The Greek pubcaster is backing 33 Greek and international co-productions with a total of over €2 million. The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (Ert Sa) has announced that it is supporting 33 Greek and international co-productions during its latest round of financing. This is the first slate of funding announced by the new board of directors, which was appointed soon after the latest national parliamentary elections. The support granted amounts to €2,205,000, in accordance with the rule that broadcasters should allocate 1.5% of their gross income to Greek cinema. The selection comprises 21 feature-length fiction titles, eight documentaries and four film projects with a limited budget. Among the selected fiction projects are the third features by Spiros Stathoulopoulos (Meteora), Godard Knows the Truth (producer: Neda Film); Giorgos Servetas, Woman With the Gun (Argonauts Productions); and Nicholas Dimitropoulos (Alter Ego), Echoes of the Past (Foss Productions). In addition, the sophomore...
- 11/13/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
20 films selected for Co-Production Village, including 11 first features.
The Les Arcs Film Festival, celebrating its 10th year in 2018, has unveiled its selection of co-production projects for this year’s Industry Village.
Running December 15-18, the event is a financing platform for feature films in development across Europe.
This year, 20 projects have been selected, including a new film from Carla Simon, whose Summer 93 won best first feature at this year’s Berlinale. Her new project Each Of Us is being co-directed with Anne Zohra Berrached and Meritxell Colell and produced by Spain’s Alhena Production.
Also at the event is Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen...
The Les Arcs Film Festival, celebrating its 10th year in 2018, has unveiled its selection of co-production projects for this year’s Industry Village.
Running December 15-18, the event is a financing platform for feature films in development across Europe.
This year, 20 projects have been selected, including a new film from Carla Simon, whose Summer 93 won best first feature at this year’s Berlinale. Her new project Each Of Us is being co-directed with Anne Zohra Berrached and Meritxell Colell and produced by Spain’s Alhena Production.
Also at the event is Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen...
- 11/21/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The Digital Era: Real-time Films From 2000 To Today
40 years before, in 1960, lighter cameras enabled a cinéma vérité-flavored revolution in street realism. By 2000, new digital cameras suggested a whole new set of promises, including telling stories that would have been unimaginable within minimum budgets for features even ten years before. In 2000, film purists warned that digital still didn’t look as good as celluloid, but that didn’t stop at least three innovative filmmakers from boldly going where no filmmaker had gone before. Mike Figgis’ Timecode (2000) was the first star-supported (Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Holly Hunter, among many others) single-shot project since Rope, underlining that earlier film’s timelessness. If Run Lola Run could do one story three times, then Timecode would do three or four stories one time: the movie is four separate ninety-minute shots shown all at the same time, each in one quadrant of the screen. Where do you look?...
40 years before, in 1960, lighter cameras enabled a cinéma vérité-flavored revolution in street realism. By 2000, new digital cameras suggested a whole new set of promises, including telling stories that would have been unimaginable within minimum budgets for features even ten years before. In 2000, film purists warned that digital still didn’t look as good as celluloid, but that didn’t stop at least three innovative filmmakers from boldly going where no filmmaker had gone before. Mike Figgis’ Timecode (2000) was the first star-supported (Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Holly Hunter, among many others) single-shot project since Rope, underlining that earlier film’s timelessness. If Run Lola Run could do one story three times, then Timecode would do three or four stories one time: the movie is four separate ninety-minute shots shown all at the same time, each in one quadrant of the screen. Where do you look?...
- 10/18/2014
- by Daniel Smith-Rowsey
- SoundOnSight
★★★☆☆ Unceremoniously winching its way onto DVD this week despite contending for top honours at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Greek director Spiros Stathoulopoulos' (Pvc-1) snail-paced Metéora (2012) makes up for its lack of narrative dynamism through some deeply evocative religious symbolism and arresting vistas captured by Stathoulopoulos himself. Set amidst the mountaintop monasteries of the arid Metéora region, faith and lust make uneasy bedfellows for a young Greek Orthodox monk and a similarly pious nun. Animated interjections are almost as ill-fitting, but don't quite fully detract from what is a surprisingly involving study of self-imposed monastic isolation.
