MPM Premium has taken world sales rights to Hernán Rosselli’s Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, an Argentinian film about a crime family that is screening in the 2024 Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
Set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the film follows the real-life Felpeto family running a clandestine gambling business for decades until police raids threaten their dynasty and a secret of their late father comes to light. Rosselli blends documentary and fiction to depict the heyday and downfall of a family.
The film is produced by Argentina’s 36 Caballos who produced Berlin Golden Bear-winning short Un Movimiento Extraño,...
Set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the film follows the real-life Felpeto family running a clandestine gambling business for decades until police raids threaten their dynasty and a secret of their late father comes to light. Rosselli blends documentary and fiction to depict the heyday and downfall of a family.
The film is produced by Argentina’s 36 Caballos who produced Berlin Golden Bear-winning short Un Movimiento Extraño,...
- 4/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
Adrianne Lenker stopped by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night to perform her new song, “Free Treasure.”
Alongside Mat Davidson providing harmony and guitar, Lenker provides a faithful, intimate rendition of “Free Treasure.” The song, which appears on the Big Thief member’s upcoming solo album Bright Future, is powerfully simple, sparse in arrangement but loaded with consuming themes of love and trust. Watch Lenker’s performance of “Free Treasure” below.
Bright Future is out on Friday, March 22nd, and Lenker previewed the album by offering “Free Treasure,” “Ruined,” “Sadness As a Gift,” and “Fool.” She’ll begin a major 2024 tour this month in support of the new album; check out all her upcoming tour dates and get tickets here.
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Last week, Adrianne Lenker released i won’t let go of your hand, a six-song EP available on Bandcamp that benefits the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
Alongside Mat Davidson providing harmony and guitar, Lenker provides a faithful, intimate rendition of “Free Treasure.” The song, which appears on the Big Thief member’s upcoming solo album Bright Future, is powerfully simple, sparse in arrangement but loaded with consuming themes of love and trust. Watch Lenker’s performance of “Free Treasure” below.
Bright Future is out on Friday, March 22nd, and Lenker previewed the album by offering “Free Treasure,” “Ruined,” “Sadness As a Gift,” and “Fool.” She’ll begin a major 2024 tour this month in support of the new album; check out all her upcoming tour dates and get tickets here.
Get Adrianne Lenker Tickets Here
Last week, Adrianne Lenker released i won’t let go of your hand, a six-song EP available on Bandcamp that benefits the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
- 3/20/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
Adrianne Lenker appeared on The Tonight Show to perform her emotional single, “Free Treasure.” The Big Thief frontwoman took the stage with a guitar and an accompanying musician to showcase the track, which Lenker recently called “one of my all-time favorite songs.”
“Free Treasure” comes off Lenker’s upcoming solo album Bright Future, out March 22. The musician wrote of the single, “I hope we all can know love like this one. Full of ‘understanding, patience and pleasure, time and attention and love without measure.’” It followed previously released tracks “Fool,...
“Free Treasure” comes off Lenker’s upcoming solo album Bright Future, out March 22. The musician wrote of the single, “I hope we all can know love like this one. Full of ‘understanding, patience and pleasure, time and attention and love without measure.’” It followed previously released tracks “Fool,...
- 3/20/2024
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Love is a free treasure — and it feels even more special when Adrianne Lenker reminds you of it.
On Monday, the Big Thief frontwoman released her single “Free Treasure” ahead of her upcoming solo album Bright Future, out March 22.
“Free Treasure is one of my all-time favorite songs,” Lenker wrote on Instagram. “I was playing it on a stoop for my good friend @james_krivchenia, singing the last chorus when he chimed the words ‘free treasure.'”
“I hope we all can know love like this one,” she added, “Full of ‘understanding,...
On Monday, the Big Thief frontwoman released her single “Free Treasure” ahead of her upcoming solo album Bright Future, out March 22.
“Free Treasure is one of my all-time favorite songs,” Lenker wrote on Instagram. “I was playing it on a stoop for my good friend @james_krivchenia, singing the last chorus when he chimed the words ‘free treasure.'”
“I hope we all can know love like this one,” she added, “Full of ‘understanding,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
The opening track of Adrianne Lenker’s Bright Future finds the Big Thief frontwoman reminiscing about formative childhood memories, both beautiful and terrifying. But scratch a bit deeper beneath the surface and “Real House” operates as something of an introduction to the album itself, contextualizing its creation within a specific setting, moment, and mindset: “We moved into a real house/A wild field behind it/I wanted to be an inventor/Collected scraps to make a portal/I wanted so much for magic to be real.”
Recorded in a secluded studio in the woods, Bright Future feels stunningly natural, with a bucolic sense of quiet and serenity. Musically, Lenker is accompanied by acoustic guitar, piano, violin, and only occasionally anything else. Using an analog approach, the album crackles and hisses with all the warm imperfections of live instrumentation.
The first sounds on the second track, “Sadness As a Gift,” are...
Recorded in a secluded studio in the woods, Bright Future feels stunningly natural, with a bucolic sense of quiet and serenity. Musically, Lenker is accompanied by acoustic guitar, piano, violin, and only occasionally anything else. Using an analog approach, the album crackles and hisses with all the warm imperfections of live instrumentation.
The first sounds on the second track, “Sadness As a Gift,” are...
- 3/18/2024
- by Nick Seip
- Slant Magazine
Prolific songwriter and Big Thief vocalist Adrianne Lenker has shared i won’t let go of your hand, a six-song collection of demos. Available via Bandcamp, 100% of the proceeds from the release will go toward the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
Along with the collection of demos, Lenker released a statement urging for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Everything I think to say feels like it is less than a micro-fraction of the power that is needed to convey the message,” she wrote via Instagram. “I can’t express how sad and angry I am about this ongoing violence towards Palestinians. The killing must stop. The need for a ceasefire is beyond urgent. Permanent Ceasefire Now!”
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See the full tracklist for i won’t let go of your hand below, and purchase it on Bandcamp here.
i won...
Along with the collection of demos, Lenker released a statement urging for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Everything I think to say feels like it is less than a micro-fraction of the power that is needed to convey the message,” she wrote via Instagram. “I can’t express how sad and angry I am about this ongoing violence towards Palestinians. The killing must stop. The need for a ceasefire is beyond urgent. Permanent Ceasefire Now!”
Get Adrianne Lenker Tickets Here
See the full tracklist for i won’t let go of your hand below, and purchase it on Bandcamp here.
i won...
- 3/11/2024
- by Jonah Krueger
- Consequence - Music
Adrianne Lenker has unveiled “Fool,” the latest single from her forthcoming solo album, Bright Future.
Guided by a muted acoustic guitar line, “Fool” lets Lenker’s wandering verses shine in their purest form. Describing a relationship at a standstill, she arrives at the chorus by requesting “Oh, just say what it is that you want,” and later concludes the track with the decisive “What more can I possibly say? / So if you wanna go I say baby okay, okay.” Throughout, light flourishes of strings pop in and out of Lenker’s homespun arrangement, including moments where you can practically hear Lenker smiling on the mic as she records.
“Fool” also arrives with a similarly homespun music video directed by her brother, Noah Lenker. The video features Lenker fashioned as a winter cowboy warrior with her family and dogs frolicking around her. Watch it below.
The third single off of Bright Future,...
Guided by a muted acoustic guitar line, “Fool” lets Lenker’s wandering verses shine in their purest form. Describing a relationship at a standstill, she arrives at the chorus by requesting “Oh, just say what it is that you want,” and later concludes the track with the decisive “What more can I possibly say? / So if you wanna go I say baby okay, okay.” Throughout, light flourishes of strings pop in and out of Lenker’s homespun arrangement, including moments where you can practically hear Lenker smiling on the mic as she records.
“Fool” also arrives with a similarly homespun music video directed by her brother, Noah Lenker. The video features Lenker fashioned as a winter cowboy warrior with her family and dogs frolicking around her. Watch it below.
The third single off of Bright Future,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who won best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy, is working on a new suspense thriller titled Cloud, which will be introduced to buyers at the EFM by Japanese studio Nikkatsu Corporation.
The feature is in post-production with a Japanese release set for September 2024. A first look at the film can be seen above.
