Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (Dfi) kicks off the 10th edition of its Qumra project and talent incubator event meeting this Friday.
Running from March 1 to 6 in downtown Doha and the lofty surroundings of the city’s I. M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art, the event will welcome the filmmakers and producers of 40 projects across all formats for six days of masterclasses, workshops and one-on-one mentoring sessions.
Participants include UK director Ana Naomi de Sousa with Naseem, Fight With Grace about boxing star Naseem Hamed; Moroccan filmmaker Alaa Eddine Aljem with Eldorado, The Taste of the South, his second feature after Cannes Critics’ Week title The Unknown Saint; Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui with Aïcha, which follows 2019 drama A Son for which Sami Bouajila won Best Actor in the Venice’s Horizons sidebar, and Palestinian director Saleh Saadi with TV series Dyouf, about a young man who returns to his...
Running from March 1 to 6 in downtown Doha and the lofty surroundings of the city’s I. M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art, the event will welcome the filmmakers and producers of 40 projects across all formats for six days of masterclasses, workshops and one-on-one mentoring sessions.
Participants include UK director Ana Naomi de Sousa with Naseem, Fight With Grace about boxing star Naseem Hamed; Moroccan filmmaker Alaa Eddine Aljem with Eldorado, The Taste of the South, his second feature after Cannes Critics’ Week title The Unknown Saint; Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui with Aïcha, which follows 2019 drama A Son for which Sami Bouajila won Best Actor in the Venice’s Horizons sidebar, and Palestinian director Saleh Saadi with TV series Dyouf, about a young man who returns to his...
- 2/28/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The film tackles the issue of illegal immigration and people trafficking.
Asimina Proedrou’s debut feature Behind The Haystacks swept the board at Greece’s Iris Awards this week, winning the prizes for best film, director, debut director, screenplay, actor, supporting actress and actor, cinematography, editing and sound.
The film is about a family forced to take part in the trafficking of illegal migrants from Turkey to Greece and into the EU.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
It premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November 2022 where it was awarded the Fipresci prize as well as the best debut director award.
Asimina Proedrou’s debut feature Behind The Haystacks swept the board at Greece’s Iris Awards this week, winning the prizes for best film, director, debut director, screenplay, actor, supporting actress and actor, cinematography, editing and sound.
The film is about a family forced to take part in the trafficking of illegal migrants from Turkey to Greece and into the EU.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
It premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November 2022 where it was awarded the Fipresci prize as well as the best debut director award.
- 6/29/2023
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Award voted for by public and members of European Parliament.
Lukas Dhont’s Close has won the 2023 Lux European Audience Film Award, presented in Brussels on Tuesday, June 27.
Close was chosen from five nominated films, by a combination of 50% European public vote and 50% vote by members of the European Parliament. The awards platform received 45,000 public votes and 360 Mep votes.
The other nominated films were Carla Simon’s 2022 Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Emin Alper’s Burning Days, Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ Will-o’the-Wisp and Ruben Ostlund’s 2022 Palme d’Or-winner Triangle Of Sadness.
Dhont and co-writer Angelo Tijssens accepted the award...
Lukas Dhont’s Close has won the 2023 Lux European Audience Film Award, presented in Brussels on Tuesday, June 27.
Close was chosen from five nominated films, by a combination of 50% European public vote and 50% vote by members of the European Parliament. The awards platform received 45,000 public votes and 360 Mep votes.
The other nominated films were Carla Simon’s 2022 Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Emin Alper’s Burning Days, Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ Will-o’the-Wisp and Ruben Ostlund’s 2022 Palme d’Or-winner Triangle Of Sadness.
Dhont and co-writer Angelo Tijssens accepted the award...
- 6/28/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Lukas Dhont’s Close, an intimate melodrama about an intense friendship between two 13-year-old boys, has won this year’s Lux European Audience Film Award, a prize handed out by the European Parliament.
Close premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2022, where it won the Grand Jury prize. It was Belgium’s Oscar contender and was nominated for an Academy Award in the best international feature category this year.
Close is Dhont’s second feature, after his 2018 directorial debut Girl, a drama inspired by the true story of a transgender ballet dancer, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and won multiple awards including the Camera d’Or for best first feature and the Queer Palm for best LGBTQ+ movie. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Dhont said Close was a “continuation of the themes in Girl [but while] Girl really talked about gender identity and the relationship with the body,...
Close premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2022, where it won the Grand Jury prize. It was Belgium’s Oscar contender and was nominated for an Academy Award in the best international feature category this year.
Close is Dhont’s second feature, after his 2018 directorial debut Girl, a drama inspired by the true story of a transgender ballet dancer, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and won multiple awards including the Camera d’Or for best first feature and the Queer Palm for best LGBTQ+ movie. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Dhont said Close was a “continuation of the themes in Girl [but while] Girl really talked about gender identity and the relationship with the body,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Titles include ‘Little Death’ from ‘Dogtooth’ and ‘Burning Days’ producer Yorgos Tsourgiannis.
International co-production platform Transilvania Pitch Stop has unveiled the 10 projects set to be showcased at its 10th anniversary edition.
Titles will be presented to potential partners and financiers on June 15, during the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania. The features in development are from first and second time directors from Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
They include Little Death, the feature directorial debut of Greece’s Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis, produced by Yorgos Tsourgiannis of Horsefly Films. Tsourgiannis produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, which played at...
International co-production platform Transilvania Pitch Stop has unveiled the 10 projects set to be showcased at its 10th anniversary edition.
Titles will be presented to potential partners and financiers on June 15, during the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania. The features in development are from first and second time directors from Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
They include Little Death, the feature directorial debut of Greece’s Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis, produced by Yorgos Tsourgiannis of Horsefly Films. Tsourgiannis produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, which played at...
- 5/19/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
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
Launching with the opening night world premiere of Marc Turtletaub’s “Jules,” a crowdpleaser sales title starring Ben Kingsley, the 26th annual Sonoma International Film Festival (March 22-26) drew its highest audience attendance to date. The wine country film festival combined a robust film slate programmed by newly appointed artistic director Carl Spence (working with Executive Director Ginny Krieger), from upcoming specialty fare like Paul Schrader’s “The Master Gardener,” starring Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver, and Searchlight’s period biopic “Chevalier,” starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., with a smattering of yummy wine and food events with top chefs, from Martin Yan’s Shaking Beef with Three Onions to Joanne Weir’s herb-covered goat cheese tarte.
The five-day festival curated by Spence along with senior programmers Amanda Salazar and Ken Jacobson, showcased 110 films, including seven films making their US premieres as well as films acclaimed on the festival circuit. Thirty-two countries...
