This year’s Ssiff will run as an in-person event from September 17-25.
A total of 13 first and second features will compete for the New Directors award at this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival.Â
The winning film is awarded €50,000 to be shared by the director and the Spanish distributor.
This year’s selection includes Philippe Grégoire’s The Noise Of Engines, inspired by his experiences as a customs officer, a job he took to pay for his film studies; Selmar Nacar’s Between Two Dawns, which won the Wip Europe Industry award in San Sebastian last year; Darko Sinko’s Inventory,...
A total of 13 first and second features will compete for the New Directors award at this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival.Â
The winning film is awarded €50,000 to be shared by the director and the Spanish distributor.
This year’s selection includes Philippe Grégoire’s The Noise Of Engines, inspired by his experiences as a customs officer, a job he took to pay for his film studies; Selmar Nacar’s Between Two Dawns, which won the Wip Europe Industry award in San Sebastian last year; Darko Sinko’s Inventory,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Transilvania Pitch Stop is now on to its eighth edition this year.
The Transilvania International Film Festival industry platform is expanding this year with three new initiatives - the Drama Room workshop, the Full Moon Script Contest and the First Cut Lab Cluj. They will complement the existing programme of the Transilvania Pitch Stop (Tps), Transilvania Talent Lab (Ttl) and InfiniTIFF Incubator.
Drama Room’s three-day programme (July 26 – 28) is aimed at directors, producers and screenwriters from the Central and Eastern Europe interested in developing and producing series and mini-series.
Fifteen participants have been selected to take part in the hybrid...
The Transilvania International Film Festival industry platform is expanding this year with three new initiatives - the Drama Room workshop, the Full Moon Script Contest and the First Cut Lab Cluj. They will complement the existing programme of the Transilvania Pitch Stop (Tps), Transilvania Talent Lab (Ttl) and InfiniTIFF Incubator.
Drama Room’s three-day programme (July 26 – 28) is aimed at directors, producers and screenwriters from the Central and Eastern Europe interested in developing and producing series and mini-series.
Fifteen participants have been selected to take part in the hybrid...
- 7/23/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The TIFF industry platform has added three new initiatives this year.
The Transilvania International Film Festival industry platform has expanded this year with three new initiatives - the Drama Room workshop, the Full Moon Script Contest and the First Cut Lab Cluj - to complement the existing programme of the Transilvania Pitch Stop (Tps), Transilvania Talent Lab (Ttl) and InfiniTIFF Incubator.
Drama Room’s three-day programme (July 26 – 28) is aimed at directors, producers and screenwriters from the Central and Eastern Europe interested in developing and producing series and mini-series.
15 participants were selected to take part in the hybrid event which will...
The Transilvania International Film Festival industry platform has expanded this year with three new initiatives - the Drama Room workshop, the Full Moon Script Contest and the First Cut Lab Cluj - to complement the existing programme of the Transilvania Pitch Stop (Tps), Transilvania Talent Lab (Ttl) and InfiniTIFF Incubator.
Drama Room’s three-day programme (July 26 – 28) is aimed at directors, producers and screenwriters from the Central and Eastern Europe interested in developing and producing series and mini-series.
15 participants were selected to take part in the hybrid event which will...
- 7/23/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Euro exhibition group Europa Cinemas, sales agent network Europa International and U.S. indie theater circuit Art House Convergence have set the films and speakers for the second Tales of Europe Exhibitor Exchange Program.
The program aims to strengthen the relationship between North American and European exhibitors and give European films without U.S. distribution a chance to shine.
The first seminar of this year’s event, the Audience Development & Innovation Lab at Cinetecca di Bologna, will take place during the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, June 22-26, 2019. It’s the first time U.S. exhibitors will be in Europe as part of the program.
Attending U.S. exhibitors will be Dylan Skolnick, Lawren Desai, Landee Bryant, Rochelle Walters and Barak Epstein.
The program funds the trip as well as the travel and accommodation for U.S. exhibitors attending the bi-annual Network Conference, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-24, 2019 and the Audience Development & Innovation Lab in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 2020.
The program selected 12 European films without U.S. distribution as part of this year’s showcase with many based on the themes of immigration and identity. The films debuted over the last year at international festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Sundance and Toronto.
2019 Movie Program:
A Polar Year, dir. Samuel Collardey, Greenland
Amateurs, dir. Gabriela Pichler, Sweden
Cops, dir. Stefan A Lukacs, Austria
I Still Hide to Smoke, dir. Rayhana, Algeria
Killing God, dir. Albert Pintó, Caye Casas, Spain
L’Animale, dir. Katharina Mückstein, Austria
Mug, dir. Malgorzata Szumowska, Poland
Murer: Anatomy of a Trial, dir. Christian Frosch, Austria
Pororoca, dir. Constantin Popescu, Romania
Taranta on the Road, dir. Salvatore Allocca, Italy
The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid, dir. Djordje Markovic, Serbia
The Venerable W, dir. Barbet Schroeder, Myanmar...
The program aims to strengthen the relationship between North American and European exhibitors and give European films without U.S. distribution a chance to shine.
The first seminar of this year’s event, the Audience Development & Innovation Lab at Cinetecca di Bologna, will take place during the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, June 22-26, 2019. It’s the first time U.S. exhibitors will be in Europe as part of the program.
Attending U.S. exhibitors will be Dylan Skolnick, Lawren Desai, Landee Bryant, Rochelle Walters and Barak Epstein.
