Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
After Blue (Bertrand Mandico)
In the post-apocalyptic nightmare of After Blue, humanity—or what’s left of it—roams a former paradise turned wasteland. The Armageddon that wrecked the Earth in some undetermined past left no machines behind, no screens, and, perhaps most conspicuously, no men. In the distant planet the human race fled to, and which writer-director Bertrand Mandico’s film is named after, “they were the first to die,” we’re warned early on: “their hairs grew inside them, and killed them.” As it was for its predecessor, The Wild Boys, After Blue is suffused in a feverish ecstasy, that wild excitement that comes from a watching one world crumble and another jutting into being from scratch, a vision of...
After Blue (Bertrand Mandico)
In the post-apocalyptic nightmare of After Blue, humanity—or what’s left of it—roams a former paradise turned wasteland. The Armageddon that wrecked the Earth in some undetermined past left no machines behind, no screens, and, perhaps most conspicuously, no men. In the distant planet the human race fled to, and which writer-director Bertrand Mandico’s film is named after, “they were the first to die,” we’re warned early on: “their hairs grew inside them, and killed them.” As it was for its predecessor, The Wild Boys, After Blue is suffused in a feverish ecstasy, that wild excitement that comes from a watching one world crumble and another jutting into being from scratch, a vision of...
- 3/22/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The strand is free of style or length constraints.
Films from Jean-Luc Godard, Delphine Girard and Bas Devos will screen in San Sebastian International Film Festival’s Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, a strand of the festival free of style or length constraints.
Godard’s posthumous short film Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’, which premiered in Cannes, will open the strand alongside Yui Kiyohara’s debut Remerging Every Night which first screened at Berlinale.
Girard’s debut Through The Night is developed from her Oscar-nominated short A Sister (2020) and will premiere at Venice before heading to San Sebastian.
The...
Films from Jean-Luc Godard, Delphine Girard and Bas Devos will screen in San Sebastian International Film Festival’s Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, a strand of the festival free of style or length constraints.
Godard’s posthumous short film Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’, which premiered in Cannes, will open the strand alongside Yui Kiyohara’s debut Remerging Every Night which first screened at Berlinale.
Girard’s debut Through The Night is developed from her Oscar-nominated short A Sister (2020) and will premiere at Venice before heading to San Sebastian.
The...
- 8/24/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The French festival closed in Marseille on Sunday July 9.
Background, the second feature from Syrian director Khaled Abdulwahed, won the €8,000 grand prix of the international festival at the FidMarseille festival in France on July 9. The fesival showcases discoveries and innovative features and projects to a public and industry audience.
The experimental documentary explores concepts of memory and identity as Abdulwahed pursues the story of his father who studied in Germany in the 1950s along with the director’s own journey to Germany, where he is now based following Syria’s devastating civil war.
Abdulwahed previously co-directed 2020 refugee documentary Purple Sea...
Background, the second feature from Syrian director Khaled Abdulwahed, won the €8,000 grand prix of the international festival at the FidMarseille festival in France on July 9. The fesival showcases discoveries and innovative features and projects to a public and industry audience.
The experimental documentary explores concepts of memory and identity as Abdulwahed pursues the story of his father who studied in Germany in the 1950s along with the director’s own journey to Germany, where he is now based following Syria’s devastating civil war.
Abdulwahed previously co-directed 2020 refugee documentary Purple Sea...
- 7/10/2023
- by Stuart Kemp
- ScreenDaily
Directors’ Fortnight, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, is planning to screen a programme of films from its selection at an event in Tokyo, Japan this December.
The screenings event, Directors’ Fortnight in Tokyo, will be held in partnership with Japan’s Visual Industry Promotion Organization (Vipo).
“The idea is to introduce Japanese audiences to the films of Directors’ Fortnight,” said Julien Rejl, Directors’ Fortnight Delegate General, at a press event in Cannes. “We also hope to encourage Japanese filmmakers to submit their films to Cannes and Directors’ Fortnight and increase their engagement with international festivals and audiences.”
While exact dates and venues are still being worked out, Rejl said that event would take place in December, after Tokyo International Film Festival (October 23 – November 1) and Tokyo Filmex (November 19-26), most likely in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s most popular cinema and entertainment districts.
“We don’t want to...
The screenings event, Directors’ Fortnight in Tokyo, will be held in partnership with Japan’s Visual Industry Promotion Organization (Vipo).
“The idea is to introduce Japanese audiences to the films of Directors’ Fortnight,” said Julien Rejl, Directors’ Fortnight Delegate General, at a press event in Cannes. “We also hope to encourage Japanese filmmakers to submit their films to Cannes and Directors’ Fortnight and increase their engagement with international festivals and audiences.”
While exact dates and venues are still being worked out, Rejl said that event would take place in December, after Tokyo International Film Festival (October 23 – November 1) and Tokyo Filmex (November 19-26), most likely in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s most popular cinema and entertainment districts.
“We don’t want to...
- 5/22/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Slate includes Nicolás Herzog’s Elda and the Monsters and Radu Potcoavă Good Guys Go to Heaven.
Italian sales agent The Open Reel is bringing a slate of new films to Cannes market, including Damien Manivel’s The Island.
The Island centres on a group of friends and the events that take place in the last party of the summer. It is produced by Mld Films and stars Damoh Ikhetah and Olga Milshtein.
Manivel’s most recent film Magdala world premiered in Cannes’ Acid section last year. Isadora’s Children (2019) won him the best director prize at Locarno.
The Open...
Italian sales agent The Open Reel is bringing a slate of new films to Cannes market, including Damien Manivel’s The Island.
The Island centres on a group of friends and the events that take place in the last party of the summer. It is produced by Mld Films and stars Damoh Ikhetah and Olga Milshtein.
Manivel’s most recent film Magdala world premiered in Cannes’ Acid section last year. Isadora’s Children (2019) won him the best director prize at Locarno.
The Open...
- 5/15/2023
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
UFO Distribution has acquired French rights to the animated family tale “Perlimps” by Alê Abreu, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Boy and the World.”
Sold by Best Friend Forever, “Perlimps” is having its market premiere at the Marché du Film in Cannes and is set to world premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival.
The film will be released by Sony Pictures in Latin America with a joint distribution in Brazil together with Vitrine Filmes.
the fantasy adventure film follows the journey of Claé and Bruô, a pair of secret agents from rival kingdoms who must join forces in spite of their differences to search for the Perlimps, mysterious creatures who can ultimately find a way to peace in times of war. The animation for the film was hand-drawn by Abreu and a reduced team who spent four years in a mountain village in Brazil. Abreu collaborated with senior Brazilian animator Sandro Cleuzo.
Sold by Best Friend Forever, “Perlimps” is having its market premiere at the Marché du Film in Cannes and is set to world premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival.
