Berlin-based Films Boutique has boarded Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts, which world premieres next month in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus strand.
Young Hearts centres on a 13-year-old boy who feels attracted to his new neighbour. The film marks the directorial debut of Belgian director Anthony Schatteman and won the work in progress award at Connext 2023. Schatteman most recently directed the Irish series Northern Lights for Lionsgate. His youth series Panna was released in 2021, airing on Goplay.be for Sbs Belgium, and his series 2de Zit played Belgian streaming platform Streamz.
Young Hearts’ stars Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg,...
Young Hearts centres on a 13-year-old boy who feels attracted to his new neighbour. The film marks the directorial debut of Belgian director Anthony Schatteman and won the work in progress award at Connext 2023. Schatteman most recently directed the Irish series Northern Lights for Lionsgate. His youth series Panna was released in 2021, airing on Goplay.be for Sbs Belgium, and his series 2de Zit played Belgian streaming platform Streamz.
Young Hearts’ stars Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg,...
- 1/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Bulgaria’s Cash Rebate Backs First Projects
Bulgaria has officially introduced its 25% cash rebate program, and the first three projects to shoot under the scheme have now been set. The films are: Crossing, a “major studio production” that is keeping details under-wraps; The Herd, a Bulgarian majority coproduction directed by Milko Lazarov, known for his Berlinale 2018 closing film Aga and produced by Red Carpet Films’ Vesselka Kiriakova; and The Caller, directed by Richard Switzer and produced by Tylor Konney. Each project will be eligible to recoup €1.1M from the rebate. The scheme is operated by the Bulgarian Film Commission Foundation, which was formed in September 2021. “This is a long awaited step in the further development of the film industry in Bulgaria. I am extremely happy to have had the opportunity, as a CEO of the Bulgarian National Film Center (2017-2021), to work for the introduction of the necessary changes in the Bulgarian Film Act,...
Bulgaria has officially introduced its 25% cash rebate program, and the first three projects to shoot under the scheme have now been set. The films are: Crossing, a “major studio production” that is keeping details under-wraps; The Herd, a Bulgarian majority coproduction directed by Milko Lazarov, known for his Berlinale 2018 closing film Aga and produced by Red Carpet Films’ Vesselka Kiriakova; and The Caller, directed by Richard Switzer and produced by Tylor Konney. Each project will be eligible to recoup €1.1M from the rebate. The scheme is operated by the Bulgarian Film Commission Foundation, which was formed in September 2021. “This is a long awaited step in the further development of the film industry in Bulgaria. I am extremely happy to have had the opportunity, as a CEO of the Bulgarian National Film Center (2017-2021), to work for the introduction of the necessary changes in the Bulgarian Film Act,...
- 1/28/2022
- by Tom Grater and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
New films from Cristian Mungiu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bertrand Bonello and Nikolaj Arcel have also receieved funding.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
- 12/10/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
New films from Cristian Mungiu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bertrand Bonello and Nikolaj Arcel have also receieved funding.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
- 12/10/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
EstAsia Cinema d’Oriente Festival in Reggio Emilia started its 2021 edition on 14 June with the screening of a timeless classics: Fruit Chan’s “Made in Hong Kong“, best film at the Hong Kong Film Awards 1998.
This year the Festival was held in three different locations and over two weeks, due to the strict rules of admission, for covid-19.The selection gave the opportunity to the audience to see previews and films that are otherwise difficult to find in Italy and tell stories of worlds culturally distant from ours, thus offering various insights into the relations between East and West.
Here are the winners of the three categories:
Golden Kaiju
The Golden Kaiju is the best film award. It consists in a work created for the occasion by local artist Hu-Be and it is awarded by a jury made up of three members, chosen among the artists and critics of the area.
This year the Festival was held in three different locations and over two weeks, due to the strict rules of admission, for covid-19.The selection gave the opportunity to the audience to see previews and films that are otherwise difficult to find in Italy and tell stories of worlds culturally distant from ours, thus offering various insights into the relations between East and West.
Here are the winners of the three categories:
Golden Kaiju
The Golden Kaiju is the best film award. It consists in a work created for the occasion by local artist Hu-Be and it is awarded by a jury made up of three members, chosen among the artists and critics of the area.
- 7/5/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The fifth edition of EstAsia, a film festival in Reggio Emilia, Italy, dedicated to Asian culture, will begin on June 14, after a year of break due to the covid-19 epidemic.
The series of screenings aims to address, from a different angle, the current problems linked to interculturality and integration. Not a festival aimed only at the fanbase and the professionals therefore, but a moment of involvement and dialogue with the foreign communities present in the provincial and regional area.
The Golden Kaiju, a prize created by the artist Hu-Be, will be assigned this year by a jury composed of Nicola Cupperi (film critic), Lara Ferrari (journalist) and Xu Ying (communication professor at Renmin University in Beijing and Chinese director of the Confucius Institute of the University of Bologna). Then there will be the Audience Award and the Youth Award, allocated by a jury made up of students from the Ariosto Spallanzani High School.
The series of screenings aims to address, from a different angle, the current problems linked to interculturality and integration. Not a festival aimed only at the fanbase and the professionals therefore, but a moment of involvement and dialogue with the foreign communities present in the provincial and regional area.
