Yesterday we tossed filmmaker names like Ala Eddine Slim, Alexandre Koberidze, Marco Dutra and the tandem of Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza into the prognostication Un Certain Regard mix. Today we present another ten options and make sure to tune in on Monday for 25 firm Palme d’Or competition guesses. The official line-up will be revealed on April 11th.
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- 3/29/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Sara Summa’s European road movie “Arthur & Diana,” which will make its world premiere in the Discovery section of Toronto Film Festival, has been picked up for world sales by Vienna-based Square Eyes. The film is debuting its trailer with Variety.
The film centers on siblings Arthur and Diana. Together with Diana’s two-year-old son, they leave Berlin for Paris for a short, relaxed trip for the required annual safety inspection of their rusty old Renault. But the journey will turn out not so relaxed, the direction not Paris, and whether the car will get to its destination is all too questionable.
Summa said: “‘Arthur & Diana’ is a very significant film for me personally, because it is an autofictional experiment in which my two-year-old son, my brother, and I play the protagonists of this purely fictional road movie. With this second feature I wanted to convey some joie de vivre...
The film centers on siblings Arthur and Diana. Together with Diana’s two-year-old son, they leave Berlin for Paris for a short, relaxed trip for the required annual safety inspection of their rusty old Renault. But the journey will turn out not so relaxed, the direction not Paris, and whether the car will get to its destination is all too questionable.
Summa said: “‘Arthur & Diana’ is a very significant film for me personally, because it is an autofictional experiment in which my two-year-old son, my brother, and I play the protagonists of this purely fictional road movie. With this second feature I wanted to convey some joie de vivre...
- 8/22/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have taken part.
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have taken part.
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have taken part.
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
The World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa), taking place annually at Film Fest Gent, is pairing 25 composers with 25 filmmakers for a short film project called 25 x 2 to celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Composers including Howard Shore, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton have composed a short piece of music (1-2 minutes) with many recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic orchestra. Filmmakers Including Terence Davies, Radu Jude, Paul Schrader, Naomi Kawase and Ildikó Enyedi are now creating shorts based on the scores.
The shorts will be presented at this year’s Film Fest Gent,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Perched on the shores of lake Revine, in North East Italy, Lago Film Fest has cemented itself as a go-to event for short film enthusiasts around the world. Now at its nineteenth edition, each July Lff brings together filmmakers and film lovers for a nine-day cornucopia of over 170 shorts screening in open-air cinemas set up around the lake. But the crowning jewel may well be A Shape of Film to Come, a series of thought-provoking and candid conversations that run parallel to the festival, and invite some of its most distinguished guests to speak about their craft. Just last year, Alexandre Koberidze, Kiro Russo, Mitra Farahani, and Matías Piñeiro traveled to Lff to talk about their cinephilia, their filmographies, and how they see the medium evolving in the not so distant future.
In a wide-ranging chat with Kiro Russo, the Bolivian filmmaker behind such marvels as, most recently, El Gran...
In a wide-ranging chat with Kiro Russo, the Bolivian filmmaker behind such marvels as, most recently, El Gran...
- 4/27/2023
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
For anyone keeping tabs on Bas Devos’ career, it’s notable that the drama of his latest film Here is set in motion by something as benign as a pot of soup. A charming portrait with a flânuerial spirit, the film follows a Brussels-based Romanian construction worker who, having decided to move home, cooks what’s left in his fridge, packages it up, then gifts it to family, friends and––much later––a Belgian-Chinese woman doing a PhD in moss. She is played by Liyo Gang and he is played by Stefan Gota. It’s 81 minutes long, has relatively little dialogue, and tugs the heartstrings in all the best ways. It might be the most benevolent film of this year.
It hasn’t always been like this for Devos, a 39-year-old filmmaker from Belgium. While 2019’s Hellhole––a eulogy for a city in mourning––had style to burn, its pessimism felt strained.
It hasn’t always been like this for Devos, a 39-year-old filmmaker from Belgium. While 2019’s Hellhole––a eulogy for a city in mourning––had style to burn, its pessimism felt strained.
