Co-production strand of French festival FIDMarseille ran July 6-7.
Slovenian filmmaker Gregor Božič’s new projectTales Of Fruits And Monsters took home three awards at FIDLab, the co-production strand of French festival FIDMarseille.
Tales Of Fruits And Monsters won the Providenza prize, a month-long writing residency; the Da Films – VOD Platform prize, a distribution package worth €5,000; and the Nebulae prize offering a slot in the 2023 edition of the DocLisboa co-production platform.
The film explores a Slovenian filmmaker-botanist and a Japanese neuroscientist who join forces to investigate the case of a pear tree believed to hold a miraculous power to defy time.
Slovenian filmmaker Gregor Božič’s new projectTales Of Fruits And Monsters took home three awards at FIDLab, the co-production strand of French festival FIDMarseille.
Tales Of Fruits And Monsters won the Providenza prize, a month-long writing residency; the Da Films – VOD Platform prize, a distribution package worth €5,000; and the Nebulae prize offering a slot in the 2023 edition of the DocLisboa co-production platform.
The film explores a Slovenian filmmaker-botanist and a Japanese neuroscientist who join forces to investigate the case of a pear tree believed to hold a miraculous power to defy time.
- 7/7/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Co-pro incubator takes place from July 6-7.
Projects by UK director Beatrice Gibson, Slovenia’s Gregor Božič, Berlin-based Ann Oren and Turkey’s Burak Cevik are among 10 selected for this year’s FIDLab, the co-production incubator of French festival FIDMarseille.
The 15th edition of the showcase, known for its focus on experimental fiction features and documentary, is set to be held from July 6-7. The 10 selected projects have been whittled down from 430 entries.
Gibson will attend with Night, a UK-France co-production about a woman wandering the streets after an abortion, embarking on a series of quiet encounters. It is Gibson...
Projects by UK director Beatrice Gibson, Slovenia’s Gregor Božič, Berlin-based Ann Oren and Turkey’s Burak Cevik are among 10 selected for this year’s FIDLab, the co-production incubator of French festival FIDMarseille.
The 15th edition of the showcase, known for its focus on experimental fiction features and documentary, is set to be held from July 6-7. The 10 selected projects have been whittled down from 430 entries.
Gibson will attend with Night, a UK-France co-production about a woman wandering the streets after an abortion, embarking on a series of quiet encounters. It is Gibson...
- 5/25/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Co-pro incubator takes place from July 6-7.
Projects by UK director Beatrice Gibson, Slovenia’s Gregor Božič, Berlin-based Ann Oren and Turkey’s Burak Cevik are among 10 selected for this year’s FIDLab, the co-production incubator of French festival FIDMarseille.
The 15th edition of the showcase, known for its focus on experimental fiction features and documentary, is set to be held from July 6-7. The 10 selected projects have been whittled down from 430 entries.
Gibson will attend with Night, a UK-France co-production about a woman wandering the streets after an abortion, embarking on a series of quiet encounters. It is Gibson...
Projects by UK director Beatrice Gibson, Slovenia’s Gregor Božič, Berlin-based Ann Oren and Turkey’s Burak Cevik are among 10 selected for this year’s FIDLab, the co-production incubator of French festival FIDMarseille.
The 15th edition of the showcase, known for its focus on experimental fiction features and documentary, is set to be held from July 6-7. The 10 selected projects have been whittled down from 430 entries.
Gibson will attend with Night, a UK-France co-production about a woman wandering the streets after an abortion, embarking on a series of quiet encounters. It is Gibson...
- 5/25/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
’Costa, Brava Lebanon’, ’El Gran Movimiento’, ’Prayers For The Stolen’ and ’Les Enfants Terribles’ have been widely lauded.
Of the 175 feature projects to have been showcased at Qumra between 2015 and 2021, 83 have been released to date, many with high-profile premieres at festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, IDFA and Hot Docs.
