The French sales outfit has the first image of Tomer Sisley in The Price Of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure.
Goodfellas has boarded Claire Burger’s anticipated coming-of-age drama Langue Etrangère, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Nina Hoss, ahead of this week’s Rendez-Vous with France Cinema this week in Paris.
Langue Etrangère is about teenage pen pals in France and Germany and is produced by Anatomy of a Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani’s Les Films de Pierre with Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve and Germany’s Razor Film Produktion. Burger wrote the film in collaboration with The Five Devils’ Léa Mysius.
Goodfellas has boarded Claire Burger’s anticipated coming-of-age drama Langue Etrangère, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Nina Hoss, ahead of this week’s Rendez-Vous with France Cinema this week in Paris.
Langue Etrangère is about teenage pen pals in France and Germany and is produced by Anatomy of a Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani’s Les Films de Pierre with Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve and Germany’s Razor Film Produktion. Burger wrote the film in collaboration with The Five Devils’ Léa Mysius.
- 1/15/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: French director Jean-Bernard Marlin made waves in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2018 with Marseille-set feature debut Shéhérazade about the relationship between a young prostitute and an underage ex-convict who becomes her pimp.
The film went on to win best first film alongside most promising actress and actor for Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert at the 2019 edition of France’s César awards.
Marlin returns to Cannes this year with his second feature Salem which world premieres in Un Certain Regard.
Like Shéhérazade, the feature captures the reality of Marseille’s notoriously crime and poverty-ridden northern quarters with a documentary approach but differs in that Marlin has added a layer of fantasy to the tale.
“I don’t invent anything in what I am showing, but at the same time, this film is a work of the imagination. It’s an allegory, with dreamlike and fantasy qualities,” says Marlin.
The film follows...
The film went on to win best first film alongside most promising actress and actor for Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert at the 2019 edition of France’s César awards.
Marlin returns to Cannes this year with his second feature Salem which world premieres in Un Certain Regard.
Like Shéhérazade, the feature captures the reality of Marseille’s notoriously crime and poverty-ridden northern quarters with a documentary approach but differs in that Marlin has added a layer of fantasy to the tale.
“I don’t invent anything in what I am showing, but at the same time, this film is a work of the imagination. It’s an allegory, with dreamlike and fantasy qualities,” says Marlin.
The film follows...
- 5/23/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Other titles include Dea Kulumbegashvili’s new film and ’Like A Son’ starring Vincent Lindon.
Goodfellas, the Paris-based sales company formerly known as Wild Bunch International, has unveiled a lively slate of titles ahead of Cannes, including starry period drama The Flood, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Those Who Find Me, French social drama Like A Son, prison drama Inside, football documentary Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023 and Spanish thriller When The Party’s Over, along with several titles in Cannes’ Official Selection.
The Flood is the second feature from Italian director Gianluca Jodice following The Bad Poet and stars Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet as...
Goodfellas, the Paris-based sales company formerly known as Wild Bunch International, has unveiled a lively slate of titles ahead of Cannes, including starry period drama The Flood, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Those Who Find Me, French social drama Like A Son, prison drama Inside, football documentary Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023 and Spanish thriller When The Party’s Over, along with several titles in Cannes’ Official Selection.
The Flood is the second feature from Italian director Gianluca Jodice following The Bad Poet and stars Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet as...
- 5/4/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival has added Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Marseille second feature Salem to its Un Certain Regard line-up devoted to new cinematic voices.
The Marseille gangland-set fantasy follows a former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who can save his community from an apocalyptic curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.
Salem is Marlin’s second feature after the gritty romance Shéhérazade which debuted in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2018.
Also set against the backdrop of Marseille, the film won best first film in France’s 2019 César awards as well as most promising Actress and Actor for its big screen debutants Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert.
The film is co-produced by Bruno Nahon’s Unité and Vatos Locos Productions, Marlin’s company with Romain Daubeach and Marine Bergère, with international sales handled by Goodfellas.
The Un Certain Regard section now features 20 titles in total,...
The Marseille gangland-set fantasy follows a former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who can save his community from an apocalyptic curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.
Salem is Marlin’s second feature after the gritty romance Shéhérazade which debuted in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2018.
Also set against the backdrop of Marseille, the film won best first film in France’s 2019 César awards as well as most promising Actress and Actor for its big screen debutants Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert.
The film is co-produced by Bruno Nahon’s Unité and Vatos Locos Productions, Marlin’s company with Romain Daubeach and Marine Bergère, with international sales handled by Goodfellas.
The Un Certain Regard section now features 20 titles in total,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
New feature from the director of ‘Sheherazade’ added to Un Certain Regard strand.
US actor John C. Reilly will preside over the jury for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, which has added Salem by Cesar award-winning French director Jean-Bernard Marlin to its line-up.
Alongside Reilly on the five-person jury are French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actress Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne.
Reilly made his film debut in Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War in 1989 by Brian De Palma and played roles in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line,...
US actor John C. Reilly will preside over the jury for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, which has added Salem by Cesar award-winning French director Jean-Bernard Marlin to its line-up.
Alongside Reilly on the five-person jury are French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actress Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne.
Reilly made his film debut in Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War in 1989 by Brian De Palma and played roles in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
U.S. actor John C. Reilly will serve as president of the jury of the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival. “Salem,” directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin, has been added to the lineup.
The other members of the jury will be French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actor Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou, and Belgian actor Émilie Dequenne.
The Un Certain Regard section showcases art and discovery films by young auteurs.
In a statement, Reilly said: “I have had so many life changing moments at the Festival de Cannes (from my miraculous first trip with Paul Thomas Anderson to celebrating my 50th birthday from the Palais stage!) so to be chosen as the president of Un Certain Regard jury is truly such an incredible honor.”
Reilly’s movie credits include Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Hard Eight” (1996), “Boogie Nights” (1997), and “Magnolia” (1999), Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line...
The other members of the jury will be French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actor Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou, and Belgian actor Émilie Dequenne.
The Un Certain Regard section showcases art and discovery films by young auteurs.
In a statement, Reilly said: “I have had so many life changing moments at the Festival de Cannes (from my miraculous first trip with Paul Thomas Anderson to celebrating my 50th birthday from the Palais stage!) so to be chosen as the president of Un Certain Regard jury is truly such an incredible honor.”
Reilly’s movie credits include Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Hard Eight” (1996), “Boogie Nights” (1997), and “Magnolia” (1999), Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line...
- 5/2/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
September has snapped up films from Sundance and Berlin and some Cannes contenders.
Leading Benelux indie distributor September Films has acquired multiple Sundance and Berlin titles as well as some films likely to feature in Cannes in a buying spree of international festival favourites.
From Berlin it has picked up Christian Petzold’s Golden Bear contender Afire (sold by The Match Factory); And The King Said, What A Fantastic Machine (sold by Heretic and having its European premiere in Berlin’s Generation 14plus and Xavier Legrand’s thriller The Successor (being sold by mK2’s in the European Film Market...
Leading Benelux indie distributor September Films has acquired multiple Sundance and Berlin titles as well as some films likely to feature in Cannes in a buying spree of international festival favourites.
From Berlin it has picked up Christian Petzold’s Golden Bear contender Afire (sold by The Match Factory); And The King Said, What A Fantastic Machine (sold by Heretic and having its European premiere in Berlin’s Generation 14plus and Xavier Legrand’s thriller The Successor (being sold by mK2’s in the European Film Market...
- 2/17/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has boarded sales on buzzy Portuguese director, artist and producer Gabriel Abrantes’ upcoming English-language feature Amelia’s Children.
The film is among half a dozen new titles being launched by Wbi at the EFM, alongside a raft of previously announced upcoming films, including Cannes hopefuls such as Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Monster.
The company is also handling Berlinale Competition selections, Philippe Garrel’s The Plough and Makoto Shinkai’s hotly awaited anime Suzume, and the Panorama title Heroic, which world premiered at Sundance.
