Rapture, the second film from Indian filmmaker Dominic Sangma, is being presented with the Cultural Diversity Award at this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The Garo-language film, which is the second in a trilogy set in Sangma’s home village, had its world premiere in Locarno film festival’s Cineasti del Presente strand; also played at Busan International Film Festival and is currently screening in the South Asia Competition of Mumbai Film Festival.
Set amongst the Garo community in Meghalaya, Northeast India, the story follows a ten-year-old boy, suffering from night blindness, who lives in a village that is gripped with fear as local people keep disappearing and rumours are spreading of kidnappers trafficking in human organs.
Making matter worse is the local priest who has prophesized that an apocalyptic darkness will consume the world, lasting for 80 days. In the midst of this paranoia, the boy witnesses an act...
The Garo-language film, which is the second in a trilogy set in Sangma’s home village, had its world premiere in Locarno film festival’s Cineasti del Presente strand; also played at Busan International Film Festival and is currently screening in the South Asia Competition of Mumbai Film Festival.
Set amongst the Garo community in Meghalaya, Northeast India, the story follows a ten-year-old boy, suffering from night blindness, who lives in a village that is gripped with fear as local people keep disappearing and rumours are spreading of kidnappers trafficking in human organs.
Making matter worse is the local priest who has prophesized that an apocalyptic darkness will consume the world, lasting for 80 days. In the midst of this paranoia, the boy witnesses an act...
- 11/3/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Breaking out of traditional, male, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo strongholds to finally embrace regional, Black and Indigenous writer-directors, Brazil’s next generation of cinematic talent tackles a huge gamut of themes, styles and concern about social issues. Variety profiles 10 figures who look set to help shape the future of Brazilian filmmaking.
Caru Alves de Souza
Alves de Souza has such films as 2020 Berlin Generation winner “My Name Is Baghdad,” a plucky tale of adolescence on the fringes of society, and 2013’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos debut “Underage,” a riveting look at juvenile justice under her belt. She shreds ignorance with her belief “in the power of a cinema that questions established norms but also offers some alternative.”
At this year’s Berlin Co-Production Market, her “Lonely Hearts” deals with the fate of a family porn theater business, its characters “contradictory, flawed, idiosyncratic, and on the other hand, extremely empathetic,...
Caru Alves de Souza
Alves de Souza has such films as 2020 Berlin Generation winner “My Name Is Baghdad,” a plucky tale of adolescence on the fringes of society, and 2013’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos debut “Underage,” a riveting look at juvenile justice under her belt. She shreds ignorance with her belief “in the power of a cinema that questions established norms but also offers some alternative.”
At this year’s Berlin Co-Production Market, her “Lonely Hearts” deals with the fate of a family porn theater business, its characters “contradictory, flawed, idiosyncratic, and on the other hand, extremely empathetic,...
- 2/18/2023
- by John Hopewell, Callum McLennan, Anna Marie de la Fuente and Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
“We go where others do not go,” said a passionate Vanja Kaludjercic, of the mission to celebrate rising film-making countries.
At an emotional opening night event in a packed Doelen Grand Hall, Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, expressed “her sense of relief and her gratitude” at being able finally to welcome guests “after a three-year wait”. She became festival director in 2020 but her first two editions at the helm, including the 50th anniversary, happened online.
These, she acknowledged, were “three years that actually changed the world as we knew [it]; three years that took a toll on all of us.
At an emotional opening night event in a packed Doelen Grand Hall, Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, expressed “her sense of relief and her gratitude” at being able finally to welcome guests “after a three-year wait”. She became festival director in 2020 but her first two editions at the helm, including the 50th anniversary, happened online.
These, she acknowledged, were “three years that actually changed the world as we knew [it]; three years that took a toll on all of us.
- 1/26/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Significant changes are “necessary” say some; the festival is “losing its expertise” say others.
A debate has broken out in the Dutch press and the European industry over the dramatic restructuring of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced last month.
It has now emerged the festival is dispensing with almost its entire team of senior programmers whose positions are being made redundant. Some of these programmers, talking to Screen on the condition of anonymity, are accusing the festival management, led by managing director Marjan van der Haar and festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, of treating them unfairly and delivering the news out of the blue.
A debate has broken out in the Dutch press and the European industry over the dramatic restructuring of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced last month.
It has now emerged the festival is dispensing with almost its entire team of senior programmers whose positions are being made redundant. Some of these programmers, talking to Screen on the condition of anonymity, are accusing the festival management, led by managing director Marjan van der Haar and festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, of treating them unfairly and delivering the news out of the blue.
- 5/10/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Thailand’s arthouse films, frequently employing stellar craft in service of slow cinema, often struggle to achieve meaningful theatrical releases in a home market that is driven by the young multiplex crowd. But Thai cultural films are earning growing attention on the festival and international specialty circuits.
After Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s big-screen return to Cannes this year with “Memoria” and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Locarno-winning “A Useful Ghost,” the Venice Film Festival finds room for “Anatomy of Time,” the sophomore work of Jakrawal Nilthamrong, in its Horizons section.
In 2015, Nilthamrong’s “Vanishing Point” won the Tiger Award for best film at the Rotterdam Festival.
His new work charts two fragments in a woman’s life. In the 1960s countryside, against the background of tensions between the military dictatorship and Communist rebels, a young woman is imbued with the philosophies of her clocksmith father. Her romance with a rickshaw driver is shoved...
After Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s big-screen return to Cannes this year with “Memoria” and Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Locarno-winning “A Useful Ghost,” the Venice Film Festival finds room for “Anatomy of Time,” the sophomore work of Jakrawal Nilthamrong, in its Horizons section.