Screen turns the spotlight on four Qumra titles that launched at festivals in 2021.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
The debut feature of Lebanese director Mounia Akl debuted in Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar and went on to play in the Contemporary World Cinema section. Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri play former political...
Of the 175 feature projects to have been showcased at Qumra between 2015 and 2021, 83 have been released to date, many with high-profile premieres at festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, IDFA and Hot Docs.
Screen turns the spotlight on four Qumra titles that launched at festivals in 2021.
Costa Brava, Lebanon
The debut feature of Lebanese director Mounia Akl debuted in Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar and went on to play in the Contemporary World Cinema section. Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri play former political...
- 3/18/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
KimStim has acquired North American rights to Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento” (aka “The Great Movement”), Bolivia’s official submission for the Oscars’ international feature race.
The film world premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it received the special jury prize at the Horizons strand and went on to play at New York and San Sebastian, among other festivals. KimStim plans to release the film in theaters in mid-2022.
Sold by Belgium-based Best Friend Forever, “El Gran Movimiento” marks Russo’s follow-up to his debut “Dark Skull,” which won a prize at Locarno and San Sebastian in 2016 and also represented Bolivia in the Oscar race.
Shot in the Bolivian mountains in contemporary La Paz, the film follows Elder who arrives in the capital after a seven-day journey seeking to get back his work at a mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health soon deteriorates.
The film world premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it received the special jury prize at the Horizons strand and went on to play at New York and San Sebastian, among other festivals. KimStim plans to release the film in theaters in mid-2022.
Sold by Belgium-based Best Friend Forever, “El Gran Movimiento” marks Russo’s follow-up to his debut “Dark Skull,” which won a prize at Locarno and San Sebastian in 2016 and also represented Bolivia in the Oscar race.
Shot in the Bolivian mountains in contemporary La Paz, the film follows Elder who arrives in the capital after a seven-day journey seeking to get back his work at a mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health soon deteriorates.
- 10/28/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Sovereign Film Distribution has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to “El Gran Movimiento,” which won the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival Horizons strand.
Sovereign is planning a theatrical release in 2022.
Following its world premiere at Venice, the film will be screening at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it is nominated for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize, and also at the New York Film Festival in late September.
Bolivian writer-director Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento” (The Great Movement) follows a young man who arrives in the big city after a seven-day walk, where his persistent ill health sees him seek alternative methods of rejuvenation. The film explores the collision of nature and urbanization.
Russo said: “I wanted to make a film about La Paz, with characters who could provide a singular point of view upon the city. I found these characters in Elder, a young miner,...
Sovereign is planning a theatrical release in 2022.
Following its world premiere at Venice, the film will be screening at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it is nominated for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize, and also at the New York Film Festival in late September.
Bolivian writer-director Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento” (The Great Movement) follows a young man who arrives in the big city after a seven-day walk, where his persistent ill health sees him seek alternative methods of rejuvenation. The film explores the collision of nature and urbanization.
Russo said: “I wanted to make a film about La Paz, with characters who could provide a singular point of view upon the city. I found these characters in Elder, a young miner,...
- 9/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Bolivian director Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento” which will world premiere at Venice in the Horizons section.
“El Gran Movimiento” marks Russo’s follow up to his 2016 feature debut “Dark Skull” which won a prize at Locarno and played at San Sebastian, among other festivals. “Dark Skull” went on to represent Bolivia in the Oscar race.
Set in contemporary Bolivia, the movie follows Elder and his companions who arrive in La Paz after a seven-day walk and seeks to be reinstated in his work at the mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health starts to deteriorate. An elderly woman known as Mama Pancha connects him to Max, a witch doctor, hermit, and clown, who will try to bring the young man back to life.
The movie is produced by Russo and Pablo Paniagua at Socavón and Alexa Rivero...
“El Gran Movimiento” marks Russo’s follow up to his 2016 feature debut “Dark Skull” which won a prize at Locarno and played at San Sebastian, among other festivals. “Dark Skull” went on to represent Bolivia in the Oscar race.
