Titli took home the international jury prize at Gijon International Film Festival Indian film Titli (Butterfly), directed by Kanu Behl, took the international jury prize for best feature film at the 52nd Gijón International Film Festival this weekend.
The film - which tells the story of Titli, a young man who longs to escape his family's life of crime - also saw Shivani Raghuvanshipor take home the best actress prize for her role as Titli's wife through arranged marriage, Neelu, who is also dreaming of freedom.
The best director and writer's prizes when to Iranian director Nima Javidi for Melbourne, which sees a couple faced with a moral dilemma on the day they are due to leave the country for a new life.
Polish drama Life Feels Good - based on the true story of a man suffering from cerebral palsy - saw Dawid Ogrodnik named best actor for...
The film - which tells the story of Titli, a young man who longs to escape his family's life of crime - also saw Shivani Raghuvanshipor take home the best actress prize for her role as Titli's wife through arranged marriage, Neelu, who is also dreaming of freedom.
The best director and writer's prizes when to Iranian director Nima Javidi for Melbourne, which sees a couple faced with a moral dilemma on the day they are due to leave the country for a new life.
Polish drama Life Feels Good - based on the true story of a man suffering from cerebral palsy - saw Dawid Ogrodnik named best actor for...
- 12/1/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza in Ida Photo: Music Box Films The fourth edition of the Play Poland touring festival kicks off on Thursday, October 9.
The festival - which will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Sunderland, Belfast and Aberfeldy - will celebrate the best of recent Polish cinema as well as hosting art exhibitions and short film showcases. Internationally, the festival also has a presence in Ottawa, New York and Oslo.
Among this year's feature films are Pawel Pawlikowski's multi-award winning Ida, about an orphaned novice nun who discovers a living relative and travels into her family's past. Other highlights include Life Feels Good (Chce sie zyc), Maciej Pieprzyca's retelling of the remarkable true story of a boy's struggle to communicate with others after being born with cerebral palsy. Featuring a standout performance from Dawid Ogrodnik as the central character Mateusz, Pieprzyca brings a clear-eyed intelligence to a...
The festival - which will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Sunderland, Belfast and Aberfeldy - will celebrate the best of recent Polish cinema as well as hosting art exhibitions and short film showcases. Internationally, the festival also has a presence in Ottawa, New York and Oslo.
Among this year's feature films are Pawel Pawlikowski's multi-award winning Ida, about an orphaned novice nun who discovers a living relative and travels into her family's past. Other highlights include Life Feels Good (Chce sie zyc), Maciej Pieprzyca's retelling of the remarkable true story of a boy's struggle to communicate with others after being born with cerebral palsy. Featuring a standout performance from Dawid Ogrodnik as the central character Mateusz, Pieprzyca brings a clear-eyed intelligence to a...
- 10/7/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Top brass at the Miami International Film Festival (MiamiFF) have announced the programme at the ‘mini-festival’ set to run from October 16-19.“As Miami’s beloved cafecito culture is to mid-day refreshment, MIFFecito is to our annual March festival,” said MiamiFF executive director Jaie Laplante.“MIFFecito is an appetiser to MiamiFF’s main course, the perfect [autumn] break for film lovers who crave a cinematic fix.”The line-up includes Carmina And Amen, I Can Quit Wh
Top brass at the Miami International Film Festival (MiamiFF) have announced the programme at the ‘mini-festival’ set to run from October 16-19.
“As Miami’s beloved cafecito culture is to mid-day refreshment, MIFFecito is to our annual March festival,” said MiamiFF executive director Jaie Laplante.
“MIFFecito is an appetiser to MiamiFF’s main course, the perfect [autumn] break for film lovers who crave a cinematic fix.”
The line-up includes Carmina And Amen, I Can Quit Whenever I Want (pictured) and Life Feels Good.
For...
Top brass at the Miami International Film Festival (MiamiFF) have announced the programme at the ‘mini-festival’ set to run from October 16-19.
“As Miami’s beloved cafecito culture is to mid-day refreshment, MIFFecito is to our annual March festival,” said MiamiFF executive director Jaie Laplante.
“MIFFecito is an appetiser to MiamiFF’s main course, the perfect [autumn] break for film lovers who crave a cinematic fix.”
The line-up includes Carmina And Amen, I Can Quit Whenever I Want (pictured) and Life Feels Good.
For...
- 9/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Film Festival has entered into a partnership with Poznan’s Transatlantyk Film Festival to present a selection of its titles at the forthcoming fourth edition running from August 8-14.