Abrante’s psychological thriller Amelia’s Children is his solo feature debut and his first feature since his 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week winner Diamantino (co-directed with Daniel Schmidt).
The film reunites him with its star Carloto Cotta. Other key cast members are Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical) and Alba Baptiste (Warrior Nun).
Cotta plays a man whose search for his biological family leads him and his...
The film is among half a dozen new titles being launched by Wbi at the EFM, alongside a raft of previously announced upcoming films, including Cannes hopefuls such as Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Monster.
The company is also handling Berlinale Competition selections, Philippe Garrel’s The Plough and Makoto Shinkai’s hotly awaited anime Suzume, and the Panorama title Heroic, which world premiered at Sundance.
Abrante’s psychological thriller Amelia’s Children is his solo feature debut and his first feature since his 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week winner Diamantino (co-directed with Daniel Schmidt).
The film reunites him with its star Carloto Cotta. Other key cast members are Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical) and Alba Baptiste (Warrior Nun).
Cotta plays a man whose search for his biological family leads him and his...
- 2/2/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Salem
Jean-Bernard Marlin got his big break with his feature debut Sheherazade blasting out of the Critic’s Week in 2018 with César Awards wins in three departments including Best First Film and the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo the following year. For his sophomore film, Salem – he works in the fantasy space for a project set in the troubled housing projects of Marseille.
Gist: 14-year-old Grasshoppers gang member Djibril leads a dangerous existence in a Marseille slum, along with his pregnant girlfriend Camilla who belongs to a rival gang, the Crickets. When Djibril is manipulated into killing the young Cricket Mahad, war breaks out.…...
Jean-Bernard Marlin got his big break with his feature debut Sheherazade blasting out of the Critic’s Week in 2018 with César Awards wins in three departments including Best First Film and the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo the following year. For his sophomore film, Salem – he works in the fantasy space for a project set in the troubled housing projects of Marseille.
Gist: 14-year-old Grasshoppers gang member Djibril leads a dangerous existence in a Marseille slum, along with his pregnant girlfriend Camilla who belongs to a rival gang, the Crickets. When Djibril is manipulated into killing the young Cricket Mahad, war breaks out.…...
- 1/5/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled the bulk of its French slate for the first half of 2023 as it gears up for the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris, running January 10-17.
New titles on the slate include Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Marseille gangland-set fantasy Salem about a former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who can save his community from an apocalyptic curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.
Salem is Marlin’s second feature after the gritty romance Shéhérazade. That drama, also set against the backdrop of Marseille
, debuted in Cannes in 2018 and went on to win best first film in France’s 2019 César awards as well as most promising actress and actor for its big screen debutants Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert.
The new film, which is currently in post-production, is co-produced by Bruno Nahon’s Unité and Vatos Locos Productions,...
New titles on the slate include Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Marseille gangland-set fantasy Salem about a former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who can save his community from an apocalyptic curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.
Salem is Marlin’s second feature after the gritty romance Shéhérazade. That drama, also set against the backdrop of Marseille
, debuted in Cannes in 2018 and went on to win best first film in France’s 2019 César awards as well as most promising actress and actor for its big screen debutants Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert.
The new film, which is currently in post-production, is co-produced by Bruno Nahon’s Unité and Vatos Locos Productions,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The 22nd session of the film direction residency will lend support to first feature films put forward by Nathalie Saugeon, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Emmanuel Laskar, Pierre Mazingarbe and Edouard Salier. Selected by a jury presided over, this year, by Jean-Bernard Marlin, five young filmmakers have been chosen to participate in the 22nd session of the film direction residency intitled Emergence, a unique initiative in Europe which will provide the selected few with an opportunity to film two sequences of their first feature films, as well as offering them a mentor in the form of an established director, support in all things artistic, not to mention professional help with production. Nathalie Saugeon has been selected with her project Fils de. The story, which she wrote with Anne-Claire Jaulin, is centred on Rudy (14 years old) who has never met his father. Against all odds, he seeks to be accepted by his biological...
Marseille reaffirms its status as one of the most dangerous cities in France with “Shéhérazade,” director Jean-Bernard Marlin’s accomplished feature debut. But its reputation for crime and poverty makes all the more affecting the tentative relationship between a troubled 17-year-old boy just sprung from juvenile detention and the title character, the teenage prostitute he falls in love with. Shooting in a color-streaked vérité style and coaxing terrific performances from his non-pro cast, Marlin clearly has a promising future ahead. What keeps ‘Shéhérazade’ from ranking higher in the pantheon of streetwise French crime dramas is the story’s overall familiarity. But the question of whether the love between two lost teenagers can survive such a miserable environment provides more than enough emotional pull, provided that audiences can find this 2018 Cannes Film Festival gem on Netflix.
“Shéhérazade” is a feature-length riff on Marlin’s similarly Marseille-set “La Fugue” (aka “The Runaway...
“Shéhérazade” is a feature-length riff on Marlin’s similarly Marseille-set “La Fugue” (aka “The Runaway...
- 6/6/2019
- by Mark Keizer
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty of Europe’s up-and-coming producers are going to Cannes with European Film Promotion. The organization unveiled its latest roster of Producers on the Move on Wednesday, a lineup that features France’s Gregoire Debailly, who produced Jean-Bernard Marlin’s “Sheherazade,” which premiered in Critics’ Week in Cannes last year, and Ireland’s Cormac Fox, who produced Sophie Hyde’s “Animals.”
Other names include “Borg vs. McEnroe” producer Jon Nohrstedt and, from the U.K., Emily Morgan, whose credits include the critically acclaimed “I Am Not a Witch.”
Efp has been putting selected enterprising producers in the spotlight for 20 years, a period in which 400 have featured. The European Union’s Creative Europe – Media Program backs the initiative, which sees the selected producers take part in networking and production-skewed events.
A trio of producers from previous editions will have films at Cannes this year: Germany’s Janine Jackowski with Corneliu Porumboiu’s “The Whistlers,...
Other names include “Borg vs. McEnroe” producer Jon Nohrstedt and, from the U.K., Emily Morgan, whose credits include the critically acclaimed “I Am Not a Witch.”
Efp has been putting selected enterprising producers in the spotlight for 20 years, a period in which 400 have featured. The European Union’s Creative Europe – Media Program backs the initiative, which sees the selected producers take part in networking and production-skewed events.
A trio of producers from previous editions will have films at Cannes this year: Germany’s Janine Jackowski with Corneliu Porumboiu’s “The Whistlers,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Domestic violence drama earns four prizes in Paris.
Xavier Legrand’s domestic violence drama Custody (Jusqu’à La Garde) was named best film at the 44th Cesar Awards in Paris on Friday (23).
Legrand’s feature directorial debut and Venice 2017 Silver Lion winner began the night on a field-leading 10 nominations alongside Gilles Lellouche’s comedy Sink Or Swim (Le Grand Bain), and also won awards for Legrand’s original screenplay, best actress Lea Drucker, and editor Yorgos Lamprinos.
Jacques Audiard was named best director for The Sisters Brothers at the ceremony in the Salle Pleyel, presided over by Kristin Scott Thomas.
Xavier Legrand’s domestic violence drama Custody (Jusqu’à La Garde) was named best film at the 44th Cesar Awards in Paris on Friday (23).
Legrand’s feature directorial debut and Venice 2017 Silver Lion winner began the night on a field-leading 10 nominations alongside Gilles Lellouche’s comedy Sink Or Swim (Le Grand Bain), and also won awards for Legrand’s original screenplay, best actress Lea Drucker, and editor Yorgos Lamprinos.
Jacques Audiard was named best director for The Sisters Brothers at the ceremony in the Salle Pleyel, presided over by Kristin Scott Thomas.
- 2/23/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Xavier Legrand’s feature debut “Custody,” a tense portrait of a family torn by domestic violence, won best film, actress (for Lea Drucker), and original screenplay at the 44th Cesar Awards, which took place at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The awards are France’s highest film honors.
