A bitter dispute between factions of the Georgian film industry is coming to a head at the Berlinale. Many leading Georgian filmmakers and industry professionals have joined the independent Georgian Film Institute (Gfi), which was launched in opposition to state body, the Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc), amid accusations of censorship and creative interference.
Both outfits are at EFM and both are insisting on their right to represent Georgian cinema in the festival.
Gfi is pushing two titles in official selection: Forum Special’s Mother And Daughter, Or The Night Is Never Complete from director Lana Gogoberidze, about her mother,...
Both outfits are at EFM and both are insisting on their right to represent Georgian cinema in the festival.
Gfi is pushing two titles in official selection: Forum Special’s Mother And Daughter, Or The Night Is Never Complete from director Lana Gogoberidze, about her mother,...
- 2/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
A Different Man.The Berlinale have begun to announce the first few titles selected for the 74th edition of their festival, set to take place from February 15 through 21, 2024. This page will be updated as further sections are announced.COMPETITIONAnother End (Piero Messina)Architecton (Victor Kossakovsky)Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako)La Cocina (Alonso Ruiz Palacios) Dahomey (Mati Diop)A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)The Empire (Bruno Dumont)Gloria! (Margherita Vicario)Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas)From Hilde, With Love (Andreas Dresen)My Favourite CakeLangue Etrangère (Claire Berger)Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants)Who Do I Belong To (Meryam Joobeur)Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias)Shambhala (Min Bahadur Bham)Sterben (Matthias Glasner)Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants)A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo)Sleep With Your Eyes Open. ENCOUNTERSArcadia (Yorgos Zois)Cidade; Campo (Juliana Rojas)Demba (Mamadou Dia)Direct ActionSleep With Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz)The Fable (Raam Reddy...
- 1/23/2024
- MUBI
Berlinale co-directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek are going out with a bang in their final year, with a lineup unveiled today featuring the latest works by Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont, Mati Diop, Hong Sang-soo, Abderrahmane Sissako, Jane Schoenbrun, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Matias Pineiro, Travis Wilkerson, Kazik Radwanski, Annie Baker, and more.
When the co-directors were asked by Screen Daily about their departure, Chatrian said, “It’s quite simple. Mariette and I had a mandate of five years. It is true that at the beginning I said that I was willing to go on because there was a shared will with the [German] Ministry [of Culture] to go on. But then the people who have the responsibility to see the future of the Berlinale thought this structure of two leaders was not the right one and I don’t consider myself able to run the festival alone. And that was the decision of the Ministry.
When the co-directors were asked by Screen Daily about their departure, Chatrian said, “It’s quite simple. Mariette and I had a mandate of five years. It is true that at the beginning I said that I was willing to go on because there was a shared will with the [German] Ministry [of Culture] to go on. But then the people who have the responsibility to see the future of the Berlinale thought this structure of two leaders was not the right one and I don’t consider myself able to run the festival alone. And that was the decision of the Ministry.
- 1/22/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Directors and producers are putting trust instead in independent organisation The Georgian Film Institute
Leading Georgian filmmakers and industry professionals are banding together to protest about government interference, censorship and intimidation - and will be at the Berlinale in February to state their case.
They have turned their back on state body, The Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc), and are putting their trust instead in independent organisation, The Georgian Film Institute (Gfi), which will have its first major introduction to the global film industry at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The Institute was set up in 2019 in reaction to...
Leading Georgian filmmakers and industry professionals are banding together to protest about government interference, censorship and intimidation - and will be at the Berlinale in February to state their case.
They have turned their back on state body, The Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc), and are putting their trust instead in independent organisation, The Georgian Film Institute (Gfi), which will have its first major introduction to the global film industry at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The Institute was set up in 2019 in reaction to...
- 1/5/2024
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Argentinian director Lola Arias will world premiere her musical documentary Reas about trans people in prison.
The world premiere of Argentinian director Lola Arias’s musical documentary Reas is one of the first eight titles of the 2024 Berlinale Forum unveiled today.
Arias’ second feature explores cis and trans people living in a Buenos Aires prison through musical re-enactment. The filmmaker’s debut Prisoner Of War also premiered in Berlinale Forum where it picked up the Ciace award as well as screening at SXSW, London, Jerusalem and San Sebastian.
Also world premiering in Berlinale’s sidebar is Vinothraj Ps’s The...
The world premiere of Argentinian director Lola Arias’s musical documentary Reas is one of the first eight titles of the 2024 Berlinale Forum unveiled today.