Written by Kurosawa, the story centres on Ryosuke Yoshii, an enigmatic young man who tries to make money by reselling shrewdly obtained goods on the internet under the pseudonym ‘Ratel’.
The film stars Masaki Suda, who won best actor...
The feature is in post-production with a Japanese release set for September 2024. A first look at the film can be seen above.
Written by Kurosawa, the story centres on Ryosuke Yoshii, an enigmatic young man who tries to make money by reselling shrewdly obtained goods on the internet under the pseudonym ‘Ratel’.
The film stars Masaki Suda, who won best actor...
- 2/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
Top Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi is in post-production of “Le Chemin du Serpent,” a French-language adaptation of his own 1998 film “The Serpent’s Path.”
The story sees a mysterious woman team up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened.
With Damien Bonnard and Shibasaki Ko in the leading roles, the picture is the anchor title of the Tiffcom sales slate of major Japanese studio Kadokawa.
Production is by Kadokawa and Jean-Luc Ormieres’ Cinefrance Studios. The Japanese company is handling world sales on the picture outside France and Belgium.
Kurosawa, who has been a regular visitor to Cannes with titles including “Pulse,” “Bright Future,” “Tokyo Sonata,” “Journey to the Shore” and “Before We Vanish”, is preparing to complete the new film in time for a summer 2024 release.
Kadokawa’s...
The story sees a mysterious woman team up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened.
With Damien Bonnard and Shibasaki Ko in the leading roles, the picture is the anchor title of the Tiffcom sales slate of major Japanese studio Kadokawa.
Production is by Kadokawa and Jean-Luc Ormieres’ Cinefrance Studios. The Japanese company is handling world sales on the picture outside France and Belgium.
Kurosawa, who has been a regular visitor to Cannes with titles including “Pulse,” “Bright Future,” “Tokyo Sonata,” “Journey to the Shore” and “Before We Vanish”, is preparing to complete the new film in time for a summer 2024 release.
Kadokawa’s...
- 10/26/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The 28th edition of the Shanghai TV Festival wrapped up on Friday with its Magnolia Awards presented to a range of TV drama series, documentaries and animation programs. The drama awards were dominated by two shows “A Lifelong Journey” and “Bright Future.”
“A Lifelong Journey,” adapted from a novel of the same name by Liang Xiaosheng, tells the story of three generations of one family in China’s Northeast as time moves from the late Cultural Revolution period through to the country’s reform and opening up. With a starry cast and broadcasters including CCTV-1 and Jiangsu Satellite TV, the show is reported to have attracted 310 million viewers at the beginning of 2022. In mainland China, it ran for 58 episodes, while in Hong Kong it played in 35 parts.
“Bright Future” is a 24-part CCTV-1 political drama which tells the story of a local official who united his county.
Chinese sci-fi also shone at the awards.
“A Lifelong Journey,” adapted from a novel of the same name by Liang Xiaosheng, tells the story of three generations of one family in China’s Northeast as time moves from the late Cultural Revolution period through to the country’s reform and opening up. With a starry cast and broadcasters including CCTV-1 and Jiangsu Satellite TV, the show is reported to have attracted 310 million viewers at the beginning of 2022. In mainland China, it ran for 58 episodes, while in Hong Kong it played in 35 parts.
“Bright Future” is a 24-part CCTV-1 political drama which tells the story of a local official who united his county.
Chinese sci-fi also shone at the awards.
- 6/24/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
New films from Oscar laureate Vanessa Ragone (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) and Camera d’Or winners Edher Campos (“Leap Year”) and Juan Pablo Miller (“Las Acacias”) are among attractions at this year’s Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte and Copia Final, the pix-in-post industry centerpieces at Latin America’s biggest film-tv market.
Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”
Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.
Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.
Ragone co-produces “The Face of the Jellyfish,” from Argentina’s Rotterdam-prized Melisa Liebenthal. Campos unveils “Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara,” Mexican Federico Cecchetti’s follow-up to the multi-prized “Mara’akame’s Dream.”
Miller introduces “Sublime,” one of the section’s buzz titles, along with “Diogenes,” from Peru’s Leonardo Barbuy, and two titles from Brazil: Gregorio Graziosi’s “Tinnitus” and Gabriel Martin’s “Mars One,” winner of Ventana Sur’s prestigious Paradiso Wip Award.
Titles brim with talent, observes Eva Morsch-Kihn, curator of Primer Corte and Copia Final along with Mercedes Abarca and Maria Nuñez.
- 11/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Netherlands have always had a special place for Jews. Not always loved, but always protected, Amsterdam calls itself “Mokum” meaning “The Place” in Hebrew and Rotterdammers say “Mazel Tov” when they mean congratulations and all toast with “Daar Ga Je” which in Dutch sounds like “Le Cha’im”.
Jewish movies this year included two Russian films and films which while inclusive of Jews were not “Jewish” in nature.
Anna’s War, directed by Alexey Fedorchenko (2018, Russia, 75 minutes), is about a 6-year-old Anna whose entire family dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant’s office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazis. In these inhuman conditions Anna not...
Jewish movies this year included two Russian films and films which while inclusive of Jews were not “Jewish” in nature.
Anna’s War, directed by Alexey Fedorchenko (2018, Russia, 75 minutes), is about a 6-year-old Anna whose entire family dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant’s office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazis. In these inhuman conditions Anna not...
- 2/8/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
I Am GodI’ve said it before and I will always be pleased to say it again: For a film festival to be relevant it is absolutely essential it presents to its audience a line connecting cinema’s present with cinema’s past. The education is key, the experience thrilling and the open-mindedness engendered are all requisite to keep the art living and enjoyed, especially in an age where an audience might be attracted to the event of a film festival but otherwise rarely, if ever, go to the cinema anymore. With over 250 feature films and a similar amount of shorts in its 2018 selection, it was easy to get lost in the massive schedule of the 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Which is why I greatly appreciated two particular sections at the festival curated by programmers with acute focus and taste that comparatively left the larger, more vaguely collected sections...
- 2/6/2018
- MUBI
In 2016, Québécois filmmaker Sophie Goyette’s debut feature, Mes nuits feront écho, won the Bright Future Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. A poetic rumination on morality, the fragility of relationships, and the bravery that goes into cultivating human connection, the film flows between very distinct, even seemingly disparate, locales: Québec, Mexico and Asia. Goyette, however, links these places through the journeys of a young musician, Eliane (Eliane Préfontaine), who leaves Canada for Mexico City and ends up teaching piano to the son of a middle-aged man, Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna). Romes soon leaves for Asia with his aged father, […]...
- 12/12/2017
- by Kiva Reardon
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Netflix has been playing a coy game with the upcoming fourth season of Charlie Brooker‘s anxiety-inducing “Black Mirror,” releasing trailer after trailer and posters for each episode and yet hiding the release date. The holiday flavored strategy has been called the 13 Days of Black Mirror, which is now wrapping up and the star of David on top is that final reveal: the Emmy-winning series launches on Friday, December 29th and they’ve delivered a final trailer teasing all the episodes in one big supercut-y mash-up.
Continue reading ‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Trailer: Imagine A Bright Future With A Late December Release Date at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Trailer: Imagine A Bright Future With A Late December Release Date at The Playlist.
- 12/6/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
(Not So) Bright Future: Iwai’s Returns with Troubling Portrait of Modern Love
At the beginning of Japanese director Shunji Iwai’s latest film, A Bride for Rip Van Winkle, its main protagonist finds herself balking at the ease of getting into a relationship.
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At the beginning of Japanese director Shunji Iwai’s latest film, A Bride for Rip Van Winkle, its main protagonist finds herself balking at the ease of getting into a relationship.
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- 11/10/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Prototype (Blake Williams)The 36th Vancouver Film Festival recently wrapped, and with it, the second year of the Future//Present program, a selection of eight features (and a number of shorts) dedicated to emerging Canadian filmmakers. If the inaugural edition had the task of distinguishing itself from the rest of the festival's True North “stream,” this year's offered the opportunity to cement its relevancy and expand its vision. That's something for which the admirably varied program proved more or less able, albeit with higher highs and lower lows than in 2016, which speaks, at least, to chances being taken (something that can't necessarily be said of the festival's programming in general). Taken on the whole, there are—beyond the uniting sensibility of critic and programmer Adam Cook—filmmaking trends that one could identify, and patterns that one could connect, for better and for worse, to the larger contemporary arthouse scene. But the most successful selections,...