The five-day festival curated by Spence along with senior programmers Amanda Salazar and Ken Jacobson, showcased 110 films, including seven films making their US premieres as well as films acclaimed on the festival circuit. Thirty-two countries...
- 3/26/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Combining elements of western with noir and intense sociopolitical comments in a Turkish movie, is not something we see everyday. It is, however, exactly what Emin Alper has achieved in “Burning Days”, an impressive movie in a number of ways.
“Burning Days” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
“Burning Days” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
- 3/2/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
For a country of 11 million that’s spent much of the past decade lurching from one economic crisis to the next, you’d be hard-pressed to suggest the Greek film industry isn’t punching above its weight. In the span of just a few weeks earlier this year, Rian Johnson’s Netflix blockbuster “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” became one of the streaming service’s most-watched films of all time, while Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” was nominated for three Academy Awards: two splashy productions that were both shot in the Mediterranean nation.
Since the launch of its cash rebate in 2018, which covers up to 40 of qualifying expenditures along with 30 in tax relief, Greece has become one of Europe’s hottest filming destinations. Last year the industry reached new heights, with the rebate supporting 132 international and domestic productions — including Nia Vardalos’ long-awaited “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3...
Since the launch of its cash rebate in 2018, which covers up to 40 of qualifying expenditures along with 30 in tax relief, Greece has become one of Europe’s hottest filming destinations. Last year the industry reached new heights, with the rebate supporting 132 international and domestic productions — including Nia Vardalos’ long-awaited “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3...
- 2/17/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Goteborg will screen nearly 250 films in 700 screenings, making it the largest film festival in Scandinavia.
The 46th Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 27-Feb 5) will kick off with the world premiere of Exodus, directed by Abbe Hassan, about a smuggler who tries to save a Syrian girl; the closing film will be Camino, directed by Birgitte Stærmose, about a 30-year-old woman on a long hike with her father to honour her mother’s last wish.
Goteborg will screen nearly 250 films in 700 screenings, making it the largest film festival in Scandinavia.
About 50 of the films – including all in the International Competition – will be...
The 46th Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 27-Feb 5) will kick off with the world premiere of Exodus, directed by Abbe Hassan, about a smuggler who tries to save a Syrian girl; the closing film will be Camino, directed by Birgitte Stærmose, about a 30-year-old woman on a long hike with her father to honour her mother’s last wish.
Goteborg will screen nearly 250 films in 700 screenings, making it the largest film festival in Scandinavia.
About 50 of the films – including all in the International Competition – will be...
- 1/10/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the competition titles selected for its 46th edition, which runs from January 27 – February 5. (Scroll down for the full list).
Göteborg is split into four competition strands. The main strand is the Nordic Competition, which features nine films from the Nordic region. The competition’s winner takes home the Dragon Award and a Sek 400 000 cash prize. The rest of the festival comprises the Nordic Documentary Competition, the Ingmar Bergman Competition for first-time filmmakers, and the International Competition.
Among the Nordic highlights is Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam. The pic debuted at Venice last year and follows two homeless twins and their struggle to survive. Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland also screens in competition. Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of...
Göteborg is split into four competition strands. The main strand is the Nordic Competition, which features nine films from the Nordic region. The competition’s winner takes home the Dragon Award and a Sek 400 000 cash prize. The rest of the festival comprises the Nordic Documentary Competition, the Ingmar Bergman Competition for first-time filmmakers, and the International Competition.
Among the Nordic highlights is Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam. The pic debuted at Venice last year and follows two homeless twins and their struggle to survive. Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland also screens in competition. Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of...
- 1/10/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The film already debuted at Cannes 2022 and released in Turkey this weekend.
Turkey’s General Directorate of Cinema, operating under the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, has demanded the producers of Emin Alper’s Burning Days return production funding awarded to the film, almost seven months after it premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, say the filmmakers.
Alper and producer Nadir Operli said the Directorate contacted them last week with the demand, due to what they say the Directorate describes as ‘script revisions’ made during development.
Alper and Operli issued a statement on December 8 in response to the demand,...
Turkey’s General Directorate of Cinema, operating under the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, has demanded the producers of Emin Alper’s Burning Days return production funding awarded to the film, almost seven months after it premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, say the filmmakers.
Alper and producer Nadir Operli said the Directorate contacted them last week with the demand, due to what they say the Directorate describes as ‘script revisions’ made during development.
Alper and Operli issued a statement on December 8 in response to the demand,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The film already debuted at Cannes 2022 and released in Turkey this weekend.
Turkey’s General Directorate of Cinema, operating under the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, has demanded the producers of Emin Alper’s Burning Days return production funding awarded to the film, almost seven months after it premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, say the filmmakers.
Alper and producer Nadir Operli said the Directorate contacted them last week with the demand, due to what they say the Directorate describes as ‘script revisions’ made during development.
Alper and Operli issued a statement on December 8 in response to the demand,...
Turkey’s General Directorate of Cinema, operating under the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, has demanded the producers of Emin Alper’s Burning Days return production funding awarded to the film, almost seven months after it premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, say the filmmakers.
Alper and producer Nadir Operli said the Directorate contacted them last week with the demand, due to what they say the Directorate describes as ‘script revisions’ made during development.
Alper and Operli issued a statement on December 8 in response to the demand,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy has unveiled the eight winners of the Excellence Awards spanning the arts and crafts categories. These will receive their prizes during the European Film Awards on Dec. 10 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Best European cinematography went to Kate McCullough for “The Quiet Girl,” an Irish drama directed Colm Bairéad which played at several festivals, including the Berlinale where it won the Generation K-Plus jury grand prize.
European editing was awarded to Özcan Vardar & Eytan İpeker for Emin Alper’s “Burning Days,” a politically minded Turkish movie which world premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
“Belfast,” a coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, garnered two awards for European production design for Jim Clay, and European costume design for Charlotte Walter. The movie previously won an Oscar for best original screenplay, and a BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year.
European make up...
Best European cinematography went to Kate McCullough for “The Quiet Girl,” an Irish drama directed Colm Bairéad which played at several festivals, including the Berlinale where it won the Generation K-Plus jury grand prize.
European editing was awarded to Özcan Vardar & Eytan İpeker for Emin Alper’s “Burning Days,” a politically minded Turkish movie which world premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
“Belfast,” a coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, garnered two awards for European production design for Jim Clay, and European costume design for Charlotte Walter. The movie previously won an Oscar for best original screenplay, and a BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year.
European make up...
- 11/23/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast top the European Film Academy’s Excellence Awards honoring achievement in the arts and crafts categories, the winners of which were announced on Wednesday.