“Custody,” which marks Legrand’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated short, tells the story of a boy named Julien (Thomas Gioria), who is forced by a court ruling to split his time between his mother (Drucker) and estranged father (Denis Ménochet), whom he regards as a violent monster, amid his parents’ bitter divorce. “Custody” world-premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won two awards, and went on to play at Toronto in the competitive Platform section.
In her speech, Drucker paid homage to all the brave women who have inspired her and also dedicated the award to women who...
“Custody,” which marks Legrand’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated short, tells the story of a boy named Julien (Thomas Gioria), who is forced by a court ruling to split his time between his mother (Drucker) and estranged father (Denis Ménochet), whom he regards as a violent monster, amid his parents’ bitter divorce. “Custody” world-premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won two awards, and went on to play at Toronto in the competitive Platform section.
In her speech, Drucker paid homage to all the brave women who have inspired her and also dedicated the award to women who...
- 2/22/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Update, Writethru: France’s biggest movie awards night has drawn to a close with Custody (Jusqu’à La Garde) crowned Best Picture. Originally screened in Venice and Toronto in 2017, it’s a story of domestic abuse that stars Denis Ménochet and Léa Drucker, the latter won Best Actress tonight. Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers also scored multiple recognition including Best Director.
While some of tonight’s winners in Paris were expected — during a ceremony that is forever laborious — it was a major shock to see an In Memoriam segment minus two incredibly important figures. Where was Michel Le Grand? And why was Samuel Hadida not remembered in a first segment, but the added later in the telecast? Franchement?
In any case, below is a rundown of
Previous: France’s Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma is handing out its César Awards tonight in Paris. Nominations for the local...
While some of tonight’s winners in Paris were expected — during a ceremony that is forever laborious — it was a major shock to see an In Memoriam segment minus two incredibly important figures. Where was Michel Le Grand? And why was Samuel Hadida not remembered in a first segment, but the added later in the telecast? Franchement?
In any case, below is a rundown of
Previous: France’s Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma is handing out its César Awards tonight in Paris. Nominations for the local...
- 2/22/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Lumières are the Golden Globes of France.
A mixed bag of nominations for the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards was unveiled in Paris on Monday (Dec 17).
Jacques Audiard’s Us-set, English-language The Sisters Brothers, period comedy-drama Mademoiselle de Jonquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning relationship drama Custody came out as the front-runners with four nominations each.
Following with three nominations each were Alex Lutz’s comedy-drama Guy, about a man who discovers he is the illegitimate son of a fading variety star and decides to follow him on tour; comedy The Trouble With You, sexual abuse drama Little Tickles,...
A mixed bag of nominations for the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards was unveiled in Paris on Monday (Dec 17).
Jacques Audiard’s Us-set, English-language The Sisters Brothers, period comedy-drama Mademoiselle de Jonquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning relationship drama Custody came out as the front-runners with four nominations each.
Following with three nominations each were Alex Lutz’s comedy-drama Guy, about a man who discovers he is the illegitimate son of a fading variety star and decides to follow him on tour; comedy The Trouble With You, sexual abuse drama Little Tickles,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare tale All Is True has been selected to open the Palm Springs Film Festival, which Friday unveiled its full lineup of films for the 30th edition that runs January 3-14. The fest also said that Bruce Bereford’s Ladies in Black will be the closing-night film, with the director and cast members expected to be in attendance.
In all, the fest will screen 223 films from 78 countries, and as usual will screen a slew of Oscar Foreign Language Film entries, this year numbering 43 of the 87 official submissions. Also on the docket: a 30-film retrospective of past fest selections, dubbed the Palm Springs Canon; special focuses on cinema from France, India and Mexico, and Jewish and queer cinema; and the new Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award, named for actor and magician Ricky Jay who died last month.
In addition to the film lineup, the opening awards gala...
In all, the fest will screen 223 films from 78 countries, and as usual will screen a slew of Oscar Foreign Language Film entries, this year numbering 43 of the 87 official submissions. Also on the docket: a 30-film retrospective of past fest selections, dubbed the Palm Springs Canon; special focuses on cinema from France, India and Mexico, and Jewish and queer cinema; and the new Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award, named for actor and magician Ricky Jay who died last month.
In addition to the film lineup, the opening awards gala...
- 12/14/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced its 2019 lineup, and it’s prodigious: 223 films from 78 countries, four of them world premieres. Though well known for celebrating future Oscar nominees (and winners) each year, the festival also boasts a deceptively robust world-cinema slate; among the upcoming offerings are Jia Zhangke’s “Ash Is Purest White,” Sergey Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s “Birds of Passage,” and Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s “Asako I & II,” to name just a few.
A number of post-screening Q&As will also be held, including with “Black Klansman” author Ron Stallworth and “Support the Girls” star Regina Hall, in addition to a new section celebrating the best films to screen at Psiff throughout its first three decades.
World premieres:
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Last Color...
A number of post-screening Q&As will also be held, including with “Black Klansman” author Ron Stallworth and “Support the Girls” star Regina Hall, in addition to a new section celebrating the best films to screen at Psiff throughout its first three decades.
World premieres:
Buck Run (USA), Director Nick Frangione
Carlos Almaraz Playing With Fire (USA), Directors Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya (Schlesinger Documentary Competition)
The Last Color...
- 12/14/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Gustav Möller’s The Guilty wins critics’ choice award.
Lukas Dhont’s Girl won the Golden Eye for best international feature film at this year’s Zurich Film Festival (26 Sept - 7 Oct).
The film, about a 15-year-old transgender girl studying at a prestigious Belgian dance academy, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d’Or award for best first feature, as well as the Queer Palm. It is the Belgian submission for the 2019 Oscars.
Heartbound by Janus Metz and Sine Plambech won the international documentary film prize. Both international awards...
Lukas Dhont’s Girl won the Golden Eye for best international feature film at this year’s Zurich Film Festival (26 Sept - 7 Oct).
The film, about a 15-year-old transgender girl studying at a prestigious Belgian dance academy, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d’Or award for best first feature, as well as the Queer Palm. It is the Belgian submission for the 2019 Oscars.
Heartbound by Janus Metz and Sine Plambech won the international documentary film prize. Both international awards...
- 10/8/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Ali Abbasi’s Swedish troll love story “Border,” a highlight of this year’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes, has been sold in all major territories by Films Boutique.
“Border” follows a border guard (Eva Melander) who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to confront disturbing insights about herself and humankind. The movie was penned by Abassi, Isabella Eklöf, John Ajvide Lindqvist, a Swedish novelist who is best known for his book “Let the Right One In” which was adapted into a hit movie.
“Border” was acquired by solid distributors across the world, including in France/Switzerland (Metropolitan), Scandinavia (Triart), Japan (Kino Films), China (Lemontree), Russia (Cis Volga), Taiwan (Filmware), Benelux (Filmfreak), Latam (Impacto Cine), Germany/Austria (Wild Bunch Germany), Spain (Karma) and Portgual (Alambique). All remaining territories are currently in negotiations.
“Border” follows a border guard (Eva Melander) who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to confront disturbing insights about herself and humankind. The movie was penned by Abassi, Isabella Eklöf, John Ajvide Lindqvist, a Swedish novelist who is best known for his book “Let the Right One In” which was adapted into a hit movie.
“Border” was acquired by solid distributors across the world, including in France/Switzerland (Metropolitan), Scandinavia (Triart), Japan (Kino Films), China (Lemontree), Russia (Cis Volga), Taiwan (Filmware), Benelux (Filmfreak), Latam (Impacto Cine), Germany/Austria (Wild Bunch Germany), Spain (Karma) and Portgual (Alambique). All remaining territories are currently in negotiations.