- 3/25/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Founded by Philippe Bober in the late 80′s, the Coproduction Office - a Sales Agent/Production Company based out of Paris comes to Cannes with only one item in the Main Competition in a filmmaker they’ve repped before in Ulrich Seidl and his part one of the trilogy, Paradise: Love. They’ve also got a restored print for Rossellini’s 1954 classic and of course, all eyes are on Cannes 2013 for the potential release of Dau by Ilya Khrzhanovsky.
Journey To Italy (New Restored Version) by Roberto Rossellini
Meteora by Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Paradise : Love (Paradies: Liebe) by Ulrich Seidl
Dau by Ilya Khrzhanovsky...
Journey To Italy (New Restored Version) by Roberto Rossellini
Meteora by Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Paradise : Love (Paradies: Liebe) by Ulrich Seidl
Dau by Ilya Khrzhanovsky...
- 5/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Meteora Trailer. Spiros Stathoulopoulos‘ Metéora (2012) movie trailer stars Theo Alexander and Tamila Koulieva-Karantinaki. Metéora‘s plot synopsis: “Meteora tells the story of an illicit affair between an orthodox catholic monk, played by Theo Alexander, and a nun, Russian actress Tamila Koulieva-Karantinaki, who live in monasteries divided by faith and a huge chasm.”
I love the visuals in this trailer.
More on Meteora:
The film screened in competition at Berlinale and by the few reviews currently available, the film is dreadfully slow with little dialogue and sequences which linger on the scenery with animal sounds the only reprieve. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it marks Stathoulopoulos’ film as a festival-only affair and even then, of limited appeal.
Watch the Meteora movie trailer and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. For more Meteora photos, videos, and information, visit our Meteora Page. Meteora has no Us theater release date yet.
I love the visuals in this trailer.
More on Meteora:
The film screened in competition at Berlinale and by the few reviews currently available, the film is dreadfully slow with little dialogue and sequences which linger on the scenery with animal sounds the only reprieve. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it marks Stathoulopoulos’ film as a festival-only affair and even then, of limited appeal.
Watch the Meteora movie trailer and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. For more Meteora photos, videos, and information, visit our Meteora Page. Meteora has no Us theater release date yet.
- 2/23/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Revision
There'll be more notes and roundups over the next few days, but before tonight's presentation of the Bears, I thought I'd rank the films I managed to see at this year's Berlinale. Note that these are not awards predictions but rather personal preferences, for what they're worth. In order (for the moment):
Outstanding
1. Barbara (Christian Petzold), Competition (see the notes and roundup).
2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes), Competition (notes and roundup).
3. Revision (Philip Scheffner), Forum.
Very Good
4. Bestiaire (Denis Côté), Forum (notes and roundup).
Good
5. Sister (Ursula Meier), Competition.
6. Death Row (Werner Herzog), Berlinale Special.
7. War Witch (Kim Nguyen), Competition.
8. Aujourd'hui (Alain Gomis), Competition.
9. Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude), Forum.
10. Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers), Panorama Dokumente.
11. Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou), Forum.
Just Above The Middle Line
12. Mercy (Matthias Glasner), Competition.
13. Captive (Brillante Mendoza), Competition (notes and roundup).
14. Francine (Brian M Cassidy and Melani Shatzky), Forum.
There'll be more notes and roundups over the next few days, but before tonight's presentation of the Bears, I thought I'd rank the films I managed to see at this year's Berlinale. Note that these are not awards predictions but rather personal preferences, for what they're worth. In order (for the moment):
Outstanding
1. Barbara (Christian Petzold), Competition (see the notes and roundup).
2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes), Competition (notes and roundup).
