The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering Ravenous was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Travis Hopson, Edited by Victoria Verduzco, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
1999, a year of hope, a year of high fashion, nooo, no… 1999, the year when people prepared for Y2K, the year of all the odd choices when it came to fashion, and the year of interesting cinematic options. We got The Mummy which gave us all the hot cast members we could ask for and still gives us memes, we got End of Days, Stigmata, Idle Hands, House on Haunted Hill, The Haunting, Stir of Echoes, and The Blair Witch Project. It was a year for surprising hits, shocking failures, and offbeat horror films. So many smaller budgets did so well. Also out in 1999 was this movie about cannibalism in the olden days of the United States,...
1999, a year of hope, a year of high fashion, nooo, no… 1999, the year when people prepared for Y2K, the year of all the odd choices when it came to fashion, and the year of interesting cinematic options. We got The Mummy which gave us all the hot cast members we could ask for and still gives us memes, we got End of Days, Stigmata, Idle Hands, House on Haunted Hill, The Haunting, Stir of Echoes, and The Blair Witch Project. It was a year for surprising hits, shocking failures, and offbeat horror films. So many smaller budgets did so well. Also out in 1999 was this movie about cannibalism in the olden days of the United States,...
- 12/16/2023
- by Emilie Black
- JoBlo.com
Mexican director Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser’s debut feature Red Shoes premiered in Venice’s Horizons Extra section.
Mexican director Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser’s debut feature Red Shoes won three awards at this year’s Sofia International Film Festival (March 16-31), taking home the international competition’s main prize - the Sofia City of Film Award - as well as the Fipresci prize and young jury award.
Red Shoes premiered in Venice’s Horizons Extra section and is being handled internationally by 102 Distribution.
The international jury headed by North Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski gave its special jury award to Bekir Bülbül...
Mexican director Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser’s debut feature Red Shoes won three awards at this year’s Sofia International Film Festival (March 16-31), taking home the international competition’s main prize - the Sofia City of Film Award - as well as the Fipresci prize and young jury award.
Red Shoes premiered in Venice’s Horizons Extra section and is being handled internationally by 102 Distribution.
The international jury headed by North Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski gave its special jury award to Bekir Bülbül...
- 3/28/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
It’s not a coincidence that Volker Schlöndorff’s latest film The Forest Maker, the environmental essay documentary about Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo, who found a way to grow trees in the most barren areas of Africa, is opening the 27th Sofia International Film Festival kicking off Thursday in the Bulgarian capital.
One of the major film festivals in Eastern Europe is going green, and the veteran German filmmaker, winner of the Palme d’Or and what was then called the best foreign language Oscar for The Tin Drum (1979), will plant the first tree of the future Sofia Film Festival Forest.
“We wanted to remind ourselves of our deep connection to the land and our power to be agents of change together. We wish to engage the public in the global vision of sustainable development of society and a responsible attitude towards nature”, the festival organizers said about the green...
One of the major film festivals in Eastern Europe is going green, and the veteran German filmmaker, winner of the Palme d’Or and what was then called the best foreign language Oscar for The Tin Drum (1979), will plant the first tree of the future Sofia Film Festival Forest.
“We wanted to remind ourselves of our deep connection to the land and our power to be agents of change together. We wish to engage the public in the global vision of sustainable development of society and a responsible attitude towards nature”, the festival organizers said about the green...
- 3/16/2023
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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New-York based director, writer, photographer and artist Milcho Manchevski burst into filmmaking in 1994 with his acclaimed debut Before the Rain, which was nominated for a foreign language and Oscar and won a Golden Lion at Venice. Prior to that, his iconic 1991 music video for hip-hop unit Arrested Development’s Tennessee had pointed to a talent prepared to go against the prevailing winds, a theme that has continued to mark his career.
His films since have attracted acclaim and awards at festivals around the world, as well as academic analysis. Manchevski has also taught at universities and film schools in the US, Europe, Russia, Asia and Cuba, published essays and held exhibitions of his photography. In 2002, he directed the ninth episode of the first season of HBO’s The Wire. He has been attached to major Hollywood productions, but Machevski’s uncompromising determination to...
New-York based director, writer, photographer and artist Milcho Manchevski burst into filmmaking in 1994 with his acclaimed debut Before the Rain, which was nominated for a foreign language and Oscar and won a Golden Lion at Venice. Prior to that, his iconic 1991 music video for hip-hop unit Arrested Development’s Tennessee had pointed to a talent prepared to go against the prevailing winds, a theme that has continued to mark his career.
His films since have attracted acclaim and awards at festivals around the world, as well as academic analysis. Manchevski has also taught at universities and film schools in the US, Europe, Russia, Asia and Cuba, published essays and held exhibitions of his photography. In 2002, he directed the ninth episode of the first season of HBO’s The Wire. He has been attached to major Hollywood productions, but Machevski’s uncompromising determination to...
- 10/28/2022
- by Gavin J Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Milcho Manchevski perfectly performed the role of art house celebrity at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Thursday, when he gave a masterclass that was eloquent, humorous, defiant and vaguely threatening.
He is in Tokyo, not only as a star guest, but also as director of competition film “Kaymak.” The film, which Manchevski describes as a love story for grown-ups, is a darkly comedic tale of two middle class couples in North Macedonia. There is commentary about intra-European politics and religion, but mostly it stirred Tokyo audiences with some uncompromising sex scenes.
The session started quietly enough with the “Before the Rain” director showing a five-minute short film he made in Cuba that uses extreme slow motion. “The concept was about trying to bring the viewer to a position where they’re not sure whether the image is moving or not,” he said. The exercise, he said was intended to...
He is in Tokyo, not only as a star guest, but also as director of competition film “Kaymak.” The film, which Manchevski describes as a love story for grown-ups, is a darkly comedic tale of two middle class couples in North Macedonia. There is commentary about intra-European politics and religion, but mostly it stirred Tokyo audiences with some uncompromising sex scenes.