The film will be released by Sony Pictures in Latin America with a joint distribution in Brazil together with Vitrine Filmes.
the fantasy adventure film follows the journey of Claé and Bruô, a pair of secret agents from rival kingdoms who must join forces in spite of their differences to search for the Perlimps, mysterious creatures who can ultimately find a way to peace in times of war. The animation for the film was hand-drawn by Abreu and a reduced team who spent four years in a mountain village in Brazil. Abreu collaborated with senior Brazilian animator Sandro Cleuzo.
- 5/20/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired pair of French movies, “The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” and “Madgala,” which will world premiere in the Cannes sidebar, Acid.
“The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” is the feature debut of Lucas Delangle, who previously worked with Claire Simon on “The Competition,” among other films. Set in a small village in the French Alps, the film follows a young man, Jacky Caillou, who lives with his loving grandmother Gisele, a magnetic healer.
Produced by Charles Philippe and Lucile Ric at Les films du Clan, the film stars newcomer Thomas Parigi and rising French talent Lou Lampros. Arizona Distribution will release the film in France later this year.
“Lucas Delangle is a new French voice to be discovered; he is already very mature and plays with cinema narration and genre,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever co-founders. “His first film...
“The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” is the feature debut of Lucas Delangle, who previously worked with Claire Simon on “The Competition,” among other films. Set in a small village in the French Alps, the film follows a young man, Jacky Caillou, who lives with his loving grandmother Gisele, a magnetic healer.
Produced by Charles Philippe and Lucile Ric at Les films du Clan, the film stars newcomer Thomas Parigi and rising French talent Lou Lampros. Arizona Distribution will release the film in France later this year.
“Lucas Delangle is a new French voice to be discovered; he is already very mature and plays with cinema narration and genre,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever co-founders. “His first film...
- 4/26/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Two more sidebars at this year’s Cannes Film Festival have unveiled their lineup. First up, Critics Week (aka La Semaine de la Critique), which brings together first and second features, has announced its 2022 slate, which includes a special screening of Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World, which we reviewed at Sundance. While the festival is primarily geared towards discoveries, it also includes a new short by Yann Gonzalez.
Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) also unveiled its nine features, which notably includes a new film by Damien Manivel, who recently directed the acclaimed Isadora’s Children. Check out both lineups below.
Critics Week (hat tip to Screen Daily)
Special Screenings
When You Finish Saving The World (US) (Opening film)
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
Sons Of Ramses (Fr)
Dir. Clément Cogitore
Everybody Loves Jeanne (Fr)
Dir. Céline Devaux
Next Sohee (S Kor) (Closing film)
Dir. July Jung...
Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) also unveiled its nine features, which notably includes a new film by Damien Manivel, who recently directed the acclaimed Isadora’s Children. Check out both lineups below.
Critics Week (hat tip to Screen Daily)
Special Screenings
When You Finish Saving The World (US) (Opening film)
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
Sons Of Ramses (Fr)
Dir. Clément Cogitore
Everybody Loves Jeanne (Fr)
Dir. Céline Devaux
Next Sohee (S Kor) (Closing film)
Dir. July Jung...
- 4/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Parallel section focuses on independent features yet to secure French distribution and first films.
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the nine features it will showcase in its parallel Cannes section, running May 18 to 26.
Seven titles will world premiere including French director Damien Manivel’s fourth feature Magdala. Inspired by the final days of the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene, it stars his long-time muse Jamaica-born, France-based choreographer Elsa Wolliaston.
Manivel’s last film, Takara, The Night I Swam, co-directed with Kohei Igarashi, premiered in Venice Horizons in 2017.
Further French selections include Martin Jauvat’s Grand Paris,...
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the nine features it will showcase in its parallel Cannes section, running May 18 to 26.
Seven titles will world premiere including French director Damien Manivel’s fourth feature Magdala. Inspired by the final days of the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene, it stars his long-time muse Jamaica-born, France-based choreographer Elsa Wolliaston.
Manivel’s last film, Takara, The Night I Swam, co-directed with Kohei Igarashi, premiered in Venice Horizons in 2017.
Further French selections include Martin Jauvat’s Grand Paris,...
- 4/19/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Beijing-based distributor Hugoeast Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Cannes Directors’ Fortnight film “The Tale of King Crab,” the first feature venture into narrative fiction of Italian filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.
Hugoeast Media plans a limited theatrical release in Chinese theaters in the course of 2022.
The deal with Hugoeast Media was closed by the international sales arm of France’s Shellac. It adds to a North American pick-up by Oscilloscope Laboratories, negotiated by Shellac’s Thomas Ordonneau and Egle Cepaite and announced a week after “Crab King” world premiered at the Cannes Festival.
An out-there tale of tragedy and redemption, “The Tale of King Crab” is based on vague local legend picked up by the filmmakers of a man, Luciano, living in a benighted Italian village in the late 1800s or early twentieth century decried as a “madman, an aristocrat, a saint and a drunkard.
Hugoeast Media plans a limited theatrical release in Chinese theaters in the course of 2022.
The deal with Hugoeast Media was closed by the international sales arm of France’s Shellac. It adds to a North American pick-up by Oscilloscope Laboratories, negotiated by Shellac’s Thomas Ordonneau and Egle Cepaite and announced a week after “Crab King” world premiered at the Cannes Festival.
An out-there tale of tragedy and redemption, “The Tale of King Crab” is based on vague local legend picked up by the filmmakers of a man, Luciano, living in a benighted Italian village in the late 1800s or early twentieth century decried as a “madman, an aristocrat, a saint and a drunkard.
- 9/21/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Mexican virtual lab offers Usd 30,000 in cash prizes.
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
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Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France) follows a man and...
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
Scroll to bottom to see all lab participants
Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France) follows a man and...
- 3/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Mexican virtual lab offers Usd 30,000 in cash prizes.
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe, US auteur Rick Alverson and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
Scroll to bottom to see all lab participants
Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France...
Spanish multiple Cannes award winner Olivier Laxe, US auteur Rick Alverson and Argentina’s Lisandro Alonso are among participants in the expanded third Mexican project lab Catapulta set to run as an entirely virtual event from March 24-27.
Scroll to bottom to see all lab participants
Laxe, whose Fire Will Come won the Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2019 and followed a 2016 Critics’ Week grand prize for Mimosas and the 2010 Fipresci award for Directors’ Fortnight selection You Are All Captains, takes part in the new development programme.
His project After (France...