Arias’ second feature explores cis and trans people living in a Buenos Aires prison through musical re-enactment. The filmmaker’s debut Prisoner Of War also premiered in Berlinale Forum where it picked up the Ciace award as well as screening at SXSW, London, Jerusalem and San Sebastian.
Also world premiering in Berlinale’s sidebar is Vinothraj Ps’s The...
- 12/13/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale Forum, the Berlin Film Festival’s avant-garde sidebar, has announced the first 8 films confirmed for its 2024 line-up.
The 8 films come from 8 different countries, reflecting the Forum’s global reach and a broader push towards greater diversity in it’s line-up. New Forum head Barbara Wurm, who took over running the Forum section in October, highlighted how her program selection team was “diverse with respect to age, ethnicity and cinematic focus.”
One focus of the selection is on cinema coming from regions outside the centers of the Western film industry. “We are looking for worldly films beyond self-referentiality – but those that get involved,” says Wurm. “By being open and resolute in dealing with cinematic forms, we want to bridge the gap between the real worlds we live in and a cinema aware of its public impact.”
The announced titles include the Indian drama The Adamant Girl from director Vinothraj Ps,...
The 8 films come from 8 different countries, reflecting the Forum’s global reach and a broader push towards greater diversity in it’s line-up. New Forum head Barbara Wurm, who took over running the Forum section in October, highlighted how her program selection team was “diverse with respect to age, ethnicity and cinematic focus.”
One focus of the selection is on cinema coming from regions outside the centers of the Western film industry. “We are looking for worldly films beyond self-referentiality – but those that get involved,” says Wurm. “By being open and resolute in dealing with cinematic forms, we want to bridge the gap between the real worlds we live in and a cinema aware of its public impact.”
The announced titles include the Indian drama The Adamant Girl from director Vinothraj Ps,...
- 12/13/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A journalist discovers her husband’s infidelity in a poetic, pleasingly surreal drama by Georgian director Lana Gogoberidze
There’s a restless, bustling nervous energy to this Georgian movie from 1978; it’s a romantic comedy of manners from director and co-writer Lana Gogoberidze with a freewheeling kind of New Wave feel, set in a city for which the term Swinging Tbilisi isn’t quite right, but certainly a busy, modern place for busy, modern people.
Georgian actor Sofiko Chiaureli, known for her collaborations with Sergei Parajanov and an icon for her appearance in his The Colour of Pomegranates, plays Sofiko, a high-powered newspaper interviewer, known for her sympathetic “human interest” pieces featuring ordinary women telling her about their lives. Sofiko is always dashing about town in her mackintosh and quizzical glasses (which make her look a bit like Isabelle Huppert) accompanied by dishevelled photographer Irakli (Janri Lolashvili), who may be in love with her.
There’s a restless, bustling nervous energy to this Georgian movie from 1978; it’s a romantic comedy of manners from director and co-writer Lana Gogoberidze with a freewheeling kind of New Wave feel, set in a city for which the term Swinging Tbilisi isn’t quite right, but certainly a busy, modern place for busy, modern people.
Georgian actor Sofiko Chiaureli, known for her collaborations with Sergei Parajanov and an icon for her appearance in his The Colour of Pomegranates, plays Sofiko, a high-powered newspaper interviewer, known for her sympathetic “human interest” pieces featuring ordinary women telling her about their lives. Sofiko is always dashing about town in her mackintosh and quizzical glasses (which make her look a bit like Isabelle Huppert) accompanied by dishevelled photographer Irakli (Janri Lolashvili), who may be in love with her.
- 6/27/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Veteran Georgian director/writer Lana Gogoberidze is editing documentary feature “Returning to Life.” The film is about her mother, Nutsa Gogoberidze, who was the Republic of Georgia’s first female film director, according to Film New Europe.
Born into a rural teacher’s family in Saingilo, she studied philosophy in Germany, before becaming a film director. But her career ended abruptly in the years of the Stalinist terror. She was arrested and deported, and her films were nearly lost. But 80 years later, they are back on screen. For her daughter, the documentary is an act of returning her mother to life.
“I wanted to make this film from the time when, after many searches, we found my mother’s faded films in the Russian archives. The theme of my film represents the story of a woman who was struck by the cataclysms of an entire century,” Gogoberidze told Fne.
“It is,...
Born into a rural teacher’s family in Saingilo, she studied philosophy in Germany, before becaming a film director. But her career ended abruptly in the years of the Stalinist terror. She was arrested and deported, and her films were nearly lost. But 80 years later, they are back on screen. For her daughter, the documentary is an act of returning her mother to life.
