Conference speakers to include Rikke Ennis, Philip Knatchbull and Walter Iuzzolino.
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organized by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organized by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest 2013 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the remaining sections and films that will screen in the festival’s World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programs. AFI Fest, which redefines Hollywood today as a place where icons and emerging artists bring audiences together to experience global cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 7 through 14 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
- 10/22/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Festival top brass have announced the outstanding World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programmes.
The AFI Fest is scheduled to run from November 7-14 in Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The complete programme includes 119 films (83 features, 36 shorts), representing 43 countries. Twenty-seven films are directed or co-directed by women as are 10 documentaries.
For the fifth consecutive year, AFI Fest will offer free tickets to all screenings, however only the Cinepass Express will provide priority entry to all regular screenings. For the complete programme visit the official site.
World Cinema SelectionsBaby Blues Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)Bethlehem Yuval Adler (Israel)Borgman Alex van Warmerdam (Neth-Bel-Den)Child’s Pose Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)Closed Curtain Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)The Congress Ari Folman (Isr-Ger-Pol-Lux)An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France-Slovenia)Exhibition Joanna Hogg (UK)Gabrielle Louise Archambault (Canada...
The AFI Fest is scheduled to run from November 7-14 in Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The complete programme includes 119 films (83 features, 36 shorts), representing 43 countries. Twenty-seven films are directed or co-directed by women as are 10 documentaries.
For the fifth consecutive year, AFI Fest will offer free tickets to all screenings, however only the Cinepass Express will provide priority entry to all regular screenings. For the complete programme visit the official site.
World Cinema SelectionsBaby Blues Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)Bethlehem Yuval Adler (Israel)Borgman Alex van Warmerdam (Neth-Bel-Den)Child’s Pose Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)Closed Curtain Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)The Congress Ari Folman (Isr-Ger-Pol-Lux)An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France-Slovenia)Exhibition Joanna Hogg (UK)Gabrielle Louise Archambault (Canada...
- 10/22/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Funny Balloons - the French sales company (founded in 03) has created a small niche of repertoire films, and are the folks behind some of my breakout favorites such as Chile's Tony Manero and Mexico's Lake Tahoe (both Cannes products). - Funny Balloons - the French sales company (founded in 03) has created a small niche of repertoire films, and are the folks behind some of my breakout favorites such as Chile's Tony Manero and Mexico's Lake Tahoe (both Cannes products). This year they'll be presenting Benda Bilili! in the Director's Fortnight (opening night slot) and they've got a promo reel for Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem (see pic above) - which I would now say is lining up for Venice preem. Circumstance by Maryam Keshavarz - Post-Production Mammuth by Benoît DelÉPine - Completed Post Mortem by Pablo LarraÍN - Post-Production Wandering Streams (Les Petits Ruisseaux...
- 5/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Funny Balloons - the French sales company (founded in 03) has created a small niche of repertoire films, and are the folks behind some of my breakout favorites such as Chile's Tony Manero and Mexico's Lake Tahoe (both Cannes products). This year they'll be presenting Benda Bilili! in the Director's Fortnight (opening night slot) and they've got a promo reel for Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem (see pic above) - which I would now say is lining up for Venice preem. Circumstance by Maryam Keshavarz - Post-Production Mammuth by Benoît DELÉPINE - Completed Post Mortem by Pablo LARRAÍN - Post-Production Wandering Streams (Les Petits Ruisseaux) by Pascal RABATÉ - Completed Benda Bilili! by Florent De La Tullaye - Completed Lake Tahoe by Fernando Eimbcke - Completed Louise-michel by Gustave Kervern - Completed Nowhere Man by Patrice Toye - Completed Tony Manero by Pablo LARRAÍN - Completed...
- 5/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Before going into my Women Directors Tracking which I have vowed to continue until women reach a parity with men in the film business and Latino Directors groove, I want to thank Howard Feinstein for watching the most obscure films of Rotterdam to find the jewels! Scratching Below the Surface for Some Rotterdam Fest Gems - indieWIRE. Kudos! I wish I could have seen these!
Howard spotted this one: "A young woman named Rusudan Pirveli brought to the 'Bright Future' section Susa, another story of hard financial times. 'The Lost Generation' is represented here by the absent father of an adolescent boy, who, working for his mother, sells bootleg vodka in bottles. Sadly, he lives under the delusion that dad’s return would ease his and his mom’s hardship. Like Koguashvili, Pirveli eschews unnecessary authorial intervention: Both directors understand all too well that they are living amidst powerful,...