- 3/2/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
’She Said’, ‘Strange World’, ‘Bones and All’ and ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ all debut.
Sony’s hoping to be top of the class this weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with BFI London Film Festival premiere Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical playing in 670 sites.
The musical feature is directed by Matthew Warchus, with Dennis Kelly writing and Tim Minchin composing, and is based on the stage musical created by the same trio. Working Title produces, with Netflix releasing around the rest of the world from December, and in the UK in summer 2023.
It boasts a cast including...
Sony’s hoping to be top of the class this weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with BFI London Film Festival premiere Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical playing in 670 sites.
The musical feature is directed by Matthew Warchus, with Dennis Kelly writing and Tim Minchin composing, and is based on the stage musical created by the same trio. Working Title produces, with Netflix releasing around the rest of the world from December, and in the UK in summer 2023.
It boasts a cast including...
- 11/25/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
A couple’s rendezvous plans are turned upside down by a strange curse in Alexandre Koberidze’s exasperating yet likable fantasy-romance
Yes, what? A presence or an absence? Alexandre Koberidze’s exasperating yet meanderingly likable existential fantasy-romance reflects on this kind of quibbling question (although not explicitly on this exact one) as it muses on love, fate, identity and the mystery of ordinary things. It’s like a short film, but one lasting 151 minutes, with something of Jacques Rivette’s Céline and Julie going on their boat trip and Eric Rohmer’s two would-be lovers losing contact with each other in A Tale of Winter.
Lisa and Giorgi are a medical student and footballer in the Georgian city of Kutaisi who have a chance meeting outside a school and agree to rendezvous at a cafe the next day. But a strange curse or hex changes their appearance overnight (an event...
Yes, what? A presence or an absence? Alexandre Koberidze’s exasperating yet meanderingly likable existential fantasy-romance reflects on this kind of quibbling question (although not explicitly on this exact one) as it muses on love, fate, identity and the mystery of ordinary things. It’s like a short film, but one lasting 151 minutes, with something of Jacques Rivette’s Céline and Julie going on their boat trip and Eric Rohmer’s two would-be lovers losing contact with each other in A Tale of Winter.
Lisa and Giorgi are a medical student and footballer in the Georgian city of Kutaisi who have a chance meeting outside a school and agree to rendezvous at a cafe the next day. But a strange curse or hex changes their appearance overnight (an event...
- 11/23/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” and Terence Davies’s “Benediction” won top prizes at the 2022 Ics Awards, which are handed out by the International Cinephile Society.
This 19th edition marked a milestone with female talents winning best picture, director, animated film, documentary, debut feature, breakthrough performance and cinematography.
“Happening,” a timely abortion drama set in 1960s France, took home best picture, while its star, Anamaria Vartolomei, won best breakthrough performance.
“Remarkable in its combination of artistic delicacy and brutal realism, yet resisting any hint of didacticism, the film quietly builds tension to a gut-wrenching emotional pitch,” stated the Ics.
Campion, meanwhile, won best director with her Western family drama “The Power of the Dog.” Runner-up for top film was Hamaguchi with “Drive My Car,” a road drama based on Haruki Murakami’s short story about guilt and grief.
This 19th edition marked a milestone with female talents winning best picture, director, animated film, documentary, debut feature, breakthrough performance and cinematography.
“Happening,” a timely abortion drama set in 1960s France, took home best picture, while its star, Anamaria Vartolomei, won best breakthrough performance.
“Remarkable in its combination of artistic delicacy and brutal realism, yet resisting any hint of didacticism, the film quietly builds tension to a gut-wrenching emotional pitch,” stated the Ics.
Campion, meanwhile, won best director with her Western family drama “The Power of the Dog.” Runner-up for top film was Hamaguchi with “Drive My Car,” a road drama based on Haruki Murakami’s short story about guilt and grief.
- 2/7/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most respected film magazines has delivered their list of favorite films of 2021. Sight and Sound, from the BFI, has selected Joanna Hogg’s stunning meta sequel The Souvenir Part II as their best film of the year, while the top 10 also includes Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s two new features, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, and more.
