Valeska Grisebach’s Western takes Golden Tulip in the international competition.
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The...
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The...
- 4/20/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Valeska Grisebach’s Western takes Golden Tulip in the international competition.
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The...
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The...
- 4/20/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Western, Debt win Golden Tulips.
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The international jury prize went to Coco...
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The international jury prize went to Coco...
- 4/20/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Western, Debt win Golden Tulips.
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The international jury prize went to Coco...
Female directors won the top two prizes at the 2018 Istanbul Film Festival as Valekska Grisebach’s Western and Vuslat Saraçoğlu’s Debt were awarded the Golden Tulips in the international and Turkish categories respectively.
The awards were handed out at the M. Koç Museum on 17 April.
Western, about a German man working on a construction project in Bulgaria, was awarded the top international prize by a jury including director João Pedro Rodrigues and actress Angeliki Papoulia. The film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.
The international jury prize went to Coco...
- 4/20/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Kurdish workers drama and Rodrigo Plá’s A Monster With a Thousand Heads triumph at festival; industry prizes revealed.
Dust Cloth by Turkish director Ahu Öztürk and A Monster With a Thousand Heads by Mexican director Rodrigo Plá were among big winners at the Istanbul Film Festival.
Dust Cloth about two Kurdish cleaning ladies struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul took home the Golden Tulip Prize in the National Competition in a jury headed by Turkish actress Müjde Ar. The film also won awards for Best Actress for Asiye Cinçsoy and Best Screenplay.
The other big winner was Cold Of Kalandar, which won Best Director for Mustafa Kara, best cinematography by co-cinematographers Cavanhir Sahin and Kürsat Üresin, as well as Best actor, which was awarded to Haydar Sisman.
In the International Competition, presided over by Argentinean director Pablo Trapero, the Golden Tulip was awarded to Pla’s A Monster with a Thousand Heads. The sleek thriller...
Dust Cloth by Turkish director Ahu Öztürk and A Monster With a Thousand Heads by Mexican director Rodrigo Plá were among big winners at the Istanbul Film Festival.
Dust Cloth about two Kurdish cleaning ladies struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul took home the Golden Tulip Prize in the National Competition in a jury headed by Turkish actress Müjde Ar. The film also won awards for Best Actress for Asiye Cinçsoy and Best Screenplay.
The other big winner was Cold Of Kalandar, which won Best Director for Mustafa Kara, best cinematography by co-cinematographers Cavanhir Sahin and Kürsat Üresin, as well as Best actor, which was awarded to Haydar Sisman.
In the International Competition, presided over by Argentinean director Pablo Trapero, the Golden Tulip was awarded to Pla’s A Monster with a Thousand Heads. The sleek thriller...
- 4/16/2016
- 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
Detailfilm reunites with director Kutlug Ataman following their collaboration on The Lamb.
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
- 4/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Detailfilm reunites with director Kutlug Ataman following their collaboration on The Lamb.
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
Henning Kamm, who will represent Germany at Cannes next month as its Producer on the Move, and business partner Fabian Gasmia at Hamburg-based Detailfilm are to reunite with Turkish filmmaker Kutlug Ataman for his next feature project.
Kamm and Gasmia were co-producers on Ataman’s last feature film The Lamb (Kuzu), which had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama last February and won the Cicae Art Cinema Award.
Detailfilm will now serve as the co-producer on Ataman’s Hilil, Feza And Other Planets, which received support from the German-Turkish Co-Production Co-Development Fund at this month’s Meetings on the Bridge co-production market in Istanbul.
Moreover, Berlin-based producer Titus Kreyenberg of Unafilm confirmed to ScreenDaily at this week’s Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon that the Co-Development Fund had also awarded funding to Jessica Krummacher’s feature debut, Birth Of Purple...
- 4/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Of the films I have seen thus far of the submissions for Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the German film Two Lives and the Argentinean Wakolda whose English title is The German Doctor are the most complex. They are both cross cultural and multilayered.
The Samuel Goldwyn Company was very brave to take U.S. rights to The German Doctor, which deals with Argentinean complicity with the Nazis in a way no one has ever shown before as was the film’s director Lucia Puenzo. The literal ambiguity of director Lucia Puenzo’s earlier debut feature, Xxy, is in this case taken up a notch to a level of moral ambiguity. In this new film the child and her mother are both enchanted by the German Doctor until they understand his complete obsession with something more evil than good.
As in Two Lives, the moral ambiguity that life forces its characters to live is a difficult philosophical subject to convey to the audience. It is discomfiting even as the audience wants to find out what will happen next. Why I mention both of them is that one, they both concern Germany which still today bears witness to a complex and ambiguous state of affairs as it pursues economic policies which are being weighed with two sets of moral measurement and two, they are both submissions of their countries for the AMPAS Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film Nomination.
But more about Two Lives later.
Firstly, now we will discuss Wakolda, or as it is called in English, The German Doctor which is screening here in Havana where I am writing this.
Lucia Puenzo has directed three films and written five books. Her debut feature, Xxy, which premiered in Cannes Critic’s Week in 2007 was also sold by Pyramide. The Fish Child (2009) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Wakolda (2013), is based on her own novel and is her third feature. It continues the themes of sexual identity and duality of the previous two films, exacerbated this time in the relationship of mutual fascination maintained by its protagonists: a girl and German doctor who in 1960 makes her the subject of one of his experiments.
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodge by the Nahuel Huapi Lake. Eva grew up in this German populated town in Argentina with her German family who ran the lodge as a sort of bed and breakfast and she and her husband Enzo are considering making it into a B&B again. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age.
Unaware of his true identity, they accept the German physician as their first guest. They are all gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money, until they discover they are living with one of history’s most abominable criminals.
