Carolina Markowicz returns to the circuit to release her second feature “Toll” (“Pedágio”), cementing another world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, this time in its Centrepiece strand, billed as championing “compelling stories, global perspectives,” before heading to San Sebastian for closing night honors in its Horizontes Latinos competition later this month.
Paris-based Luxbox handles international sales and has provided Variety with an exclusive first look at the riveting trailer.
After high praise for her feature-film debut “Charcoal,” Markowicz, among Brazil’s top-tier cineastes, returns with another compelling societal study, this time with an eye on a complicated mother-son relationship that leads to a keen understanding of just what people are capable of under the influence of their fragile, yet righteous, morality.
Produced by Karen Castanho, Bianca Villar and Fernando Fraiha, founding partners at Brazil’s Bionica Filmes (“Welcome Violeta”), Luís Urbano and Sandro Aguilar from O Som e a Fúria,...
Paris-based Luxbox handles international sales and has provided Variety with an exclusive first look at the riveting trailer.
After high praise for her feature-film debut “Charcoal,” Markowicz, among Brazil’s top-tier cineastes, returns with another compelling societal study, this time with an eye on a complicated mother-son relationship that leads to a keen understanding of just what people are capable of under the influence of their fragile, yet righteous, morality.
Produced by Karen Castanho, Bianca Villar and Fernando Fraiha, founding partners at Brazil’s Bionica Filmes (“Welcome Violeta”), Luís Urbano and Sandro Aguilar from O Som e a Fúria,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Founded in 1998, O Som e a Furia is one of Portugal’s leading production companies, and has produced works by Portuguese auteurs such as Miguel Gomes, Ivo Ferreira, Sandro Aguilar, and João Nicolau.
Owned by Luís Urbano and Sandro Aguilar, the company has developed a clear editorial line dedicated to Portuguese and foreign auteurs who develop films with crossover potential that can succeed on the international festival circuit.
Over the past two decades the company has worked with a consistent group of directors and has developed a network of regular co-production partners, in particular in France, Germany, Brazil and Switzerland.
Urbano says that one of his key contributions is at a curatorial level: “We aim to work with directors who have a distinctive point of view and to evolve with them over their careers. In the case of a new director, I can help them create a distinctive mark.”
In...
Owned by Luís Urbano and Sandro Aguilar, the company has developed a clear editorial line dedicated to Portuguese and foreign auteurs who develop films with crossover potential that can succeed on the international festival circuit.
Over the past two decades the company has worked with a consistent group of directors and has developed a network of regular co-production partners, in particular in France, Germany, Brazil and Switzerland.
Urbano says that one of his key contributions is at a curatorial level: “We aim to work with directors who have a distinctive point of view and to evolve with them over their careers. In the case of a new director, I can help them create a distinctive mark.”
In...
- 2/12/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Locarno, Switzerland — Two doc features framing mordant alternative visions of war and soccer – Tiago Hespanha’s “Campo” and Pedro Filipe Marques “Viveiro” (Breeding Ground) – shared the top prizes at the 8th Locarno First Look showcase, the Festival announced Sunday evening.
A pix-in-post focus on six-or-so titles from a national cinema, or region, First Look is one of the main industry draws of the Swiss Festival.
Produced by Terratreme Filmes’, a company created by filmmakers which backed 2017 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit “The Nothing Factory,” “Campo” won a €65,000 in post-production services from Cinelab Bucharest.
Backed by Luis Urbano and Sandro Aguilar at O Som e a Furia, a classic arthouse producer whose credits include Ivo M. Ferreira’s “Letters from War” and Miguel Gomes’ “Arabian Nights,” “Breeding Ground” won € 5,600 in advertising, donated by Le Film Français, and an award worth €5,000 donated by Kaiju Cinema D/ffusion for the production of a key art design.
A pix-in-post focus on six-or-so titles from a national cinema, or region, First Look is one of the main industry draws of the Swiss Festival.
Produced by Terratreme Filmes’, a company created by filmmakers which backed 2017 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit “The Nothing Factory,” “Campo” won a €65,000 in post-production services from Cinelab Bucharest.