In 2015, Nilthamrong’s “Vanishing Point” won the Tiger Award for best film at the Rotterdam Festival.
His new work charts two fragments in a woman’s life. In the 1960s countryside, against the background of tensions between the military dictatorship and Communist rebels, a young woman is imbued with the philosophies of her clocksmith father. Her romance with a rickshaw driver is shoved...
- 9/2/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Virtual cinema platforms that sprung up in response to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 lockdowns are set to remain a part of the landscape after theaters and film festivals reopen.
That was the consensus of participants taking part at an IFFR Pro conference on the growing possibilities for film distribution at the Rotterdam Film Festival on Tuesday.
Wendy Lidell, senior VP at Kino Lorber, joined Eve Gabereau, founder of London-based distrib Modern Films, producer Mynette Louie (“Swallow”) and Jovan Marjanović, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s head of industry, for the talk.
Lidell said exhibs would continue the practice in view of the fact that so many theaters had already launched their own platforms.
Kino Lorber launched its Kino Marquee digital service last year in an effort to ensure the continuity of its own distribution business and provide a means of support for shuttered arthouse cinemas.
Describing it as a “duplex” or hybrid model,...
That was the consensus of participants taking part at an IFFR Pro conference on the growing possibilities for film distribution at the Rotterdam Film Festival on Tuesday.
Wendy Lidell, senior VP at Kino Lorber, joined Eve Gabereau, founder of London-based distrib Modern Films, producer Mynette Louie (“Swallow”) and Jovan Marjanović, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s head of industry, for the talk.
Lidell said exhibs would continue the practice in view of the fact that so many theaters had already launched their own platforms.
Kino Lorber launched its Kino Marquee digital service last year in an effort to ensure the continuity of its own distribution business and provide a means of support for shuttered arthouse cinemas.
Describing it as a “duplex” or hybrid model,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Christos Nikou’s feature is Greece’s Oscar submission.
Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet has secured Japanese distribution for Greek director Christos Nikou’s dry comedy-drama Apples following its screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival earlier in November.
It has sold to distributor Bitters End, which previously handled the Japanese release of Oscar-winning arthouse hit Parasite as well as Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama Wife Of A Spy.
The deal was sealed after its TIFF screening in the Tokyo Premiere section by Alpha Violet co-head Keiko Funato, who attended the festival in person and met several distributors onsite.
The feature,...
Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet has secured Japanese distribution for Greek director Christos Nikou’s dry comedy-drama Apples following its screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival earlier in November.
It has sold to distributor Bitters End, which previously handled the Japanese release of Oscar-winning arthouse hit Parasite as well as Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama Wife Of A Spy.
The deal was sealed after its TIFF screening in the Tokyo Premiere section by Alpha Violet co-head Keiko Funato, who attended the festival in person and met several distributors onsite.
The feature,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Revolver Amsterdam is in Berlin meeting with Us and European sales agents.
Dutch producer Revolver Amsterdam is in Berlin meeting with Us and European sales agents and financiers on a trio of projects as it steps up its strategy of working with international partners on globally appealing content.
Raymond Van Der Kaaij is taking meetings on The Occupant, a sci-fi about two sisters that echoes Arrival and The Revenant. Hugo Keijzer will direct and Revolver Amsterdam is producing with Maurice Schutte, whose short film trailer to The Occupant: Prologue went viral on YouTube.
The roster of $1.5m-$5m projects includes...
Dutch producer Revolver Amsterdam is in Berlin meeting with Us and European sales agents and financiers on a trio of projects as it steps up its strategy of working with international partners on globally appealing content.
Raymond Van Der Kaaij is taking meetings on The Occupant, a sci-fi about two sisters that echoes Arrival and The Revenant. Hugo Keijzer will direct and Revolver Amsterdam is producing with Maurice Schutte, whose short film trailer to The Occupant: Prologue went viral on YouTube.
The roster of $1.5m-$5m projects includes...
- 2/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Cairo co-production platform metes out $200,000 worth of prizes.
Lebanese director Karim Rahbani has won a place at the Rotterdam Lab next January after his feature project Shameem clinched one of the top prizes at the Cairo Film Connection (Cfc).
The co-production platform, running November 24-26 within the framework of the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff), awarded 16 prizes worth a combined $200,000.
Shameem revolves around a young Bangladeshi man who travels to Lebanon to work in an industrial laundry.
It will be Rahbani’s debut feature after award-winning shorts Why Thy Spirit and Cargo.
It received the Arab Cinema Center award offering the film’s producer,...
Lebanese director Karim Rahbani has won a place at the Rotterdam Lab next January after his feature project Shameem clinched one of the top prizes at the Cairo Film Connection (Cfc).
The co-production platform, running November 24-26 within the framework of the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff), awarded 16 prizes worth a combined $200,000.
Shameem revolves around a young Bangladeshi man who travels to Lebanon to work in an industrial laundry.
It will be Rahbani’s debut feature after award-winning shorts Why Thy Spirit and Cargo.
It received the Arab Cinema Center award offering the film’s producer,...
- 11/27/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
San Sebastian — Already backed by a four-way production partnership spanning Nicaragua, Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany, Nicaraguan Laura Baumeister’s stirring feature debut project “Daughter of Rage” swept three of the four prizes on offer at San Sebastian’s 8th Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, which wrapped Wednesday night.
The other big prize of the night, a Films in Progress Prize for San Sebastian’s pix-on-post competition, went to another alumna of Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Ccc) film school, Fernanda Valadez for “Non Distinguishing Features.” an extraordinary achievement for an already celebrated institution.
