Gabi Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru’s Where Elephants Go will world premiere at the second edition of Smart7, a travelling competition across seven European film festivals.
The titles, one from each festival’s respective country, will screen together at Transilvania International Film Festival; Poland’s New Horizons; Portugal’s IndieLisboa; Greece’s Thessaloniki; Spain’s Filmadrid; Iceland’s Reykjavik; and Lithuania’s Vilnius Iff Kino Pavasaris.
Where Elephants Go is the debut feature from Romanian duo Șarga and Rotaru, whose short film 4:15. The End Of The World screened in competition at Cannes 2016 and won the jury prize. It is...
The titles, one from each festival’s respective country, will screen together at Transilvania International Film Festival; Poland’s New Horizons; Portugal’s IndieLisboa; Greece’s Thessaloniki; Spain’s Filmadrid; Iceland’s Reykjavik; and Lithuania’s Vilnius Iff Kino Pavasaris.
Where Elephants Go is the debut feature from Romanian duo Șarga and Rotaru, whose short film 4:15. The End Of The World screened in competition at Cannes 2016 and won the jury prize. It is...
- 3/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
The BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival has revealed the line-up for its 38th edition which takes place March 13-24.
The programme comprises 57 features across the Hearts, Bodies and Mind strands, four of which are world premieres.
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World premiering is Karen Knox’s sophomore feature We Forgot To Break Up about a trans musician caught in a love triangle with his bandmates. The Canadian actress and filmmaker’s debut Adult Adoption premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in 2022.
Other world premieres are Kat Rohrer’s Austrian romantic comedy What A Feeling about two women who meet...
The programme comprises 57 features across the Hearts, Bodies and Mind strands, four of which are world premieres.
Scroll down for full line-up
World premiering is Karen Knox’s sophomore feature We Forgot To Break Up about a trans musician caught in a love triangle with his bandmates. The Canadian actress and filmmaker’s debut Adult Adoption premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in 2022.
Other world premieres are Kat Rohrer’s Austrian romantic comedy What A Feeling about two women who meet...
- 2/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
Willa, Astrakan Film and Cold Iron Pictures are set to join Argonauts Productions to produce “The Boy With the Light Blue Eyes,” a coming-of-age queer Greek tragedy.
Written by Thanasis Neofotistos and Grigoris Skarakis, and to be directed by Neofotistos as his debut feature, “The Boy With the Light Blue Eyes” follows teenager Peter as he navigates the suffocating confines of his superstitious and traditional Greek village community.
Peter is born with light blue eyes in a village that considers them a threat, but only his mother knows. She decides to cover their color with a mask at all times, claiming a threatening eye condition. In this blissful ignorance, Peter and his best friend Aemon embark on an adventure through which Peter learns the painful truth about his eyes and the lies he has been told.
The project participated in Cannes Focus CoPro, and the script has been developed through the Mediterranean Film Institute,...
Written by Thanasis Neofotistos and Grigoris Skarakis, and to be directed by Neofotistos as his debut feature, “The Boy With the Light Blue Eyes” follows teenager Peter as he navigates the suffocating confines of his superstitious and traditional Greek village community.
Peter is born with light blue eyes in a village that considers them a threat, but only his mother knows. She decides to cover their color with a mask at all times, claiming a threatening eye condition. In this blissful ignorance, Peter and his best friend Aemon embark on an adventure through which Peter learns the painful truth about his eyes and the lies he has been told.
The project participated in Cannes Focus CoPro, and the script has been developed through the Mediterranean Film Institute,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
“The Summer With Carmen,” Zacharias Mavroeidis’ queer comedy, has been acquired in major territories since world premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
The movie, which is represented by Be For Films and had its North American premiere at AFI, recently won three prizes at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. It will be released next year by Cinobo in Greece, Epicentre in France and Xenix Filmdistribution in Switzerland.
Be For Films has now sold it to the U.S. (Dekkoo), Germany/Austria (Salzgeber), U.K./Ireland (Peccadillo Pictures) and Brazil (Imovision). The company’s boss, Pamela Leu, said negotiations are ongoing in some other territories.
“The Summer With Carmen” takes place at a queer beach in Athens, where 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his friend and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a dog named Carmen.
Mavroeidis wrote the script for “The...
