New festival director Leena Pasanaen also talks future plans.
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
- 11/2/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Zabaltegi strand of the festival will feature 24 titles.Scroll down for full list
The 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) has unveiled the features that will comprise its Zabaltegi programme, including Spanish premieres of new films from Laurie Anderson, Eric Khoo, Corneliu Porumboiu, Walter Salles and Alexander Sokurov.
The non-competitive strand includes features, documentaries, animation and shorts, and the first screening of all films in the section will run at the Tabakalera centre for contemporary culture and creation, the hub of Zabaltegi activities from this year.
Titles in the section that played at this year’s Cannes include Porumboiu’s black comedy The Treasure, which won the Un Certain Regard Talent Prize; Tambutti documentary Beyond My Grandfather Allende, winner of the L’Oeil d’Or award for best documentary; and Magnus Von Horn’s debut The Here After, which played in Directors’ Fornight.
Films that will first be seen at Venice (Sept 2-12) include Francofonia, from Russian...
The 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) has unveiled the features that will comprise its Zabaltegi programme, including Spanish premieres of new films from Laurie Anderson, Eric Khoo, Corneliu Porumboiu, Walter Salles and Alexander Sokurov.
The non-competitive strand includes features, documentaries, animation and shorts, and the first screening of all films in the section will run at the Tabakalera centre for contemporary culture and creation, the hub of Zabaltegi activities from this year.
Titles in the section that played at this year’s Cannes include Porumboiu’s black comedy The Treasure, which won the Un Certain Regard Talent Prize; Tambutti documentary Beyond My Grandfather Allende, winner of the L’Oeil d’Or award for best documentary; and Magnus Von Horn’s debut The Here After, which played in Directors’ Fornight.
Films that will first be seen at Venice (Sept 2-12) include Francofonia, from Russian...
- 8/10/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Treasure (Comoara), directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival San Sebastian Film Festival has announced the Zabaltegi programme for this year's festival. The section - which aims to showcase the best work by established filmmakers, many of which have already won awards at festivals - features work by directors including Corneliu Porumboiu, Walter Salles, Benedict Erlingsson and Alexander Sokurov.
Films include Anca Damian's The Magic Mountain, which won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary, Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and Marcia Tambuti's Beyond My Grandfather Allende, winner of the L'Oeil d'Or award for best documentary in Cannes.
Also featured is Salles' documentary portrait Jia Zhang-ke, A Guy From Fenyang, which premiered earier this year in Berlin, Sokurov's Francofonia, which will be fresh from competition at Venice and Erlingsson's documentary exploration of fairgrounds, The Show of Shows: 100 years of Vaudeville,...
Films include Anca Damian's The Magic Mountain, which won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary, Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and Marcia Tambuti's Beyond My Grandfather Allende, winner of the L'Oeil d'Or award for best documentary in Cannes.
Also featured is Salles' documentary portrait Jia Zhang-ke, A Guy From Fenyang, which premiered earier this year in Berlin, Sokurov's Francofonia, which will be fresh from competition at Venice and Erlingsson's documentary exploration of fairgrounds, The Show of Shows: 100 years of Vaudeville,...
- 8/10/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Four years ago, in 2011, the Romanian director Anca Damian first made herself widely known to the international film community by presenting her animated feature Crulic at the Locarno film festival. Based on a true story of Claudiu Crulic that has gained a lot of publicity in 2008, the film consists of a mix of techniques including hand-drawn animation and animated photographs. They are of Crulic’s personal possessions – that he kept while imprisoned in a Polish prison after being arrested for theft, although he had supposedly been in Italy at the time. A Romanian citizen, Crulic sought help from the Romanian consul and went on a hunger strike after his requests were dismissed. The signs of his deteriorating health have been dismissed and he finally died from starvation four months later.
Reality keeps intruding into Damian’s animations – and while in Crulic, it was the things the real, historic Claudiu Crulic kept,...
Reality keeps intruding into Damian’s animations – and while in Crulic, it was the things the real, historic Claudiu Crulic kept,...
- 7/17/2015
- by Tina Poglajen
- SoundOnSight
Other winners include documentary Mallory from Helena Treštíková.
Us drama Bob and the Trees has won the Crystal Globe at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) (July 3-11).
Bob Tarasuk, a logger and rap fan who plays himself in the film, accepted the prize at the festival’s awards ceremony alongside director Diego Ongaro.
After accepting the festival’s top prize, the director revealed he had ploughed his own money into the film and said: “This really is a surprise. We had virtually no money to shoot the film so I had to invest my and my wife’s money, and I would like to thank everybody involved in making the film.”
He added that the film has yet to find a distributor.
Tarasuk added: “I have never won anything. I have never left the States. But my grandmother was Czech and my grandfather Ukrainian so I dedicate this award to them.”
The film, which...
Us drama Bob and the Trees has won the Crystal Globe at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) (July 3-11).
Bob Tarasuk, a logger and rap fan who plays himself in the film, accepted the prize at the festival’s awards ceremony alongside director Diego Ongaro.
After accepting the festival’s top prize, the director revealed he had ploughed his own money into the film and said: “This really is a surprise. We had virtually no money to shoot the film so I had to invest my and my wife’s money, and I would like to thank everybody involved in making the film.”
He added that the film has yet to find a distributor.
Tarasuk added: “I have never won anything. I have never left the States. But my grandmother was Czech and my grandfather Ukrainian so I dedicate this award to them.”
The film, which...
- 7/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Bob and the Trees (Grand Prix - Crystal globe): screenwriter Courtney Maum, actor Matt Gallagher and director Diego Ongaro Photo: Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary
The top prize of the Grand Prix Crystal Globe has been won by Bob And The Trees, it was announced tonight (11 July) at the awards ceremony which concluded the 50th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Bohemian spa town south of Prague in the Czech Republic.
The unusual docu-drama featured Bob Tarasuk, a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who graduated from the University of Connecticut in natural resource conservation. He and his wife Susan have been married since he was 19, and together they have raised three children and two dogs.
Before settling in Massachusetts, Bob lived and worked in New Mexico and in the Ozark Mountains. A logger and farmer for more than three decades, the charismatic workhorse plays himself in this vérite-style drama.
The top prize of the Grand Prix Crystal Globe has been won by Bob And The Trees, it was announced tonight (11 July) at the awards ceremony which concluded the 50th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Bohemian spa town south of Prague in the Czech Republic.
The unusual docu-drama featured Bob Tarasuk, a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who graduated from the University of Connecticut in natural resource conservation. He and his wife Susan have been married since he was 19, and together they have raised three children and two dogs.
Before settling in Massachusetts, Bob lived and worked in New Mexico and in the Ozark Mountains. A logger and farmer for more than three decades, the charismatic workhorse plays himself in this vérite-style drama.
- 7/11/2015
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Anti-Nazi satire from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Bruggemann and a new documentary from Mark Cousins among titles.Scroll down for competition line-ups
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
- 6/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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