Fantasy horror Hundreds Of Beavers is to be released in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand by Lightbulb Film Distribution, following a festival run including Fantastic Fest, Fantasia and Sitges.
The film is US director Mike Cheslik’s feature debut, and is a dialogue-free homage to silent cinema about a drunken19th century cider salesman whose stock is ruined by hungry beavers and tries to recover his fortune by becoming North America’s greatest fur trapper.
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has international sales rights. Lightbulb will release the films in UK and Irish cinemas on July 9.
Ryland Brickson Cole Tews...
The film is US director Mike Cheslik’s feature debut, and is a dialogue-free homage to silent cinema about a drunken19th century cider salesman whose stock is ruined by hungry beavers and tries to recover his fortune by becoming North America’s greatest fur trapper.
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has international sales rights. Lightbulb will release the films in UK and Irish cinemas on July 9.
Ryland Brickson Cole Tews...
- 5/30/2024
- ScreenDaily
Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir is hatching her first fiction project.
El Moudir, who won the best director award in Un Certain Regard last year with her documentary The Mother Of All Lies and was on the Ucr jury this month in Cannes, is preparing a new drama with the working title, Holy Cow.
The writer-director has been working on the project through the Cannes Residence development programme. Holy Cow tells the story of a man who, after years of unemployment, finally finds his first job as a truck driver transporting cattle for the Rabat slaughter houses. His first assignment...
El Moudir, who won the best director award in Un Certain Regard last year with her documentary The Mother Of All Lies and was on the Ucr jury this month in Cannes, is preparing a new drama with the working title, Holy Cow.
The writer-director has been working on the project through the Cannes Residence development programme. Holy Cow tells the story of a man who, after years of unemployment, finally finds his first job as a truck driver transporting cattle for the Rabat slaughter houses. His first assignment...
- 5/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Ab 1. August wird Die Filmagentinnen das Booking & Billing für alle kommenden Starts sowie das Repertoire von Pandora Film übernehmen. Erster Film unter der neuen Zusammenarbeit wird Andreas Dresens auf der Berlinale gefeierter „In Liebe, Eure Hilde“ sein, der am 17. Oktober in die Kinos kommt.
„In Liebe, eure Hilde“ von Andreas Dresen ist der erste Pandora-Film, der von Die Filmagentinnen ins Kino gebracht wird (Credit: Pandora Filmverleih/ Frédéric Batier)
Der in Aschaffenburg ansässige Filmverleih Pandora Film geht eine langfristige Partnerschaft mit der Berliner Vertriebsagentur Die Filmagentinnen ein, die am 1. August beginnt und alle künftigen Filmstarts sowie das Repertoire von Pandora umfasst. Den Anfang macht Andreas Dresens Berlinale-Hit „In Liebe, Eure Hilde“ mit Liv Lisa Fries in der Hauptrolle, der am 17. Oktober gestartet wird. Darauf folgt am 21. November das Regiedebüt von Halfdan Ullmann Trøndel, „Armand“ mit Renate Reinsve in der Hauptrolle, der gerade in Cannes von der Kritik bejubelt wurde und in...
„In Liebe, eure Hilde“ von Andreas Dresen ist der erste Pandora-Film, der von Die Filmagentinnen ins Kino gebracht wird (Credit: Pandora Filmverleih/ Frédéric Batier)
Der in Aschaffenburg ansässige Filmverleih Pandora Film geht eine langfristige Partnerschaft mit der Berliner Vertriebsagentur Die Filmagentinnen ein, die am 1. August beginnt und alle künftigen Filmstarts sowie das Repertoire von Pandora umfasst. Den Anfang macht Andreas Dresens Berlinale-Hit „In Liebe, Eure Hilde“ mit Liv Lisa Fries in der Hauptrolle, der am 17. Oktober gestartet wird. Darauf folgt am 21. November das Regiedebüt von Halfdan Ullmann Trøndel, „Armand“ mit Renate Reinsve in der Hauptrolle, der gerade in Cannes von der Kritik bejubelt wurde und in...
- 5/29/2024
- by Thomas Schultze
- Spot - Media & Film
Ioncinema.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Though Cannes might be over, we still have unpublished reviews that will be released over the next month.
