Croatian event moved to November for the first time, excluded documentary programme to strengthen the industry section.
The 13th Zagreb Film Festival (Nov 14-22) saw Lászlo Nemes’ Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul win the main prize, the Golden Pram for best feature film and a cash prize of €4,000.
The holocaust drama beat 12 other first or second films by their directors, including Icelandic duo Rams and Sparrows, indie hit Me Earl And The Dying Girl, Czech offerings Family Film and Home Care, and Venezuela’s Venice winner From Afar.
The jury, comprising directors Levan Koguashvili and Jessica Woodworth, and producer Christoph Thoke, said of the winner: ”It’s shattering. It’s a masterpiece. It’s unforgettable. A physical experience. An extraordinary film.”
Special mentions went to Tobias Lindholm’s A War, which world premiered at Venice, and Australia-Vanuatu co-production Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, which won the audience prize in the Venice Critics’ Week.
Shorts...
The 13th Zagreb Film Festival (Nov 14-22) saw Lászlo Nemes’ Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul win the main prize, the Golden Pram for best feature film and a cash prize of €4,000.
The holocaust drama beat 12 other first or second films by their directors, including Icelandic duo Rams and Sparrows, indie hit Me Earl And The Dying Girl, Czech offerings Family Film and Home Care, and Venezuela’s Venice winner From Afar.
The jury, comprising directors Levan Koguashvili and Jessica Woodworth, and producer Christoph Thoke, said of the winner: ”It’s shattering. It’s a masterpiece. It’s unforgettable. A physical experience. An extraordinary film.”
Special mentions went to Tobias Lindholm’s A War, which world premiered at Venice, and Australia-Vanuatu co-production Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, which won the audience prize in the Venice Critics’ Week.
Shorts...
- 11/23/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Iceland’s Oscar submission takes top prize in Lübeck; Edward Snowden gives video introduction to Citizenfour at Dok Leipzig; arson attack hits Lgbt screening in Kyiv.
Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)
Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.
The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.
Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
Festival-goers voted for...
Baldvin Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Life In A Fishbowl was the big winner at this year’s Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, taking home the Ndr Film Prize, worth $15,655 (€12,500)
Lead actor Thorsteinn Bachmann accepted the award in person from the five-person jury, which said it was “a touching and hopeful film about seemingly hopeless situations”.
The co-production between Iceland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic is Iceland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar and is being handled internationally by Films Boutique.
Special mentions were also given to Hisham Zaman’s Letter To The King (Norway) and J-p Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped (Finland) by the jury comprising actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Niklas Osterloh, producer Christoph Thoke, Ndr commissioning editor Diana Schulte-Kellinghaus and Finnish film-maker Kirsi Marie Liimatainen.
Festival-goers voted for...
- 11/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Producers from Lithuania, Romania, Denmark and Finland were the recipients of five awards presented at the Baltic Event’s Co-Production Market (Nov 26-29).
This year’s Screen International Best Pitch Award went to Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim of Vilnius-based Studio Uljana Kim who was pitching Kristijonas Vildžiūnas’s fourth feature Seneca’s Day which is set to be the first co-production between the three Baltic states.
The €1.48m drama, which also has France’s Philippe Avril attached as a co-producer via his Strasbourg-based company Unlimited, has already received development support from the Lithuanian Film Centre and Media.
Previous winners of the Screen International award, which follows the winning project editorially from development into production and subsequent distribution, includes Petri Kotwica’s Rat King, Alexei German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds and Jaak Kilmi’s The Hoppers.
Cannes Producers Network
Cannes’ Producers Network gave two free accreditations for its 2014 edition to two promising young producers, the Baltic...
This year’s Screen International Best Pitch Award went to Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim of Vilnius-based Studio Uljana Kim who was pitching Kristijonas Vildžiūnas’s fourth feature Seneca’s Day which is set to be the first co-production between the three Baltic states.
The €1.48m drama, which also has France’s Philippe Avril attached as a co-producer via his Strasbourg-based company Unlimited, has already received development support from the Lithuanian Film Centre and Media.
Previous winners of the Screen International award, which follows the winning project editorially from development into production and subsequent distribution, includes Petri Kotwica’s Rat King, Alexei German Jr.’s Under Electric Clouds and Jaak Kilmi’s The Hoppers.