The session started quietly enough with the “Before the Rain” director showing a five-minute short film he made in Cuba that uses extreme slow motion. “The concept was about trying to bring the viewer to a position where they’re not sure whether the image is moving or not,” he said. The exercise, he said was intended to...
- 10/27/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski’s 1994 feature debut, Before the Rain, was a powerful and artfully made portrayal of the violent ethnic conflicts tearing apart his homeland. The film, which premiered in Venice, took home the Golden Lion and was nominated for an Oscar, turning Manchevski into a formidable arthouse talent overnight.
That was well over twenty years ago, and in the ensuing decades the director has never quite managed to top his first feature, completing a handful of movies that received festival play or limited releases — the best of them, 2019’s Willow, won a few awards and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber — but failed to generate the same overall enthusiasm.
His latest work, the raunchy and flamboyant dramedy Kaymak, seems destined for the same fate. Entertaining to an extent, but also over-the-top and a bit ridiculous, the film follows two...
Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski’s 1994 feature debut, Before the Rain, was a powerful and artfully made portrayal of the violent ethnic conflicts tearing apart his homeland. The film, which premiered in Venice, took home the Golden Lion and was nominated for an Oscar, turning Manchevski into a formidable arthouse talent overnight.
That was well over twenty years ago, and in the ensuing decades the director has never quite managed to top his first feature, completing a handful of movies that received festival play or limited releases — the best of them, 2019’s Willow, won a few awards and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber — but failed to generate the same overall enthusiasm.
His latest work, the raunchy and flamboyant dramedy Kaymak, seems destined for the same fate. Entertaining to an extent, but also over-the-top and a bit ridiculous, the film follows two...
- 10/26/2022
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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In a welcome return to normalcy, the Tokyo International Film Festival rolled out the full red carpet, all 541 feet of it, for the first time since 2019, once again welcoming guests from around the globe to a new venue for its opening ceremony on a brisk autumn evening in the Japanese capital.
The Covid-19 pandemic had kept international visitors away for the last few editions, but the opening of the 35th Tokyo festival felt like old times. More than one hundred overseas guests are joining the proceedings this year — some paying their own way to Tokyo as sky-high airline ticket prices drained the event’s budget — up from just eight at the 2021 edition.
The red carpet, which clocked in at almost two hours, snaked its way from Toho’s famed Godzilla statue in front of Hibiya Midtown to the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater. Once a fixture of Roppongi,...
In a welcome return to normalcy, the Tokyo International Film Festival rolled out the full red carpet, all 541 feet of it, for the first time since 2019, once again welcoming guests from around the globe to a new venue for its opening ceremony on a brisk autumn evening in the Japanese capital.
The Covid-19 pandemic had kept international visitors away for the last few editions, but the opening of the 35th Tokyo festival felt like old times. More than one hundred overseas guests are joining the proceedings this year — some paying their own way to Tokyo as sky-high airline ticket prices drained the event’s budget — up from just eight at the 2021 edition.
The red carpet, which clocked in at almost two hours, snaked its way from Toho’s famed Godzilla statue in front of Hibiya Midtown to the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater. Once a fixture of Roppongi,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Gavin J Blair and Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Manchevski won the Venice Golden Lion in 1994 for Before The Rain.
LevelK has boarded international sales for the Macedonian-set drama Kaymak by Milcho Manchevski, best known for his 1994 Venice Golden Lion winner Before The Rain.
Kaymak will world premiere in competition in Tokyo.
The ensemble cast includes Sara Klimoska, Kamka Tocinovski, Aleksandar Mikic (Secret Ingredient), Ana Stojanovska (Mothers), Simona Spirovska and Filip Trajkovikj.
The “irreverent, unconventional and poignant love story” is about two different sets of neighbours in Macedonia: a young rich couple who have to welcome a distant relative in their home; and the middle-aged neighbours in a crumbling house who feel left behind.
LevelK has boarded international sales for the Macedonian-set drama Kaymak by Milcho Manchevski, best known for his 1994 Venice Golden Lion winner Before The Rain.
Kaymak will world premiere in competition in Tokyo.
The ensemble cast includes Sara Klimoska, Kamka Tocinovski, Aleksandar Mikic (Secret Ingredient), Ana Stojanovska (Mothers), Simona Spirovska and Filip Trajkovikj.
The “irreverent, unconventional and poignant love story” is about two different sets of neighbours in Macedonia: a young rich couple who have to welcome a distant relative in their home; and the middle-aged neighbours in a crumbling house who feel left behind.
- 9/22/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Tokyo International Film Festival’s 35th edition will include titles from Bui Thac Chuyen, Olivia Wilde and Hiroki Ryuichi.
The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) today unveiled its line-up for its first full-scale physical edition since the pandemic started, with 15 international competition titles including its first from Vietnam - Bui Thac Chuyen’s Glorious Ashes.
Set to make its world premiere at TIFF, the film was a recipient of the Asean Co-production Fund (Acof) launched by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and the Southeast Asia co-production grant (Scpg) established by the Singapore Film Commission (Sfc), as...
The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) today unveiled its line-up for its first full-scale physical edition since the pandemic started, with 15 international competition titles including its first from Vietnam - Bui Thac Chuyen’s Glorious Ashes.
Set to make its world premiere at TIFF, the film was a recipient of the Asean Co-production Fund (Acof) launched by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and the Southeast Asia co-production grant (Scpg) established by the Singapore Film Commission (Sfc), as...
- 9/21/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
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Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will open with a full red carpet for the first time in three years as the event looks to bounce back from two relatively subdued editions held during the pandemic.
Fest chairman Hiroyasu Ando said at a line-up press conference that he expected around 100 overseas guests and participants to attend. A very limited number of visitors made the trip for the last two events.