“I wanted to make this film from the time when, after many searches, we found my mother’s faded films in the Russian archives. The theme of my film represents the story of a woman who was struck by the cataclysms of an entire century,” Gogoberidze told Fne.
“It is,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Alexander Gabelia
- Variety Film + TV
“Samuel’s Travels,” directed by Latvian/Armenian filmmaker Aik Karapetian, has been acquired by HBO Central Europe. The deal was signed by the Copenhagen-based LevelK, who picked up international sales rights on the film in September, according to Film New Europe.
The acquisition by HBO Central Europe, with a license period set to start in the autumn, will cover Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
“Samuels Travels,” a darkly humorous story of a lone traveller’s journey gone terribly wrong, is Karapetian’s fourth feature film. The leading roles are played by Belgian actor Kevin Janssens and Latvian actress Laura Siliņa, among a largely Latvian cast.
The film was produced by Mistrus Media of Latvia in coproduction with Polar Bear of Belgium, and it was funded by the National Film Center of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia,...
The acquisition by HBO Central Europe, with a license period set to start in the autumn, will cover Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
“Samuels Travels,” a darkly humorous story of a lone traveller’s journey gone terribly wrong, is Karapetian’s fourth feature film. The leading roles are played by Belgian actor Kevin Janssens and Latvian actress Laura Siliņa, among a largely Latvian cast.
The film was produced by Mistrus Media of Latvia in coproduction with Polar Bear of Belgium, and it was funded by the National Film Center of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Kristine Simsone
- Variety Film + TV
Busan’s Asian Film Market has announced major events including a Korean Producers Forum featuring 10 filmmakers whose hits broke the 10 million admissions landmark at the local box office.
Discussing the present and future of the Korean film production, the forum will include director/producer Kang Woosuk (Silmido), director/producer Kang Je-kyu (Taegukgi), director/producer Lee Joon-ik (King And The Clown), producer Choi Yong-bae (The Host), director/producer Jk Youn (Haeundae), producer Won Dongyeon (Masquerade), producer Kim Minki (Miracle in Cell No. 7), producer Ahn Soohyun (The Thieves), producer Choi Jaewon (The Attorney) and director/producer Kim Hanmin, whose recent Roaring Currents is the all-time top hit with over 16 million admissions.
Set to run Oct 5-8 this year, the market said early sales booth registration is up two-and-a-half times as much as last year, and that they had three times as many early badge registrations.
The market also announced an Asian Star Casting Forum for Global Co-productions with presentations...
Discussing the present and future of the Korean film production, the forum will include director/producer Kang Woosuk (Silmido), director/producer Kang Je-kyu (Taegukgi), director/producer Lee Joon-ik (King And The Clown), producer Choi Yong-bae (The Host), director/producer Jk Youn (Haeundae), producer Won Dongyeon (Masquerade), producer Kim Minki (Miracle in Cell No. 7), producer Ahn Soohyun (The Thieves), producer Choi Jaewon (The Attorney) and director/producer Kim Hanmin, whose recent Roaring Currents is the all-time top hit with over 16 million admissions.
Set to run Oct 5-8 this year, the market said early sales booth registration is up two-and-a-half times as much as last year, and that they had three times as many early badge registrations.
The market also announced an Asian Star Casting Forum for Global Co-productions with presentations...
- 8/27/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Nick once again embarks on his occasional cinematic world trip, with a look at the unique movies of Central Asia...
Returning to my semi-regular feature, we arrive in Central Asia. We're also approaching the halfway point of the journey, and I feel I have barely begun to scratch the surface on any of these countries.
It has been an eye-opening experience for me, as when I first conceived the idea it sounded quite simple and straightforward, with the name obviously suggesting itself. But it has become one of the more consistently challenging things to write about!
There are just too many damn films. Which is definitely a good problem. It would be terrible if there was a dearth of quality cinema out there.
Anyway, without further ado, here are ten more to hopefully whet your appetite for exploring the fringes of cinema....
Georgia
Admired by legendary director Federico Fellini among others,...
Returning to my semi-regular feature, we arrive in Central Asia. We're also approaching the halfway point of the journey, and I feel I have barely begun to scratch the surface on any of these countries.
It has been an eye-opening experience for me, as when I first conceived the idea it sounded quite simple and straightforward, with the name obviously suggesting itself. But it has become one of the more consistently challenging things to write about!
There are just too many damn films. Which is definitely a good problem. It would be terrible if there was a dearth of quality cinema out there.
Anyway, without further ado, here are ten more to hopefully whet your appetite for exploring the fringes of cinema....
Georgia
Admired by legendary director Federico Fellini among others,...
- 1/27/2011
- Den of Geek
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