In Competition:
All We Imagine as Light – [Review]
Anora – [Review]
The Apprentice – [Review]
Beating Hearts – [Review]
Bird – [Review]
Caught by the Tides – [Review]
Emilia Pérez – [Review]
The Girl with the Needle – [Review]
Grand Tour – [Review]
Kinds of Kindness – [Review]
Limonov: The Ballad – [Review]
Marcello Mio – [Review]
Megalopolis – [Review]
The Most Precious of Cargoes – [Review]
Motel Destino – [Review]
Oh, Canada – [Review]
Parthenope – [Review]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – [Review]
The Shrouds – [Review]
The Substance – [Review]
Three Kilometres to the End of the World – [Review]
Wild Diamond – [Review]
Un Certain Regard:
Armand
Black Dog
The Damned – [Review]
Dog on Trial
Flow
Holy Cow – [Review]
The Kingdom
My Sunshine
Niki
Norah
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Santosh
September Says
The Shameless
The Story of Souleymane...
In Competition:
All We Imagine as Light – [Review]
Anora – [Review]
The Apprentice – [Review]
Beating Hearts – [Review]
Bird – [Review]
Caught by the Tides – [Review]
Emilia Pérez – [Review]
The Girl with the Needle – [Review]
Grand Tour – [Review]
Kinds of Kindness – [Review]
Limonov: The Ballad – [Review]
Marcello Mio – [Review]
Megalopolis – [Review]
The Most Precious of Cargoes – [Review]
Motel Destino – [Review]
Oh, Canada – [Review]
Parthenope – [Review]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – [Review]
The Shrouds – [Review]
The Substance – [Review]
Three Kilometres to the End of the World – [Review]
Wild Diamond – [Review]
Un Certain Regard:
Armand
Black Dog
The Damned – [Review]
Dog on Trial
Flow
Holy Cow – [Review]
The Kingdom
My Sunshine
Niki
Norah
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Santosh
September Says
The Shameless
The Story of Souleymane...
- 5/28/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival was officially closed yesterday, on May 25, 2024, as the prizes for the movies and the actors were awarded at the closing ceremony. It was a very exciting and content-filled event, and we have also reported on numerous movies that had their premiere at Cannes, some of which were received well, while others… not so much. But, naturally, everyone wants to know who won and who lost at Cannes, and that is what we are going to report about in this article.
The article will be divided into two main sections. The first one will list all the juries at Cannes, since they are the ones who chose the winners at the film festival, so we think that it is only fair that you know who picked the winners. After that, we are going to list all the winners in each of the categories.
As we have said,...
The article will be divided into two main sections. The first one will list all the juries at Cannes, since they are the ones who chose the winners at the film festival, so we think that it is only fair that you know who picked the winners. After that, we are going to list all the winners in each of the categories.
As we have said,...
- 5/26/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
The 77th Cannes Film Festival has come to a close. As with every year, the festival was host to its share of standing ovations, divisive screenings and debates over just which films and performances would take home awards at the end of the 12-day event, widely considered the most prestigious in the entire world. This year, Sean Baker’s Anora took the Palme d’Or while India’s All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix, generally considered the runner-up.
So, who else won out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival? While below is only a partial list of winners, you can check out the complete and extensive list here.
Palme d’Or: Anora, Sean Baker
Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
Best Director: Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour
Best Actor: Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Best Actress: Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Zoe Saldaña,...
So, who else won out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival? While below is only a partial list of winners, you can check out the complete and extensive list here.
Palme d’Or: Anora, Sean Baker
Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
Best Director: Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour
Best Actor: Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Best Actress: Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Zoe Saldaña,...
- 5/25/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Guan Hu’s Black Dog has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).
It is the Cannes debut for Mr. Six director Guan and follows a former convict who forms an unlikely connection with the titular animal, as he clears stray dogs in his remote hometown on the edge of the Gobi desert before the 2008 Olympic Games. Playtime are handling international sales.
The jury prize went to The Story Of Souleymane from Boris Lojkine, back at the festival 10 years after his 2014 feature Hope, with the story of a...
It is the Cannes debut for Mr. Six director Guan and follows a former convict who forms an unlikely connection with the titular animal, as he clears stray dogs in his remote hometown on the edge of the Gobi desert before the 2008 Olympic Games. Playtime are handling international sales.
The jury prize went to The Story Of Souleymane from Boris Lojkine, back at the festival 10 years after his 2014 feature Hope, with the story of a...
- 5/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
Chinese director Hu Guan’s drama Black Dog snagged the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar on Friday night.
The drama, set on the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, follows a man who returns home after a stint in jail and gets a job clearing a town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games. But he forms an unexpected bond with a black dog, and together, they embark on a new journey.
The film’s canine star won a pooch prize earlier in the day, scooping up the Grand Jury award at the Palm Dog.
For Un Certain Regard, the Jury Prize went to The Story Of Souleymane, Boris Lojkine’s Paris-set story of an African immigrant struggling to make a living and get legalized in the city of lights. Lead Abou Sangare also clinched one of the Un Certain Regard performance awards. The other...