The film was based on the fifth novel of Lucia Puenza and was written about a year and a half after the novel. Lucia is quoted in Fandor as saying,
“Wakolda fue primero una novela, mi última novela, que escribí un año y medio antes de empezar el guión, y no estaba destinada a ser una película. !Se trataba de un alemán que se escapaba de algo, y mientras escribía se fue transformando en Mengele y en todo ese universo del Angel de la Muerte que trae encima. Yo escucho hablar de él y de muchas otras historias de tantos jerarcas nazis que se evaporaron en nuestro país desde que tengo 15 años, ese tema me horrorizó y me fascinó al mismo tiempo.”
“Wakolda was first a novel, my last novel, which I wrote a year and a half before starting the script, and it was not meant to be a movie. It was about a German who was running away from something. While I was writing, the German became transformed into Mengele and all that is encompassed in the universe of The Angel of Death. I had heard about him and many many other stories of the disappeared Nazis in our country since I was 15 years, I was appalled by the subject and I was fascinated at the same time.”
Historias Cinematographica, the production company of director-producer, Luis Puenzo (Official Story) and the father of Lucia Puenzo is one of Latin America’s busiest film production forces with a slate of five films per year. Here are The German Doctor’s links on IMDbPro and on Cinando.
Historias Cinematographica structured Wakolda as a Spain-France-Norwegian co-production with Argentina. Shot in Spanish and German, Wakolda is Lucia Puenzo’s biggest film to date, given its period setting and her interests as an increasingly mature director. The cinematography is by family member Nicolas Puenzo.
The film was supported by Incaa, Icaa, Aide aux Cinémas du monde, Centre National du Cinéma et de L´image animée, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France), Institut Français, Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund, Programa Ibermedia, and Tve.
Its French coproducer, Pyramide of France, is also the international sales agent. Wanda Vision of Spain is also its Spanish distributor, and Hummelfilm (Gudney Hummelvoll) of Norway came on board as part of the Sorfond Norwegian South Film Fund’s €100,000 grant’s requisite; Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer, came in early. Televisión Federal (Telefe) is a co-producer as are Moviecity/ Laptv - Latin American Pay Television, Distribution Company Sudamericana who is the Argentinean distributor as well. It was made in association with P&P Endemol Argentina and Cine.Ar. As a footnote, the ad budget invested by Telefe in its TV campaign was exceptionally large: 893 TV spots broadcast in ten markets in a five weeks span.
When the script was ready, Luis and Lucia Puenzo went to the Berlinale Co-Production Market in February 2011 looking for co-producers and financing.
The eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 13 - 15, 2011) successfully brought the producers and directors of 38 selected film projects from 25 countries together with 450 potential co-production and financial partners. For each of these projects, the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s team arranged numerous thirty-minute one-on-one meetings with interested potential partners. Over 1000 meetings in two days were scheduled based on the needs of the projects and the individual requests of the participants. Meetings were in high demand, and some projects received up to about 80 meeting requests by participants looking for projects.
Among the Official Project Selection were projects by well-known, award-winning directors such as Lucía Puenzo (Xxy and recently The Fish Child- Panorama 2009), Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree), Urszula Antoniak (Nothing Personal) and Seyfi Teoman, whose film Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) screened in this year’s (2013) Competition.
They applied for Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund 2012, the Norwegian Film Fund for developing countries where such production is limited by political or economic causes which brought them to their coproducer, Himmelfilm of Norway.
They also received financing from Aide aux Cinemas du Monde 2012, and Programa Ibermedia 2012.
Pyramide of France and Wanda Vision of Spain came on board after Cannes announced its inclusion in Un Certain Regard. Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer had been on board earlier.
5 March 2011- Pre-production 12 July 2012 - Filming 17 August 2012 - Post-production 28 April 2013 - Completed 21 May 2013 - Premiered in Cannes Film Festival.
Wakolda rights sold
The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in May of 2013. It won the Audience Award at St. Peterberg Film Festival and at 2nd Unasur Cine International Film Festival it won awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress and Best New Actress. It went on to play September 2013 at San Sebastian Film Festival’s Horizontos Latinos section and amid growing speculation that the title would be Argentina’s submission for the foreign language Oscar this year (and it has been so submitted!). Its Isa (international sales agent) and coproducer, Pyramide International continued to make sales to Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S., in Central and Southern America including to: Argentina (Distribution Company), Australia (Madman Entertainment), Brazil (Imovision and Reserva Nacional Distribuidora De Filmes), Bolivia and Chile (Los filmes De La Arcadia), Colombia (Cine Colombia), the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Wiesner Distribution), France - Pyramide Distribution, Greece - Videorama Films, Hungary – Vertigo, , Italy – Academy Two, Peru (Pucp) and Panama and Costa Rica (Palmera International). Spain sold to Nirvana, Switzerland Xenix Filmdistribution Gmbh, Taiwan Swallow Wings Films, Turkey – Medyavizyon, U.K. Peccadillo Pictures, U.S. – Samuel Goldwyn Films. Sarajevo’s Obala Art Centar - Sarajevo Film Festival has acquired the picture for multiple territories including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. The film has also sold to Poland (Hagi), Israel (Nachshon Films Ltd) and South Korea (Company L) since Cannes. Laptv has Latin American TV rights.
It will continue to play the festival circuit worldwide until its theatrical and commercial release in 30 + countries.
You can read a review in Screen International: The German Doctor (Wakolda)
Update information as of November 1, 2013:
Wakolda will reach 400,000 spectators by its fifth week on screen, and still has 75 screens. It has maintained an average of almost 100,000 spectators per week. It has been selected by over 50% of the Academy members as the Argentinean submission for both the Oscar and the Goya Awards.
