Selection includes the final film by murdered Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius.
The 13 feature documentaries in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed.
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They include Mariupolis 2 by murdered Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, which premiered at Cannes and comprises footage the director shot before he was captured and killed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in April.
Also selected is Mr Landsbergis by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, a four-hour account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the Ussr in the early 1990s, which won the...
The 13 feature documentaries in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
They include Mariupolis 2 by murdered Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, which premiered at Cannes and comprises footage the director shot before he was captured and killed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in April.
Also selected is Mr Landsbergis by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, a four-hour account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the Ussr in the early 1990s, which won the...
- 8/30/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
As its title implies, Paweł Łoziński’s The Balcony Movie, which closes this year’s First Look Festival on March 20, is a film shot entirely from a balcony. Which may sound like the worst elevator pitch of all time until one realizes that the balcony belongs to the acclaimed Polish documentarian behind the lens (who also happens to be the son of also esteemed Polish documentarian Marcel Łoziński). Less concept film than “secular confessional,” as the Warsaw-based director puts it, Łoziński spent over two years (beginning pre-pandemic) filming the many men and women of all ages, not to mention their dogs […]
The post “We Joke That This is a Pre-covid Movie Made from a Safe Social Distance”: Paweł Łoziński on his First Look Closing-Night Doc The Balcony Movie first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “We Joke That This is a Pre-covid Movie Made from a Safe Social Distance”: Paweł Łoziński on his First Look Closing-Night Doc The Balcony Movie first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/18/2022
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
As its title implies, Paweł Łoziński’s The Balcony Movie, which closes this year’s First Look Festival on March 20, is a film shot entirely from a balcony. Which may sound like the worst elevator pitch of all time until one realizes that the balcony belongs to the acclaimed Polish documentarian behind the lens (who also happens to be the son of also esteemed Polish documentarian Marcel Łoziński). Less concept film than “secular confessional,” as the Warsaw-based director puts it, Łoziński spent over two years (beginning pre-pandemic) filming the many men and women of all ages, not to mention their dogs […]
The post “We Joke That This is a Pre-covid Movie Made from a Safe Social Distance”: Paweł Łoziński on his First Look Closing-Night Doc The Balcony Movie first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “We Joke That This is a Pre-covid Movie Made from a Safe Social Distance”: Paweł Łoziński on his First Look Closing-Night Doc The Balcony Movie first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/18/2022
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Now in its 11th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival brings together a varied, eclectic lineup of cinema from all corners of the world––including a number of films still seeking distribution, making the series perhaps one of your only chances to see these works on the big screen.
With the five-day festival kicking off Wednesday, March 16, we’ve gathered seven essential films to check out. Beginning this Friday, March 11, MoMI will also present Second Look, which looks back at selections from the past decade of the festival.
Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
One of two new archival documentaries from Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa screening at First Look, Babi Yar. Context revisits the horrific September 1941 massacre of 33,771 Jews that took place outside Kyiv. Casting an unflinching eye in its assembly of footage, the Cannes prizewinner examines factors leading up to the atrocity as Nazis took...
With the five-day festival kicking off Wednesday, March 16, we’ve gathered seven essential films to check out. Beginning this Friday, March 11, MoMI will also present Second Look, which looks back at selections from the past decade of the festival.
Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
One of two new archival documentaries from Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa screening at First Look, Babi Yar. Context revisits the horrific September 1941 massacre of 33,771 Jews that took place outside Kyiv. Casting an unflinching eye in its assembly of footage, the Cannes prizewinner examines factors leading up to the atrocity as Nazis took...
- 3/10/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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