The Golden Kaiju, a prize created by the artist Hu-Be, will be assigned this year by a jury composed of Nicola Cupperi (film critic), Lara Ferrari (journalist) and Xu Ying (communication professor at Renmin University in Beijing and Chinese director of the Confucius Institute of the University of Bologna). Then there will be the Audience Award and the Youth Award, allocated by a jury made up of students from the Ariosto Spallanzani High School.
- 6/3/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
With a selection of 36 projects, including those by Adina Pintilie, Milko Lazarov, Radu Jude, Ole Giæver and Simon Jaquemet, among others, the Berlinale’s co-pro market is raring to go. A total of 36 new feature-film projects hailing from 34 countries are being invited to the 17th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. The projects and the teams behind them – which are taking part in four separate segments – will have the chance to meet international film professionals from various fields and from around the globe while participating in a total of 1,500 pre-organised one-on-one meetings. As was the case last year, five selected production houses will enjoy a special focus offered by the “Company Matching” programme. An integral part of the European Film Market, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will run for five days, from 22-26 February. For the official programme of the market, 21 feature-film...
The upcoming 70th Berlin International Film Festival has revealed the line-up of 36 features that will comprise its co-production market. Run as part of the festival’s European Film Market, its respected industry strand, the event looks to place international projects with co-producers, film funds, and sales reps. Filmmakers with projects in the line-up this year include Adina Pintilie, who won Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2018 with her feature Touch Me Not, Milko Lazarov, whose Aga premiered in Berlin in 2018, and Radu Jude, who screened his feature Aferim! In Berlin in 2015. Across the selection there are 15 projects with female directors, equating to 42%. More than 1,500 organized meetings will take place during the co-pro market this year between February 22 and 26.
Also today, Berlin has unveiled a compact program of eight films for its Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand, which highlights new works from Germany. Screening will be four features – including Michael Venus’s Sleep...
Also today, Berlin has unveiled a compact program of eight films for its Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand, which highlights new works from Germany. Screening will be four features – including Michael Venus’s Sleep...
- 1/15/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
New films from Pepa San Martín and Golden Bear winner Adina Pintilie among the line up.
The films selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 22-26) have been revealed and top 50% by female directors in the official project selection for the first time.
Scroll down for full list of titles
A total of 36 features from 34 countries will be showcased by producers seeking co-production partners through one-to-one meetings with distributors, financiers and sales agents.
For the official project selection, 21 projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €5m were selected from more than 300 submissions. With 11 projects by female directors, the proportion here has exceeded 50% for the first time.
The films selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 22-26) have been revealed and top 50% by female directors in the official project selection for the first time.
Scroll down for full list of titles
A total of 36 features from 34 countries will be showcased by producers seeking co-production partners through one-to-one meetings with distributors, financiers and sales agents.
For the official project selection, 21 projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €5m were selected from more than 300 submissions. With 11 projects by female directors, the proportion here has exceeded 50% for the first time.
- 1/15/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The annual Palm Springs International Film Festival in California is always an opportunity to catch up on many of the contenders for the Best International Feature — née Best Foreign-Language — Film Academy Award. Now in its 31st edition, the festival this year has 51 of them, from favorite-to-beat “Parasite” from South Korea and Senegal’s “Atlantics,” to other films quietly making strides in the race: Czech Republic’s “The Painted Bird,” Sweden’s “And Then We Danced,” Russia’s “Beanpole,” Romania’s “The Whistlers,” North Macedonia’s documentary contender “Honeyland,” Norway’s “Out Stealing Horses,” and many more.
The festival will screen 188 films from 81 countries, including 51 premieres, from January 2-13, 2020. The Awards Buzz section includes a special jury of international film critics, who will review these films to present the Fipresci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay in this category.
The festival will screen 188 films from 81 countries, including 51 premieres, from January 2-13, 2020. The Awards Buzz section includes a special jury of international film critics, who will review these films to present the Fipresci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay in this category.
- 12/10/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
One hundred eighty-eight films films from 81 countries including 51 premieres highlight the lineup for the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which kicks off January 2 with a star-studded gala that has become a must-stop during awards season for Oscar hopefuls. The festival, which runs through January 13, also is known for showcasing a large number of submissions in the Motion Picture Academy’s International Film (formerly Foreign Language) competition and will feature 51 of those entries.
The opening-night film on January 3 is the Italian farce An Almost Ordinary Summer, while the closer is director Peter Cattaneo’s heartwarming dramedy Military Wives in which Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng lead a superb ensemble cast. The film had its world premiere at September’s Toronto International Film Festival and became an instant crowd-pleaser. Bleecker Street releases it in 2020.
Among the previously announced honorees at the January 2 gala are Antonio Banderas, Renee Zellweger,...
The opening-night film on January 3 is the Italian farce An Almost Ordinary Summer, while the closer is director Peter Cattaneo’s heartwarming dramedy Military Wives in which Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng lead a superb ensemble cast. The film had its world premiere at September’s Toronto International Film Festival and became an instant crowd-pleaser. Bleecker Street releases it in 2020.
Among the previously announced honorees at the January 2 gala are Antonio Banderas, Renee Zellweger,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Among the record 92 submissions this year, 27 titles are directed or co-directed by women. There are six documentaries in the mix, as well as two animated features. Moreover, for the first time, Ghana and Uzbekistan are each fielding an entry. However, Nigeria’s submission was disqualified by the Academy as being mostly in the English language. Here’s a guide to the films, including logline and sales or production contact.