3. Revision (Philip Scheffner), Forum.
Very Good
4. Bestiaire (Denis Côté), Forum (notes and roundup).
Good
5. Sister (Ursula Meier), Competition.
6. Death Row (Werner Herzog), Berlinale Special.
7. War Witch (Kim Nguyen), Competition.
8. Aujourd'hui (Alain Gomis), Competition.
9. Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude), Forum.
10. Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers), Panorama Dokumente.
11. Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou), Forum.
Just Above The Middle Line
12. Mercy (Matthias Glasner), Competition.
13. Captive (Brillante Mendoza), Competition (notes and roundup).
14. Francine (Brian M Cassidy and Melani Shatzky), Forum.
- 2/19/2012
- MUBI
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a monastic, or even better – what it would be like to fall in love in a monastic…nun – here’s the perfect movie for you. Meteora comes from Greek director Spiros Stathoulopoulos and as you already guess it’s one of the titles in competition [...]
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- 2/16/2012
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Shadow Dancer
It's been a good week for festival news junkies. Sundance has opened, Rotterdam's full schedule is now online, Cannes has named Nanni Moretti as President of the Jury for the 65th edition in May, and the Berlinale's been rolling out lineup after lineup. Today's addition: "With seven more films, the Competition program of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival is nearing completion. To date it includes 22 films, of which 17 are vying for the Golden and Silver Bears. 18 films will celebrate their world premieres in the Competition of the Berlinale 2012."
So, the story so far:
À moi seule (Coming Home). France. By Frédéric Videau (Le fils de Jean-Claude Videau, Variéte Francaise). With Agathe Bonitzer and Reda Kateb. World premiere.
Bel Ami. Great Britain. By Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod (feature debut). With Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci. World premiere / Out of Competition.
En kongelig affære...
It's been a good week for festival news junkies. Sundance has opened, Rotterdam's full schedule is now online, Cannes has named Nanni Moretti as President of the Jury for the 65th edition in May, and the Berlinale's been rolling out lineup after lineup. Today's addition: "With seven more films, the Competition program of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival is nearing completion. To date it includes 22 films, of which 17 are vying for the Golden and Silver Bears. 18 films will celebrate their world premieres in the Competition of the Berlinale 2012."
So, the story so far:
À moi seule (Coming Home). France. By Frédéric Videau (Le fils de Jean-Claude Videau, Variéte Francaise). With Agathe Bonitzer and Reda Kateb. World premiere.
Bel Ami. Great Britain. By Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod (feature debut). With Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci. World premiere / Out of Competition.
En kongelig affære...
- 1/21/2012
- MUBI
Andrea Riseborough in James Marsh's Shadow Dancer Robert Pattinson/Bel Ami, Michael Fassbender/Haywire: Berlin Film Festival 2012 Below is the list of the latest movie additions to the Berlin Film Festival's Official Competition line-up: À moi seule (Coming Home). France. By Frédéric Videau (Le fils de Jean-Claude Videau, Varieté Française). With Agathe Bonitzer, Reda Kateb. World premiere. Bel Ami, Great Britain. By Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod (feature debut). With Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, Breaking Dawn Part 2, Eclipse, New Moon, Twilight, Remember Me, Water for Elephants, Cosmopolis), Uma Thurman (Henry & June, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Gattaca, Playing the Field), Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Dans la maison, Sarah's Key, Love Crime, Nowhere Boy, Tell No One, Gosford Park, The Horse Whisperer, Mission: Impossible), Christina Ricci (Speed Racer, Fear and the Loathing in Las Vegas, The Opposite of Sex,...
- 1/20/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Nina Hoss in Christian Petzold's Barbara
"An additional ten world premieres will be screening in the Competition program of the Berlinale 2012," the festival's announced today:
Aujourd'hui
France/Senegal
By Alain Gomis (L'Afrance, Andalucia)
With Saül Williams, Aïssa Maïga, Djolof M'bengue
"What goes on inside the head of a man who knows he has only 24 hours to live?" begins a report from the Afp. "Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis takes viewers through this final day."
