Other winners included P.S. Vinothraj’s ‘Pebbles’ and Martín de los Santos’s ’That Was Life’.
Russian director Philipp Yuryev was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca, clinching the €10,000 Transilvania Trophy for his debut feature The Whaler Boy.
Distributed internationally by Laurent Danielou’s Paris-based Loco Films, the Russian-Polish-Belgian co-production also won the Director’s Award on its premiere at last year’s Venice Days.
It is the second Russian film in TIFF’s 20-year history to be presented with the top award: Ilya Krzhanovsky’s 4 shared the trophy with Juan Pablo Rebella...
Russian director Philipp Yuryev was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania’s Cluj-Napoca, clinching the €10,000 Transilvania Trophy for his debut feature The Whaler Boy.
Distributed internationally by Laurent Danielou’s Paris-based Loco Films, the Russian-Polish-Belgian co-production also won the Director’s Award on its premiere at last year’s Venice Days.
It is the second Russian film in TIFF’s 20-year history to be presented with the top award: Ilya Krzhanovsky’s 4 shared the trophy with Juan Pablo Rebella...
- 8/2/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Atelier will feature 15 titles.
The Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled this year’s Cinefondation’s L’Atelier selection of 15 projects from 16 directors.
The directors and producers, representing 14 countries, are assisted in meeting potential funding partners during the festival.
Conefoundation’s L’Atelier has invited 186 projects since its inception in 2005, of which 145 have been completed and 14 are in pre-production.
The line-up:
Sew the Winter to My Skin Jahmil X.T. Qubeka (South Africa)
Day After Tomorrow Kamar Ahmad Simon (Bangladesh)
Ningdu Lei Lei (China)
Teenage Jesus Marie Grahtø Sørensen (Denmark)
Decompression Yona Rozenkier (Israel)
Go Youth Carlos Armella (Mexico)
Bedridden Byamba Sakhya (Mongolia)
Alam Firas Khoury (Palestine)
Candy Town Yannillys Perez (Dominican Republic)
Otto the Barbarian Ruxandra Ghitescu (Romania)
Summer E5 Emily Young (UK)
City of Small Blessings Chen-His Wong (Singapore)
The Translator Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf (Syria)
Cu Li Never Cries Phan Ngoc Lan (Vietnam)
Taste Le Bao (Vietnam)...
The Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled this year’s Cinefondation’s L’Atelier selection of 15 projects from 16 directors.
The directors and producers, representing 14 countries, are assisted in meeting potential funding partners during the festival.
Conefoundation’s L’Atelier has invited 186 projects since its inception in 2005, of which 145 have been completed and 14 are in pre-production.
The line-up:
Sew the Winter to My Skin Jahmil X.T. Qubeka (South Africa)
Day After Tomorrow Kamar Ahmad Simon (Bangladesh)
Ningdu Lei Lei (China)
Teenage Jesus Marie Grahtø Sørensen (Denmark)
Decompression Yona Rozenkier (Israel)
Go Youth Carlos Armella (Mexico)
Bedridden Byamba Sakhya (Mongolia)
Alam Firas Khoury (Palestine)
Candy Town Yannillys Perez (Dominican Republic)
Otto the Barbarian Ruxandra Ghitescu (Romania)
Summer E5 Emily Young (UK)
City of Small Blessings Chen-His Wong (Singapore)
The Translator Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf (Syria)
Cu Li Never Cries Phan Ngoc Lan (Vietnam)
Taste Le Bao (Vietnam)...
- 3/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Turkey’s Tolga Karacelik, whose Ivy was at Sundance at Toronto last year, among those to bring new features to CineLink.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the first six projects selected for its CineLink Co-Production Market, which is set to run Aug 18-20.
The titles include Butterflies, from Turkish director Tolga Karacelik, whose psychological drama Ivy world premiered at Sundance 2015 and went on to play at Istanbul, Sydney, Karlovy Vary and Toronto among others.
Butterflies is “a black comedy about death and two brothers reuniting”, which won The Binger award at Istanbul’s Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop and was selected for Sundance Lab.
Ela And Hilmi is from another Turkish director, Ziya Demirel, whose 2015 short Tuesday (Sali) was selected by Cannes for its shorts competition and secured a special mention at Sarajevo.
The Heroes Were Dancing is the next project from Serbian filmmaker Nikola Ljuca, whose mystery...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the first six projects selected for its CineLink Co-Production Market, which is set to run Aug 18-20.
The titles include Butterflies, from Turkish director Tolga Karacelik, whose psychological drama Ivy world premiered at Sundance 2015 and went on to play at Istanbul, Sydney, Karlovy Vary and Toronto among others.
Butterflies is “a black comedy about death and two brothers reuniting”, which won The Binger award at Istanbul’s Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop and was selected for Sundance Lab.
Ela And Hilmi is from another Turkish director, Ziya Demirel, whose 2015 short Tuesday (Sali) was selected by Cannes for its shorts competition and secured a special mention at Sarajevo.
The Heroes Were Dancing is the next project from Serbian filmmaker Nikola Ljuca, whose mystery...
- 3/29/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sunday, December 5th concludes the 5th annual Romanian Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. This year hosts The Romanian Cultural Institute and curator Mihai Chirilov added the moniker “A New Beginning,” in appreciation of the recent success of what has been dubbed the “Romanian New Wave.” This year, Cristi Puiu, arguably the one who started it all with his 2006 debut The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, returns with his second feature Aurora. The three-hour long film premiered earlier this year at the New York Film Festival to resoundingly positive reviews. Also returning from Nyff are Radu Montean’s Tuesday, After Christmas (opening May 25 at Film Forum) and Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, which opened the festival. All three were standouts this past May on the Croisette. Bobby Paunescu, producer of “Aurora” and “Lazarescu”, screens his directorial debut Francesca. Rounding out the “Romanian New Wave” roster of attendees is Razvan Radulescu,...
- 12/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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