The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its competition line-up for this year’s festival, with Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage and Ukrainian helmer Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary ‘Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles’ selected in the feature film and documentary categories respectively.
A total of 51 films will compete for the fest’s coveted Heart Of Sarajevo awards across four competition sections: feature films, documentary, short and student film. The selection includes 20 world premieres, eight international premiers, one European premiere, 21 regional premiers and one Bosnia & Herzegovina premiere.
Additional titles featured in the main competition program this year include Aida Begić’s A Ballad, Dominik Mencej’s Riders and Ukrainian-Turkish production Klondike. In the documentary section, Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, whose film Pamfir played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year, will see his Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles doc have its world premiere in the section.
The program was open for films and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria,...
A total of 51 films will compete for the fest’s coveted Heart Of Sarajevo awards across four competition sections: feature films, documentary, short and student film. The selection includes 20 world premieres, eight international premiers, one European premiere, 21 regional premiers and one Bosnia & Herzegovina premiere.
Additional titles featured in the main competition program this year include Aida Begić’s A Ballad, Dominik Mencej’s Riders and Ukrainian-Turkish production Klondike. In the documentary section, Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, whose film Pamfir played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year, will see his Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles doc have its world premiere in the section.
The program was open for films and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Eight international, one European, 21 regional and one national premiere.
Twenty films will have world premieres in the competitive sections of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs from August 12-19 this year.
Those films are among a 51-strong programme of titles competing for the Heart of Sarajevo awards, across four competition sections: Feature Film, Documentary Film, Short Film and Student Film.
Scroll down for the full list of features
Eight of the films are international premieres, with one European debut, 21 regional premieres and one national launch.
The main Feature Film section consists of eight titles, of which four are world premieres,...
Twenty films will have world premieres in the competitive sections of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs from August 12-19 this year.
Those films are among a 51-strong programme of titles competing for the Heart of Sarajevo awards, across four competition sections: Feature Film, Documentary Film, Short Film and Student Film.
Scroll down for the full list of features
Eight of the films are international premieres, with one European debut, 21 regional premieres and one national launch.
The main Feature Film section consists of eight titles, of which four are world premieres,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Iran-set coming-of-age story “Summer With Hope” won the top prize at the 56th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, winning over the Crystal Globe jury with its story of youthful competitive swimmer Omid as he struggles to train for a risky ocean competition.
The film, directed and written by Iranian-Canadian Sadaf Foroughi, is her sophomore feature, following up on 2017 teen drama “Ava.” The Karlovy Vary prize comes with 25,000.
The closing night gala, which filled the Grand Hall of the storied Hotel Thermal in the western Czech spa town, saw several honorees commenting on the critical issue of artistic freedom and urging solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Benicio Del Toro, honored with the fest president’s prize, praised Karlovy Vary for hosting the Odesa film fest’s work-in-progress event this year, saying, the support would help “ensure another culture won’t be a casualty of war.” He also thanked film audiences,...
The film, directed and written by Iranian-Canadian Sadaf Foroughi, is her sophomore feature, following up on 2017 teen drama “Ava.” The Karlovy Vary prize comes with 25,000.
The closing night gala, which filled the Grand Hall of the storied Hotel Thermal in the western Czech spa town, saw several honorees commenting on the critical issue of artistic freedom and urging solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Benicio Del Toro, honored with the fest president’s prize, praised Karlovy Vary for hosting the Odesa film fest’s work-in-progress event this year, saying, the support would help “ensure another culture won’t be a casualty of war.” He also thanked film audiences,...
- 7/9/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Geoffrey Rush and Benicio Del Toro will receive special awards at the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Kviff organizers announced on Tuesday. The two actors will both receive their awards during the closing ceremony on July 9 in the festival’s namesake spa town outside Prague in the Czech Republic.
Rush will receive the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, an award that in the past has gone to Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Jude Law and Judi Dench. Three of Rush’s films – “The King’s Speech,” “Quills” and “Shine,” for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor – will be screened at the festival.
Del Toro will receive the President’s Award for making “a fundamental contribution to the development of film and cinema.” “The Usual Suspects” and his Oscar-winning turn in “Traffic” will be screened for the occasion. Ethan Hawke received the President’s Award last year.
Rush will receive the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, an award that in the past has gone to Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Jude Law and Judi Dench. Three of Rush’s films – “The King’s Speech,” “Quills” and “Shine,” for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor – will be screened at the festival.
Del Toro will receive the President’s Award for making “a fundamental contribution to the development of film and cinema.” “The Usual Suspects” and his Oscar-winning turn in “Traffic” will be screened for the occasion. Ethan Hawke received the President’s Award last year.
- 6/21/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Film festival unveils 27 world premieres and three international premieres.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has announced the line-up of 33 features for its 56th edition, which includes Jake Paltrow’s Ukraine-shot Adolf Eichmann feature June Zero.
The Czech festival will take place from July 1-9 and the selection includes 27 world premieres, three international premieres and three European premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The 12 titles in the Crystal Globe Competition are all world premieres, with the exception of Anna Kazejak’s Fucking Bornholm; Sophie Linnenbaum’s The Ordinaries; and Jonás Trueba’s You Have To Come And See It – all international premieres.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has announced the line-up of 33 features for its 56th edition, which includes Jake Paltrow’s Ukraine-shot Adolf Eichmann feature June Zero.
The Czech festival will take place from July 1-9 and the selection includes 27 world premieres, three international premieres and three European premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The 12 titles in the Crystal Globe Competition are all world premieres, with the exception of Anna Kazejak’s Fucking Bornholm; Sophie Linnenbaum’s The Ordinaries; and Jonás Trueba’s You Have To Come And See It – all international premieres.
- 5/31/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The 56th Karlovy Vary Film Festival has unveiled its official selection, which comprises 33 films from five continents screening across three sections. Scroll down for full list.
Artistic director Karel Och’s program includes twenty-seven world premieres, three international premieres, and three European premieres, covering five continents.
Among the lineup are Jake Paltrow’s drama June Zero about the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine, the film is produced by Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Oren Moverman (Bad Education).