- 5/16/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A well-crafted first film whose turnoff is its overly familiar storyline, Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Sheherazade is a love story set in the lower depths of Marseille, where the wrong-side-of-the-tracks teen scene seems to be divided along gender lines: The boys deal drugs and the girls walk the streets, with or without pimps to protect them. The gritty environment and the non-pro cast are convincingly directed by Marlin, a native of Marseille, particularly in the pic's stronger second half. The Films Boutique release should do some business in France; beyond that, it will be a calling card for the talented young director,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Shéhérazade,” which premiered recently as part of Critics’ Week at Cannes, is far from your typical love story. The feature film debut from director Jean-Bernard Marlin tells the story of a 17-year-old boy, who is just released from prison and becomes the de-facto pimp to equally young prostitute Shéhérazade, aka Shera. Through the course of the film, the two become very close and as seen in the exclusive clip for the film, they’re bond grows through more unconventional means.
- 5/14/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
A well-crafted first film whose turnoff is its overly familiar storyline, Jean-Bernard Marlin’s <em>Sheherazade </em>is a love story set in the lower depths of Marseille, where the wrong-side-of-the-tracks teen scene seems to be divided along gender lines: The boys deal drugs and the girls walk the streets, with or without pimps to protect them. The gritty environment and the non-pro cast are convincingly directed by Marlin, a native of Marseille, particularly in the pic's stronger second half. The Films Boutique release should do some business in France; beyond that, it will be a calling card for the talented ...
- 5/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Directors’ Fortnight opened this year with a tribute to Martin Scorsese, whose breakout movie Mean Streets graced the sidebar way back in 1973. Down the road at Critics’ Week, however, some equally mean, and more modern, streets were found a little closer to home in the first film by former acting teacher and acclaimed shorts director Jean-Bernard Marlin. Set in Marseilles, Shéhérezade tells the story of 17-year-old Zachary (Dylan Robert), who leaves an institute for young offenders and find himself lured into a world of petty crime, where he begins pimping for prostitute Shéhérezade, Aka Shera (Kenza Fortas).
Speaking at the Deadline studio in Cannes, Marlin recalled the inspiration for the story. “I grew up in Marseilles,” he said, “and I heard a story that took place in a certain neighborhood of the city about a young boy who was working as a pimp and a girl who was working as a prostitute.
Speaking at the Deadline studio in Cannes, Marlin recalled the inspiration for the story. “I grew up in Marseilles,” he said, “and I heard a story that took place in a certain neighborhood of the city about a young boy who was working as a pimp and a girl who was working as a prostitute.
- 5/13/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
It is the second feature from Iranian-born Danish director Ali Abbasi.
Films Boutique has sealed an eye-catching sale on its new title Border to powerhouse French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport. Ali Abbasi’s Sweden-Denmark co-production will premiere on Thursday (May 10) in Un Certain Regard.
It is the second feature from Iranian-born Danish director Abbasi. He co-scripted the film with Isabella Eklöf, in collaboration with novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let The Right One In). The film is based on a story by Lindqvist.
It tells of a border guard (Eva Melander) with an uncanny instinct for spotting smugglers. When she comes across...
Films Boutique has sealed an eye-catching sale on its new title Border to powerhouse French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport. Ali Abbasi’s Sweden-Denmark co-production will premiere on Thursday (May 10) in Un Certain Regard.
It is the second feature from Iranian-born Danish director Abbasi. He co-scripted the film with Isabella Eklöf, in collaboration with novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let The Right One In). The film is based on a story by Lindqvist.
It tells of a border guard (Eva Melander) with an uncanny instinct for spotting smugglers. When she comes across...
- 5/8/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The lineup for the 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) has been announced.Opening FILMWildlife (Paul Dano)COMPETITIONChris the Swiss (Anja Kofmel)Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)One Day (Zsófia Szilágyi)Fugue (Agnieszka Smoczyńska)Woman at War (Benedikt Erlingsson)Sauvage (Camille Vidal-Naquet)Sir (Rohena Gera)Special Feature SCREENINGSOur Struggles (Guillaume Senez)Shéhérazade (Jean-Bernard Marlin)Special Short SCREENINGSLa Chute (Boris Labbé)Third Kind (Yorgos Zois)Apocalypse After (Bertrand Mandico)Short & Medium LENGTHAmor, Avenidas Novas (Duarte Coimbra)Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (Jacqueline Lentzou)Pauline, Enslaved (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet)La Persistente (Camille Lugan)Raptor (Felipe Gálvez)Schächer (Flurin Giger)The Tiger (Mikko Myllylahti)A Wedding Day (Elias Belkeddar)Normal (Michael Borodin)Closing FILMGuy (Alex Lutz)...
- 4/16/2018
- MUBI
The Cannes Film Festival’s official selection might be lacking in new works from female directors, but elsewhere in this year’s lineup, women are staking a claim for supremacy. In the International Critics’ Week sidebar, they’re actually leading the way. In the first time in a decade, this year’s competition slate includes a majority of films made by female directors.
The seven titles that will play in Critics’ Week include four directed by women: Agnieszka Smoczynska’s (best known for her wild debut “The Lure”) “Fugue,” Anja Kofmel’s “Chris the Swiss,” Rohena Gera’s “Sir,” and Sofia Szilagyi’s “One Day.” Also competing in the section: Benedikt Erlingsson’s “Kona Fer I Strid” (“Woman at War”), Camille Vidal-Naquet’s “Sauvage,” and Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s “Diamantino.”
The last time female directors offered up the majority of films in the sidebar’s competition, it was...
The seven titles that will play in Critics’ Week include four directed by women: Agnieszka Smoczynska’s (best known for her wild debut “The Lure”) “Fugue,” Anja Kofmel’s “Chris the Swiss,” Rohena Gera’s “Sir,” and Sofia Szilagyi’s “One Day.” Also competing in the section: Benedikt Erlingsson’s “Kona Fer I Strid” (“Woman at War”), Camille Vidal-Naquet’s “Sauvage,” and Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s “Diamantino.”
The last time female directors offered up the majority of films in the sidebar’s competition, it was...
- 4/16/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week is gearing up for its 57th year in 2018. The sidebar is dedicated solely to directors’ first and second films, and this year’s edition will kick off with Paul Dano’s directorial debut “Wildlife,” starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. The drama premiered at Sundance to universal acclaim earlier this year (read IndieWire’s A- review). IFC Films acquired North American distribution rights soon after.
“Wildlife” is based on a novel by Richard Ford and features a screenplay written by Dano and Zoe Kazan. The story is set in the 1960s in the small town of Great Falls, Montana. Newcomer Ed Oxenbould plays a 14-year-old boy who watches his parents’ marriage fall apart. Mulligan’s turn as the family’s matriarch earned Oscar buzz out of Sundance.
“‘Wildlife’ has a timeless dimension, as well as a social bent because it deals with the...
“Wildlife” is based on a novel by Richard Ford and features a screenplay written by Dano and Zoe Kazan. The story is set in the 1960s in the small town of Great Falls, Montana. Newcomer Ed Oxenbould plays a 14-year-old boy who watches his parents’ marriage fall apart. Mulligan’s turn as the family’s matriarch earned Oscar buzz out of Sundance.
“‘Wildlife’ has a timeless dimension, as well as a social bent because it deals with the...
- 4/16/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
On the heels of the Cannes 2018 lineup (which still has a few titles to add), it’s now time for the sidebars of the festival and first up is the annual Critics’ Week, which is focused on emerging filmmakers. Opening the festival is one of our favorite films of Sundance, Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Amongst the lineup is also the psychological thriller Fugue, which is directed by The Lure helmer Agnieszka Smoczynska. Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson is also back with the drama Woman At War, while most of the other directors come from first-time directors. Featuring a jury headed by Joachim Trier, and also including Chloe Sevigny, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Eva Sangiorgi and Augustin Trapenard, see the line up below.
Features – Special Screenings
Wildlife, dir: Paul Dano (opening film)
Our Struggles, dir: Guillaume Senez
Shéhérazade, dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin
Guy,...
