The Load is about a man and a van. We’re in Yugoslavia in 1999, where the rumble of Nato bombers can be heard in the distance. The man’s name is Vlada (Leon Luvec) and his job is to drive a container full of who-knows-what from Kosovo to Belgrade, no questions asked. His consignment and consigners are not divulged. Even he sits uneasily in his driver’s seat as worrying clanks emit from his cargo. In times of war what is out of sight can so easily slip out of mind.
The film was written and directed by Ognjen Glavonić, a 33-year-old Serb who grew up close to Belgrade and would have been in his mid-teens when Nato launched their non-Un-security-council-approved campaign to pressure the country into withdrawing its troops from Kosovo. His first feature is an ambitious piece of filmmaking, as thrilling as it is both politically and emotionally serious,...
The film was written and directed by Ognjen Glavonić, a 33-year-old Serb who grew up close to Belgrade and would have been in his mid-teens when Nato launched their non-Un-security-council-approved campaign to pressure the country into withdrawing its troops from Kosovo. His first feature is an ambitious piece of filmmaking, as thrilling as it is both politically and emotionally serious,...
- 12/5/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Expanding outfit teams with Dogtooth assistant producer.
Growing Greek production and sales outfit Heretic is to launch a consulting company for international producers: Heretic Asterisk, which will focus on marketing and festival launch strategies.
The initiative is being run with Dogtooth assistant producer Vicky Miha.
Heretic Asterisk will also provide guidance in funding applications for international institutions, development and financing strategies for projects, strategic planning for distribution and marketing, as well as co-ordinating all promotional material for completed films.
Miha said: “Our goal with Heretic Asterisk is to make the producer’s life a bit simpler, by co-ordinating parts of the work that cannot be easily handled by individual producers or small teams. Partnering with Heretic’s dynamic team can result to nothing but a creative powerhouse.”
The Athens-based production house was founded in 2013 by Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis. Latest credits include Tribeca 2017 winner Son Of Sofia.
In 2015, Heretic introduced its sales arm Heretic Outreach...
Growing Greek production and sales outfit Heretic is to launch a consulting company for international producers: Heretic Asterisk, which will focus on marketing and festival launch strategies.
The initiative is being run with Dogtooth assistant producer Vicky Miha.
Heretic Asterisk will also provide guidance in funding applications for international institutions, development and financing strategies for projects, strategic planning for distribution and marketing, as well as co-ordinating all promotional material for completed films.
Miha said: “Our goal with Heretic Asterisk is to make the producer’s life a bit simpler, by co-ordinating parts of the work that cannot be easily handled by individual producers or small teams. Partnering with Heretic’s dynamic team can result to nothing but a creative powerhouse.”
The Athens-based production house was founded in 2013 by Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis. Latest credits include Tribeca 2017 winner Son Of Sofia.
In 2015, Heretic introduced its sales arm Heretic Outreach...
- 5/20/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Find out what made our top 10 films of 2016 - and which films feature on Team Screen’s overall top 10.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
- 12/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
Now in its 15th year, DokuFest in Kosovo, focusing on both Balkan and international documentaries, is one of Europe’s most intriguing documentary film festivals at the moment. Set in the small medieval city of Prizren, it prides itself on a unique atmosphere of intimacy, an easy going pace, resourcefulness, originality and goodwill. Adored by both the local population and the foreign filmmakers, journalists and other guests who every August flock to Prizren in masses, DokuFest is one of the few major cultural events in a country where the political situation is still a bit precarious. Starting three years after the war in Kosovo, the organizers of the festival had to deal with the lack of infrastructure, such as cinema theaters. The cinema Lumbardhi, named after the river that is running through the city, was one of the two remaining cinemas in the country; and making it the heart of their festival,...
- 9/27/2016
- MUBI
Inaugural initiative aims to bring Yugoslav war stories to wider audiences.
It was standing room only at Sarajevo’s True Stories Market, part of the film festival’s Dealing with the Past programme that aims to connects filmmakers with organisations that are documenting and researching the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, with the aim of bringing these stories to wider audiences.
The event attracted an audience much larger than even the festival team expected and more than 30 people remained outside the Hotel Europe’s Atrium hall.
The opening session consisted of the case study of Serbian director Ognjen Glavonić’s Depth Two [pictured], followed by a presentation of seven barely known stories from the region that could attract interest as works of cinema and inspire audiences to consider unresolved issues that still burden the nations of the former Yugoslavia.
Glavonić, producer Dragana Jovović, and editor Jelena Maksimović detailed how they investigated the case of mass graves - the result...
It was standing room only at Sarajevo’s True Stories Market, part of the film festival’s Dealing with the Past programme that aims to connects filmmakers with organisations that are documenting and researching the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, with the aim of bringing these stories to wider audiences.
The event attracted an audience much larger than even the festival team expected and more than 30 people remained outside the Hotel Europe’s Atrium hall.
The opening session consisted of the case study of Serbian director Ognjen Glavonić’s Depth Two [pictured], followed by a presentation of seven barely known stories from the region that could attract interest as works of cinema and inspire audiences to consider unresolved issues that still burden the nations of the former Yugoslavia.
Glavonić, producer Dragana Jovović, and editor Jelena Maksimović detailed how they investigated the case of mass graves - the result...