The program funds the trip as well as the travel and accommodation for U.S. exhibitors attending the bi-annual Network Conference, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-24, 2019 and the Audience Development & Innovation Lab in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 2020.
The program selected 12 European films without U.S. distribution as part of this year’s showcase with many based on the themes of immigration and identity. The films debuted over the last year at international festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Sundance and Toronto.
2019 Movie Program:
A Polar Year, dir. Samuel Collardey, Greenland
Amateurs, dir. Gabriela Pichler, Sweden
Cops, dir. Stefan A Lukacs, Austria
I Still Hide to Smoke, dir. Rayhana, Algeria
Killing God, dir. Albert Pintó, Caye Casas, Spain
L’Animale, dir. Katharina Mückstein, Austria
Mug, dir. Malgorzata Szumowska, Poland
Murer: Anatomy of a Trial, dir. Christian Frosch, Austria
Pororoca, dir. Constantin Popescu, Romania
Taranta on the Road, dir. Salvatore Allocca, Italy
The Final Adventure of Kaktus Kid, dir. Djordje Markovic, Serbia
The Venerable W, dir. Barbet Schroeder, Myanmar...
- 6/19/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Pushing into international acquisitions, Bilbao-based distributor Barton Films has picked up Spanish distribution rights to three films playing at the 66th San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors sidebar.
Barton’s most recent international-title release slate is headed by “The Third Wife,” the feature debut by New York and Vietnam-based Ash Mayfair, which recently won the Netpac award at the Toronto Film Festival.
A second buy, “A Decent Man,” by Romanian Hadrian Marcu, highlighted at the first edition of San Sebastian’s Glocal in Progress showcase in 2017, toplines Bogdan Dumitrache, winner last year of a San Sebastian Silver Shell for best actor for Constantin Popescu’s “Pororoca,” another Barton Films pickup.
Ismet Sijarina’s “Cold November,” a Kosovo-Albania-Republic of Macedonia co-production world premiering at New Directors, is a family drama based on real events in the turbulent times after Yugoslavia abolishes Kosovan autonomous institutions in 1990.
“Increasing the volume of independent international movies acquisitions,...
Barton’s most recent international-title release slate is headed by “The Third Wife,” the feature debut by New York and Vietnam-based Ash Mayfair, which recently won the Netpac award at the Toronto Film Festival.
A second buy, “A Decent Man,” by Romanian Hadrian Marcu, highlighted at the first edition of San Sebastian’s Glocal in Progress showcase in 2017, toplines Bogdan Dumitrache, winner last year of a San Sebastian Silver Shell for best actor for Constantin Popescu’s “Pororoca,” another Barton Films pickup.
Ismet Sijarina’s “Cold November,” a Kosovo-Albania-Republic of Macedonia co-production world premiering at New Directors, is a family drama based on real events in the turbulent times after Yugoslavia abolishes Kosovan autonomous institutions in 1990.
“Increasing the volume of independent international movies acquisitions,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Berlin winner ‘Touch Me Not’, ‘Cold War’ and ‘Paddington 2’.
The 49 films recommended for nomination for the 2018 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The list includes Adina Pintilie’s Berlin winner Touch Me Not and Cannes prize winners Cold War, Dogman and Happy As Lazzaro.
Films with UK involvement on the list include Michael Pearce’s Beast and Paddington 2.
The films were selected by the 20 countries with the most Efa members as well as a selection committee consisting of the Efa board and experts.
In the coming weeks, more than...
The 49 films recommended for nomination for the 2018 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The list includes Adina Pintilie’s Berlin winner Touch Me Not and Cannes prize winners Cold War, Dogman and Happy As Lazzaro.
Films with UK involvement on the list include Michael Pearce’s Beast and Paddington 2.
The films were selected by the 20 countries with the most Efa members as well as a selection committee consisting of the Efa board and experts.
In the coming weeks, more than...
- 8/21/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Barcelona— Tasos Gerakinis’ “A Simple Man,” Pelin Esmer’s “Queen Lear” and Ignas Jonynas’ “Invisible” compose the pix-in-post selection for the upcoming Glocal in Progress sidebar at September’s San Sebastián Film Festival.
Greek director Tasos Gerakinis will attend with his feature debut, a Greece-France co-production following a convict who flees prison and manages to arrive in the neighbor country where he holds up at a farm, taking a winegrower hostage. The relationship between the winegrower, his daughter and the convict will evolve in divergent directions.
Turkish director Pelin Esmer has previously participated in San Sebastián’s main competition with “10 to 11,” a Special Jury Prize winner in Istanbul festival in 2009. She was also part of the Zabaltegi-New Directors section with her feature debut “The Play,” turning on three women aiming to stage a play in a small village. That feature earned kudos at Tribeca in 2006. “Queen Lear” is a follow-up to “The Play,...
Greek director Tasos Gerakinis will attend with his feature debut, a Greece-France co-production following a convict who flees prison and manages to arrive in the neighbor country where he holds up at a farm, taking a winegrower hostage. The relationship between the winegrower, his daughter and the convict will evolve in divergent directions.
Turkish director Pelin Esmer has previously participated in San Sebastián’s main competition with “10 to 11,” a Special Jury Prize winner in Istanbul festival in 2009. She was also part of the Zabaltegi-New Directors section with her feature debut “The Play,” turning on three women aiming to stage a play in a small village. That feature earned kudos at Tribeca in 2006. “Queen Lear” is a follow-up to “The Play,...