Amongst the lineup is also the psychological thriller Fugue, which is directed by The Lure helmer Agnieszka Smoczynska. Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson is also back with the drama Woman At War, while most of the other directors come from first-time directors. Featuring a jury headed by Joachim Trier, and also including Chloe Sevigny, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Eva Sangiorgi and Augustin Trapenard, see the line up below.
Features – Special Screenings
Wildlife, dir: Paul Dano (opening film)
Our Struggles, dir: Guillaume Senez
Shéhérazade, dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin
Guy,...
- 4/16/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Critics’ Week sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival has announced its lineup with Paul Dano’s feature directorial debut Wildlife as the opening night film. Billed as a Special Screening, the Sundance premiere will run out of competition and stars Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Alex Lutz’s Guy has been set to close the section, also out of competition.
Among the seven films competing are five from first-time directors. The two sophomore efforts are psychological thriller Fugue from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure) and Woman At War from Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson about a woman who fights a war on her own to protect an endangered planet. For the full list, as well as the 10 shorts in selection, see below
Further Special Screenings include Our Struggles from Guillaume Senez and starring Romain Duris, and Shéhérazade, a Marseille-set debut form Jean-Bernard Marlin.
Dano’s Wildlife is inspired by...
Among the seven films competing are five from first-time directors. The two sophomore efforts are psychological thriller Fugue from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure) and Woman At War from Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson about a woman who fights a war on her own to protect an endangered planet. For the full list, as well as the 10 shorts in selection, see below
Further Special Screenings include Our Struggles from Guillaume Senez and starring Romain Duris, and Shéhérazade, a Marseille-set debut form Jean-Bernard Marlin.
Dano’s Wildlife is inspired by...
- 4/16/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
“Wildlife,” Paul Dano’s adaptation of a Richard Ford novel starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, has been chosen to screen in the International Critics’ Week sidebar at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
Critics’ Week is run independently of the main festival but takes place concurrently. The selection is devoted to first and second films from new directors — and its directorial debuts, including “Wildlife,” are eligible for Cannes’ Camera d’Or for the festival’s best first film.
“Wildlife” debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won positive reviews and was acquired by IFC Films. The only American film screening in Critics’ Week, it will be presented as a special opening-night screening in the sidebar.
Also Read: 'Wildlife' Review: Paul Dano's Directorial Debut Is an Austere Portrait of a Family in Crisis
Guillaume Senez’s “Our Struggles” will also be presented as a special screening, while Alex Katz’s “Guy” will close the section. The seven competition titles in Critics’ Week will include Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “Fugue,” Benedikt Erlingsson’s “Woman at War,” Anja Kofmel’s “Chris the Swiss,” Rohena Gera’s “Sir” and Sofia Szilagyi’s “One Day.”
International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique) is organized by the French Union of Film Critics, which is made up of 244 critics, writers and journalists. The oldest parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival, it began in 1962.
The winners will be chosen by a jury headed by Danish director Joachim Trier and also including American actress Chloe Sevigny, Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, festival programmer Eva Sangiori and French journalist Augustin Trapenard.
Critics’ Week also announced 10 short films in competition and another three in special screenings.
Also Read: Cannes Lineup Reaches From Spike Lee to Jean-Luc Godard
Filmmakers who first screened in Cannes as part of Critics’ Week include Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Audiard and Alejandro G. Inarritu.
The other main sidebar that runs concurrently with the festival, Directors’ Fortnight, will announce its lineup on Tuesday.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will run from May 8 through May 19.
The Critics’ Week lineup:
Special screenings:
“Wildlife,” Paul Dano
“Nos Batailles” (“Our Struggles”), Guillaume Senez
“Sheherazade,” Jean-Bernard Marlin
Feature film competition:
“Fuga” (“Fugue”), Agnieszka Smoczynska
“Kona Fer I Strid” (Woman at War”), Benedikt Erlingsson
“Sauvage,” Camille Vidal-Naquet
“Diamantino,” Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt
“Chris the Swiss,” Anja Kofmel
“Sir,” Rohena Gera
“Egy Nap” (“One Day”), Sofia Szilagyi
Closing night:
“Guy,” Alex Lutz
Short films competition:
“Amor, Avenidas Novas,” Duarte Coimbra
“Ektoras Malo: I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias” (“Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year”), Jacqueline Lentzou
“Pauline asservie” (“Pauline, Enslaved”), Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
“La Persistente,” Camille Lugan
“Rapaz” (“Raptor”), Felipe Galvez
“Schacher,” Flurin Giger
“Tiikeri” (“The Tiger”), Mikko Myllylahti
“Un Jour de Marriage” (“A Wedding Day”), Elias Belkeddar
“Ya Normalniy” (“Normal”), Michael Borodin
“Mo-Bum-Shi-Min” (“Exemplary Citizen”), Kim Cheol-Hwi
Short films special screenings:
“Third Kind,” Yorgos Zois
“La Chute” (“The Fall”), Boris Labbe
“Ultra Pulpe,” Bertrand Mandico
Read original story Paul Dano’s ‘Wildlife’ to Open Cannes Critics’ Week Sidebar At TheWrap...
Critics’ Week is run independently of the main festival but takes place concurrently. The selection is devoted to first and second films from new directors — and its directorial debuts, including “Wildlife,” are eligible for Cannes’ Camera d’Or for the festival’s best first film.
“Wildlife” debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it won positive reviews and was acquired by IFC Films. The only American film screening in Critics’ Week, it will be presented as a special opening-night screening in the sidebar.
Also Read: 'Wildlife' Review: Paul Dano's Directorial Debut Is an Austere Portrait of a Family in Crisis
Guillaume Senez’s “Our Struggles” will also be presented as a special screening, while Alex Katz’s “Guy” will close the section. The seven competition titles in Critics’ Week will include Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “Fugue,” Benedikt Erlingsson’s “Woman at War,” Anja Kofmel’s “Chris the Swiss,” Rohena Gera’s “Sir” and Sofia Szilagyi’s “One Day.”
International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique) is organized by the French Union of Film Critics, which is made up of 244 critics, writers and journalists. The oldest parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival, it began in 1962.
The winners will be chosen by a jury headed by Danish director Joachim Trier and also including American actress Chloe Sevigny, Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, festival programmer Eva Sangiori and French journalist Augustin Trapenard.
Critics’ Week also announced 10 short films in competition and another three in special screenings.
Also Read: Cannes Lineup Reaches From Spike Lee to Jean-Luc Godard
Filmmakers who first screened in Cannes as part of Critics’ Week include Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Audiard and Alejandro G. Inarritu.
The other main sidebar that runs concurrently with the festival, Directors’ Fortnight, will announce its lineup on Tuesday.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will run from May 8 through May 19.
The Critics’ Week lineup:
Special screenings:
“Wildlife,” Paul Dano
“Nos Batailles” (“Our Struggles”), Guillaume Senez
“Sheherazade,” Jean-Bernard Marlin
Feature film competition:
“Fuga” (“Fugue”), Agnieszka Smoczynska
“Kona Fer I Strid” (Woman at War”), Benedikt Erlingsson
“Sauvage,” Camille Vidal-Naquet
“Diamantino,” Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt
“Chris the Swiss,” Anja Kofmel
“Sir,” Rohena Gera
“Egy Nap” (“One Day”), Sofia Szilagyi
Closing night:
“Guy,” Alex Lutz
Short films competition:
“Amor, Avenidas Novas,” Duarte Coimbra
“Ektoras Malo: I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias” (“Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year”), Jacqueline Lentzou
“Pauline asservie” (“Pauline, Enslaved”), Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
“La Persistente,” Camille Lugan
“Rapaz” (“Raptor”), Felipe Galvez
“Schacher,” Flurin Giger
“Tiikeri” (“The Tiger”), Mikko Myllylahti
“Un Jour de Marriage” (“A Wedding Day”), Elias Belkeddar
“Ya Normalniy” (“Normal”), Michael Borodin
“Mo-Bum-Shi-Min” (“Exemplary Citizen”), Kim Cheol-Hwi
Short films special screenings:
“Third Kind,” Yorgos Zois
“La Chute” (“The Fall”), Boris Labbe
“Ultra Pulpe,” Bertrand Mandico
Read original story Paul Dano’s ‘Wildlife’ to Open Cannes Critics’ Week Sidebar At TheWrap...
