaiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges and Percy Hynes White follows the socially inept, 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence (Lehtinen) as he gets a job at a video store, there forming a complicated...
The festival will open with the world premiere of the courtroom drama Miranda’s Victim, from director Michelle Danner. Pic tells the true story of Trish Weir (Abigail Breslin), who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation. Ryan Phillippe, Luke Wilson, Donald Sutherland, Mireille Enos, Andy Garcia and more also star.
Closing out Sbiff 2023 is the Chandler Levack-directed I Like Movies, which makes its U.S. premiere. The film starring Isaiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges and Percy Hynes White follows the socially inept, 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence (Lehtinen) as he gets a job at a video store, there forming a complicated...
- 1/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Chambermaid Trailer — Mariana Cengel-Solcanská‘s The Chambermaid / Sluzka (2022) movie trailer has been released. The Chambermaid trailer stars Dana Droppová, Radka Caldová, Vica Kerekes, Zuzana Mauréry, and Anna Geislerová. Crew Mariana Cengel-Solcanská and Hana Lasicová wrote the screenplay for The Chambermaid. “Produced by Radka Babincova and Simona Móciková.” Plot Synopsis The Chambermaid‘s plot synopsis: “Just before [...]
Continue reading: The Chambermaid (2022) Movie Trailer: Social Class & Love in Mariana Cengel-Solcanská’s Drama Film...
Continue reading: The Chambermaid (2022) Movie Trailer: Social Class & Love in Mariana Cengel-Solcanská’s Drama Film...
- 11/24/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has debuted the trailer (below) for Austrian horror movie “Smother” by up-and-coming director Achmed Abdel-Salam.
The film centers on Michi, a young mother and former alcoholic. After the sudden death of her estranged father, she decides to stay in the inherited summer house for a few days with her small daughter Hanna, hoping to regain the motherly trust she lost.
During the first night, long repressed memories of her childhood overshadowed by her mother’s suicide start to haunt her. Trying to numb herself again with alcohol only drives her daughter Hanna further away and accelerates Michi’s paranoid state. When her demons also start to threaten her daughter, Michi must finally confront them to save her.
The Glitter and Doom production is tentatively set for a local theatrical release in early 2023.
The film is one of several new titles on Picture Tree’s AFM slate.
The film centers on Michi, a young mother and former alcoholic. After the sudden death of her estranged father, she decides to stay in the inherited summer house for a few days with her small daughter Hanna, hoping to regain the motherly trust she lost.
During the first night, long repressed memories of her childhood overshadowed by her mother’s suicide start to haunt her. Trying to numb herself again with alcohol only drives her daughter Hanna further away and accelerates Michi’s paranoid state. When her demons also start to threaten her daughter, Michi must finally confront them to save her.
The Glitter and Doom production is tentatively set for a local theatrical release in early 2023.
The film is one of several new titles on Picture Tree’s AFM slate.
- 11/1/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
New section has 16 features, of which 10 are world premieres.
The world premiere of Carol Morley’s Typist Artist Pirate King is among the 16 features programmed in Critics’ Picks, the new competitive section of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
The section will host 10 world and three international premieres, with three further films screening out of competition including a gala screening of Estonian co-production Call Of God.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
Speaking about how Poff is trying to innovate with the section, festival director Tiina Lokk said: “The Critics’ Picks competition programme solves a challenge our programme team...
The world premiere of Carol Morley’s Typist Artist Pirate King is among the 16 features programmed in Critics’ Picks, the new competitive section of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
The section will host 10 world and three international premieres, with three further films screening out of competition including a gala screening of Estonian co-production Call Of God.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
Speaking about how Poff is trying to innovate with the section, festival director Tiina Lokk said: “The Critics’ Picks competition programme solves a challenge our programme team...
- 10/27/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Picture Tree Intl. has picked up the global sales rights to Austrian horror movie “Smother” by up-and-coming director Achmed Abdel-Salam. The Glitter and Doom production is tentatively set for a local theatrical release in early 2023.
After the sudden death of her estranged father, Michi, a young mother and former alcoholic, decides to stay in the inherited summer house for a few days with her small daughter Hanna, hoping to regain the motherly trust she lost.
During the first night, long repressed memories of her childhood overshadowed by her mother’s suicide start to haunt her. Trying to numb herself again with alcohol only drives her daughter Hanna further away and accelerates Michi’s paranoid state. When her demons also start to threaten her daughter, Michi must finally confront them to save her.
Picture Tree Intl.’s AFM slate features a variety of new international films, including a first visual pitch...
After the sudden death of her estranged father, Michi, a young mother and former alcoholic, decides to stay in the inherited summer house for a few days with her small daughter Hanna, hoping to regain the motherly trust she lost.
During the first night, long repressed memories of her childhood overshadowed by her mother’s suicide start to haunt her. Trying to numb herself again with alcohol only drives her daughter Hanna further away and accelerates Michi’s paranoid state. When her demons also start to threaten her daughter, Michi must finally confront them to save her.
Picture Tree Intl.’s AFM slate features a variety of new international films, including a first visual pitch...
- 10/25/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Love story is written and directed by Slovakian writer-director Mariana Čengel Solčanská.
Berlin-based sales outfit Picture Tree International (Pti) has boarded period drama The Chambermaid by leading Slovak writer-director Mariana Čengel Solčanská.
Pti is handling international sales for the film produced by Slovakia’s Bright Sight Pictures and the Czech Republic’s Cinemart TV Prague. It is set in the period of social and political disruption around World War I and the collapse of the Austria-Hungary empire in Eastern Europe.
It tells thte story of a teenage girl who arrives in Prague from a small Slovak...
Berlin-based sales outfit Picture Tree International (Pti) has boarded period drama The Chambermaid by leading Slovak writer-director Mariana Čengel Solčanská.
Pti is handling international sales for the film produced by Slovakia’s Bright Sight Pictures and the Czech Republic’s Cinemart TV Prague. It is set in the period of social and political disruption around World War I and the collapse of the Austria-Hungary empire in Eastern Europe.
It tells thte story of a teenage girl who arrives in Prague from a small Slovak...
- 10/24/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Titles include ‘Cagefighter: Worlds Collide’ and ‘The Mongolian Connection’.
US sales and distribution company Princ Films has closed a raft of deals on four features, which it introduced to buyers at the virtual Cannes market in June.
The sales are led by Mma action feature Cagefighter: Worlds Collide, written and directed by Jesse Quinones and starring Gina Gershon and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell.
The film has sold to the US and Canada (Screen Media), France (Ily Films Unlimited), German-speaking Europe (Ascot Elite), New Zealand (Sky TV), Benelux (Three Lines Pictures), Cis and Baltics (Volgafilm) and Southeast Asia...
US sales and distribution company Princ Films has closed a raft of deals on four features, which it introduced to buyers at the virtual Cannes market in June.
The sales are led by Mma action feature Cagefighter: Worlds Collide, written and directed by Jesse Quinones and starring Gina Gershon and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell.
The film has sold to the US and Canada (Screen Media), France (Ily Films Unlimited), German-speaking Europe (Ascot Elite), New Zealand (Sky TV), Benelux (Three Lines Pictures), Cis and Baltics (Volgafilm) and Southeast Asia...
- 8/7/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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