- 8/13/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Durban — “The Reports on Sarah and Saleem,” directed by Muayad Alayan, scooped best picture at the 39th Durban Intl. Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday night with an award ceremony at the Suncoast Cine Center complex.
The film tells the story of the political ramifications of an extra-marital affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman. Variety described it as a “taut psychosocial drama.”
In a pre-recorded message from Jerusalem, Alayan offered thanks to the audience in South Africa – a country, he said, “which we as Palestinians hold in a very special place in our hearts” – while dedicating the award to “all the filmmakers out there in this world who are fighting all forms of injustice with their films and their art.”
The award punctuated a Diff whose 2018 edition “had a very special focus on hearing and seeing the marginal voices, with a focus on celebrating diversity,” according to Lliane Loots,...
The film tells the story of the political ramifications of an extra-marital affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman. Variety described it as a “taut psychosocial drama.”
In a pre-recorded message from Jerusalem, Alayan offered thanks to the audience in South Africa – a country, he said, “which we as Palestinians hold in a very special place in our hearts” – while dedicating the award to “all the filmmakers out there in this world who are fighting all forms of injustice with their films and their art.”
The award punctuated a Diff whose 2018 edition “had a very special focus on hearing and seeing the marginal voices, with a focus on celebrating diversity,” according to Lliane Loots,...
- 7/29/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Crystal Swan, a Belarus/Germany/Russia/U.S. co-production directed by Darya Zhuk, was awarded the Grand Prix of Odessa International Film Festival at the closing ceremony held in the Ukrainian port city July 21.
Pity, by Greek director Babis Makridis, picked up the international competition's best film award. Makridis also collected the best director award.
The jury's special mention went to the Romania-France film Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu.
Victor Polster collected the best performance award for Girl by Belgian director Lukas Dhont.
Home Games by Alisa Kovalenko, co-produced by Ukraine, France and Poland, was awarded the best European documentary prize.
Delta, directed ...
Pity, by Greek director Babis Makridis, picked up the international competition's best film award. Makridis also collected the best director award.
The jury's special mention went to the Romania-France film Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu.
Victor Polster collected the best performance award for Girl by Belgian director Lukas Dhont.
Home Games by Alisa Kovalenko, co-produced by Ukraine, France and Poland, was awarded the best European documentary prize.
Delta, directed ...
- 7/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Crystal Swan, a Belarus/Germany/Russia/U.S. co-production directed by Darya Zhuk, was awarded the Grand Prix of Odessa International Film Festival at the closing ceremony held in the Ukrainian port city July 21.
Pity, by Greek director Babis Makridis, picked up the international competition's best film award. Makridis also collected the best director award.
The jury's special mention went to the Romania-France film Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu.
Victor Polster collected the best performance award for Girl by Belgian director Lukas Dhont.
Home Games by Alisa Kovalenko, co-produced by Ukraine, France and Poland, was awarded the best European documentary prize.
Delta, directed ...
Pity, by Greek director Babis Makridis, picked up the international competition's best film award. Makridis also collected the best director award.
The jury's special mention went to the Romania-France film Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu.
Victor Polster collected the best performance award for Girl by Belgian director Lukas Dhont.
Home Games by Alisa Kovalenko, co-produced by Ukraine, France and Poland, was awarded the best European documentary prize.
Delta, directed ...
- 7/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Durban — The Durban Int’l. Film Festival opened Thursday night with a celebration of South African womanhood and a commitment to diversity in film, even as it mourned the passing of a festival icon and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela.
The 39th edition opened with Jerome Pikwane’s “The Tokoloshe,” a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life.
In prepared remarks, delivered by a colleague at Thursday’s opening ceremony because she wasn’t able to attend, Diff manager Chipo Zhou described the movie as a parable of womanhood in a country plagued by sexual violence.
“It is a horror film…unveiling the menace that is our everyday burden as women in this country,” she said, adding more hopefully that the movie “sets the scene for a...
The 39th edition opened with Jerome Pikwane’s “The Tokoloshe,” a psychological thriller about a destitute hospital cleaner who’s forced to confront the demons of her past to try to save a child’s life.
In prepared remarks, delivered by a colleague at Thursday’s opening ceremony because she wasn’t able to attend, Diff manager Chipo Zhou described the movie as a parable of womanhood in a country plagued by sexual violence.
“It is a horror film…unveiling the menace that is our everyday burden as women in this country,” she said, adding more hopefully that the movie “sets the scene for a...
- 7/19/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Golden Globe-winning British actress Jacqueline Bisset will pick up a lifetime achievement award at the Odessa International Film Festival.
She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony, scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday.
Bisset won a Golden Globe in 2013 for her performance in the television drama Dancing on the Edge, by director Stephen Poliakoff.
Odessa Iff, Ukraine's main international film event, runs from July 13-21. Among its international competition movies are Thunder Road, by U.S. director Jim Cummings; Pororoca, by Romania's Constantin Popescu; Girl, by Belgium's Lukas ...
She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony, scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday.
Bisset won a Golden Globe in 2013 for her performance in the television drama Dancing on the Edge, by director Stephen Poliakoff.
Odessa Iff, Ukraine's main international film event, runs from July 13-21. Among its international competition movies are Thunder Road, by U.S. director Jim Cummings; Pororoca, by Romania's Constantin Popescu; Girl, by Belgium's Lukas ...
- 7/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Golden Globe-winning British actress Jacqueline Bisset will pick up a lifetime achievement award at the Odessa International Film Festival.