- 4/16/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Wildlife, directed by Paul Dano and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan will open the selection.
Cannes Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features as well as shorts, has unveiled the line-up of its 57th edition, running May 9-17.
Wildlife, the directing debut of Paul Dano and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, will open the selection. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is based on the novel by Richard Ford.
The closing film is Guy, Alex Lutz’s second feature, a “caustic and endearing” comedy about a once famous entertainer.
All seven competition films are by European filmmakers.
Cannes Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features as well as shorts, has unveiled the line-up of its 57th edition, running May 9-17.
Wildlife, the directing debut of Paul Dano and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, will open the selection. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is based on the novel by Richard Ford.
The closing film is Guy, Alex Lutz’s second feature, a “caustic and endearing” comedy about a once famous entertainer.
All seven competition films are by European filmmakers.
- 4/16/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, the parallel section dedicated to directors’ first and second films, will open with Paul Dano’s drama “Wildlife” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan.
“Wildlife,” which world premiered at Sundance and was warmly received, was written by Dano and Zoe Kazan and is based on a novel by Richard Ford. Set in the 1960s, in the small town of Great Falls in Montana, “Wildlife” is told through the perspective of a 14-year-old boy who sees his mother taking her life in her own hands after his father takes a risky job in the nearby mountains and leaves them to fend for themselves.
Charles Tesson, the sidebar’s artistic director, described “Wildlife” as a “director-driven film in the vein of Jeff Nichols’ films.”
“‘Wildlife’ has a timeless dimension, as well as a social bent because it deals with the struggles of the white working...
“Wildlife,” which world premiered at Sundance and was warmly received, was written by Dano and Zoe Kazan and is based on a novel by Richard Ford. Set in the 1960s, in the small town of Great Falls in Montana, “Wildlife” is told through the perspective of a 14-year-old boy who sees his mother taking her life in her own hands after his father takes a risky job in the nearby mountains and leaves them to fend for themselves.
Charles Tesson, the sidebar’s artistic director, described “Wildlife” as a “director-driven film in the vein of Jeff Nichols’ films.”
“‘Wildlife’ has a timeless dimension, as well as a social bent because it deals with the struggles of the white working...
- 4/16/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Other titles on Alma’s Efm slate include A Bluebird In My Heart and To The Ends Of The World.
Paris-based Alma Cinema has boarded sales on Israeli director Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s coming-of-age tale Para Aduma (aka Red Cow), revolving around the explosive sexual awakening between two girls from Israel’s orthodox settler community, ahead of its premiere in Generation at the Berlinale.
Big screen debutant Avigail Kovari plays Benny, a 16-year-old red head growing-up in an orthodox settlement in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem who is given the task of caring for a new-born, pure red heifer.
The animal’s birth is seen as a sign by her orthodox father and the rest of the community that the time has come to build a Third Temple for the Jewish people in Jerusalem, replacing the Second Temple destroyed two thousand years ago.
This coincides with Benny’s growing antagonism towards her father’s religious, utopian nationalism...
Paris-based Alma Cinema has boarded sales on Israeli director Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s coming-of-age tale Para Aduma (aka Red Cow), revolving around the explosive sexual awakening between two girls from Israel’s orthodox settler community, ahead of its premiere in Generation at the Berlinale.
Big screen debutant Avigail Kovari plays Benny, a 16-year-old red head growing-up in an orthodox settlement in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem who is given the task of caring for a new-born, pure red heifer.
The animal’s birth is seen as a sign by her orthodox father and the rest of the community that the time has come to build a Third Temple for the Jewish people in Jerusalem, replacing the Second Temple destroyed two thousand years ago.
This coincides with Benny’s growing antagonism towards her father’s religious, utopian nationalism...
- 2/9/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Other titles on Alma’s Efm slate include A Bluebird In My Heart and To The Ends Of The World.
Paris-based Alma Cinema has boarded sales on Israeli director Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s coming-of-age tale Para Aduma (aka Red Cow), revolving around the explosive sexual awakening between two girls from Israel’s orthodox settler community, ahead of its premiere in Generation at the Berlinale.
Big screen debutant Avigail Kovari plays Benny, a 16-year-old red head growing-up in an orthodox settlement in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem who is given the task of caring for a new-born, pure red heifer.
The animal’s birth is seen as a sign by her orthodox father and the rest of the community that the time has come to build a Third Temple for the Jewish people in Jerusalem, replacing the Second Temple destroyed two thousand years ago.
This coincides with Benny’s growing antagonism towards her father’s religious, utopian nationalism...
Paris-based Alma Cinema has boarded sales on Israeli director Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s coming-of-age tale Para Aduma (aka Red Cow), revolving around the explosive sexual awakening between two girls from Israel’s orthodox settler community, ahead of its premiere in Generation at the Berlinale.
Big screen debutant Avigail Kovari plays Benny, a 16-year-old red head growing-up in an orthodox settlement in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem who is given the task of caring for a new-born, pure red heifer.
The animal’s birth is seen as a sign by her orthodox father and the rest of the community that the time has come to build a Third Temple for the Jewish people in Jerusalem, replacing the Second Temple destroyed two thousand years ago.
This coincides with Benny’s growing antagonism towards her father’s religious, utopian nationalism...
- 2/9/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Mubi is proud to co-present with Berlinale Shorts a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Golden Bear. We are showing an esteemed selection of short films that have won the top prize of the short film competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Among these diverse award winning titles are:
As Long as Shotguns Remain (Jonathan Vinel & Caroline Poggi)
The Runaway (Jean-Bernard Marlin)
The Intervention (Jay Duplass) - Playing soon
(A)torzija (Stefan Arsenijevic)...
Among these diverse award winning titles are:
As Long as Shotguns Remain (Jonathan Vinel & Caroline Poggi)
The Runaway (Jean-Bernard Marlin)
The Intervention (Jay Duplass) - Playing soon
(A)torzija (Stefan Arsenijevic)...
- 2/11/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Golden Bear for short films, the VoD service is making the festival’s award-winning shorts available to a global audience.
Mubi has collaborated with Berlinale to bring the festival’s award-winning short films to a global audience for the first time.
Available during the festival on the curated VoD service, the exclusive co-presentation includes last year’s Golden Bear winner As Long As Shotguns Remain by Jonathan Vinel & Caroline Poggi, the Duplass Brothers’ 2005 Silver Bear winner The Intervention, Jean-Bernard Marlin’s 2013 Golden Bear winner The Runaway and 2003 Golden Bear winner (A) Torsion from Stefan Arsenijević.
Mubi founder and CEO Efe Cakarel commented: “We are incredibly excited to be joining Berlinale to celebrate 60 years of visionary work, something virtually unheard of for short films, and we believe collaborations such as this are the perfect way for the world’s most high profile festivals to reach film lovers all over the world...
Mubi has collaborated with Berlinale to bring the festival’s award-winning short films to a global audience for the first time.
Available during the festival on the curated VoD service, the exclusive co-presentation includes last year’s Golden Bear winner As Long As Shotguns Remain by Jonathan Vinel & Caroline Poggi, the Duplass Brothers’ 2005 Silver Bear winner The Intervention, Jean-Bernard Marlin’s 2013 Golden Bear winner The Runaway and 2003 Golden Bear winner (A) Torsion from Stefan Arsenijević.
Mubi founder and CEO Efe Cakarel commented: “We are incredibly excited to be joining Berlinale to celebrate 60 years of visionary work, something virtually unheard of for short films, and we believe collaborations such as this are the perfect way for the world’s most high profile festivals to reach film lovers all over the world...