Albania
“The Delegation”
Director: Bujar Alimani
Logline: In autumn 1990,
a political prisoner is secretly taken out of jail to meet the head of the European delegation investigating human-rights violations. But nothing goes according to plan.
Key Cast: Viktor Zhusti, Ndriçim Xhepa, Xhevdet Feri
Sales: Art Film
Algeria
“Papicha”
Director: Mounia Meddour
Logline: A female student rebels against the bans set by radicals during the civil war and plans a fashion show.
Key Cast: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda
Sales:...
Albania
“The Delegation”
Director: Bujar Alimani
Logline: In autumn 1990,
a political prisoner is secretly taken out of jail to meet the head of the European delegation investigating human-rights violations. But nothing goes according to plan.
Key Cast: Viktor Zhusti, Ndriçim Xhepa, Xhevdet Feri
Sales: Art Film
Algeria
“Papicha”
Director: Mounia Meddour
Logline: A female student rebels against the bans set by radicals during the civil war and plans a fashion show.
Key Cast: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda
Sales:...
- 11/6/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Earlier in the week, we finally learned which films would be selected by all of the countries in search of Academy Award love in Best International Feature. Not only did we get the answers to some questions regarding what each nation would pick, but we found that a record breaking 93 submissions have been made here in 2019. It’s truly the largest slate ever for voters to sift through. Talk about a good problem to have! Below you can see all of the titles in competition for the Best International Feature Oscar. Right now, only Parasite from South Korea and Pain and Glory from Spain seem like safe bets, with the former almost assured of winning the Academy Award. Aside from them? Anything goes in this category, which has potential nominees like Atlantics from Senegal, Beanpole from Russia, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind from the United Kingdom, The Chambermaid from Mexico,...
- 10/12/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
A record 93 countries submitted entries in the International Feature Film race at the 2020 Oscars. That is up by six from last year,when the category was still called Best Foreign-Language Film, and eclipses the record 92 submissions in 2018. The nations represented ranged from A (Albania) to V (Vietnam). Predicting the eventual five Oscar nominees is made difficult by the two-step process.
First, the several hundred academy members of the Foreign-Language Film screening committee are required to watch a number of the submissions (upwards of a dozen) over a two-month period that ends in mid December. They will rate them from 6 to 10 and their top six vote-getters make it to the next round, as will three films added by the 20 members of the executive committee.
Those nine semi-finalists will be screened three per day beginning in early January by select committee members in Gotham, Hollywood, London and San Francisco. These 40 folks will...
First, the several hundred academy members of the Foreign-Language Film screening committee are required to watch a number of the submissions (upwards of a dozen) over a two-month period that ends in mid December. They will rate them from 6 to 10 and their top six vote-getters make it to the next round, as will three films added by the 20 members of the executive committee.
Those nine semi-finalists will be screened three per day beginning in early January by select committee members in Gotham, Hollywood, London and San Francisco. These 40 folks will...
- 10/7/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
A record-breaking total of 93 countries have submitted entries to be considered for best international film nominations at the Academy Awards.
The Academy announced the full list of eligible films and countries on Monday. Ghana, Nigeria and Uzbekisztan are competing for the first time in the category, which was previously known as the best foreign-language film category.
The previous high for submissions was 92 in 2017. A total of 87 films were submitted last year. Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” won the category this year, becoming the first Mexican entry to win the award.
High-profile entries include South Korea’s “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival; Spain’s “Pain and Glory” from Pedro Almodovar with Antonio Banderas starring as a film director; Japan’s “Weathering With You,” the country’s first animated entry since “Princess Mononoke”; Senegal’s “Atlantics” from director Mati Diop,...
The Academy announced the full list of eligible films and countries on Monday. Ghana, Nigeria and Uzbekisztan are competing for the first time in the category, which was previously known as the best foreign-language film category.
The previous high for submissions was 92 in 2017. A total of 87 films were submitted last year. Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” won the category this year, becoming the first Mexican entry to win the award.
High-profile entries include South Korea’s “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival; Spain’s “Pain and Glory” from Pedro Almodovar with Antonio Banderas starring as a film director; Japan’s “Weathering With You,” the country’s first animated entry since “Princess Mononoke”; Senegal’s “Atlantics” from director Mati Diop,...
- 10/7/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The 2020 foreign-language Oscar nominees will come from submissions from 93 countries, up from last year’s 87, and breaking the record 92 from 2017. A contender for the renamed Best International Feature must be a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.
Ghana, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan are first-time entrants, but Uganda did not qualify. China (Yu Yang’s “Ne Zha”) and Senegal (Mati Diop’s “Atlantics”) submitted their films under the wire on the deadline of October 1.
Earlier this year, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted not only to rename the Foreign Language Film category, but to expand the shortlist from nine films to 10.
The 2019 submissions, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Albania, “The Delegation,” Bujar Alimani, director;
Algeria, “Papicha,” Mounia Meddour, director;
Argentina, “Heroic Losers,” Sebastián Borensztein, director;
Armenia, “Lengthy Night,” Edgar Baghdasaryan, director;
Australia, “Buoyancy,” Rodd Rathjen, director;
Austria, “Joy,...
Ghana, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan are first-time entrants, but Uganda did not qualify. China (Yu Yang’s “Ne Zha”) and Senegal (Mati Diop’s “Atlantics”) submitted their films under the wire on the deadline of October 1.
Earlier this year, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted not only to rename the Foreign Language Film category, but to expand the shortlist from nine films to 10.