Cannes Producers Network
Cannes’ Producers Network gave two free accreditations for its 2014 edition to two promising young producers, the Baltic...
- 12/2/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
What happens to film projects after they participate in Film Bazaar? Do all of them see the light of the day? Film Bazaar 2010witnessed films like Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai and Umesh Kulkarni’s Deool. While both these films are ready for release, did the 16 other projects at the co-production market meet the same fate?
Before Film Bazaar 2011 begins in Goa from November 24, DearCinema, in the second of a series, takes a stock of projects that participated in Film Bazaar 2010:
Project: The Story of Ram by Ritesh Batra (India)
Status: pre-production
Set in India during the license raj or the permit regime of the 1980s, The Story of Ram is about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It is the story of an ordinary tea vendor who strikes up friendship with the Prime Minister of India.
Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. is producing the project. It is expected to go...
Before Film Bazaar 2011 begins in Goa from November 24, DearCinema, in the second of a series, takes a stock of projects that participated in Film Bazaar 2010:
Project: The Story of Ram by Ritesh Batra (India)
Status: pre-production
Set in India during the license raj or the permit regime of the 1980s, The Story of Ram is about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It is the story of an ordinary tea vendor who strikes up friendship with the Prime Minister of India.
Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. is producing the project. It is expected to go...
- 11/3/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
By Victoria Charters
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day 10.
11 a.m.: I start my business day at a too-civilized hour.
The Short Film Corner workshop I have been invited to attend is titled “Coup de Pouce,” which iTranslate tells me means “boost” and covers distribution, film festival strategy, producing and other broad categories; I’ve been selected for the writing block.
Although I’d little knowledge of what this really meant, it turns out to be an invitation to participate in an all-expenses-paid 60-day artist retreat at the Moulin d’Andé, a cultural center in Normandy (and fantastically situated in an old mill, check it out). For this French equivalent of the coveted Sundance labs, I’ve been invited to submit a script for a short, feature or documentary in either the French or international program.
Hmm, now I really do have to rewrite that feature script that has...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day 10.
11 a.m.: I start my business day at a too-civilized hour.
The Short Film Corner workshop I have been invited to attend is titled “Coup de Pouce,” which iTranslate tells me means “boost” and covers distribution, film festival strategy, producing and other broad categories; I’ve been selected for the writing block.
Although I’d little knowledge of what this really meant, it turns out to be an invitation to participate in an all-expenses-paid 60-day artist retreat at the Moulin d’Andé, a cultural center in Normandy (and fantastically situated in an old mill, check it out). For this French equivalent of the coveted Sundance labs, I’ve been invited to submit a script for a short, feature or documentary in either the French or international program.
Hmm, now I really do have to rewrite that feature script that has...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By Victoria Charters
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day 10.
11 a.m.: I start my business day at a too-civilized hour.
The Short Film Corner workshop I have been invited to attend is titled “Coup de Pouce,” which iTranslate tells me means “boost” and covers distribution, film festival strategy, producing and other broad categories; I’ve been selected for the writing block.
Although I’d little knowledge of what this really meant, it turns out to be an invitation to participate in an all-expenses-paid 60-day artist retreat at the Moulin d’Andé, a cultural center in Normandy (and fantastically situated in an old mill, check it out). For this French equivalent of the coveted Sundance labs, I’ve been invited to submit a script for a short, feature or documentary in either the French or international program.
Hmm, now I really do have to rewrite that feature script that has...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day 10.
11 a.m.: I start my business day at a too-civilized hour.
The Short Film Corner workshop I have been invited to attend is titled “Coup de Pouce,” which iTranslate tells me means “boost” and covers distribution, film festival strategy, producing and other broad categories; I’ve been selected for the writing block.
Although I’d little knowledge of what this really meant, it turns out to be an invitation to participate in an all-expenses-paid 60-day artist retreat at the Moulin d’Andé, a cultural center in Normandy (and fantastically situated in an old mill, check it out). For this French equivalent of the coveted Sundance labs, I’ve been invited to submit a script for a short, feature or documentary in either the French or international program.