In addition to the Crystal Globe Competition and Special Screenings section, Kviff’s new competition, Proxima (for young filmmakers and auteurs with films that defy categorization), will make its debut in this year’s edition. Contrary to its preceding competition, East of the West, Proxima has no geographical restrictions and is open to filmmakers from around the world.
The Czech festival...
Artistic director Karel Och’s program includes twenty-seven world premieres, three international premieres, and three European premieres, covering five continents.
Among the lineup are Jake Paltrow’s drama June Zero about the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Shot on Super-16mm film in Israel and Ukraine, the film is produced by Miranda Bailey (God’s Country), David Silber (Incitement) and Oren Moverman (Bad Education).
In addition to the Crystal Globe Competition and Special Screenings section, Kviff’s new competition, Proxima (for young filmmakers and auteurs with films that defy categorization), will make its debut in this year’s edition. Contrary to its preceding competition, East of the West, Proxima has no geographical restrictions and is open to filmmakers from around the world.
The Czech festival...
- 5/31/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Thirty-three films comprise the eclectic lineup for the 56th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, the programming team led by the artistic director Karel Och revealed Tuesday. The selection includes 27 world premieres, three international premieres, and three European premieres, covering five continents.
In addition to the Crystal Globe Competition and Special Screenings section, Kviff’s new competition, Proxima, will make its debut in this year’s edition. Proxima aims to be “an inclusive space for pictures by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike, presenting bold works that defy categorization,” the festival said. In contrast to the East of the West competition, which it replaces, Proxima has no geographical restrictions.
Thirteen titles in the official selection are directed by filmmakers who have competed in Kviff before. Nine films are debut features. Melodramas, dystopian sci-fis, romantic comedies and essay documentaries are part of the wide-ranging lineup.
“From the 1,500 films that have been submitted this year,...
In addition to the Crystal Globe Competition and Special Screenings section, Kviff’s new competition, Proxima, will make its debut in this year’s edition. Proxima aims to be “an inclusive space for pictures by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike, presenting bold works that defy categorization,” the festival said. In contrast to the East of the West competition, which it replaces, Proxima has no geographical restrictions.
Thirteen titles in the official selection are directed by filmmakers who have competed in Kviff before. Nine films are debut features. Melodramas, dystopian sci-fis, romantic comedies and essay documentaries are part of the wide-ranging lineup.
“From the 1,500 films that have been submitted this year,...
- 5/31/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Mexico’s Piano, which is the producer of Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia” and upcoming films from Leos Carax, Mia Hansen-Love and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is expanding into Germany and Colombia, incorporating Diana Bustamante and Ingmar Trost as producer partners.
Julio Chavezmontes heads Piano.
Piano’s initial focus will be to establish itself as a creator of premium television content for international audiences, and as a provider of top-level production services in all three countries, said Chavezmontes. It was also continue to make high-profile, auteur-driven, festival-winning movies.
Both Bustamante and Trost are well-known figures on the international production scene. Bustamante — whose credits include “The Wind Journeys,” “Crab Trap” and Cannes Camera d’Or and Critics’ Week winner “Land and Shade” — will head up Piano Colombia.
Trost, producer of Ilian Metev’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner “3/4,” Benjamin Naishtat’s San Sebastian-prized “Rojo” and Kristi Jacobson’s News & Documentary Emmy-winning “Solitary,” will run Piano’s German office in Cologne,...
Julio Chavezmontes heads Piano.
Piano’s initial focus will be to establish itself as a creator of premium television content for international audiences, and as a provider of top-level production services in all three countries, said Chavezmontes. It was also continue to make high-profile, auteur-driven, festival-winning movies.
Both Bustamante and Trost are well-known figures on the international production scene. Bustamante — whose credits include “The Wind Journeys,” “Crab Trap” and Cannes Camera d’Or and Critics’ Week winner “Land and Shade” — will head up Piano Colombia.
Trost, producer of Ilian Metev’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner “3/4,” Benjamin Naishtat’s San Sebastian-prized “Rojo” and Kristi Jacobson’s News & Documentary Emmy-winning “Solitary,” will run Piano’s German office in Cologne,...
- 2/22/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
News announced at the annual Sofia Meetings and Sofia International Film Festival.
Bulgaria is poised to launch a financial incentive to attract high-budget international film and TV production to the south-eastern European country. The news was announced at last week’s Sofia Meetings (March 13-17) the biggest annual event of the Bulgarian film industry which runs as part of the Sofia International Film Festival (Mach 7-17).
“Bulgaria is practically the only country in Europe which doesn’t yet have an incentive but at the end of 2018 the government declared they are willing to do this and very fast,” said Jana Karaivanova,...
Bulgaria is poised to launch a financial incentive to attract high-budget international film and TV production to the south-eastern European country. The news was announced at last week’s Sofia Meetings (March 13-17) the biggest annual event of the Bulgarian film industry which runs as part of the Sofia International Film Festival (Mach 7-17).
“Bulgaria is practically the only country in Europe which doesn’t yet have an incentive but at the end of 2018 the government declared they are willing to do this and very fast,” said Jana Karaivanova,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
As 2018 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our hands on the titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen. With the proliferation of streaming options, it’s thankfully easier than ever to play catch-up for those films you missed in a theater (or never came to your town), and to assist with the process, we’re bringing you a rundown of the best titles of the year available to watch.
Curated from the Best Films of 2018 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable,...
Curated from the Best Films of 2018 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable,...
- 10/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
3/4 (Ilian Metev)
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on each as the separate halves of a whole that never quite comes into being. They are the three quarters of a family enjoying what is likely to be their last summer together: physics professor Todor (Todor Veltchev) and his two children, adolescent...
3/4 (Ilian Metev)
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on each as the separate halves of a whole that never quite comes into being. They are the three quarters of a family enjoying what is likely to be their last summer together: physics professor Todor (Todor Veltchev) and his two children, adolescent...
- 6/1/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In the fall of 2010, faced with cuts in public financing, Bulgarian filmmakers and other members of industry bodies swept across the capital, Sofia, in a wave of protests against austerity measures introduced by the right-wing ruling party. At the time, the country’s fledgling film industry was in a state of crisis. But eight years later, “the situation is completely different,” says Jana Karaivanova, executive director of the National Film Center. “Bulgarian filmmaking is thriving.”