Belfast won best European Production Design for Jim Clay, whose credits include Children Of Men, for which he won a Bafta in 2006, and Murder On The Orient Express.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the beginnings of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland in 1969, also won best European Costume Design for Charlotte Walter
Netflix-backed German WWI drama All Quiet On The Western Front won best European Make-up & Hair for Heike Merker, and Best European Special Effects for Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller and Markus Frank.
In other categories, best European Cinematography was won by Kate McCullough for her work on Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl.
Best...
Belfast won best European Production Design for Jim Clay, whose credits include Children Of Men, for which he won a Bafta in 2006, and Murder On The Orient Express.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the beginnings of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland in 1969, also won best European Costume Design for Charlotte Walter
Netflix-backed German WWI drama All Quiet On The Western Front won best European Make-up & Hair for Heike Merker, and Best European Special Effects for Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller and Markus Frank.
In other categories, best European Cinematography was won by Kate McCullough for her work on Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl.
Best...
- 11/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Tallinn Black Nights film festival kicked off on November 11th, but the screenings of films from all five competition segments – Official Selection, First Feature Competition, Baltic Film Competition, Rebels With a Cause and Critics’ Picks- have just begun.
Five titles from Asia compete in the Official Selection. Vietnamese director Dung Luon Dinh is in Tallinn with his martial arts rich thriller “Magnum 578”, Israeli director Shahar Rozen competes with “Ducks – An Urban Legend”, a comedy thriller that involves yellow rubber ducks, and a year after his sophomore film “Make the Devil Laugh” had its world premiere here in Tallinn, the Japanese director Ryuchi Mino is back in town with a period comedy “Ginji The Speculator”. Indian director Sudhansu Saria, whose debut feature film “Loev” competed at PÖFF in 2015, is back with “Sanaa”, a drama starring Pooja Bhatt and Sohum Shah. Iranian title “The Wastetown” directed by Ahmad Bahrami is also...
Five titles from Asia compete in the Official Selection. Vietnamese director Dung Luon Dinh is in Tallinn with his martial arts rich thriller “Magnum 578”, Israeli director Shahar Rozen competes with “Ducks – An Urban Legend”, a comedy thriller that involves yellow rubber ducks, and a year after his sophomore film “Make the Devil Laugh” had its world premiere here in Tallinn, the Japanese director Ryuchi Mino is back in town with a period comedy “Ginji The Speculator”. Indian director Sudhansu Saria, whose debut feature film “Loev” competed at PÖFF in 2015, is back with “Sanaa”, a drama starring Pooja Bhatt and Sohum Shah. Iranian title “The Wastetown” directed by Ahmad Bahrami is also...
- 11/18/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Emin Alper was born in 1974 in Ermenek, Karaman. Trained in economics and history at Bogazici University-Istanbul, Alper holds a PhD in Turkish Modern History. His first feature, Beyond the Hill (2012), received numerous awards including the Caligari Film Prize at Berlinale Forum and Best Film at Asia Pacific Awards. His second feature Frenzy (2015) premiered at 72nd Venice Film Festival’s in Official Selection’s competition and received Jury Special Prize. His third feature A Tale of Three Sisters 2019) premiered at Berlin Film Festival’s main competition, and received many awards in several festivals. Aside from his filmmaking career, Emin Alper works as the artistic programmer of the newly found Istanbul Cinemateque since February 2021.
On the occasion of his latest film, “Burning Days” screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, we speak with him about the homosexuality element in the movie, corruption in the world, neo-noir, neo-western aesthetics and many other topics.
“Burning...
On the occasion of his latest film, “Burning Days” screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, we speak with him about the homosexuality element in the movie, corruption in the world, neo-noir, neo-western aesthetics and many other topics.
“Burning...
- 11/12/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Combining elements of western with noir and intense sociopolitical comments in a Turkish movie, is not something we see everyday. It is, however, exactly what Emin Alper has achieved in “Burning Days”, an impressive movie in a number of ways.
“Burning Days“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
“Burning Days“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
- 11/10/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Festival runs October 12-23.
Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction are among the international competitions line-up at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival next month.
This year’s competitions include 10 films receiving their North American premiere and 17 getting their US premiere as the entries vie for the festival’s Gold Hugo award in the categories of international feature, international documentary, and new directors.
The festival runs October 12-23. The full international competition line-ups are below.
Playing in International Feature Competition are: The Beasts (Sp-Fr), Rodrigo Sorogoyen, US premiere; Before,...
Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction are among the international competitions line-up at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival next month.
This year’s competitions include 10 films receiving their North American premiere and 17 getting their US premiere as the entries vie for the festival’s Gold Hugo award in the categories of international feature, international documentary, and new directors.
The festival runs October 12-23. The full international competition line-ups are below.
Playing in International Feature Competition are: The Beasts (Sp-Fr), Rodrigo Sorogoyen, US premiere; Before,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The first 30 titles in the running for the EFAs have been announced.
The first 30 titles in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed with a second wave of titles due to be announced in September.
Scroll down for first selection of films
The titles include Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness, Carla Simón’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Alcarras and Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winner Belfast. Also selected is Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s submission for the best international feature Oscar.
Further Cannes award winners to make the first...
The first 30 titles in the running for the 2022 European Film Awards have been revealed with a second wave of titles due to be announced in September.
Scroll down for first selection of films
The titles include Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness, Carla Simón’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Alcarras and Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winner Belfast. Also selected is Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s submission for the best international feature Oscar.
Further Cannes award winners to make the first...
- 8/18/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The buzzy regional event attrracted festival programmers from Cannes, Berlin and around the world.
Croatian director Sonja Tarokić’s debut feature The Staffroom was the big winner at the 69th edition of the Pula Film Festival when it received nine awards at the closing ceremony at the weekend in the port’s 2,000 year-old Roman amphitheatre.
The Croatian Programme Jury, headed by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, presented the film with the festival’s main award, the Grand Golden Arena for best festival film, as well as Golden Arenas for best director, best actor for Stojan Matavulj , best supporting actress, and best editing.
Croatian director Sonja Tarokić’s debut feature The Staffroom was the big winner at the 69th edition of the Pula Film Festival when it received nine awards at the closing ceremony at the weekend in the port’s 2,000 year-old Roman amphitheatre.
The Croatian Programme Jury, headed by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, presented the film with the festival’s main award, the Grand Golden Arena for best festival film, as well as Golden Arenas for best director, best actor for Stojan Matavulj , best supporting actress, and best editing.
- 7/25/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
International competition titles include ‘Broker’ and ‘Decision To Leave’ from South Korea.
Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) has revealed the line-up of international competition titles for its 39th edition, which includes several award-winners from this year’s Cannes.