- 2/5/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Man From Reno, a Kickstarter-backed movie about a Japanese crime novelist investigating a murder mystery in San Francisco, won the Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival. “Its exploration of barriers of age, language and success set against a noir plot line infuses a pop energy into the well observed portrayal of its unique characters,” the jury stated, awarding director Dave Boyle the $5,000 prize. The film stars Ayako Fujitani as the novelist as well as Pepe Serna (Scarface) and Kazuki Kitamura (The Raid 2).
Stray Dog, Debra Granik’s first film since Winter’s Bone, won the festival prize for Best Documentary Feature.
Stray Dog, Debra Granik’s first film since Winter’s Bone, won the festival prize for Best Documentary Feature.
- 6/20/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Top brass at the Los Angeles Film Festival unveiled the winners of jury and audience awards as the festival came to a close.
Dave Boyle earned the Narrative Award for Man From Reno, Debra Granik’s Stray Dog took documentary honours and the inaugural La Muse Award was presented to Damian John Harper for Los Ángeles.
Each award carried an unrestricted $5,000 cash prize for the winning director.
Winners of the short film awards each received a $1,500 cash prize.
Best Narrative Short Film went to The Runaway by Jean-Bernard Marlin, while Best Documentary Short Film went to The Queen by Manuel Abramovich. The Award for Best Animated or Experimental Short Film went to Hu Wei’s Butter Lamp.
In the audience awards, best narrative feature went to Kerem Sanga’s The Young Kieslowski and Geeta V Patel and Ravi V Patel’s Meet The Patels prevailed in the documentary strand.
Someone You Love by Pernille Fischer Christensen won the...
Dave Boyle earned the Narrative Award for Man From Reno, Debra Granik’s Stray Dog took documentary honours and the inaugural La Muse Award was presented to Damian John Harper for Los Ángeles.
Each award carried an unrestricted $5,000 cash prize for the winning director.
Winners of the short film awards each received a $1,500 cash prize.
Best Narrative Short Film went to The Runaway by Jean-Bernard Marlin, while Best Documentary Short Film went to The Queen by Manuel Abramovich. The Award for Best Animated or Experimental Short Film went to Hu Wei’s Butter Lamp.
In the audience awards, best narrative feature went to Kerem Sanga’s The Young Kieslowski and Geeta V Patel and Ravi V Patel’s Meet The Patels prevailed in the documentary strand.
Someone You Love by Pernille Fischer Christensen won the...
- 6/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Christophe Offenstein’s Turning Tide took the Colcoa Audience Award as the week-long French cinema showcase in Los Angeles came to a conclusion (28).
Cédric Klapisch’s Chinese Puzzle earned the Audience Special Prize as well as the Colcoa Coming Soon Award given in association with Kpcc 89.3 to a film with Us distribution. Cohen Media Group will release on May 16.
Hélier Cisterne’s Vandal won the Colcoa Lafca Critics Award presented the Los Angeles Film Critics Association jury.
The Critics Special Prize went to One Of A Kind, written and directed by François Dupeyron.
The Colcoa First Feature Award went to Guillaume Gallienne’s César winner Me, Myself And Mom, while there was an audience special mention for Diane Kurys’ For A Woman and a critics’ special mention for Merzak Allouache’s The Rooftops.
The Colcoa Documentary Prize went to Flore by Jean-Albert Lièvre.
The Run Away, written and directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin, won the Colcoa...
Cédric Klapisch’s Chinese Puzzle earned the Audience Special Prize as well as the Colcoa Coming Soon Award given in association with Kpcc 89.3 to a film with Us distribution. Cohen Media Group will release on May 16.
Hélier Cisterne’s Vandal won the Colcoa Lafca Critics Award presented the Los Angeles Film Critics Association jury.
The Critics Special Prize went to One Of A Kind, written and directed by François Dupeyron.
The Colcoa First Feature Award went to Guillaume Gallienne’s César winner Me, Myself And Mom, while there was an audience special mention for Diane Kurys’ For A Woman and a critics’ special mention for Merzak Allouache’s The Rooftops.
The Colcoa Documentary Prize went to Flore by Jean-Albert Lièvre.
The Run Away, written and directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin, won the Colcoa...
- 4/28/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Prizes to Bulgaria, China and Canada as Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival draws to a close.Scroll down for full list of winners
This year’s Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival has wrapped with an outlook that juxtaposes the gloomy with the optimistic.
During the closing night ceremony of the world’s biggest shorts festival, Jean-Claude Saurel - the president of organiser Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage - took the opportunity to lament the continuing cuts in budgets for French culture and cultural organisations and urged people to help protest against the current policies of the French administration.
However, with audiences for the festival at approximately 160,000 (up more than 5,000 from the previous year), there was still a sense of cautious celebration for the state of short film in France and beyond.
The festival’s International Grand Prix went to Bulgarian/German co-production Pride, Pavel Vesnakov’s powerfully acted story about a retired grandfather who finds...
This year’s Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival has wrapped with an outlook that juxtaposes the gloomy with the optimistic.
During the closing night ceremony of the world’s biggest shorts festival, Jean-Claude Saurel - the president of organiser Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage - took the opportunity to lament the continuing cuts in budgets for French culture and cultural organisations and urged people to help protest against the current policies of the French administration.
However, with audiences for the festival at approximately 160,000 (up more than 5,000 from the previous year), there was still a sense of cautious celebration for the state of short film in France and beyond.
The festival’s International Grand Prix went to Bulgarian/German co-production Pride, Pavel Vesnakov’s powerfully acted story about a retired grandfather who finds...
- 2/12/2014
- ScreenDaily
Following the great success of myFrenchFilmFestival.com last year (750,000 film viewings registered in 189 countries, with a 25% increase in paid viewings) the leading worldwide French film festival on the Internet now in its 4th edition returns this coming January 17th.
For one month, Us Internet users will have access to 10 features and 10 shorts in French with English subtitles. A selection of first and second feature films, theatrically released in France during the year, offers worldwide showcasing of a new generation of filmmakers, highlighting the diversity of young French production.
New features of the 2014 edition
- The festival will be accessible in the Us on the website myFrenchFilmFestival.com, iTunes (through Under the Milky Way) and TV5 Monde’s Cinema on Demand during one month (Jan 17-Feb 17 2014).
For more information:
www.tv5.org/cms/USA/Cinema-on-demand/p-22481-lg3-TV5MONDE-Cinema-On-Demand-in-November.htm
www.itunes.com
- La Fille Du 14 Juillet (The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu) will be the closing film of the Museum of Moving Image’s First Look festival on January 19th, with director Antonin Peretjatko in attendance.
- A selection of 9 features will be screened in theatres throughout the Us starting January 2nd, thanks to our partnership with SpectiCast. View full schedule here: http://www.specticast.com/myfff.jsp
- The films will also be proposed to 400 airline companies via our partner Skeye for in-flight viewings.
4 prizes will be awarded at the end of the festival:
The Filmmakers Award , presided by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and composed of foreign directors
Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom), Marco Bellocchio (Italy), Anurag Kashyap (India) and Frédéric Fonteyne (Belgium).
The International Press Award , with a jury of 11 foreign journalists
The Audience Award , for which Internet users are invited to vote on-line
The Social Networks Award , chosen by 100 film buffs, influential on Facebook and Twitter
The winning films will then be shown on Air France flights during 6 months.
The full pass to watch the 10 features and 10 shorts online will be available for $22, features-only pass for $16.5, shorts-only pass for $8.2, single feature for $2.7 and single short $1.4.