A selection of contemporary Bulgarian cinema is on display this week at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, with the Focus Bulgaria sidebar spotlighting eight feature films and documentaries from the Eastern European nation. Beginning with Stephan Komandarev’s “Directions,” which world premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard last year, the program showcases the growing cinematic output of a country still building an industry from the ground up.
“It’s impossible not to notice that Bulgarian...
A selection of contemporary Bulgarian cinema is on display this week at the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival, with the Focus Bulgaria sidebar spotlighting eight feature films and documentaries from the Eastern European nation. Beginning with Stephan Komandarev’s “Directions,” which world premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard last year, the program showcases the growing cinematic output of a country still building an industry from the ground up.
“It’s impossible not to notice that Bulgarian...
- 5/31/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Damned SummerL.A.’s cinematic landscape finally feels boundless with the addition of Locarno in Los Angeles, now in their second year. For its second edition, beginning Thursday at the Downtown Independent, the festival—curated by Acropolis Cinema founder Jordan Cronk and co-artistic director Robert Koehler—is focusing on award-winning films from Switzerland’s 70th Locarno Festival. The program includes opening night selection Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (Filmmakers of the Present Golden Leopard), Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ Cocote (Signs of Life Award), and Wang Bing’s Mrs. Fang (International Competition Golden Leopard). Locarno in L.A. includes 14 nonfiction and narrative films and 5 shorts, including this year’s centerpiece film, Ben Russell’s Good Luck. Shot on 16mm film, the documentary follows two mining communities: one, a government-owned copper mine in Bor, Serbia, operating 400m underground where dank darkness pervades. At the other, in the Brokopondo district of Suriname, laborers...
- 4/3/2018
- MUBI
The characters populating Ilian Metev’s 3/4 (read: Three Quarters) often walk and talk in pairs, but they are seldom framed together, the camera lingering on each as the separate halves of a whole that never quite comes into being. They are the three quarters of a family enjoying what is likely to be their last summer together: physics professor Todor (Todor Veltchev) and his two children, adolescent son Niki (Nikolay Mashalov), and his older sister Mila (Mila Mihova), a piano prodigy preparing for an audition which, should everything work out, could land her a place at a prestigious German conservatory. Mother is nowhere in sight. Mentioned only during a fleeting early exchange between Niki and Mila, she is the family’s missing quarter, an invisible figure whose absence feeds many of the anxieties dad and kids share but never truly discuss.
At once a time signature and an allusion to missing pieces,...
At once a time signature and an allusion to missing pieces,...
- 3/28/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center are kicking off the 47th New Directors/New Films festival at the end of the month, and IndieWire is excited to premiere the exclusive trailer for this year’s edition. The annual festival spotlights the best films of the year made by first or second-time directors.
This year’s New Directors/New Films will open with Stephen Loveridge’s music documentary “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. RaMell Ross’ “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” is the closing night selection. New films by Khalik Allah, Gustav Möller, Helena Wittmann, and more are included in this year’s lineup.
New Directors/New Films 2018 runs March 28 – April 8. Watch the trailer and check out the full lineup below. Visit the festival’s official website to purchase tickets.
Opening Night
“Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,” Stephen Loveridge...
This year’s New Directors/New Films will open with Stephen Loveridge’s music documentary “Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. RaMell Ross’ “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” is the closing night selection. New films by Khalik Allah, Gustav Möller, Helena Wittmann, and more are included in this year’s lineup.
New Directors/New Films 2018 runs March 28 – April 8. Watch the trailer and check out the full lineup below. Visit the festival’s official website to purchase tickets.
Opening Night
“Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.,” Stephen Loveridge...
- 3/19/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Sofia Film Festival winners also announced.
Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s second feature film project Wolf was awarded the Danny Lerner Grand Prix for best international project at the 15th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market this weekend.
The Nu Boyana Film Studios’ CEO Yariv Lerner handed over a prize of €50,000 in services and a cheque for €5,000 to Biancheri and her producer Jessie Fisk for what the director describes as “a high concept, absurdist arthouse drama”.
Budgeted at €1.2m, Wolf is set to be the first project to go into production by Fisk’s production company Feline Films.
Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s second feature film project Wolf was awarded the Danny Lerner Grand Prix for best international project at the 15th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market this weekend.
The Nu Boyana Film Studios’ CEO Yariv Lerner handed over a prize of €50,000 in services and a cheque for €5,000 to Biancheri and her producer Jessie Fisk for what the director describes as “a high concept, absurdist arthouse drama”.
Budgeted at €1.2m, Wolf is set to be the first project to go into production by Fisk’s production company Feline Films.
- 3/19/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Now in its 47th year, New Directors/New Films is a stellar showcase for new voices in cinema, both domestic and international, and this year’s lineup is no exception. Opening with a bang with the M.I.A. documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. and closing with one of our Sundance favorites, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, the slate also includes one of the best films we’ve seen at Berlinale, An Elephant Standing Still, as well as festival favorites from last year, including Milla, Cocote, The Nothing Factory, and more.
“The purpose of New Directors/New Films is to seek out emerging filmmakers who are working at the vanguard of cinema,” said Film Society Director of Programming Dennis Lim. “This is as diverse and wide-ranging a lineup as we’ve assembled in years: full of pleasures and provocations and, above all, surprises—proof that film remains a medium ripe...
“The purpose of New Directors/New Films is to seek out emerging filmmakers who are working at the vanguard of cinema,” said Film Society Director of Programming Dennis Lim. “This is as diverse and wide-ranging a lineup as we’ve assembled in years: full of pleasures and provocations and, above all, surprises—proof that film remains a medium ripe...
- 2/22/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For its second edition, Locarno in Los Angeles is doing things a little differently: This year’s festival, which runs April 5—8 at the Downtown Independent, will focus on award-winning titles from the vaunted Swiss fest. That includes Wang Bing’s “Mrs. Fang” (International Competition Golden Leopard), Metev’s “3/4,” (Filmmakers of the Present Golden Leopard), and Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ “Cocote” (Signs of Life Award).
