’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
YouTube introduced several new search features today in a blog post entitled “the next phase for searching on YouTube” in a bid to make the video giant’s vast trove of content easier to parse through and more accessible to everyone.
First, YouTube will begin to display video ‘Chapters’ directly on the search page. Chapters are sections of videos that can be navigated along the scrubbing timeline -- and which are triggered when creators leave timestamps in description boxes. Rather than a mere thumbnail, however, videos with Chapters will now roll through different time-stamped images detailing what’s covered within -- enabling viewers to jump directly to a pertinent section.
“Let's say you're looking for a good sourdough recipe and want to work on your kneading technique,” explains director of product management Pablo Paniagua. “With these new search results, you can see all the steps in the video, from feeding...
First, YouTube will begin to display video ‘Chapters’ directly on the search page. Chapters are sections of videos that can be navigated along the scrubbing timeline -- and which are triggered when creators leave timestamps in description boxes. Rather than a mere thumbnail, however, videos with Chapters will now roll through different time-stamped images detailing what’s covered within -- enabling viewers to jump directly to a pertinent section.
“Let's say you're looking for a good sourdough recipe and want to work on your kneading technique,” explains director of product management Pablo Paniagua. “With these new search results, you can see all the steps in the video, from feeding...
- 8/17/2021
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Independent films about inveterate fuckups are nearly pervasive enough to count as some sort of disease, but Dark Skull is less concerned with presenting its viewers with a fuckup than it is with putting them inside one’s head. Or, to better convey what it’s like to watch, this movie crams the audience inside that space until the claustrophobia is overpowering and they can practically smell sour alcohol breath. Co-writer/director Kiro Russo’s first feature demonstrates chilling formal assurance.
The fuckup in question is Elder Mamani (Julio Cesar Ticona), whose godfather pulls some strings to nab him his recently deceased father’s job in the Huanuni tin mine. Bolivia has a long, proud mining tradition, but joining it does absolutely nothing to better Elder, who is never not some combination of drunk, slacking off, or stirring shit. Causing accidents and ignoring his pleading family members, Elder is content to piss on this difficult,...
The fuckup in question is Elder Mamani (Julio Cesar Ticona), whose godfather pulls some strings to nab him his recently deceased father’s job in the Huanuni tin mine. Bolivia has a long, proud mining tradition, but joining it does absolutely nothing to better Elder, who is never not some combination of drunk, slacking off, or stirring shit. Causing accidents and ignoring his pleading family members, Elder is content to piss on this difficult,...
- 4/24/2017
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
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