The 2014 Myfff Selection
I – Features
- In a Rush, directed by Louis Do Lencquesaing
- Augustine, directed by Alice Winocour
- Little Lion, directed by Samuel Collardey
- Maddened by His Absence, directed by Sandrine Bonnaire
- The Virgin, the Copts and Me, directed by Namir Abdel Messeeh
- The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, directed by Antonin Peretjako
- The Day of the Crows, directed by Jean-Christophe Dessaint
- Welcome to Argentina, directed by Edouard Deluc
- Mobile Home, directed by François Pirot
- Pauline détective, directed by Marc Fitoussi
II – Shorts
- Just Before Losing Everything, directed by Xavier Legrand
- The Lobster's Cry, directed by Nicolas Guiot
- Clay, directed by Michaël Guerraz
- The Runaway, directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin
- The Lizards, directed by Vincent Mariette
- Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos, directed by Amélie Harrault
- Solitudes, directed by Liova Jedlicki
- In Seventh Heaven, directed by Guillaume Foirest
- A la française, directed by Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren-Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton
- Le premier pas, directed by Jonathan Comnène...
For one month, Us Internet users will have access to 10 features and 10 shorts in French with English subtitles. A selection of first and second feature films, theatrically released in France during the year, offers worldwide showcasing of a new generation of filmmakers, highlighting the diversity of young French production.
New features of the 2014 edition
- The festival will be accessible in the Us on the website myFrenchFilmFestival.com, iTunes (through Under the Milky Way) and TV5 Monde’s Cinema on Demand during one month (Jan 17-Feb 17 2014).
For more information:
www.tv5.org/cms/USA/Cinema-on-demand/p-22481-lg3-TV5MONDE-Cinema-On-Demand-in-November.htm
www.itunes.com
- La Fille Du 14 Juillet (The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu) will be the closing film of the Museum of Moving Image’s First Look festival on January 19th, with director Antonin Peretjatko in attendance.
- A selection of 9 features will be screened in theatres throughout the Us starting January 2nd, thanks to our partnership with SpectiCast. View full schedule here: http://www.specticast.com/myfff.jsp
- The films will also be proposed to 400 airline companies via our partner Skeye for in-flight viewings.
4 prizes will be awarded at the end of the festival:
The Filmmakers Award , presided by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and composed of foreign directors
Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom), Marco Bellocchio (Italy), Anurag Kashyap (India) and Frédéric Fonteyne (Belgium).
The International Press Award , with a jury of 11 foreign journalists
The Audience Award , for which Internet users are invited to vote on-line
The Social Networks Award , chosen by 100 film buffs, influential on Facebook and Twitter
The winning films will then be shown on Air France flights during 6 months.
The full pass to watch the 10 features and 10 shorts online will be available for $22, features-only pass for $16.5, shorts-only pass for $8.2, single feature for $2.7 and single short $1.4.
The 2014 Myfff Selection
I – Features
- In a Rush, directed by Louis Do Lencquesaing
- Augustine, directed by Alice Winocour
- Little Lion, directed by Samuel Collardey
- Maddened by His Absence, directed by Sandrine Bonnaire
- The Virgin, the Copts and Me, directed by Namir Abdel Messeeh
- The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, directed by Antonin Peretjako
- The Day of the Crows, directed by Jean-Christophe Dessaint
- Welcome to Argentina, directed by Edouard Deluc
- Mobile Home, directed by François Pirot
- Pauline détective, directed by Marc Fitoussi
II – Shorts
- Just Before Losing Everything, directed by Xavier Legrand
- The Lobster's Cry, directed by Nicolas Guiot
- Clay, directed by Michaël Guerraz
- The Runaway, directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin
- The Lizards, directed by Vincent Mariette
- Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos, directed by Amélie Harrault
- Solitudes, directed by Liova Jedlicki
- In Seventh Heaven, directed by Guillaume Foirest
- A la française, directed by Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren-Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton
- Le premier pas, directed by Jonathan Comnène...
- 12/30/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
10 features and 10 shorts will be on offer.
UniFrance is launching the fourth edition of myFrenchFilmFestival.com, which will run Jan 17 to Feb 17.
Last year’s festival saw 750,000 viewings in 189 countries.
New for the 2014 edition are the addition of platforms including iTunes in 80 territories. SpectiCast will make the selections available to more than 1,000 cinemas worldwide, and 400 airlines will offer the films via partner Skeye.
The festival will showcase 10 first and second features and 10 shorts.
The jury for the filmmakers award will be led by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and also include Lynne Ramsay, Marco Bellocchio and Anurag Kashyap. A press award, audience award and social networks award will also be handed out.
The films are:
Features
In a Rush, directed by Louis Do Lencquesaing
Augustine [pictured], directed by Alice Winocour
Little Lion, directed by Samuel Collardey
Maddened by His Absence, directed by Sandrine Bonnaire
The Virgin, the Copts and Me, directed by Namir Abdel Messeeh
The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, directed by Antonin...
UniFrance is launching the fourth edition of myFrenchFilmFestival.com, which will run Jan 17 to Feb 17.
Last year’s festival saw 750,000 viewings in 189 countries.
New for the 2014 edition are the addition of platforms including iTunes in 80 territories. SpectiCast will make the selections available to more than 1,000 cinemas worldwide, and 400 airlines will offer the films via partner Skeye.
The festival will showcase 10 first and second features and 10 shorts.
The jury for the filmmakers award will be led by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and also include Lynne Ramsay, Marco Bellocchio and Anurag Kashyap. A press award, audience award and social networks award will also be handed out.
The films are:
Features
In a Rush, directed by Louis Do Lencquesaing
Augustine [pictured], directed by Alice Winocour
Little Lion, directed by Samuel Collardey
Maddened by His Absence, directed by Sandrine Bonnaire
The Virgin, the Copts and Me, directed by Namir Abdel Messeeh
The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, directed by Antonin...
- 12/4/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The 19th Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival has announced its international line-up, with films starring Ben Whishaw and Alan Rickman.
A total of 225 works from 40 countries selected to be showcased in competition at the festival from September 17-22 in Bristol. This year the festival received a record 2,372 entries.
Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters will feature live action and mixed format short films from all over the world, including new short format work by a number of established British filmmakers who are returning to the festival: Daniel Mulloy (Bashk), Chris Shepherd (The Ringer), Simon Ellis (Stew and Punch) and John Smith (Dad’s Stick).
Prominent national talent is also on display in Orbit Ever After, directed by 2012 Screen Star of Tomorrow Jamie Stone and starring Mackenzie Crook; No Kaddish in Carmarthen by Jesse Armstrong (Four Lions), Aneil Karia’s Beat, starring Ben Whishaw; and Ben Ockrent’s Dust featuring Alan Rickman and Jody Whittaker.
The competition...
A total of 225 works from 40 countries selected to be showcased in competition at the festival from September 17-22 in Bristol. This year the festival received a record 2,372 entries.
Brief Encounters
Brief Encounters will feature live action and mixed format short films from all over the world, including new short format work by a number of established British filmmakers who are returning to the festival: Daniel Mulloy (Bashk), Chris Shepherd (The Ringer), Simon Ellis (Stew and Punch) and John Smith (Dad’s Stick).
Prominent national talent is also on display in Orbit Ever After, directed by 2012 Screen Star of Tomorrow Jamie Stone and starring Mackenzie Crook; No Kaddish in Carmarthen by Jesse Armstrong (Four Lions), Aneil Karia’s Beat, starring Ben Whishaw; and Ben Ockrent’s Dust featuring Alan Rickman and Jody Whittaker.
The competition...
- 7/26/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Berlin 2013: Best Director David Gordon Green This year's Best Director at the Berlinale was David Gordon Green for Prince Avalanche, featuring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two quite disparate road workers who develop an unlikely friendship. Green also wrote the Prince Avalanche screenplay, from an original story by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson. (Pictured above: David Gordon Green.) Best Actress Paulina Garcia Best Actress winner Paulina Garcia (pictured above holding her Silver Bear) is the star of Sebastián Lelio's dramatic comedy Gloria, which follows a middle-aged woman who rediscovers love in the person of a naval officer in his mid-60s. Roadside Attractions will handle the distribution of the well-liked Gloria in the U.S. Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi receives award The Best Screenplay prize went to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi for the narrative drama Closed Curtain. While accepting the award, Partovi told the audience that...
- 2/17/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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