It is important to consider its release was much smaller (72 screens) than films like Séptimo, Corazón de León and Metegol (which released with Disney with 250 screens aprox). Septimo was released by 20th Century Fox, Corazon de León was released by Disney, Metegol by Universal. Wakolda´s average of spectators per copy was higher than all these other films, which allowed distribution to add screens the 2nd week, reaching 85 screens.
It has been sold by Pyramide Films to over 20 territories. In the last weeks, it has been released in Spain (with 40 copies, excellent reviews and an average of over 1,500 euros per copy) and will be released in France with 60 copies, 8 in Paris, on the 6th of November. And in Russia with 40 copies. Until the end of the year it will be released in 15 countries (we can send you detailed territories and companies who bought the rights if needed).
In the U.S., the rights were acquired in Cannes by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
The novel upon which Wakolda is based has also been translated to over fifteen languages. In Germany the novel has been edited by Wagenbach and reedited due to its good sales.
In the last weeks the films was won Awards in Argentina, St. Petersburg, República Dominicana and Tokyo.
It is worth noting that Wakolda was distributed in Argentina by an independent (Bernardo Zupnick’s Distribution Company) while every other successful local film has been distributed by a studio
The German Doctor (Wakolda) Opens in L.A. and N.Y. on April 25th...
The Samuel Goldwyn Company was very brave to take U.S. rights to The German Doctor, which deals with Argentinean complicity with the Nazis in a way no one has ever shown before as was the film’s director Lucia Puenzo. The literal ambiguity of director Lucia Puenzo’s earlier debut feature, Xxy, is in this case taken up a notch to a level of moral ambiguity. In this new film the child and her mother are both enchanted by the German Doctor until they understand his complete obsession with something more evil than good.
As in Two Lives, the moral ambiguity that life forces its characters to live is a difficult philosophical subject to convey to the audience. It is discomfiting even as the audience wants to find out what will happen next. Why I mention both of them is that one, they both concern Germany which still today bears witness to a complex and ambiguous state of affairs as it pursues economic policies which are being weighed with two sets of moral measurement and two, they are both submissions of their countries for the AMPAS Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film Nomination.
But more about Two Lives later.
Firstly, now we will discuss Wakolda, or as it is called in English, The German Doctor which is screening here in Havana where I am writing this.
Lucia Puenzo has directed three films and written five books. Her debut feature, Xxy, which premiered in Cannes Critic’s Week in 2007 was also sold by Pyramide. The Fish Child (2009) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Wakolda (2013), is based on her own novel and is her third feature. It continues the themes of sexual identity and duality of the previous two films, exacerbated this time in the relationship of mutual fascination maintained by its protagonists: a girl and German doctor who in 1960 makes her the subject of one of his experiments.
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodge by the Nahuel Huapi Lake. Eva grew up in this German populated town in Argentina with her German family who ran the lodge as a sort of bed and breakfast and she and her husband Enzo are considering making it into a B&B again. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with a body too small for her age.
Unaware of his true identity, they accept the German physician as their first guest. They are all gradually won over by this charismatic man, by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge and his money, until they discover they are living with one of history’s most abominable criminals.
The film was based on the fifth novel of Lucia Puenza and was written about a year and a half after the novel. Lucia is quoted in Fandor as saying,
“Wakolda fue primero una novela, mi última novela, que escribí un año y medio antes de empezar el guión, y no estaba destinada a ser una película. !Se trataba de un alemán que se escapaba de algo, y mientras escribía se fue transformando en Mengele y en todo ese universo del Angel de la Muerte que trae encima. Yo escucho hablar de él y de muchas otras historias de tantos jerarcas nazis que se evaporaron en nuestro país desde que tengo 15 años, ese tema me horrorizó y me fascinó al mismo tiempo.”
“Wakolda was first a novel, my last novel, which I wrote a year and a half before starting the script, and it was not meant to be a movie. It was about a German who was running away from something. While I was writing, the German became transformed into Mengele and all that is encompassed in the universe of The Angel of Death. I had heard about him and many many other stories of the disappeared Nazis in our country since I was 15 years, I was appalled by the subject and I was fascinated at the same time.”
Historias Cinematographica, the production company of director-producer, Luis Puenzo (Official Story) and the father of Lucia Puenzo is one of Latin America’s busiest film production forces with a slate of five films per year. Here are The German Doctor’s links on IMDbPro and on Cinando.
Historias Cinematographica structured Wakolda as a Spain-France-Norwegian co-production with Argentina. Shot in Spanish and German, Wakolda is Lucia Puenzo’s biggest film to date, given its period setting and her interests as an increasingly mature director. The cinematography is by family member Nicolas Puenzo.
The film was supported by Incaa, Icaa, Aide aux Cinémas du monde, Centre National du Cinéma et de L´image animée, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France), Institut Français, Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund, Programa Ibermedia, and Tve.
Its French coproducer, Pyramide of France, is also the international sales agent. Wanda Vision of Spain is also its Spanish distributor, and Hummelfilm (Gudney Hummelvoll) of Norway came on board as part of the Sorfond Norwegian South Film Fund’s €100,000 grant’s requisite; Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer, came in early. Televisión Federal (Telefe) is a co-producer as are Moviecity/ Laptv - Latin American Pay Television, Distribution Company Sudamericana who is the Argentinean distributor as well. It was made in association with P&P Endemol Argentina and Cine.Ar. As a footnote, the ad budget invested by Telefe in its TV campaign was exceptionally large: 893 TV spots broadcast in ten markets in a five weeks span.
When the script was ready, Luis and Lucia Puenzo went to the Berlinale Co-Production Market in February 2011 looking for co-producers and financing.
The eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 13 - 15, 2011) successfully brought the producers and directors of 38 selected film projects from 25 countries together with 450 potential co-production and financial partners. For each of these projects, the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s team arranged numerous thirty-minute one-on-one meetings with interested potential partners. Over 1000 meetings in two days were scheduled based on the needs of the projects and the individual requests of the participants. Meetings were in high demand, and some projects received up to about 80 meeting requests by participants looking for projects.