Japan’s government has kept tighter restrictions on its borders for longer than most other countries and a daily limit of 50,000 inbound travellers currently remains in place. Further loosening is expected by the time the fest unspools, with a parliamentary discussion on border controls set for tomorrow.
TIFF will also revive the Kurosawa Akira Award, given to filmmakers for contributions to global cinema, after a hiatus of 14 years. Previous recipients include Steven Spielberg, Yamada Yoji and Chen Kaige.
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will open with a full red carpet for the first time in three years as the event looks to bounce back from two relatively subdued editions held during the pandemic.
Fest chairman Hiroyasu Ando said at a line-up press conference that he expected around 100 overseas guests and participants to attend. A very limited number of visitors made the trip for the last two events.
Japan’s government has kept tighter restrictions on its borders for longer than most other countries and a daily limit of 50,000 inbound travellers currently remains in place. Further loosening is expected by the time the fest unspools, with a parliamentary discussion on border controls set for tomorrow.
TIFF will also revive the Kurosawa Akira Award, given to filmmakers for contributions to global cinema, after a hiatus of 14 years. Previous recipients include Steven Spielberg, Yamada Yoji and Chen Kaige.
- 9/21/2022
- by Gavin Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Iranian action drama “World War III,” which won two awards at the recent Venice festival, will feature among the main competition titles at next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
The festival will operate as an in-person event with foreign filmmakers, media and other guests in attendance from Oct. 24-Nov. 2, 2022.
“World War III” is joined in the competition section by the world premiere of Milcho Manchevski’s “Kaymak,” Spanish director Carlos Vermut’s “Manticore” and Roberta Torre’s “The Fabulous Ones,” Michale Boganim’s “Tel Aviv Beirut,” and Youssef Chebbi’s debut film “Ashkal.”
The 15-strong competition also includes two Japanese films Imaizumi Rikiya’s “By The Window” and Matsunaga Daishi’s “Egoist” and two Japanese co-productions, Fukunaga Takeshi’s “Mountain Woman,” and Kyrgyzstan director Aktan Arym Kubat’s “This Is What I Remember.”
Winners from the competition section will be chosen by a jury headed by Julie Taymor, along with Joao Pedro Rodrigues,...
The festival will operate as an in-person event with foreign filmmakers, media and other guests in attendance from Oct. 24-Nov. 2, 2022.
“World War III” is joined in the competition section by the world premiere of Milcho Manchevski’s “Kaymak,” Spanish director Carlos Vermut’s “Manticore” and Roberta Torre’s “The Fabulous Ones,” Michale Boganim’s “Tel Aviv Beirut,” and Youssef Chebbi’s debut film “Ashkal.”
The 15-strong competition also includes two Japanese films Imaizumi Rikiya’s “By The Window” and Matsunaga Daishi’s “Egoist” and two Japanese co-productions, Fukunaga Takeshi’s “Mountain Woman,” and Kyrgyzstan director Aktan Arym Kubat’s “This Is What I Remember.”
Winners from the competition section will be chosen by a jury headed by Julie Taymor, along with Joao Pedro Rodrigues,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Alarm Pictures has closed North American rights from Hewes Pictures on “The Protector,” the latest film from Canadian writer-director Lenin M. Sivam, in advance of its July 28 world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival.
The U.S. streaming release date is set for Monday, Jan. 23. Limited theatrical openings begin the Friday prior at New York’s Film Noir Cinema and at iPic on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, where the film will run for one week a piece.
U.K. and Ireland rights to “The Protector” have been acquired by Reel 2 Reel Film/Trinity Entertainment. Level Film will release “The Protector” in Canada.
A U.K.-based film distributor that this year picked up Serbian-German actor Branko Tomovic’s folk horror “Vampir,” Alarm Pictures specialises in edgy yet commercial “genre” film titles. That perfectly describes “The Protector.”
Starring Chelsea Clark (“Ginny and Georgia”), it turns on Evelyn, 21, pictured near the...
The U.S. streaming release date is set for Monday, Jan. 23. Limited theatrical openings begin the Friday prior at New York’s Film Noir Cinema and at iPic on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, where the film will run for one week a piece.
U.K. and Ireland rights to “The Protector” have been acquired by Reel 2 Reel Film/Trinity Entertainment. Level Film will release “The Protector” in Canada.
A U.K.-based film distributor that this year picked up Serbian-German actor Branko Tomovic’s folk horror “Vampir,” Alarm Pictures specialises in edgy yet commercial “genre” film titles. That perfectly describes “The Protector.”
Starring Chelsea Clark (“Ginny and Georgia”), it turns on Evelyn, 21, pictured near the...
- 7/19/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Focus Features is planning a moderate release of You Won’t Be Alone on Friday, January 28, 2022 domestically in theaters.
Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, the film follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power in order to understand what it means to be human. The witch will be played by different actors and the film will include an old Macedonian dialect.
The film is directed and written by Goran Stolevski. It stars Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), BAFTA-winner Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert (Ratched), Carloto Cotta (Tabu), Félix Maritaud (Sauvage) and...
Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, the film follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power in order to understand what it means to be human. The witch will be played by different actors and the film will include an old Macedonian dialect.
The film is directed and written by Goran Stolevski. It stars Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), BAFTA-winner Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert (Ratched), Carloto Cotta (Tabu), Félix Maritaud (Sauvage) and...
- 11/19/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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We’ll probably spend the next decade or so speculating on the impact certain films might have made had they not been released in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. One movie that could have had a bigger splash was “The Water Man” (Rlje Films), David Oyelowo’s impressive directorial debut. It’s a rousing kid adventure and a poignant family tale, and he very skillfully threads the needle between those two genres. Like many an actor-turned-director before him, Oyelowo displays a sure hand with the fine ensemble he’s assembled, including young actors Lonnie Chavis and Amiah Miller and veterans Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina and Maria Bello.