Backed by Luis Urbano and Sandro Aguilar at O Som e a Furia, a classic arthouse producer whose credits include Ivo M. Ferreira’s “Letters from War” and Miguel Gomes’ “Arabian Nights,” “Breeding Ground” won € 5,600 in advertising, donated by Le Film Français, and an award worth €5,000 donated by Kaiju Cinema D/ffusion for the production of a key art design.
- 8/5/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Ubi SuntA thematic line running through many of the films in this year’s International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is the inherent materiality of cinema: the objects and bodies immortalized by the act of filmmaking, a desperate yet hubristic gesture which is, as Tarkovsky put it, a “harrowing preparation for death.” The ephemeral is celebrated in film—gestures, moments, glances, events—but to film life is to film death too. And this act of immortalization, the immortalizing of the image through filming (temporarily at least, before the bits and bytes dissipate before the cellulose faces, before the hard drives fail and the DCPs become unreadable) preserves the material world like naturalist specimens in tinted formaldehyde.Bodies are filmed; objects, animals, organs, light and texture. Yet no matter how much of the inner world is stripped away, this cinema of matter only urges the creation of spiritual link to the eternal...
- 6/27/2017
- MUBI
Hong Sang-soo's Right Now, Wrong Then.The lineup for the 2015 festival has been revealed, including new films by Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, Chantal Akerman, Athina Rachel Tsangari, and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes dedicated to Sam Peckinpah, Michael Cimino, Bulle Ogier, and much more.Piazza GRANDERicki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme, USA)La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France)Le dernier passage (Pascal Magontier, France)Der staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume, Germany)Southpaw (Antoine Fuqua, USA)Trainwreck (Judd Apatow, USA)Jack (Elisabeth Scharang, Austria)Floride (Philippe Le Guay, France)The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, UK/USA)Erlkönig (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland)Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)Bombay Velvet (Anurag Kashyap, India)Pastorale cilentana (Mario Martone, Italy)La vanite (Lionel Baier, Switzerland/France)The Laundryman (Lee Chung, Taiwan)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, USA) I pugni ni tasca (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Heliopolis (Sérgio Machado, Brazil)Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder,...
- 7/20/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Church of the Devil
Director: Manoel De Oliveira
Writers: Manoel De Oliveira, Machado De Assis (short stories)
Producers: O Som a a Furia’s Luis Urbano and Sandro Aguilar
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Lima Duarte
Portuguese director Manoel De Oliveira is the world’s oldest living filmmaker, and the past several years has seen the filmmaker engaging in an incredible amount of output, his last title being 2012′s Gebo and the Shadow, which has yet to see a Us release. While his past several titles have been set in Portugal or France, he moves to Brazil with this latest, based on short stories of Machado De Assis, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of Brazilian literature. Needless to say, a glance at the vague description provided has us hooked.
Gist: Three connected stories set in Brazil following a visit of devil to earth,...
Director: Manoel De Oliveira
Writers: Manoel De Oliveira, Machado De Assis (short stories)
Producers: O Som a a Furia’s Luis Urbano and Sandro Aguilar
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Lima Duarte
Portuguese director Manoel De Oliveira is the world’s oldest living filmmaker, and the past several years has seen the filmmaker engaging in an incredible amount of output, his last title being 2012′s Gebo and the Shadow, which has yet to see a Us release. While his past several titles have been set in Portugal or France, he moves to Brazil with this latest, based on short stories of Machado De Assis, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of Brazilian literature. Needless to say, a glance at the vague description provided has us hooked.
Gist: Three connected stories set in Brazil following a visit of devil to earth,...
- 2/14/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A Portuguese film festival will be held in Goa with selection of contemporary films on November 5-6, 2011. The venue for the festival is Maquinez Palace; Auditorium I, Panaji.
The films to be screened as part of this festival are Miguel Gomes’s Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Our beloved Month of August), Telmo Martins’s Um Funeral à Chuva (A Funeral In the Rain), Alberto Seixas Santos’ E o Tempo Passa (And Time Goes By), Marco Martins’ Alice, João Salaviza’s Arena and Sandro Aguilar’s A Zona (The Zone).