The drama, set on the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, follows a man who returns home after a stint in jail and gets a job clearing a town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games. But he forms an unexpected bond with a black dog, and together, they embark on a new journey.
The film’s canine star won a pooch prize earlier in the day, scooping up the Grand Jury award at the Palm Dog.
For Un Certain Regard, the Jury Prize went to The Story Of Souleymane, Boris Lojkine’s Paris-set story of an African immigrant struggling to make a living and get legalized in the city of lights. Lead Abou Sangare also clinched one of the Un Certain Regard performance awards. The other...
- 5/24/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chinese director Hu Guan’s drama Black Dog won the top prize in Cannes Un Certain Regard on Friday evening.
The Jury Prize went to Boris Lojkine’s Paris-set asylum-seeker tale The Story Of Souleymane.
Best Director went to in ex aequo to Roberto Minervini for U.S. civil war drama The Damned and Rungano Nyoni for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
The Performance award went to Anasuya Sengupta for her performance as a young sex worker on the run in Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s India-set drama The Shameless, and Abou Sangare for his performance in Boris Lojkine’s The Story Of Souleymane as a young asylum seeker.
In other prizes, French director Louise Courvoisier won the Youth Prize for Holy Cow, while Saudi director Tawfik Alzaidi was feted with a Special Mention for Nora.
This year’s jury was presided over by Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan,...
The Jury Prize went to Boris Lojkine’s Paris-set asylum-seeker tale The Story Of Souleymane.
Best Director went to in ex aequo to Roberto Minervini for U.S. civil war drama The Damned and Rungano Nyoni for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
The Performance award went to Anasuya Sengupta for her performance as a young sex worker on the run in Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s India-set drama The Shameless, and Abou Sangare for his performance in Boris Lojkine’s The Story Of Souleymane as a young asylum seeker.
In other prizes, French director Louise Courvoisier won the Youth Prize for Holy Cow, while Saudi director Tawfik Alzaidi was feted with a Special Mention for Nora.
This year’s jury was presided over by Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exactly ten years after the genre-mixing, canine-driven Hungarian thriller “White God” landed the Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, this year’s ceremony culminated in the same prize going to a somewhat corresponding title: Chinese director Guan Hu’s “Black Dog,” a fusion of western, film noir and offbeat comedy with a highly lovable mutt at its center. The film, about a damaged loner returning to his desert hometown after a spell in prison and finding a kindred spirit in an equally world-weary greyhound, beat 17 other titles to take the top prize in the festival’s second-most prestigious competitive section. (The festival’s Official Competition awards will be handed out tomorrow night.)
Jury president Xavier Dolan, the actor-auteur behind such films as “Mommy” and “Laurence Anyways,” commended Guan’s film for “its breathtaking poetry, its imagination, its precision [and] its masterful direction.” He echoed the enthusiasm of Variety critic Jessica Kiang,...
Jury president Xavier Dolan, the actor-auteur behind such films as “Mommy” and “Laurence Anyways,” commended Guan’s film for “its breathtaking poetry, its imagination, its precision [and] its masterful direction.” He echoed the enthusiasm of Variety critic Jessica Kiang,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has closed a raft of deals in Cannes on Jesse Haaja’s superhero film sequel Rendel: Cycle Of Revenge.
US rights have gone to Shout! Studios and other key sales have closed in Germany (Splendid), France (Program Store), Spain (Wild Duck), and Italy (Blue Swan).
Kris Gummerus stars as the eponymous masked vigilante who dismantles the evil Vala organisation after his family is killed, as a spital of violence awakens the ghosts of the past.
Sean Cronin, whose credits include Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, plays the villain Smiley. Pekka Lehtosaari wrote the screenplay.
Miika J. Norvanto...
US rights have gone to Shout! Studios and other key sales have closed in Germany (Splendid), France (Program Store), Spain (Wild Duck), and Italy (Blue Swan).
Kris Gummerus stars as the eponymous masked vigilante who dismantles the evil Vala organisation after his family is killed, as a spital of violence awakens the ghosts of the past.
Sean Cronin, whose credits include Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, plays the villain Smiley. Pekka Lehtosaari wrote the screenplay.
Miika J. Norvanto...
- 5/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Pyramide International continues to milk sales for Louise Courvoisier’s coming-of-age drama Holy Cow premiering at Cannes in Un Certain Regard.
The film has sold to Filmcoopi in Switzerland, Paradiso Entertainment for Benelux, Pandora Film for Germany and Austria, Limelight Distribution in Australia, Beta Film in Bulgaria, One From the Heart in Greece, Mozinet in Hungary, New Cinema in Israel, Artcam Films in Czech Republic, Selmer Media in Norway, Angel Film A/S for Sweden and Denmark, First Distributors in Hong Kong. Portugal and the Middle East are in negotiations.