Also available: The Criterion Collection continues to preserve the best Netflix originals to physical media, the latest being the intense “Beasts of No Nation,” starring Abraham Attah and Idris Elba in an appropriately brutal tale of child soldiers; “Overwhelm the...
We’ll probably spend the next decade or so speculating on the impact certain films might have made had they not been released in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. One movie that could have had a bigger splash was “The Water Man” (Rlje Films), David Oyelowo’s impressive directorial debut. It’s a rousing kid adventure and a poignant family tale, and he very skillfully threads the needle between those two genres. Like many an actor-turned-director before him, Oyelowo displays a sure hand with the fine ensemble he’s assembled, including young actors Lonnie Chavis and Amiah Miller and veterans Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina and Maria Bello.
Also available: The Criterion Collection continues to preserve the best Netflix originals to physical media, the latest being the intense “Beasts of No Nation,” starring Abraham Attah and Idris Elba in an appropriately brutal tale of child soldiers; “Overwhelm the...
- 8/6/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The new projects by Serbia's Srdjan Keča, Montenegro's Senad Šahmanović and Slovenia's Sara Božanić have also been supported through the minority co-production scheme. The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (Havc) has announced the results of its latest minority co-production support scheme, where five projects received a total of €277,206. The biggest names among the winners are Serbian director Maja Miloš and Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski. Miloš, whose first feature, Clip, won a Rotterdam Tiger in 2012, received €85,804 for her sophomore effort, Rift in the Ice, a co-production between Serbia's Baš Čelik, Croatia's Propeler Film, Italy's Nightswim, the Netherlands’ Volya Films and Slovenia's Spok Films/Vertigo. Manchevski got the same amount for his seventh feature, Kaymak, a co-production between North Macedonia's Banana Film, Croatia's Jaako dobra produkcija, Denmark's Meta Film, Bulgaria's Dare Films, Albania's Tirana Film Institute and the Netherlands' Isabella Films, with the UK's Ian Prior, of Scala Productions, on board as...
New projects by the Dardenne brothers, Milcho Manchevski, Jessica Woodworth, Michel Hazanavicius and Pablo Berger, among the selection. At its 162nd meeting held online, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 24 feature film projects, including 3 documentaries and 3 animation films, for a total amount of €5,822,000. The share of eligible projects with female directors examined at this Eurimages Board of Management meeting was 39.80%. 45.83% of the projects supported were directed by women and €2,213,000 was awarded to these projects, representing 38.01% of the total amount awarded. The films supported include the new title by Belgian masters Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne after their 2019 Cannes Best Director winner Young Ahmed, Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita) (Belgium/France) and the new film by North Macedonia’s Milcho Manchevski after his Oscar submission Willow, Kaymak (North Macedonia/Denmark/Bulgaria); the new films by...
Milcho Manchevski, Pablo Berger.
Co-productions from French director Michel Hazanavicius and Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among 24 selected for funding in the latest Eurimages round.
Hazanavicius, whose 2011 title The Artist which won five Oscars including best picture and director, receives €470,000 towards Franco-Belgian animation The Most Precious Of Cargoes.
Adapted from a 2019 novel by French writer Jean-Claude Grumberg, the animated film is set during the Second World War, when a Jewish father throws one of his twins from the train to Auschwitz in a desperate attempt to save him. The boy is then discovered by a childless Polish couple.
Co-productions from French director Michel Hazanavicius and Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among 24 selected for funding in the latest Eurimages round.
Hazanavicius, whose 2011 title The Artist which won five Oscars including best picture and director, receives €470,000 towards Franco-Belgian animation The Most Precious Of Cargoes.
Adapted from a 2019 novel by French writer Jean-Claude Grumberg, the animated film is set during the Second World War, when a Jewish father throws one of his twins from the train to Auschwitz in a desperate attempt to save him. The boy is then discovered by a childless Polish couple.
- 3/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
North Macedonia’s Oscar© 2020 Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Willow’ by Milcho Manchevski
I watched Willow since I loved Manchevski’s Before The Rain; he has such a cinematic sense and is primary preoccupation — how things…
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I watched Willow since I loved Manchevski’s Before The Rain; he has such a cinematic sense and is primary preoccupation — how things…
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- 1/28/2021
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Milcho Manchevski is set to re-team with North Macedonia-based Banana Film and Ian Prior’s U.K. banner Scala Productions on his next directorial outing, the black comedy “Kaymak.”
Manchevski last teamed up with Banana Film and Scala Productions on “Willow” which represents North Macedonia in the Oscar race.
Penned by Manchevski, the film tells the story of two couples who live next to each other and are involved in non-traditional romantic liaisons.
“Kaymak” is co-produced by Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen and Mette Børch at Meta Films in Copenhagen and Ivan Doykov of Dare Films in Sofia. Casting is currently underway.
“’Kaymak’ is about challenging the accepted wisdom of what is considered a ‘normal’ romantic relationship. It is about following your heart and where that takes you,” said Manchevski who also wrote the screenplay. “It is about taboos, about the choices we make in life and how they come back...
Manchevski last teamed up with Banana Film and Scala Productions on “Willow” which represents North Macedonia in the Oscar race.
Penned by Manchevski, the film tells the story of two couples who live next to each other and are involved in non-traditional romantic liaisons.
“Kaymak” is co-produced by Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen and Mette Børch at Meta Films in Copenhagen and Ivan Doykov of Dare Films in Sofia. Casting is currently underway.
“’Kaymak’ is about challenging the accepted wisdom of what is considered a ‘normal’ romantic relationship. It is about following your heart and where that takes you,” said Manchevski who also wrote the screenplay. “It is about taboos, about the choices we make in life and how they come back...