- 10/20/2017
- MUBI
Watching the dreadful and painfully distended films Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa made over the last 10 years, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was abducted in 2008 and hijacked by a clueless alien parasite trying to keep up appearances. A major figure during the early days of J-horror, Kurosawa distilled the entropy creeping into the digital age before most other artists even felt it — modern classics like “Cure,” “Pulse,” and even the less-horrifying likes of “Bright Future” continue to serve as invaluable time capsules from the era that we’re still trying to escape.
As recently as “Tokyo Sonata,” which is now almost a decade old, it seemed as though Kurosawa could sublimate his obsessions with societal decay into any genre, and the shattering final scene of that film left fans desperate to see where he would go next.
Then, things got bad. The falloff was subtle at first, and it came in small doses,...
As recently as “Tokyo Sonata,” which is now almost a decade old, it seemed as though Kurosawa could sublimate his obsessions with societal decay into any genre, and the shattering final scene of that film left fans desperate to see where he would go next.
Then, things got bad. The falloff was subtle at first, and it came in small doses,...
- 9/30/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
After Courtney Waldon’s 51-day stay in the hospital — which was mostly spent in a medically-induced coma while she recovered from horrific burns she suffered from a fire on Sep. 30, 2016— she couldn’t wait to get home to her 4-year-old daughter, parents and husband.
Her goal was to make it home in time for Thanksgiving, and on Nov. 17, 2016, she was finally able to return to her family in Tallapoosa, Georgia.
But just two weeks later — as she still struggled to walk and eat — her husband of four months walked out on her and her daughter Caroline from her first marriage.
Her goal was to make it home in time for Thanksgiving, and on Nov. 17, 2016, she was finally able to return to her family in Tallapoosa, Georgia.
But just two weeks later — as she still struggled to walk and eat — her husband of four months walked out on her and her daughter Caroline from her first marriage.
- 8/30/2017
- by Caitlin Keating
- PEOPLE.com
Kristen Terlizzi had no idea that maternal mortality was an issue in the United States until she almost lost her own life after she delivered her son, Leo.
“I had always focused on my baby’s health,” Terlizzi, 35, tells People. “It was scary to realize that I was in danger as well.”
Since 1990, the maternal mortality ratio in the U.S. has more than doubled, according to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, with an estimated 700 to 900 women dying from pregnancy or childbirth related causes each year.
NPR reports that American women are more than three times as likely as Canadian...
“I had always focused on my baby’s health,” Terlizzi, 35, tells People. “It was scary to realize that I was in danger as well.”
Since 1990, the maternal mortality ratio in the U.S. has more than doubled, according to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, with an estimated 700 to 900 women dying from pregnancy or childbirth related causes each year.
NPR reports that American women are more than three times as likely as Canadian...
- 8/4/2017
- by Caitlin Keating
- PEOPLE.com
The following excerpt serves as the forward to the paperback edition of Tom Roston’s book “I Lost It at the Video Store: A Filmmaker’s Oral History of a Vanished Era,” which is now available here. The new edition features more interviews with younger screen stars, including Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, as well as new era film visionaries such as Tim League and Burnie Burns.
If you’re a film freak much under the age of 40, you likely have no personal memory of the history of film being anywhere other than at your fingertips. Those of us older than that lived through the last era of “cinematic scarcity.” And it was no joke—I remember putting in for vacation time from work just to be sure I could finally see “Mean Streets”—I saw that it was scheduled to show in a month or so for one night...
If you’re a film freak much under the age of 40, you likely have no personal memory of the history of film being anywhere other than at your fingertips. Those of us older than that lived through the last era of “cinematic scarcity.” And it was no joke—I remember putting in for vacation time from work just to be sure I could finally see “Mean Streets”—I saw that it was scheduled to show in a month or so for one night...
- 7/12/2017
- by Tom Roston
- Indiewire
Oh how I wish the title of this article could be different. Sadly when England come up against Germany in any competition (especially in a semi-final) there’s a good chance it will end in defeat. Sad but true. Before the game, I let myself get carried away thinking of different titles for this piece on English football, such as ‘England’s Bright Future’, or ‘Bring on Russia’. But unfortunately as soon as the referee blew his whistle for the end of extra time, the title wrote itself.
After the major success of England winning the U20 ‘s World Cup, the nation inevitably turned their attention to the U21’s European Championships. The U20’s 1-0 win over Venezuela meant it was England’s biggest international title since Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup in 1966. That’s depressing. Not taking anything away from the U20’s impressive feat, but surely...
After the major success of England winning the U20 ‘s World Cup, the nation inevitably turned their attention to the U21’s European Championships. The U20’s 1-0 win over Venezuela meant it was England’s biggest international title since Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup in 1966. That’s depressing. Not taking anything away from the U20’s impressive feat, but surely...
- 6/28/2017
- by kieranedwards
- The Cultural Post
Exclusive: Films by Babak Jalali, Ricardo Silva and Deepak Rauniyar selected.
The Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), which is administered by International Film Festival Rotterdam, has backed 13 projects in its latest funding round.
The Hbf Voices strand championing filmmakers who are more advanced in their careers, has selected Babak Jalali, pictured (whose film is titled Hymns), Ricardo Silva (Sleepwalk) and Deepak Rauniyar (Raja). Each project will receive script and project development funding worth €10,000.
The Nff+Hbf co-production scheme – a joint initiative by the Netherlands Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund – has backed two projects co-produced by Dutch producers.
Those are, Muayad Alayan’s The Reports On Sarah And Saleem, which is co-produced by KeyFilm, and Leonardo Brzezicki’s Almost In Love, which is co-produced by Keplerfilm. Both films receive a production grant of €50,000.
The Hbf Bright Future fund will grant €10,000 to eight features: Arun Karthick (Nasir); Sivaroj Kongsakul (Regretfully At Dawn); John Trengove (Estate); Omar Elzohairy (Feathers...
The Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), which is administered by International Film Festival Rotterdam, has backed 13 projects in its latest funding round.
The Hbf Voices strand championing filmmakers who are more advanced in their careers, has selected Babak Jalali, pictured (whose film is titled Hymns), Ricardo Silva (Sleepwalk) and Deepak Rauniyar (Raja). Each project will receive script and project development funding worth €10,000.
The Nff+Hbf co-production scheme – a joint initiative by the Netherlands Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund – has backed two projects co-produced by Dutch producers.
Those are, Muayad Alayan’s The Reports On Sarah And Saleem, which is co-produced by KeyFilm, and Leonardo Brzezicki’s Almost In Love, which is co-produced by Keplerfilm. Both films receive a production grant of €50,000.
The Hbf Bright Future fund will grant €10,000 to eight features: Arun Karthick (Nasir); Sivaroj Kongsakul (Regretfully At Dawn); John Trengove (Estate); Omar Elzohairy (Feathers...
- 5/22/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Dominican Republic drama wins Yellow Robin Award at festival.
The Watchman (El hombre que cuida) by Alejandro Andújar (Dominican Republic) won the Yellow Robin Award at the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which wrapped its sixth edition yesterday (April 9).
Andujar’s debut feature is about a young man, recently separated from his wife, who is a watchman at a rich man’s villa; his peace is interrupted when the rich man’s son arrives with his spoiled friends.
The international jury praised the film for tackling “universal issues of race and class, of youth, loyalty and sex in a Caribbean setting”.
They said: “Atmosphere and pace are strong, and the jury was particularly impressed by the brooding lead actor who radiates both the captivity of his personal struggles and that of his confined place in society, in this case the luxury villa he has to take care of when the owner’s spoiled son brings friends and trouble...
The Watchman (El hombre que cuida) by Alejandro Andújar (Dominican Republic) won the Yellow Robin Award at the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which wrapped its sixth edition yesterday (April 9).
Andujar’s debut feature is about a young man, recently separated from his wife, who is a watchman at a rich man’s villa; his peace is interrupted when the rich man’s son arrives with his spoiled friends.