- 3/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
BIFA Craft Winners
The first batch of winners have been announced from this year’s British Independent Film Awards, with nine of the craft categories unveiled. Remi Weekes’ His House, which is nominated for 16 BIFAs in total, won two prizes: Best Effects and Best Production Design. Philippa Lowthorpe’s Misbehaviour also took two: Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Lucy Pardee was awarded Best Casting for Rocks. Saint Maud, which leads the overall noms field with 17, won Best Cinematography. The Father took Best Editing. Mogul Mowgli won Best Music. Best Sound went to The Reason I Jump. The full list of BIFA winners will be announced next month on a yet to be confirmed date.
Fremantle Settles Ukrainian ‘Masked Singer’ Dispute
Fremantle has settled a format dispute over the Ukrainian version of The Masked Singer. Fremantle and TV channel Ukraine threatened to sue 1+1 Media, arguing that its show Maskarad — an...
The first batch of winners have been announced from this year’s British Independent Film Awards, with nine of the craft categories unveiled. Remi Weekes’ His House, which is nominated for 16 BIFAs in total, won two prizes: Best Effects and Best Production Design. Philippa Lowthorpe’s Misbehaviour also took two: Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Lucy Pardee was awarded Best Casting for Rocks. Saint Maud, which leads the overall noms field with 17, won Best Cinematography. The Father took Best Editing. Mogul Mowgli won Best Music. Best Sound went to The Reason I Jump. The full list of BIFA winners will be announced next month on a yet to be confirmed date.
Fremantle Settles Ukrainian ‘Masked Singer’ Dispute
Fremantle has settled a format dispute over the Ukrainian version of The Masked Singer. Fremantle and TV channel Ukraine threatened to sue 1+1 Media, arguing that its show Maskarad — an...
- 1/25/2021
- by Tom Grater and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s first feature scoops the TitraFilm Award, Damien Manivel takes home the Eurimages Lab Project Prize and Valentyn Vasyanovych walks away with the Alphapanda Award. Unfolding within the Industry Village of the 12th Les Arcs International Film Festival, the jury for the Work in Progress competition, which was composed of 17 feature films, delivered its verdict in the form of three awards. The main jury awarded the TitraFilm Award to Clara Sola, Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s first feature film described as "an enchanting debut which explores sexuality and spirituality with poetry and grace, crossing the boundaries between realism and magic". Written by the Swedish and Costa Rican director in league with Maria-Camila Arias, the story revolves around Clara, a 40-year-old withdrawn woman who enjoys an intuitive relationship with...
Les Arcs Works in Progress and Co-production Village events took place online from January 20 to 22,
French director Damien Manivel’s upcoming feature Magdala, inspired by the final days of Mary Magdalene, has scooped the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award at the Work in Progress event of Les Arcs Film Festival.
The post-production showcase is a key prong of Les Arcs’ professional Industry Village and usually takes place within the framework of the festival’s physical event in the French Alps in December.
It moved online this year due to the pandemic, presenting 17 upcoming films in post-production to some 550 registered film professionals,...
French director Damien Manivel’s upcoming feature Magdala, inspired by the final days of Mary Magdalene, has scooped the €50,000 Eurimages Lab Project Award at the Work in Progress event of Les Arcs Film Festival.
The post-production showcase is a key prong of Les Arcs’ professional Industry Village and usually takes place within the framework of the festival’s physical event in the French Alps in December.
It moved online this year due to the pandemic, presenting 17 upcoming films in post-production to some 550 registered film professionals,...
- 1/22/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Les Arcs Film Festival’s Industry Village, one of the many events that switched to virtual due to the pandemic, has unveiled its award-winning projects, which include Delphine Girard’s “Most Alive,” Damien Manivel’s “Magdala” and Sabine Ehrl’s “Paradise Bleeding.”
The event has a stellar track record when it comes to unveiling projects that go on to premiere at prestigious festivals and win awards. Recent alumni include Alex Camilleri’s Malta-set movie “Luzzu,” which will compete at this year’s Sundance, as well as Charlene Favier’s “Slalom,” which was part of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection, and just won the Lumieres Award in France for best female newcomer award (for Noée Abita).
“Paradise Bleeding” was one of the eight projects pitched as part of the Talent Village, a development workshop and platform for emerging talent launched by Les Arcs in 2018. The project won the T Port-Award from a jury comprising producer Florence Gastaud,...
The event has a stellar track record when it comes to unveiling projects that go on to premiere at prestigious festivals and win awards. Recent alumni include Alex Camilleri’s Malta-set movie “Luzzu,” which will compete at this year’s Sundance, as well as Charlene Favier’s “Slalom,” which was part of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection, and just won the Lumieres Award in France for best female newcomer award (for Noée Abita).
“Paradise Bleeding” was one of the eight projects pitched as part of the Talent Village, a development workshop and platform for emerging talent launched by Les Arcs in 2018. The project won the T Port-Award from a jury comprising producer Florence Gastaud,...
- 1/22/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The selection includes upcoming films by Nathalie Alvarez Mesén, Damien Manival, Valentyn Vasyanovych and Olmo Omerzu.
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has its unveiled Work in Progress line-up and announced its entire industry programme is moving online. It will take place from January 20 to 22, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Work in Progress will present 17 upcoming films in post-production to producers, sales agents and festival programmers.
They include Magdala by French director Damien Manival, who won best director at Locarno in 2019 for his drama Isadora’s Children; Reflection by Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych, whose...
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has its unveiled Work in Progress line-up and announced its entire industry programme is moving online. It will take place from January 20 to 22, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Work in Progress will present 17 upcoming films in post-production to producers, sales agents and festival programmers.
They include Magdala by French director Damien Manival, who won best director at Locarno in 2019 for his drama Isadora’s Children; Reflection by Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych, whose...
- 1/7/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The selection includes upcoming films by Nathalie Alvarez Mesén, Damien Manival, Valentyn Vasyanovych and Olmo Omerzu.
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has its unveiled Work in Progress line-up and announced that its entire industry programme is moving online from January 20 to 22, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Work in Progress will present 17 upcoming films in post-production to producers, sales agents and festival programmers.
They include Magdala by French director Damien Manival, who won best director at Locarno in 2019 for his drama Isadora’s Children; Reflection by Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych, whose dystopian drama Atlantis...
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has its unveiled Work in Progress line-up and announced that its entire industry programme is moving online from January 20 to 22, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Work in Progress will present 17 upcoming films in post-production to producers, sales agents and festival programmers.
They include Magdala by French director Damien Manival, who won best director at Locarno in 2019 for his drama Isadora’s Children; Reflection by Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych, whose dystopian drama Atlantis...
- 1/7/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2020. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions—a selection of those personal lists will be shared in the coming days—and after tallying votes, a top 50 has been assembled.
It should be noted that, unlike our other year-end features, we placed no requirement on a selection being a U.S theatrical release, so you may see some repeats from last year and a few we’ll certainly discuss more over the next twelve months. So: without further ado, check out our rundown of 2020 below, our ongoing year-end coverage here (including where to stream many of the below picks), and return in the coming weeks as we look towards 2021.