- 1/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
North Macedonia’s official submission for the ‘Best International Feature’ category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 is Willow, the latest title from Milcho Manchevski, which premiered at the 2019 Rome International Film Festival. Manchevski is revered for his 1994 debut Before the Rain, which was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. This is the fourth time Manchevski has been the official submission for his country and in our zoom chat we got to speak about his process, including the origins and inspirations of his latest work. Manchevski also touches upon a new project he’s been working during this in conversation.…...
- 1/23/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Milcho Manchevski is a New York-based filmmaker from North Macedonia, who has made several films about motherhood and its impact on women. His latest film, “Willow,” takes that theme and tells it through the eyes of a shared experience of sacrifice that spans centuries.
“Willow” is a triptych of three stories, each about 30 minutes in length, which ripple subtly into each other. It’s a format of storytelling that Manchevski has favored during his career, especially in his acclaimed 1994 drama “Before the Rain,” which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and earned an Oscar nomination. “Willow” is North Macedonia’s official selection for the 2020 Academy Awards.
The filmmaker was asked about his preference for three-act structure during an interview as part of TheWrap’s Awards & International Screening Series. “I guess it goes back to my film school days in Illinois and [learning] avant garde cinema and structuralism and even conceptualism,...
“Willow” is a triptych of three stories, each about 30 minutes in length, which ripple subtly into each other. It’s a format of storytelling that Manchevski has favored during his career, especially in his acclaimed 1994 drama “Before the Rain,” which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and earned an Oscar nomination. “Willow” is North Macedonia’s official selection for the 2020 Academy Awards.
The filmmaker was asked about his preference for three-act structure during an interview as part of TheWrap’s Awards & International Screening Series. “I guess it goes back to my film school days in Illinois and [learning] avant garde cinema and structuralism and even conceptualism,...
- 1/19/2021
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Kino Lorber’s acquired U.S. rights to Milcho Manchevski’s “Willow,” which will represent North Macedonia in the Oscars’ international feature film race.
“Willow” premiered at the Rome Film Festival and went on to win a best director award at Raindance. Reel Suspects is handling worldwide sales on the movie.
“Willow” tells the heartfelt tale of three women struggling to become mothers and contending with the issues of control over their bodies, struggle against tradition, loyalty, adoption and motherhood. Penned by Manchevski, the multi-layered drama is set in a medieval Macedonian village and in a contemporary city.
Manchevski is best known for his feature debut “Before the Rain” which won an Independent Spirit award, as well as the Golden Lion in Venice. “Before The Rain” represented Macedonia at the Oscars in 1995 and earned the country’s first Oscar nomination.
Kino Lorber is planning to release “Willow” in the Spring,...
“Willow” premiered at the Rome Film Festival and went on to win a best director award at Raindance. Reel Suspects is handling worldwide sales on the movie.
“Willow” tells the heartfelt tale of three women struggling to become mothers and contending with the issues of control over their bodies, struggle against tradition, loyalty, adoption and motherhood. Penned by Manchevski, the multi-layered drama is set in a medieval Macedonian village and in a contemporary city.
Manchevski is best known for his feature debut “Before the Rain” which won an Independent Spirit award, as well as the Golden Lion in Venice. “Before The Rain” represented Macedonia at the Oscars in 1995 and earned the country’s first Oscar nomination.
Kino Lorber is planning to release “Willow” in the Spring,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Producer Jane Kortoshev explains the vital role of the landscape around the city of Prilep, in Milcho Manchevski’s feature Willow, a tale of love, trust and motherhood over the centuries. A willow tree bends without ever breaking, tying together three stories set in North Macedonia. In the first tale, a medieval couple hopes for a child through rituals, prayers and sacrifices. The Prilep Area is one of the finalists of the Eufcn Location Award, the annual prize for European film locations organized by the European Film Commissions Network (Eufcn) in collaboration with Cineuropa. The location was submitted by the North Macedonia Film Agency. Producer Jane Kortoshev explains the vital role of the landscape around the city of Prilep, in Milcho Manchevski’s feature film Vrba (Willow), a tale of love, trust and motherhood over centuries. The nearly deserted Mariovo plateau once bustled with life. Abandoned stone houses are all that remains.
- 12/11/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Exclusive: Focus Features has pre-bought world rights to under-the-radar supernatural-horror You Won’t Be Alone, which will star Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), BAFTA-winner Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert (Ratched), Carloto Cotta (Tabu), Félix Maritaud (Sauvage) and Sara Klimoska (Milcho Manchevski’s Willow).
Filming has just wrapped in Serbia on the English-language feature which is being made by The Babadook and The Nightingale producer Kristina Ceyton and Cargo producer Sam Jennings.
Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, pic follows a young witch who is left to go feral in the woods. Curious about life as a human, she accidentally kills a peasant in the village, then takes her shape to see what life is like in her skin. This ignites her deep-seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others. The witch will be played by different actors.
The...
Filming has just wrapped in Serbia on the English-language feature which is being made by The Babadook and The Nightingale producer Kristina Ceyton and Cargo producer Sam Jennings.
Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, pic follows a young witch who is left to go feral in the woods. Curious about life as a human, she accidentally kills a peasant in the village, then takes her shape to see what life is like in her skin. This ignites her deep-seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others. The witch will be played by different actors.
The...
- 12/9/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
- 11/17/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
In today’s Global Bulletin, Raindance announces its winners, Göteborg goes hybrid, Movistar Plus announces a new climate change docuseries, and Dopamine hires Maria Garcia-Castrillon to lead the company’s international business.
Festivals
Raindance Film Festival’s virtual awards ceremony unspooled on Thursday, live streamed from the Leicester Square Theater, where Giorgos Georgopoulos’ dark comedy “Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk” was declared Film of the Festival and Finnish feature “Force of Habit,” seven stories from seven directors about the normality of sexual harassment and abuse in private and society at large, won best international feature and best screenplay.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s “He Dreams of Giants” and “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” from director Sabrina Van Tassel won best U.K. feature and best documentary feature respectively. In the former, Fulton and Pepe track Terry Gilliam’s long-fought battle to film his most recent feature,...