The new sidebar, Sundance at Transatlantyk, will screen such films as Fishing Without Nets, The Green Prince, Watchers Of The Sky, 52 Tuesdays, Difret and A Most Wanted Man, and invite the films’ creators to meet with the audience for Q&As after the screenings.
Transatlantyk was founded in 2011 by the Oscar-wining musician and composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek as ¨a new artistic platform aimed at building a stronger relationship between society, art and the environment through music and movies¨ as well as inspiring discussion on social issues.
Another innovation is the introduction of the new section Cinema of the Third Age targetted at maturer audiences with screenings in early afternoon slots during the weekdays. Films selected for this first edition include Philomena, Gloria and [link...
The new sidebar, Sundance at Transatlantyk, will screen such films as Fishing Without Nets, The Green Prince, Watchers Of The Sky, 52 Tuesdays, Difret and A Most Wanted Man, and invite the films’ creators to meet with the audience for Q&As after the screenings.
Transatlantyk was founded in 2011 by the Oscar-wining musician and composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek as ¨a new artistic platform aimed at building a stronger relationship between society, art and the environment through music and movies¨ as well as inspiring discussion on social issues.
Another innovation is the introduction of the new section Cinema of the Third Age targetted at maturer audiences with screenings in early afternoon slots during the weekdays. Films selected for this first edition include Philomena, Gloria and [link...
- 7/31/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Young filmmakers to participate in the 5th New Horizons Studio.
A total of 24 young filmmakers from Portugal to Turkey will participate in the fifth edition of New Horizons Studio (July 27-30) held during the 14th international film festival in Wroclaw.
The training programme, which receives support from the EU’s Creative Europe programme, includes workshops on pitching, production, distribution and promotion.
As in past years, the majority of the participants are from Poland with others coming from Portugal, France, Switzerland, Romania and Turkey.
Four of the Polish film-makers attending Studio are also involved in films being presented as part of the Polish Days which kicks off its programme of finished films, works in progress and pitchings on July 30:
Julia Kolberger will be pitching Toxaemia, her adaptation of Malgorzata Rejmer’s eponymous novel, while producer Anna Chojnacka is working at Re Studio in the development Life Feels Good director Maciej Pieprzyca’s new feature I’m The...
A total of 24 young filmmakers from Portugal to Turkey will participate in the fifth edition of New Horizons Studio (July 27-30) held during the 14th international film festival in Wroclaw.
The training programme, which receives support from the EU’s Creative Europe programme, includes workshops on pitching, production, distribution and promotion.
As in past years, the majority of the participants are from Poland with others coming from Portugal, France, Switzerland, Romania and Turkey.
Four of the Polish film-makers attending Studio are also involved in films being presented as part of the Polish Days which kicks off its programme of finished films, works in progress and pitchings on July 30:
Julia Kolberger will be pitching Toxaemia, her adaptation of Malgorzata Rejmer’s eponymous novel, while producer Anna Chojnacka is working at Re Studio in the development Life Feels Good director Maciej Pieprzyca’s new feature I’m The...
- 7/25/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Uberto Pasolini’s second feature [pictured] wins at fifth edition of Russian showcase for young European cinema.
Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life was the big winner at the fifth edition of Voices, the Russian showcase for young European cinema, which came to a close on Tuesday evening [July 8] in Vologda.
Pasolini’s second feature as director won the Grand Prix and the award for best actor went to the film’s male lead Eddie Marsan in an “absolutely wonderful performance”.
Jury president Svetlana Proskurina said that the decision for the Grand Prix had been “absolutely unanimous”, while Voices art director Korinna Danielou recalled that having Still Life at the festival had been “a dream come true” for her.
She accepted the award on behalf of Pasolini who had left Vologda on the midnight train to Moscow last Sunday [July 6] on the way to present his film at the festival in Karlovy Vary.
The jury’s award for best cinematography went to...
Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life was the big winner at the fifth edition of Voices, the Russian showcase for young European cinema, which came to a close on Tuesday evening [July 8] in Vologda.
Pasolini’s second feature as director won the Grand Prix and the award for best actor went to the film’s male lead Eddie Marsan in an “absolutely wonderful performance”.
Jury president Svetlana Proskurina said that the decision for the Grand Prix had been “absolutely unanimous”, while Voices art director Korinna Danielou recalled that having Still Life at the festival had been “a dream come true” for her.
She accepted the award on behalf of Pasolini who had left Vologda on the midnight train to Moscow last Sunday [July 6] on the way to present his film at the festival in Karlovy Vary.
The jury’s award for best cinematography went to...