50. The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
The most purely, incandescently beautiful movie of the year is a...
It should be noted that, unlike our other year-end features, we placed no requirement on a selection being a U.S theatrical release, so you may see some repeats from last year and a few we’ll certainly discuss more over the next twelve months. So: without further ado, check out our rundown of 2020 below, our ongoing year-end coverage here (including where to stream many of the below picks), and return in the coming weeks as we look towards 2021.
50. The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
The most purely, incandescently beautiful movie of the year is a...
- 12/24/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Each month, we're commissioning a different artist to create a movie poster for a film exclusively playing on the platform. This September, Rachel Levit Ruiz has made a poster for Damien Manivel's Isadora's Children, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi on September 2, 2020 in Mubi's The New Auteurs series.***Rachel has also shared with us some behind the scenes sketches of her design process for the poster.
- 8/31/2020
- MUBI
Exclusive: UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center have set the lineup for the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (March 5–15), the annual New York mini-festival dedicated to French filmmaking. The event will open with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s drama The Truth, starring Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and Ethan Hawke.
For the first time, the festival is introducing an Audience Award. Additionally, the festival is expanding its industry-facing events with a day-long networking event to bring together French sales agents, French producers, and American industry on Friday, March 6.
Highlights of the 22-film lineup include Christophe Honoré’s On a Magical Night, for which Chiara Mastroianni won an award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section; Quentin Dupieux’s satire Deerskin, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel; Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc, which received a Cannes Special Jury Mention; Mounia Meddour’s Papicha, the story of young women’s resistance...
For the first time, the festival is introducing an Audience Award. Additionally, the festival is expanding its industry-facing events with a day-long networking event to bring together French sales agents, French producers, and American industry on Friday, March 6.
Highlights of the 22-film lineup include Christophe Honoré’s On a Magical Night, for which Chiara Mastroianni won an award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section; Quentin Dupieux’s satire Deerskin, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel; Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc, which received a Cannes Special Jury Mention; Mounia Meddour’s Papicha, the story of young women’s resistance...
- 1/23/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Damien Manivel's fourth feature film, Isadora's Children, is as lucid and delicate as the three that came before it, but with its premiere in the competition of the Locarno Film Festival, and the French filmmaker's subsequent win of the Best Director award, it should prove to be the film that will bring him greater international exposure. Isadora's Children simply but beautifully explores two simultaneous ideas: that of the transmission of art from person to person, in this case from a dancer to a choreographer and performer to an audience member; and that of the art itself, a semi-autobiographical piece composed by preeminent American dancer Isadora Duncan about a mother's mourning her dead child. In the first part, effectively a solo, Agathe Bonitzer plays a lithe young dancer reading about Duncan's life, her personal tragedy, and her unique notation system for choreography. She slowly learns this dance, that of an older woman,...
- 11/3/2019
- MUBI
‘The Endless Trench’ picked up four prizes.
Brazilian production Pacified (Pacificado) by Us director Paxton Winters won the top award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, at the ceremony held on Saturday, September 28.
With Darren Aronofsky as a producer, the film is set in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
The jury, led by Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan, also awarded Pacified the Silver Shell for best actor to Bukassa Kabengele and the Jury prize for best cinematography to Laura Merians.
Paxton Winters, a reporter and filmmaker, got to know life in the favelas he portrays living there before he tackled Pacified.
Brazilian production Pacified (Pacificado) by Us director Paxton Winters won the top award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, at the ceremony held on Saturday, September 28.
With Darren Aronofsky as a producer, the film is set in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
The jury, led by Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan, also awarded Pacified the Silver Shell for best actor to Bukassa Kabengele and the Jury prize for best cinematography to Laura Merians.
Paxton Winters, a reporter and filmmaker, got to know life in the favelas he portrays living there before he tackled Pacified.
- 9/30/2019
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
The Basque festival’s most daring sidebar will offer viewers works by Bertrand Bonello, Damien Manivel and Anne Sofie Hartmann, among other fascinating and gutsy filmmakers. A total of 14 titles will be competing for the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award at the fast-approaching 67th edition of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, which will unspool from 20-28 September 2019. Standing out among the carefully curated selection, which favours risk-taking, courageousness and cutting-edge filmmaking, are three European directors: the ever-controversial – but just as revered – French helmer Bertrand Bonello will bring along Zombi Child, a film that previously took part in the Directors’ Fortnight at the most recent Cannes Film Festival; Damien Manivel will enable audiences in the Basque city to enjoy Isadora’s Children (France/South Korea), which was presented at Locarno recently; and Anne Sofie Hartmann cannot fail to move audiences with Giraffe, a co-production between Germany and Denmark. Hailing from France, a...
The Golden Leopard goes to Portugal for Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vitalina Varela which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s international competition.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The international jury headed by French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat also presented the Leopard for best actress to the 55-year-old Cape Verde islander Vitalina Varela for her performance in the film named after herself.
This is the second time Costa had taken home one of the main awards...
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vitalina Varela which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s international competition.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The international jury headed by French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat also presented the Leopard for best actress to the 55-year-old Cape Verde islander Vitalina Varela for her performance in the film named after herself.
This is the second time Costa had taken home one of the main awards...
- 8/17/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The 72nd Locarno Film Festival drew to a close Saturday with Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa’s dark and detached film “Vitalina Varela” coming away with several awards together with superlatives from segments of the hardcore cinephile crowd, including jury president Catherine Breillat.
In announcing the Golden Leopard prize for the film, as well as best actress to its eponymous star, Breillat was emphatic in saying that Costa’s achievement goes beyond mere awards, insisting on its place in the cinema pantheon.
Costa was the most prominent name in the International Competition selection this year, which marked Lili Hinstin’s first edition as festival director. Other awards in the main section went to Park Jung-bum’s “Height of the Wave” (Special Jury Prize) and Damien Manivel as best director for “Isadora’s Children,” with the top actor going to Regis Myrupu in Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever.” All the prizes reflected...
In announcing the Golden Leopard prize for the film, as well as best actress to its eponymous star, Breillat was emphatic in saying that Costa’s achievement goes beyond mere awards, insisting on its place in the cinema pantheon.
Costa was the most prominent name in the International Competition selection this year, which marked Lili Hinstin’s first edition as festival director. Other awards in the main section went to Park Jung-bum’s “Height of the Wave” (Special Jury Prize) and Damien Manivel as best director for “Isadora’s Children,” with the top actor going to Regis Myrupu in Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever.” All the prizes reflected...
- 8/17/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
The 72nd Locarno Film Festival, a longtime beacon of the international indie filmmaking community, is being shaken up under new artistic director Lili Hinstin. She is the Swiss event’s second female chief since it was founded in 1946 and one of the few women to head an A-list fest.