The trio of trophies – Best Project Award, an Efads-Caaci Grant, and Artekino Intl. Prize – for “Daughter of Rage” mark further recognition for a movie project whose combination of mother-daughter story and social-issue drama has won development backing from the Hubert Bals, Hb Minority Europe, Ibermedia funds.It also garnered a Woulter Barendrecht Award at the Rotterdam Festival.
The other big prize of the night, a Films in Progress Prize for San Sebastian’s pix-on-post competition, went to another alumna of Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Ccc) film school, Fernanda Valadez for “Non Distinguishing Features.” an extraordinary achievement for an already celebrated institution.
The trio of trophies – Best Project Award, an Efads-Caaci Grant, and Artekino Intl. Prize – for “Daughter of Rage” mark further recognition for a movie project whose combination of mother-daughter story and social-issue drama has won development backing from the Hubert Bals, Hb Minority Europe, Ibermedia funds.It also garnered a Woulter Barendrecht Award at the Rotterdam Festival.
- 9/25/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — In San Sebastian with two high-profile films, Jorunn Myklebust Syversen’s “Disco” and Mariko Bobrik’s “The Taste of Pho,” Polish sales agent New Europe Film Sales has announced the acquisition of world sales rights on upcoming Chile-Poland co-production “Blanquita,” from director Fernando Guzzoni (“Jesus”).
It’s the first time that Chile and Poland have exclusively co-produced a feature together.
Having previously participated at the Berlinale’s Co-Production Market and Venice’s Financing Gap Market and backed by support from Hubert Bals and the Chilean National Production Fund, the buzzed-up production will shoot in Chile, Spring 2020.
Giancarlo Nasi at Rampante Films, one of Chile’s foremost film producers, produces out of Chile with Klaudia Smieja’s Madants from Poland. Rampante comes to San Sebastian hot off the success of its Venice Orizzonti Award-winning “Blanco en blanco” from director Théo Court. Madants recently backed Claire Denis’ 2018 science fiction hit “High Life.
It’s the first time that Chile and Poland have exclusively co-produced a feature together.
Having previously participated at the Berlinale’s Co-Production Market and Venice’s Financing Gap Market and backed by support from Hubert Bals and the Chilean National Production Fund, the buzzed-up production will shoot in Chile, Spring 2020.
Giancarlo Nasi at Rampante Films, one of Chile’s foremost film producers, produces out of Chile with Klaudia Smieja’s Madants from Poland. Rampante comes to San Sebastian hot off the success of its Venice Orizzonti Award-winning “Blanco en blanco” from director Théo Court. Madants recently backed Claire Denis’ 2018 science fiction hit “High Life.
- 9/24/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Santiago, Chile — The much anticipated feature debut of Chilean Francisca Alegria, renowned for her magical short “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye,” has firmed up its cast and shooting dates.
Argentine thesp Mia Maestro (“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn”), Chile’s Leonor Varela, Alfredo Castro and rising talent Lucas Balmaceda (“The Prince”) lead the cast.
Inspired by her short, a Sundance sensation where it snagged the Short Film Jury Award in 2017, Alegria’s upcoming feature, “The Cow that Sang a Song About the Future” adapts a similar magical realist tone in a family drama set in the verdant countryside of Valdivia, southern Chile.
Varela plays a single mother, Cecilia, who returns to her childhood home with her 19-year-old son (Balmaceda) where she faces a series of surreal events, including the deaths of hundreds of cows and the reappearance of her long dead mother (Maestro), whose suicide profoundly marked the family.
Argentine thesp Mia Maestro (“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn”), Chile’s Leonor Varela, Alfredo Castro and rising talent Lucas Balmaceda (“The Prince”) lead the cast.
Inspired by her short, a Sundance sensation where it snagged the Short Film Jury Award in 2017, Alegria’s upcoming feature, “The Cow that Sang a Song About the Future” adapts a similar magical realist tone in a family drama set in the verdant countryside of Valdivia, southern Chile.
Varela plays a single mother, Cecilia, who returns to her childhood home with her 19-year-old son (Balmaceda) where she faces a series of surreal events, including the deaths of hundreds of cows and the reappearance of her long dead mother (Maestro), whose suicide profoundly marked the family.
- 8/23/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The prodigious and prolific Raya Martin is an artist whose works seem to infinitely expand into new levels of breadth and depth. Writer Adrian Mendizabal has provided an immense overview of Martin's "baffling oeuvre and innovative style" as displayed in his feature-length films, particularly his deconstructivist approach to postcolonial realities in the Philippines. But his short films, a number of which I've compiled here, are not to be overlooked. The trio included here can be seen as loosely strung together as a trilogy of impressionist journeys pushed by tides of change. The 2007 short film Track Projections is constructed upon a central movement in which the camera-holder opens and closes the aperture, letting sunlight flow in and out of the lens like an eye that blinks. When the eye is opened once more, we are on a moving train that runs through daytime until it becomes sunset, freeway to forest, then back to the city.
- 5/31/2019
- MUBI
Round up of the buzz Argentinian titles out to tempt buyers.
4x4
Dir. Mariano Cohn
Thriller 4x4 was the talk of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires last December and has already landed distribution deals in France (Ugc), South Korea (Cree Pictures) and Argentina, where Buena Vista International will release. Cohn, Gaston Duprat’s co-director on The Distinguished Citizen, makes his solo feature directorial debut on the story about a car thief trapped inside a luxury SUV. Peter Lanzani, Dady Brieva and Luis Brandoni star.
Contact: Juan Torres, Latido Films
After Hitler’s Steps
Dir. Tbd
Keen to move deeper into...