The international jury praised the film for tackling “universal issues of race and class, of youth, loyalty and sex in a Caribbean setting”.
They said: “Atmosphere and pace are strong, and the jury was particularly impressed by the brooding lead actor who radiates both the captivity of his personal struggles and that of his confined place in society, in this case the luxury villa he has to take care of when the owner’s spoiled son brings friends and trouble...
- 4/10/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
In order to make accurate predictions about the potential Cannes Film Festival lineup, it’s first important to explore which films definitely won’t make the cut. The glamorous French gathering is notorious for waiting until the last minute before locking in every slot for its Official Selection. That includes competition titles, out of competition titles, a small midnight section and the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Cannes announces the bulk of its selections in Paris on April 13, but until then, there are plenty of ways to make educated guesses. Much of the reporting surrounding the upcoming festival selection is simply lists of films expected to come out this year. However, certain movies are definitely not going to the festival for various reasons.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
- 3/31/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Jude Dry, Kate Erbland, Steve Greene and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Don't be fooled by that all-too-topical title: Kevin Phillips' stylish American indie Super Dark Times is set two full decades ago, reminding us that teens were perfectly capable of screwing themselves up — and each other — before the internet, cellphones and social media came along to assist them in such activities.
A downbeat, intermittently violent study of friendship, guilt, suspicion and psychosis, this debut feature for Phillips and writing duo Ben Collins and Lukas Piotrowski feels much like a live Sundance competition candidate but actually premiered in the edgy Bright Future section of the...
A downbeat, intermittently violent study of friendship, guilt, suspicion and psychosis, this debut feature for Phillips and writing duo Ben Collins and Lukas Piotrowski feels much like a live Sundance competition candidate but actually premiered in the edgy Bright Future section of the...
- 2/2/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Changes made to fund which support filmmakers from developing countries.
The Hubert Bals Fund has undergone a makeover. The Fund, founded in 1988 to support filmmakers from developing countries and one of the core parts of International Film Festival Rotterdam, has restructured.
As Iwana Chronis (soon to leave her position as Head of the Fund) explains:
“It seemed like a good a decision to cancel the fall (2016) selection round in order to have a moment to breathe and see how we could organise things differently and then to re-start at the festival with the new team, the new policies and the new financing (structure).”
With Chronis stepping down, Marit van den Elshout (head of Iffr Pro) will take over at the helm. She will be working closely with Iffr Pro Fund coordinator Fay Brennan.
The Fund has a track record for supporting films from talents like Chen Kaige, Carlos Reygadas and Elia Suleiman early in their careers. There...
The Hubert Bals Fund has undergone a makeover. The Fund, founded in 1988 to support filmmakers from developing countries and one of the core parts of International Film Festival Rotterdam, has restructured.
As Iwana Chronis (soon to leave her position as Head of the Fund) explains:
“It seemed like a good a decision to cancel the fall (2016) selection round in order to have a moment to breathe and see how we could organise things differently and then to re-start at the festival with the new team, the new policies and the new financing (structure).”
With Chronis stepping down, Marit van den Elshout (head of Iffr Pro) will take over at the helm. She will be working closely with Iffr Pro Fund coordinator Fay Brennan.
The Fund has a track record for supporting films from talents like Chen Kaige, Carlos Reygadas and Elia Suleiman early in their careers. There...
- 1/29/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Panelists including Tribeca’s Frederic Boyer and Cercamon’s Sebastien Chesneau weighed in at the Rotterdam event.
The requirement of a sales agent was hotly debated at International Film Festival Rotterdam today (Jan 29) during a panel about how filmmakers can make the most of film festivals.
Speakers included industry veterans Frederic Boyer (artistic director, Tribeca Film Festival); Sebastien Chesneau (partner, Cercamon Sales Agency) and Katharina Suckale (producer, Bombay Berlin Film Production).
Film-maker Gastón Solnicki, whose second feature Kékszakállú is screening in Iffr’s Bright Future section this year, kicked off the discussion stating that his preference is to work without a sales agent in order to be in full control of the process of taking his films to a festival.
“I would rather be the person in direct contact with distributors, making the marketing materials and putting the posters up. I know my film best, and I know I will work hard to secure sales,” said Buenos...
The requirement of a sales agent was hotly debated at International Film Festival Rotterdam today (Jan 29) during a panel about how filmmakers can make the most of film festivals.
Speakers included industry veterans Frederic Boyer (artistic director, Tribeca Film Festival); Sebastien Chesneau (partner, Cercamon Sales Agency) and Katharina Suckale (producer, Bombay Berlin Film Production).
Film-maker Gastón Solnicki, whose second feature Kékszakállú is screening in Iffr’s Bright Future section this year, kicked off the discussion stating that his preference is to work without a sales agent in order to be in full control of the process of taking his films to a festival.
“I would rather be the person in direct contact with distributors, making the marketing materials and putting the posters up. I know my film best, and I know I will work hard to secure sales,” said Buenos...
- 1/29/2017
- ScreenDaily
Emiliano Rocha Minter’s debut feature film “We Are the Flesh” spent all last year on the festival circuit after its premiere in Iff Rotterdam’s Bright Future Section last February. The film follows two siblings (Diego Gamaliel and Maria Evoli) who wander a post-apocalyptic Mexico searching for food and shelter only to eventually discover one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man (Noé Hernandez) who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
Read More: ‘We Are The Flesh’ Review: A Modern-Day Mexican ‘Saló’
The film screened at numerous high-profile festivals last year, including a gala screening at Cannes’ Blood Window, Fantasia Fest, Fantastic Fest and the Chicago International Film Festival. Arrow Films picked up the U.S. rights to the film at Cannes in May.
Read More: Exclusive: Alfonso Cuarón & Alejandro G. Iñárritu Endorse...
Read More: ‘We Are The Flesh’ Review: A Modern-Day Mexican ‘Saló’
The film screened at numerous high-profile festivals last year, including a gala screening at Cannes’ Blood Window, Fantasia Fest, Fantastic Fest and the Chicago International Film Festival. Arrow Films picked up the U.S. rights to the film at Cannes in May.
Read More: Exclusive: Alfonso Cuarón & Alejandro G. Iñárritu Endorse...
- 1/12/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Iffr reveals lineup and jury for programme focused on emerging filmmakers.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (25 Jan – 5 Feb) has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future programme, including the titles that will compete for the Bright Future Award.
Scroll down for the full lineup
The competition for the Bright Future Award 2017 consists of sixteen debut films, including Chinese documentary Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts by Rong Guang Rong and Caroline Leone’s melancholy Brazilian road movie Pela Janela. Also competing are Belgian title Inside the Distance and German feature Self-Criticism Of A Bourgeois Dog.
The jury for the award will be made up of Italian film producer Marta Donzelli (Le Quattro Volte); Marleen Slot, Netherlands producer for Viking Film (Neon Bull) and chair of Film Producers Netherlands (Fpn); and Jean-Pierre Rehm, director of the French film festival Fid Marseille.
Outside of this competition, Bright Future also presents...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (25 Jan – 5 Feb) has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future programme, including the titles that will compete for the Bright Future Award.
Scroll down for the full lineup
The competition for the Bright Future Award 2017 consists of sixteen debut films, including Chinese documentary Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts by Rong Guang Rong and Caroline Leone’s melancholy Brazilian road movie Pela Janela. Also competing are Belgian title Inside the Distance and German feature Self-Criticism Of A Bourgeois Dog.
The jury for the award will be made up of Italian film producer Marta Donzelli (Le Quattro Volte); Marleen Slot, Netherlands producer for Viking Film (Neon Bull) and chair of Film Producers Netherlands (Fpn); and Jean-Pierre Rehm, director of the French film festival Fid Marseille.
Outside of this competition, Bright Future also presents...
- 1/4/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jackie, Paterson, The Levelling set to play Iffr 2017.
The 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled a first wave of titles ahead its 2017 edition, which runs January 25 – February 5.
The festival’s full programme will be divided into four sections.