Set in contemporary Bolivia, the movie follows Elder and his companions who arrive in La Paz after a seven-day walk and seeks to be reinstated in his work at the mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health starts to deteriorate. An elderly woman known as Mama Pancha connects him to Max, a witch doctor, hermit, and clown, who will try to bring the young man back to life.
The movie is produced by Russo and Pablo Paniagua at Socavón and Alexa Rivero...
- 7/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Sørfond Pitching Forum received a record number of applications for its fifth edition. The level of quality among the submitted projects impressed the jury and it was definitely a challenge for them to only choose eight projects.
Selected projects:
"Vampire" (Fiction)
Director: Vivek Budakoti
Country: India
Main producer: Rajita Sharma
The village of Haripur witnesses a series of unexplained farmer suicides. Fear of return of a mythical Pishaach or vampire grips the locals. The only remedy being a human sacrifice, low caste Maiku is chosen for the ritual. Maiku, however, keeps forth a condition for his willful submission and mock-challenges the religious scriptures by demanding to be converted to a high caste Bahman before his supreme sacrifice.
"The Extraordinary Voyage" (Doumentary)
Director/Main producer: Pablo Leónidas Nisenson
Country: Argentina
This extraordinary voyage is the story of a hero taking legal action against merchants that are devastating the wetlands, essential for the ecologic balance of the planet.
"To All Naked Men" (Fiction)
Director/Main producer: Bassam Chekhes
Country: Syria/Lebanon
2021. The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of the whole country. Salman (35) is a Syrian living and working in Lebanon. He looses his ID and to issue a new one he must go back to Syria, a trip that he refuses to take as it might reveals the circumstances of his sister disappearance.
"The Silences" (Fiction)
Director/Main producer: Beatriz Seigner
Country: Brazil/Colombia/India
Sometimes we think we keep a secret, but the secret is what keeps us. This is a story of a Colombian family living in Brazil.
"A Sort of Family" (Fiction)
Director: Diego Lerman
Country: Argentina/Brazil
Main producer: Nicolás Avruj
Erica, a middle class doctor, who has recently lost a baby, makes a trip to adopt a newborn from a poor family in the north.
"Hhola Hhola" (Fiction)
Director: Madoda Ncayiyana
Country: South Africa
Main producer: Julie Frederikse
A teen with a dream to perform is lured by a con-man, only to become a conman himself – until he out-cons the conman.
"A Tooth For a Tooth" (Fiction)
Director/Main producer: Ottis Ba Mamadou
Country: Senegal/France
Co-producer: Alexa Rivero
Dakar, Senegal 2011. Following the implementation of the Imf's recommendations to cut budgets, Idrissa has lost his job as a civil servant. This situation does not suit Idrissa at all. He holds Imf's Director Strauss-Kahn accountable for his misfortune. He can't stand the idea that his wife Viviane now provides sustenance for all the family. Teased by his friends, his frustration is growing. Feeling lost and humiliated, Idrissa decides to meet a marabout and put a spell on Imf's Director Strauss-Kahn on his way to French presidency.
"The Last Harem" (Fiction)
Director/ Main producer: Maryam Keshavarz
Country: Iran/India/Portugal
Set in politically tumultuous 19th century Persia, Jayran a 13 year old cross-dressing musician has an unusual love affair with young King Nasir.
Read more about the selected projects here .
The Sørfond Pitching Forum will take place on October 14th, 2015, at 657 Oslo premises at Fredensborgveien 24D, 0177 Oslo.
The pitching forum is organized by The Films from the South Foundation. It is held during Films From the South festival October 8–18, the biggest film festival in Oslo.