4x4
Dir. Mariano Cohn
Thriller 4x4 was the talk of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires last December and has already landed distribution deals in France (Ugc), South Korea (Cree Pictures) and Argentina, where Buena Vista International will release. Cohn, Gaston Duprat’s co-director on The Distinguished Citizen, makes his solo feature directorial debut on the story about a car thief trapped inside a luxury SUV. Peter Lanzani, Dady Brieva and Luis Brandoni star.
Contact: Juan Torres, Latido Films
After Hitler’s Steps
Dir. Tbd
Keen to move deeper into...
- 2/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Zhu Shengze's Present.Perfect.Hivos Tiger AwardPresent.Perfect. (Zhu Shengze)Special Jury Award (Tiger Competition)Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)Bright Future Award Around the World When You Were 30 (Aya Koretzky)Vpro Big Screen AwardTransnistra (Anna Eborn)Iffr Audience AwardCapharnaüm (Nadine Labaki)Hubert Bals Fund Audience AwardLa Flor (Part 2) (Mariano Llinás) | Read our reviews from Locarno and NYFFVoices Short Audience AwardCasa de vidro (Filipe Martins)Fipresci AwardEnd of Season (Elmar Imanov)Knf AwardToo Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor) | Read our interviewNETPAC AwardLast Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang)Iffr Youth Jury AwardHappy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher) | Read our reviewFound Footage AwardKodak (Andrew Norman Wilson)BankGiro Loterij Audience AwardCapharnaüm (Nadine Labaki)...
- 2/1/2019
- MUBI
Iffr under way with world premiere of Sacha Polak’s Dirty God.
The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam got underway last night with the sold-out world premiere of Sacha Polak’s Dirty God at the city’s Schouwburg Grote Zaal.
In his opening speech, festival director Bero Beyer highlighted many of the challenges facing modern society, and discussed how the cinematic medium plays into that discourse.
“It’s 2019 and the era of facts - or whatever truth used to be - is definitely behind us,” Beyer began. “Yet when looked at with Vulcan-like rationality many developments in the world...
The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam got underway last night with the sold-out world premiere of Sacha Polak’s Dirty God at the city’s Schouwburg Grote Zaal.
In his opening speech, festival director Bero Beyer highlighted many of the challenges facing modern society, and discussed how the cinematic medium plays into that discourse.
“It’s 2019 and the era of facts - or whatever truth used to be - is definitely behind us,” Beyer began. “Yet when looked at with Vulcan-like rationality many developments in the world...
- 1/24/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Iffr under way with world premiere of Sacha Polak’s Dirty God.
The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam got underway last night with the sold-out world premiere of Sacha Polak’s Dirty God at the city’s Schouwburg Grote Zaal.
In his opening speech, festival director Bero Beyer highlighted many of the challenges facing modern society, and discussed how the cinematic medium plays into that discourse.
“It’s 2019 and the era of facts - or whatever truth used to be - is definitely behind us,” Beyer began. “Yet when looked at with Vulcan-like rationality many developments in the world...
The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam got underway last night with the sold-out world premiere of Sacha Polak’s Dirty God at the city’s Schouwburg Grote Zaal.
In his opening speech, festival director Bero Beyer highlighted many of the challenges facing modern society, and discussed how the cinematic medium plays into that discourse.
“It’s 2019 and the era of facts - or whatever truth used to be - is definitely behind us,” Beyer began. “Yet when looked at with Vulcan-like rationality many developments in the world...
- 1/24/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
World premieres include Simone Kostova’s debut feature ’Thirty’.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled the first 26 titles to be confirmed for its 48th edition, running Jan 23-Feb 3, 2019.
The early selections include hotly-tipped foreign-language Oscar contender Capernaum by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, Claire Denis’s space thriller High Life and Jia Zhangke’s epic melodrama Ash Is Purest White.
First world premieres include German filmmaker Simona Kostova’s debut feature Thirty (Dreissig), capturing the lives of a group of friends living in Berlin over the course of 24 hours.
Fabienne Godet’s drama Our Wonderful Lives will get its...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled the first 26 titles to be confirmed for its 48th edition, running Jan 23-Feb 3, 2019.
The early selections include hotly-tipped foreign-language Oscar contender Capernaum by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, Claire Denis’s space thriller High Life and Jia Zhangke’s epic melodrama Ash Is Purest White.
First world premieres include German filmmaker Simona Kostova’s debut feature Thirty (Dreissig), capturing the lives of a group of friends living in Berlin over the course of 24 hours.
Fabienne Godet’s drama Our Wonderful Lives will get its...
- 11/7/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
World premieres include Simone Kostova’s debut feature ’Thirty’.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled the first 26 titles to be confirmed for its 48th edition, running Jan 23-Feb 3, 2019.
The early selections include hotly-tipped foreign-language Oscar contender Capernaum by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, Claire Denis’s space thriller High Life and Jia Zhangke’s epic melodrama Ash Is Purest White.
First world premieres include German filmmaker Simona Kostova’s debut feature Thirty (Dreissig), capturing the lives of a group of friends living in Berlin over the course of 24 hours.
Fabienne Godet’s drama Our Wonderful Lives will get its...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has unveiled the first 26 titles to be confirmed for its 48th edition, running Jan 23-Feb 3, 2019.
The early selections include hotly-tipped foreign-language Oscar contender Capernaum by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, Claire Denis’s space thriller High Life and Jia Zhangke’s epic melodrama Ash Is Purest White.
First world premieres include German filmmaker Simona Kostova’s debut feature Thirty (Dreissig), capturing the lives of a group of friends living in Berlin over the course of 24 hours.
Fabienne Godet’s drama Our Wonderful Lives will get its...
- 11/7/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Focusing on film support funds in Europe and Latin America, a European Film Forum conference was held on Monday at San Sebastian.