Bright Future will present rising film-making talent from across the world. Films to play the strand will include the European premiere of Ricardo Alves Jr’s Elon Doesn’t Believe In Death, the Brazilian feature that premiered at the Brazilia Festival in September, Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling, which premiered in Toronto’s Discovery strand and played at the BFI London Film Festival, and Dane Komljen’s All The Cities Of The North, which premiered at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
The strand offers a Bright Future Award worth €10,000 ($10,700), which is open to film-makers whose films are having their international premieres in the programme. Separately, as part of the Bright Future programme, eight directors...
The 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled a first wave of titles ahead its 2017 edition, which runs January 25 – February 5.
The festival’s full programme will be divided into four sections.
Bright Future will present rising film-making talent from across the world. Films to play the strand will include the European premiere of Ricardo Alves Jr’s Elon Doesn’t Believe In Death, the Brazilian feature that premiered at the Brazilia Festival in September, Hope Dickson Leach’s The Levelling, which premiered in Toronto’s Discovery strand and played at the BFI London Film Festival, and Dane Komljen’s All The Cities Of The North, which premiered at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
The strand offers a Bright Future Award worth €10,000 ($10,700), which is open to film-makers whose films are having their international premieres in the programme. Separately, as part of the Bright Future programme, eight directors...
- 11/16/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Bright Future is playing May 20 - June 19, 2016 in the United States.As cinematic monsters go, a jellyfish—luminescent red but home-aquarium-sized—is a perverse choice. Left alone, it floats in a saltwater ecosystem resistant to humans on a large scale; only when poked does it react with precognitive venom. But Bright Future (2003) is another of Kiyoshi "No Relation" Kurosawa's piecemeal apocalypses, where the destructive force presents itself anew to all victims. Unlike the planetary threats of kaiju, alien armies, or environmental collapse, Kurosawa imagines society's end as something closer to mass suicide than massacre. It requires individual complicity. Coming after his definitive J-Horror entry Pulse (2001), for which Kurosawa is probably best known, Bright Future was somewhat off-handedly derided for a category error about objects of fear: small things in aquariums are only as threatening as observers are stupid. However,...
- 5/15/2016
- MUBI
WWE.com
This week’s guest on the Stone Cold Show is certainly larger than life – in more ways than one. We all know that Big Show is physically massive, but those unfamiliar with the giant’s jocular backstage persona will enjoy watching the his easygoing, entertaining chat with Austin.
If anyone in the business has plenty of stories to tell, it’s surely Big Show. He popped up on both sides of the Monday Night Wars, and has held major championships in both WWE and WCW (as well as an infamous run with the Ecw Heavyweight Championship in 2006.
He’s feuded with figures as diverse and influential as Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, and Brock Lesnar, and remains an active member of the WWE roster today – and yes, he does address those ‘Please retire!’ chants on the show.
There were plenty of laughs (and even a few tears...
This week’s guest on the Stone Cold Show is certainly larger than life – in more ways than one. We all know that Big Show is physically massive, but those unfamiliar with the giant’s jocular backstage persona will enjoy watching the his easygoing, entertaining chat with Austin.
If anyone in the business has plenty of stories to tell, it’s surely Big Show. He popped up on both sides of the Monday Night Wars, and has held major championships in both WWE and WCW (as well as an infamous run with the Ecw Heavyweight Championship in 2006.
He’s feuded with figures as diverse and influential as Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, and Brock Lesnar, and remains an active member of the WWE roster today – and yes, he does address those ‘Please retire!’ chants on the show.
There were plenty of laughs (and even a few tears...
- 2/17/2016
- by Jack G King
- Obsessed with Film
Exclusive: Huang Ya-li’s documentary screened at the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary Le Moulin, which recently screened in the Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japanese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.
Produced by Taipei-based Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both Cph:dox last year and Rotterdam this year, highlighting the current strength of Taiwanese documentary filmmaking. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers about Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre.
Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary Le Moulin, which recently screened in the Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japanese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.
Produced by Taipei-based Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both Cph:dox last year and Rotterdam this year, highlighting the current strength of Taiwanese documentary filmmaking. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers about Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre.
- 2/13/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Huang Ya-li’s documentary screened at the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary The Moulin, which recently screened in the Bright Future section of the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japanese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.
Produced by Taipei-based Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both Cph:dox last year and Rotterdam this year, highlighting the current strength of Taiwanese documentary filmmaking. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers about Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre.
Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary The Moulin, which recently screened in the Bright Future section of the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japanese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.
Produced by Taipei-based Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both Cph:dox last year and Rotterdam this year, highlighting the current strength of Taiwanese documentary filmmaking. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers about Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre.
- 2/13/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Huang Ya-li’s documentary screened at the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary The Moulin, which recently screened in the Bright Future section of the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japanese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.
Produced by Taipei-based Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both Cph:dox last year and Rotterdam this year, highlighting the current strength of Taiwanese documentary filmmaking. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers about Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre.
Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary The Moulin, which recently screened in the Bright Future section of the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japanese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.
Produced by Taipei-based Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both Cph:dox last year and Rotterdam this year, highlighting the current strength of Taiwanese documentary filmmaking. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers about Taiwan’s Legend Lin Dance Theatre.
- 2/13/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Springboard Bible The International Film Festival in Rotterdam has always been a place for new ways of approaching cinema to emerge and a haven for films that seem to transcend labels between film forms and genres, and sometimes between different art forms as well. This year, though with slight changes in programming, it stayed true to its calling — and one of the gems, world-premiering in the Bright Future section, is "Mother" by the Slovenian director Vlado Škafar, who is not a newcomer to the South Holland festival: His "Letters to a Child" premiered there in 2009, while his "Dad," the second part of the (very loose) trilogy, premiered in Venice Critics' Week of 2010. "Mother" is a fiercely visual film that seems determined to tell its story almost exclusively through images: Those of nature, of old towns and of a mother and her daughter. The amazing thing about...
- 2/12/2016
- by Tina Poglajen
- Indiewire
Ears, Nose and Throat. Courtesy Kje; Trilobite-Arts Dac; Picture Palace PicturesI've arrived in the Dutch city of Rotterdam after a one year absence—flummoxed several editions in a row by the sprawling but often undistinguishable festival program of international cinema, I decided to try the Berlin film festival instead in 2015. But I've been lured back to the Iffr, as the Rotterdam film festival is abbreviated, for the favorite old reasons: the promise of a fabulously congenial and casual atmosphere of cinema discovery and discussion, extensive retrospective programs, and a promising showing of terrific avant-garde work, some of it projected on film. After attending Locarno for the first time last year in the summer, I have newly kindled hopes for this other European festival, an expansive wintertime festivity once so renowned for premiering adventurous new cinema.You may note I did not mention the festival's Tiger competition, what it is perhaps...
- 2/11/2016
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Other winners included Bodkin Ras, Land Of Mine and Embrace Of The Serpent.
Babak Jalali’s Radio Dreams has tonight won the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition and €40,000 - shared by director and producer - at the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 27-Feb 7).
The film, which received its world premiere at Iffr, is a comedy about an Iranian writer who pursues an ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan’s first rock band. It marks the second feature of Jalali, whose Frontier Blues debuted at Locarno in 2009.
The jury said it had awarded the prize to Radio Dreams “for its subtle and humorous reflection on displacement and alienation of a group of misfits in a foreign culture.” [Click here for Babak Jalali interview]
In addition, a special jury award worth €10,000 was presented to La última tierra by Pablo Lamar, “for exceptional artistic achievement in sound design”. [Click here for interview]
The winners were announced at the Iffr 2016 Awards Ceremony, held at the...
Babak Jalali’s Radio Dreams has tonight won the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition and €40,000 - shared by director and producer - at the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 27-Feb 7).
The film, which received its world premiere at Iffr, is a comedy about an Iranian writer who pursues an ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan’s first rock band. It marks the second feature of Jalali, whose Frontier Blues debuted at Locarno in 2009.
The jury said it had awarded the prize to Radio Dreams “for its subtle and humorous reflection on displacement and alienation of a group of misfits in a foreign culture.” [Click here for Babak Jalali interview]
In addition, a special jury award worth €10,000 was presented to La última tierra by Pablo Lamar, “for exceptional artistic achievement in sound design”. [Click here for interview]
The winners were announced at the Iffr 2016 Awards Ceremony, held at the...