‘Holy Cow’ Cannes review
The story set in the Jura...
The film has sold to Filmcoopi in Switzerland, Paradiso Entertainment for Benelux, Pandora Film for Germany and Austria, Limelight Distribution in Australia, Beta Film in Bulgaria, One From the Heart in Greece, Mozinet in Hungary, New Cinema in Israel, Artcam Films in Czech Republic, Selmer Media in Norway, Angel Film A/S for Sweden and Denmark, First Distributors in Hong Kong. Portugal and the Middle East are in negotiations.
‘Holy Cow’ Cannes review
The story set in the Jura...
- 5/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Paris production house Agat Films – Ex Nihilo, which has six films in Cannes, is now in various stages of production on six more titles including Robert Guedigian’s drama Stealing Angel, starring Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Paul Darroussin that is in post. Playtime is handling sales.
Agat Films- Ex Nihilo are separate entities operating under the same banner. “We are a house of auteur cinema,” said producer Nicolas Blanc. “We are at the service of auteurs – we like what they think, what they say and how they say it.”
International titles in the works include Thierry Machado’s Inuit -language Yura,...
Agat Films- Ex Nihilo are separate entities operating under the same banner. “We are a house of auteur cinema,” said producer Nicolas Blanc. “We are at the service of auteurs – we like what they think, what they say and how they say it.”
International titles in the works include Thierry Machado’s Inuit -language Yura,...
- 5/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Smells Like Entrepreneurial Spirit!: Courvoisier Climbs Up the Totone Poll
In her directorial debut, Louise Courvoisier delves into themes of altruism and resilience, navigating a narrative that straddles the line between a troubled past and an uncertain future. It’s got two muddied boots on both sides. Despite a future in doubt, the film pulsates with the vibrant energy of its protagonist, emblematic of an unwavering fighting spirit. Following in the footsteps of kid protagonists thrust into adult responsibilities, Vingt Dieux Courvoisier adopts a tone and vibrant cinematic style reminiscent of Andrea Arnold or Ken Loach (think Sweet Sixteen).…...
In her directorial debut, Louise Courvoisier delves into themes of altruism and resilience, navigating a narrative that straddles the line between a troubled past and an uncertain future. It’s got two muddied boots on both sides. Despite a future in doubt, the film pulsates with the vibrant energy of its protagonist, emblematic of an unwavering fighting spirit. Following in the footsteps of kid protagonists thrust into adult responsibilities, Vingt Dieux Courvoisier adopts a tone and vibrant cinematic style reminiscent of Andrea Arnold or Ken Loach (think Sweet Sixteen).…...
- 5/17/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The world premiere of Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond in Cannes Competition is the only one by a first-time filmmaker and heralds Riedinger as part of a new wave of French female directors to arrive en force on the Croisette.
The film explores western society’s obsession with beauty and fame and the omnipresence of social media through the story of a 19 year-old girl who sets out to earn a spot on a reality TV show.
Also in Competitoin is France-born Coralie Fargeat’s second feature The Substance. The body horror is produced by the UK’s Working Title Films and stars Demi Moore,...
The film explores western society’s obsession with beauty and fame and the omnipresence of social media through the story of a 19 year-old girl who sets out to earn a spot on a reality TV show.
Also in Competitoin is France-born Coralie Fargeat’s second feature The Substance. The body horror is produced by the UK’s Working Title Films and stars Demi Moore,...
- 5/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Updated On April 22, 2024: With the addition of two new films to this year’s competition section, both directed by men, this year’s competition slate now includes 21 films, only four of which are directed by women. That tallies to just 19 percent of this year’s competition titles being helmed by women.
Our original story from April 11, 2024 follows.
Hot off last year’s record-breaking competition lineup — including seven films directed by women, plus an eventual Palme d’Or win for Justine Triet (only the third woman to win the festival’s top prize) — this year’s Cannes Film Festival has returned to old habits. The 77th edition will include (as of today’s announcement) just four films directed by women in the competition section, bringing representation down to 2021 levels (and returning the festival’s female-directed entries to a number that was only hit in 2011).
Among the competition titles announced today:...
Our original story from April 11, 2024 follows.
Hot off last year’s record-breaking competition lineup — including seven films directed by women, plus an eventual Palme d’Or win for Justine Triet (only the third woman to win the festival’s top prize) — this year’s Cannes Film Festival has returned to old habits. The 77th edition will include (as of today’s announcement) just four films directed by women in the competition section, bringing representation down to 2021 levels (and returning the festival’s female-directed entries to a number that was only hit in 2011).
Among the competition titles announced today:...
- 4/22/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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