Hinstin takes the reins from Italy’s Carlo Chatrian who went on to become Berlinale co-director after six years at Locarno’s helm, his last edition characterized by movies with women at their center. The Swiss fest will run Aug. 7-17.
In announcing her selection, Hinstin, who previously headed France’s Entrevues Belfort Intl. Film Festival, says she’s aiming to “surprise, perturb and raise questions” and points out that “the choices you make for your first festival all tend to become a kind of manifesto.”
The Locarno opener is clearly significant: “If Only,” a partly autobiographical sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents,...
Hinstin takes the reins from Italy’s Carlo Chatrian who went on to become Berlinale co-director after six years at Locarno’s helm, his last edition characterized by movies with women at their center. The Swiss fest will run Aug. 7-17.
In announcing her selection, Hinstin, who previously headed France’s Entrevues Belfort Intl. Film Festival, says she’s aiming to “surprise, perturb and raise questions” and points out that “the choices you make for your first festival all tend to become a kind of manifesto.”
The Locarno opener is clearly significant: “If Only,” a partly autobiographical sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents,...
- 8/6/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Manivel’s fourth feature is a dance-themed drama.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Isadora’s Children, Damien Manivel’s dance-themed drama which premieres in the international competition at Locarno Film Festival (August 7 - 17).
In the film, following the death of her two children in April 1913, legendary dancer Isadora Duncan creates a solo dance called ‘Mother’, in which a mother cradles her child one last time before letting him go. A century later, four women encounter the heartrending dance.
Isadora’s Children is produced by Manivel and Martin Bertier for Mld Films. It stars Agathe Bonitzer, Manon Carpentier,...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Isadora’s Children, Damien Manivel’s dance-themed drama which premieres in the international competition at Locarno Film Festival (August 7 - 17).
In the film, following the death of her two children in April 1913, legendary dancer Isadora Duncan creates a solo dance called ‘Mother’, in which a mother cradles her child one last time before letting him go. A century later, four women encounter the heartrending dance.
Isadora’s Children is produced by Manivel and Martin Bertier for Mld Films. It stars Agathe Bonitzer, Manon Carpentier,...
- 8/2/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Celebrating its 72nd edition this year, the Locarno Film Festival has been the birthplace for the finest in international arthouse cinema and this year’s lineup looks to continue the tradition. Ahead of the festival, running August 7-17, the full slate has been announced.
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This year’s Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7 -17) lineup includes Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plane thriller 7500, which gets its world premiere at the Swiss showcase. Scroll down for major category lineups.
The 72nd edition of the festival marks the first for incoming artistic director Lili Hinstein who has taken over from Carlo Chatrian. As ever, there is a strong contingent of European and Asian arthouse movies and the Piazza Grande section includes a handful of titles with more mainstream appeal, such as Tarantino’s Cannes pic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which rolls out globally in August.
Alongside Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the open air Piazza Grande screenings will include the world premieres of German-produced hijack thriller-drama 7500, Carice Van Houten starrer Instinct, UK comedy actor Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer, French director Stéphane Demoustier...
The 72nd edition of the festival marks the first for incoming artistic director Lili Hinstein who has taken over from Carlo Chatrian. As ever, there is a strong contingent of European and Asian arthouse movies and the Piazza Grande section includes a handful of titles with more mainstream appeal, such as Tarantino’s Cannes pic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which rolls out globally in August.
Alongside Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the open air Piazza Grande screenings will include the world premieres of German-produced hijack thriller-drama 7500, Carice Van Houten starrer Instinct, UK comedy actor Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer, French director Stéphane Demoustier...
- 7/17/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian director Ginevra Elkann’s directorial debut, “If Only,” about kids with divorced parents, will open the 72nd Locarno Film Festival, its first edition under new artistic director Lili Hinstin, who has assembled an edgy mix of promising titles from young auteurs and more established names.
“If Only” and the fest closer, iconic Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Uzbekistan-set “To the Ends of the Earth” will both premiere in Locarno’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande.
Also set for a launch from the Piazza Grande is Amazon’s terrorist drama “7500,” directed by Patrick Vollrath, with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in tow; Valerie Donzelli’s comedy “Notre Dame”; and fellow French director Stephane Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet,” in which a teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which premiered in Cannes, will also screen on the Piazza (without talent in...
“If Only” and the fest closer, iconic Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Uzbekistan-set “To the Ends of the Earth” will both premiere in Locarno’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande.
Also set for a launch from the Piazza Grande is Amazon’s terrorist drama “7500,” directed by Patrick Vollrath, with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in tow; Valerie Donzelli’s comedy “Notre Dame”; and fellow French director Stephane Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet,” in which a teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which premiered in Cannes, will also screen on the Piazza (without talent in...
- 7/17/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Jeonju International Film Festival (May 2-11) is set to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year.
This year’s Jeonju International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, will open with Claudio Giovannesi’s Italian film Piranhas in its Asian premiere.
The winner of this year’s Berlinale Silver Bear for best screenplay is about a group of wild teens working in the criminal underworld of Naples.
With a slogan of “Cinema, Liberated and Expressed”, the 20th Jiff will screen a total of 262 films with 68 world premieres, five international premieres and 69 Asian. The festival’s awards ceremony will be held...
This year’s Jeonju International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, will open with Claudio Giovannesi’s Italian film Piranhas in its Asian premiere.
The winner of this year’s Berlinale Silver Bear for best screenplay is about a group of wild teens working in the criminal underworld of Naples.
With a slogan of “Cinema, Liberated and Expressed”, the 20th Jiff will screen a total of 262 films with 68 world premieres, five international premieres and 69 Asian. The festival’s awards ceremony will be held...
- 4/3/2019
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
– Attending around 150 Film Industry professionals from 55 firms welcomed helpful events
– Breathing of Fire, The(director Ko Hee-young) and Diary of a Dancer (director Damien Manivel) have been selected for ‘Jeonju Cinema Project 2019′
The 10th Jpm(Jeonju Project Market) that took place for 3 days from May 6-8 ended in big success. Many industry insiders from investment, production, and the distribution sector participated in the ‘Jeonju Cinema Fund Promotion, ‘Jeonju Cinema Project (Jcp): Next Edition,’ and a seminar called ‘After Cinema: Next Steps After Filmmaking.’
‘Jeonju Cinema Fund Promotion,’ which introduced selected projects competing for development funding, took place last Sunday May 6. Six projects were invited to pitch at the event including Parkkang Areum’s “One Way Restaurant.” Attendees learned in-depth about each project through Q &A with jury members. Following the ‘Networking Hour’ event and business meetings, industry insiders discussed important aspects of the film industry, including Investment, production and distribution.