Sight and Sound Editor in Chief Mike Williams said, “Congratulations to Joanna Hogg for topping our poll for a second time, becoming the first female director to do that. The list that she heads is wide-ranging and colourfully international, and it’s exciting to see such a plurality of voices being represented – proof if it were needed that while the pandemic may have impacted on the way we watch films, it’s not dimmed the brilliance of the people that make them. The Souvenir Part II...
Sight and Sound Editor in Chief Mike Williams said, “Congratulations to Joanna Hogg for topping our poll for a second time, becoming the first female director to do that. The list that she heads is wide-ranging and colourfully international, and it’s exciting to see such a plurality of voices being represented – proof if it were needed that while the pandemic may have impacted on the way we watch films, it’s not dimmed the brilliance of the people that make them. The Souvenir Part II...
- 12/3/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 25th edition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is about to kick off, and between 12-28 of November the audience will have the oportunity to watch a great number of films from Asia, strewn across festival’s various program sections, including all competition segments. We went through the complete program and counted no more or less than 69 films from the broader Asian region.
Quite surprising is the amount of competition titles in the main selection, with three world premieres, four international. Lu ZHang’s “Yanagawa” will have its European premiere at PÖFF.
Yerzhanov returns to Tallinn a year after he presented two films at the festival, the main competition title “Ulbolsyn” about a woman who comes to a Kazhak village to “steer trouble”, and the oddball comedy “Yellow Cat” screened in the Current Waves program. Kirill Sokolov is also back two years after the premiere of his critically acclaimed...
Quite surprising is the amount of competition titles in the main selection, with three world premieres, four international. Lu ZHang’s “Yanagawa” will have its European premiere at PÖFF.
Yerzhanov returns to Tallinn a year after he presented two films at the festival, the main competition title “Ulbolsyn” about a woman who comes to a Kazhak village to “steer trouble”, and the oddball comedy “Yellow Cat” screened in the Current Waves program. Kirill Sokolov is also back two years after the premiere of his critically acclaimed...
- 11/10/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The Tokyo Filmex festival wrapped up on Sunday with a prize ceremony and the surprise screening of “Revolution of Our Times,” a documentary about the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
Filmex and the Tokyo International Film Festival have been largely cooperative events in the past two years. TIFF will come to a close with its own prize ceremony on Monday evening.
The Filmex first prize was awarded jointly to “Anatomy of Time,” directed by Thailand’s Jakrawal Nilthamrong, and to “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?,” directed by Georgia’s Aleksandre Koberidze. Each wins a cash prize of JPY500,000.
The competition jury described “Anatomy” as “a suddenly cruel and violent sequence of characters past and present in which different layers of time are intertwined in a fascinating and challenging way.” Of “Sky” the jury said it was “a beautiful portrait of the city of Kutaisi [in which] the...
Filmex and the Tokyo International Film Festival have been largely cooperative events in the past two years. TIFF will come to a close with its own prize ceremony on Monday evening.
The Filmex first prize was awarded jointly to “Anatomy of Time,” directed by Thailand’s Jakrawal Nilthamrong, and to “What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?,” directed by Georgia’s Aleksandre Koberidze. Each wins a cash prize of JPY500,000.
The competition jury described “Anatomy” as “a suddenly cruel and violent sequence of characters past and present in which different layers of time are intertwined in a fascinating and challenging way.” Of “Sky” the jury said it was “a beautiful portrait of the city of Kutaisi [in which] the...
- 11/8/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Montclair Film Festival (Mff) unveiled its 2021 winners, with Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World taking the top prize. This year’s festival featured four competitive categories: Fiction, Documentary, Future/ Now, and New Jersey Filmmaking. Additionally, the Fiction and Documentary juries also awarded films for the festival’s Short Film competitions. The Mff also announced the festival’s 2021 Audience Awards and Junior Jury prizes.
The Festival’s 2021 Audience Awards were given to Belfast, directed by Kenneth Branagh for fiction feature; Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, directed by Dave Wooley for Non-Fiction Feature; Flee directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, for World Cinema, and Larry & Me directed by Lisa Melmed, for Short Film.
