Algerian filmmakers have stepped up a campaign calling for their government to unlock promised state funds for cinema, warning that Algeria’s film industry is on its last legs following a near-year-long funding freeze.
Following on from a first open letter in June, the Collective of Algerian Cineastes has published a new letter addressed to Minister of Culture Soraya Mouloudji, re-demanding clarification on the government’s funding plans for cinema.
Algeria’s long-running Fdatic film fund was cancelled in December 2021 by Mouloudji’s predecessor Wafa Chaâlal.
The minister promised a replacement fund would soon be announced but nine months later no new scheme has been unveiled and successor Mouloudji has been equally unforthcoming.
A number of completed features approved for funding under Fdatic have yet to receive their monies, while a handful of...
Following on from a first open letter in June, the Collective of Algerian Cineastes has published a new letter addressed to Minister of Culture Soraya Mouloudji, re-demanding clarification on the government’s funding plans for cinema.
Algeria’s long-running Fdatic film fund was cancelled in December 2021 by Mouloudji’s predecessor Wafa Chaâlal.
The minister promised a replacement fund would soon be announced but nine months later no new scheme has been unveiled and successor Mouloudji has been equally unforthcoming.
A number of completed features approved for funding under Fdatic have yet to receive their monies, while a handful of...
- 9/16/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amira Casar (The Contractor), Billie Boulet (The Worst Witch) and Ashley Brooke (The Blacklist) are set as series regulars, joining Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber and Joe Cole in Disney+’s A Small Light, a limited series from National Geographic that tells the remarkable story of a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for more than two years and then preserved Anne’s diary. The project comes from Grey’s Anatomy alums Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, Susanna Fogel, ABC Signature and Keshet Studios.
The eight-episode limited series centers on 20-something secretary Miep Gies (Powley), who didn’t hesitate when her boss Otto Frank (Schreiber) asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan (Cole) and several other everyday heroes watched over the eight souls hiding in the secret annex.
The eight-episode limited series centers on 20-something secretary Miep Gies (Powley), who didn’t hesitate when her boss Otto Frank (Schreiber) asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan (Cole) and several other everyday heroes watched over the eight souls hiding in the secret annex.
- 6/10/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Directors and producers say “Algerian cinema is at risk of death” as a result.
Algerian filmmakers have banded together to issue a stark warning over the future of film in the country following the cancellation of a national fund.
More than 50 directors, producers, actors and writers have signed an open letter to Algerian minister of culture Malika Bendouda to “raise the alarm” over the scrapping of the National Fund for the Development of the Arts and Techniques of Cinema and the Promotion of the Arts and Literature (Fdatic), which was axed by the government last year.
A key question is...
Algerian filmmakers have banded together to issue a stark warning over the future of film in the country following the cancellation of a national fund.
More than 50 directors, producers, actors and writers have signed an open letter to Algerian minister of culture Malika Bendouda to “raise the alarm” over the scrapping of the National Fund for the Development of the Arts and Techniques of Cinema and the Promotion of the Arts and Literature (Fdatic), which was axed by the government last year.
A key question is...
- 6/6/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
A group of prominent Algerian film directors is sounding the alarm over the de-facto cancellation of the country’s national film fund, which they say puts Algerian cinema “at risk of death.”
In an open letter to Algerian culture minister Malika Bendouda, the North African country’s filmmakers are lamenting “no future for our films” after a government support scheme, called the National Fund for the Development of the Arts and Techniques of Cinema (Fdatic), was scrapped last year by the government.
The culture ministry has given Algeria’s film community vague assurances that this fund would be replaced by another support scheme, but that hasn’t yet materialized. Nor has the minister replied to several previous, less clamorous, requests for clarification about the future of what is considered a crucial driver for local filmmaking.
The open letter’s 18 signatories include Amin Sidi-Boumédiène, whose civil war drama “Abou Leila” was in Cannes in 2021; Kamir Aïnouz,...