The 2019 submissions, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Albania, “The Delegation,” Bujar Alimani, director;
Algeria, “Papicha,” Mounia Meddour, director;
Argentina, “Heroic Losers,” Sebastián Borensztein, director;
Armenia, “Lengthy Night,” Edgar Baghdasaryan, director;
Australia, “Buoyancy,” Rodd Rathjen, director;
Austria, “Joy,...
- 10/7/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 2020 foreign-language Oscar nominees will come from submissions from 93 countries, up from last year’s 87, and breaking the record 92 from 2017. A contender for the renamed Best International Feature must be a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.
Ghana, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan are first-time entrants, but Uganda did not qualify. China (Yu Yang’s “Ne Zha”) and Senegal (Mati Diop’s “Atlantics”) submitted their films under the wire on the deadline of October 1.
Earlier this year, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted not only to rename the Foreign Language Film category, but to expand the shortlist from nine films to 10.
The 2019 submissions, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Albania, “The Delegation,” Bujar Alimani, director;
Algeria, “Papicha,” Mounia Meddour, director;
Argentina, “Heroic Losers,” Sebastián Borensztein, director;
Armenia, “Lengthy Night,” Edgar Baghdasaryan, director;
Australia, “Buoyancy,” Rodd Rathjen, director;
Austria, “Joy,...
Ghana, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan are first-time entrants, but Uganda did not qualify. China (Yu Yang’s “Ne Zha”) and Senegal (Mati Diop’s “Atlantics”) submitted their films under the wire on the deadline of October 1.
Earlier this year, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted not only to rename the Foreign Language Film category, but to expand the shortlist from nine films to 10.
The 2019 submissions, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Albania, “The Delegation,” Bujar Alimani, director;
Algeria, “Papicha,” Mounia Meddour, director;
Argentina, “Heroic Losers,” Sebastián Borensztein, director;
Armenia, “Lengthy Night,” Edgar Baghdasaryan, director;
Australia, “Buoyancy,” Rodd Rathjen, director;
Austria, “Joy,...
- 10/7/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the full list of countries that have submitted a pic for consideration for the new International Feature Film Oscar category.
Here are the 93 nations and their hopefuls, in alphabetical order:
Albania, The Delegation, Bujar Alimani, director;
Algeria, Papicha, Mounia Meddour, director;
Argentina, Heroic Losers, Sebastián Borensztein, director;
Armenia, Lengthy Night, Edgar Baghdasaryan, director;
Australia, Buoyancy, Rodd Rathjen, director;
Austria, Joy, Sudabeh Mortezai, director;
Bangladesh, Alpha, Nasiruddin Yousuff, director;
Belarus, Debut, Anastasiya Miroshnichenko, director;
Belgium, Our Mothers, César Díaz, director;
Bolivia, I Miss You, Rodrigo Bellott, director;
Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Son, Ines Tanovic, director;
Brazil, Invisible Life, Karim Aïnouz, director;
Bulgaria, Ága, Milko Lazarov, director;
Cambodia, In the Life of Music, Caylee So, Sok Visal, directors;
Canada, Antigone, Sophie Deraspe, director;
Chile, Spider, Andrés Wood, director;
China, Ne Zha, Yu Yang, director;
Colombia, Monos, Alejandro Landes, director;
Costa Rica, The Awakening of the Ants,...
Here are the 93 nations and their hopefuls, in alphabetical order:
Albania, The Delegation, Bujar Alimani, director;
Algeria, Papicha, Mounia Meddour, director;
Argentina, Heroic Losers, Sebastián Borensztein, director;
Armenia, Lengthy Night, Edgar Baghdasaryan, director;
Australia, Buoyancy, Rodd Rathjen, director;
Austria, Joy, Sudabeh Mortezai, director;
Bangladesh, Alpha, Nasiruddin Yousuff, director;
Belarus, Debut, Anastasiya Miroshnichenko, director;
Belgium, Our Mothers, César Díaz, director;
Bolivia, I Miss You, Rodrigo Bellott, director;
Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Son, Ines Tanovic, director;
Brazil, Invisible Life, Karim Aïnouz, director;
Bulgaria, Ága, Milko Lazarov, director;
Cambodia, In the Life of Music, Caylee So, Sok Visal, directors;
Canada, Antigone, Sophie Deraspe, director;
Chile, Spider, Andrés Wood, director;
China, Ne Zha, Yu Yang, director;
Colombia, Monos, Alejandro Landes, director;
Costa Rica, The Awakening of the Ants,...
- 10/7/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
A record-breaking total of 93 countries will be competing in the Oscar race for Best International Feature Film, the new name for what previously has been known as the Best Foreign-Language Film category.
The Academy announced the full list of eligible films and countries on Monday, with three countries — Ghana, Nigeria and Uzbekistan — competing in the category for the first time.
The previous high for submissions was 92 films, which was set in 2017. This year’s field also sets a new record for the number of women with films in the race, with 29 female directors responsible for 28 of the qualifying films.
One film, Algeria’s “Papicha,” needed a special ruling from the Academy to retain its eligibility. The film was scheduled to open in Algeria in late September, but the Algerian government cancelled the screenings without explanation just before they were scheduled to happen, presumably because it was uncomfortable with a film...
The Academy announced the full list of eligible films and countries on Monday, with three countries — Ghana, Nigeria and Uzbekistan — competing in the category for the first time.