Flee, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, wins the Bruce Sinofsky Award for Non-Fiction Feature and What Do We See When We Look At The Sky, directed by Aleksandre Koberidze, wins the Mark Urman Award For Fiction Filmmaking.
The Festival’s 2021 Audience Awards were given to Belfast, directed by Kenneth Branagh for fiction feature; Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, directed by Dave Wooley for Non-Fiction Feature; Flee directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, for World Cinema, and Larry & Me directed by Lisa Melmed, for Short Film.
Flee, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, wins the Bruce Sinofsky Award for Non-Fiction Feature and What Do We See When We Look At The Sky, directed by Aleksandre Koberidze, wins the Mark Urman Award For Fiction Filmmaking.
- 11/2/2021
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – The Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff) is competitive, and the 57th edition presented its awards on October 22nd, 2021, as a live virtual and online event.. The winner of the Gold Hugo as Best International Film was “Memoria” (Columbia), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival continues on Day 11, featuring screenings in theater, at the drive-in and virtual/online. Click here for a complete how-to guide on navigating the 57th Ciff. And click Day 11 for the complete line up of films.
The awards were presented by the various jury members in each film category, and were hosted by Artistic Director Mimi Plauché and Managing Director Vivian Teng. The Festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, named for the mythical God of Discovery.
International Feature Film Competition
‘Memoria’
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The Gold Hugo for Best Film: “Memoria” (Columbia) Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
In...
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival continues on Day 11, featuring screenings in theater, at the drive-in and virtual/online. Click here for a complete how-to guide on navigating the 57th Ciff. And click Day 11 for the complete line up of films.
The awards were presented by the various jury members in each film category, and were hosted by Artistic Director Mimi Plauché and Managing Director Vivian Teng. The Festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, named for the mythical God of Discovery.
International Feature Film Competition
‘Memoria’
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The Gold Hugo for Best Film: “Memoria” (Columbia) Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
In...
- 10/23/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
MoviePass is, sadly, dead and gone but the major theatrical chains took a few lessons from the rather radical experiment in exhibition. For a more premium price, the likes of AMC and Regal have offered monthly movie-going subscriptions with caveats. However, we’ve been desperate to see similar options in the realm of arthouse cinema. Thankfully, Mubi has come to the rescue.
Mubi Go features a curated movie-going experience for $10.99 a month as a hand-picked film will be presented each week and subscribers will not only get a ticket to the selection, but also to the entirety of Mubi’s streaming platform. Set to launch in New York beginning on October 29 with Rebecca Hall’s Passing at the Paris Theater and IFC Center, they’ve also confirmed Aleksandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look in the Sky? will be an upcoming selection when it opens on November...
Mubi Go features a curated movie-going experience for $10.99 a month as a hand-picked film will be presented each week and subscribers will not only get a ticket to the selection, but also to the entirety of Mubi’s streaming platform. Set to launch in New York beginning on October 29 with Rebecca Hall’s Passing at the Paris Theater and IFC Center, they’ve also confirmed Aleksandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look in the Sky? will be an upcoming selection when it opens on November...
- 10/19/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
After opening the Venice Film Festival and continuing on to the New York Film Festival, Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers from Sony Pictures Classics will have a red-carpet premiere at this year’s AFI Fest at the Tcl Chinese Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 13.
In the movie, two women, Janis and Ana, played respectively by Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way. Cruz won the Volpi...
In the movie, two women, Janis and Ana, played respectively by Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way. Cruz won the Volpi...
- 10/13/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Documentary Exposure from The Babushkas Of Chernobyl director Morris gets its world premiere.
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival has unveiled its international competitions line-up, a roster that includes Venice Silver Lion winner The Power Of The Dog, Tatiana Huezo’s Prayers For The Stolen, and the world premiere of Holly Morris’s documentary Exposure.
The programme includes the international premiere of Franziska Stünkel’s The Last Execution. The festival runs October 13-24 and is the longest running competitive festival in North America.
The International Feature Competition line-up comprises: Péter Kerekes’s 107 Mothers (Slo-Czech-Ukr); Mohammed Diab’s Amira (Egy-Jor-uae-Saud...
