Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2024 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2024 edition comprises nine fiction features and one documentary feature. Seven of the projects are debut features, with three second films.
In total, FeatureLab will host 21 participants, of whom 14 are women and seven are men. They come from 11 countries - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, Ukraine.
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Among the 10 projects is Versorgen by Swiss writer and director Nora Longatti whose latest short...
The 2024 edition comprises nine fiction features and one documentary feature. Seven of the projects are debut features, with three second films.
In total, FeatureLab will host 21 participants, of whom 14 are women and seven are men. They come from 11 countries - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, Ukraine.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Among the 10 projects is Versorgen by Swiss writer and director Nora Longatti whose latest short...
- 4/30/2024
- ScreenDaily
Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has acquired worldwide rights for Indonesian film “Crocodile Tears,” it was revealed at Hong Kong rights market FilMart.
The film is a co-production between Indonesia’s Talamedia (producer Mandy Marahimin), Singapore’s Giraffe Pictures (producers Anthony Chen and Teoh Yi Peng), France’s Acrobates Films (producer Claire Lajoumard) and Poetik Film (producer Christophe Lafont) and Germany’s 2Pilots Filmproduction (producers Harry Flöter and Jörg Siepmann).
The deal was negotiated by Sebastien Chesneau at Cercamon, Chen at Giraffe Pictures and Marahimin at Talamedia.
The film, Tumpal Tampubolon’s feature debut, follows Johan, who lives alone with his mother on a crocodile farm in West Java. Mother and son live in voluntary exile with only a white crocodile as their confidant. Their life of isolation is disrupted when Johan falls for a girl in town, Arumi, setting off a chain of events that threatens the delicate balance of their lives.
The film is a co-production between Indonesia’s Talamedia (producer Mandy Marahimin), Singapore’s Giraffe Pictures (producers Anthony Chen and Teoh Yi Peng), France’s Acrobates Films (producer Claire Lajoumard) and Poetik Film (producer Christophe Lafont) and Germany’s 2Pilots Filmproduction (producers Harry Flöter and Jörg Siepmann).
The deal was negotiated by Sebastien Chesneau at Cercamon, Chen at Giraffe Pictures and Marahimin at Talamedia.
The film, Tumpal Tampubolon’s feature debut, follows Johan, who lives alone with his mother on a crocodile farm in West Java. Mother and son live in voluntary exile with only a white crocodile as their confidant. Their life of isolation is disrupted when Johan falls for a girl in town, Arumi, setting off a chain of events that threatens the delicate balance of their lives.
- 3/12/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Kashmiri actor-turned-director Aamir Bashir returns with his first feature in 12 years in The Winter Within, a taut art house drama making its world premiere in competition at the Busan International Film Festival on Sunday.
In the film’s first English-language trailer, shared exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter on the eve of the premiere, actress Zoya Hussain, playing domestic helper Nargis, is revealed in a state of inward grief amidst Kashmir’s harsh but majestic winter landscapes (see the trailer below).
Bashir, who was born in Kashmir, began his film career as an actor — he had a recurring role in Netflix’s first India original series, Sacred Games — before making his directorial debut in 2010 with Autumn, which became a festival favorite, playing at Toronto, Rotterdam and Fribourg. It later won the best Urdu feature film prize at India’s 60th National Film Awards. The Winter Within’s star,...
Kashmiri actor-turned-director Aamir Bashir returns with his first feature in 12 years in The Winter Within, a taut art house drama making its world premiere in competition at the Busan International Film Festival on Sunday.
In the film’s first English-language trailer, shared exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter on the eve of the premiere, actress Zoya Hussain, playing domestic helper Nargis, is revealed in a state of inward grief amidst Kashmir’s harsh but majestic winter landscapes (see the trailer below).
Bashir, who was born in Kashmir, began his film career as an actor — he had a recurring role in Netflix’s first India original series, Sacred Games — before making his directorial debut in 2010 with Autumn, which became a festival favorite, playing at Toronto, Rotterdam and Fribourg. It later won the best Urdu feature film prize at India’s 60th National Film Awards. The Winter Within’s star,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sale also secured in Spain for Bui Kim Quy’s ‘Memoryland’.
Bangkok-based sales agent Diversion has boarded Amir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which is set to world premiere in competition at Busan International Film Festival this week.
The film focuses on a couple torn apart by the violent military conflicts in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. Indian actress Zoya Hussain stars as a domestic helper who is desperately waiting for her husband to return from the war. Hussain is known for her breakthrough role in Anurag Kashyap’s The Brawler, which premiered at Toronto in 2017.
Kashmir-born director...
Bangkok-based sales agent Diversion has boarded Amir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which is set to world premiere in competition at Busan International Film Festival this week.