– Breathing of Fire, The(director Ko Hee-young) and Diary of a Dancer (director Damien Manivel) have been selected for ‘Jeonju Cinema Project 2019′
The 10th Jpm(Jeonju Project Market) that took place for 3 days from May 6-8 ended in big success. Many industry insiders from investment, production, and the distribution sector participated in the ‘Jeonju Cinema Fund Promotion, ‘Jeonju Cinema Project (Jcp): Next Edition,’ and a seminar called ‘After Cinema: Next Steps After Filmmaking.’
‘Jeonju Cinema Fund Promotion,’ which introduced selected projects competing for development funding, took place last Sunday May 6. Six projects were invited to pitch at the event including Parkkang Areum’s “One Way Restaurant.” Attendees learned in-depth about each project through Q &A with jury members. Following the ‘Networking Hour’ event and business meetings, industry insiders discussed important aspects of the film industry, including Investment, production and distribution.
- 5/15/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s “The Heiresses” won the grand prize and $18,600 (Krw 20 million) in the international competition section at Jeonju, South Korea’s second largest film festival.
American director, Shevaun Mizrahi’s “Distant Constellation” won the best picture prize with $10,000. A special jury prize, worth $6,500 (Krw 7 million), went to Denmark-Korea co-produced “The Return,” by Malene Choi Jensen. The jury was headed by Doclisboa’s Davide Oberto.
In the Korean competition section, Jung Hyung-suk’s “The Land of Seonghye” took the grand prize. Cj-cgv Arthouse’s distribution support prize and production support prize went to Cho Sung-bin’s projects “Dreamer” and Choi Chang-hwan’s “Back from the Beat,” respectively. The distribution support prize guarantees two-weeks of theatrical screenings.
The Jeonju Project Market also announced its winners on May 8. Ko Hee-young’s “Breathing of Fire” and Damien Manivel’s “Diary of a Dancer” were selected for Jeonju Cinema Project 2019. “Diary” was...
American director, Shevaun Mizrahi’s “Distant Constellation” won the best picture prize with $10,000. A special jury prize, worth $6,500 (Krw 7 million), went to Denmark-Korea co-produced “The Return,” by Malene Choi Jensen. The jury was headed by Doclisboa’s Davide Oberto.
In the Korean competition section, Jung Hyung-suk’s “The Land of Seonghye” took the grand prize. Cj-cgv Arthouse’s distribution support prize and production support prize went to Cho Sung-bin’s projects “Dreamer” and Choi Chang-hwan’s “Back from the Beat,” respectively. The distribution support prize guarantees two-weeks of theatrical screenings.
The Jeonju Project Market also announced its winners on May 8. Ko Hee-young’s “Breathing of Fire” and Damien Manivel’s “Diary of a Dancer” were selected for Jeonju Cinema Project 2019. “Diary” was...
- 5/10/2018
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Ko Hee-young’s The Breathing Of Fire and Damien Manivel’s Diary Of A Dancer took top awards in Jeonju Project Market.
Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses won the International Competition’s Grand Prize at this year’s Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff), while Jung Hyungsuk’s The Land Of Seonghye won the Korean Competition’s Grand Prize.
The festival opened May 3 with Chong Wishing’s Japanese film Yakiniku Dragonand by its fifth day, Jiff reported the festival had hit a record for most sold-out screenings: 192 out of a total 280 screenings, 52 more than last year.
The...
Paraguayan director Marcelo Martinessi’s feature debut The Heiresses won the International Competition’s Grand Prize at this year’s Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff), while Jung Hyungsuk’s The Land Of Seonghye won the Korean Competition’s Grand Prize.
The festival opened May 3 with Chong Wishing’s Japanese film Yakiniku Dragonand by its fifth day, Jiff reported the festival had hit a record for most sold-out screenings: 192 out of a total 280 screenings, 52 more than last year.
The...
- 5/10/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi's The Night I Swam (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from March 23 - April 22, 2018 as a Special Discovery. Translation for the film's shooting diary has been made by Maureen Gueunet.1. Takara Facing The TVAs we shot the film in chronological order, this was one of the first sequence we did with Takara. It’s the middle of the night and he watches TV in silence, engrossed in a cartoon. His face is very much one of a child, and yet we can feel the strains of insomnia, his solitude while everyone is sleeping. What surprised us was his ability to forget the camera’s presence. In this instance, all of the film’s crew is around him but Takara is elsewhere. We understood then that to obtain genuine feelings from him, he should play states of mind he...
- 4/16/2018
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Damien Manivel's The Night I Swam (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from March 23 - April 22, 2018 as a Special Discovery.Stirred from slumber by his father’s pre-dawn departure for work, the six-year-old protagonist of Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi’s The Night I Swam makes a game effort to go back to bed, but it’s to no avail: His mind is too awake. And while it may not seem obvious at first, this otherwise ordinary little boy (Takara Kogawa) is everything you could hope for in a movie hero. To the wordless daylong odyssey that awaits him, his response is perfect receptiveness.In rich silence, the boy helps himself to a snack and dabbles in presumably regular aesthetic pursuits—drawing, photography—before trying to budge his sleeping mom. Then, after...
- 3/20/2018
- MUBI
The Night I SwamThe Vienna International Film Festival—or the Viennale, for short—has for many years been a kind of respite, perhaps even a bit of a beautiful secret outside of European cinephilia, for those looking to be invigorated by the ever-renewing promise of cinema. First under the direction of Alexander Horwath, who left the festival in 1997 and in 2002 took the lead of the illustrious Austrian Film Museum, and for the last 21 years under the guidance of Hans Hurch, the Viennale has cultivated that rare thing: A cultural institution that has a distinct and idiosyncratic sensibility of taste. It is a yearly event in which you can find the rare gems of the mainstream vividly mixed with expansive retrospectives, the latest films from major auteurs and exciting debutantes alike, with no fear of short or medium length works, a strong love for the avant-garde and an even more fierce...
- 11/8/2017
- MUBI
Prototype (Blake Williams)The 36th Vancouver Film Festival recently wrapped, and with it, the second year of the Future//Present program, a selection of eight features (and a number of shorts) dedicated to emerging Canadian filmmakers. If the inaugural edition had the task of distinguishing itself from the rest of the festival's True North “stream,” this year's offered the opportunity to cement its relevancy and expand its vision. That's something for which the admirably varied program proved more or less able, albeit with higher highs and lower lows than in 2016, which speaks, at least, to chances being taken (something that can't necessarily be said of the festival's programming in general). Taken on the whole, there are—beyond the uniting sensibility of critic and programmer Adam Cook—filmmaking trends that one could identify, and patterns that one could connect, for better and for worse, to the larger contemporary arthouse scene. But the most successful selections,...