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival has unveiled its international competitions line-up, a roster that includes Venice Silver Lion winner The Power Of The Dog, Tatiana Huezo’s Prayers For The Stolen, and the world premiere of Holly Morris’s documentary Exposure.
The programme includes the international premiere of Franziska Stünkel’s The Last Execution. The festival runs October 13-24 and is the longest running competitive festival in North America.
The International Feature Competition line-up comprises: Péter Kerekes’s 107 Mothers (Slo-Czech-Ukr); Mohammed Diab’s Amira (Egy-Jor-uae-Saud...
- 9/16/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Georgian filmmaking has been receiving a lot of favourable festival heat recently, with Dea Kulumbegashvili's Cannes-selected stark drama Beginning picking up the Fipresci prize in Toronto and Aleksandre Koberidze's shaggy dog charmer What Do We See When We Look At The Sky netting the same award in Berlin. Now Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze has continued the awards stream with this tragicomic tale that offers sharp scrutiny of mother and son relationships - not to mention his motherland and its children - and which picked up the Fedeora critics prize in Karlovy Vary.
Teenager Nika (Iva Kimeridze) lives with his hot mess of a single mum Keti (Nutsa Kukhianidze) in a high-rise Tbilisi tower block. Keti is a hustler - introduced to us as she tries to sell face cream - and though the pair may not be quite living hand to mouth, she's no stranger to scrounging cash...
Teenager Nika (Iva Kimeridze) lives with his hot mess of a single mum Keti (Nutsa Kukhianidze) in a high-rise Tbilisi tower block. Keti is a hustler - introduced to us as she tries to sell face cream - and though the pair may not be quite living hand to mouth, she's no stranger to scrounging cash...
- 8/31/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Julian Radlmaier, who made a splash this year with his Marxist vampire satire “Blutsauger” (“Bloodsuckers”), is developing a romantic river barge road movie as his next project.
“Binnenschifffahrerin Birte” is an East-West love story that centers on an old housekeeper working in a western German hotel who fondly recalls her youth in 1980s East Germany, when, as a river barge captain, she experienced the one big adventure in her life: delivering an East German-made river barge to the Soviet Union.
“The Gdr [German Democratic Republic] was exporting a lot of ships to the Soviet Union,” Radlmaier explains. The film follows the skipper on her boat trip to Russia and down the Volga River, where she meets a Soviet punk bass guitarist. “It’s a love story, but through the events of history they get separated.” Still gripped by the passion of her youth in the present day, Birte tries to get in touch with her old love.
“Binnenschifffahrerin Birte” is an East-West love story that centers on an old housekeeper working in a western German hotel who fondly recalls her youth in 1980s East Germany, when, as a river barge captain, she experienced the one big adventure in her life: delivering an East German-made river barge to the Soviet Union.
“The Gdr [German Democratic Republic] was exporting a lot of ships to the Soviet Union,” Radlmaier explains. The film follows the skipper on her boat trip to Russia and down the Volga River, where she meets a Soviet punk bass guitarist. “It’s a love story, but through the events of history they get separated.” Still gripped by the passion of her youth in the present day, Birte tries to get in touch with her old love.
- 6/6/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
What did the drain pipe, the security camera, and the sapling say to the girl when she crossed the road? This is the set up, not of some shitty joke, but of a key scene of dramatic conflict in Aleksandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?. At the beginning of the film, Lisa (Oliko Barbakadze) and Giorgi (Giorgi Ambroladze) have an odd meet cute in the streets of the Georgian city of Kutaisi. They fall in love at first sight, arrange to meet at a cafe the next day, and forget to ask each others’ names. As Lisa heads home, the pipe, camera, and sapling decide to warn her of encroaching danger. As recounted to us by a narrator (voiced by director Aleksandre Koberidze), they tell Lisa that an evil eye observed her meeting with Giorgi and has cursed them. The next day, she...