This festival will be organized by the Entertainment Society of Goa in association with the Semana da Cultura Indo-Portuguesa, the Consulate General of Portugal, Goa, and Instituto Camões, Portugal.
For more information on the film schedule, log on to the www.iffigoa.org website.
The films to be screened as part of this festival are Miguel Gomes’s Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Our beloved Month of August), Telmo Martins’s Um Funeral à Chuva (A Funeral In the Rain), Alberto Seixas Santos’ E o Tempo Passa (And Time Goes By), Marco Martins’ Alice, João Salaviza’s Arena and Sandro Aguilar’s A Zona (The Zone).
This festival will be organized by the Entertainment Society of Goa in association with the Semana da Cultura Indo-Portuguesa, the Consulate General of Portugal, Goa, and Instituto Camões, Portugal.
For more information on the film schedule, log on to the www.iffigoa.org website.
- 11/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Sans-titre by Neïl Beloufa of France won the top prize comprising prize money of 7,500 Euros at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The award ceremony of the six-day festival, which screened about 470 short films, was held on 10 May .
“In Sans-titre, we hear about a group of terrorists who occupied a villa and trashed the place. What we see suggests other things entirely: suspicions give rise to strange dreams; architectural space can be produced by an ink jet printer; we know nothing. Neil Beloufa has made an uncanny and original film,” mentions the official statement.
The 58th International Short Film Festial Oberhausen will be held from 26th April to 1st May 2012.
List of awards:
Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen
Sans-titre
Neïl Beloufa
France 2010, 15 min, Hdcam, colour
Two Principal Prizes
3,500 Euros each
The Artist
Laure Prouvost
Great Britain 2010, 10 min, Digi Beta, colour
Mercúrio
(Mercury)
Sandro Aguilar
Portugal 2010, 18 min, 35 mm, colour...
“In Sans-titre, we hear about a group of terrorists who occupied a villa and trashed the place. What we see suggests other things entirely: suspicions give rise to strange dreams; architectural space can be produced by an ink jet printer; we know nothing. Neil Beloufa has made an uncanny and original film,” mentions the official statement.
The 58th International Short Film Festial Oberhausen will be held from 26th April to 1st May 2012.
List of awards:
Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen
Sans-titre
Neïl Beloufa
France 2010, 15 min, Hdcam, colour
Two Principal Prizes
3,500 Euros each
The Artist
Laure Prouvost
Great Britain 2010, 10 min, Digi Beta, colour
Mercúrio
(Mercury)
Sandro Aguilar
Portugal 2010, 18 min, 35 mm, colour...
- 5/11/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Sandro Aguilar is well known in Portugal for his visually rich experimental shorts, now he makes is full length debut with Uprise. In this fragmented tale of loneliness we see the lives of multiple poverty stricken and disfranchised characters trying to make sense of, and connecting with the outside world.
The official site for this drama is now online. In it you can find a still gallery and a streaming trailer. The screenplay of Uprise was written by Sandro Aguilar himself. The movie stars Isabel Abreu, António Pedroso, Cátia Afonso, Tiago Barbosa, Guilherme Pina Cabral, Nuno Bernardo, and Manuel Mesquita. Here’s a plot synopsis provided by the production company:
Each character in Uprise has to deal with the loss of a loved one. A man observes his father’s body lying on the white hospital sheets, only moving because of the artificial respirator that keeps him alive. A panic-stricken...
The official site for this drama is now online. In it you can find a still gallery and a streaming trailer. The screenplay of Uprise was written by Sandro Aguilar himself. The movie stars Isabel Abreu, António Pedroso, Cátia Afonso, Tiago Barbosa, Guilherme Pina Cabral, Nuno Bernardo, and Manuel Mesquita. Here’s a plot synopsis provided by the production company:
Each character in Uprise has to deal with the loss of a loved one. A man observes his father’s body lying on the white hospital sheets, only moving because of the artificial respirator that keeps him alive. A panic-stricken...
- 6/8/2009
- by Marcio
- Screen Anarchy
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