- 2/5/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Alfonso Cuarón & Alejandro G. Iñárritu Endorse Emiliano Rocha Minter's 'We Are The Flesh'
The next generation of Mexican filmmakers, Julio Chavezmontes of Piano Films, and Moises Cosio of Detalle Films, executive producer of Atom Egoyan’s “Remember," Jodorowsky’s “The Dance of Reality,” and Apichatpong Weersethaku’s “Cemetery of Splendor,” are premiering "We Are The Flesh” ("Tenemos la carne") in Iff Rotterdam’s Bright Future Section.
The directorial debut by 25-year-old Emiliano Rocha Minter has the support of Academy Award-winning directors Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Amores Perros”) and Alfonso Cuarón (“Gravity), with Cannes-winning director Carlos Reygadas ("Silent Light", "Post Tenebras Lux”) involved as a co-producer. This makes "Tenemos la carne"/ "We are the Flesh" the first Mexican film, let alone a feature debut, to receive the endorsement of three of the most important directors working today. That is a film to see! It will also be on offer at the Berlinale’s Efm by its international sales agent, Reel Suspects.
In addition to Reygadas, Mexican director Sebastian Hofmann, of the Sundance New Frontier film "Halley," Yann Gonzalez, French director director of Cannes Critics’ Week Special Screening “You and the Night,” and Splendor Omnia’s Natalia Lopez, are co-producers of the film. Mexican associate producers are Simplemente’s Rune Hansen, Monica Reina and Celia Iturraga. "We Are The Flesh" was supported by the Mexican Film Institute's (Imcine) Foprocine fund.
"We Are the Flesh" takes place in a post-apocalyptic Mexico in which a brother and sister find their way into one of the last remaining buildings after years of wandering. Inside, they find a man who makes them a dangerous offer to survive in the outside world. You can view the trailer below:...
The directorial debut by 25-year-old Emiliano Rocha Minter has the support of Academy Award-winning directors Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Amores Perros”) and Alfonso Cuarón (“Gravity), with Cannes-winning director Carlos Reygadas ("Silent Light", "Post Tenebras Lux”) involved as a co-producer. This makes "Tenemos la carne"/ "We are the Flesh" the first Mexican film, let alone a feature debut, to receive the endorsement of three of the most important directors working today. That is a film to see! It will also be on offer at the Berlinale’s Efm by its international sales agent, Reel Suspects.
In addition to Reygadas, Mexican director Sebastian Hofmann, of the Sundance New Frontier film "Halley," Yann Gonzalez, French director director of Cannes Critics’ Week Special Screening “You and the Night,” and Splendor Omnia’s Natalia Lopez, are co-producers of the film. Mexican associate producers are Simplemente’s Rune Hansen, Monica Reina and Celia Iturraga. "We Are The Flesh" was supported by the Mexican Film Institute's (Imcine) Foprocine fund.
"We Are the Flesh" takes place in a post-apocalyptic Mexico in which a brother and sister find their way into one of the last remaining buildings after years of wandering. Inside, they find a man who makes them a dangerous offer to survive in the outside world. You can view the trailer below:...
- 2/2/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Paris-based sales outfit adds Rotterdam premieres and sales manager.
Matteo Lovadina’s Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has added two titles to its slate, both set to premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) later this week.
The first is Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito’s debut feature, Out Of Love, screening in Iffr’s Bright Future strand.
The film is the latest production from Dutch outfit Topkapi and is produced by company principals Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings.
The psycho-drama, about an intense relationship, is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, Mediafund, CoBO, Ntr (part of De Oversteek), Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Media Programme of the European Union. Pim Hermeling’s September will release in the Netherlands.
Dutch-Chilean writer-director Valdebenito was nominated for best short film at the European Film Awards for her 2009 short Stay Away.
Topkapi are also the Dutch producers on Felix van Groeningen’s Sundance entry Belgica and partnered on van...
Matteo Lovadina’s Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has added two titles to its slate, both set to premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) later this week.
The first is Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito’s debut feature, Out Of Love, screening in Iffr’s Bright Future strand.
The film is the latest production from Dutch outfit Topkapi and is produced by company principals Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings.
The psycho-drama, about an intense relationship, is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, Mediafund, CoBO, Ntr (part of De Oversteek), Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Media Programme of the European Union. Pim Hermeling’s September will release in the Netherlands.
Dutch-Chilean writer-director Valdebenito was nominated for best short film at the European Film Awards for her 2009 short Stay Away.
Topkapi are also the Dutch producers on Felix van Groeningen’s Sundance entry Belgica and partnered on van...
- 1/25/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Prabda Yoon’s feature debut will play in Rotterdamn’s Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
Thai sales outfit Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up worldwide rights to Thai writer-director Prabda Yoon’s Motel Mist, the only Asian entry at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (Jan 27 - Feb 7) revamped Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
The new film marks the feature debut of Yoon, an award-winning author and screenwriter most notably for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life In The Universe and Invisible Waves.
His new thriller is set entirely in a ‘love motel’ where five lives connect in unexpected ways and mysterious powers are at play. The characters include two school girls, a motel staff member, a man obsessed with sexual fetish and a former child actor who believes aliens are chasing him.
“In a country where justice and basic human rights are fragile and can be easily violated by ‘higher powers’ with absurd and often comical logic, it seems...
Thai sales outfit Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up worldwide rights to Thai writer-director Prabda Yoon’s Motel Mist, the only Asian entry at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (Jan 27 - Feb 7) revamped Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
The new film marks the feature debut of Yoon, an award-winning author and screenwriter most notably for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life In The Universe and Invisible Waves.
His new thriller is set entirely in a ‘love motel’ where five lives connect in unexpected ways and mysterious powers are at play. The characters include two school girls, a motel staff member, a man obsessed with sexual fetish and a former child actor who believes aliens are chasing him.
“In a country where justice and basic human rights are fragile and can be easily violated by ‘higher powers’ with absurd and often comical logic, it seems...
- 1/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Lined up for the International Film Festival Rotterdam's Bright Future program this year are works by Ana Cristina Barragán, Samuele Sestieri, Kaweh Modiri, Lee Seung-won, Jonas Rothlaender, Bernardo Britto, Yi Cui, Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, Fernanda Romandía, Arun Karthick, Emiliano Rocha Minter, Yosuke Okuda, Pimpaka Towira, Uchida Eiji, Vlado Skafar, Penny Lane, Matt Johnson, Elisa Miller, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Tsubota Yoshifumi, Lucile Hadžihalilovic, Simon Stone, Pietro Marcello, Bi Gan, João Salaviza, Pascale Breton, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Avishai Sivan, Jony Perel, Alex Santiago Pérez and many others. » - David Hudson...
- 1/6/2016
- Keyframe
Lined up for the International Film Festival Rotterdam's Bright Future program this year are works by Ana Cristina Barragán, Samuele Sestieri, Kaweh Modiri, Lee Seung-won, Jonas Rothlaender, Bernardo Britto, Yi Cui, Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, Fernanda Romandía, Arun Karthick, Emiliano Rocha Minter, Yosuke Okuda, Pimpaka Towira, Uchida Eiji, Vlado Skafar, Penny Lane, Matt Johnson, Elisa Miller, Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Tsubota Yoshifumi, Lucile Hadžihalilovic, Simon Stone, Pietro Marcello, Bi Gan, João Salaviza, Pascale Breton, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Avishai Sivan, Jony Perel, Alex Santiago Pérez and many others. » - David Hudson...
- 1/6/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The 35th edition of Hawaii International Film Festival (Hiff) recently announced their Audience Award winners. Throughout the festival, ballots were distributed for the screenings of every eligible film. Audiences voted on their favorite narrative feature, documentary feature and short film.
The audience award for Best Narrative Feature went to "Kitarajanipon," a feature comprised of four short films directed by four leading Thai directors. Each film was inspired by the songs from His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej’s (also known as King Rama IX) royal songbook, which threads each film together into one feature presentation. "The Singers" directed by Nonzee Nimibutr, "Smiles" by Wallop Prasopphol, "Falling Rain" by Parkpoom Wongpoom, and "Star" by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon artfully reinterpret the profound meaning and philosophy behind the monarch’s songs.