After a keynote from E.U.’s Creative Europe Media Program head, Lucía Recalde, the roundtable tok in two panels, moderated by producer Pablo Iraola (Florbela).
Recalde emphasized a current state of flux: “Change is here to stay and it’s accelerating at an unprecedented pace. We have challenges of digital, globalization, reaching audiences who get content from everywhere, but there are opportunities emerging.”
First panel members included Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals fund manager Fay Breeman, the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund head Vincenzo Bugno, and France’s Aide Aux Cinemas du Monde project manager Nathalie Streiff.
The second panel featured Recalde, Eurimages’ Sergio García de Leániz, and Ibermedia chief Elena Vilardell.
Panelists specified details about philosophy, terms and payment conditions, and requirements of the funds they represented.
Freeman...
After a keynote from E.U.’s Creative Europe Media Program head, Lucía Recalde, the roundtable tok in two panels, moderated by producer Pablo Iraola (Florbela).
Recalde emphasized a current state of flux: “Change is here to stay and it’s accelerating at an unprecedented pace. We have challenges of digital, globalization, reaching audiences who get content from everywhere, but there are opportunities emerging.”
First panel members included Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals fund manager Fay Breeman, the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund head Vincenzo Bugno, and France’s Aide Aux Cinemas du Monde project manager Nathalie Streiff.
The second panel featured Recalde, Eurimages’ Sergio García de Leániz, and Ibermedia chief Elena Vilardell.
Panelists specified details about philosophy, terms and payment conditions, and requirements of the funds they represented.
Freeman...
- 9/25/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The selection consists of 11 development grants and two co-production grants.
International Rotterdam Film Festival (Iffr)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has announced the recipients of 11 development grants and two co-production grants for its spring 2018 selection, the 30th anniversary of the Fund.
The Fund, which provides financial support to filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe, has awarded script and project development grants of €10,000 and co-production grants of €50,000.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The former are separated into two categories: ‘Bright Future’, for films by first- and second-time filmmakers, and ‘Voices’ for more advanced creators.
International Rotterdam Film Festival (Iffr)’s Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) has announced the recipients of 11 development grants and two co-production grants for its spring 2018 selection, the 30th anniversary of the Fund.
The Fund, which provides financial support to filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe, has awarded script and project development grants of €10,000 and co-production grants of €50,000.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The former are separated into two categories: ‘Bright Future’, for films by first- and second-time filmmakers, and ‘Voices’ for more advanced creators.
- 5/15/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Rotterdam 2018: Interview with the Special Jury Award and Hubert Bals Audience Award Winning Filmmaker of ‘The Reports on Sarah and Saleem’Rami Alayan was awarded the Special Jury Award for exceptional artistic achievement for his screenplay of Muayad Alayan’s film ‘The Reports on Sarah and Saleem’. The film also won the Hubert Bals Fund Audience Award.Muayad Alayan is a Palestinian filmmaker and cinematographer based in Jerusalem. He studied film in San Francisco and his graduation project, the documentary ‘Exiles in Jerusalem’ (2005), won the Kodak Award in the same city. His short film debut ‘Why Sabreen?’ (2009), made with and about the youth of his home village, was screened and won awards at film festivals worldwide. Alayan is co-founder of Palcine Productions, a collective of filmmakers and audiovisual artists in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. In addition, he has worked as a film and cinematography instructor at several academic institutions in Palestine.
- 3/20/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Berlinale 2018: The Netherlands Has Six Titles Screening with Hubert Bals Funding or CineMart Backing‘The Seen and Unseen’
Six titles is a record number for a small country like The netherlands
Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not is in the running for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, as it will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Competition. The co-production between Romania, Germany, Czech Republic and Bulgaria was part of CineMart in 2011, where it won the Arte France Cinéma Award with a value of €10,000.
The Seen and Unseen is the second feature film by Kamila Andini. She received a contribution towards the development of this project from the Hubert Bals Fund in 2011. This Indonesian production was finished in 2017 and premiered in Platform Competition at Toronto International Film Festival, after which it had its Asian premiere in Busan. The European premiere of the film will take place in Berlin,...
Six titles is a record number for a small country like The netherlands
Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not is in the running for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, as it will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Competition. The co-production between Romania, Germany, Czech Republic and Bulgaria was part of CineMart in 2011, where it won the Arte France Cinéma Award with a value of €10,000.
The Seen and Unseen is the second feature film by Kamila Andini. She received a contribution towards the development of this project from the Hubert Bals Fund in 2011. This Indonesian production was finished in 2017 and premiered in Platform Competition at Toronto International Film Festival, after which it had its Asian premiere in Busan. The European premiere of the film will take place in Berlin,...
- 2/14/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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AMSTERDAM -- The International Film Festival Rotterdam on Tuesday took the part-time tag off acting director Rutger Wolfson, naming him general director and inking him to a four-year pact, with an option for an extension.
Wolfson will be responsible for the artistic and business issues of the festival, Cinemart and the Hubert Bals Fund. He will resign from his post as director of De Vleeshal, a museum for contemporary art in Middelburg, Holland.
"We consider Rutger Wolfson to be an excellent director who will energetically take in hand the organization of the festival," festival board chairman Melle Daamen said. "He has settled himself fast and with engagement in the large-scale world of the Rotterdam film festival. I think that he will further develop the international position of the festival and that we can expect of him an innovative festival program."
Wolfson said he was delighted to take up the position.
"The Rotterdam film festival is innovative and pioneering.
Wolfson will be responsible for the artistic and business issues of the festival, Cinemart and the Hubert Bals Fund. He will resign from his post as director of De Vleeshal, a museum for contemporary art in Middelburg, Holland.