Among the Official Project Selection were projects by well-known, award-winning directors such as Lucía Puenzo (Xxy and recently The Fish Child- Panorama 2009), Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree), Urszula Antoniak (Nothing Personal) and Seyfi Teoman, whose film Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) screened in this year’s (2013) Competition.
They applied for Sørfond Norwegian South Film Fund 2012, the Norwegian Film Fund for developing countries where such production is limited by political or economic causes which brought them to their coproducer, Himmelfilm of Norway.
They also received financing from Aide aux Cinemas du Monde 2012, and Programa Ibermedia 2012.
Pyramide of France and Wanda Vision of Spain came on board after Cannes announced its inclusion in Un Certain Regard. Stan Jakubowicz, a Venezuelan producer had been on board earlier.
5 March 2011- Pre-production 12 July 2012 - Filming 17 August 2012 - Post-production 28 April 2013 - Completed 21 May 2013 - Premiered in Cannes Film Festival.
Wakolda rights sold
The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in May of 2013. It won the Audience Award at St. Peterberg Film Festival and at 2nd Unasur Cine International Film Festival it won awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress and Best New Actress. It went on to play September 2013 at San Sebastian Film Festival’s Horizontos Latinos section and amid growing speculation that the title would be Argentina’s submission for the foreign language Oscar this year (and it has been so submitted!). Its Isa (international sales agent) and coproducer, Pyramide International continued to make sales to Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S., in Central and Southern America including to: Argentina (Distribution Company), Australia (Madman Entertainment), Brazil (Imovision and Reserva Nacional Distribuidora De Filmes), Bolivia and Chile (Los filmes De La Arcadia), Colombia (Cine Colombia), the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Wiesner Distribution), France - Pyramide Distribution, Greece - Videorama Films, Hungary – Vertigo, , Italy – Academy Two, Peru (Pucp) and Panama and Costa Rica (Palmera International). Spain sold to Nirvana, Switzerland Xenix Filmdistribution Gmbh, Taiwan Swallow Wings Films, Turkey – Medyavizyon, U.K. Peccadillo Pictures, U.S. – Samuel Goldwyn Films. Sarajevo’s Obala Art Centar - Sarajevo Film Festival has acquired the picture for multiple territories including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. The film has also sold to Poland (Hagi), Israel (Nachshon Films Ltd) and South Korea (Company L) since Cannes. Laptv has Latin American TV rights.
It will continue to play the festival circuit worldwide until its theatrical and commercial release in 30 + countries.
You can read a review in Screen International: The German Doctor (Wakolda)
Update information as of November 1, 2013:
Wakolda will reach 400,000 spectators by its fifth week on screen, and still has 75 screens. It has maintained an average of almost 100,000 spectators per week. It has been selected by over 50% of the Academy members as the Argentinean submission for both the Oscar and the Goya Awards.
It is important to consider its release was much smaller (72 screens) than films like Séptimo, Corazón de León and Metegol (which released with Disney with 250 screens aprox). Septimo was released by 20th Century Fox, Corazon de León was released by Disney, Metegol by Universal. Wakolda´s average of spectators per copy was higher than all these other films, which allowed distribution to add screens the 2nd week, reaching 85 screens.
It has been sold by Pyramide Films to over 20 territories. In the last weeks, it has been released in Spain (with 40 copies, excellent reviews and an average of over 1,500 euros per copy) and will be released in France with 60 copies, 8 in Paris, on the 6th of November. And in Russia with 40 copies. Until the end of the year it will be released in 15 countries (we can send you detailed territories and companies who bought the rights if needed).
In the U.S., the rights were acquired in Cannes by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
The novel upon which Wakolda is based has also been translated to over fifteen languages. In Germany the novel has been edited by Wagenbach and reedited due to its good sales.
In the last weeks the films was won Awards in Argentina, St. Petersburg, República Dominicana and Tokyo.
It is worth noting that Wakolda was distributed in Argentina by an independent (Bernardo Zupnick’s Distribution Company) while every other successful local film has been distributed by a studio
The German Doctor (Wakolda) Opens in L.A. and N.Y. on April 25th...
- 4/25/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Nothing can top last year's Cannes for the German Sales Agent -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul can thank the Tim Burton led jury for Uncle Boonmee being crowned with the Palme. This year The Match Factory have one in the main comp, a dark horse contender with Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre and they have a trio in the Un Certain Regard section in Oslo, August 31st, Tatsumi and Stopped on Track. They've got a catalogue full of future items in the works such as the latest from Miguel Gomes and Peter Strickland. Visit the site or check out some of their slate below. Le Havre by Aki KAURISMÄKI - Completed Oslo, August 31St (Oslo, 31. August) by Joachim Trier - Completed Tatsumi by Eric Khoo - Completed A Mysterious World (Un Mundo Misterioso) by Rodrigo Moreno - Completed Barzakh by Mantas Kvedaravicius - Completed If Not Us, Who (Wer WENN Nicht Wir...
- 5/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The 30th edition of one of Europe’s most accomplished film festivals, the Istanbul International, presented its Golden Tulip Awards at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre on April 16th.
The International Competition Golden Tulip Awards come with cash awards of 10,000 Euros to the director who wins the Golden Tulip Award and 10,000 Euros to a Turkish company to distribute the film. 5,000 Euros are also presented to the Special Jury Prize winner.
Golden Tulip International Competition Award: Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla for “Microphone.”
Golden Tulip International Competition Special Jury Prizes: Seyfi Teoman for Bizim Büyük “Çaresizliğimiz” (“Our Grand Despair”), and Federico Veiroj for (“A Useful Life”).