Festivals
Raindance Film Festival’s virtual awards ceremony unspooled on Thursday, live streamed from the Leicester Square Theater, where Giorgos Georgopoulos’ dark comedy “Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk” was declared Film of the Festival and Finnish feature “Force of Habit,” seven stories from seven directors about the normality of sexual harassment and abuse in private and society at large, won best international feature and best screenplay.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s “He Dreams of Giants” and “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” from director Sabrina Van Tassel won best U.K. feature and best documentary feature respectively. In the former, Fulton and Pepe track Terry Gilliam’s long-fought battle to film his most recent feature,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the top prize.
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
- 11/6/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Six further titles include Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Another Round’.
The European Film Awards has added six final titles to this year’s selection. They are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible; Charlene Favier’s Slalom; Francois Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Emmanuel Courcol’s The Big Hit; and Milcho Manchevski’s Willow.
All received a Cannes 2020 label earlier this year, with the exception of Willow, which premiered at last year’s Rome Film Fest.
They join the 32 features announced in August, when the European Film Academy said it would reveal a second wave of “pandemic year” titles,...
The European Film Awards has added six final titles to this year’s selection. They are Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; Oskar Roehler’s Enfant Terrible; Charlene Favier’s Slalom; Francois Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Emmanuel Courcol’s The Big Hit; and Milcho Manchevski’s Willow.
All received a Cannes 2020 label earlier this year, with the exception of Willow, which premiered at last year’s Rome Film Fest.
They join the 32 features announced in August, when the European Film Academy said it would reveal a second wave of “pandemic year” titles,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The festival dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema will feature a Focus on Hungary, another on Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski and, for the first time, films from Belarus. The 13th edition of CinÉast, the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg, is set to unfold in a hybrid format from 8-25 October, with screenings at major venues in the city and in other towns across the country, operating under strict measures due to Covid-19. The majority of the films in the programme will also be available to watch online via the dedicated platform CinEast Online Cinema, geo-blocked to Luxembourg and with a limited number of virtual tickets. Despite these circumstances, around 110 physical screenings of 47 features and more than 20 short films are still being scheduled. Following the official opening ceremony on 8 October at the Neimënster cultural centre, the...
Films by Milcho Manchevski, François Ozon and Thomas Vinterberg, among others, join the 32 titles already announced. Due to Covid-19 and the related restrictions, the European Film Awards Feature Film Selection 2020 was announced in two steps: 32 films were already announced in August (read news), with the six titles added today, the list is now complete. Together, the 38 films from part 1 and 2 form the Efa Feature Film Selection, the list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2020. The films have been selected by a committee consisting of the Efa Board and invited experts such as Italy's Giorgio Gosetti (festival programmer), Germany's Kathrin Kohlstedde (festival programmer), Spain's Paz Lazaro (festival programmer), Russia's Mary Nazari (exhibitor), Lithuania's Edvinas Pukšta (festival programmer) and France's Agathe Valentin (sales agent). In the coming weeks, the over 3,800 members of the European Film Academy will...
The wives are not old in Milcho Manchevski’s “Willow,” but their tales have a folkloric resonance — even the two of the three that are set in the present day. Using a tripartite structure the director has been fond of in the past, notably in his Oscar-nominated, Venice-winning 1994 debut “Before the Rain,” Manchevski secures three outstanding female performances from his main actresses, each one leading her own story of motherhood’s griefs, guilts and impossible sacrifices. Often tragic, often cruel, “Willow,” as seen through Dp Tamas Dobos’ graceful, radiant camera, still retains a lightness and an energy that manages to be, in the end, optimistic, less a story of the willow’s weeping than of its ability to bend with almost infinite suppleness without breaking.
The first chapter is the most overtly mythic, set in the medieval Macedonian countryside where a young couple — the astonishingly blue-eyed Donka (Sara Klimoska) and her big,...
The first chapter is the most overtly mythic, set in the medieval Macedonian countryside where a young couple — the astonishingly blue-eyed Donka (Sara Klimoska) and her big,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The films will run one a day from May 15-29.
Turkey’s Istanbul Film Festival is to play 15 features from the past year of the festival circuit, including Berlin 2020 Competition title Berlin Alexanderplatz; and Venice 2019 Competition feature Martin Eden.
The 15 selected films will play one per day from May 15 to May 29 via streaming platform filmonline.iksv.org, available via ticket purchase to Turkish audiences only.
Six of the 15 films had their world premieres at this year’s Berlinale, including Stéphanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond’s My Little Sister. Four were Venice 2019 premieres (including three from the Venice Days sidebar), with two from Cannes,...
Turkey’s Istanbul Film Festival is to play 15 features from the past year of the festival circuit, including Berlin 2020 Competition title Berlin Alexanderplatz; and Venice 2019 Competition feature Martin Eden.
The 15 selected films will play one per day from May 15 to May 29 via streaming platform filmonline.iksv.org, available via ticket purchase to Turkish audiences only.
Six of the 15 films had their world premieres at this year’s Berlinale, including Stéphanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond’s My Little Sister. Four were Venice 2019 premieres (including three from the Venice Days sidebar), with two from Cannes,...
- 5/14/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Milcho Manchevski’s Rome Film Fest Drama ‘Willow’ Scores Sales Deal Ahead Of Paris Rendez-Vous & Efm
Exclusive: Paris-based Reel Suspects has picked up sales rights to well-received Rome Film Festival drama Willow (Vrba) by Macedonian writer-director and festival favourite Milcho Manchevski.