"We consider Rutger Wolfson to be an excellent director who will energetically take in hand the organization of the festival," festival board chairman Melle Daamen said. "He has settled himself fast and with engagement in the large-scale world of the Rotterdam film festival. I think that he will further develop the international position of the festival and that we can expect of him an innovative festival program."
Wolfson said he was delighted to take up the position.
"The Rotterdam film festival is innovative and pioneering.
AMSTERDAM -- The International Film Festival of Rotterdam faces major logistical problems in the near future as several cinemas in the center of town are to close down in 2008 and '09.
According to some calculations, by 2010 the festival will have 140,000 fewer seats than this year's edition. Last year, the festival welcomed 360,000 visitors.
The IFFR on Friday presented a report on the future of the 37-year-old festival. The main objective of the report was to stress the desire of the IFFR to remain in the center of Rotterdam and not be spread out across town.
Several centrally located cinemas already have decided to move to the south of Rotterdam, which offers more parking space and better opportunities for expansion. One of the theaters involved is the Art House cinema Lataarn/Venster, where the IFFR was started in 1971 by its founder, Hubert Bals.
Rumors that the main cinema in Rotterdam's city center, Pathe Schouwburgplein, also will close, have been denied by Lauge Nielsen, general director of Pathe Nederland.
According to some calculations, by 2010 the festival will have 140,000 fewer seats than this year's edition. Last year, the festival welcomed 360,000 visitors.
The IFFR on Friday presented a report on the future of the 37-year-old festival. The main objective of the report was to stress the desire of the IFFR to remain in the center of Rotterdam and not be spread out across town.
Several centrally located cinemas already have decided to move to the south of Rotterdam, which offers more parking space and better opportunities for expansion. One of the theaters involved is the Art House cinema Lataarn/Venster, where the IFFR was started in 1971 by its founder, Hubert Bals.
Rumors that the main cinema in Rotterdam's city center, Pathe Schouwburgplein, also will close, have been denied by Lauge Nielsen, general director of Pathe Nederland.
- 1/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMSTERDAM -- The International Film Festival Rotterdam on Wednesday unveiled the first films selected for its Tiger Award competition.
Japanese autobiographical production "Waltz in Starlight" by Shingo Wakagi, Pusan award-winner "Flower in the Pocket" by debutante Liew Seng from Malaysia and "Wonderful Town" by Aditva Assarat, a Thai production supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, are the first three titles chosen.
The full competition lineup for the Jan. 23-Feb. 3 festival will be unveiled in January by newly appointed director Rutger Wolfson, who replaced Sandra den Hamer in September.
The 37th edition already is taking shape, with U.S. experimental director Robert Breer and Russian director Scetlana Proskurina chosen as Filmmakers in Focus.
The festival also announced a number of world premieres. Brit director Stephen Dwoskin will present "The Sun and The Moon", a radical portrait of lust, pain and melancholy, while U.S. helmer Jeff Pickett presents his first feature, "The Skyjacker", a story about a man who hijacks a plane and falls in love with the stewardess.
Japanese autobiographical production "Waltz in Starlight" by Shingo Wakagi, Pusan award-winner "Flower in the Pocket" by debutante Liew Seng from Malaysia and "Wonderful Town" by Aditva Assarat, a Thai production supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, are the first three titles chosen.
The full competition lineup for the Jan. 23-Feb. 3 festival will be unveiled in January by newly appointed director Rutger Wolfson, who replaced Sandra den Hamer in September.
The 37th edition already is taking shape, with U.S. experimental director Robert Breer and Russian director Scetlana Proskurina chosen as Filmmakers in Focus.
The festival also announced a number of world premieres. Brit director Stephen Dwoskin will present "The Sun and The Moon", a radical portrait of lust, pain and melancholy, while U.S. helmer Jeff Pickett presents his first feature, "The Skyjacker", a story about a man who hijacks a plane and falls in love with the stewardess.
- 11/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMSTERDAM -- Reversing a previous decision, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it will continue as the principal financier of the Hubert Bals Fund, a key component of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Earlier this year, the ministry rejected the fund's subsidy application for 2009-2012, causing what was seen as a direct threat to the fund's existence.
"The fund offers audiences the opportunity to see high-quality films from southern countries and filmmakers a platform leading to worldwide recognition of their works," Minister of Development Cooperation Bert Koenders said in response to a question raised by Member of Parliament Boris van der Ham.
Said Hubert Bals Fund manager Bianca Taal: "This is a very positive decision, although the actual amount of subsidy and specific conditions have yet to be determined. The future of the Hubert Bals Fund, however, is secure now."...
Earlier this year, the ministry rejected the fund's subsidy application for 2009-2012, causing what was seen as a direct threat to the fund's existence.
"The fund offers audiences the opportunity to see high-quality films from southern countries and filmmakers a platform leading to worldwide recognition of their works," Minister of Development Cooperation Bert Koenders said in response to a question raised by Member of Parliament Boris van der Ham.
Said Hubert Bals Fund manager Bianca Taal: "This is a very positive decision, although the actual amount of subsidy and specific conditions have yet to be determined. The future of the Hubert Bals Fund, however, is secure now."...
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands -- The International Film Festival of Rotterdam opens Wednesday evening amid industry fears of a major reduction in the government's contribution to the event's associated production fund.
The 36th edition of the Dutch festival is kicking off with the world premiere of "La Antena" (The Aerial), from Argentine director Esteban Sapir, one of the contenders for the official competition's Tiger Award.
According to festival director Sandra den Hamer, the choice of "La Antena", partly financed by the Hubert Bals Fund, was intended as a signal to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the fund's importance.
The Dutch government is planning to halve its backing of the fund, which currently has an annual budget of €1.2 million ($1.6 million). Close to 600 titles have been backed by the fund, which has supported filmmakers from developing countries for more than 20 years.