Golden Tulip for Best Turkish Film of the Year: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu for ”Saç” (“Hair”).
Golden Tulip for Best Director of the Year: ”Saç” (“Hair”) director, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu.
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism gives 150,000 Tl to the Golden Tulip winner for Best Turkish Film,...
The International Competition Golden Tulip Awards come with cash awards of 10,000 Euros to the director who wins the Golden Tulip Award and 10,000 Euros to a Turkish company to distribute the film. 5,000 Euros are also presented to the Special Jury Prize winner.
Golden Tulip International Competition Award: Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla for “Microphone.”
Golden Tulip International Competition Special Jury Prizes: Seyfi Teoman for Bizim Büyük “Çaresizliğimiz” (“Our Grand Despair”), and Federico Veiroj for (“A Useful Life”).
Golden Tulip for Best Turkish Film of the Year: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu for ”Saç” (“Hair”).
Golden Tulip for Best Director of the Year: ”Saç” (“Hair”) director, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu.
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism gives 150,000 Tl to the Golden Tulip winner for Best Turkish Film,...
- 4/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The 30th edition of one of Europe’s most accomplished film festivals, the Istanbul International, presented its Golden Tulip Awards at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre on April 16th.
The International Competition Golden Tulip Awards come with cash awards of 10,000 Euros to the director who wins the Golden Tulip Award and 10,000 Euros to a Turkish company to distribute the film. 5,000 Euros are also presented to the Special Jury Prize winner.
Golden Tulip International Competition Award: Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla for “Microphone.”
Golden Tulip International Competition Special Jury Prizes: Seyfi Teoman for Bizim Büyük “Çaresizliğimiz” (“Our Grand Despair”), and Federico Veiroj for (“A Useful Life”).
Golden Tulip for Best Turkish Film of the Year: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu for ”Saç” (“Hair”).
Golden Tulip for Best Director of the Year: ”Saç” (“Hair”) director, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu.
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism gives 150,000 Tl to the Golden Tulip winner for Best Turkish Film,...
The International Competition Golden Tulip Awards come with cash awards of 10,000 Euros to the director who wins the Golden Tulip Award and 10,000 Euros to a Turkish company to distribute the film. 5,000 Euros are also presented to the Special Jury Prize winner.
Golden Tulip International Competition Award: Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla for “Microphone.”
Golden Tulip International Competition Special Jury Prizes: Seyfi Teoman for Bizim Büyük “Çaresizliğimiz” (“Our Grand Despair”), and Federico Veiroj for (“A Useful Life”).
Golden Tulip for Best Turkish Film of the Year: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu for ”Saç” (“Hair”).
Golden Tulip for Best Director of the Year: ”Saç” (“Hair”) director, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu.
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism gives 150,000 Tl to the Golden Tulip winner for Best Turkish Film,...
- 4/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Berlin International Film Festival, or if you prefer – the Berlinale, is one of the world’s leading film festivals, and something that’s definitely worth our attention.
And if you thought we were going to miss this spectacle – you were wrong, because we’re also curious to find out who will return home with the Golden and Silver Bears statues!
The 2011 Berlin film festival opens tonight with the Coen brothers‘ Western remake True Grit, so let’s get started.
We all know, this remake of a 1969 classic Western, is already a nominee in even 10 categories, including best picture for the upcoming Oscar. And, by the way the filmmaking team Joel and Ethan Cohen also earned Oscar nods as best director.
The remake is already out in North America and so is not eligible for prizes at the closing ceremony on February 19, but it will screen out of competition today.
And if you thought we were going to miss this spectacle – you were wrong, because we’re also curious to find out who will return home with the Golden and Silver Bears statues!
The 2011 Berlin film festival opens tonight with the Coen brothers‘ Western remake True Grit, so let’s get started.
We all know, this remake of a 1969 classic Western, is already a nominee in even 10 categories, including best picture for the upcoming Oscar. And, by the way the filmmaking team Joel and Ethan Cohen also earned Oscar nods as best director.
The remake is already out in North America and so is not eligible for prizes at the closing ceremony on February 19, but it will screen out of competition today.
- 2/10/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Matt Damon in Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's True Grit The Berlin Film Festival runs Feb. 10-20. In competition: A Torinoi Lo (The Turin Horse), Bela Tarr Bizim Buyuk Caresizligimiz (Our Grand Despair), Seyfi Teoman Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes El premio (The Prize), Paula Markovitch Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader and Simin, A Separation), Asghar Farhadi Les contes de la nuit (Tales of the Night), Michel Ocelot Lipstikka, Jonathan Sagall Margin Call, J. C. Chandor Saranghanda, Saranghaji Anneunda (Come Rain Come Shine), Lee Yoon-ki Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness), Ulrich Koehler The Forgiveness of Blood, Joshua Marston The Future, Miranda July Un Mundo Misterioso (A Mysterious World), Rodrigo Moreno V Subbotu (Innocent Saturday), Alexander Mindadze Wer wenn nicht wir (If Not Us, Who?), Andres Veiel Yelling to the Sky, Victoria Mahoney Out of competition: Almanya, Yasemin Samdereli Les femmes du 6eme etage (Service Entrance), Philippe Le Guay Mein bester Freund (My Best Enemy...
- 2/1/2011
- by Arthur Leander
- Alt Film Guide
Officials from the 61st Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the Competition program for this year’s event. It includes 22 films, 16 of which will be competing for the awards.
In addition there will be two special screenings: In solidarity with the convicted Iranian director Jafar Panahi, his film “Offside” will be presented on Feb. 11, the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Also, the European premiere of Werner Herzog’s 3-D documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” will be shown as a special screening in the Berlinale Palast.
The winner of the Golden Bear will be announced at the festival awards ceremony on Feb. 19.
The following is the complete Berlinale Competition program.