The film focuses on a couple torn apart by the violent military conflicts in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. Indian actress Zoya Hussain stars as a domestic helper who is desperately waiting for her husband to return from the war. Hussain is known for her breakthrough role in Anurag Kashyap’s The Brawler, which premiered at Toronto in 2017.
Kashmir-born director...
- 10/3/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Bernardo Quesney’s “History and Geography” and Tomás González Matos’ “Breaking and Entering” are two of the titles screening May 20 at Cannes’ Marché du Film showcase, Sanfic Industria Goes to Cannes.
Two other films round out the selection; Andrew Sala’s “The Barbaric” from Argentina, and Esteban García’s Mexico-Columbia co-production “Back to the Sea of my Deseaced.”
All four titles screened at Sanfic Industria’s Works in Progress. The 2022 Cannes slate showcases powerful themes of violence, identity and corruption.
The Goes to Cannes sessions will run May 20-23 May. The curated selections will be presented at two-hour pitch sessions alongside teams who will introduce their films in front of an audience of industry execs and fest heads. The films in this section are in various stages of post-production, some seeking sales agents, distributors or festival selection.
A brief breakdown of the Sanfic Industria Goes to Cannes titles:
“Breaking and Entering,...
Two other films round out the selection; Andrew Sala’s “The Barbaric” from Argentina, and Esteban García’s Mexico-Columbia co-production “Back to the Sea of my Deseaced.”
All four titles screened at Sanfic Industria’s Works in Progress. The 2022 Cannes slate showcases powerful themes of violence, identity and corruption.
The Goes to Cannes sessions will run May 20-23 May. The curated selections will be presented at two-hour pitch sessions alongside teams who will introduce their films in front of an audience of industry execs and fest heads. The films in this section are in various stages of post-production, some seeking sales agents, distributors or festival selection.
A brief breakdown of the Sanfic Industria Goes to Cannes titles:
“Breaking and Entering,...
- 5/19/2022
- by JD Linville
- Variety Film + TV
A combined €314,000 in production and distribution funding has been awarded to 10 international projects.
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to 10 projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues Rojas’ long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira following the award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo De Agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year. Daughter Of Rage won...
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to 10 projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues Rojas’ long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira following the award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo De Agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year. Daughter Of Rage won...
- 11/26/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
A combined €314,000 in production and distribution funding has been awarded to ten projects.
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to ten projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Production funding recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues her long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira, following the director’s award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo de agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year.
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to ten projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Production funding recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues her long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira, following the director’s award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo de agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year.
- 11/26/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
City Of Small Blessings and Tomorrow Is A Long Time will both shoot in Singapore this year.
Akanga Film Asia, the Singapore-based company behind last year’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner A Land Imagined, has two new international co-productions scheduled for filming this year, including City Of Small Blessings which stars A Passage To India actor Victor Banerjee.
Fran Borgia, the Spain-born, Singapore-based founder of Akanga, is co-producing the new film with Gary Goh of Singapore’s mm2, Marion Guth of Luxembourg’s a_BAHN and Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films. Based on the novel by Simon Tay,...
Akanga Film Asia, the Singapore-based company behind last year’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner A Land Imagined, has two new international co-productions scheduled for filming this year, including City Of Small Blessings which stars A Passage To India actor Victor Banerjee.
Fran Borgia, the Spain-born, Singapore-based founder of Akanga, is co-producing the new film with Gary Goh of Singapore’s mm2, Marion Guth of Luxembourg’s a_BAHN and Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films. Based on the novel by Simon Tay,...
- 3/17/2019
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Competition title Big Father, Small Father And Other Stories has been snapped up in France ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday.
Urban Distribution International has sold French rights to the coming-of-age drama to Memento Films, following it first market screening.
The film marks the second feature from Vietnamese director Phan Dang Di following Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, which screened in Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2010.
Set in Saigon in the late 1990s, the new film follows a young photography student in Saigon who becomes enchanted by his flatmate, a beautiful heroin dealer. Cnc’s World Cinema Fund and Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund are among the film’s backers.
Producers are Tran Thi Bich Ngoc of Dny Vietnam, Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films, Markus Halberschmidt of Germany’s Busse & Halberschmidt and Denis Vaslin of the Netherlands’ Volya Films.
Urban Distribution International has sold French rights to the coming-of-age drama to Memento Films, following it first market screening.
The film marks the second feature from Vietnamese director Phan Dang Di following Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, which screened in Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2010.
Set in Saigon in the late 1990s, the new film follows a young photography student in Saigon who becomes enchanted by his flatmate, a beautiful heroin dealer. Cnc’s World Cinema Fund and Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund are among the film’s backers.
Producers are Tran Thi Bich Ngoc of Dny Vietnam, Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films, Markus Halberschmidt of Germany’s Busse & Halberschmidt and Denis Vaslin of the Netherlands’ Volya Films.
- 2/10/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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