“Locarno Festival has always paid great attention to U.S. cinema, bringing to Europe some of the best examples of a truly independent cinematic spirit; now having the opportunity to showcase our selection in the city of cinema is a great counterpoint to that,” said Locarno Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian in a statement. “Therefore I’m happy that, after a successful first edition, Locarno in Los Angeles is back with an expanded program, including last edition’s major winners. I salute the work...
“Locarno Festival has always paid great attention to U.S. cinema, bringing to Europe some of the best examples of a truly independent cinematic spirit; now having the opportunity to showcase our selection in the city of cinema is a great counterpoint to that,” said Locarno Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian in a statement. “Therefore I’m happy that, after a successful first edition, Locarno in Los Angeles is back with an expanded program, including last edition’s major winners. I salute the work...
- 2/8/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
My Own Private HellThe titles for the 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 24 - February 4, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.SIGNATURESInsect (Jan Švankmajer)Asino (Anatoly Vasiliev)Lek and the Dogs (Andrew Kötting)The Bottomless Bag (Rustam Khamdamov)Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing)Readers (James Benning)The Wandering Soap Opera (Valeria Sarmiento, Raúl Ruiz)Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)Bright FUTUREThe Flower Shop (Ruben Desiere)Look Up (Fulvio Risoleo)My Friend the Polish Girl (Ewa Banaszkiewicz)Rabot (Christina Vandekerckhove)Respeto (Alberto Monteras II)The Return (Malene Choi Jensen)Windspiel (Peyman Ghalambor)All You Can Eat Buddha (Ian Lagarde)Azougue Nazareth (Tiago Melo)My Own Private Hell (Guto Parente)Ordinary Time (Susana Nobre)3/4 (Ilian Metev)Cocote (Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias)Drift (Helena Wittmann)The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)Gutland (Govinda Van Maele)The Watchman (Alejandro Andújar...
- 12/15/2017
- MUBI
Below you will find our favorite films of the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Top Picksfernando F. CROCE1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)2. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)3. Western (Valeska Grisebach)4. Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman)5. Faces Places (Agnès Varda, Jr)6. Manhunt (John Woo)7. Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)8. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)9. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)10. Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)Kelley DONG1. Rose Gold (Sarah Cwynar), Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Restack, Sheilah Wilson Restack)3. Good Luck (Ben Russell)4. Manhunt (John Woo)5. The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)Daniel KASMAN1. Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman)2. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)4. Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Restack, Sheilah Wilson Restack)5. I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.)6. Rose Gold (Sarah Cwynar)7. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)8. below-above (André...
- 9/19/2017
- MUBI
Ilian Metev is the Bulgarian director of the documentary Sofia's Last Ambulance (2012), a film that followed three employees in charge of what was, at the time, the only ambulance in Sofia. Its impact was such that the movie led to the decision to provide the city with two more emergency units. Metev's film, his feature debut, is an example of the intrinsic social function of cinema, a movie without hesitation.3/4 is Metev's second feature film and was awarded with the Pardo d'Oro Cineasti of the Present at the 70th edition of the Locarno Festival. It is an organic drama full of subtlety, in which the photography of Julian Atanassov resembles the fine brush of a painter who, with its warm tones, invites us to enter into the intimacy of a family that will live their last summer together. The “three fourths” are a father (Todor Veltchev), and his daughter...
- 9/17/2017
- MUBI
Ilian Metev’s deliberately small-scale, extremely precise 3/4 puts a trio of non-actors through their fictional paces. The family unit: teen classical pianist Mila (Mila Mihova), preparing for an audition that, if all goes well, will let her continue her studies in Germany; oft-annoying younger brother Niki (Nikolay Mashalov); physicist dad Todor (Todor Veltchev). (Mom is unseen: I’m the umpteenth to note that the title is both a time signature and way of noting that three out of four family members are present.) Mila’s stress over this impending potential pivot point in her life is transferred onto father and son, who react in different ways. […]...
- 9/11/2017
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Mrs. Fang director Wang BingBelow you will find the awards for the 70th Locarno Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.AWARDSInternational CompetitionGolden Leopard: Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing) Special Jury Prize: Good Manners (Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra) Best Direction: F.J. Ossang (9 Doigts) Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (Madame Hyde) Best Actor: Elliott Crosset Hove (Winter Brothers)Filmmakers of the Present Golden Leopard: ¾ (Ilian Metev) Special Jury Prize: Milla (Valerie Massadian) Prize for Best Emerging Director: Kim Dae-hwan (The First Lap) Special Mentions: Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi), Damned Summer (Pedro Cabeleira)Signs of Life Best Film: Cocote (Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias) Mantarraya Award: Phantasiesätze (Dane Komljen)First Feature Best First Feature: Scary Mother (Ana Urushadze)Art Peace Hotel Award: Meteors (Gürcan Keltek)Special Mention: Those Who Are Fine (Cyril Schäublin)Favorite MOMENTSFestival coverage by Daniel KasmanYacht Strafing, Gym Rivalry, Alcatraz Island: On Jacques Tourneur's Nick Carter, Master...
- 8/28/2017
- MUBI
Frederick Wiseman's film will feature in the competition side-bar
The latest works from Manuel Abramovich, Filipa César, Raymond Depardon, Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, Ilian Metev, Hong Sang-soo and Frederick Wiseman join the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which will open with Ruben Östlund's The Square.
The section will also feature documentaries Ex Libris: New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman and 12 Days (12 Jours) - about mental health assessments in France - by Raymond Depardon.
Hong Sang-soo who won San Sebastian's Silver Shell for Best Director last year for Yourself And Yours (Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot) - returns with The Day After (Geu-hu) about a woman whose predecessor had been having an affair with her boss.
Argentine rising star Manuel Abramovich brings his second film Solar which looks at the function of the Argentine Army more than three decades after the end of the dictatorship...
The latest works from Manuel Abramovich, Filipa César, Raymond Depardon, Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, Ilian Metev, Hong Sang-soo and Frederick Wiseman join the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which will open with Ruben Östlund's The Square.