The festival is still awaiting the outcome of a recent hearing, but if the Foreign Office sticks to its plans, the subsidy will be cut at the beginning of 2009.
The 36th edition of the Dutch festival is kicking off with the world premiere of "La Antena" (The Aerial), from Argentine director Esteban Sapir, one of the contenders for the official competition's Tiger Award.
According to festival director Sandra den Hamer, the choice of "La Antena", partly financed by the Hubert Bals Fund, was intended as a signal to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the fund's importance.
The Dutch government is planning to halve its backing of the fund, which currently has an annual budget of €1.2 million ($1.6 million). Close to 600 titles have been backed by the fund, which has supported filmmakers from developing countries for more than 20 years.
The festival is still awaiting the outcome of a recent hearing, but if the Foreign Office sticks to its plans, the subsidy will be cut at the beginning of 2009.
- 1/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROTTERDAM -- The International Film Festival Rotterdam said Monday it has selected 14 films, including two from the U.S., that will compete for VPRO Tiger Awards at its 35th edition, which kicks off Jan. 25. Robert Edwards' "Land of the Blind" and Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" are the U.S. entrants in the competition, which honors three titles equally. The festival's Hubert Bals Fund supported four titles in the competition -- "Glue" by Alexis Dos Santos, "Early in the Morning" by Gahite Fofana, "Walking on the Wild Side" by Han Jie, and "The Dog Pound" by Manuel Nieto Zas. Sepideh Farsi's "The Gaze" was previously selected as a CineMart Project.
- 1/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HONG KONG -- The Rotterdam-based Herbert Bals Fund has confirmed its collaboration with the Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum 2006 (HAF) with a $10,000 grant for the best project from a developing country. This is the third year that the fund has supported the HAF with a grant. "This demonstrates they believe in the value of HAF in helping to develop and facilitate the film financing of Asian projects," said Sophia Chong, senior promotions manager at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council which is organizing the event with the Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territories Motion Picture Industry Assn. "The Hubert Bals Fund is excited to see the lineup of the HAF, which has always promised to showcase a great variety of Asian projects," said Fund committee member Bianca Taal.
AMSTERDAM -- The upcoming Jan. 25-Feb. 5 International Film Festival Rotterdam will screen a record number of films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, it was announced Wednesday. At least 30 new films will be presented at the Rotterdam fest during its 35th edition. The fund operates mainly in developing territories where independent filmmaking and production money are virtually non-existent and where filmmakers often face political resistance. Since 1988, more than 530 projects have received support from the fund. In a statement, the Hubert Bals Fund said that in 2005 it has helped more filmmakers with script development and post-production than ever before. The Rotterdam festival will host the world premieres of The Dog Pound by Manuel Nieto Zas from Uruguay and The Nightly Song of Travelers by writer Chapour Haghighat of France.
- 11/2/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adoor Gopalakrishnan Prods.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- This near masterpiece from Indian director Adoor Gopalakrishnan is precise in its storytelling and expansive in its evocation of a culture.
Leagues away from India's all-singing, all-dancing Bollywood movies, "Shadow Kill" is a delicately philosophical film about a regretful state executioner trying to avoid carrying out one last hanging. Although Western audiences' brief flirtation with serious Indian cinema began and ended with Satyajit Ray, viewers who enjoy works by, for instance, Iran's Abbas Kiarostami and Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien should find this an emotional and intellectual delight. "Shadow Kill" played in the Hubert Bals Fund section of Rotterdam's film festival this year.
"Shadow Kill" is an example of New Malayalam cinema, a regional-language movement from the southwesterly state of Kerala that focuses on social issues. Set in the 1940s, before Gandhi won independence for India, Gopalakrishnan's tale begins with the aging hangman (Oduvil Unnkrishnan) despondent at the fact that he once killed an innocent man. Then the local ruler's messenger arrives to inform him that he's been ordered to carry out another execution.
The executioner spends a worried night with the prisoner's three guards, who try to distract him with the tale of an innocent young boy who is executed in the place of a rich murderer. It turns out that the young boy is, in fact, the prisoner the executioner has come to hang.
"Shadow Kill" harbors many delights. Gopalakrishnan's attention to both historical detail and the religious rituals of the executioner allows the film to stand as a document to a time and a place. Structure is exciting and unusual, especially the way the story within a story suddenly becomes the turning point of the plot. Vignettes of local life are seamlessly integrated into the work as a whole. There are also stunning visual moments, as when the white threads on a loom crisscross the screen.
The only problem is the English title, which, though drawn from the epic "Mahabharata", suggests a video actioner.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- This near masterpiece from Indian director Adoor Gopalakrishnan is precise in its storytelling and expansive in its evocation of a culture.
Leagues away from India's all-singing, all-dancing Bollywood movies, "Shadow Kill" is a delicately philosophical film about a regretful state executioner trying to avoid carrying out one last hanging. Although Western audiences' brief flirtation with serious Indian cinema began and ended with Satyajit Ray, viewers who enjoy works by, for instance, Iran's Abbas Kiarostami and Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien should find this an emotional and intellectual delight. "Shadow Kill" played in the Hubert Bals Fund section of Rotterdam's film festival this year.
"Shadow Kill" is an example of New Malayalam cinema, a regional-language movement from the southwesterly state of Kerala that focuses on social issues. Set in the 1940s, before Gandhi won independence for India, Gopalakrishnan's tale begins with the aging hangman (Oduvil Unnkrishnan) despondent at the fact that he once killed an innocent man. Then the local ruler's messenger arrives to inform him that he's been ordered to carry out another execution.