- 3/8/2021
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
This shaggy dog fairy tale - with added, non-shaggy dogs - is a ruminative charmer, with the story roaming freely around its central will they/won't they romance plot. Georgian director Aleksandre Koberidze positively luxuriates in his meanderings and musings, for which he also provides sometimes humours, often philosophical narration, so if you like your tales to plot a direct course then this may not be for you, but those who enjoy a cinematic dalliance could do a lot worse than go on this ramble with him.
A chance encounter, just one of the many comings and goings, kicks things off - and the football metaphor is appropriate as the "beautiful game" also has a co-starring role here. The encounter happens between pharmacist Lisa (Oliko Barbakadze ) and footballer Giorgi (Giorgi Ambroladze) and, in a typically quirky move in a movie that is packed with them, we are offered only a.
A chance encounter, just one of the many comings and goings, kicks things off - and the football metaphor is appropriate as the "beautiful game" also has a co-starring role here. The encounter happens between pharmacist Lisa (Oliko Barbakadze ) and footballer Giorgi (Giorgi Ambroladze) and, in a typically quirky move in a movie that is packed with them, we are offered only a.
- 3/4/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In his Bloodsuckers, Julian Radlmaier undertakes the extremely difficult task of creating an effective satire that is capable of deconstructing material that has grown to the level of a myth - in this case, Karl Marx's Capital and Marxism, understood broadly as an idea and political direction, and narrowly, as a kind of moral code, a set of rules. It's a job that requires either unprecedented genius, strong knowledge of all political and social nuances, or a blind stroke of luck. The young German director, who is known for his political deconstructions, tries to kill a few birds with one stone. He criticises, of course, capitalism and the bourgeoisie, but also points out the weaknesses of the intellectual and the working-class left.
Bloodsuckers follows the story of Baron-impostor, Ljowushka, a failed actor and fugitive from Soviet Russia...
Bloodsuckers follows the story of Baron-impostor, Ljowushka, a failed actor and fugitive from Soviet Russia...
- 3/3/2021
- by Mateusz Tarwacki
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The titles for the 71st Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running March 1 - March 5, 2021. We will update the program as new films are revealed.IntroductionCOMPETITIONAlbatross (Xavier Beauvois): Laurent, a young police officer in a small town in Normandy, plans to marry Marie, with whom he has a daughter nicknamed Poulette. He loves his job despite the social misery he witnesses on a daily basis. Then one day, his life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide…Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude): Emi is a schoolteacher, whose career is threatened when a clip of her having sex with her spouse is uploaded on a adults-only site. When she is forced to face a group of furious parents asking for her dismissal, she clashes with them over their morality concerns, resulting in a debate that exposes the hypocrisy,...
- 2/19/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe poster for Hong Sang-soo's latest, Introduction, which will compete at this year's Berlinale. The competition slate for the 71st Berlin International Film Festival features a wide range of heavy hitters, from Hong and Radu Jude to Aleksandre Koberidze and Céline Sciamma. The competing titles, as well as the rest of the lineup, can be found here.The lineup for this year's SXSW Film Festival has been announced. The roster includes the directorial debut of House of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse, a documentary on musician William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, and a restoration of Les Blank's I Went to the Dance. Recommended VIEWINGFrom February 17 to February 23, the National Gallery of Art is screening the series "The Voice and Vision of Billy Woodberry." The series includes Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts, a landmark work of the L.
- 2/19/2021
- MUBI
Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian also unveiled Berlinale Special features.
A 15-title Competition line-up including new films from Céline Sciamma and Radu Jude has been unveiled for the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival’s executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian unveiled the complete Competition strand along with Berlinale Special titles at a virtual press conference today (February 11), from an empty cinema.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
This year’s edition will take place in two parts; an industry-focused, online-only event running March 1-5, and a Summer Special event featuring physical screenings, planned for June 9-20.
The Panorama,...
A 15-title Competition line-up including new films from Céline Sciamma and Radu Jude has been unveiled for the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival’s executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian unveiled the complete Competition strand along with Berlinale Special titles at a virtual press conference today (February 11), from an empty cinema.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
This year’s edition will take place in two parts; an industry-focused, online-only event running March 1-5, and a Summer Special event featuring physical screenings, planned for June 9-20.
The Panorama,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Michael Rosser¬Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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