Howard spotted this one: "A young woman named Rusudan Pirveli brought to the 'Bright Future' section Susa, another story of hard financial times. 'The Lost Generation' is represented here by the absent father of an adolescent boy, who, working for his mother, sells bootleg vodka in bottles. Sadly, he lives under the delusion that dad’s return would ease his and his mom’s hardship. Like Koguashvili, Pirveli eschews unnecessary authorial intervention: Both directors understand all too well that they are living amidst powerful,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Wedged between Sundance and Berlin is the extremely important Rotterdam film festival. Rotterdam functions as Europe's first major film fest of the year, but it seconds as a premiere destination for filmmakers such as Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), Amat Escalante (Sangre) and Juraj Lehotsky (Blind Loves) who make the kind of films that need a "helping hand". This list is of obvious interest because we'll be talking about this projects-turned-into-films down the road - we only need to look at Venice/Tiff for recent examples such as Samuel Maoz's Lebanon and Shirin Neshat's Women without Men to see the quality of films that got their start here. - Wedged between Sundance and Berlin is the extremely important Rotterdam film festival. Rotterdam functions as Europe's first major film fest of the year, but it seconds as a premiere destination for filmmakers such as Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), Amat Escalante...
- 12/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
what initially caught my eye were the beautiful stills for this flick, but even better the storyline sounds quite fantastic. I've been eagerly awaiting a trailer ever since and finally found one yesterday, and while it doesn't contain any subs it does showcase the fantastic photography with a hint of German Expressionism.
"Tomas is in his 40s. He lives a seemingly normal and good life. His wife Sara is a beautiful and gentle woman, well thought of by everybody. The live in a nice house in the outskirts of a Belgian city. They have good jobs. But for years, Tomas has been toying with a secret dream of abandoning it all and disappearing out of his life and into some new undefined reality. His secret fantasies have added color and excitement to his otherwise dull life. Time has come to act, and one spring day he tricks the world into believing he is dead.
"Tomas is in his 40s. He lives a seemingly normal and good life. His wife Sara is a beautiful and gentle woman, well thought of by everybody. The live in a nice house in the outskirts of a Belgian city. They have good jobs. But for years, Tomas has been toying with a secret dream of abandoning it all and disappearing out of his life and into some new undefined reality. His secret fantasies have added color and excitement to his otherwise dull life. Time has come to act, and one spring day he tricks the world into believing he is dead.
- 11/18/2008
- QuietEarth.us
Nowhere Man, which is directed by Patrice Toye, had a simultaneous world premier yesterday at both the Venice and Montreal film festivals and was just picked up by French sales agent Funny Baloons. What really interests me about this film, that is besides the great looking photography, is the story is about a man who fakes his own death and runs off to live on an island, seemingly Robinson Carusoe style. "Tomas is in his 40s. He lives a seemingly normal and good life. His wife Sara is a beautiful and gentle woman, well thought of by everybody. The live in a nice house in the outskirts of a Belgian city. They have good jobs. But for years, Tomas has been toying with a secret dream of abandoning it all and disappearing out of his life and into some new undefined reality. His secret fantasies have added color and excitement to his otherwise dull life.
- 8/29/2008
- QuietEarth.us
PARK CITY -- Winners of the 10th annual Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards were announced Thursday. The awards include $10,000 checks presented to new directors from four regions throughout the world to support their future projects. The awards were presented to Europe's Patrice Toye for The Spring Ritual and Latin America's Fernando Eimbcke for Lake Tahoe, both tales of family loss. The U.S.' Cruz Angeles won for the post-Sept. 11 drama Don't Let Me Drown, and Japan's Kanji Nakajima won for his sci-fi drama, The Clone Returns to the Homeland.