The previous high for submissions was 92 films, which was set in 2017. This year’s field also sets a new record for the number of women with films in the race, with 29 female directors responsible for 28 of the qualifying films.
One film, Algeria’s “Papicha,” needed a special ruling from the Academy to retain its eligibility. The film was scheduled to open in Algeria in late September, but the Algerian government cancelled the screenings without explanation just before they were scheduled to happen, presumably because it was uncomfortable with a film...
- 10/7/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Rounds, The Pig, Sister and Cat in the Wall were also among the winners of this year’s edition. After winning the Crystal Globe at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's The Father has picked up several awards at the 37th edition of the Golden Rose Film Festival, including Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (for Ivan Barnev and Ivan Savov). With one exception, all of the awards and Special Mentions were given to films that have already been seen at international film festivals, such as Stephan Komandarev’s Rounds, Dragomir Sholev’s The Pig, Svetla Tsotsorkova’s Sister, and Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s Cat in the Wall. The international jury was led by Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov. Thirteen features and 17 short films competed at this edition of the festival, which was organised by the country's National Film Center. Many of.
Which film will follow on from ‘Roma’ in winning the prize?
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
Scroll down for latest entries
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.
Scroll down for latest entries
The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
- 9/11/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Bulgaria has selected Milko Lazarov's Aga as its submission for the 2020 Oscars best international feature category.
The film is centered on Nanook and Sedna, an elderly Yakut couple living in a yurt amidst the icy tundra in northeastern Siberia. Their daughter Aga left a long time ago due to a family feud, and when Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook embarks on a challenging journey to find Aga.
The film premiered at the Berlin international film festival in 2018.
"Taking his cue from Nanook and Sedna's sedate pace of life, Lazarov spins out his little fable with a ...
The film is centered on Nanook and Sedna, an elderly Yakut couple living in a yurt amidst the icy tundra in northeastern Siberia. Their daughter Aga left a long time ago due to a family feud, and when Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook embarks on a challenging journey to find Aga.
The film premiered at the Berlin international film festival in 2018.
"Taking his cue from Nanook and Sedna's sedate pace of life, Lazarov spins out his little fable with a ...
- 9/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bulgaria has selected Milko Lazarov's Aga as its submission for the 2020 Oscars best international feature category.
The film is centered on Nanook and Sedna, an elderly Yakut couple living in a yurt amidst the icy tundra in northeastern Siberia. Their daughter Aga left a long time ago due to a family feud, and when Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook embarks on a challenging journey to find Aga.
The film premiered at the Berlin international film festival in 2018.
"Taking his cue from Nanook and Sedna's sedate pace of life, Lazarov spins out his little fable with a ...
The film is centered on Nanook and Sedna, an elderly Yakut couple living in a yurt amidst the icy tundra in northeastern Siberia. Their daughter Aga left a long time ago due to a family feud, and when Sedna's health deteriorates, Nanook embarks on a challenging journey to find Aga.
The film premiered at the Berlin international film festival in 2018.
"Taking his cue from Nanook and Sedna's sedate pace of life, Lazarov spins out his little fable with a ...
- 9/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Milko Lazarov’s Ága, which had its world premiere in out of competition as the closing-night film of the 2018 Berlin Film Festival, was selected Tuesday by the Bulgarian National Cinema Council to represent Bulgaria in the upcoming Oscars International Feature Film race.
Submissions for the Oscar category formerly known as the Outstanding Foreign Language Film are ramping ahead of the February 9 Academy Awards, with a shortlist of nine movies expected in December ahead of nominations January 13. Bosnia and Herzegovina this week also made its selection: writer-director Ines Tanović’s The Son, which premiered this year at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Ága, written by Lazarov and Simeon Ventsislavo, is set in the far north where Sedna and Nanook dream of a family reunion. After Sedna’s death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago. Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Galina Tikhonova, Sergey Egorov and...
Submissions for the Oscar category formerly known as the Outstanding Foreign Language Film are ramping ahead of the February 9 Academy Awards, with a shortlist of nine movies expected in December ahead of nominations January 13. Bosnia and Herzegovina this week also made its selection: writer-director Ines Tanović’s The Son, which premiered this year at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Ága, written by Lazarov and Simeon Ventsislavo, is set in the far north where Sedna and Nanook dream of a family reunion. After Sedna’s death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago. Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Galina Tikhonova, Sergey Egorov and...
- 9/10/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress Jovana Stojiljkovic and director Teona Strugar Mitevska also join jury.
The 2019 Sarajevo Film Festival has finalised its Competition jury, which will feature Bero Beyer, festival director at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), and Funa Maduka, director of international original films and acquisitions at Netflix.
Also on this year’s jury are Serbian actress Jovana Stojiljkovic and Teona Strugar Mitevska, a filmmaker from North Macedonia.
The four join previously announced jury president Ruben Ostlund.
Maduka joined Netflix in 2014, initially in La, before relocating to London earlier this year as part of the new-look international team. Beyer has been the director...
The 2019 Sarajevo Film Festival has finalised its Competition jury, which will feature Bero Beyer, festival director at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), and Funa Maduka, director of international original films and acquisitions at Netflix.
Also on this year’s jury are Serbian actress Jovana Stojiljkovic and Teona Strugar Mitevska, a filmmaker from North Macedonia.
The four join previously announced jury president Ruben Ostlund.
Maduka joined Netflix in 2014, initially in La, before relocating to London earlier this year as part of the new-look international team. Beyer has been the director...