- 8/19/2016
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
New section of Sarajevo’s Industry Days presents the most cinematic true stories from the Balkan wars to film and TV professionals
One of the many new elements in Sarajevo Film Festival’s Industry Days this year is the True Stories Market. It is a part of the festival’s Dealing With The Past project, aimed at increasing dialogue, promoting peace through raising awareness, and confronting all the parties involved with the facts of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
It has been 21 years since the war in Bosnia ended, and only recently film-makers from the region have started making films that question and confront war crimes and deeply rooted, painful issues of their own countries.
The festival programme includes two of these films: Serbian director Ognjen Glavonić’s Berlinale Forum title Depth Two [pictured], a documentary examining murders of Albanian civilians in the Kosovo war; and Croatian film-maker Irena Škorić’s Unwanted Heritage, which receives...
One of the many new elements in Sarajevo Film Festival’s Industry Days this year is the True Stories Market. It is a part of the festival’s Dealing With The Past project, aimed at increasing dialogue, promoting peace through raising awareness, and confronting all the parties involved with the facts of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
It has been 21 years since the war in Bosnia ended, and only recently film-makers from the region have started making films that question and confront war crimes and deeply rooted, painful issues of their own countries.
The festival programme includes two of these films: Serbian director Ognjen Glavonić’s Berlinale Forum title Depth Two [pictured], a documentary examining murders of Albanian civilians in the Kosovo war; and Croatian film-maker Irena Škorić’s Unwanted Heritage, which receives...
- 8/17/2016
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Four world premieres among line-up.
Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the documentary films that will play in competition at its 22nd edition.
The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues ranging from personal identity, national identity, emigration and social justice to family secrets, political mysteries and economical crises.
Competition Programme – Documentary Filmworld Premieres
Borders
Slovenia, 2016, 10 min.
Director: Damjan Kozole
The Heart Of Wood / Srce Od Drveta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 36 min.
Director: Namik Kabil
Scream For Me Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 100 min.
Director: Tarik Hodžić
Svetlana
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 25 min.
Director: Pero Pavlovic
International Premieres
Baglar
Turkey, 2016, 81 min.
Director: Berke Bas, Melis Birder
The Beast Is Still Alive
Bulgaria, 2016, 91 min.
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Down There / Unten
Austria, 2016, 87 min.
Director: Đorđe Čenić, Hermann Peseckas
Drums Of Resistance / Daullet E REZISTENCËS
Kosovo, 2016, 65 min.
Director: Mathieu Jouffre
Four Passports / ČETIRI PASOŠA
Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, 83 min.
Director: Mihajlo Jevtić
Islands Of Forgotten Cinemas / Kino Otok
Croatia, 2016, 35 min.
Director:...
Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the documentary films that will play in competition at its 22nd edition.
The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues ranging from personal identity, national identity, emigration and social justice to family secrets, political mysteries and economical crises.
Competition Programme – Documentary Filmworld Premieres
Borders
Slovenia, 2016, 10 min.
Director: Damjan Kozole
The Heart Of Wood / Srce Od Drveta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 36 min.
Director: Namik Kabil
Scream For Me Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 100 min.
Director: Tarik Hodžić
Svetlana
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 25 min.
Director: Pero Pavlovic
International Premieres
Baglar
Turkey, 2016, 81 min.
Director: Berke Bas, Melis Birder
The Beast Is Still Alive
Bulgaria, 2016, 91 min.
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Down There / Unten
Austria, 2016, 87 min.
Director: Đorđe Čenić, Hermann Peseckas
Drums Of Resistance / Daullet E REZISTENCËS
Kosovo, 2016, 65 min.
Director: Mathieu Jouffre
Four Passports / ČETIRI PASOŠA
Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, 83 min.
Director: Mihajlo Jevtić
Islands Of Forgotten Cinemas / Kino Otok
Croatia, 2016, 35 min.
Director:...
- 7/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The London-based documentary festival gives its emerging talent prize to Algerian director Hassan Ferhani.
Serbian director Ongjen Glavonic’s Depth Two won the grand jury award at the Open City Documentary Festival in London.
The film investigates the story behind a mass grave discovered in 2001 in a suburb of Belgrade.
Jury chair Penny Woolcock said: “It was a unanimous decision to give the grand jury award to Ognjen Glavonic for Depth Two, which tells a complex and horrifying story in a truly compelling way. It’s hard to describe the experience of watching this film — at one level it’s a forensic telling of a dreadful story that gradually reveals its secrets, while simultaneously creating a space for reflecting on universal themes of violence and complicity.”
Glavonic said: “My idea with this film was to uncover and give a voice to this case and the stories behind it which for years have been silenced. This award will...
Serbian director Ongjen Glavonic’s Depth Two won the grand jury award at the Open City Documentary Festival in London.
The film investigates the story behind a mass grave discovered in 2001 in a suburb of Belgrade.
Jury chair Penny Woolcock said: “It was a unanimous decision to give the grand jury award to Ognjen Glavonic for Depth Two, which tells a complex and horrifying story in a truly compelling way. It’s hard to describe the experience of watching this film — at one level it’s a forensic telling of a dreadful story that gradually reveals its secrets, while simultaneously creating a space for reflecting on universal themes of violence and complicity.”
Glavonic said: “My idea with this film was to uncover and give a voice to this case and the stories behind it which for years have been silenced. This award will...
- 6/27/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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