She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony, scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday.
Bisset won a Golden Globe in 2013 for her performance in the television drama Dancing on the Edge, by director Stephen Poliakoff.
Odessa Iff, Ukraine's main international film event, runs from July 13-21. Among its international competition movies are Thunder Road, by U.S. director Jim Cummings; Pororoca, by Romania's Constantin Popescu; Girl, by Belgium's Lukas ...
She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony, scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday.
Bisset won a Golden Globe in 2013 for her performance in the television drama Dancing on the Edge, by director Stephen Poliakoff.
Odessa Iff, Ukraine's main international film event, runs from July 13-21. Among its international competition movies are Thunder Road, by U.S. director Jim Cummings; Pororoca, by Romania's Constantin Popescu; Girl, by Belgium's Lukas ...
- 7/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hlynur Pálmason wins best directing award for his debut Winter Brothers.
Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses received the Transilvania Trophy at the closing ceremony of the 17th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca.
The main competition jury, which included filmmakers Ágnes Kocsis and Dagur Kari and actor Vlad Ivanov, praised Martinessi for his “sublime direction” and “the captivating rhythm of his narrative”.
Accepting the trophy and the €15,000 cash prize on stage of the National Theatre from international opera star Angela Gheorghiu, Martinessi said that this award would be further encouragement for Paraguayan filmmakers following the news...
Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses received the Transilvania Trophy at the closing ceremony of the 17th Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca.
The main competition jury, which included filmmakers Ágnes Kocsis and Dagur Kari and actor Vlad Ivanov, praised Martinessi for his “sublime direction” and “the captivating rhythm of his narrative”.
Accepting the trophy and the €15,000 cash prize on stage of the National Theatre from international opera star Angela Gheorghiu, Martinessi said that this award would be further encouragement for Paraguayan filmmakers following the news...
- 6/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses,” a Paraguayan-set story of sisterhood and entrapment, won the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival’s top prize Saturday, capping a week of honoring “films that dare,” in the words of its artistic chief Mihai Chirilov.
Crowds filled the ornate, 19th-century national theater in Cluj for the awards gala simulcast Saturday, marking the close of Romania’s top international art film fest, which this year focused on presenting fresh perspectives and provocative work in half a dozen sections, along with industry tech workshops, sessions on micro-budget filmmaking and popular screenings of archival films, often with live orchestral accompaniment.
The awards gala honored Hlynur Palmason with the director prize for Icelandic-Danish sibling rivalry story “Winter Brothers” while all three actors from U.K.-Spanish fertility triangle tale “Anchor and Hope,” Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin and David Verdaguer, shared the best performance prize.
Asghar Yousefinejad’s “The Home,” an...
Crowds filled the ornate, 19th-century national theater in Cluj for the awards gala simulcast Saturday, marking the close of Romania’s top international art film fest, which this year focused on presenting fresh perspectives and provocative work in half a dozen sections, along with industry tech workshops, sessions on micro-budget filmmaking and popular screenings of archival films, often with live orchestral accompaniment.
The awards gala honored Hlynur Palmason with the director prize for Icelandic-Danish sibling rivalry story “Winter Brothers” while all three actors from U.K.-Spanish fertility triangle tale “Anchor and Hope,” Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin and David Verdaguer, shared the best performance prize.
Asghar Yousefinejad’s “The Home,” an...
- 6/3/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Best foreign-language film Oscar nominee Loveless, helmed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, was named best movie Saturday at the new East-West: The Golden Arch Awards, recognizing films from 32 countries in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and Mikhail Krichman, the film's director of photography, received best cinematography honors at the Moscow ceremony.
Bogdan Dumitrache was named best actor for his role in the France-Romania co-production Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu, while Darya Zhovner took home best actress honors for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's Closeness.
The best screenplay prize was shared by Ildikó Enyedi, writer-director...
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and Mikhail Krichman, the film's director of photography, received best cinematography honors at the Moscow ceremony.
Bogdan Dumitrache was named best actor for his role in the France-Romania co-production Pororoca, directed by Constantin Popescu, while Darya Zhovner took home best actress honors for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's Closeness.
The best screenplay prize was shared by Ildikó Enyedi, writer-director...
- 4/14/2018
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Best foreign-language film <em>Oscar nominee, Loveless </em>by Andrei Zvyagintsev, was named best movie at the new East-West: The Golden Arch awards, recognizing films from 32 countries in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and the film's Dop Mikhail Krichman was awarded for the best cinematography at the Moscow ceremony today (April 14).
Romanian actor Bogdan Dumitrache won best actor for his role in the French-Romanian co-production <em>Pororoca</em>, directed by Constantin Popescu. Darya Zhovner received the best actress award for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's <em>Closeness</em>.
The best screenplay award was shared by Ildikó...
Zvyagintsev also collected the best director's award and the film's Dop Mikhail Krichman was awarded for the best cinematography at the Moscow ceremony today (April 14).
Romanian actor Bogdan Dumitrache won best actor for his role in the French-Romanian co-production <em>Pororoca</em>, directed by Constantin Popescu. Darya Zhovner received the best actress award for her performance in Kantemir Balagov's <em>Closeness</em>.
The best screenplay award was shared by Ildikó...
- 4/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke and Rachel Weisz are heading to New Jersey for the seventh annual Montclair Film Festival.