In an open letter to Algerian culture minister Malika Bendouda, the North African country’s filmmakers are lamenting “no future for our films” after a government support scheme, called the National Fund for the Development of the Arts and Techniques of Cinema (Fdatic), was scrapped last year by the government.
The culture ministry has given Algeria’s film community vague assurances that this fund would be replaced by another support scheme, but that hasn’t yet materialized. Nor has the minister replied to several previous, less clamorous, requests for clarification about the future of what is considered a crucial driver for local filmmaking.
The open letter’s 18 signatories include Amin Sidi-Boumédiène, whose civil war drama “Abou Leila” was in Cannes in 2021; Kamir Aïnouz,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Next month’s Mubi lineup for the U.S. has been unveiled and a number of our recent festival favorites that were awaiting distribution will be coming to the service, including Mr. Bachmann and His Class, Ballad of a White Cow, Madalena, Taste, The Monopoly of Violence, and For Lucio.
One of last year’s great films, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, will also be arriving, alongside Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, the Safdies’ Heaven Knows What, Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, and Leo McCarey’s Love Affair, with the latter two pairing for a Valentine’s Day double feature.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
February 1 | The Monopoly of Violence | David Dufresne | From France with Love
February 2 | Looking for Venera | Norika Sefa | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 3 | Madalena | Madiano Marcheti | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 4 | Honey Cigar | Kamir Aïnouz | From France with Love
February 5 | …and...
One of last year’s great films, Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, will also be arriving, alongside Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, the Safdies’ Heaven Knows What, Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, and Leo McCarey’s Love Affair, with the latter two pairing for a Valentine’s Day double feature.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
February 1 | The Monopoly of Violence | David Dufresne | From France with Love
February 2 | Looking for Venera | Norika Sefa | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 3 | Madalena | Madiano Marcheti | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
February 4 | Honey Cigar | Kamir Aïnouz | From France with Love
February 5 | …and...
- 1/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Running Jan. 14-Feb. 14, this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, an online fest organized by France’s film-tv promotional body UniFrance, will mark its 12th edition with a more diversified slate and a greater international push.
Showcasing festival gems, animated crowd-pleasers and outré genre fare – all subtitled in 15 languages – the 13 features and 17 shorts of this year’s selection will reach home viewers via 70 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
Though ranging in presentational style from horror-comedy to bittersweet drama, the 10 films in this year’s feature competition often share similar thematic through lines, with nearly half of them looking at youth struggles from one angle or another. While Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s werewolf thriller “Teddy” tackles late teen growing pains through a more genre prism, Kamir Aïnouz’s “Honey Cigar” does so as a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale; when exploring young adult malaise,...
Showcasing festival gems, animated crowd-pleasers and outré genre fare – all subtitled in 15 languages – the 13 features and 17 shorts of this year’s selection will reach home viewers via 70 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
Though ranging in presentational style from horror-comedy to bittersweet drama, the 10 films in this year’s feature competition often share similar thematic through lines, with nearly half of them looking at youth struggles from one angle or another. While Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s werewolf thriller “Teddy” tackles late teen growing pains through a more genre prism, Kamir Aïnouz’s “Honey Cigar” does so as a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale; when exploring young adult malaise,...
- 1/5/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The push and pull of cultural heritage is married to coming-of-age in Nineties France in Kamir Aïnouz's feature debut, which while getting to the heart of young desire struggles to fully integrate its political themes.
"You're Algerian?" says one of the admissions interviewers at the college that 17-year-old Selma (Zoé Adjani) wants to attend, "It doesn't show", the first of many references to both an inherent prejudice in French society and to the way that some things can resonate deeply even if they are not visible on the surface.
"I'm double," says Selma, who was raised in an upper middle-class French household although her parents are both Algerian, although, a better term might be "split" - as just as she begins to explore her sexuality and self-determination, she begins to be steered down a different path by her overbearing mum (Amira Casar) and overprotective father (Lyès Salem), who though...
