International sales agency Lightdox has acquired documentary “Marching in the Dark” in advance of its world premiere at Cph:dox. The feature debut from Kinshuk Surjan focuses on how the growing number of suicides among farmers in India is affecting the agricultural community. The trailer debuts exclusively on Variety below.
“Marching in the Dark” screens as part of the festival’s new Human:Rights competition section. Surjan and two people who feature in the film, Sanjivani Bhure and Dr. Milind Potdar, will attend the premiere.
The storyline of the film takes place over a number of years amidst India’s deepening farmer suicide crisis, and focuses on the journey of a young widow, Sanjivani, with two children to care for, after her husband is gone. Her community practices a cultural tradition of socially distancing widows, but Sanjivani unexpectedly finds healing when a mental health experiment instead brings widows together.
“Marching in the Dark” was filmed in Maharashtra,...
“Marching in the Dark” screens as part of the festival’s new Human:Rights competition section. Surjan and two people who feature in the film, Sanjivani Bhure and Dr. Milind Potdar, will attend the premiere.
The storyline of the film takes place over a number of years amidst India’s deepening farmer suicide crisis, and focuses on the journey of a young widow, Sanjivani, with two children to care for, after her husband is gone. Her community practices a cultural tradition of socially distancing widows, but Sanjivani unexpectedly finds healing when a mental health experiment instead brings widows together.
“Marching in the Dark” was filmed in Maharashtra,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Dating back to her childhood in Greece, first-time director Janis Rafa has spent the better part of her life contemplating death. The title of her feature-length debut, “Kala Azar,” takes its name from the parasitic disease that swept through the country in the 1990s, ravaging the animal population. In Rafa’s childhood home, which included both domesticated animals and strays the family had taken in, her father served as an erstwhile gravedigger, burying pets that had been claimed by the disease, or accidents, or natural causes.
Echoes of that arresting memory resurface years later in “Kala Azar,” which centers on a young couple (played by Pinelopi Tsilika and Dimitris Lalos) living on the outskirts of an unnamed city in the south of Europe, collecting and cremating dead pets and returning the ashes to their owners. The fragile barrier between life and death is ever-present in the film, as is the...
Echoes of that arresting memory resurface years later in “Kala Azar,” which centers on a young couple (played by Pinelopi Tsilika and Dimitris Lalos) living on the outskirts of an unnamed city in the south of Europe, collecting and cremating dead pets and returning the ashes to their owners. The fragile barrier between life and death is ever-present in the film, as is the...
- 11/15/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Film Producers Netherlands is proud to present its members and their new films and projects. Many of their producers have extensive experience with international co-productions and are always interested in broadening their horizons. New films and projects of producers will be presented at Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (see line up) and at the Berlinale (see line up) / Efm in Berlin. Go to meet and contact these producers and find out about Netherlands 35% cash rebate.
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Marleen Slot, Chairman Fpn
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Film Producers Netherlands | Members, Films & Projects
An Original Picture
Joost de Vries
joost@anoriginalpicture.
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An Original Picture
Joost de Vries
joost@anoriginalpicture.
- 1/24/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Top honors at the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival have gone to Diane for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Smuggling Hendrix for Best International Narrative Feature, and Island of the Hungry Ghosts for Best Documentary Feature. On the acting side, Alia Shawkat won Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film for Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter, and Jeffrey Wright took the Best Actor honor for O.G.
First-time narrative director and writer Kent Jones (who is also the executive director of the New York Film Festival) won two prizes at Tribeca for Diane, and the film starring Mary Kay Place won three. Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Deirdre O’Connell and Jake Lacy co-star in the film, about a widowed, altruistic seventysomething woman whose life is dictated by the needs of others, and who finds herself forced to look at her own identity.
Screenings of...
First-time narrative director and writer Kent Jones (who is also the executive director of the New York Film Festival) won two prizes at Tribeca for Diane, and the film starring Mary Kay Place won three. Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Deirdre O’Connell and Jake Lacy co-star in the film, about a widowed, altruistic seventysomething woman whose life is dictated by the needs of others, and who finds herself forced to look at her own identity.
Screenings of...
- 4/26/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
The “talent drain” in the Dutch industry is coming to an end.
Source: Berlin Film Festival
My Giraffe
CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund Doreen Boonekamp has stated that the “talent drain” in the Dutch industry is coming to an end.
Thanks to the cash rebate system, now in its fourth year, Boonekamp believes that filmmakers are more easily able to pursue careers in the Netherlands while also managing collaboration with international partners.
Films including Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Ryan Reynolds/Samuel L. Jackson buddy thriller The Hitman’s Bodyguard are among big-canvas international films to shoot in the Netherlands in 2016 and other big-budget films are continuing to come to the country, among them John Crowley’s adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel, The Goldfinch. Made through Warner Bros and Amazon Studios and starring Ansel Elgort, the project has received €565,945 in Dutch cash rebate funding in the last awards round in late December. The local production...
Source: Berlin Film Festival
My Giraffe
CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund Doreen Boonekamp has stated that the “talent drain” in the Dutch industry is coming to an end.