The audience award for Best Documentary Feature went to"Tyrus," directed by Pamela Tom. The film tells the unlikely story of the 104-year old artist Tyrus Wong, reveals the significant impact Wong has made in the world of art and animation while telling the dramatic and little known story of Chinese Americans in the 20th century.
The audience award for Best Short Film went to "The Roots of ‘Ulu," directed by John Antonelli. The transports the viewer from the mythological origins of ‘ulu, to the Polynesian voyaging canoes that brought ‘ulu, or breadfruit, from Tahiti to Hawaii, illuminating its important role in cultural preservation and food sustainability for Hawaii's future.
Hiff Executive Director Robert Lambeth highlights, "The diversity of the HIFF35 Audience Award winners presented by Hawaii News Now show that our audiences truly have international tastes and that the power of cinema is universal."
Earlier in the festival, during the Awards Gala, Hiff honored actress Ryoko Hirosue with the Career Achievement Award. She is best known for her role in the Luc Besson produced "Wasabi" co-starring Jean Reno and "Departures," the winner of an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Hiff premiered her latest film, "Hana's Miso Soup." Actor Tadanobu Asano was honored with the Maverick Award for his bold performances in seminal films and cult classics, such as "Ichi the Killer," "Bright Future," "Last Life in the Universe" and more recently "Journey to the Shore," working with the top directors around the world for over twenty years. Actor Ha Jung Woo, from South Korea, was honored with the Renaissance Award for his profound career as an actor ("The Chaser," "Assassination"), also as a director ("Fasten Your Seatbelt") and as a painter. Known to attract both critical acclaim and commercial success, Ha quickly became the most in-demand leading actor of his generation in Korean cinema.
Also presented during the Gala were the Halekulani Golden Orchid awards for Best Narrative Feature to director Shin Su-won (South Korea) for the film, "Madonna;" Best Documentary Feature Award to "Crocodile Gennadiy," directed by Steve Hoover; and Best Short Film Award to "Ahi Ka," directed by Richard Curtis (New Zealand). "The Kids" (Taiwan 2015), by Sunny Yu was presented with the Netpac award for Best Asian Film from an Emerging Filmmaker this past weekend.
The audience award for Best Narrative Feature went to "Kitarajanipon," a feature comprised of four short films directed by four leading Thai directors. Each film was inspired by the songs from His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej’s (also known as King Rama IX) royal songbook, which threads each film together into one feature presentation. "The Singers" directed by Nonzee Nimibutr, "Smiles" by Wallop Prasopphol, "Falling Rain" by Parkpoom Wongpoom, and "Star" by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon artfully reinterpret the profound meaning and philosophy behind the monarch’s songs.
The audience award for Best Documentary Feature went to"Tyrus," directed by Pamela Tom. The film tells the unlikely story of the 104-year old artist Tyrus Wong, reveals the significant impact Wong has made in the world of art and animation while telling the dramatic and little known story of Chinese Americans in the 20th century.
The audience award for Best Short Film went to "The Roots of ‘Ulu," directed by John Antonelli. The transports the viewer from the mythological origins of ‘ulu, to the Polynesian voyaging canoes that brought ‘ulu, or breadfruit, from Tahiti to Hawaii, illuminating its important role in cultural preservation and food sustainability for Hawaii's future.
Hiff Executive Director Robert Lambeth highlights, "The diversity of the HIFF35 Audience Award winners presented by Hawaii News Now show that our audiences truly have international tastes and that the power of cinema is universal."
Earlier in the festival, during the Awards Gala, Hiff honored actress Ryoko Hirosue with the Career Achievement Award. She is best known for her role in the Luc Besson produced "Wasabi" co-starring Jean Reno and "Departures," the winner of an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Hiff premiered her latest film, "Hana's Miso Soup." Actor Tadanobu Asano was honored with the Maverick Award for his bold performances in seminal films and cult classics, such as "Ichi the Killer," "Bright Future," "Last Life in the Universe" and more recently "Journey to the Shore," working with the top directors around the world for over twenty years. Actor Ha Jung Woo, from South Korea, was honored with the Renaissance Award for his profound career as an actor ("The Chaser," "Assassination"), also as a director ("Fasten Your Seatbelt") and as a painter. Known to attract both critical acclaim and commercial success, Ha quickly became the most in-demand leading actor of his generation in Korean cinema.
Also presented during the Gala were the Halekulani Golden Orchid awards for Best Narrative Feature to director Shin Su-won (South Korea) for the film, "Madonna;" Best Documentary Feature Award to "Crocodile Gennadiy," directed by Steve Hoover; and Best Short Film Award to "Ahi Ka," directed by Richard Curtis (New Zealand). "The Kids" (Taiwan 2015), by Sunny Yu was presented with the Netpac award for Best Asian Film from an Emerging Filmmaker this past weekend.
- 12/1/2015
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: New festival director Bero Beyer to implement more changes to Iffr’s structure.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has shaken up its programme structure ahead of its 45th edition (Jan 27-Feb 7) and named eight titles selected for the line-up including Jerzy Skolimowski’s 11 Minutes, Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia and Steve Oram’s Aaaaaaaah!.
The programme, which was previously split between 14 sections, has been streamlined into four strands: Bright Future, Voices, Deep Focus and Perspectives.
New festival director Bero Beyer said the change was made to “provide more context and clarity for visitors to the festival”.
“In recent years, Iffr has found a good balance between the number of films shown and the breadth of the cinematic spectrum,” said Beyer.
“Every festival has to strike the right balance to deliver quality programming and generate the right kind of attention for each film it shows, long or short. Our task now is to provide more context and clarity...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has shaken up its programme structure ahead of its 45th edition (Jan 27-Feb 7) and named eight titles selected for the line-up including Jerzy Skolimowski’s 11 Minutes, Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia and Steve Oram’s Aaaaaaaah!.
The programme, which was previously split between 14 sections, has been streamlined into four strands: Bright Future, Voices, Deep Focus and Perspectives.
New festival director Bero Beyer said the change was made to “provide more context and clarity for visitors to the festival”.
“In recent years, Iffr has found a good balance between the number of films shown and the breadth of the cinematic spectrum,” said Beyer.
“Every festival has to strike the right balance to deliver quality programming and generate the right kind of attention for each film it shows, long or short. Our task now is to provide more context and clarity...
- 11/12/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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- 11/6/2015
- TVLine.com
International Film Festival Rotterdam is looking for participants for its 18th Iffr Trainee Project for Young Film Critics, taking place during its 45th edition (January 27 - February 7, 2016). If you are a talented young film critic interested in joining this project and you meet the criteria listed below, you should submit an application before Friday November 6, 2015.
The festival supports film making, film producing and journalistic talent on several levels: the main festival section 'Bright Future' (including competitions for both features and shorts) presents recent works by first and second time filmmakers; Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund contributes to film projects in developing countries and co-production market CineMart hosts a talent development lab for young film producers (Rotterdam Lab) in close collaboration with its partner organizations. Recognizing the important role of film criticism to the perception of independent cinema, Iffr organizes a trainee project for young film critics.
Project description
The Iffr Trainee Project for Young Film Critics is a talent development program that offers up to three motivated and talented professional film critics under the age of 30 from outside The Netherlands a chance to travel abroad to cover a major international film festival, to get acquainted with the Rotterdam film festival in particular and its broad range of independent cinema. The project was created in 1998 to open up opportunities for young and upcoming film critics to explore and sharpen their knowledge and views on independent and experimental cinema - and the festivals, like International Film Festival Rotterdam, that present it.
Trainee program
The program of the Trainee Project includes contributing to the festival’s (online) publications by exploring assigned films or festival industry events; taking part in expert meetings with experienced film critics; participating in the Rotterdam Fipresci jury and reporting about the festival for your own affiliation(s).
What to expect:
- Complimentary Iffr 2016 press accreditation.
- Budget hotel accommodation in Rotterdam from January 28 – February 6, 2016.
- Partial refund of travel costs when traveling from outside Europe.