"You're Algerian?" says one of the admissions interviewers at the college that 17-year-old Selma (Zoé Adjani) wants to attend, "It doesn't show", the first of many references to both an inherent prejudice in French society and to the way that some things can resonate deeply even if they are not visible on the surface.
"I'm double," says Selma, who was raised in an upper middle-class French household although her parents are both Algerian, although, a better term might be "split" - as just as she begins to explore her sexuality and self-determination, she begins to be steered down a different path by her overbearing mum (Amira Casar) and overprotective father (Lyès Salem), who though...
- 4/13/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“All Eyes Off Me,” Hadas Ben Aroya’s drama which will world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, has been acquired by Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever for international sales.
Set to bow in the Panorama section, “All Eyes Off Me” takes place in contemporary Tel Aviv and weaves three stories portraying Tel Aviv’s youth. The plot revolves around Danny who is searching for Max at a party to tell him that she’s pregnant with his child. But Max just started a new relationship with the wild Avishag, who actually has someone else in mind.
The cast of fresh faces and up-and-comers includes Elisheva Weil (“Just For Today”), Leib Lev Levin (“Blackspace”), Yoav Hait and Hadar Katz.
“We fell in love with the film, how it manages to create the portrait of a fascinating woman through the eyes of three different point of view,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin,...
Set to bow in the Panorama section, “All Eyes Off Me” takes place in contemporary Tel Aviv and weaves three stories portraying Tel Aviv’s youth. The plot revolves around Danny who is searching for Max at a party to tell him that she’s pregnant with his child. But Max just started a new relationship with the wild Avishag, who actually has someone else in mind.
The cast of fresh faces and up-and-comers includes Elisheva Weil (“Just For Today”), Leib Lev Levin (“Blackspace”), Yoav Hait and Hadar Katz.
“We fell in love with the film, how it manages to create the portrait of a fascinating woman through the eyes of three different point of view,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired “Mother Schmuckers,” which will world premiere at Sundance. The film marks the feature debut of Lenny and Harpo Guit, and is the first Belgian movie set to play in Sundance’s midnight section.
Set in contemporary Brussels, the film tells the story of two brothers in their twenties, supremely stupid and never bored. When they lose their mother’s beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it — or she will kick them out. The film’s cast features French star Mathieu Amalric, along with a string of newcomers such as Maxi Delmelle, Harpo Guit and Claire Bodson (“Young Ahmed”).
“We hadn’t laughed that much since ages. The film’s creativity is so refreshing; it’s full of ideas and boasts obvious cult potential,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever’s co-founders. “It reminded us of John Waters in a way,...
Set in contemporary Brussels, the film tells the story of two brothers in their twenties, supremely stupid and never bored. When they lose their mother’s beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it — or she will kick them out. The film’s cast features French star Mathieu Amalric, along with a string of newcomers such as Maxi Delmelle, Harpo Guit and Claire Bodson (“Young Ahmed”).
“We hadn’t laughed that much since ages. The film’s creativity is so refreshing; it’s full of ideas and boasts obvious cult potential,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever’s co-founders. “It reminded us of John Waters in a way,...
- 12/15/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Shoplifters Photo: Fuji Television Network/Gaga Corporation/Aoi Pro Inc All rights reserved We hope you enjoy this week's Stay-At-Home Seven and, if you're looking for more inspiration, check out our Streaming Spotlight, which looks at the representation of disability on film.
French Film Festival@Home
This year's French Film Festival had to scale back many of its physical screenings because of the fresh pandemic lockdown - but it introduced this new initiative this year, that means some of the films can be caught online. The event started last week, with films available until December 4. Movies still to come this week include Into Dad's Woods, a semi-autobiographical consideration of a teenager trying to cope with her dad's mental health issues and Franco-Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s coming of age tale Honey Cigar. Films cost £7.50 each to rent. More details on the line-up can be found here
Shoplifters, Film4 on Demand,...