Ten features will compete in the international competition of Jff, which is set to host its 39th edition from July 21-31.
These include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave from South Korea, which respectively picked up best actor for Song Kang-ho and best director for Park. Also selected is Abi Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which saw Zar Amir-Ebrahimi pick up best actress,...
Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) has revealed the line-up of international competition titles for its 39th edition, which includes several award-winners from this year’s Cannes.
Ten features will compete in the international competition of Jff, which is set to host its 39th edition from July 21-31.
These include Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave from South Korea, which respectively picked up best actor for Song Kang-ho and best director for Park. Also selected is Abi Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which saw Zar Amir-Ebrahimi pick up best actress,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Compassion is in almost as short supply as water in Emin Alper’s sardonic, seething Un Certain Regard breakout “Burning Days,” a parched little parable about small-town corruption in chokingly patriarchal rural Turkey. Beginning and ending on the lip of a massive sinkhole on the village outskirts, and featuring a manhunt that echoes a wild boar hunt and a mirage-like lake whose waters may or may not be toxic, here, the cool filmmaking is subtler than the metaphors. But then, with mass detentions during the recent Turkish Pride celebrations still in the headlines, when it comes to homophobia, misogyny, masculine crisis and the other attendant cruelties of this strongman-led society, these are not subtle times.
A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters”, “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from Dp Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography. In an emblematically sweeping shot,...
A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters”, “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from Dp Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography. In an emblematically sweeping shot,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
All the People I’ll Never Be – Davy Chou [Review]
The Blue Caftan – Maryam Touzani
Burning Days – Emin Alper
Butterfly Vision – Maksym Nakonechnyi
Corsage – Marie Kreutzer [Review]
Domingo and the Mist – Ariel Escalante Meza
Father & Soldier – Mathieu Vadepied
Godland – Hlynur Pálmason [Review]
Harka – Lotfy Nathan [Review]
Joyland – Saim Sadiq
Les Pires – Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret [Review] [Interview]
Mediterranean Fever – Maha Haj
Metronom – Alexandru Belc [Review]
Plus que jamais – Emily Atef [Review]
Plan 75 – Chie Hayakawa [Review]
Rodéo – Lola Quivoron [Review]
Sick of Myself – Kristoffer Borgli [Review]
The Silent Twins – Agnieszka Smoczyńska [Review]
The Stranger – Thomas M.…...
The Blue Caftan – Maryam Touzani
Burning Days – Emin Alper
Butterfly Vision – Maksym Nakonechnyi
Corsage – Marie Kreutzer [Review]
Domingo and the Mist – Ariel Escalante Meza
Father & Soldier – Mathieu Vadepied
Godland – Hlynur Pálmason [Review]
Harka – Lotfy Nathan [Review]
Joyland – Saim Sadiq
Les Pires – Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret [Review] [Interview]
Mediterranean Fever – Maha Haj
Metronom – Alexandru Belc [Review]
Plus que jamais – Emily Atef [Review]
Plan 75 – Chie Hayakawa [Review]
Rodéo – Lola Quivoron [Review]
Sick of Myself – Kristoffer Borgli [Review]
The Silent Twins – Agnieszka Smoczyńska [Review]
The Stranger – Thomas M.…...
- 6/15/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Emin Alper’s political thriller “Burning Days” competes in Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival, where we had the opportunity to sit down and talk about his impressive film which comes three years after his multiple awarded drama “Tale of Three Sisters”, and seven years after the success of “Frenzy” in Venice.
“Burning Days” is a story about a young, scrupulous persecutor who is sent to a small rural city in Anatolia to deal with a corrupted mayor, and problems with water shortage and wrongdoings that led to the appearance of a giant sinkhole in the area. His dedication to the job, and the honest way of approaching problems meet the strong resistance of the community atatched to the mayor, and he also ends up investigating a crime committed during the night he has no recollection of, but he suspects of having witnessed.
Alper spoke to Asian Movie Pulse,...
“Burning Days” is a story about a young, scrupulous persecutor who is sent to a small rural city in Anatolia to deal with a corrupted mayor, and problems with water shortage and wrongdoings that led to the appearance of a giant sinkhole in the area. His dedication to the job, and the honest way of approaching problems meet the strong resistance of the community atatched to the mayor, and he also ends up investigating a crime committed during the night he has no recollection of, but he suspects of having witnessed.
Alper spoke to Asian Movie Pulse,...
- 5/27/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
On the one hand, Emin Alper’s Burning Days is a discreet but telling account of the resurgence of homophobia — a key plank of right-wing populism — in Turkey. On the other hand, it’s a half-and-half genre film: half crime thriller and half western.
In the Cannes Un Certain Regard entry, a conscientious public prosecutor comes from the city to a small town, where he soon finds himself at the wrong end of the townsfolk’s pitchforks. It’s Wyatt Earp, basically, except that city boy Emre (Selahbattin Pasali) is the kind of public official whose integrity is expressed by doing everything by the book. He is also very neatly turned out, even when his water isn’t working. As it often isn’t: more on this in a minute.
Emre is also awkward, unable to find conversational common ground with the local big-wigs. A local election looms; nevertheless, the...
In the Cannes Un Certain Regard entry, a conscientious public prosecutor comes from the city to a small town, where he soon finds himself at the wrong end of the townsfolk’s pitchforks. It’s Wyatt Earp, basically, except that city boy Emre (Selahbattin Pasali) is the kind of public official whose integrity is expressed by doing everything by the book. He is also very neatly turned out, even when his water isn’t working. As it often isn’t: more on this in a minute.
Emre is also awkward, unable to find conversational common ground with the local big-wigs. A local election looms; nevertheless, the...
- 5/26/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian filmmaker’s second film has an ensemble cast that includes Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Leading German sales agent The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Ginevra Elkann’s upcoming Italian drama I Told You So.
It marks the second feature to be directed by the London-born Italian filmmaker after If Only (Magari), which opened Locarno Film Festival in 2019.
I Told You So, which has the Italian title Te l’avevo detto, is described as “a turbulent mosaic of intertwined stories amidst the inescapable Italian heat”, with an ensemble cast that includes Marisa Borini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,...
Leading German sales agent The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Ginevra Elkann’s upcoming Italian drama I Told You So.
It marks the second feature to be directed by the London-born Italian filmmaker after If Only (Magari), which opened Locarno Film Festival in 2019.
I Told You So, which has the Italian title Te l’avevo detto, is described as “a turbulent mosaic of intertwined stories amidst the inescapable Italian heat”, with an ensemble cast that includes Marisa Borini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,...