The film is the last from the late UK producer Nik Powell (The Crying Game) who served as an executive on the feature.
New York-based Manchevski, whose acclaimed debut Before The Rain was Oscar-nominated in 1994, returns to his native Macedonia to tell the story of three women yearning for motherhood. The three stories – one medieval, two contemporary – explore themes of tradition, love, trust and female agency.
Matteo Lovadina’s Reel Suspects will take the film to UniFrance’s Rendez-Vous event in Paris next week and then on to the European Film Market in Berlin. The firm has world sales rights other than former Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Belgium.
Manchevski produces with Jane Kortoshev and it was made in association with Powell’s Scala Productions. The...
The film is the last from the late UK producer Nik Powell (The Crying Game) who served as an executive on the feature.
New York-based Manchevski, whose acclaimed debut Before The Rain was Oscar-nominated in 1994, returns to his native Macedonia to tell the story of three women yearning for motherhood. The three stories – one medieval, two contemporary – explore themes of tradition, love, trust and female agency.
Matteo Lovadina’s Reel Suspects will take the film to UniFrance’s Rendez-Vous event in Paris next week and then on to the European Film Market in Berlin. The firm has world sales rights other than former Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Belgium.
Manchevski produces with Jane Kortoshev and it was made in association with Powell’s Scala Productions. The...
- 1/6/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Three women yearn for motherhood in Willow (Vrba), a film whose sensuous images and interpenetrating time periods bring to mind Milcho Manchevski’s memorable 1994 Venice Golden Lion winner Before the Rain. Here the Macedonian director (now a long-time New Yorker) returns to his roots, recounting an age-old drama through his country’s society and folklore. The time frame jumps from the Middle Ages to the present day, yet the topic of maternity is timely and universal. It feels a little cerebral at times, but should hit the spot with upscale audiences after its bow at the Rome Film Fest.
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- 12/5/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three women yearn for motherhood in Willow (Vrba), a film whose sensuous images and interpenetrating time periods bring to mind Milcho Manchevski’s memorable 1994 Venice Golden Lion winner Before the Rain. Here the Macedonian director (now a longtime New Yorker) returns to his roots, recounting an age-old drama through his country’s society and folklore. The time frame jumps from the Middle Ages to the present day, yet the topic of maternity is timely and universal. It feels a little cerebral at times, but should hit the spot with upscale audiences after its bow at the Rome Film Fest.
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- 12/5/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Powell founded Palace Productions with Stephen Woolley in 1983.
Nik Powell, the former director of the UK’s National Film And Television School (Nfts), has died aged 69.
Powell had been receiving treatment for cancer. He died this morning (November 7) in Oxford, with his family beside him.
He was director of the Nfts from 2003 to 2017, and received a Bafta for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2018.
Prior to his role at the Nfts, he established Palace Pictures with Stephen Woolley in 1983, which produced titles Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992).
Following Palace’s collapse in 1992, Powell formed Scala Productions, also with Woolley,...
Nik Powell, the former director of the UK’s National Film And Television School (Nfts), has died aged 69.
Powell had been receiving treatment for cancer. He died this morning (November 7) in Oxford, with his family beside him.
He was director of the Nfts from 2003 to 2017, and received a Bafta for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2018.
Prior to his role at the Nfts, he established Palace Pictures with Stephen Woolley in 1983, which produced titles Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992).
Following Palace’s collapse in 1992, Powell formed Scala Productions, also with Woolley,...
- 11/7/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams follow-up The County to screen footage out of competition.
The 10th edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival has selected its crop of work in progress projects.
The festival unveiled its co-production project selection and inaugural Talent Village last week.
Completing this year’s Industry Village are 15 projects, all of which are in post-production and do not yet have sales agents attached.
They include new projects from director Babis Makridis, whose Pity premiered at Sundance this year, Damjan Kozole, whose Nightlife won best director at Karlovy Vary in 2016, and Levan Akin whose The Circle was a 2015 Berlinale selection.
The 10th edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival has selected its crop of work in progress projects.
The festival unveiled its co-production project selection and inaugural Talent Village last week.
Completing this year’s Industry Village are 15 projects, all of which are in post-production and do not yet have sales agents attached.
They include new projects from director Babis Makridis, whose Pity premiered at Sundance this year, Damjan Kozole, whose Nightlife won best director at Karlovy Vary in 2016, and Levan Akin whose The Circle was a 2015 Berlinale selection.
- 11/29/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
In her confident, crafty eyes and free-flowing cadences, Condola Rashad — daughter of Phylicia and Ahmad Rashad — more than slightly recalls the style of Denzel Washington in her commanding performance in “Bikini Moon”; she’s easily the most appealing thing about this latest effort from Milcho Manchevski, best known for 1994’s Venice Golden Lion-winning “Before the Rain.” The new movie, a fictional character study that doubles as an inquiry into nonfiction filmmaking techniques, is a patchy, intermittently captivating hodgepodge that begins promisingly before losing its narrative thread, a shortcoming that figures to curtail its theatrical prospects. Nevertheless, it’s a promising showcase for Rashad, who (presently seen on Showtime’s “Billions”) is more than up to the leading-lady challenge.
“Bikini Moon” is comprised of footage shot from numerous faux-verité sources, including security cams and cell phones. Its most consistent perspective, however, comes via the cameras of pretentious documentarian Trevor (Will Janowitz...
“Bikini Moon” is comprised of footage shot from numerous faux-verité sources, including security cams and cell phones. Its most consistent perspective, however, comes via the cameras of pretentious documentarian Trevor (Will Janowitz...
- 10/10/2018
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
It takes time to get a handle on this arresting meditation on the documentary filmmaking process because it throws out feelers in so many directions. Milcho Manchevski’s lively, thought-provoking Bikini Moon edges in and out of the experimental category, peopled by a cynical indie filmmaker, a bleeding heart liberal and an unpredictable bag lady with a hidden treasure waiting back home. The film is smart with a cool New York irony that is easy to get into, but it owes its principal fascination to the enigmatic Condola Rashad, the stage actress seen in Showtime’s Billions and Joshua Marston’...