The section will also feature documentaries Ex Libris: New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman and 12 Days (12 Jours) - about mental health assessments in France - by Raymond Depardon.
Hong Sang-soo who won San Sebastian's Silver Shell for Best Director last year for Yourself And Yours (Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot) - returns with The Day After (Geu-hu) about a woman whose predecessor had been having an affair with her boss.
Argentine rising star Manuel Abramovich brings his second film Solar which looks at the function of the Argentine Army more than three decades after the end of the dictatorship...
- 8/23/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Update: Audience award winner revealed; Good Manners, Winter Brothers also among winners.
Documentary filmmaker Wang Bing became the fifth director from China in Locarno’s seven-decade history to win the top honour of the Golden Leopard at this year’s edition.
Mrs. Fang, which is the first documentray ever to win the festival’s top prize, follows the last days of a 67-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in southern China.
Previous Golden Leopard winners from China were Hongqui Li with Winter Vacation in 2010 and Xiaolu Guo with She, a Chinese a year before, as well as Shuo Wang with Father in 2000 and Yue Lü with Mr Zhao in 1998.
The decision by the international competition jury, headed by director Olivier Assayas, reflects a trend at international festivals of recent years for documentaries beating out competition from fiction productions.
While the special jury prize went to the Brazilian writing and directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners about...
Documentary filmmaker Wang Bing became the fifth director from China in Locarno’s seven-decade history to win the top honour of the Golden Leopard at this year’s edition.
Mrs. Fang, which is the first documentray ever to win the festival’s top prize, follows the last days of a 67-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in southern China.
Previous Golden Leopard winners from China were Hongqui Li with Winter Vacation in 2010 and Xiaolu Guo with She, a Chinese a year before, as well as Shuo Wang with Father in 2000 and Yue Lü with Mr Zhao in 1998.
The decision by the international competition jury, headed by director Olivier Assayas, reflects a trend at international festivals of recent years for documentaries beating out competition from fiction productions.
While the special jury prize went to the Brazilian writing and directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners about...
- 8/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
3/4This year at the Locarno Festival I am looking for specific images, moments, techniques, qualities or scenes from films across the 70th edition's selection that grabbed me and have lingered past and beyond the next movie seen, whose characters, story and images have already begun to overwrite those that came just before.***A girl on the verge of womanhood practicing piano in the living room of her instructor in Ilian Metev’s ¾ (Filmmakers of the Present). It hardly matters if actress Mila Mikhova is actually playing the piano or not in Metev’s loose, gently improvising Bulgarian drama of a three-member family—adolescent boy, teen sister and their father—each on the cusp of a new movement in their lives. We see her face pursed but pretty, concentrating hard, deep in her attempt, frustrated at her limitations, and embarrassed by her perceived faults. The music flows and halts, the kindly...
- 8/11/2017
- MUBI
Ben & Joshua Safdie's Good TimeThe lineup for the 2017 festival has been revealed, including new films by Wang Bing, Radu Jude, Raúl Ruiz and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Jean-Marie Straub, Jacques Tourneur and much more.Piazza GRANDEAmori che non sonno stare al mondo (Francesca Comencini, Italy)Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, USA)Chien (Samuel Benchetrit, France/Belgium)Demain et tous les autres jours (Noémie Lvovsky, France)Drei Zinnen (Jan Zabeil, Germany/Italy)Good Time (Ben & Joshua Safdie, USA)Gotthard - One Life, One Soul (Kevin Merz, Switzerland)I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, USA)Iceman (Felix Randau, Germany/Italy/Austria)Laissez bronzer les cadavres (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium/France)Lola Pater (Nadir Moknèche, France/Belgium)Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy/France/Germany)Sparring (Samuel Jouy, France)The Big Sick (Michael Showalter, USA)The Song of Scorpions (Anup Singh, Switzerland/France/Singapore)What Happed to Monday (Tommy Wirkola,...
- 7/12/2017
- MUBI
Atomic Blonde, The Big Sick, The Song Of Scorpions among line-up.
The line-up for the 70th Locarno Festival (Aug 2-12) in Switzerland has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The 16-strong Piazza Grande strand features 11 world premieres, including opening night film Tomorrow And Every Other Day directed by Noemie Lvovsky and starring Mathieu Amalric, and closing night music doc Gotthard - One Life, One Soul, about the swiss rock band.
Other Piazza Grande films include Atomic Blonde with Charlize Theron, Good Time starring Robert Pattinson, Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick, What Happened to Monday? with Glenn Close and the world premiere of Anup Singh’s The Song of Scorpions, starring Irrfan Khan, who will attend the festival.
Actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz will receive the festival’s 2017 excellence award and Nastassja Kinski will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
Michel Merkt (Toni Erdmann, Elle) will receive the festival’s best independent producer award.
As...
The line-up for the 70th Locarno Festival (Aug 2-12) in Switzerland has been announced.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The 16-strong Piazza Grande strand features 11 world premieres, including opening night film Tomorrow And Every Other Day directed by Noemie Lvovsky and starring Mathieu Amalric, and closing night music doc Gotthard - One Life, One Soul, about the swiss rock band.
Other Piazza Grande films include Atomic Blonde with Charlize Theron, Good Time starring Robert Pattinson, Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick, What Happened to Monday? with Glenn Close and the world premiere of Anup Singh’s The Song of Scorpions, starring Irrfan Khan, who will attend the festival.
Actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz will receive the festival’s 2017 excellence award and Nastassja Kinski will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
Michel Merkt (Toni Erdmann, Elle) will receive the festival’s best independent producer award.
As...
- 7/12/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Denmark’s Katja Adomeit and Germany’s Ingmar Trost among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.Scroll down for full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
Lithuania will be...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
Lithuania will be...
- 4/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆The state of crisis in an Eastern European healthcare system provides the meat of Ilian Metev's 2012 documentary Sofia's Last Ambulance. In some ways comparable to Cristi Puiu's acclaimed Romanian fictional film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), we follow a trio of ambulance personnel as they navigate the overwhelming task of caring for the populace of the Bulgarian capital. At the time of filming, there were only thirteen ambulances expected to service almost two million people, requiring an inhuman level of devotion and patience from the beleaguered paramedics. Metev's fly-on-the-dashboard film is both political comment and utterly human portrait of their ongoing travails.