- 5/25/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Turkish screenwriter and director Emin Alper, whose dystopian drama (“Frenzy”) in 2015 made a splash in Venice and who more recently helmed hit TV series “Aleph” about two detectives on the trail of a dervish-turned-serial killer in Istanbul, is in Cannes for the first time with incendiary drama “Burning Days” screening in Un Certain Regard.
It’s about a young and earnest prosecutor named Emre who gets pulled into corrupt populist politics while investigating a murder and forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper.
Alper spoke to Variety about how “Burning Days” reflects the rise of authoritarian populism and mounting homophobia, and not just in his country. Excerpts
This is pretty explosive stuff. What drew you to the subject matter?
Over the past years I’ve been surprised to see that similar things are happening around the world. We experienced Trump, for example. It was really shocking for me.
It’s about a young and earnest prosecutor named Emre who gets pulled into corrupt populist politics while investigating a murder and forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper.
Alper spoke to Variety about how “Burning Days” reflects the rise of authoritarian populism and mounting homophobia, and not just in his country. Excerpts
This is pretty explosive stuff. What drew you to the subject matter?
Over the past years I’ve been surprised to see that similar things are happening around the world. We experienced Trump, for example. It was really shocking for me.
- 5/23/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Sydney Film Festival has completed the selection for its first full in-person edition in three years with a strong Australian lineup and a smattering of Cannes titles. The 2022 edition runs June 8 – 19, 2022.
After Covid disruptions saw the 2021 edition delayed from June until November, it has been a quick six-month turnaround to return the 2022 festival to its regular winter slot. The festival will present over 200 films from over 64 countries, including 27 world premieres.
Australian films play throughout. The international competition, which comes with a A60,000 cash prize, includes two local entries: artist Del Kathryn Barton’s feature directorial debut “Blaze”; and Goran Stolevski’s supernatural tale “You Won’t Be Alone.” They will compete with films direct from Cannes including Lukas Dhont’s “Close,” Davy Chou’s “All the People I’ll Never Be” and Emin Alper’s political thriller “Burning Days.”
The festival also hosts world premieres of Australian documentaries including Penny McDonald...
After Covid disruptions saw the 2021 edition delayed from June until November, it has been a quick six-month turnaround to return the 2022 festival to its regular winter slot. The festival will present over 200 films from over 64 countries, including 27 world premieres.
Australian films play throughout. The international competition, which comes with a A60,000 cash prize, includes two local entries: artist Del Kathryn Barton’s feature directorial debut “Blaze”; and Goran Stolevski’s supernatural tale “You Won’t Be Alone.” They will compete with films direct from Cannes including Lukas Dhont’s “Close,” Davy Chou’s “All the People I’ll Never Be” and Emin Alper’s political thriller “Burning Days.”
The festival also hosts world premieres of Australian documentaries including Penny McDonald...
- 5/11/2022
- by Katherine Tulich
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin Golden Bear winner ‘Alcarràs’ among titles.
Sydney Film Festival (June 8-19) has revealed the 12 titles that will play in competition at its 69th edition.
The titles include Carla Simon’s Catalan family drama Alcarràs, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in February; Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl, which took the grand prize in Berlin’s Generation Kplus strand; and Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Bolivian eco-drama Utama, winner of the grand jury prize at Sundance in January.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The sole documentary in the line-up is Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love,...
Sydney Film Festival (June 8-19) has revealed the 12 titles that will play in competition at its 69th edition.
The titles include Carla Simon’s Catalan family drama Alcarràs, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in February; Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl, which took the grand prize in Berlin’s Generation Kplus strand; and Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Bolivian eco-drama Utama, winner of the grand jury prize at Sundance in January.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The sole documentary in the line-up is Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
The Festival de Cannes has just revealed its Competition, Un Certain Regard and Premiere titles. Congratulations to all Ace producers on their films screening on the Croisette!
‘Close’ by Lukas Dhont
Competition
Close by Lukas Dhont
Co-produced by Laurette Schillings (Ace The Netherlands) and Frans van Gestel (Ace The Netherlands) Topkapi Films. Isa: The Match Factory
Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff (Ace Sweden)
Co-produced by Giorgos Karnavas (Ace Greece) and Per Damgaard Hansen (Ace Denmark). Isa: Coproduction Office
Vicky Krieps as Sisi, Empress of Austria in ‘Corsage’ by Marie Kreutzer
Un Certain Regard
Corsage by Marie Kreutzer
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (Ace Germany), Janine Jackowski (Ace Germany), Bernard Michaux (Ace Luxembourg), Jean-Christophe Reymond (Ace France) Komplizen Film Kazak Productions. Isa: MK2
Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, Komplizen Film of ‘Corsage’
Godland by Hlynur Palmason
Produced by Eva Jakobsen (Ace Denmark) Snowglobe Film. Isa: New Films Europe
Kurak Günler(Burning Days) by Emin Alper
Produced by Nadir Operli (Ace Turkey)
Co-produced by Yorgos’ Tsourgiannis (Ace Greece). Isa: The Match Factory
‘Sick of Myself’ by Kristoffer Borgli
Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli
Produced by Dyveke Graver (Ace Norway). Isa: Memento
Cannes Premiere
Esterno Notte (Nightfall) by Marco Bellocchio
Produced by Simone Gattoni (Ace Italy)...
‘Close’ by Lukas Dhont
Competition
Close by Lukas Dhont
Co-produced by Laurette Schillings (Ace The Netherlands) and Frans van Gestel (Ace The Netherlands) Topkapi Films. Isa: The Match Factory
Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff (Ace Sweden)
Co-produced by Giorgos Karnavas (Ace Greece) and Per Damgaard Hansen (Ace Denmark). Isa: Coproduction Office
Vicky Krieps as Sisi, Empress of Austria in ‘Corsage’ by Marie Kreutzer
Un Certain Regard
Corsage by Marie Kreutzer
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (Ace Germany), Janine Jackowski (Ace Germany), Bernard Michaux (Ace Luxembourg), Jean-Christophe Reymond (Ace France) Komplizen Film Kazak Productions. Isa: MK2
Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, Komplizen Film of ‘Corsage’
Godland by Hlynur Palmason
Produced by Eva Jakobsen (Ace Denmark) Snowglobe Film. Isa: New Films Europe
Kurak Günler(Burning Days) by Emin Alper
Produced by Nadir Operli (Ace Turkey)
Co-produced by Yorgos’ Tsourgiannis (Ace Greece). Isa: The Match Factory
‘Sick of Myself’ by Kristoffer Borgli
Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli
Produced by Dyveke Graver (Ace Norway). Isa: Memento
Cannes Premiere
Esterno Notte (Nightfall) by Marco Bellocchio
Produced by Simone Gattoni (Ace Italy)...