- 6/27/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It takes time to get a handle on this arresting meditation on the documentary filmmaking process because it throws out feelers in so many directions. Milcho Manchevski’s lively, thought-provoking Bikini Moon edges in and out of the experimental category, peopled by a cynical indie filmmaker, a bleeding heart liberal and an unpredictable bag lady with a hidden treasure waiting back home. The film is smart with a cool New York irony that is easy to get into, but it owes its principal fascination to the enigmatic Condola Rashad, the stage actress seen in Showtime’s Billions and Joshua Marston’...
- 6/27/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
‘Willow’ is from Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, while ‘Rattlesnakes’ is from Nfts grad Julius Amedume.
The Crying Game producer Nik Powell is in Cannes with two new projects.
Powell, who stepped down as director of the UK’s National Film and Television School last summer, is working with Golden Lion-winning writer-director Milcho Manchevski on the Macedonian-born filmmaker’s new feature Willow.
Due to shoot in Macedonia in early autumn, the film consists of two love stories, both set in Macedonia. One takes place in a 17th-century rural milieu, the other in a contemporary urban setting. Despite being separated by hundreds of years,...
The Crying Game producer Nik Powell is in Cannes with two new projects.
Powell, who stepped down as director of the UK’s National Film and Television School last summer, is working with Golden Lion-winning writer-director Milcho Manchevski on the Macedonian-born filmmaker’s new feature Willow.
Due to shoot in Macedonia in early autumn, the film consists of two love stories, both set in Macedonia. One takes place in a 17th-century rural milieu, the other in a contemporary urban setting. Despite being separated by hundreds of years,...
- 5/10/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Historical drama is one of eight titles announced for Siff’s Golden Goblets competition.
Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017.
The historical drama, starring Eddie Peng and Zhou Xun, will also compete in the festival’s main competition section, the Golden Goblet Awards.
At a Cannes reception yesterday (May 18), Siff also announced seven other competition titles: Yasuo Furuhat’s Reminiscence (Japan), Dave McCary’s Brigsby Bear (Us), Cătălin Saizescu’s Fault Condition (Romania), Maciej Pieprzyca’s I’m A Killer (Poland), Ivan Bolotnikov’s Kharms (Russia), Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal (UK) and Markus Goller’s My Brother Simple (Germany).
As previously announced, Romanian director Christian Mungiu will head the Golden Goblet Awards jury, which also includes Chinese director Cao Baoping, Chinese screenwriter Li Qiang, Us/Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, Japanese director...
Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017.
The historical drama, starring Eddie Peng and Zhou Xun, will also compete in the festival’s main competition section, the Golden Goblet Awards.
At a Cannes reception yesterday (May 18), Siff also announced seven other competition titles: Yasuo Furuhat’s Reminiscence (Japan), Dave McCary’s Brigsby Bear (Us), Cătălin Saizescu’s Fault Condition (Romania), Maciej Pieprzyca’s I’m A Killer (Poland), Ivan Bolotnikov’s Kharms (Russia), Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal (UK) and Markus Goller’s My Brother Simple (Germany).
As previously announced, Romanian director Christian Mungiu will head the Golden Goblet Awards jury, which also includes Chinese director Cao Baoping, Chinese screenwriter Li Qiang, Us/Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, Japanese director...
- 5/19/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
This is a new project that I wasn’t aware of before today; but I’ll definitely be watching for any future updates on it. Above and below are first look pics at Condola Rashad in veteran Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski’s “Bikini,”… Continue Reading →...
- 6/22/2016
- by Tambay Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
It’s never a bad thing when an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker dips his toes into the horror genre, and over twenty years after nabbing a Best Foreign Language Film nod for Before the Rain, Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski is doing just… Continue Reading →
The post Filming Wraps on Thriller Bikini; First Look appeared first on Dread Central.
The post Filming Wraps on Thriller Bikini; First Look appeared first on Dread Central.
- 6/15/2016
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Producers Anja Wedell and Munire Armstrong announced today that Bikini, directed by Academy award nominee Milcho Manchevski, wrapped production in New York. Questioning the lines between fiction and reality, Bikini tells the story of a documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend who take a charismatic but troubled woman into their home, turning their lives upside down. Manchevski also wrote the script, based on his story, together with […]...
- 6/15/2016
- by MrDisgusting
- bloody-disgusting.com
Condola Rashad, whose shimmering stage performances in Ruined, Stick Fly, Romeo and Juliet and The Trip To Bountiful made the daughter of Phylicia Rashad one of the most sought-after young actors in the business, has just wrapped Gotham filming of Bikini for producers Anja Wedell and Munire Armstrong. Helmed by Oscar nominee Milcho Manchevski, Bikini tells the story of a documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend who take a charismatic but troubled woman (the title role…...
- 6/14/2016
- Deadline
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Netflix’s Ted Sarandos talks with Deadline about the success of Beasts of No Nation:
It is worth sharing that this movie, in North America alone, has over 3 million views already. Which I think is a bigger audience than any specialty film could ever hope for in its first two weeks of release, and maybe for its entire run. And we’re just starting. We are just thrilled with the total audience reach of this film, not just in North America but the world. In the first week of release, Beasts Of No Nation was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos talks with Deadline about the success of Beasts of No Nation:
It is worth sharing that this movie, in North America alone, has over 3 million views already. Which I think is a bigger audience than any specialty film could ever hope for in its first two weeks of release, and maybe for its entire run. And we’re just starting. We are just thrilled with the total audience reach of this film, not just in North America but the world. In the first week of release, Beasts Of No Nation was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.
- 10/27/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
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