- 10/14/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★★☆☆ The Bulgarian capital of Sofia has an estimated population of just over two million - yet has only thirteen operational ambulances. At a time when the value of our own healthcare system is being constantly debated, and NHS watchdogs such as the Quality Care Commission are finding themselves under constant press and government scrutiny, Sofia's Last Ambulance (2012) is a stark documentary that couldn't be more timely. Following doctor Krassimir, his nurse Mila and their driver Plamen, filmmaker Ilian Metev gives us a passenger-seat-view of the daily grind endured by three in-demand ambulance crewmembers.
The chain-smoking trio make for curious heroes, but as we see them race through the night from one call to another, we grow to understand that their blithe exteriors mask the despondency that comes with such a futile career path. From traffic incidents to drug overdoses, the team attempt to save as many lives as possible amidst one of Europe's poorest capitals.
The chain-smoking trio make for curious heroes, but as we see them race through the night from one call to another, we grow to understand that their blithe exteriors mask the despondency that comes with such a futile career path. From traffic incidents to drug overdoses, the team attempt to save as many lives as possible amidst one of Europe's poorest capitals.
- 6/28/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Museum of Modern Art has announced its 12th annual Documentary Fortnight festival, a two-week showcase of nonfiction film and media that kicks off on February 15. This year's festival will open with Chico Pereira's "Pablo's Winter," winner of the Competition for Student Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) and Ilian Metev’s "Sofia's Last Ambulance," which premiered at Cannes. Among other notable films screening at the festival are John Gianvito's examination of the war in Afghanistan, "Far from Afghanistan," which premiered at Tiff and Tinatin Gurchiani's Sundance winning "The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear" which captures lives of Georgian youth in an experimental casting call. Along with the festival's 22 international feature-length films and two shorts this year's special events include New Cuban Shorts, a spotlight of nine emerging Cuban...
- 1/30/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Indiewire
and much like how we relate to previous Oscar winners of years past, it shouldn’t take more than three to five years before we start to ponder why such a film, Three, four, five years down the road we’ll be
Main Comp
Palme d’Or – Amour, directed by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix – Reality, directed by Matteo Garrone
Best Director – Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux
Best Screenplay – Cristian Mingiu, Beyond the Hills
Best Actress – Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan, Beyond the Hills
Best Actor – Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
Jury Prize – The Angels’ Share, directed by Ken Loach
Palme d’Or (Short Film) – Silent, directed by L.Razan Yesilbas
Un Certain Regard
Prize of Un Certain Regard – After Lucía, directed by Michael Franco
Special Jury Prize – The Big Night, directed by Benoît Delépine & Gustave de Kervern
Special Distinction – Children of Sarajevo, directed by Aida Begić
Best Actress – Émilie Dequenne, Loving Without Reason & Suzanne Clément,...
Main Comp
Palme d’Or – Amour, directed by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix – Reality, directed by Matteo Garrone
Best Director – Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux
Best Screenplay – Cristian Mingiu, Beyond the Hills
Best Actress – Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan, Beyond the Hills
Best Actor – Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
Jury Prize – The Angels’ Share, directed by Ken Loach
Palme d’Or (Short Film) – Silent, directed by L.Razan Yesilbas
Un Certain Regard
Prize of Un Certain Regard – After Lucía, directed by Michael Franco
Special Jury Prize – The Big Night, directed by Benoît Delépine & Gustave de Kervern
Special Distinction – Children of Sarajevo, directed by Aida Begić
Best Actress – Émilie Dequenne, Loving Without Reason & Suzanne Clément,...
- 5/30/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Its misleadingly alarmist - and inaccurate - title aside, Sofia's Last Ambulance is an admirably solid slice of old-school cinéma-verité that chronicles and celebrates a team of Bulgarian Ems personnel. Debuting in the International Critics' Week at Cannes, it landed the sidebar's inaugural "Visionary Award" for the Sofia-born London-trained director/camera-operator/co-editor Ilian Metev, and will be a very popular pick for non-fiction festivals and upscale TV networks worldwide. A Bulgarian-Croatian-German co-production, it was made with support from both German and French television channels (Wdr and Arte) and deals with subject-matter that's become
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- 5/28/2012
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The awards have been announced at The 65th Cannes Film Festival...
In Competition
Feature Films
Palme d'Or – Amour, directed by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix – Reality, directed by Matteo Garrone
Best Director – Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux
Best Screenplay – Cristian Mingiu, Beyond the Hills
Best Actress – Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan, Beyond the Hills
Best Actor – Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
Jury Prize – The Angels' Share, directed by Ken Loach
Short Films
Palme d'Or (Short Film) – Silent, directed by L.Razan Yesilbas
Un Certain Regard
Prize of Un Certain Regard – After Lucía, directed by Michael Franco
Special Jury Prize – The Big Night, directed by Benoît Delépine & Gustave de Kervern
Special Distinction – Children of Sarajevo, directed by Aida Begić
Best Actress – Émilie Dequenne, Loving Without Reason & Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways
Camera d'Or
Best First Film – Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin
Cinéfondation
1st Prize – The Road To, directed by Taisia Igumentseva
2nd Prize – Abigail,...
In Competition
Feature Films
Palme d'Or – Amour, directed by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix – Reality, directed by Matteo Garrone
Best Director – Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux
Best Screenplay – Cristian Mingiu, Beyond the Hills
Best Actress – Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan, Beyond the Hills
Best Actor – Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
Jury Prize – The Angels' Share, directed by Ken Loach
Short Films
Palme d'Or (Short Film) – Silent, directed by L.Razan Yesilbas
Un Certain Regard
Prize of Un Certain Regard – After Lucía, directed by Michael Franco
Special Jury Prize – The Big Night, directed by Benoît Delépine & Gustave de Kervern
Special Distinction – Children of Sarajevo, directed by Aida Begić
Best Actress – Émilie Dequenne, Loving Without Reason & Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways
Camera d'Or
Best First Film – Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin
Cinéfondation
1st Prize – The Road To, directed by Taisia Igumentseva
2nd Prize – Abigail,...