The movie, which is represented by Be For Films and had its North American premiere at AFI, recently won three prizes at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. It will be released next year by Cinobo in Greece, Epicentre in France and Xenix Filmdistribution in Switzerland.
Be For Films has now sold it to the U.S. (Dekkoo), Germany/Austria (Salzgeber), U.K./Ireland (Peccadillo Pictures) and Brazil (Imovision). The company’s boss, Pamela Leu, said negotiations are ongoing in some other territories.
“The Summer With Carmen” takes place at a queer beach in Athens, where 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his friend and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a dog named Carmen.
Mavroeidis wrote the script for “The...
- 12/7/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
by Chris James
The rest of the AFI Film Festival had plenty more highs and lows in store. Movies from many different countries and genres were well represented in the remainder of the slate. Of the potential Oscar contenders, I was able to catch Tunisia’s Oscar submission this year - Four Daughters. The documentary film is helmed by Kaouther Ben Hania, who previously earned an Oscar nomination in 2020 for The Man Who Sold His Skin. The other jaunt abroad I took could not have been more different. The queer Greek comedy The Summer With Carmen served a fun comedy set in large part on a nude beach. This provoked a good bit of emotional whiplash as I saw it right after the climate change disaster drama, The End We Start From.
What did we think of this trio of films? Find out after the jump.
The rest of the AFI Film Festival had plenty more highs and lows in store. Movies from many different countries and genres were well represented in the remainder of the slate. Of the potential Oscar contenders, I was able to catch Tunisia’s Oscar submission this year - Four Daughters. The documentary film is helmed by Kaouther Ben Hania, who previously earned an Oscar nomination in 2020 for The Man Who Sold His Skin. The other jaunt abroad I took could not have been more different. The queer Greek comedy The Summer With Carmen served a fun comedy set in large part on a nude beach. This provoked a good bit of emotional whiplash as I saw it right after the climate change disaster drama, The End We Start From.
What did we think of this trio of films? Find out after the jump.
- 10/31/2023
- by Christopher James
- FilmExperience
The Write Stuff: Life Becomes Art in Mavroeidis Sun Dappled Debut
Hindsight is 20/20, especially when it comes to using romantic liaisons as creative fodder in Zacharias Mavroeidis’ debut The Summer with Carmen. Two gay best friends decide to revitalize their creative collaboration on a new film project based on a shared experience two summers prior, one thematically defined by a titular canine. The project proves to be a meta approach for Mavroeidis, who fluidly moves between time periods as their internal narrative unfolds even as they follow a basic screenwriting formula, lending the film an overall template of catharsis born through creativity.…...
Hindsight is 20/20, especially when it comes to using romantic liaisons as creative fodder in Zacharias Mavroeidis’ debut The Summer with Carmen. Two gay best friends decide to revitalize their creative collaboration on a new film project based on a shared experience two summers prior, one thematically defined by a titular canine. The project proves to be a meta approach for Mavroeidis, who fluidly moves between time periods as their internal narrative unfolds even as they follow a basic screenwriting formula, lending the film an overall template of catharsis born through creativity.…...
- 9/7/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Be For Films has boarded “The Summer With Carmen,” Zacharias Mavroeidis’ colorful Greek comedy that’s set to world premiere at the Venice Days at the Lido.
“The Summer With Carmen” takes place at Athens’ queer beach, where 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his friend and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a dog named Carmen. ,
Be For Films will launch sales at the Venice Film Festival. “We are very excited to bring ‘The Summer With Carmen’ to the Lido along with the producers,” said Pamela Leu at Be For Films.
“The film is dressed up with tasty humor and the actor’s performance is terrific. A beautiful queer summer bromance with friends and family relationships, a break up surrounded with deep goodwill,” Leu continued.
Mavroeidis described “The Summer With Carmen” as a “comedy about the futility of knowing thyself.
“The Summer With Carmen” takes place at Athens’ queer beach, where 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his friend and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a dog named Carmen. ,
Be For Films will launch sales at the Venice Film Festival. “We are very excited to bring ‘The Summer With Carmen’ to the Lido along with the producers,” said Pamela Leu at Be For Films.
“The film is dressed up with tasty humor and the actor’s performance is terrific. A beautiful queer summer bromance with friends and family relationships, a break up surrounded with deep goodwill,” Leu continued.
Mavroeidis described “The Summer With Carmen” as a “comedy about the futility of knowing thyself.
- 7/28/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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