- 1/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- What do these films have in common? They were past recipients of the award handed out by the Sundance Institute. This yearâ.s crop sees filmmakers from all over the world (a couple of worthy candidates that I've had the chance to see). The twelve finalists for the 2006 Sundance/Nhk International Filmmakers Awards are: Europe: Veit Helmer / Azerbaijan Dream (Germany)â. When a remote village loses its water supply, two young lovers find themselves caught in a battle of the sexes. Their hope to consummate their love is thwarted as the women of the town declare a â.no sex strikeâ. until their water supply returns. Born in Hanover in 1968, Veit Helmer began making award-winning short films as a teenager. After attending the Academy of Television & Film in Munich, he set up his production company in Berlin and made his first feature Tuvalu in 1998, which received the Fipresci prize
- 12/13/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
The complexity of adolescent angst is an increasingly popular subject for filmmakers and is the chief concern of this debut feature from Belgian director Patrice Toye. The tale of a deeply troubled 13-year-old girl and her complex, intense relationship with her young mother, "Rosie" suffers at times from the filmmaker's slack approach to storytelling, but -- thanks to some excellent performances -- it manages to be intermittently powerful. Now playing in New York, the subtitled film opens Aug. 20 at L.A.'s Nuart Theatre.
Told in flashback, the story begins with Rosie (Aranka Coppens) being held in a juvenile detention facility; how she got there is not revealed until the film's end. Before her incarceration, Rosie lived with her mother Irene (Sara de Roo) in a run-down housing project in an industrial neighborhood. Irene, not yet 30, has more than a few boyfriends, and she hides her motherhood by having Rosie address her as "sister." Things become even more confused in the cramped apartment when Rosie's uncle Michel (Frank Vercruyssen) -- whose relationship with his sister is, shall we say, complicated -- moves in.
To escape her misery, Rosie reads romance novels and spends a great deal of time with her boyfriend Jimi (Joost Wijnant), who may be imaginary. Ultimately, the disturbed teen begins to spiral out of control, engaging in ever more problematic and dangerous behavior as her emotional state unravels.
Too often, the filmmaker seems more intent on establishing a bleak atmosphere than clarifying her characters and situations. Although several scenes register with a Gothic intensity, the general vagueness and haphazard blending of fantasy and reality proves more distancing than illuminating. Still, Toye demonstrates a strong visual sense, and she has elicited sterling performances from the entire cast; young Coppens, in particular, inhabits her character with a startling intensity.
ROSIE
New Yorker Films
A Prime Time, the Flemish Film Fund, VRT, Nationale Loterij, Canal PLus production
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Patrice Toye; Producer: Antonino Lombardo; Director of photography: Richard Van Oosterhout; Music: John Parish; Editor: Ludo Troch. Cast: Rosie: Aranka Coppens; Irene: Sara de Roo; Bernard: Dirk Roofthooft; Jimi: Joost Wijnant; Michel: Frank Vercruyssen. Color/stereo. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 97 minutes.
Told in flashback, the story begins with Rosie (Aranka Coppens) being held in a juvenile detention facility; how she got there is not revealed until the film's end. Before her incarceration, Rosie lived with her mother Irene (Sara de Roo) in a run-down housing project in an industrial neighborhood. Irene, not yet 30, has more than a few boyfriends, and she hides her motherhood by having Rosie address her as "sister." Things become even more confused in the cramped apartment when Rosie's uncle Michel (Frank Vercruyssen) -- whose relationship with his sister is, shall we say, complicated -- moves in.
To escape her misery, Rosie reads romance novels and spends a great deal of time with her boyfriend Jimi (Joost Wijnant), who may be imaginary. Ultimately, the disturbed teen begins to spiral out of control, engaging in ever more problematic and dangerous behavior as her emotional state unravels.
Too often, the filmmaker seems more intent on establishing a bleak atmosphere than clarifying her characters and situations. Although several scenes register with a Gothic intensity, the general vagueness and haphazard blending of fantasy and reality proves more distancing than illuminating. Still, Toye demonstrates a strong visual sense, and she has elicited sterling performances from the entire cast; young Coppens, in particular, inhabits her character with a startling intensity.
ROSIE
New Yorker Films
A Prime Time, the Flemish Film Fund, VRT, Nationale Loterij, Canal PLus production
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Patrice Toye; Producer: Antonino Lombardo; Director of photography: Richard Van Oosterhout; Music: John Parish; Editor: Ludo Troch. Cast: Rosie: Aranka Coppens; Irene: Sara de Roo; Bernard: Dirk Roofthooft; Jimi: Joost Wijnant; Michel: Frank Vercruyssen. Color/stereo. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 97 minutes.
- 7/27/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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