- 5/27/2012
- MUBI
It's all about R Patz today, as Cosmopolis takes a bow on the Croisette
9.22am: Bonjour! It's a lovely morning in London, but let's hot-tail it to the south of France, where the critics are streaming out of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. And I can see the smiles from here.
9.23am:
Blown away by Cosmopolis at Cannes. A film of cool, diamond brilliance. Perfectly fitted, a tale for the times. Note to jurors: this one
— Xan Brooks (@XanBrooks) May 25, 2012
Enjoyed Cosmopolis; odd and funny
— Damon Wise (@yo_damo) May 25, 2012
Cronenberg's Cosmopolis talky but terrific, with a steely, sinuous turn from Pattinson. Chillingly current too. #cannes
— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) May 25, 2012
Themes of Cannes 2012: white stretch limos, A-listers pissing, dead dogs, financial crisis, Twilight actors, Matthew McConaughey...
— Charles Gant (@charlesgant) May 25, 2012
Of Pattinson, Xan reckons:
@alexneedham74 Perfect as tragicomic billionaire vampire. Plus Mathieu Amalric as phantom pie-thrower,...
9.22am: Bonjour! It's a lovely morning in London, but let's hot-tail it to the south of France, where the critics are streaming out of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. And I can see the smiles from here.
9.23am:
Blown away by Cosmopolis at Cannes. A film of cool, diamond brilliance. Perfectly fitted, a tale for the times. Note to jurors: this one
— Xan Brooks (@XanBrooks) May 25, 2012
Enjoyed Cosmopolis; odd and funny
— Damon Wise (@yo_damo) May 25, 2012
Cronenberg's Cosmopolis talky but terrific, with a steely, sinuous turn from Pattinson. Chillingly current too. #cannes
— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) May 25, 2012
Themes of Cannes 2012: white stretch limos, A-listers pissing, dead dogs, financial crisis, Twilight actors, Matthew McConaughey...
— Charles Gant (@charlesgant) May 25, 2012
Of Pattinson, Xan reckons:
@alexneedham74 Perfect as tragicomic billionaire vampire. Plus Mathieu Amalric as phantom pie-thrower,...
- 5/25/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Spain’s Antonio Mendez Esparza’s debut film Aqui y Alla won the Nespresso Grand Prize of Cannes Critics’ Week, the sidebar of Cannes Film Festival.
The film tells the story of a man who returns from the U.S. to his small village in Mexico.
France 4 Visionary award of the Cannes Critics Week went to documentary Sofia’s Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev.
Indian film Peddlers directed by Vasan Bala got rave reviews but didn’t win an award at Cannes Critics Week. Here’s DearCinema review of Peddlers.
The film tells the story of a man who returns from the U.S. to his small village in Mexico.
France 4 Visionary award of the Cannes Critics Week went to documentary Sofia’s Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev.
Indian film Peddlers directed by Vasan Bala got rave reviews but didn’t win an award at Cannes Critics Week. Here’s DearCinema review of Peddlers.
- 5/25/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The German sales company based out of Berlin nabbed a pair of spots in this year’s Critics’ Week for David Lambert’s Hors Les Murs and one of our most anticipated films of the fest, Sofia’s Last Ambulance – the documentary first film from Ilian Metev. They don’t have anything listed for their future slate, but they’ve managed to rep Sundance/Berlin items in Keep the Lights On and Four Suns.
Hors Les Murs by David Lambert
Kuma by Umut DAĞ
Sofia’S Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev
Come As You Are (Hasta La Vista) by Geoffrey Enthoven
Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude
Four Suns (Ctyri Slunce) by Bohdan SLÁMA
Holidays By The Sea by Pascal RABATÉ
Home (Dom) by Oleg Pogodin
Keep The Lights On by Ira
King Curling (Kong Curling) by Ole Endresen
Unfair World by Filippos Tsitos...
Hors Les Murs by David Lambert
Kuma by Umut DAĞ
Sofia’S Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev
Come As You Are (Hasta La Vista) by Geoffrey Enthoven
Everybody In Our Family by Radu Jude
Four Suns (Ctyri Slunce) by Bohdan SLÁMA
Holidays By The Sea by Pascal RABATÉ
Home (Dom) by Oleg Pogodin
Keep The Lights On by Ira
King Curling (Kong Curling) by Ole Endresen
Unfair World by Filippos Tsitos...
- 5/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sofia’s Last Ambulance – Ilian Metev
Buzz: The only documentary in this year’s Critics’ Week section, and for that matter, only the second to compete in its 51-year history, Bulgarian filmmaker Ilian Metev picks a a mind-boggling, difficult to both film and forget subject matter – a social pandemic and heavy infrastructure problem that is serviced by everyday heroic folk in either the right, or wrong profession.
Gist: In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve a burgeoning population of several million, 47-year old Krassi Yordanov is our unlikely hero: chain-smoking and saving lives in a non-stop 48-hour shift. Krassi is the emergency doctor on one of Sofia’s last ambulances and today is the worst day of his life. This is a film about the regular working day of Dr. Krassi, nurse Mila and driver Plamen, a team working on an ambulance in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
Buzz: The only documentary in this year’s Critics’ Week section, and for that matter, only the second to compete in its 51-year history, Bulgarian filmmaker Ilian Metev picks a a mind-boggling, difficult to both film and forget subject matter – a social pandemic and heavy infrastructure problem that is serviced by everyday heroic folk in either the right, or wrong profession.
Gist: In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve a burgeoning population of several million, 47-year old Krassi Yordanov is our unlikely hero: chain-smoking and saving lives in a non-stop 48-hour shift. Krassi is the emergency doctor on one of Sofia’s last ambulances and today is the worst day of his life. This is a film about the regular working day of Dr. Krassi, nurse Mila and driver Plamen, a team working on an ambulance in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
- 5/15/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers is selected for Directors' Fortnight special screening, while British theatre director Rufus Norris's debut Broken will open Critics' Week
The Cannes film festival's two major independent sidebars have announced their lineup for the forthcoming festival, providing UK and Us film-makers with a considerable boost to their presence on the Croisette.