Hmm, now I really do have to rewrite that feature script that has...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Peepli Live, written and directed by Anusha Rizvi was awarded the ‘Best First Feature Film’ at the 31st edition of the Durban International Film Festival. The International Jury comprising of producers Aihara Hiromi of Japan; Christoph Thoke of Germany and South African academic, writer and producer Bhekizizwe Peterson noted: “ Peepli Live is an ambitious and well-realized film that deals with serious political issues in a witty and entertaining manner. It creates an enchanting world of colourful characters, images and music that engrosses viewers throughout”.
Peepli Live will be distributed in South Africa by the Avalon Group from August 13, as reported by Pti. Earlier this year, Peepli Live became the first Indian film to compete at the Sundance International Film Festival. It was also received well at other major film festivals like the Berlinale.
The White Meadows (Iran) won the Best Feature Film at the Durban film festival which ran from...
Peepli Live will be distributed in South Africa by the Avalon Group from August 13, as reported by Pti. Earlier this year, Peepli Live became the first Indian film to compete at the Sundance International Film Festival. It was also received well at other major film festivals like the Berlinale.
The White Meadows (Iran) won the Best Feature Film at the Durban film festival which ran from...
- 8/3/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
CANNES -- Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethaku makes experimental films outside that country's studio system. Rigorously uncommercial and for most viewers impenetrable, his second feature, "Tropical Malady", will prove a strain for even his loyal fans. Certainly for most audiences the viewing experience will prove not only tedious but bewildering. If the walkouts and boos mingled with applause at its press screening here mean anything, the film may stump the art-film crowd as well.
The film comes in two parts. In the first, a young soldier Keng (Banlop Lomnoi) falls for a country boy named Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee). They sit around with his Tong's mother, listening to the sounds of the night air. Away from his home, Keng kisses and fondles Tong's hand. (Whatever does that mean? one wonders.)
Then the screen goes blank and we are meant to understand that Tong has disappeared. Now we enter the folkloric section of the movie, in which the soldier enters the jungle looking for Tong or a ghost or a wild beast that is slaughtering cows. It is not clear.
This section is shot at night in a jungle in northeast Thailand. This effectively keeps the screen nearly pitch black so one is lucky to see anything. The highlight comes when a monkey is glimpsed and his gibbering is given subtitled dialogue. Later a tiger appears, but isn't given anything to say.
Finally, a ghost appears in the form of a naked man who wrestles and apparently defeats the soldier. Hard to say though since this, too, takes place in the dark. Which is where Weerasethakul leaves his audience for most of the film.
TROPICAL MALADY
An Anna Sanders Films production co-produced by TIFA Downtown Pictures, Thoke+Moebius film and Kick the Machine
Credits:
Writer/director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producers: Paiboon Damrongchaithaqm, Marco Muller, Christoph Thoke, Axel Moebius, Pantham Thongsang
Directors of photography: Vichit Tanapaniktch, Jarin Pengpanitch, Jean Louis Vialard
Production designer: Akekarat Homiaor
Costume designer: Pilaitip Jamniam
Editor: Lee Chatamethikool
Cast:
Keng: Banlop Lomnoi
Tong: Sakda Kaewbuadee
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 120 minutes...
The film comes in two parts. In the first, a young soldier Keng (Banlop Lomnoi) falls for a country boy named Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee). They sit around with his Tong's mother, listening to the sounds of the night air. Away from his home, Keng kisses and fondles Tong's hand. (Whatever does that mean? one wonders.)
Then the screen goes blank and we are meant to understand that Tong has disappeared. Now we enter the folkloric section of the movie, in which the soldier enters the jungle looking for Tong or a ghost or a wild beast that is slaughtering cows. It is not clear.
This section is shot at night in a jungle in northeast Thailand. This effectively keeps the screen nearly pitch black so one is lucky to see anything. The highlight comes when a monkey is glimpsed and his gibbering is given subtitled dialogue. Later a tiger appears, but isn't given anything to say.
Finally, a ghost appears in the form of a naked man who wrestles and apparently defeats the soldier. Hard to say though since this, too, takes place in the dark. Which is where Weerasethakul leaves his audience for most of the film.