“A Torinói Ló” (“The Turin Horse”) Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland
Directed by Béla Tarr
With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
World premiere
“Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland” (“Almanya”) Germany
By Yasemin Samdereli – debut film
With Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardin, Aylin Tezel,...
In addition there will be two special screenings: In solidarity with the convicted Iranian director Jafar Panahi, his film “Offside” will be presented on Feb. 11, the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Also, the European premiere of Werner Herzog’s 3-D documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” will be shown as a special screening in the Berlinale Palast.
The winner of the Golden Bear will be announced at the festival awards ceremony on Feb. 19.
The following is the complete Berlinale Competition program.
“A Torinói Ló” (“The Turin Horse”) Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland
Directed by Béla Tarr
With János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos
World premiere
“Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland” (“Almanya”) Germany
By Yasemin Samdereli – debut film
With Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardin, Aylin Tezel,...
- 1/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Berlinale Co-Production Market
Thirty-eight film projects from twenty-five countries have been selected for the eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market which will run from February 13 to 15, 2011. The producers and directors of these projects will meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners during the event. No Indian project has found a place in the 38 projects that have been chosen out of 352 entries.
Three projects have also been chosen for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”, in collaboration with CineMart Rotterdam. These projects will participate in both the CineMart and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
In cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, eleven projects by newcomers have been selected from 270 additional entries for the “Talent Project Market”.
The official selection of projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2011:
Love Isreal (dir: Julia von Heinz), 2Pilots Filmproduction, Germany
They Are All Dead (dir: Beatriz Sanchis), Avalon P.C., Spain
Saints (dir: Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film, Turkey
Darkness by Day (dir: Martin Desalvo), Doménica Films,...
Thirty-eight film projects from twenty-five countries have been selected for the eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market which will run from February 13 to 15, 2011. The producers and directors of these projects will meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners during the event. No Indian project has found a place in the 38 projects that have been chosen out of 352 entries.
Three projects have also been chosen for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”, in collaboration with CineMart Rotterdam. These projects will participate in both the CineMart and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
In cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, eleven projects by newcomers have been selected from 270 additional entries for the “Talent Project Market”.
The official selection of projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2011:
Love Isreal (dir: Julia von Heinz), 2Pilots Filmproduction, Germany
They Are All Dead (dir: Beatriz Sanchis), Avalon P.C., Spain
Saints (dir: Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film, Turkey
Darkness by Day (dir: Martin Desalvo), Doménica Films,...
- 1/14/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Now we know why this announcement was put on hold. Seeing as both fests are back to back and one ends up supplying the other, Sundance John Cooper kindly obliged before annoucing the inclusion of Miranda July's The Future, a German-u.S co-production title that Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick is obviously pleased to include in his festival. After announcing that the Coen Brothers’ excellent True Grit would open the comp, here comes the first batch of 8 competition titles which include a Wim Wenders film we actually want to see, Turkish filmmaker Seyfi Teoman's Our Grand Despair and one filmmaker who we were sure was headed to Park City will instead receive a huge showcase in Berlin in Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”. Here's the complete list of titles: “Bizim Büyük Çaresizligimiz” (Our Grand Despair); Turkey / Germany / Netherlands by Seyfi Teoman (Tatil Kitabi/Summer Book) with Ilker Aksum,...
- 12/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
About a week after the Sundance Film Festival announced its complete lineup, the Berlin title with (the Berlin International Film Festival) just publicized the first batch of films that will be in competition at the festival, and, a film that I fully expected would debut at Sundance (but obviously will not) is one of Shadow And Act’s Filmmakers To Watch, Victoria Mahoney’s feature film debut, Yelling To The Sky – a film we’ve given mucho pixels to on this blog, which stars Zoë Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, Tim Blake Nelson, Antonique Smith, and many others.
So, congrats to Victoria and company! I’d even further say that a Berlin debut could be considered more prestigious than a Sundance birth. The competition is stiffer, and your film may get more international exposure. Victoria can count veteran Wim Wenders and Miranda July as some of her competition.
The Coen Brothers’ remake...
So, congrats to Victoria and company! I’d even further say that a Berlin debut could be considered more prestigious than a Sundance birth. The competition is stiffer, and your film may get more international exposure. Victoria can count veteran Wim Wenders and Miranda July as some of her competition.
The Coen Brothers’ remake...
- 12/15/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The 61st Berlin International Film Festival has announced the rest of the Competition line-up in addition to opening film True Grit (which is screening out of competition). They include Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut Coriolanus, co-starring Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave, and Wim Wenders’ 3D dance film Pina. Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) Turkey / Germany / Netherlands by Seyfi Teoman (Tatil Kitabi/Summer Book) with İlker Aksum, Fatih Al, Güneş Sayın, Baki Davrak, Taner Birsel, Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu World premiere Coriolanus UK – debut film by Ralph Fiennes with Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, James Nesbitt World premiere / out of competition Lipstikka Israel/UK by Jonathan Sagall (Urban Feel) with Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Moran Rosenblatt, Ziv Weiner World premiere Pina Germany/France - dance film in 3D by Wim Wenders (The American Friend, Buena Vista Social Club, The Million Dollar Hotel) with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal...
- 12/15/2010
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
I love getting IndieWire’s Cannes Wish List. IndieWire's commentary on each film is interesting in and of itself. I find myself remarking "I didn't know that!" at every other entry. My former Tipped for Cannes Report (when FilmFinders was my company) was one of my most popular reports because film buyers and programmers could immediately hone in on their targets. So, in keeping with tradition, I pulled together the list Screen International (Si) and blogger ion (he did a lot of research for this!) published in February just after the Berlinale and am now going to compare it with Iw’s. My links for the title are to IMDbPro and for the contact either to the seller (Isa=International Sales Agent) or the producer.