- 7/9/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
UK film-makers are in the spotlight at the fifth edition of Vologda’s Voices festival (July 4-8), which will open with Ken Loach’s Cannes Competition film Jimmy’s Hall.
British actress Justine Waddell, who learnt Russian for her role in Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (Mishen), will join the competition’s international jury, including Moscow Film Festival programme director Kirill Razlogov, Russian actress Olga Sutulova, and Armenian-French actor-director-producer Serge Avedikian, with writer-director Svetlana Proskurina as jury chairperson.
The competition line-up of 10 first and second features are as follows:
Life Feels Good, dir: Maciej Pieprzyca, PolandStill Life, dir: Uberto Pasolini, UKClass Enemy, dir: Rok Bicek, SloveniaBlind, dir: Eskil Vogt, NorwayStereo, dir: Maximilian Erlenwein, GermanyThe Art Of Happiness, dir: Alessandro Rak, ItalyWolf, dir: Jim Taihuttu, The NetherlandsTo See The Sea, dir: Jirí Mádl, Czech RepublicWhen Animals Dream, dir: Jonas Alexander Arnby, DenmarkSkinless, dir: Vladimir Beck, Russia.
Sidebars include the out-of-competition European section with such films as The Great Beauty...
British actress Justine Waddell, who learnt Russian for her role in Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (Mishen), will join the competition’s international jury, including Moscow Film Festival programme director Kirill Razlogov, Russian actress Olga Sutulova, and Armenian-French actor-director-producer Serge Avedikian, with writer-director Svetlana Proskurina as jury chairperson.
The competition line-up of 10 first and second features are as follows:
Life Feels Good, dir: Maciej Pieprzyca, PolandStill Life, dir: Uberto Pasolini, UKClass Enemy, dir: Rok Bicek, SloveniaBlind, dir: Eskil Vogt, NorwayStereo, dir: Maximilian Erlenwein, GermanyThe Art Of Happiness, dir: Alessandro Rak, ItalyWolf, dir: Jim Taihuttu, The NetherlandsTo See The Sea, dir: Jirí Mádl, Czech RepublicWhen Animals Dream, dir: Jonas Alexander Arnby, DenmarkSkinless, dir: Vladimir Beck, Russia.
Sidebars include the out-of-competition European section with such films as The Great Beauty...
- 7/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood took three top awards at the 40th Seattle International Film Festival, including the prizes for best film, best director and best actress for Patricia Arquette. The award for best actor went to Dawid Ogrodnik for the Polish film Life Feels Good. The festival’s Golden Space Needle and Competition Awards were presented at a ceremony and brunch held at the Space Needle on Sunday. Film Review: 'Boyhood' "This has been an extraordinary 40th anniversary festival. From welcoming back Richard Linklater to Seattle with his groundbreaking epic Boyhood, to honoring Laura Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Quincy Jones for their masterful
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- 6/8/2014
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Richard Linklater’s acclaimed family portrait won the Golden Space Needle Award for best film and best director honours as the 40th Seattle International Film Festival came to a conclusion on Sunday (June 8).
The corresponding documentary honour went to Keep On Keepin’ On by Alan Hicks, while Dawid Ogrodnik was named best actor for Life Feels Good and Patricia Arquette best actress for Boyhood.
Best short film went to Cody Blue Snider’s Fool’s Day and the Lena Sharpe Award For Persistence Of Vision prize went to Bound: Africans Versus African Americans by Peres Owino.
In the competition awards, Carlos Marques-Marcet earned the Siff 2014 Best New Director Grand Jury Prize for 10,000Km, while the documentary prize went to Marmato, directed by Mark Grieco.
“This has been an extraordinary 40th anniversary festival,” said artistic director Carl Spence. “From welcoming back Richard Linklater to Seattle with his groundbreaking epic Boyhood, to honouring Laura Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Quincy Jones...
The corresponding documentary honour went to Keep On Keepin’ On by Alan Hicks, while Dawid Ogrodnik was named best actor for Life Feels Good and Patricia Arquette best actress for Boyhood.
Best short film went to Cody Blue Snider’s Fool’s Day and the Lena Sharpe Award For Persistence Of Vision prize went to Bound: Africans Versus African Americans by Peres Owino.
In the competition awards, Carlos Marques-Marcet earned the Siff 2014 Best New Director Grand Jury Prize for 10,000Km, while the documentary prize went to Marmato, directed by Mark Grieco.
“This has been an extraordinary 40th anniversary festival,” said artistic director Carl Spence. “From welcoming back Richard Linklater to Seattle with his groundbreaking epic Boyhood, to honouring Laura Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Quincy Jones...