- 5/8/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Updated, April 21: The Cannes Film Festival has added competition titles and additional screenings in the Midnight, Un Certain Regard, and Out of Competition sections. They are:
Competition
“The Eight Mountains,” Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen
“Un Petit Frère,” Leonor Serraille
“Tourment Sur Les Iles,” Albert Serra
Cannes Premiere
“Don Juan,” Serge Bozon
“La Nuit du 12,” Dominik Moll
“Chronicle of a Temporary Affair,” Emmanuel Mouret
Midnight Screenings
“Rebel,” Adil Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Un Certain Regard
“More Than Ever,” Emily Atef
“Mediterranean Fever,” Maha Haj
“The Blue Caftan,” Maryam Touzani
Out of Competition
“L’Innocent,” Louis Garrel
Special Screenings
“Mi Pais Imaginario,” Patricio Guzmán
“The Vagabonds,” Doroteya Droumeva
“Riposte Feministe,” Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
“Restos do Vento,” Tiago Guedes
“Little Nicholas,” Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
Earlier, April 14: The 2022 Cannes Film Festival is upon us and once again taking place in person this spring from May 17 through May 28. The lineup for...
Competition
“The Eight Mountains,” Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen
“Un Petit Frère,” Leonor Serraille
“Tourment Sur Les Iles,” Albert Serra
Cannes Premiere
“Don Juan,” Serge Bozon
“La Nuit du 12,” Dominik Moll
“Chronicle of a Temporary Affair,” Emmanuel Mouret
Midnight Screenings
“Rebel,” Adil Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Un Certain Regard
“More Than Ever,” Emily Atef
“Mediterranean Fever,” Maha Haj
“The Blue Caftan,” Maryam Touzani
Out of Competition
“L’Innocent,” Louis Garrel
Special Screenings
“Mi Pais Imaginario,” Patricio Guzmán
“The Vagabonds,” Doroteya Droumeva
“Riposte Feministe,” Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
“Restos do Vento,” Tiago Guedes
“Little Nicholas,” Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
Earlier, April 14: The 2022 Cannes Film Festival is upon us and once again taking place in person this spring from May 17 through May 28. The lineup for...
- 4/21/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Nora Twomey directs the animation, with Netflix releasing.
Room star Jacob Tremblay and Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo are to voice Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey’s upcoming animated feature My Father’s Dragon.
Further English-language voice cast includes Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith with Whoopi Goldberg and Ian McShane.
It is Twomey’s first outing as director since 2017 animation The Breadwinner, with a screenplay by Inside Out writer Meg LeFauve.
Bonnie Curtis and...
Room star Jacob Tremblay and Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo are to voice Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey’s upcoming animated feature My Father’s Dragon.
Further English-language voice cast includes Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith with Whoopi Goldberg and Ian McShane.
It is Twomey’s first outing as director since 2017 animation The Breadwinner, with a screenplay by Inside Out writer Meg LeFauve.
Bonnie Curtis and...
- 4/20/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Turkish drama set to premiere in Un Certain Regard.
Leading German sales firm The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Burning Days, the upcoming feature from Turkish filmmaker Emin Alper that is set to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
The Match Factory previously handled Alper’s 2019 Berlinale competition title A Tale Of Three Sisters and his 2015 Venice jury prize winner Frenzy. Burning Days marks the first time Alper has been selected for Cannes and will debut in the Un Certain Regard sidebar next month. The filmmaker was invited to Cannes’ Cinefondation L’Atelier co-production forum with the project...
Leading German sales firm The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Burning Days, the upcoming feature from Turkish filmmaker Emin Alper that is set to premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
The Match Factory previously handled Alper’s 2019 Berlinale competition title A Tale Of Three Sisters and his 2015 Venice jury prize winner Frenzy. Burning Days marks the first time Alper has been selected for Cannes and will debut in the Un Certain Regard sidebar next month. The filmmaker was invited to Cannes’ Cinefondation L’Atelier co-production forum with the project...
- 4/20/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Cinephiles were drooling early Thursday morning over what was cooking at Cannes. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux unleashed the competition and out-of-competition slate for 2022, and it is très formidable.
Eighteen movies from across the globe will compete for the Palme D’or. (Don’t be surprised if another title slips in between now and opening night; last-minute additions are common occurrences.) The big guns are as follows:
David Cronenberg will make his return to whacked-out weirdo body horror with “Crimes of the Future.” After last year’s win for “Titane,” don’t count this one out for the top prize. The film stars Cronenberg vet Viggo Mortensen plus Léa Seydoux (a Cannes regular who had to skip last summer’s fest after testing positive for Covid) and Kristen Stewart. Not much is known about the picture, other than it shares a title with a one-hour feature with non-synchronous sound...
Eighteen movies from across the globe will compete for the Palme D’or. (Don’t be surprised if another title slips in between now and opening night; last-minute additions are common occurrences.) The big guns are as follows:
David Cronenberg will make his return to whacked-out weirdo body horror with “Crimes of the Future.” After last year’s win for “Titane,” don’t count this one out for the top prize. The film stars Cronenberg vet Viggo Mortensen plus Léa Seydoux (a Cannes regular who had to skip last summer’s fest after testing positive for Covid) and Kristen Stewart. Not much is known about the picture, other than it shares a title with a one-hour feature with non-synchronous sound...
- 4/14/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Update: The lineup for the 75th Cannes Film Festival — as it stands so far, there are still additions to be made — has been revealed with 18 movies in Competition (see full lists below). Included in the running are such returning Palme d’Or winners as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristian Mungiu, Ruben Ostlund and the Dardenne brothers.
Other familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include James Gray, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, Jerzy Skolimowski, and, as expected, David Cronenberg.
Across the rest of the Official Selection, George Miller’s Three Thousand Years Of Longing was confirmed for an Out of Competition berth while Ethan Coen turns up in Special Screenings with Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind.
In total, 49 movies were announced today, including Michel Hazanavicius’ Z (Comme Z) aka Final Cut, which will open the festival on May 17 out of competition. The Zombie comedy stars Bérénice Bejo and Romain Duris.
Other familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include James Gray, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, Jerzy Skolimowski, and, as expected, David Cronenberg.
Across the rest of the Official Selection, George Miller’s Three Thousand Years Of Longing was confirmed for an Out of Competition berth while Ethan Coen turns up in Special Screenings with Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind.
In total, 49 movies were announced today, including Michel Hazanavicius’ Z (Comme Z) aka Final Cut, which will open the festival on May 17 out of competition. The Zombie comedy stars Bérénice Bejo and Romain Duris.