French Film Festival@Home
This year's French Film Festival had to scale back many of its physical screenings because of the fresh pandemic lockdown - but it introduced this new initiative this year, that means some of the films can be caught online. The event started last week, with films available until December 4. Movies still to come this week include Into Dad's Woods, a semi-autobiographical consideration of a teenager trying to cope with her dad's mental health issues and Franco-Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s coming of age tale Honey Cigar. Films cost £7.50 each to rent. More details on the line-up can be found here
Shoplifters, Film4 on Demand,...
- 11/30/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A 17-year-old Parisian girl of Algerian parentage struggles to negotiate the conflicting tensions between desire, familial expectation, peer pressure and heritage in debuting writer-director Kamir Aïnouz’s intermittently successful “Honey Cigar.” Refreshingly empowering in how it foregrounds the female gaze together with the young woman’s ownership of her sexual urges, While the core ideas are sound and Zoé Adjani’s charismatic performance imbues those ideas with a soul, the unexceptional screenplay flounders in its attempt to make each issue equally real and multifaceted. Francophone territories will likely account for the lion’s share of the film’s revenue, together with feminist showcases.
Aïnouz, half-sister of Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Aïnouz, mines elements of her own life for the story, set in 1993 when Algeria was experiencing a surge of Islamist violence. Selma Merabet (Adjani) lives with her parents (Amira Casar and Lyes Salem) in the upscale Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine. Dad’s...
Aïnouz, half-sister of Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Aïnouz, mines elements of her own life for the story, set in 1993 when Algeria was experiencing a surge of Islamist violence. Selma Merabet (Adjani) lives with her parents (Amira Casar and Lyes Salem) in the upscale Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine. Dad’s...
- 9/20/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Nineteen French feature films, including minority coproductions, will screen at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which runs Sept. 2-12. There are also four short films produced by France, and six French VR productions.
Nicole Garcia will represent France in the Official Competition with “Lovers,” her ninth feature film. She will be joined in the section by Amos Gitaï, whose film “Laila in Haifa” is a majority-French coproduction.
In addition to those movies, six films majority produced or coproduced by France will be showcased at the festival. They include Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibules,” presented out of competition, and “Princesse Europe” by Camille Lotteau, to be shown in a special screening. The competitive Orizzonti section features four majority-French films.
“Honey Cigar” plays in Giornate degli Autori, a sidebar event.
Majority-French Feature Films in Venice
“Lovers”
Section: In Competition
Director: Nicole Garcia
Cast: Stacy Martin, Pierre Niney, Benoît Magimel
Sales:...
Nicole Garcia will represent France in the Official Competition with “Lovers,” her ninth feature film. She will be joined in the section by Amos Gitaï, whose film “Laila in Haifa” is a majority-French coproduction.
In addition to those movies, six films majority produced or coproduced by France will be showcased at the festival. They include Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibules,” presented out of competition, and “Princesse Europe” by Camille Lotteau, to be shown in a special screening. The competitive Orizzonti section features four majority-French films.
“Honey Cigar” plays in Giornate degli Autori, a sidebar event.
Majority-French Feature Films in Venice
“Lovers”
Section: In Competition
Director: Nicole Garcia
Cast: Stacy Martin, Pierre Niney, Benoît Magimel
Sales:...
- 8/27/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Wife of a SpyThe programme for the 2020 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Gia Coppola, Lav Diaz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, Gianfranco Rosi, Frederick Wiseman, Chloé Zhao, and more.COMPETITIONIn Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)Le sorelle Macluso (Emma Dante)The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)Nuevo Orden (Michel Franco)Lovers (Nicole Garcia)Laila in Haifa (Amos Gitai)Dear Comrades (Andrei Konchalovsky)Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Sun Children (Majid Majidi)Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó)Miss Marx (Susanna Nicchiarelli)Padrenostro (Claudio Noce)Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)Never Gonna Snow AgainThe Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)And Tomorrow The Entire World (Julia Von Heinz)Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesThe Ties (Daniele Luchetti)Lasciami Andare (Stefano Mordini)Mandibules (Quentin Dupieux)Love After Love (Ann Hui)Assandria (Salvatore Mereu)The Duke (Roger Michell)Night in Paradise (Park Hoon-jung)Mosquito...