Thanks to the cash rebate system, now in its fourth year, Boonekamp believes that filmmakers are more easily able to pursue careers in the Netherlands while also managing collaboration with international partners.
Films including Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Ryan Reynolds/Samuel L. Jackson buddy thriller The Hitman’s Bodyguard are among big-canvas international films to shoot in the Netherlands in 2016 and other big-budget films are continuing to come to the country, among them John Crowley’s adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel, The Goldfinch. Made through Warner Bros and Amazon Studios and starring Ansel Elgort, the project has received €565,945 in Dutch cash rebate funding in the last awards round in late December. The local production...
- 1/25/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Bero Beyer speech kicks off 47th edition.
Source: Iffr
Iffr director Bero Beyer
The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off its 47th edition last night (Jan 24) with an impassioned speech from festival director Bero Beyer.
Beyer addressed what he described as the “pattern of widespread abuse and often quite criminal sexual misconduct, committed almost exclusively by white middle-aged heterosexual men of power or status in the film industry.”
“It’s hard to say what’s more disturbing: The fact that anyone ever considered this behaviour to be acceptable, that so many were willing to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t going on,” Bero commented of the recent spate of industry scandals.
“It matters who tells the story and it matters who we see on our many screens. Too often history is written by the so-called winners, but mostly by bullies and mostly by men. So, if Iffr is part of the film industry: Who should...
Source: Iffr
Iffr director Bero Beyer
The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off its 47th edition last night (Jan 24) with an impassioned speech from festival director Bero Beyer.
Beyer addressed what he described as the “pattern of widespread abuse and often quite criminal sexual misconduct, committed almost exclusively by white middle-aged heterosexual men of power or status in the film industry.”
“It’s hard to say what’s more disturbing: The fact that anyone ever considered this behaviour to be acceptable, that so many were willing to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t going on,” Bero commented of the recent spate of industry scandals.
“It matters who tells the story and it matters who we see on our many screens. Too often history is written by the so-called winners, but mostly by bullies and mostly by men. So, if Iffr is part of the film industry: Who should...
- 1/25/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
(Hi, this is Twitch, if you want to read the review, please start after the bracket...) Some films catch attention because of a single, clear, brilliant idea. Something you immediately know could be great, or fail badly, based on execution. Digna Sinke's After the Tone is such a film. Its central gimmick is that all you hear are the recordings on an answering machine, in chronological order, while you see the locations of the persons speaking. An office building, a harbor, a mall, a house. All shot handsomely, but that's it. That's all you get. What happens is this: Onno is a successful designer. A busy man, his firm is about to get a few big new assignments, and he plans to take his girlfriend...
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- 2/9/2014
- Screen Anarchy
New Europe Film Sales has picked up innovative 3D feature Above Us All for worldwide distribution.
At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Dutch producers Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens (De Productie) and Digna Sinke (Sng) have announced that their latest production Above Us All, directed by former Iffr Tiger award winner Eugenie Jansen (Tussenland), will be represented worldwide by Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales.
The film will receive its world premiere in Berlinale Generation 14Plus section as a special out-of-competition screening.
Above us All is a story of 11 year-old girl Shay who, after the death of her indigenous mother, is taken from Australia to Ypres by her Flemish father. In her new surroundings, full of traces of the First World War, Shay tries to understand her mother’s death.
The film was shot using an innovative technique: stereoscopic 3D at 50 frames per second, using long panoramic shots in every scene.
The film was...
At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Dutch producers Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens (De Productie) and Digna Sinke (Sng) have announced that their latest production Above Us All, directed by former Iffr Tiger award winner Eugenie Jansen (Tussenland), will be represented worldwide by Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales.
The film will receive its world premiere in Berlinale Generation 14Plus section as a special out-of-competition screening.
Above us All is a story of 11 year-old girl Shay who, after the death of her indigenous mother, is taken from Australia to Ypres by her Flemish father. In her new surroundings, full of traces of the First World War, Shay tries to understand her mother’s death.
The film was shot using an innovative technique: stereoscopic 3D at 50 frames per second, using long panoramic shots in every scene.
The film was...
- 1/29/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Bright Future
World Premieres
Above: The Pinkie
About Sarah (Elisa Miller, Mexico, United Kingdom)
Bella Vista (Vera Brunner-Sung, USA)
Creator of the Jungle (Jordi Morató (Spain)
La distancia (Sergio Caballero, Spain)
Dzma/Brother (Téona Mghvdeladze & Thierry Grenade, France, Georgia)
L’éclat furtif de l'ombre (Alain-Pascal Housiaux & Patrick Dechesne, Belgium, Germany)
Edén (Elise DuRant, USA, Mexico)
Helium (Eché Janga, Netherlands)
History of Eternity (Camilo Cavalcante, Brazil)
Hotel Nueva Isla (Irene Gutiérrez & Javier Labrador, Cuba, Spain)
The Iranian Film (Yassine el Idrissi, Morocco, Netherlands, Egypt)
Jacky au royaume des filles (Riad Sattouf, France)
L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA, Mexico, France, Iceland)
Little Crushes (Aleksandra Gowin & Ireneusz Grzyb, Poland)
Masked Monkey - The Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (Ismail Fahmi Lubish, Indonesia)
Oilfields Mines Hurricanes (Fabian Altenried, Germany, Iceland)
The Pinkie (Lisa Takeba, Japan)
The Quiet Roar (Henrik Hellström, Sweden, Norway)
Sitzfleisch (Lisa Weber, Austria)
The Songs of Rice (Uruphong Raksasad,...