Barbara
Germany
By Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow, Dreileben)
With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld
The synopsis from The Match Factory: "East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1978. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away from everything in a provincial backwater. Her lover, a foreign trade employee at Mannesmann that she met on a spring night in East Berlin, is working on her escape.
"An additional ten world premieres will be screening in the Competition program of the Berlinale 2012," the festival's announced today:
Aujourd'hui
France/Senegal
By Alain Gomis (L'Afrance, Andalucia)
With Saül Williams, Aïssa Maïga, Djolof M'bengue
"What goes on inside the head of a man who knows he has only 24 hours to live?" begins a report from the Afp. "Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis takes viewers through this final day."
Barbara
Germany
By Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow, Dreileben)
With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld
The synopsis from The Match Factory: "East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1978. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away from everything in a provincial backwater. Her lover, a foreign trade employee at Mannesmann that she met on a spring night in East Berlin, is working on her escape.
- 1/9/2012
- MUBI
#72. Meteora Director/Writer: Spiros StathoulopoulosProducers: Stathoulopoulos, Philippe Bober, Theo Alexander, Asimakis A. Pagids, Yolanda Markopoulou Distributor: Rights Available (Co-production Office) The Gist: One young monk is drawn to temptation when he meets a nun. They start communicating, sending signals across the abyss from one monastery to another using mirrors and sunlight...(more) Cast: Theo Alexander, Tamila Koulieva List Worthy Reasons...: Greek/Colombian helmer Spiros Stathoulopoulos blasted onto the scene with the 2007 Cannes Directors' Fortnight selected Pvc-1 (one 85 minute continuous shot featuring a human time bomb). This torrid love story has been simmering in post-production for a while now, we're confident that this won't go unnoticed once it hits the festival circuit. Release Date/Status?: We thought this would have been released in Cannes or Venice of 2011. Looks like a bonafide 2012 release. Update: This has been selected for the Berlin Film Festival. ...
- 1/5/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Running between August 31st and September 10th, the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival would be a dandy last edition for festival impresario Marco Muller even if he doesn't nab the likes of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, Walter Salles' On the Road, Fernando Meirelles' 360 and/or Zhang Yimou's Heroes of Naking. In his final year of contract, with approximately twenty-two competition slots (minus the already confirmed opening film from Italian res George Clooney and his Tiff-bound The Ides of March), this thursday's announcement should be heavy on items from the the U.K along with a robust presence from European filmmakers headed by Roman Polanski's Carnage. From France, we think that Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Chicken With Plums (see pic above) Mathieu Kassovitz's Rebellion, Yves Caumon's Bird, John Shank's Last Winter, Emily Atef's Tue-Moi (Kill Me) and Juan Diego Solanas...
- 7/25/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The sales agent and production company had one heck of a year in 2010 with Le Quattro Volte and Aurora, this year they got two features (Blue Bird and Play) and a Boro in the Box (40-minute film) all playing in the Directors' Fortnight. Of interest we have Ilya Khrzhanovsky still working on Dau (see pic above) --- a Cannes 2012 selection folks? Here's the Coproduction Office slate: Blue Bird by Gust Van Den Berghe - Completed Boro In The Box by Bertrand Mandico - Completed Play by Ruben ÖSTLUND - Completed Meteora by Spiros Stathoulopoulos - Post-Production Paradise (Working Title) by Ulrich Seidl - Post-Production Dau by Ilya Khrzhanovsky - Production L'homme Qui Cache La Foret by Bertrand Mandico - Development Memory Hotel by Heinrich Sabl - Post-Production...
- 5/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Now that all bets are off on Terrence Malick showing up on the Lido, and Wong Kar-wai's The Grand Master appears to be on the same no-show list (the fest have announced that Andrew Lau's The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen has their second opening night flick celebrating the anniversary of Bruce Lee’s 70th birthday). Among the other films with odds against, I'm not seeing the Coens (True Grit), Eastwood (Hereafter), Boyle (127 Hours) and Oscar contender The Fighter was according to it's star, no going to tour the fest circuit. Just announced today, Head Jury member Quentin Tarantino's buddy Robert Rodriguez's Machete will be the third opening film - it'll screen at midnight, and I think it'll be in good company genre-wise with some of the genre titles below. Here are some titles (ranging from almost guaranteed to only minimal chance...