- 6/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The Square director set for festival’s 25th edition.
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, the 2017 Palme d’Or-winning director of The Square, will chair this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival Competition jury.
“Ruben Östlund is one of those authors who protects the freedom of creative expression in filmmaking, and we admire his dedication to his artistic work and his unique artistic style”, said Mirsad Purivatra, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Square screened at Sarajevo in 2017 following its Cannes premiere, going on to be Oscar-nominated in the foreign language category. His credits also include Force Majeure, which won the Jury...
Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, the 2017 Palme d’Or-winning director of The Square, will chair this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival Competition jury.
“Ruben Östlund is one of those authors who protects the freedom of creative expression in filmmaking, and we admire his dedication to his artistic work and his unique artistic style”, said Mirsad Purivatra, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Square screened at Sarajevo in 2017 following its Cannes premiere, going on to be Oscar-nominated in the foreign language category. His credits also include Force Majeure, which won the Jury...
- 5/18/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Big World Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Radu Jude’s “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” which won the Crystal Globe for best film at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year, and represented Romania in this year’s Academy Awards competition for foreign-language film.
The sale was handled by Beta Cinema, from which Big World has also acquired Milko Lazarov’s “Ága,” which had its debut as the closing night film at last year’s Berlinale, and has won more than 20 awards worldwide, including best film in Sarajevo, Bulgaria, Cairo, Chukotka, Fajr and Belgrade.
Jude’s film follows a young artist who is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. Big World described Jude as “one of contemporary Europe’s most distinctive creators,” adding that his pic was...
The sale was handled by Beta Cinema, from which Big World has also acquired Milko Lazarov’s “Ága,” which had its debut as the closing night film at last year’s Berlinale, and has won more than 20 awards worldwide, including best film in Sarajevo, Bulgaria, Cairo, Chukotka, Fajr and Belgrade.
Jude’s film follows a young artist who is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. Big World described Jude as “one of contemporary Europe’s most distinctive creators,” adding that his pic was...
- 5/3/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Joanna Kulig in Cold War
Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War was the big winner at the second East-West. Golden Arch awards in Moscow last night. The film, which tells the tempestuous love story of the writer/director's late parents, won four awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
Murat Cemcir with his award for Best Supporting Actor Photo: Anna Temerina It's star Joanna Kulig was named Best Actress, while Pawlikowski's cinematographer Lukas Zal shared the Best Cinematography award with Kaloyan Bozhilov, who was celebrated for his work on his tale of an elderly couple whose traditions are dying in Milko Lazarov's Ága.
Evgeniy Tsiganov was named Best Actor for his powerful portrayal of a man who tries to trick death by taking on the guise of a woman in The Man Who Surprised Everyone, which also saw his co-star Natalya Kudryashowa named Best Supporting Actress. The Russian film's co-writers...
Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War was the big winner at the second East-West. Golden Arch awards in Moscow last night. The film, which tells the tempestuous love story of the writer/director's late parents, won four awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
Murat Cemcir with his award for Best Supporting Actor Photo: Anna Temerina It's star Joanna Kulig was named Best Actress, while Pawlikowski's cinematographer Lukas Zal shared the Best Cinematography award with Kaloyan Bozhilov, who was celebrated for his work on his tale of an elderly couple whose traditions are dying in Milko Lazarov's Ága.
Evgeniy Tsiganov was named Best Actor for his powerful portrayal of a man who tries to trick death by taking on the guise of a woman in The Man Who Surprised Everyone, which also saw his co-star Natalya Kudryashowa named Best Supporting Actress. The Russian film's co-writers...
- 4/15/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Vasan Bala’s “The Man Who Feels No Pain,” and Qiu Sheng’s “Suburban Birds” are among 11 films set for competition at the third edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” will open the festival in an out of competition slot.
Other films in competition include: “Aga” by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria); “All Good,” by Eva Trobisch (Germany); “Clean Up,” by Kwon Man-ki (South Korea); “Jesus,” by Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan); “Scarborough,” by Barnaby Southcombe (U.K.) “School’s Out” by Sebastien Marnier (France); “The Good Girls,” by Alejandra Marquez (Mexico); “The Guilty,” by Gustav Moller (Denmark); and “White Blood” by Barbara Sarasola – Day (Argentina). The competition is only open to first or second time feature directors.
The lineup was announced Thursday in Macau by artistic director Mike Goodridge. The jury which will select the prize-winners includes Chen Kaige as president, alongside Mabel Cheung (Hong Kong...
Other films in competition include: “Aga” by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria); “All Good,” by Eva Trobisch (Germany); “Clean Up,” by Kwon Man-ki (South Korea); “Jesus,” by Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan); “Scarborough,” by Barnaby Southcombe (U.K.) “School’s Out” by Sebastien Marnier (France); “The Good Girls,” by Alejandra Marquez (Mexico); “The Guilty,” by Gustav Moller (Denmark); and “White Blood” by Barbara Sarasola – Day (Argentina). The competition is only open to first or second time feature directors.
The lineup was announced Thursday in Macau by artistic director Mike Goodridge. The jury which will select the prize-winners includes Chen Kaige as president, alongside Mabel Cheung (Hong Kong...
- 11/8/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Making good on the largely overlooked achievement of debut feature “The Demons,” Québécois Philippe Lesage’s “Genesis” swept the 63rd Valladolid Intl. Film Festival, winning its top Golden Spike, director and actor on Saturday.