The executioner spends a worried night with the prisoner's three guards, who try to distract him with the tale of an innocent young boy who is executed in the place of a rich murderer. It turns out that the young boy is, in fact, the prisoner the executioner has come to hang.
"Shadow Kill" harbors many delights. Gopalakrishnan's attention to both historical detail and the religious rituals of the executioner allows the film to stand as a document to a time and a place. Structure is exciting and unusual, especially the way the story within a story suddenly becomes the turning point of the plot. Vignettes of local life are seamlessly integrated into the work as a whole. There are also stunning visual moments, as when the white threads on a loom crisscross the screen.
The only problem is the English title, which, though drawn from the epic "Mahabharata", suggests a video actioner.
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands -- This excellent debut by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas exhibits a maturity rarely seen in a first film. Bravura widescreen camerawork, plotting which is at once both intense and dispersed, and a bold sex scene between a middle-aged depressive and an aged woman, demonstrate a director with a full and natural command of the medium.
On the strength of 'Japon, ' 31-year-old Reygadas has the talent to become a force in world cinema, and his next film is eagerly awaited. More festival exposure for 'Japon' should be a certainty. If Reygadas were a name director rather than an unknown, the film would certainly be snapped up by art house distributors whose tastes run to Abbas Kiarostami (of whose work 'Japon' reminds) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. As it stands, foreign sales could be tricky, as distributors may be put off by the 143-minute length, unusual subject matter, and deliberate pacing.
But while the film may be a hard sell to audiences, it's a critic's dream, as evidenced by the positive response it received at the Rotterdam fest, where it played in the Hubert Bals Fund program. The story sees a depressed middle-aged man, known simply as 'The Man, ' travel to a small village in a ravine to commit suicide. As he prepares for death, he stays with an old woman, Ascen.
The man gradually becomes involved with the old woman's problems, which include the imminent destruction of her house by a slobbish villager who, forty years ago, went unpaid for bricks.
The Man, a city dweller, has arrived at his suicide by reason. Ascen, whose religious beliefs are tied to an intimate knowledge of the land, has never thought to question her existence. The man finally decides that he can transcend his problems by making love to the old woman. After some consideration, she consents.
"Japon" was shot with the unusual superCinemascope process -- which uses a special anamorphic lens to approximate the aspect ratio of 2:35:1-- on a 16mm camera, then blown up to 35mm. It's a perfect fit for the slow, intense story. Reygadas uses the frame for maximum effect in the landscapes -- a shot of a car crawling down a mountainside is particularly gratifying.
But the relative mobility of the 16mm camera allows him to carry out some adventurous hand-held experiments. The audacious, circling 7-minute shot which closes the film, tying up the story as it swoops in on the fates of the various characters, is mesmerizing.
Reygadas directs the intimate scenes with equal confidence. The sex scene between the man and the old woman is especially well handled. Facing a difficult task for any director, Reygadas makes their copulation -- a keystone of the plot -- look both natural and reasonable.
Richard James Havis
JAPON
No Dream Cinema, The Hubert Bals Fund, and Mantarraya Producciones Present
Credits:
Producers: No Dream Cinema, Carlos Reygadas
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Screenwriter: Carlos Reygadas
Director of Photography: Diego Martinez Vignatti
Art Director: Alejandro Reygadas
Music: Dimitri Shostakovich, Arvo P...
On the strength of 'Japon, ' 31-year-old Reygadas has the talent to become a force in world cinema, and his next film is eagerly awaited. More festival exposure for 'Japon' should be a certainty. If Reygadas were a name director rather than an unknown, the film would certainly be snapped up by art house distributors whose tastes run to Abbas Kiarostami (of whose work 'Japon' reminds) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. As it stands, foreign sales could be tricky, as distributors may be put off by the 143-minute length, unusual subject matter, and deliberate pacing.
But while the film may be a hard sell to audiences, it's a critic's dream, as evidenced by the positive response it received at the Rotterdam fest, where it played in the Hubert Bals Fund program. The story sees a depressed middle-aged man, known simply as 'The Man, ' travel to a small village in a ravine to commit suicide. As he prepares for death, he stays with an old woman, Ascen.
The man gradually becomes involved with the old woman's problems, which include the imminent destruction of her house by a slobbish villager who, forty years ago, went unpaid for bricks.
The Man, a city dweller, has arrived at his suicide by reason. Ascen, whose religious beliefs are tied to an intimate knowledge of the land, has never thought to question her existence. The man finally decides that he can transcend his problems by making love to the old woman. After some consideration, she consents.
"Japon" was shot with the unusual superCinemascope process -- which uses a special anamorphic lens to approximate the aspect ratio of 2:35:1-- on a 16mm camera, then blown up to 35mm. It's a perfect fit for the slow, intense story. Reygadas uses the frame for maximum effect in the landscapes -- a shot of a car crawling down a mountainside is particularly gratifying.
But the relative mobility of the 16mm camera allows him to carry out some adventurous hand-held experiments. The audacious, circling 7-minute shot which closes the film, tying up the story as it swoops in on the fates of the various characters, is mesmerizing.
Reygadas directs the intimate scenes with equal confidence. The sex scene between the man and the old woman is especially well handled. Facing a difficult task for any director, Reygadas makes their copulation -- a keystone of the plot -- look both natural and reasonable.
Richard James Havis
JAPON
No Dream Cinema, The Hubert Bals Fund, and Mantarraya Producciones Present
Credits:
Producers: No Dream Cinema, Carlos Reygadas
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Screenwriter: Carlos Reygadas
Director of Photography: Diego Martinez Vignatti
Art Director: Alejandro Reygadas
Music: Dimitri Shostakovich, Arvo P...
- 3/26/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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