Italian sales company Slingshot Films has taken world sales on timely Berlin Panorama doc “Normal,” a reflection on how female and male identities play out in everyday interactions, through a collage of immersive scenes filmed all over Italy.
Directed by London and Rome-based director Adele Tulli – who has made a splash on the specialized fest circuit most recently with “Rebel Menopause,” about French women’s rights activist Thérèse Clerc – “Normal” is described by Tulli in her directors’ statement as a “ballet of moving images” capturing some of the most iconic moments in people’s life, from birth to adulthood and revealing “how our gender defines us in most of the things we do, affecting our gestures, desires, behaviors, and aspirations.”
By depicting “the spectacle of gender in everyday life” it invites the audience “to question and unravel the very idea of normality,” Tulli said.
Commenting on the pic’s experimental...
Directed by London and Rome-based director Adele Tulli – who has made a splash on the specialized fest circuit most recently with “Rebel Menopause,” about French women’s rights activist Thérèse Clerc – “Normal” is described by Tulli in her directors’ statement as a “ballet of moving images” capturing some of the most iconic moments in people’s life, from birth to adulthood and revealing “how our gender defines us in most of the things we do, affecting our gestures, desires, behaviors, and aspirations.”
By depicting “the spectacle of gender in everyday life” it invites the audience “to question and unravel the very idea of normality,” Tulli said.
Commenting on the pic’s experimental...
- 2/5/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians has taken the top Crystal Globe award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Czech fest’s Special Jury Prize went to Ana Katz’s Sueño Florianópolis, and Olmo Omerzu was named best director for the film Winter Flies.
See the complete list of winners below.
As previously announced, the festival, which ran from June 29 – July 7, presented a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins, and to Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
In all, the non-specialized festival, with three competitive categories, screened 236 films, with a total of 140,135 tickets sold, according to the festival. Among the films were 143 full-length and 38 short features; 55 documentary films (including 35 full-length). World premieres totaled 35 films, with eight international premieres and seven European premieres.
The fest was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary,...
See the complete list of winners below.
As previously announced, the festival, which ran from June 29 – July 7, presented a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins, and to Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
In all, the non-specialized festival, with three competitive categories, screened 236 films, with a total of 140,135 tickets sold, according to the festival. Among the films were 143 full-length and 38 short features; 55 documentary films (including 35 full-length). World premieres totaled 35 films, with eight international premieres and seven European premieres.
The fest was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary,...
- 7/7/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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