- A full schedule. Iffr wants its trainee film critics to really participate in the festival and interact with other industry professionals. The trainees will form a team, hosted by the Iffr Press Office and the festival editorial staff. You get to explore all aspects of the festival (screenings, exhibitions, Q&A sessions, industry panels and debates) as part of the programme and to cover for your own media.
- If your participation is successful and you have published reports that meet Iffr standards (in both quality and quantity) you get the opportunity to visit the next edition of the festival as an accredited journalist.
Criteria for application
- Age under 30 years.
- Fluent command of the English language (written and spoken).
- Demonstrable experience in film criticism (print or online media).
- Not yet established enough to profit from facilities as attending international film festivals outside your country.
- Have agreement(s) with relevant print and/or online media to publish reports on the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016.
Application Process
Your application should include digital versions (Word, jpg or pdf) of the following documents and information:
- A motivation letter to support your application: explain why this project and the Rotterdam festival appeals to you and what you have to offer.
- Your resume (CV) including your contact details and date of birth.
- Up to three proofs of recent work you published on (independent) film or film festivals. If not in English, provide the original articles with English translations to demonstrate your command of this language.
- Information about your affiliation(s): title, name of chief editor, postal address, phone number, email account, periodicity, circulation, web address, estimated unique page views per month.
- A recommendation letter (on company letterhead) of your principal affiliation’s chief editor assigning you to cover Iffr 2016 and confirming that your report will be published.
- Please send in your application by e-mail to press{At]iffr.com before Friday November 6, 2015. Selected applicants will receive a notification no later than Friday December 4.
The festival supports film making, film producing and journalistic talent on several levels: the main festival section 'Bright Future' (including competitions for both features and shorts) presents recent works by first and second time filmmakers; Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund contributes to film projects in developing countries and co-production market CineMart hosts a talent development lab for young film producers (Rotterdam Lab) in close collaboration with its partner organizations. Recognizing the important role of film criticism to the perception of independent cinema, Iffr organizes a trainee project for young film critics.
Project description
The Iffr Trainee Project for Young Film Critics is a talent development program that offers up to three motivated and talented professional film critics under the age of 30 from outside The Netherlands a chance to travel abroad to cover a major international film festival, to get acquainted with the Rotterdam film festival in particular and its broad range of independent cinema. The project was created in 1998 to open up opportunities for young and upcoming film critics to explore and sharpen their knowledge and views on independent and experimental cinema - and the festivals, like International Film Festival Rotterdam, that present it.
Trainee program
The program of the Trainee Project includes contributing to the festival’s (online) publications by exploring assigned films or festival industry events; taking part in expert meetings with experienced film critics; participating in the Rotterdam Fipresci jury and reporting about the festival for your own affiliation(s).
What to expect:
- Complimentary Iffr 2016 press accreditation.
- Budget hotel accommodation in Rotterdam from January 28 – February 6, 2016.
- Partial refund of travel costs when traveling from outside Europe.
- A full schedule. Iffr wants its trainee film critics to really participate in the festival and interact with other industry professionals. The trainees will form a team, hosted by the Iffr Press Office and the festival editorial staff. You get to explore all aspects of the festival (screenings, exhibitions, Q&A sessions, industry panels and debates) as part of the programme and to cover for your own media.
- If your participation is successful and you have published reports that meet Iffr standards (in both quality and quantity) you get the opportunity to visit the next edition of the festival as an accredited journalist.
Criteria for application
- Age under 30 years.
- Fluent command of the English language (written and spoken).
- Demonstrable experience in film criticism (print or online media).
- Not yet established enough to profit from facilities as attending international film festivals outside your country.
- Have agreement(s) with relevant print and/or online media to publish reports on the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016.
Application Process
Your application should include digital versions (Word, jpg or pdf) of the following documents and information:
- A motivation letter to support your application: explain why this project and the Rotterdam festival appeals to you and what you have to offer.
- Your resume (CV) including your contact details and date of birth.
- Up to three proofs of recent work you published on (independent) film or film festivals. If not in English, provide the original articles with English translations to demonstrate your command of this language.
- Information about your affiliation(s): title, name of chief editor, postal address, phone number, email account, periodicity, circulation, web address, estimated unique page views per month.
- A recommendation letter (on company letterhead) of your principal affiliation’s chief editor assigning you to cover Iffr 2016 and confirming that your report will be published.
- Please send in your application by e-mail to press{At]iffr.com before Friday November 6, 2015. Selected applicants will receive a notification no later than Friday December 4.
- 9/2/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Other prizes awarded to Dalibor Matanic’s The High Sun, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey to the Shore and Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Treasure.
Grimur Hákonarson’s Rams has picked up the Un Certain Regard prize at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Review: RamsINTERVIEW: Grimur Hákonarson
Following 2010’s Summerland, Icelandic director Hakonarson’s second feature centres on two estranged brothers who have to reunite to save their sheep during an outbreak of disease.
It proved a hot title for New Europe Film Sales, which sold the film around the world during the Cannes Marché, having sold French rights to Arp Selection before the festival.
As winner, Rams will be shown at the end of Cannes’ closing ceremony tomorrow (May 24).
Jury Prize
The Jury Prize went to The High Sun (Zvizdan), a Croatian drama from Dalibor Matanic.
Review: The High Sun
The Zagreb-born writer-director is best known for his 2002 feature Fine Dead Girls but has also had two shorts...
Grimur Hákonarson’s Rams has picked up the Un Certain Regard prize at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Review: RamsINTERVIEW: Grimur Hákonarson
Following 2010’s Summerland, Icelandic director Hakonarson’s second feature centres on two estranged brothers who have to reunite to save their sheep during an outbreak of disease.
It proved a hot title for New Europe Film Sales, which sold the film around the world during the Cannes Marché, having sold French rights to Arp Selection before the festival.
As winner, Rams will be shown at the end of Cannes’ closing ceremony tomorrow (May 24).
Jury Prize
The Jury Prize went to The High Sun (Zvizdan), a Croatian drama from Dalibor Matanic.
Review: The High Sun
The Zagreb-born writer-director is best known for his 2002 feature Fine Dead Girls but has also had two shorts...
- 5/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Retrospective will focus on Japanese independent cinema from the past 15 years and includes Cannes favourite Naomi Kawase.
The San Sebastian Film Festival is to programme a retrospective for its 63rd edition (Sept 18-26) titles New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015.
Among the titles making up the retrospective from known directors are:
H Story (2001) by Nobuhiro Suwa;A Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi, 2002) by Shin’ya Tsukamoto;Bright Future (Akarui mirai, 2003) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa;Vibrator (2003) by Ryuichi Hiroki;Bashing (2005) by Masahiro Kobayashi;Birth/Mother (Tarachime, 2006) by Naomi Kawase;Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi, 2008) by Shion Sono.
The works of several new talents to have made their debut since 2000 include:
Hole in the Sky (Sora no ana, 2001) by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri,Border Line (2002) by Sang-il Lee,No One’s Ark (Baka no hakobune, 2003) by Nobuhiro Yamashita, The Soup, One Morning (Aru asa, soup wa, 2005) by Izumi Takahashi,Fourteen (Ju-yon-sai, 2007) by Hiromasa Hirosue,Sex Is Not Laughing Matter (Hito no sekkuso...
The San Sebastian Film Festival is to programme a retrospective for its 63rd edition (Sept 18-26) titles New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015.
Among the titles making up the retrospective from known directors are:
H Story (2001) by Nobuhiro Suwa;A Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi, 2002) by Shin’ya Tsukamoto;Bright Future (Akarui mirai, 2003) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa;Vibrator (2003) by Ryuichi Hiroki;Bashing (2005) by Masahiro Kobayashi;Birth/Mother (Tarachime, 2006) by Naomi Kawase;Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi, 2008) by Shion Sono.
The works of several new talents to have made their debut since 2000 include:
Hole in the Sky (Sora no ana, 2001) by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri,Border Line (2002) by Sang-il Lee,No One’s Ark (Baka no hakobune, 2003) by Nobuhiro Yamashita, The Soup, One Morning (Aru asa, soup wa, 2005) by Izumi Takahashi,Fourteen (Ju-yon-sai, 2007) by Hiromasa Hirosue,Sex Is Not Laughing Matter (Hito no sekkuso...
- 5/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
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