Selected projects:
"Vampire" (Fiction)
Director: Vivek Budakoti
Country: India
Main producer: Rajita Sharma
The village of Haripur witnesses a series of unexplained farmer suicides. Fear of return of a mythical Pishaach or vampire grips the locals. The only remedy being a human sacrifice, low caste Maiku is chosen for the ritual. Maiku, however, keeps forth a condition for his willful submission and mock-challenges the religious scriptures by demanding to be converted to a high caste Bahman before his supreme sacrifice.
"The Extraordinary Voyage" (Doumentary)
Director/Main producer: Pablo Leónidas Nisenson
Country: Argentina
This extraordinary voyage is the story of a hero taking legal action against merchants that are devastating the wetlands, essential for the ecologic balance of the planet.
"To All Naked Men" (Fiction)
Director/Main producer: Bassam Chekhes
Country: Syria/Lebanon
2021. The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of the whole country. Salman (35) is a Syrian living and working in Lebanon. He looses his ID and to issue a new one he must go back to Syria, a trip that he refuses to take as it might reveals the circumstances of his sister disappearance.
"The Silences" (Fiction)
Director/Main producer: Beatriz Seigner
Country: Brazil/Colombia/India
Sometimes we think we keep a secret, but the secret is what keeps us. This is a story of a Colombian family living in Brazil.
"A Sort of Family" (Fiction)
Director: Diego Lerman
Country: Argentina/Brazil
Main producer: Nicolás Avruj
Erica, a middle class doctor, who has recently lost a baby, makes a trip to adopt a newborn from a poor family in the north.
"Hhola Hhola" (Fiction)
Director: Madoda Ncayiyana
Country: South Africa
Main producer: Julie Frederikse
A teen with a dream to perform is lured by a con-man, only to become a conman himself – until he out-cons the conman.
"A Tooth For a Tooth" (Fiction)
Director/Main producer: Ottis Ba Mamadou
Country: Senegal/France
Co-producer: Alexa Rivero
Dakar, Senegal 2011. Following the implementation of the Imf's recommendations to cut budgets, Idrissa has lost his job as a civil servant. This situation does not suit Idrissa at all. He holds Imf's Director Strauss-Kahn accountable for his misfortune. He can't stand the idea that his wife Viviane now provides sustenance for all the family. Teased by his friends, his frustration is growing. Feeling lost and humiliated, Idrissa decides to meet a marabout and put a spell on Imf's Director Strauss-Kahn on his way to French presidency.
"The Last Harem" (Fiction)
Director/ Main producer: Maryam Keshavarz
Country: Iran/India/Portugal
Set in politically tumultuous 19th century Persia, Jayran a 13 year old cross-dressing musician has an unusual love affair with young King Nasir.
Read more about the selected projects here .
The Sørfond Pitching Forum will take place on October 14th, 2015, at 657 Oslo premises at Fredensborgveien 24D, 0177 Oslo.
The pitching forum is organized by The Films from the South Foundation. It is held during Films From the South festival October 8–18, the biggest film festival in Oslo.
- 9/17/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Paris-based producer Alexa Rivero will co-produce Amit Dutta’s The Invisible One through her newly-established production company Altamar Films.
Rivero worked as a line producer on Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and was also production manager on films such as Javier Fuentes-León’s Undertow (2009) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String (2009).
She will produce The Invisible One with Mumbai-based Anjali Panjabi, who executive produced Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi and line produced Mira Nair’s segment in omnibus film Words With Gods.
The Invisible One received Hubert Bals funding for script and project development in 2012 and has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar. It tells the story of a young man who moves to the big city and is forced to rent a room built on top of a tree.
Rivero worked as a line producer on Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and was also production manager on films such as Javier Fuentes-León’s Undertow (2009) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The String (2009).
She will produce The Invisible One with Mumbai-based Anjali Panjabi, who executive produced Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi and line produced Mira Nair’s segment in omnibus film Words With Gods.
The Invisible One received Hubert Bals funding for script and project development in 2012 and has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar. It tells the story of a young man who moves to the big city and is forced to rent a room built on top of a tree.
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
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