- 8/3/2020
- MUBI
With Telluride Film Festival forced to cancel their yearly event, what is now the first of the major fall festivals, Venice, has announced their complete lineup. Along with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which was revealed yesterday, the lineup includes more of our most-anticipated films of the year, including Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Gia Coppola’s Mainstream, Abel Ferrara’s Sportin’ Life, Lav Diaz’s Genus Pan, Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, and more.
There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.
In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...
There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.
In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...
- 7/28/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
While the coronavirus pandemic has canceled major festivals such as Cannes and Telluride, the 2020 Venice Film Festival is moving ahead as planned and will be the world’s first major film festival since Sundance and Berlin at the start of the year. Venice 2020’s main selection will be split into three sections: Venezia 77 (aka the main competition), Out of Competition, and Horizons. The titles selected for the main competition will compete for the Golden Lion, which was awarded last year to Todd Phillips’ “Joker.”
As previously announced, Daniele Luchetti’s drama “Lacci” will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 2. The movie is the first Italian title to open Venice in 11 years. The last Italian opener was Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Baarìa” at the 2009 festival. “Lacci” is included in this year’s Out of Competition section. Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider” follow-up “Nomadland” was also confirmed for a world premiere...
As previously announced, Daniele Luchetti’s drama “Lacci” will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 2. The movie is the first Italian title to open Venice in 11 years. The last Italian opener was Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Baarìa” at the 2009 festival. “Lacci” is included in this year’s Out of Competition section. Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider” follow-up “Nomadland” was also confirmed for a world premiere...
- 7/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Often referred to as the Italian version of the Directors’ Fortnight, the first edition of the Giornate degli Autori / Venice Days under the Artistic Director Gaia Furrer feels fresh with the program offering mostly 1st and or 2nd time filmmakers. Last year’s edition included the likes of Javro Bustamante’s The Weeping Woman, Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca and Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi. This year’s edition we have an item that was tipped for premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, we find Kamir Aïnouz and her directorial debut Honey Cigar opens the section. She was the co-scribe on Lisa Azuelos’ Lol and and here she has Adjani-Vallat, Amira Casar (most recently from Call Me by Your Name fame) and Lyes Salem in the story about pre-adult Selma who balances family, a new relationship while fundamentalism is a major issue in her homeland.…
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- 7/23/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section has unveiled its lineup of 10 competition entries, nine of which are world premieres.
The lineup also includes a mix of buzz titles from known and emerging talent, characterized this year by an accent on Eastern Europe, as well as the section’s customary strong representation of female directors.
Hotly anticipated queer comedy fantasy “Saint-Narcisse” by Canadian artist-turned-filmmaker Bruce Labruce and queer romance drama “My Tender Matador,” directed by Chile’s Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa — and set during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship — are among the standouts, as are shorts by French-Senegalese director Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska (“Body”), which will unspool as part of the Prada-commissioned Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of short films directed by women.
The opener will be French/Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar,” which was developed with...
The lineup also includes a mix of buzz titles from known and emerging talent, characterized this year by an accent on Eastern Europe, as well as the section’s customary strong representation of female directors.
Hotly anticipated queer comedy fantasy “Saint-Narcisse” by Canadian artist-turned-filmmaker Bruce Labruce and queer romance drama “My Tender Matador,” directed by Chile’s Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa — and set during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship — are among the standouts, as are shorts by French-Senegalese director Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska (“Body”), which will unspool as part of the Prada-commissioned Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of short films directed by women.
The opener will be French/Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar,” which was developed with...
- 7/23/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Bruce Labruce’s Saint-Narcisse to play out of competition.
Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, now under the stewardship of Gaia Furrer, has announced its official selection under the title The Days Of Courage in a nod to the power and creativity of filmmaking amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The selection of the 17th edition, which like the concurrent Venice Film Festival will run as a physical event, includes Bruce Labruce’s out of competition closing film Saint-Narcisse and a short film from Atlantics director Mati Diop.