- 4/14/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
After a skipped year and then a delayed year, the Cannes Film Festival is now back in its usual spring slot, taking place May 17 through 28. After many rumors and reports, festival director Thierry Frémaux has now unveiled the main lineup for this 75th Edition.
Featuring new work from David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, George Miller, James Gray, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristian Mungiu, Arnaud Desplechin, Dardennes, Ruben Östlund, and more, it’s quite a promising slate. There was no mention of David Lynch, but Olivier Assayas will also be showing part of his new TV show adaptation of Irma Vep and Ethan Coen will debut his first documentary (on Jerry Lee Lewis), while studio offerings Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis were re-confirmed.
Explore below.
Opening
Z, Michel Hazanavicius (out of competition)
Competition
The Almond Tree, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Armageddon Time, James Gray
Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh
Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Brother and Sister,...
Featuring new work from David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, George Miller, James Gray, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristian Mungiu, Arnaud Desplechin, Dardennes, Ruben Östlund, and more, it’s quite a promising slate. There was no mention of David Lynch, but Olivier Assayas will also be showing part of his new TV show adaptation of Irma Vep and Ethan Coen will debut his first documentary (on Jerry Lee Lewis), while studio offerings Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis were re-confirmed.
Explore below.
Opening
Z, Michel Hazanavicius (out of competition)
Competition
The Almond Tree, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Armageddon Time, James Gray
Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh
Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Brother and Sister,...
- 4/14/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival announced its 75th anniversary lineup on Thursday morning in Paris, with films selected for the prestigious festival including “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” George Miller’s first film since “Mad Max: Fury Road”; “Showing Up,” which finds indie director Kelly Reichardt reuniting with her “Wendy and Lucy” and “Certain Women” star Michelle Williams; and “Crimes of the Future,” a reportedly disturbing David Cronenberg drama whose cast includes Kristen Stewart, Lea Seydoux and Viggo Mortensen, who starred in three Cronenberg films between 2005 and 2011, including “A History of Violence” and “Eastern Promises.”
Other films include two music documentaries: “Trouble in Mind,” a Jerry Lee Lewis film by Ethan Coen, and “Moonage Daydream,” an authorized David Bowie work by Brett Morgen.
The 18 films in the main competition include several from Cannes regulars, including the Dardenne brothers (“Tori and Lokita”), Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”), James Gray (“Armageddon Time”), Hirokazu...
Other films include two music documentaries: “Trouble in Mind,” a Jerry Lee Lewis film by Ethan Coen, and “Moonage Daydream,” an authorized David Bowie work by Brett Morgen.
The 18 films in the main competition include several from Cannes regulars, including the Dardenne brothers (“Tori and Lokita”), Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”), James Gray (“Armageddon Time”), Hirokazu...
- 4/14/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Turkey’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, which historically has always been the country’s prime local cinema catalyst, stands as testimony that despite impediments due to the pandemic and the country’s economy Turkish filmmakers are in fine fettle.
“At the start of the year people said: ‘You will not be able to assemble 10 [Turkish] films due to the pandemic,’” because “they thought nothing was getting made,” says Antalya fest chief Ahmet Boyacıoğlu.
Instead, programmers for the event’s upcoming 58th edition that will run Oct. 2-9 in the sprawling resort city on Turkey’s Southern coast, received 44 submissions for the national competition that is at its core. And the 10 features they’ve selected rep “the strongest selection at Antalya in maybe the past 10 years,” he says.
Antalya’s artistic director Başak Emre points out that with the Turkish lira hitting all-time lows against Western currencies and waning local government...
“At the start of the year people said: ‘You will not be able to assemble 10 [Turkish] films due to the pandemic,’” because “they thought nothing was getting made,” says Antalya fest chief Ahmet Boyacıoğlu.
Instead, programmers for the event’s upcoming 58th edition that will run Oct. 2-9 in the sprawling resort city on Turkey’s Southern coast, received 44 submissions for the national competition that is at its core. And the 10 features they’ve selected rep “the strongest selection at Antalya in maybe the past 10 years,” he says.
Antalya’s artistic director Başak Emre points out that with the Turkish lira hitting all-time lows against Western currencies and waning local government...
- 10/2/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Production of Turkish TV dramas has resumed at a steady pace undeterred by coronavirus concerns and, though the hand of censorship is being felt, shows are getting edgier.
While the pandemic forced production to grind to a halt in March, by September almost all producers had started shooting again in Turkey, though “roughly 80% of them have run into some problems with Covid-19 on their teams,” says Ahmet Ziyalar, president and COO of sales and production company Inter Medya.
Inter Medya is close to wrapping the shoot of “Respect” (“Saygi”) a series it is making for Turkish streaming platform BluTV in which the protagonist, played by Nejat Işler (“Winter Sleep”), “is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect,” according to the synopsis.
Ziyalar says increasingly Turkish dramas are being made for streamers, which means episodes are getting shorter — 50 minutes, whereas for linear TV the local norm is 90 minutes or more...
While the pandemic forced production to grind to a halt in March, by September almost all producers had started shooting again in Turkey, though “roughly 80% of them have run into some problems with Covid-19 on their teams,” says Ahmet Ziyalar, president and COO of sales and production company Inter Medya.
Inter Medya is close to wrapping the shoot of “Respect” (“Saygi”) a series it is making for Turkish streaming platform BluTV in which the protagonist, played by Nejat Işler (“Winter Sleep”), “is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect,” according to the synopsis.
Ziyalar says increasingly Turkish dramas are being made for streamers, which means episodes are getting shorter — 50 minutes, whereas for linear TV the local norm is 90 minutes or more...
- 10/12/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Turkey’s 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is forging ahead with a hybrid edition this year that will feature a mix of the best new Turkish features and cherry-picked international titles.
The storied event being held Oct. 3-10 in the bustling resort city on Turkey’s Southern coast has been through a spell of politically-prompted turbulence that led to the appointment last year of new fest chief Ahmet Boyacıoğlu and artistic director Başak Emre, who both stated that “Return to Roots” would be their mantra as they took the helm.
That’s because the 2017 and 2018 editions, headed by British-Irish producer Mike Downey, had done away with the national competition, historically the backbone of Turkey’s oldest and most prominent film event.
Therefore lots of locals during those two years “boycotted the festival” since Turkish cinema, which had been folded into the international lineup, “was practically out,” says Boyacıoğlu, who...
The storied event being held Oct. 3-10 in the bustling resort city on Turkey’s Southern coast has been through a spell of politically-prompted turbulence that led to the appointment last year of new fest chief Ahmet Boyacıoğlu and artistic director Başak Emre, who both stated that “Return to Roots” would be their mantra as they took the helm.