Bright Future
World Premieres
Above: The Pinkie
About Sarah (Elisa Miller, Mexico, United Kingdom)
Bella Vista (Vera Brunner-Sung, USA)
Creator of the Jungle (Jordi Morató (Spain)
La distancia (Sergio Caballero, Spain)
Dzma/Brother (Téona Mghvdeladze & Thierry Grenade, France, Georgia)
L’éclat furtif de l'ombre (Alain-Pascal Housiaux & Patrick Dechesne, Belgium, Germany)
Edén (Elise DuRant, USA, Mexico)
Helium (Eché Janga, Netherlands)
History of Eternity (Camilo Cavalcante, Brazil)
Hotel Nueva Isla (Irene Gutiérrez & Javier Labrador, Cuba, Spain)
The Iranian Film (Yassine el Idrissi, Morocco, Netherlands, Egypt)
Jacky au royaume des filles (Riad Sattouf, France)
L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA, Mexico, France, Iceland)
Little Crushes (Aleksandra Gowin & Ireneusz Grzyb, Poland)
Masked Monkey - The Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (Ismail Fahmi Lubish, Indonesia)
Oilfields Mines Hurricanes (Fabian Altenried, Germany, Iceland)
The Pinkie (Lisa Takeba, Japan)
The Quiet Roar (Henrik Hellström, Sweden, Norway)
Sitzfleisch (Lisa Weber, Austria)
The Songs of Rice (Uruphong Raksasad,...
- 1/13/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Picks include the latest documentary from Ai Weiwei [pictured].
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled the selections for its Bright Future and Spectrum programmes (list of premiere titles below).
Across both sections there are 37 world premieres.
Bright Future is comprised of 63 films, all first and second features. Bright Future includes five films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, including Carlos Armella’s Las voces.
Five films from Bright Future will compete in the Big Screen Award Competition, including telepathic dwarf thriller La distancia by Sergio Caballero; and Riad Sattouf’s Jacky au royaume des filles starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Other notable seelctions include Burrowing director Henrik Helstrom’s second feature The Quiet Roar, about a dying woman who reconnects with her past through an acid trip.
Spectrum, focusing on artistic and experimental cinema, includes 69 films, including three supported by the Hubert Bals Fund. Five Spectrum Films, including Jos de Putter’s See No Evil and Oxana Bychkova’s Another...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled the selections for its Bright Future and Spectrum programmes (list of premiere titles below).
Across both sections there are 37 world premieres.
Bright Future is comprised of 63 films, all first and second features. Bright Future includes five films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, including Carlos Armella’s Las voces.
Five films from Bright Future will compete in the Big Screen Award Competition, including telepathic dwarf thriller La distancia by Sergio Caballero; and Riad Sattouf’s Jacky au royaume des filles starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Other notable seelctions include Burrowing director Henrik Helstrom’s second feature The Quiet Roar, about a dying woman who reconnects with her past through an acid trip.
Spectrum, focusing on artistic and experimental cinema, includes 69 films, including three supported by the Hubert Bals Fund. Five Spectrum Films, including Jos de Putter’s See No Evil and Oxana Bychkova’s Another...
- 1/13/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Thanks to QuietEarth for the amazing news on a new sci-fi dystopian movie Atlantis, written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Digna Sinke.
Shy, thirteen-year-old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to exist. This is where she finds the key to her future.
Watch the trailer...
Shy, thirteen-year-old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to exist. This is where she finds the key to her future.
Watch the trailer...
- 7/16/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Writer/director Digna Sinke worked for eight long years to bring her dystopian drama, Atlantis, to the screen, and now, with a new trailer, it's starting to look like her film will soon get its chance to shine on the international stage.
In the painterly world of her film, the media have been abolished leading mankind into existential confusion. Sterile-concrete living and working environments are filled with signs of totalitarian commands like; "unity = strength and progress." It's all very 1984, but less war-torn and more pristine. It looks quite stunning, though I hope it's also a compelling story and doesn't fall into the classic European trap of being all about slow motion shots of moving escalators or something.
Synopsis:
Shy, thirteen year old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to exist.
In the painterly world of her film, the media have been abolished leading mankind into existential confusion. Sterile-concrete living and working environments are filled with signs of totalitarian commands like; "unity = strength and progress." It's all very 1984, but less war-torn and more pristine. It looks quite stunning, though I hope it's also a compelling story and doesn't fall into the classic European trap of being all about slow motion shots of moving escalators or something.
Synopsis:
Shy, thirteen year old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to exist.
- 7/15/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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