After this, I will track which of these land in Cannes, which in Toronto, Venice, etc.; which get acquired by whom (to be gathered together...
After this, I will track which of these land in Cannes, which in Toronto, Venice, etc.; which get acquired by whom (to be gathered together...
- 4/29/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
New logo. New website. New artistic director. Olivier Pere exited to become the head honcho at Locarno, so the Director's Fortnight, also known as La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, will be Frederic Boyer's baby this year. The mandate will remain the same, but will the tastes differ? Pere's legacy includes some of my favorites over the past decade such as Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest... - New logo. New website. New artistic director. Olivier Pere exited to become the head honcho at Locarno, so the Director's Fortnight, also known as La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, will be Frederic Boyer's baby this year. The mandate will remain the same, but will the tastes differ? Pere's legacy includes some of my favorites over the past decade such as Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest, Anton Corbijn's Control, Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop, Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero,...
- 3/29/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
- You have to admire European film industry folks - they go to bat for their filmmakers. Further proof that European filmmakers do have it good, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 13 feature films with some Euros and among the featured projects and filmmakers we have veterans Istvan Szabo (Being Julia), Nanni Moretti (Quiet Chaos) and Bent Hamer (O'Horten) receiving some coin for their latest. Danis Tanovic, who just preemed his film Triage at Tiff will receive once again multi-territory support for Cirkus Columbia, while A Town Called Panic pair Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier team for another animated project. Spanish director Iciar Bollain (see pic) is prepping her film Even the Rain - a biopic on Christopher Columbus with actors Luis Tosar and Belén Rueda. Here is the full list below of films to watch out for in late 2010, 2011 and beyond. Kai
- 9/30/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
London -- A quartet of Dutch production banners will each receive €50,000 ($70,000) from the Hubert Bals Fund Plus cashpool, a fund from the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Netherlands Film Fund.
Circe Films, Idtv Motel Films, Volya Films and Waterland Film have been selected by fund managers to co-produce four films from filmmakers from Turkey, Mexico, Argentina and Uzbekistan.
Seyfi Teoman's project "Our Grand Despair" from Turkey, "Los ultimos cristeros" (The Last Cristeros) from filmmaker Matias Meyer in Mexico, Milagros Mumenthaler's "Ausencias" (Absences) from Argentina and "40 kun chilla" (40 days of silence) by Saodat Ismailova, Uzbekistan have been selected.
The Hubert Bals Fund manager Iwana Chronis said: "Looking back on the last four years, the Hbf Plus program can be considered a great success and we are happy to see so many of the supported films doing so well at international festivals."
Previous Bals' beneficiaries have gone on to...
Circe Films, Idtv Motel Films, Volya Films and Waterland Film have been selected by fund managers to co-produce four films from filmmakers from Turkey, Mexico, Argentina and Uzbekistan.
Seyfi Teoman's project "Our Grand Despair" from Turkey, "Los ultimos cristeros" (The Last Cristeros) from filmmaker Matias Meyer in Mexico, Milagros Mumenthaler's "Ausencias" (Absences) from Argentina and "40 kun chilla" (40 days of silence) by Saodat Ismailova, Uzbekistan have been selected.
The Hubert Bals Fund manager Iwana Chronis said: "Looking back on the last four years, the Hbf Plus program can be considered a great success and we are happy to see so many of the supported films doing so well at international festivals."
Previous Bals' beneficiaries have gone on to...
- 7/14/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Caran Hartfield's Bury Me Standing and Jake Mahaffy's Free in Deed are two in development projects looking for funding among the 15 selected by Cannes' Atelier de la Cinéfondation. As explained to me by some Sundance directors who had a chance to have their projects take part in the Cannes' The Atelier, in a nutshell, it acts as one extra way to meet with other producers in an attempt to get some coin (mostly foreign) prior to production. Mostly reserved to first, second and third time directors, this year selection includes two U.S. based projects. The directors and producers meet with industry people during the festival's hustle and bustle. Supported by indie producers Effie Brown (Real Women Have Curves) and Gina Kwon (Me and You and Everyone We Know), Bury Me Standing already has three players attached to the project (Mos Def, Kerry Washington and Alfre Woodard) and
- 3/16/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- The European Film Awards have announced the leading four candidates for the European Discovery award of which three claimed prizes at the past Cannes film festival. Fipresci and Efa Board members picked a Cannes trio of quality films in Steve McQueen's Hunger, Aida Begiç's Snow and Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan, and added Tatil Kitabi (Summer Book) by Seyfi Teoman to a category which awards and upcoming-and-coming filmmaker for a first full-length feature film. Last year's selections included Control and The Band's Visit, and I'm thinking this year the lead favorite is the Camera D'or winner for the surreal representation of the events surrounding the 1981 Ira Hunger Strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, led by Bobby Sands. The nominated films will now be made available to all 1,800 members of the European Film Academy with the winner chosen at the 21st European Film Awards on 6 December in Copenhagen. ...
- 9/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
ROME -- Ibrahim el-Batout's drama "Ein Shams" (Eye of the Sun) took home the Golden Bull, the top prize at the 54th Taormina Film Festival Saturday, capping a strong festival for films from countries honored in the festival's national sidebar over the last two years.
"Ein Shams" -- which had its world premiere in Taormina -- hails from Egypt, which was last year's spotlight. Turkey, the national spotlight this year, produced "Tatil Kitabi" (Summer Book), a drama from Seyfi Teoman -- which won the special jury prize.
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin was also honored with a Nielsen prize for career achievement, and Turkey's Ferzan Ozpetek was the head of the jury.
The prize winners illustrate Taormina's efforts to cast itself as a Mediterranean festival rather than an Italy-focused event.
The cast of "Tractor, Love, and Rock-n-Roll" from Slovenia's Branko Djuric won the prize for best acting.