Kicking off on April 26 with Rachel Dretzin’s “Far From the Tree,” the 11-day fest will feature 77 feature films, 94 shorts and 13 special events including panels, master classes and public parties.
Highlights include favorites from the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto Intl. Film Festival and highly anticipated projects premiering this month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sundance hits including Hawke’s music biopic “Blaze,” Brett Haley’s “Hearts Beat Loud” and Morgan Neville’s docu “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” will all screen at Miff. The regional fest will also host Sam Pollard’s “Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me,” Kate Novack’s “The Gospel According to Andre,” and Sebastian Lelio’s “Disobedience” starring Weisz and Rachel McAdams. All three films made their world premiere at Tiff in September.
Kicking off on April 26 with Rachel Dretzin’s “Far From the Tree,” the 11-day fest will feature 77 feature films, 94 shorts and 13 special events including panels, master classes and public parties.
Highlights include favorites from the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto Intl. Film Festival and highly anticipated projects premiering this month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Sundance hits including Hawke’s music biopic “Blaze,” Brett Haley’s “Hearts Beat Loud” and Morgan Neville’s docu “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” will all screen at Miff. The regional fest will also host Sam Pollard’s “Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me,” Kate Novack’s “The Gospel According to Andre,” and Sebastian Lelio’s “Disobedience” starring Weisz and Rachel McAdams. All three films made their world premiere at Tiff in September.
- 4/5/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Jimmie director’s other films include The Ape and Beast Of Burden with Daniel Radcliffe.
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew.
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew.
- 1/2/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- Screen Daily Test
Jimmie director’s other films include The Ape and Beast Of Burden with Daniel Radcliffe.
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew. The film is an honest...
Source: International Film Festival Rotterdam
‘Jimmie’
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the opening and closing films for its 47th edition (24 Jan to 4 Feb).
The event will kick off with Jimmie by Swedish filmmaker Jesper Ganslandt. The road movie about a father and son on the run stars the director and his own four-year-old son in the lead roles.
Ganslandt’s other films include Falkenberg Farewell (2006), The Ape (2010) and the upcoming English-language thriller Beast Of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Closing the festival on 3 February is Armando Iannucci’s comedy The Death of Stalin, which chronicles the power struggle following Stalin’s death in 1953. Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor star.
Festival Director Bero Beyer said of Jimmie: “Ganslandt offers a truly new perspective in an intense cinematic experience that makes us view the world anew. The film is an honest...
- 1/2/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
My Own Private HellThe titles for the 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 24 - February 4, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.SIGNATURESInsect (Jan Švankmajer)Asino (Anatoly Vasiliev)Lek and the Dogs (Andrew Kötting)The Bottomless Bag (Rustam Khamdamov)Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing)Readers (James Benning)The Wandering Soap Opera (Valeria Sarmiento, Raúl Ruiz)Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)Bright FUTUREThe Flower Shop (Ruben Desiere)Look Up (Fulvio Risoleo)My Friend the Polish Girl (Ewa Banaszkiewicz)Rabot (Christina Vandekerckhove)Respeto (Alberto Monteras II)The Return (Malene Choi Jensen)Windspiel (Peyman Ghalambor)All You Can Eat Buddha (Ian Lagarde)Azougue Nazareth (Tiago Melo)My Own Private Hell (Guto Parente)Ordinary Time (Susana Nobre)3/4 (Ilian Metev)Cocote (Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias)Drift (Helena Wittmann)The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)Gutland (Govinda Van Maele)The Watchman (Alejandro Andújar...
- 12/15/2017
- MUBI
The scene in which the little girl, Maria, goes missing in Romanian director Constantin Popescu‘s brutally effective, profoundly depressing San Sebastian Competition title “Pororoca” is a movie unto itself. Like most of this 2h30m film’s pivotal scenes, it runs long — extraordinarily so — and its single-take, handheld nature, that ranges from steady and amused, to sinister and watchful, to panicking and juddery, challenges us to locate the exact moment at which everything goes wrong: the exact time the chatty little blonde girl, having wandered out of frame so many times, suddenly never wanders back in.
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- 9/27/2017
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Justin Chon's Korean American drama Gook and Pororoca, the latest from Romanian auteur Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) are among the titles selected for competition at this year's Zurich International Film Festival.
The Zurich line-up, announced Wednesday, is a compelling mix of U.S. and international arthouse titles, with highlights including Peter Mackie Burns' Daphne starring Emily Beecham; Venice Film Festival entry Under The Tree from Icelandic helmer Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson and Weightless, the feature debut of music video director Jaron Albertin, which stars Marc Menchaca, Julianna Nicholson and Johnny Knoxville.
In...
The Zurich line-up, announced Wednesday, is a compelling mix of U.S. and international arthouse titles, with highlights including Peter Mackie Burns' Daphne starring Emily Beecham; Venice Film Festival entry Under The Tree from Icelandic helmer Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson and Weightless, the feature debut of music video director Jaron Albertin, which stars Marc Menchaca, Julianna Nicholson and Johnny Knoxville.
In...
- 9/14/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Constantin Popescu’s drama sells to France.
Wide Management has sealed a first pre-sale on Romanian director Constantin Popescu’s missing child family drama Pororoca to Paris-based distributor New Story.
Bogdan Dumitrache, whose recent credits include Sieranevada, plays a happily married accountant who loses his young daughter during a routine trip to the park.
“For plausibility, the script was reviewed by psychologists and Bogdan prepared his role with psychologists to understand fully the state of mind of his character,” said Wide Management sales chief Diane Ferrandez.