- 7/29/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
This year the Coproduction Office come packing three titles – a pair in the Un Certain Regard section and a much anticipated Cannes supported, docu-essay Le Quattro Volte by Italian helmer Michelangelo Frammartino...and the last minute addition to the fest Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project which will probably see the director work on the film until the very last minute, hence the very late in the fest screening. - Slowly becoming a medium-sized player for quality, auteur Euro titles, the German/French company company had more of a presence in Venice/Tiff (Lourdes, Women without Men) last year than they did in Cannes where they presented the animated speaking figurines cowboys & Indians and talking horses. This year the Coproduction Office come packing three titles – a pair in the Un Certain Regard section and a much anticipated Cannes supported, docu-essay Le Quattro Volte by Italian helmer Michelangelo Frammartino.
- 5/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Slowly becoming a medium-sized player for quality, auteur Euro titles, the German/French company company had more of a presence in Venice/Tiff (Lourdes, Women without Men) last year than they did in Cannes where they presented the animated speaking figurines cowboys & Indians and talking horses. This year the Coproduction Office come packing three titles – a pair in the Un Certain Regard section and a much anticipated Cannes supported, docu-essay Le Quattro Volte by Italian helmer Michelangelo Frammartino...and the last minute addition to the fest Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project which will probably see the director work on the film until the very last minute, hence the very late in the fest screening. Here is a look at the posters for the trio of films that'll be at the fest (or click on the Quick Links below for a better sized view). Aurora (Aurore) by Cristi Puiu -...
- 5/11/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
When I saw the runtime of 2007’s Pvc-1 (a mere 85 minutes), I became concerned. I’ve noticed not only that movies of late are getting shorter with each passing year, but a correlation between the length and quality: last month’s The Final Destination spanned a mere 82 minutes; May’s Dance Flick ran 83 minutes; in January, The Uninvited clocked in just shy of an hour and a half with 87 minutes. It’s fairly understandable — (some…maybe five or so) filmmakers probably figure that no one wants to see two hours of crap — but there are those out there who do, and it’s not fair to deprive them of it. So the idea of seeing a movie that doesn’t at least make it into the 90s of minutes made me apprehensive.
10 or so minutes into Pvc-1, though, the brevity made sense, and my qualms were put to rest. Pvc-1...
10 or so minutes into Pvc-1, though, the brevity made sense, and my qualms were put to rest. Pvc-1...
- 9/24/2009
- by Jess Goodwin
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – I love IFC Films. They release such a diverse, interesting slate of films every year that one never quite knows what they’re going to get with each individual offering. Five recent IFC titles are the subject of the latest DVD Round-Up, our regular column drawing attention to titles that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Titles in this very arthouse edition of the Round-Up include a stylish horror film called “Nightmare,” a twisted thriller called “Pvc-1,” a puzzle of a story known as “Fermat’s Room,” an Icelandic movie called “White Night Wedding,” and an odd flick directed by Madonna known as “Filth and Wisdom”. Art film fans should check them all out. Keep IFC going as strongly as they have lately. But if you need more information, official synopsis, cast, and tech details follow.
“Pvc-1” and “White Night Wedding” were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Fermat’s Room,” “Filth and Wisdom,...
Titles in this very arthouse edition of the Round-Up include a stylish horror film called “Nightmare,” a twisted thriller called “Pvc-1,” a puzzle of a story known as “Fermat’s Room,” an Icelandic movie called “White Night Wedding,” and an odd flick directed by Madonna known as “Filth and Wisdom”. Art film fans should check them all out. Keep IFC going as strongly as they have lately. But if you need more information, official synopsis, cast, and tech details follow.
“Pvc-1” and “White Night Wedding” were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Fermat’s Room,” “Filth and Wisdom,...
- 9/24/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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