- 10/20/2017
- MUBI
The 2017 Venice Film Festival kicked off on August 30, and for anyone who can’t make it all the way to Italy this year, IndieWire has a solution for you. Between now and Thursday, September 7 at noon Et, IndieWire readers can register using this form to win one of 5 online festival passes, which will give you the opportunity to stream five Venice titles for free online. All of the streaming titles will be from this year’s Orizzonti competition (Horizons), Biennale College and a few other sections. The movies include the following titles:
Endangered Species, by Gilles Bourdos – Online on August 31
Under The Tree, by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson – Online on August 31
Strange Colours, by Alena Lodkina – Online on August 31
West Of Sunshine, by Jason Raftopoulos – Online on September 1
Martyr, by Mazen Khaled – Online on September 1
Nato A Casal Di Principe, by Bruno Oliviero – Online on September 1
Beautiful Things, by Giorgio Ferrero – Online on September 2
No Date,...
Endangered Species, by Gilles Bourdos – Online on August 31
Under The Tree, by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson – Online on August 31
Strange Colours, by Alena Lodkina – Online on August 31
West Of Sunshine, by Jason Raftopoulos – Online on September 1
Martyr, by Mazen Khaled – Online on September 1
Nato A Casal Di Principe, by Bruno Oliviero – Online on September 1
Beautiful Things, by Giorgio Ferrero – Online on September 2
No Date,...
- 8/31/2017
- by Jamie Righetti
- Indiewire
Frederick Wiseman's film will feature in the competition side-bar
The latest works from Manuel Abramovich, Filipa César, Raymond Depardon, Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, Ilian Metev, Hong Sang-soo and Frederick Wiseman join the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which will open with Ruben Östlund's The Square.
The section will also feature documentaries Ex Libris: New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman and 12 Days (12 Jours) - about mental health assessments in France - by Raymond Depardon.
Hong Sang-soo who won San Sebastian's Silver Shell for Best Director last year for Yourself And Yours (Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot) - returns with The Day After (Geu-hu) about a woman whose predecessor had been having an affair with her boss.
Argentine rising star Manuel Abramovich brings his second film Solar which looks at the function of the Argentine Army more than three decades after the end of the dictatorship...
The latest works from Manuel Abramovich, Filipa César, Raymond Depardon, Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi, Ilian Metev, Hong Sang-soo and Frederick Wiseman join the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section of this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which will open with Ruben Östlund's The Square.
The section will also feature documentaries Ex Libris: New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman and 12 Days (12 Jours) - about mental health assessments in France - by Raymond Depardon.
Hong Sang-soo who won San Sebastian's Silver Shell for Best Director last year for Yourself And Yours (Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot) - returns with The Day After (Geu-hu) about a woman whose predecessor had been having an affair with her boss.
Argentine rising star Manuel Abramovich brings his second film Solar which looks at the function of the Argentine Army more than three decades after the end of the dictatorship...
- 8/23/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
ZamaThe programme for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Darren Aronofsky, Lucrecia Martel, Frederick Wiseman, Alexander Payne, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Abdellatif Kechiche, Takeshi Kitano and many more.COMPETITIONmother! (Darren Aronofsky)First Reformed (Paul Schrader)Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton)The Leisure Seeker (Paolo Virzi)Una Famiglia (Sebastiano Riso)Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)The Whale (Andrea Pallaoro)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)Ammore e malavita (Manetti Brothers)Jusqu'a la garde (Xavier Legrand)The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche)Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)L'insulte (Ziad Doueiri)La Villa (Robert Guediguian)The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)Suburbicon (George Clooney)Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)Downsizing (Alexander Payne)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesOur Souls at Night (Ritesh Batra)Il Signor Rotpeter (Antonietta de Lillo)Victoria...
- 7/27/2017
- MUBI
On the heels of the Toronto International Film Festival announcement earlier this week, Venice Film Festival have now delivered their full lineup and while there’s no Terrence Malick as rumored, there’s a plethora of highly-anticipated titles. Along with the previously-announced opener Downsizing and the expected Suburbicon, mother!, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, there’s Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color follow-up Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, and Brawl In Cell Block 99, the latest film from Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler.
Also in the lineup is Errol Morris’s Netflix crime drama Wormwood, Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – New York Public Library, Hirokazu Koreeda’s The Third Murder, Takeshi Kitano’s closing night film Outrage Coda, Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and The Jailbird, the Kirsten Dunst-led Woodshock,...
Also in the lineup is Errol Morris’s Netflix crime drama Wormwood, Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – New York Public Library, Hirokazu Koreeda’s The Third Murder, Takeshi Kitano’s closing night film Outrage Coda, Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and The Jailbird, the Kirsten Dunst-led Woodshock,...
- 7/27/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Venice Announces 2017 Lineup, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Suburbicon,’ ‘mother!,’ and Many More
Will 2017 be the year that Venice gets its king-making mojo back? After a steady run of debuting recent best picture winners — from “Spotlight” to “Birdman” — the festival missed out on last year’s big winner, “Moonlight,” which bowed at Telluride. This year’s lineup is a promising one, and while it’s still very early in the process, it’s difficult not to pick through today’s announcement of the festival’s slate and not search for the big contenders.
As was previously announced, the festival will open with Alexander Payne’s social satire “Downsizing,” starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig. The festival will also play home to the premiere of the Netflix original “Our Souls at Night,” as part of their planned tribute to stars Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Annette Bening will lead the competition jury, ending an 11-year succession of male jury chiefs.
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As was previously announced, the festival will open with Alexander Payne’s social satire “Downsizing,” starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig. The festival will also play home to the premiere of the Netflix original “Our Souls at Night,” as part of their planned tribute to stars Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Annette Bening will lead the competition jury, ending an 11-year succession of male jury chiefs.
Read MoreIndieWire Fall Film...
- 7/27/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Downsizing to open 2017 edition of Italian festival.
The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival has been revealed.
As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.
CompetitionDownsizing, Alexander Payne (opening film)Human Flow, Al Weiweimother!, Darren AronofskySuburbicon, George ClooneyThe Shape Of Water, Guillermo del ToroL’insulte, Ziad DoueiriLa Villa, Robert GuediguianLean On Pete, Andrew HaighMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif KechicheSandome No Satsujin (The Third Murder), Hirokazu KoreedaCustody (Jusqu’a La Garde), Xavier LegrandAmmore e Malavita, Manetti BrosFoxtrot, Samuel MaozThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonaghHannah, Andrea PallaoroJia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian QuUna Famiglia, Sebastiano RosaFirst Reformed, Paul SchraderSweet Country, Warwick ThorntonThe Leisure Seeker, Paolo VirziEx Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick WisemanOut Of Competition (fiction)Our Souls At Night, Ritesh BatraVictoria And Abdul, Stephen FrearsLa Melodie, Rachid HamiOutrage Coda, Takeshi Kitano (closing film)Loving Pablo, Fernando León de AranoaIl Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de LilloDiva...