That’s because the 2017 and 2018 editions, headed by British-Irish producer Mike Downey, had done away with the national competition, historically the backbone of Turkey’s oldest and most prominent film event.
Therefore lots of locals during those two years “boycotted the festival” since Turkish cinema, which had been folded into the international lineup, “was practically out,” says Boyacıoğlu, who...
- 10/5/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Luxbox gearing up to launch zookeeper drama ‘Anatolian Leopard’ at Cannes virtual market (exclusive)
It is a first feature for the Turkish London Film School graduate.
Luxbox is launching international sales on Turkish director Emre Kayis’s debut feature Anatolian Leopard at the Cannes Marché du Film Online, running June 22-26.
The company is one of the first arthouse sales companies to confirm its intention to use the Marché du Film Online, which has been created to replace the market’s physical edition following its cancellation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We’re learning to work with our buyers differently. It’s been stimulating looking for new ways to present our projects,” said Hedi Zardix,...
Luxbox is launching international sales on Turkish director Emre Kayis’s debut feature Anatolian Leopard at the Cannes Marché du Film Online, running June 22-26.
The company is one of the first arthouse sales companies to confirm its intention to use the Marché du Film Online, which has been created to replace the market’s physical edition following its cancellation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We’re learning to work with our buyers differently. It’s been stimulating looking for new ways to present our projects,” said Hedi Zardix,...
- 5/27/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Teona Strugar Mitevska, Sofia Exarchou, Hanna Sköld, Marian Crisan, Pavle Vučković, Moin Hussain, Emin Alper, and duo Esther Rots and Dan Geesin are representing Europe. Fifteen feature-film projects (and 16 filmmakers) hailing from 15 countries have been selected for the 16th edition of the Cinéfondation Atelier, which will take place as an integral part of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival (12-23 May), preparations for which are still in full swing, although all eyes are obviously on any new developments in the coronavirus epidemic.This year, Europe will be very well represented, with eight projects. The most prominent of them is The Happiest Man in the World by North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska, whose latest opus, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, was unveiled in competition at Berlin in 2019 before scooping the European Parliament’s Lux Prize. As a reminder, the three previous films by the director were presented in the Panorama.
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, Egypt’s Mohamed Siam, North Macedonia’s Teona Strugar Mitevska and UK-Yemini filmmaker Sara Ishaq are among the 16 directors who will present projects at the 16th edition of the Atelier co-production meeting in May.
The initiative, run by Cannes Cinefondation, will take place within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 14-21.
A total of 15 projects from 15 countries will attend this year.
Hussain will present his debut feature project Birchanger Green, about a directionless man in his thirties who...
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Seven critics are participating in this year’s grid.
Screen has launched its jury grid for the Berlinale 2020 Competition films, with Natalia Meta’s The Intruder and Giorgio Diritti’s Hidden Away both marking average scores.
Participating critics on the grid for this year are:
Helena Lindblad, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden Anton Dolin, Meduza, Russia Katja Nicodemus, Die Zeit, Germany Wang Muyan, The Paper, China Rita Di Santo, The Morning Star, UK Paolo Bertolin, Segnocinema, Italy Screen’s own critic
As in previous years, each critic watches each Competition film and awards a star rating on the following scale: four (excellent...
Screen has launched its jury grid for the Berlinale 2020 Competition films, with Natalia Meta’s The Intruder and Giorgio Diritti’s Hidden Away both marking average scores.
Participating critics on the grid for this year are:
Helena Lindblad, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden Anton Dolin, Meduza, Russia Katja Nicodemus, Die Zeit, Germany Wang Muyan, The Paper, China Rita Di Santo, The Morning Star, UK Paolo Bertolin, Segnocinema, Italy Screen’s own critic
As in previous years, each critic watches each Competition film and awards a star rating on the following scale: four (excellent...
- 2/22/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
A combined €314,000 in production and distribution funding has been awarded to 10 international projects.
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to 10 projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues Rojas’ long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira following the award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo De Agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year. Daughter Of Rage won...
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to 10 projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues Rojas’ long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira following the award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo De Agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year. Daughter Of Rage won...
- 11/26/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
A combined €314,000 in production and distribution funding has been awarded to ten projects.
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to ten projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Production funding recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues her long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira, following the director’s award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo de agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year.
A combined €314,000 has been awarded to ten projects in the latest funding round of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf).
Production funding recipients include Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ second feature Cidade; Campo which continues her long-standing collaboration with veteran producer Sara Silveira, following the director’s award-winning short Um Ramo in 2007.
The Wcf also picked Daughter Of Rage, the feature debut by Nicaraguan filmmaker Laura Baumeister, whose short Ombligo de agua had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the beginning of the year.
- 11/26/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Zeynep Atakan responds to claims she stepped down from the Antalya Film Forum for political reasons
Top European producer also defends controversial decision not to have boycotted the festival in 2017 and 2018.
Turkish producer and leading European co-producer Zeynep Atakan has countered suggestions she stepped down as head of Antalya Film Forum, the industry programme of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, for political reasons and defended her decision not to join a boycott of the entire event in 2017 and 2018.
The festival kicked off its 56th edition this week under a new management team, headed by Ahmet Boyacıoğlu and artistic director Başak Emre.
It is being seen as a fresh start for the festival after two years of turbulence,...
Turkish producer and leading European co-producer Zeynep Atakan has countered suggestions she stepped down as head of Antalya Film Forum, the industry programme of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, for political reasons and defended her decision not to join a boycott of the entire event in 2017 and 2018.
The festival kicked off its 56th edition this week under a new management team, headed by Ahmet Boyacıoğlu and artistic director Başak Emre.
It is being seen as a fresh start for the festival after two years of turbulence,...
- 10/31/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Other winners include A Tale of Three Sisters, End of Season, Shooting the Mafia, Lovemobil, Forman vs. Forman and Reza Mirkarimi's Castle of Dreams. The 14th Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival (15-22 September) wrapped last night with a ceremony in the Black Sea city's State Musical Centre. Marko Škop's Karlovy Vary title Let There Be Light picked up the Grand Prix, just two days after winning the same, main award at the Almaty Film Festival. Iran's Reza Mirkarimi received the Best Director gong for Castle of Dreams, as well as the Award of the Georgian Film Critics’ Jury. Emin Alper's A Tale of Three Sisters won both accolades in the acting categories: Best Actress for Ece Yüksel and Best Actor for Kayhan Açikgöz. Finally, the Jury's Special Prize went to Elmar Imanov's Rotterdam title End of Season (Germany/Azerbaijan/Georgia). In the Documentary Competition, Kim Longinotto's...
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