- 6/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Celebrating record breaking crowds, the Cleveland International Film Festival welcomed 97,804 attendees to its 475+ screenings this year. Showcasing, 186 feature films and 168 shorts from 68 countries, the festival announced the winners of the competitions and awards at Sunday's Closing Night ceremony. They are all listed below: Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award For Best Film: "Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine" Directed by Michele Josue $5,000 cash prize George Gund III Memorial Central and Eastern Competition: "Life Feels Good" Directed by Maciej Pieprzyca (Poland) $10,000 cash prize Nesnadny + Schwartz Documentary Competition: "The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies" Directed by Wiktor Ericsson $7,500 cash prize Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Competition: "Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine" Directed by Michele Josue $5,000 cash prize American Independents Competition: "A Birder's Guide to Everything" Directed by Rob Meyer $5,000 cash prize Local Heroes...
- 4/2/2014
- by Emerson Gordon
- Indiewire
Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive and Andrzej Wajda’s Walesa: A Man Of Hope will open this year’s ¨Febiofest¨.
The Prague International Film Festival (March 20-28) will present 141 films from 60 countries in 18 different sections.
Special tributes are being dedicated to the Finnish actress Kati Outinen, French animator Sylvain Chomet, Slovak actress Barbora Bobulová, Italian director Gianni Amelio and Ivory Coast-born actor Isaach de Bankolé.
De Bankolé, who first came to prominence in the French film industry with his role in Black Mic Mac, will present his two newest films, Mother Of August and Chaos, in Prague and will receive the Kristian Award for his Contribution to World Cinema.
Febiofest’s New Europe Competition open to first and second feature films will have such films as Wolfskinder, My Nephew, The Idiot, Life Feels Good, Puppy Love, The Machine and Rock The Casbah competing for the €10,000 Grand Prix, including a €5,000 premium for a potential Czech distributor...
The Prague International Film Festival (March 20-28) will present 141 films from 60 countries in 18 different sections.
Special tributes are being dedicated to the Finnish actress Kati Outinen, French animator Sylvain Chomet, Slovak actress Barbora Bobulová, Italian director Gianni Amelio and Ivory Coast-born actor Isaach de Bankolé.
De Bankolé, who first came to prominence in the French film industry with his role in Black Mic Mac, will present his two newest films, Mother Of August and Chaos, in Prague and will receive the Kristian Award for his Contribution to World Cinema.
Febiofest’s New Europe Competition open to first and second feature films will have such films as Wolfskinder, My Nephew, The Idiot, Life Feels Good, Puppy Love, The Machine and Rock The Casbah competing for the €10,000 Grand Prix, including a €5,000 premium for a potential Czech distributor...
- 3/7/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Films from Ron Howard, Lee Daniels, the Coens, Steve McQueen and Alexander Payne in the line-up of the cinematography festival.
Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography now in its 21st edition, today revealed the line-up of films selected for the festival’s main competition.
The entries are:
Burning Bush, Agnieszka Holland (Cz Rep)
Cinematographer: Martin Strba
Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo (Fin-Swe-Den)
Cinematographer: Peter Flinckenberg
Heli, Amat Escalante (Mex-Fra-Ger-Neth)
Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman
Home from Home (Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehcsucht), Edgar Reitz (Ger-Fra)
Cinematographer: Gernot Roll
Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski (Pol-Den)
Cinematographers: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Us-Fra)
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Lee Daniels (Us)
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Life Feels Good (Chce sie zyc), Maciej Pieprzyca (Pol)
Cinematographer: Paweł Dyllus
Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Imbach (Swi-Fra)
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Nebraska, Alexander Payne (Us)
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Paradise for the Damned, Alejandro Montiel (Arg)
Cinematographer:...
Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography now in its 21st edition, today revealed the line-up of films selected for the festival’s main competition.
The entries are:
Burning Bush, Agnieszka Holland (Cz Rep)
Cinematographer: Martin Strba
Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo (Fin-Swe-Den)
Cinematographer: Peter Flinckenberg
Heli, Amat Escalante (Mex-Fra-Ger-Neth)
Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman
Home from Home (Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehcsucht), Edgar Reitz (Ger-Fra)
Cinematographer: Gernot Roll
Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski (Pol-Den)
Cinematographers: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Us-Fra)
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Lee Daniels (Us)
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Life Feels Good (Chce sie zyc), Maciej Pieprzyca (Pol)
Cinematographer: Paweł Dyllus
Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Imbach (Swi-Fra)
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Nebraska, Alexander Payne (Us)
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Paradise for the Damned, Alejandro Montiel (Arg)
Cinematographer:...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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