“We’re very happy for New Story to be venturing off the beaten path by committing to the film on a yet to be finalised cut,” she added.
Other titles on Wide Management’s Cannes slate include Once Upon A Time In November, Euthanizer and Bulgarian director Petar Valchanov’s upcoming The Father, which is prompting buying interest on the back of his last film The Lesson.
Wide Management has sealed a first pre-sale on Romanian director Constantin Popescu’s missing child family drama Pororoca to Paris-based distributor New Story.
Bogdan Dumitrache, whose recent credits include Sieranevada, plays a happily married accountant who loses his young daughter during a routine trip to the park.
“For plausibility, the script was reviewed by psychologists and Bogdan prepared his role with psychologists to understand fully the state of mind of his character,” said Wide Management sales chief Diane Ferrandez.
“We’re very happy for New Story to be venturing off the beaten path by committing to the film on a yet to be finalised cut,” she added.
Other titles on Wide Management’s Cannes slate include Once Upon A Time In November, Euthanizer and Bulgarian director Petar Valchanov’s upcoming The Father, which is prompting buying interest on the back of his last film The Lesson.
- 5/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
Apart from some isolated names and titles, Romanian cinema remained virtually unknown to the rest of the world until the 2000s, when the so-called Romanian New Wave emerged. In 2004, a series of internationally awarded shorts—Cristi Puiu’s Cigarettes and Coffee, Catalin Mitulescu’s Traffic, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Liviu’s Dream and Constantin Popescu’s The Apartment, among others—placed Romania firmly in view... >> -Cristina Álvarez López...
- 9/1/2015
- Keyframe
Apart from some isolated names and titles, Romanian cinema remained virtually unknown to the rest of the world until the 2000s, when the so-called Romanian New Wave emerged. In 2004, a series of internationally awarded shorts—Cristi Puiu’s Cigarettes and Coffee, Catalin Mitulescu’s Traffic, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Liviu’s Dream and Constantin Popescu’s The Apartment, among others—placed Romania firmly in view... >> -Cristina Álvarez López...
- 9/1/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Following our looks at actors, actresses, screenwriters and directors to watch in recent months, when the time came to put together a list of cinematographers (as we did two years ago), we went in with an open mind. But what was interesting is realizing, after the fact, that in an era where 35mm film is allegedly being phased out, that all five have done perhaps their most distinctive work on old-fashioned celluloid, rather than digital.
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
- 6/26/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project, a film directed by Srinivas Sunderrajan is one among the 12 films that will contend for the Transilvania Trophy at the tenth edition of Transilvania International Film Festival (Tiff).
Presented by Romanian Film Promotion, 10th Tiff will take place from June 3-12, 2011 in Cluj- Napoca and June 15-19, 2011 in Sibiu, Romania. The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project will compete with films from Spain, Iceland, Sweden, USA, Germany, Denmark, Argentina, Belgium, Uruguay, Israel and Russia.
The film belonging to meta fiction genre stars Kartik Krishnan, Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, Swara Bhaskar and D Santosh. A Hindi-English drama-thriller film shot in Mumbai, it was screened in Mumbai International Film Festival, 2010, South-Asian International Film Festival New York 2010 and Asian Hot Shots International Film Festival Berlin 2010.
The films in competition are:
A useful life / La vida util
Dir: Federico Veiroj, Uruguay – Spain, 2010
Innocent Saturday / V subbotu
Dir: Alexander Mindadze, Russia – Germany – Ukraine, 2011
King...
Presented by Romanian Film Promotion, 10th Tiff will take place from June 3-12, 2011 in Cluj- Napoca and June 15-19, 2011 in Sibiu, Romania. The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project will compete with films from Spain, Iceland, Sweden, USA, Germany, Denmark, Argentina, Belgium, Uruguay, Israel and Russia.
The film belonging to meta fiction genre stars Kartik Krishnan, Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, Swara Bhaskar and D Santosh. A Hindi-English drama-thriller film shot in Mumbai, it was screened in Mumbai International Film Festival, 2010, South-Asian International Film Festival New York 2010 and Asian Hot Shots International Film Festival Berlin 2010.
The films in competition are:
A useful life / La vida util
Dir: Federico Veiroj, Uruguay – Spain, 2010
Innocent Saturday / V subbotu
Dir: Alexander Mindadze, Russia – Germany – Ukraine, 2011
King...
- 5/6/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
2010 has been another good year for Romanian cinema. Lots of awards and many new young directors that confirmed films like 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu or Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective weren't accidents. As some people call it, the "Romanian New Wave", continued to gain the world’s attention at film festivals through 2010, featuring new filmmakers that have just made their first feature film. Florin Şerban’s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Bogdan George Apetri’s Periferic or Marian Crişan’s Morgen are among the highlights of the year. For the next year, there are many films waiting an international film festival and domestic release: Adrian Sitaru’s second feature From Love, with Best Intentions (Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune intenții), Virgil Nicolaescu’s The Godmother (Nașa), Alexandru Maftei’s Hello! How are you? (Bună! Ce faci?), Cătălin Mitulescu’s second feature Loverboy, another...