The Taormina event, Italy's second oldest film festival, is directed by Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter's chief international critic.
"Ein Shams" -- which had its world premiere in Taormina -- hails from Egypt, which was last year's spotlight. Turkey, the national spotlight this year, produced "Tatil Kitabi" (Summer Book), a drama from Seyfi Teoman -- which won the special jury prize.
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin was also honored with a Nielsen prize for career achievement, and Turkey's Ferzan Ozpetek was the head of the jury.
The prize winners illustrate Taormina's efforts to cast itself as a Mediterranean festival rather than an Italy-focused event.
The cast of "Tractor, Love, and Rock-n-Roll" from Slovenia's Branko Djuric won the prize for best acting.
The Taormina event, Italy's second oldest film festival, is directed by Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter's chief international critic.
- 6/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek will head the six-person jury that will award the 54-year-old Taormina Film Festival's Golden Tauro prize for new films from the Mediterranean region, the festival said Wednesday.
Organizers also announced that a restored print of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" -- filmed in part in Sicily -- will screen in the festival's 2,300-year-old Greek Theater as part of a lineup that includes restored versions of Federico Fellini's little-known 1968 short "Toby Dammit" and Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic "Mishima".
David Mamet's martial arts drama "Red Belt" also will screen in the 6,000-seat theater in addition to a special gala screening of "The Edge of Heaven", from Fatih Akin, which will coincide with the special sidebar on Turkish cinema.
The "Beyond the Mediterranean" competition -- voted on by audiences -- will feature six films including three world premieres: Iranian director Mohammad-Ali Talebi's "The Wall", "Inconceivable" from Ireland's Mary McGuckian and "Love Live Long" from the U.K.'s Mike Figgis.
The main U.S. film screening will be Errol Morris' Abu Ghraib documentary "Standard Operating Procedure".
The Mediterranean competition titles named Wednesday are Egyptian films "Eye of the Sun" from Ibrahim El Batout and Yousri Nasrallah's "Aquarium"; "Burned Hearts" from Morocco's Ahmed El Maanouni; French director Jean Becker's "Deux Jours a Tuer" (Love Me No More); "Tractor, Love and Rock 'n' Roll" from Slovenia's Branko Djuric; and "Summer Book" from Turkey's Seyfi Teoman.
Organizers also announced that a restored print of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" -- filmed in part in Sicily -- will screen in the festival's 2,300-year-old Greek Theater as part of a lineup that includes restored versions of Federico Fellini's little-known 1968 short "Toby Dammit" and Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic "Mishima".
David Mamet's martial arts drama "Red Belt" also will screen in the 6,000-seat theater in addition to a special gala screening of "The Edge of Heaven", from Fatih Akin, which will coincide with the special sidebar on Turkish cinema.
The "Beyond the Mediterranean" competition -- voted on by audiences -- will feature six films including three world premieres: Iranian director Mohammad-Ali Talebi's "The Wall", "Inconceivable" from Ireland's Mary McGuckian and "Love Live Long" from the U.K.'s Mike Figgis.
The main U.S. film screening will be Errol Morris' Abu Ghraib documentary "Standard Operating Procedure".
The Mediterranean competition titles named Wednesday are Egyptian films "Eye of the Sun" from Ibrahim El Batout and Yousri Nasrallah's "Aquarium"; "Burned Hearts" from Morocco's Ahmed El Maanouni; French director Jean Becker's "Deux Jours a Tuer" (Love Me No More); "Tractor, Love and Rock 'n' Roll" from Slovenia's Branko Djuric; and "Summer Book" from Turkey's Seyfi Teoman.
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PARIS -- Turkish first-time director Seyfi Teoman captures both the charm of what it means to be a child during summer vacation and an overwhelming feeling of grief in Summer Book. His work should please viewers on the festival circuit.
Set in a not so touristic coastal town of Anatolia, the story follows Ali (Tayfun Gunay), a school kid experiencing one of those summers that make children grow up fast.
A classmate has stolen a schoolbook from Ali that he must read during the summer. His attempt to find another copy is reminiscent of Abbas Kiarostami's early works like "Where Is the Friend's Home?" Soon the film gives space to other characters: His parents quarrel over the supposed affair of the father. His uncle comes to help after the father has a stroke. An elder brother would like to quit military school.
The slow pace of the film, mainly structured so its characters are moving -- whether they walk, drive or take the bus -- calls for contemplation. So does the very fine camerawork, catching the unmistakable Mediterranean summer light.
What Book lacks is captivating storytelling. Teoman obviously wanted to give his film an everyday touch as even the most dramatic events occur without undue emphasis. A follower of Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Teoman has made a charming though low-key film that displays a promising new talent.
PARIS -- Turkish first-time director Seyfi Teoman captures both the charm of what it means to be a child during summer vacation and an overwhelming feeling of grief in Summer Book. His work should please viewers on the festival circuit.
Set in a not so touristic coastal town of Anatolia, the story follows Ali (Tayfun Gunay), a school kid experiencing one of those summers that make children grow up fast.
A classmate has stolen a schoolbook from Ali that he must read during the summer. His attempt to find another copy is reminiscent of Abbas Kiarostami's early works like "Where Is the Friend's Home?" Soon the film gives space to other characters: His parents quarrel over the supposed affair of the father. His uncle comes to help after the father has a stroke. An elder brother would like to quit military school.
The slow pace of the film, mainly structured so its characters are moving -- whether they walk, drive or take the bus -- calls for contemplation. So does the very fine camerawork, catching the unmistakable Mediterranean summer light.
What Book lacks is captivating storytelling. Teoman obviously wanted to give his film an everyday touch as even the most dramatic events occur without undue emphasis. A follower of Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Teoman has made a charming though low-key film that displays a promising new talent.
- 2/13/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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