TROPICAL MALADY
An Anna Sanders Films production co-produced by TIFA Downtown Pictures, Thoke+Moebius film and Kick the Machine
Credits:
Writer/director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producers: Paiboon Damrongchaithaqm, Marco Muller, Christoph Thoke, Axel Moebius, Pantham Thongsang
Directors of photography: Vichit Tanapaniktch, Jarin Pengpanitch, Jean Louis Vialard
Production designer: Akekarat Homiaor
Costume designer: Pilaitip Jamniam
Editor: Lee Chatamethikool
Cast:
Keng: Banlop Lomnoi
Tong: Sakda Kaewbuadee
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 120 minutes...
CANNES -- Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethaku makes experimental films outside that country's studio system. Rigorously uncommercial and for most viewers impenetrable, his second feature, "Tropical Malady", will prove a strain for even his loyal fans. Certainly for most audiences the viewing experience will prove not only tedious but bewildering. If the walkouts and boos mingled with applause at its press screening here mean anything, the film may stump the art-film crowd as well.
The film comes in two parts. In the first, a young soldier Keng (Banlop Lomnoi) falls for a country boy named Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee). They sit around with his Tong's mother, listening to the sounds of the night air. Away from his home, Keng kisses and fondles Tong's hand. (Whatever does that mean? one wonders.)
Then the screen goes blank and we are meant to understand that Tong has disappeared. Now we enter the folkloric section of the movie, in which the soldier enters the jungle looking for Tong or a ghost or a wild beast that is slaughtering cows. It is not clear.
This section is shot at night in a jungle in northeast Thailand. This effectively keeps the screen nearly pitch black so one is lucky to see anything. The highlight comes when a monkey is glimpsed and his gibbering is given subtitled dialogue. Later a tiger appears, but isn't given anything to say.
Finally, a ghost appears in the form of a naked man who wrestles and apparently defeats the soldier. Hard to say though since this, too, takes place in the dark. Which is where Weerasethakul leaves his audience for most of the film.
TROPICAL MALADY
An Anna Sanders Films production co-produced by TIFA Downtown Pictures, Thoke+Moebius film and Kick the Machine
Credits:
Writer/director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producers: Paiboon Damrongchaithaqm, Marco Muller, Christoph Thoke, Axel Moebius, Pantham Thongsang
Directors of photography: Vichit Tanapaniktch, Jarin Pengpanitch, Jean Louis Vialard
Production designer: Akekarat Homiaor
Costume designer: Pilaitip Jamniam
Editor: Lee Chatamethikool
Cast:
Keng: Banlop Lomnoi
Tong: Sakda Kaewbuadee
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 120 minutes...
The film comes in two parts. In the first, a young soldier Keng (Banlop Lomnoi) falls for a country boy named Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee). They sit around with his Tong's mother, listening to the sounds of the night air. Away from his home, Keng kisses and fondles Tong's hand. (Whatever does that mean? one wonders.)
Then the screen goes blank and we are meant to understand that Tong has disappeared. Now we enter the folkloric section of the movie, in which the soldier enters the jungle looking for Tong or a ghost or a wild beast that is slaughtering cows. It is not clear.
This section is shot at night in a jungle in northeast Thailand. This effectively keeps the screen nearly pitch black so one is lucky to see anything. The highlight comes when a monkey is glimpsed and his gibbering is given subtitled dialogue. Later a tiger appears, but isn't given anything to say.
Finally, a ghost appears in the form of a naked man who wrestles and apparently defeats the soldier. Hard to say though since this, too, takes place in the dark. Which is where Weerasethakul leaves his audience for most of the film.
TROPICAL MALADY
An Anna Sanders Films production co-produced by TIFA Downtown Pictures, Thoke+Moebius film and Kick the Machine
Credits:
Writer/director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producers: Paiboon Damrongchaithaqm, Marco Muller, Christoph Thoke, Axel Moebius, Pantham Thongsang
Directors of photography: Vichit Tanapaniktch, Jarin Pengpanitch, Jean Louis Vialard
Production designer: Akekarat Homiaor
Costume designer: Pilaitip Jamniam
Editor: Lee Chatamethikool
Cast:
Keng: Banlop Lomnoi
Tong: Sakda Kaewbuadee
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 120 minutes...
- 5/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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