- 1/5/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Sunday, December 5th concludes the 5th annual Romanian Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. This year hosts The Romanian Cultural Institute and curator Mihai Chirilov added the moniker “A New Beginning,” in appreciation of the recent success of what has been dubbed the “Romanian New Wave.” This year, Cristi Puiu, arguably the one who started it all with his 2006 debut The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, returns with his second feature Aurora. The three-hour long film premiered earlier this year at the New York Film Festival to resoundingly positive reviews. Also returning from Nyff are Radu Montean’s Tuesday, After Christmas (opening May 25 at Film Forum) and Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, which opened the festival. All three were standouts this past May on the Croisette. Bobby Paunescu, producer of “Aurora” and “Lazarescu”, screens his directorial debut Francesca. Rounding out the “Romanian New Wave” roster of attendees is Razvan Radulescu,...
- 12/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
This weekend, December 3-5, Tribeca Cinemas is proud to host the 5th Romanian Film Festival in New York City, featuring a roster of shining stars from past and present. Hosted, as always, by The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, this year's festival is entitled A New Beginning and will feature the best and most recent films from Romania's unique and critically exalted national body of contemporary cinema. These include works from filmmakers at the forefront of the Romanian New Wave, such as Cristi Puiu, Radu Muntean and Razvan Radulescu, as well as debut features from Constantin Popescu and Bobby Paunescu. For its opening night, the festival will present the highly anticipated new work from Andrei Ujica (Videograms of a Revolution), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu. The festival will conclude with the landmark Romanian film Carnival Scenes by filmmaker Lucian Pintilie, featuring celebrated Romanian stage and screen actor Victor Rebengiuc...
- 12/1/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Romanian cinema at 58th San Sebastian Festival will be represented by Principles of Life (Principii de viață). Constantin Popescu's sophomore feature has been selected to compete in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section. The film examines the rapport between father and son, and in a nutshell is about the generation gaps and the inability to communicate. Emilian Velicanu, 43, considers his life positively full: he has money, a new villa, he is married for the second time to a young woman with whom he has a baby and has a son from his first marriage. Before the holidays arrive, he makes plans to leave his business on autopilot during his time off, but complications ensue, and this end of the day crisis makes him wonder if he's really happy and fulfilled. The screenplay for Principles of Life has had a story of its own. It failed to win at a previous edition...
- 8/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Rumours are circulating in Paris two weeks ahead of the press conference at which the official selection for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23, 2010) will be unveiled. And uncertainty will reign until April 15 for this year many films are apparently caught up in a race against time to be ready for Cannes.
According to our sources, the race for the Palme d’Or will almost certainly include Tree of Life by Us director Terrence Malick; Biutiful by Mexico’s Alejandro González Inárritu; Tamara Drewe by UK director Stephen Frears; Another Year by fellow Brit Mike Leigh; and two Korean films: Poetry by Lee Chang-dong and The Housemaid by Im Sang-soo.
The competition line-up may also include Us director Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Miral by fellow Us filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Outrage by Japan’s Takeshi Kitano, and two Argentinean features: Pablo Trapero’s Carancho and Diego Lerman’s Moral Sciences.
According to our sources, the race for the Palme d’Or will almost certainly include Tree of Life by Us director Terrence Malick; Biutiful by Mexico’s Alejandro González Inárritu; Tamara Drewe by UK director Stephen Frears; Another Year by fellow Brit Mike Leigh; and two Korean films: Poetry by Lee Chang-dong and The Housemaid by Im Sang-soo.
The competition line-up may also include Us director Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Miral by fellow Us filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Outrage by Japan’s Takeshi Kitano, and two Argentinean features: Pablo Trapero’s Carancho and Diego Lerman’s Moral Sciences.
- 4/1/2010
- by Cineuropa
- DearCinema.com
It's a wrap! The Martin Gropius Bau is empty and the final pickups follow. This is a work in progress and readers are invited and welcome to contribute. Presales have returned in reaction to the reduced number of finished films on offer over the past two markets. Presales applies across the board from Us to French and even Italian films. English language films are increasingly coming out of the major non English language territories but local product is impacting sales on Us films internationally. Business was quickly wrapped up but it was done with a healthy number of buys reported. Lower prices have become accepted but the market must have product as this event proved.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
- 3/9/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Constantin Popescu is currently shooting and is close to wrapping up his feature length directorial debut with a familiar face in some award winning samples of Romanian cinema in the lead role. - Constantin Popescu is currently shooting and is close to wrapping up his feature length directorial debut with a familiar face in some award winning samples of Romanian cinema in the lead role. Written by Razvan Radulescu and Alexandru Baciu (The Paper Will Be Blue), this is a contemporary, drama set during a 24-hour period that features a father played by Vlad Ivanov who is disconnected from his family, especially from his son. Filmneweurope reports that Principles of Life has picked up a good number of grants and is being lensed by California Dreamin's Liviu Marghidan. Among the five directors who participated in Tales from the Golden Age, the omnibus project devised by Cristian Mungiu...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
Pete Travis, director of Vantage Point, recruited William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Strong and Johnny Lee Miller to star in a new film called Endgame and it was finally picked up by small-time distributor Monterey Media and the first trailer has made its way online. Along with Endgame, a trailer for Tales from the Golden Age, which was helmed by an international crew of directors starting with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days helmer Christian Mungiu along with Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu; and a second trailer for the John Travolta and Robin Williams comedy Old Dogs has arrived.
I have featured each trailer below along with the synopsis as well as a link for each. Enjoy.
Endgame - Trailer November 6, 2009 South Africa, 1985. While the country is under siege, sanctions are biting, Mandela's imprisonment is an international cause celebre, and the Anc guerrilla terrorist attacks are escalating.
I have featured each trailer below along with the synopsis as well as a link for each. Enjoy.