One of Spain’s top three or four festivals, and a bastion of auteur cinema, Valladolid closed its official section Friday with an out-of-competition sneak peek screening of a preliminary version of Til Schweiger’s “Honey in the Head,” still to totally finalize post-production, starring Nick Nolte as a grandfather suffering Alzheimer who is taken off by his 10-year-old daughter to Venice where he lived the love of his life with his wife. Initial local press reactions speak of a “brilliant” performance from Nolte. Matt Dillon, who plays Nolte’s son was in Valladolid to accept an Honorary Spike for his career.
Valladolid’s main competition Audience Award, the prize many distributors are most interested in,...
One of Spain’s top three or four festivals, and a bastion of auteur cinema, Valladolid closed its official section Friday with an out-of-competition sneak peek screening of a preliminary version of Til Schweiger’s “Honey in the Head,” still to totally finalize post-production, starring Nick Nolte as a grandfather suffering Alzheimer who is taken off by his 10-year-old daughter to Venice where he lived the love of his life with his wife. Initial local press reactions speak of a “brilliant” performance from Nolte. Matt Dillon, who plays Nolte’s son was in Valladolid to accept an Honorary Spike for his career.
Valladolid’s main competition Audience Award, the prize many distributors are most interested in,...
- 10/28/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Berlin winner ‘Touch Me Not’, ‘Cold War’ and ‘Paddington 2’.
The 49 films recommended for nomination for the 2018 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The list includes Adina Pintilie’s Berlin winner Touch Me Not and Cannes prize winners Cold War, Dogman and Happy As Lazzaro.
Films with UK involvement on the list include Michael Pearce’s Beast and Paddington 2.
The films were selected by the 20 countries with the most Efa members as well as a selection committee consisting of the Efa board and experts.
In the coming weeks, more than...
The 49 films recommended for nomination for the 2018 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The list includes Adina Pintilie’s Berlin winner Touch Me Not and Cannes prize winners Cold War, Dogman and Happy As Lazzaro.
Films with UK involvement on the list include Michael Pearce’s Beast and Paddington 2.
The films were selected by the 20 countries with the most Efa members as well as a selection committee consisting of the Efa board and experts.
In the coming weeks, more than...
- 8/21/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days came to a close Thursday after six days of events, workshops, panel discussions and market presentations.
The CineLink Industry Days is a major hub for Southeast Europe’s film industry, attracting nearly 1,000 professionals to its various events, among them the Co-Production Market, Work-in-Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique and the True Stories Market.
One key objective of the section has been to improve international circulation of films from the region, according to Jovan Marjanovic, head of CineLink Industry Days. “We try to bring all those key players who are able to take films to audiences to Sarajevo and introduce them to the best upcoming films and series from the region,” Marjanovic said.
CineLink has already seen plenty of success, with a number of projects previously developed and presented in its various sections performing especially well this year. Tolga Karacelik’s “Butterflies” won the...
The CineLink Industry Days is a major hub for Southeast Europe’s film industry, attracting nearly 1,000 professionals to its various events, among them the Co-Production Market, Work-in-Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique and the True Stories Market.
One key objective of the section has been to improve international circulation of films from the region, according to Jovan Marjanovic, head of CineLink Industry Days. “We try to bring all those key players who are able to take films to audiences to Sarajevo and introduce them to the best upcoming films and series from the region,” Marjanovic said.
CineLink has already seen plenty of success, with a number of projects previously developed and presented in its various sections performing especially well this year. Tolga Karacelik’s “Butterflies” won the...
- 8/17/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The 24th Sarajevo Film Festival has awarded its top prize to Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov’s “Ága.” The Yakut-language movie, which saw its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February, tells the story of a troubled Inuit family.
“Ága” won the Heart of Sarajevo on Thursday night, the festival’s prize for best feature film, which includes a €16,000 award. The movie, a co-production between Bulgaria, Germany and France, was co-written by Lazarov and Simeon Ventsislavov.
“Ága” centers on an isolated Inuit couple who hold on to their traditions while global warming and the modern world encroach. When the wife’s health deteriorates, the husband decides to fulfill her last wish by embarking on a long journey to find their daughter, Ága, who deserted the couple long ago. Variety’s Jay Weissberg called the film a “handsome paean to a dying culture.”
For the second year running, the festival...
“Ága” won the Heart of Sarajevo on Thursday night, the festival’s prize for best feature film, which includes a €16,000 award. The movie, a co-production between Bulgaria, Germany and France, was co-written by Lazarov and Simeon Ventsislavov.
“Ága” centers on an isolated Inuit couple who hold on to their traditions while global warming and the modern world encroach. When the wife’s health deteriorates, the husband decides to fulfill her last wish by embarking on a long journey to find their daughter, Ága, who deserted the couple long ago. Variety’s Jay Weissberg called the film a “handsome paean to a dying culture.”
For the second year running, the festival...
- 8/17/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
24th edition of European festival comes to a close.
Milko Lazarov’s Aga has won this year’s Heart of Sarajevo prize for best feature film.
The 24th edition of the South-eastern European festival came to a close on Thursday night (Aug 16) and its awards ceremony also saw Ioana Uricaru’s Lemonade scoop the Heart of Sarajevo for best director. Both awards come with a €10,000 prize.
One Day’s Zsófia Szamosi and The Load’s Leon Lučev took the top prizes for best actress and actor respectively.