Ben Wheatley, who has impressed critics and fans alike with his first two films, Down Terrace and Kill List, has seen his third, Sightseers, selected for a special screening in the Directors' Fortnight event, while British theatre director Rufus Norris's debut feature, Broken, has been given the opening slot for the Critics' Week section. Sightseers is described as a "pitch-black comedy" about a caravan trip around the north of England, while Broken is an adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel, and stars Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth.
Us film-makers have added to their total...
The Cannes film festival's two major independent sidebars have announced their lineup for the forthcoming festival, providing UK and Us film-makers with a considerable boost to their presence on the Croisette.
Ben Wheatley, who has impressed critics and fans alike with his first two films, Down Terrace and Kill List, has seen his third, Sightseers, selected for a special screening in the Directors' Fortnight event, while British theatre director Rufus Norris's debut feature, Broken, has been given the opening slot for the Critics' Week section. Sightseers is described as a "pitch-black comedy" about a caravan trip around the north of England, while Broken is an adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel, and stars Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth.
Us film-makers have added to their total...
- 4/24/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Variety's Boyd van Hoeij notes that Critics' Week has lined up first-time directors "almost exclusively" for its 2012 edition. Notes, links and so on will be added over the coming hours and days:
Competition
Features
Vasan Bala's Peddlers. The Critics' Week synopsis: "A ghost town, Mumbai, inhabited by millions. A lady on a mission, a man living a lie, an aimless drifter. They collide. Some collisions are of consequence, some not, either ways the city moves on."
Antonio Méndez Esparza's Aquí y Allá. CW: Pedro returns home to his small village in Guerrero, Mexico after having worked for several years in the Us. Even though the village is expecting a bountiful harvest, they're still preoccupied with opportunities north of the border.
Alejandro Fadel's Los Salvajes. CW: "Five teenagers violently escape a reformatory school in an Argentinean province.... They hunt to feed, rob houses they come across, do drugs, bathe in the river,...
Competition
Features
Vasan Bala's Peddlers. The Critics' Week synopsis: "A ghost town, Mumbai, inhabited by millions. A lady on a mission, a man living a lie, an aimless drifter. They collide. Some collisions are of consequence, some not, either ways the city moves on."
Antonio Méndez Esparza's Aquí y Allá. CW: Pedro returns home to his small village in Guerrero, Mexico after having worked for several years in the Us. Even though the village is expecting a bountiful harvest, they're still preoccupied with opportunities north of the border.
Alejandro Fadel's Los Salvajes. CW: "Five teenagers violently escape a reformatory school in an Argentinean province.... They hunt to feed, rob houses they come across, do drugs, bathe in the river,...
- 4/24/2012
- MUBI
The Critics' Week selection at Cannes 2012 will be one marked by discoveries, with the selction dominated by first time European filmmakers. Very little is known about the selection beyond the titles thus far but for those who want to do some digging, here they are: Special Screenings "Broken," U.K., Rufus Norris -- Opener "Augustine," France, Alice Winocour "J'enrage de son absence," France-Luxembourg-Belgium, Sandrine Bonnaire Competition "Aqui y alla," Spain-u.S.-Mexico, Antonio Mendez Esparza "Au galop," France, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing "Hors les murs," Belgium-Canada-France, David Lambert "Peddlers," India, Vasan Bala "Los salvajes," Argentina, Alejandro Fadel "Sofia's Last Ambulance" Germany-Croatia-Bulgaria, Ilian Metev "Les voisins de dieu," Israel-France, Meni Yaesh...
- 4/23/2012
- Screen Anarchy
When you take a look at the ten films selected for the 51st Semaine de la Critique at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival don't be surprised if you don't recognize any of the directors' names. Nine the ten are first time feature directors with only Sandrine Bonnaire working on his sophomore effort with the William Hurt-led J'enrage de son absence. Serving as the opening feature will be UK director Rufus Norris's Broken. The film stars Tim Roth (2012 Cannes Un Certain Regard jury president) and Cillian Murphy and was adapted from Daniel Clay's novel of the same title, which centers on a young girl whose life changes after she witnesses a brutal attack. Additional information on the rest of the selection is hard to come by, though Bonnaire and Alice Winocour do give the fest a pair of films from female directors. Of the two, Bonnaire's J'enrage de son...
- 4/23/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Moscow -- The Kiev International Film Festival Molodist, which came to a close Sunday in the Ukrainian capital, saw this year's Grand Prix shared by Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" and the Russian film "Shultes," by Bakur Bakuradze.
The international jury, headed by U.S. actor Armand Assante, awarded them with Scythian Deer statuettes and cash prizes of $10,000 each during the closing ceremony.
Separately, the prize for best first feature was awarded to Serbia's "Huddersfield" by Ivan Zivkovic, while Switzerland's Tobias Nolle collected the best short-film prize for "Rene" and Bulgaria's Ilian Metev was awarded the best student film nod for "Goleshovo."
The festival's Fipresci jury honored "Versailles" by French director Pierre Scholler and the ecumenical jury gave its prize to Makhmalbaf's "Buddha." The audience award went to the French short "Hold On" by Damien Roussineau.
The 38th edition of the festival, which focuses on young filmmakers,...
The international jury, headed by U.S. actor Armand Assante, awarded them with Scythian Deer statuettes and cash prizes of $10,000 each during the closing ceremony.
Separately, the prize for best first feature was awarded to Serbia's "Huddersfield" by Ivan Zivkovic, while Switzerland's Tobias Nolle collected the best short-film prize for "Rene" and Bulgaria's Ilian Metev was awarded the best student film nod for "Goleshovo."
The festival's Fipresci jury honored "Versailles" by French director Pierre Scholler and the ecumenical jury gave its prize to Makhmalbaf's "Buddha." The audience award went to the French short "Hold On" by Damien Roussineau.
The 38th edition of the festival, which focuses on young filmmakers,...
- 10/27/2008
- by By Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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