Endgame - Trailer November 6, 2009 South Africa, 1985. While the country is under siege, sanctions are biting, Mandela's imprisonment is an international cause celebre, and the Anc guerrilla terrorist attacks are escalating.
- 10/18/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
- Ioncinema.com Schedule: Starting off the day with Pedro and will verify whether Spanish critics are right with their assessment back in March, this will be followed by Cristian Mungiu and his four fellow directors in the 5 storied Tales From the Golden Age and might end it off with a film that I missed (on purpose) at the Sundance Film Fest and will only see because I've got a rare hole in my schedule with nothing that meets my interests. Worse case is I'll see Marco Bellocchio's Vincere on the final Sunday of the fest. Main Comp: Broken Embraces from Pedro and Vincere from Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Un Certain Regard: Tales From the Golden Age from Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru. Tomorrow at Dawn comes to us via Denis Dercourt. Director's Fortnight: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's La Pivellina, Cherien Dabis
- 5/19/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- If you're a distributor keen on foreign language fair, developing relationships with filmmakers is primordial in having an advantage on the competition: this is a tactic that IFC films regularly employs with foreign filmmakers (several come to mind as I write this). Despite receiving inadequate support for a foreign language nomination for the Oscars, the above mentioned relationship is one reason why IFC Films have been able to grab Cristian Mungiu and fellow Romanian filmmakers (Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu) latest project titled Tales From the Golden Age. Unlike IFC folks, I'll be seeing the Un Certain Regard selected film this Thursday, and if I haven't declared often enough on the site – I'm a huge fan of Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (it received tons of accolades and last year's Palme d'or). I got to interview Mungiu at Tiff. Tales From The Golden Age is
- 5/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Cannes -- IFC is again heading to Romania, acquiring U.S. rights to "Tales From the Golden Age," a feature collection of shorts set in the country's Communist period.
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" writer-director Cristian Mungiu penned all the shorts while he, and fellow Romanian helmers Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu each took a turn directing one.
The pic, which premieres Tuesday in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes, examines urban legends in the former Eastern bloc nation, examining life in those dark days through the experiences of ordinary people. The stories are not related but are united "by mood, narrative pattern and the details of the historical period," IFC said.
At Cannes two years ago, IFC bought Mungiu's "4 Months," a hard-bitten tale of a young girl's attempted abortion in Ceausescu's Romania; the film took the Palme d'Or and became a critics' darling when...
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" writer-director Cristian Mungiu penned all the shorts while he, and fellow Romanian helmers Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu each took a turn directing one.
The pic, which premieres Tuesday in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes, examines urban legends in the former Eastern bloc nation, examining life in those dark days through the experiences of ordinary people. The stories are not related but are united "by mood, narrative pattern and the details of the historical period," IFC said.
At Cannes two years ago, IFC bought Mungiu's "4 Months," a hard-bitten tale of a young girl's attempted abortion in Ceausescu's Romania; the film took the Palme d'Or and became a critics' darling when...
- 5/13/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- To be more precise, the Un Certain Regard's entry of Tales From the Golden Age is a film by Cristian Mungiu and filmmakers Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu and Constantin Popescu. I'm not sure which images (below) correspond to which film/filmmaker, but what Mungiu wants to do is provide a balance to the point of view he offered in the grim portrait 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Mungiu told me that the short film project that looks back at the small misfortunes common Romanian folk had under communism will told on a much lighter note. Judging by the pics below, I'm expecting a couple of hilarious sequences. ...
- 4/24/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- So the inflatable doll magically coming to life tale was perhaps too “out there” for a main comp acceptance, but Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll came on over to Un Certain Regard section along with expect works from Romanian filmmakers Cristian Mungiu (Tales From The Golden Age) and Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective), France's Denis Dercourt (Demain Des L'aube), Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Nymph) and Cannes regular (The Host, Tokyo!) Bong Joon-Ho and his latest film, Mother. Lee Daniels' Sundance fave is going to Cannes with a buzz worthy, shorter titled Push – this great news explains why the film was pulled out of the New Directors/New Films 2009 fest. Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi who gave us the devastating Turtles Can Fly a couple of year back comes to the Ucr section with another oddly titled film in Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats. And speaking of Sundance, Cannes' own Atelier de
- 4/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Once again I bring you the best round-up of all the movie updates announced in this past week's trade reports. Why read a Ton of articles when you can read just one? This week you have a lot to get excited about with new films from Woody Allen, Werner Herzog, Michael Winterbottom, John Madden, James Mangold and even Ralph Fiennes taking a stab at a directorial debut and that's only the first ten new productions listed. Check out the full list and links are available if the film is in the database already, and remember you can keep up with all new films added and updated on the site right here all week long. Title: Guardians of Ga'Hoole
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: John Orloff, John Collee
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, David Wenham
Storyline: An animated feature film based...
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: John Orloff, John Collee
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, David Wenham
Storyline: An animated feature film based...
- 2/13/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In 2007 Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It was then promptly ignored outright by the Academy for Foreign Language Oscar consideration, but was at least nominated for a Golden Globe. I try to bring it up as often as I can simply because I think it is a great film, even though it is quite disturbing and something I have no intention of ever watching again. The main thing that appealed to me was the way Mungiu used the camera and it has me instantly hoping his next film, Tales From The Golden Age is just as good as I have just received word on the new feature as he brings back several of his 4 Months cast members to tell yet another historical story from Romania along with four other Romanian directors -- Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu,...
- 2/11/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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