Kamir Aïnouz’s Honey Cigar (pictured) will open the competition, a 10-strong field that includes...
Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, now under the stewardship of Gaia Furrer, has announced its official selection under the title The Days Of Courage in a nod to the power and creativity of filmmaking amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The selection of the 17th edition, which like the concurrent Venice Film Festival will run as a physical event, includes Bruce Labruce’s out of competition closing film Saint-Narcisse and a short film from Atlantics director Mati Diop.
Kamir Aïnouz’s Honey Cigar (pictured) will open the competition, a 10-strong field that includes...
- 7/23/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
They join previously announced directors James Gray, Jessica Hausner and sound editor Mark Mangini.
French director Claire Denis and Greek cinematographer Phedon Papamichael have been confirmed as the final ‘Masters’ at the sixth edition of Qumra, the annual talent incubator event of the Doha Film Institute (Dfi), running March 20 to 25 this year.
They will join previously announced Us director James Gray, Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner and awarding winning sound editor Mark Mangini. The five ‘Masters’ give a master-class as well as one-on-one advice to select Dfi-supported projects invited to the event.
Denis, whose most recent credits include High Life and Let The Sunshine In,...
French director Claire Denis and Greek cinematographer Phedon Papamichael have been confirmed as the final ‘Masters’ at the sixth edition of Qumra, the annual talent incubator event of the Doha Film Institute (Dfi), running March 20 to 25 this year.
They will join previously announced Us director James Gray, Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner and awarding winning sound editor Mark Mangini. The five ‘Masters’ give a master-class as well as one-on-one advice to select Dfi-supported projects invited to the event.
Denis, whose most recent credits include High Life and Let The Sunshine In,...
- 2/23/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar” which was developed with the support of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and is co-produced by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, the Palme d’Or-winning directors/producers.
Set in Paris in 1993, the film follows Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy. While Selma discovers the strength of her own desire, fundamentalism takes over her country and her family starts to crumble.
“Honey Cigar” is being produced by French veteran producer Christine Rouxel (“Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami”) and Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (“Heaven Will Wait”). The movie is being co-produced by the Dardennes and Malek Ali-Yahia, as well as French star Dany Boon.
Best Friend Forever will unveil the exclusive first footage of...
Set in Paris in 1993, the film follows Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy. While Selma discovers the strength of her own desire, fundamentalism takes over her country and her family starts to crumble.
“Honey Cigar” is being produced by French veteran producer Christine Rouxel (“Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami”) and Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (“Heaven Will Wait”). The movie is being co-produced by the Dardennes and Malek Ali-Yahia, as well as French star Dany Boon.
Best Friend Forever will unveil the exclusive first footage of...
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
In a world connected by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Miley Cyrus stars as a teen girl navigating through the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship, while dodging her protective mother (Demi Moore), in Lionsgate and Mandate Pictures new trailer for this fresh coming-of-age comedy Lol.
An authentic story that perfectly captures coming of age in today.s digital world, Lol is a remake of the hugely popular 2008 French film Lol (Laughing Out Loud)®. Starting a new year of high school, Lola (Cyrus), (or .Lol,. as her friends call her), works to find the right balance between family, school, friends and romance. Broken-hearted by her ex, Lol.s world is soon turned upside down when she is surprised to find her best friend, Kyle (Douglas Booth), a musician in an up and coming rock band, could possibly be the love of her life. In her quest towards independence, self-identity and young adulthood,...
An authentic story that perfectly captures coming of age in today.s digital world, Lol is a remake of the hugely popular 2008 French film Lol (Laughing Out Loud)®. Starting a new year of high school, Lola (Cyrus), (or .Lol,. as her friends call her), works to find the right balance between family, school, friends and romance. Broken-hearted by her ex, Lol.s world is soon turned upside down when she is surprised to find her best friend, Kyle (Douglas Booth), a musician in an up and coming rock band, could possibly be the love of her life. In her quest towards independence, self-identity and young adulthood,...
- 4/16/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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