The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival has been revealed.
As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.
CompetitionDownsizing, Alexander Payne (opening film)Human Flow, Al Weiweimother!, Darren AronofskySuburbicon, George ClooneyThe Shape Of Water, Guillermo del ToroL’insulte, Ziad DoueiriLa Villa, Robert GuediguianLean On Pete, Andrew HaighMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif KechicheSandome No Satsujin (The Third Murder), Hirokazu KoreedaCustody (Jusqu’a La Garde), Xavier LegrandAmmore e Malavita, Manetti BrosFoxtrot, Samuel MaozThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonaghHannah, Andrea PallaoroJia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian QuUna Famiglia, Sebastiano RosaFirst Reformed, Paul SchraderSweet Country, Warwick ThorntonThe Leisure Seeker, Paolo VirziEx Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick WisemanOut Of Competition (fiction)Our Souls At Night, Ritesh BatraVictoria And Abdul, Stephen FrearsLa Melodie, Rachid HamiOutrage Coda, Takeshi Kitano (closing film)Loving Pablo, Fernando León de AranoaIl Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de LilloDiva...
- 7/27/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Downsizing to open 2017 edition of Italian festival.
The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival is being revealed at a press conference in the Italian city. Refresh this page to read the line-up as it is announced.
To watch the press conference live, click here.
As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.
CompetitionHuman Flow, Al Weiweimother!, Darren AronofskySuburbicon, George ClooneyThe Shape Of Water, Guillermo del ToroL’insulte, Ziad DoueiriLa Villa, Robert GuediguianLean On Pete, Andrew HaighMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif KechicheThe Third Murder, Hirokazu KoreedaJusqu’a Le Garde, Xavier LegrandAmmore e Malavita, Manetti BrosFoxtrot, Samuel MaozThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonaghHannah, Andrea PallaoroJia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian QuUna Famiglia, Sebastiano RosaFirst Reformed, Paul SchraderSweet Country, Warwick ThorntonThe Leisure Seeker, Paolo VirziEx Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick WisemanOut Of Competition (fiction)Our Souls At Night, Ritesh BatraVictoria And Abdul, Stephen FrearsLa...
The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival is being revealed at a press conference in the Italian city. Refresh this page to read the line-up as it is announced.
To watch the press conference live, click here.
As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.
CompetitionHuman Flow, Al Weiweimother!, Darren AronofskySuburbicon, George ClooneyThe Shape Of Water, Guillermo del ToroL’insulte, Ziad DoueiriLa Villa, Robert GuediguianLean On Pete, Andrew HaighMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif KechicheThe Third Murder, Hirokazu KoreedaJusqu’a Le Garde, Xavier LegrandAmmore e Malavita, Manetti BrosFoxtrot, Samuel MaozThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonaghHannah, Andrea PallaoroJia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian QuUna Famiglia, Sebastiano RosaFirst Reformed, Paul SchraderSweet Country, Warwick ThorntonThe Leisure Seeker, Paolo VirziEx Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick WisemanOut Of Competition (fiction)Our Souls At Night, Ritesh BatraVictoria And Abdul, Stephen FrearsLa...
- 7/27/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The Seeds Of Violence, Blue Butterfly Effect also win awards at Korean festival.
The 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has crowned its award winners for 2017, with Davi Pretto’s Rifle taking the Grand Prize worth KW20m ($18,000) in the international competition.
The Brazilian film shows what happens when a rich landowner starts buying land in a remote area and in response, a young man feels his only protection from this is his rifle.
Thanking the fest and jury, Pretto noted this was the first time he had shown the film in Asia.
”It was amazing to meet the audience and show our film, and incredible to meet our colleagues - our new friends now - from all over the planet,” he said.
Also in the international competition, the best picture prize, a.k.a. the Woosuk Award which comes with $10,000, went to French film The Park, directed by Damien Manivel. He echoed...
The 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has crowned its award winners for 2017, with Davi Pretto’s Rifle taking the Grand Prize worth KW20m ($18,000) in the international competition.
The Brazilian film shows what happens when a rich landowner starts buying land in a remote area and in response, a young man feels his only protection from this is his rifle.
Thanking the fest and jury, Pretto noted this was the first time he had shown the film in Asia.
”It was amazing to meet the audience and show our film, and incredible to meet our colleagues - our new friends now - from all over the planet,” he said.
Also in the international competition, the best picture prize, a.k.a. the Woosuk Award which comes with $10,000, went to French film The Park, directed by Damien Manivel. He echoed...
- 5/3/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Mubi is hosting the exclusive global online premiere of Damien Manivel's Le parc (2016). It is showing from February 10 - March 12, 2017 as a Special Discovery.Damien Manivel"Do you make films?" was the first question that Damien Manivel asked me once I turned off the recording. It was then that I realized that my interview might have been a bit heavy on the technicalities about the production and other decisions made in the film. I was honest and I said, "I try to, but it’s hard." Trying to make your own little films makes me appreciate certain things above others, especially when the concept and story offered are, on the surface, so simple, like in Manivel’s Le parc. A little over an hour long, in Le parc we see two teenagers, a girl (Naomie Vogt-Roby) and a boy (Maxime Bachellerie), meeting for the first time and having an...
- 2/21/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Damien Manivel's Le parc (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from February 10 - March 12, 2017 as a Special Discovery.Modest in scope, yet not without its own peculiar ambition, Damien Manivel’s Le parc is the kind of film that feels not just out of place in the current cinematic landscape, but out of time as well. A park bench is the starting point of a hesitant date (between Maxime Bachellerie and Naomie Vogt-Roby), which proceeds, languorous, across static compositions of trees and shrubbery, past a couple shaded in a grassy corner, through a casual game of soccer on a gentle slope. Conversation is halting and banal, as it is in most such encounters; psychoanalysis and Freud are mentioned. “Your everyday gestures, thoughts and actions are analyzed. They all mean something,” says the boy,...
- 2/10/2017
- MUBI
Mubi is hosting the exclusive global online premiere of Damien Manivel's Le parc (2016). It is showing from February 10 - March 12, 2017 as a Special Discovery.Parks are full of ordinary stories. I like spending time here watching these scenarios unfold. As I sit and watch, over time, I notice a strangeness emerging from the ordinary. As if something dark and mysterious was hiding behind the sunlit lawns and outdoor games. It is these strange impressions that inspired the screenplay. In particular, one typical summer tale: a teenage girl and boy sitting on a bench and feeling uneasy on their first date. I chose to adopt the young girl’s point of view and to relate their love story, over one afternoon and night, from their first look until their separation. From this moment on, I needed to go further and show her state of shock and astonishment. The infinite night that engulfs the park,...
- 2/10/2017
- MUBI
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