The Feature Competition jury was presided over by filmmaker Asghar Farhadi and also featured Judita Franković Brdar,...
Milko Lazarov’s Aga has won this year’s Heart of Sarajevo prize for best feature film.
The 24th edition of the South-eastern European festival came to a close on Thursday night (Aug 16) and its awards ceremony also saw Ioana Uricaru’s Lemonade scoop the Heart of Sarajevo for best director. Both awards come with a €10,000 prize.
One Day’s Zsófia Szamosi and The Load’s Leon Lučev took the top prizes for best actress and actor respectively.
The Feature Competition jury was presided over by filmmaker Asghar Farhadi and also featured Judita Franković Brdar,...
- 8/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The 24th edition of the event takes place from August 10-17.
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan will receive an honourary Heart of Sarajevo award at the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival (August 10-17).
Ceylan, who is an honourary guest at this year’s festival, will also present an exhibition of his photography, which includes stills and location shots from his film work.
His most recent film, The Wild Pear Tree, was co-produced with Bosnia-Herzegovina, and screened in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Ceylan won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2014 with Winter Sleep.
The Heart of Sarajevo...
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan will receive an honourary Heart of Sarajevo award at the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival (August 10-17).
Ceylan, who is an honourary guest at this year’s festival, will also present an exhibition of his photography, which includes stills and location shots from his film work.
His most recent film, The Wild Pear Tree, was co-produced with Bosnia-Herzegovina, and screened in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Ceylan won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2014 with Winter Sleep.
The Heart of Sarajevo...
- 8/3/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Films come from Hungary, Israel, Palestine, Romania, Turkey and China.Scroll down for the full list
Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry wing, CineLink, has unveiled the 10 projects that will take part in its work-in-progress strand this year.
The selection includes 10 feature length films, eight fiction and two documentary, including works from Bulgaria, Hungary, Israel, Palestine, Romania, and Turkey, as well as a guest project from China.
The projects will be presented to close to 60 industry delegates including funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers.
They will compete for several prizes: the Post Republic Award, the CineLink Iridium Award and...
Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry wing, CineLink, has unveiled the 10 projects that will take part in its work-in-progress strand this year.
The selection includes 10 feature length films, eight fiction and two documentary, including works from Bulgaria, Hungary, Israel, Palestine, Romania, and Turkey, as well as a guest project from China.
The projects will be presented to close to 60 industry delegates including funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers.
They will compete for several prizes: the Post Republic Award, the CineLink Iridium Award and...
- 7/30/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Four world premieres selected for festival’s Competition.
The 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 10-18) has unveiled the titles selected for its Competition and In Focus programmes.
This year’s Competition selection features four world premieres, one international premiere and five regional premieres, all either produced or co-produced from the Eastern European region.
As previously announced, Asghar Farhadi will preside over the Competition jury, which will award the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo.
Selected titles having their world premieres include All Alone, the latest feature from Croatian director Bobo Jelčić, whose 2013 drama A Stranger premiered at Berlin and...
The 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 10-18) has unveiled the titles selected for its Competition and In Focus programmes.
This year’s Competition selection features four world premieres, one international premiere and five regional premieres, all either produced or co-produced from the Eastern European region.
As previously announced, Asghar Farhadi will preside over the Competition jury, which will award the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo.
Selected titles having their world premieres include All Alone, the latest feature from Croatian director Bobo Jelčić, whose 2013 drama A Stranger premiered at Berlin and...
- 7/9/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Twarz (The Face): Polish, competition, Dir.Malgorzata Szumowska. Isa: Memento. After a horrible accident which disfigures him beyond recognition a young man from an ultra religious backwoods town undergoes a face transplant — the first successful such operation in Poland — and experiences ensuing identity issues. Even his mother can’t recognize him and the mother of his fiancée sends him packing when he knocks at the door with flowers — with a resounding “and don’t come back!”Teshigahara’s ‘Tannin. No Kao’ or ‘The Face of Another’Intriguing subject which was taken up with much more sublety and skill by Japanese director Teshigahara in 1966 (The Face of Another) but this one makes you feel so sorry for the victim that you feel like walking out. Which I did after about an hour of commiseration and realizing that Jesus wasn’t going to save this poor guy from his misery.
- 3/2/2018
- by Alex Deleon
- Sydney's Buzz
Beta closes raft of deals on Berlin titles 'In The Aisles', '3 Days In Quiberon', 'Ága' (exclusive)
Further deals inked on The Happy Prince and Styx.
German sales outfit Beta Cinema is reporting strong business across its 2018 European Film Market (Efm) slate.
The company has closed a series of deals on three of its titles that premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s competition programme this year.
Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles has gone to France (Kmbo), Spain (Surtsey), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Japan (Aya Pro), China (Lemon Tree), Taiwan (Flash Forward), Baltics (A-One), Greece (Strada), Turkey (Filmarti), Poland (Aurora), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe) and the former Yugoslavia (Discovery Croatia). Read Screen’s review here.
German sales outfit Beta Cinema is reporting strong business across its 2018 European Film Market (Efm) slate.
The company has closed a series of deals on three of its titles that premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s competition programme this year.
Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles has gone to France (Kmbo), Spain (Surtsey), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Japan (Aya Pro), China (Lemon Tree), Taiwan (Flash Forward), Baltics (A-One), Greece (Strada), Turkey (Filmarti), Poland (Aurora), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe) and the former Yugoslavia (Discovery Croatia). Read Screen’s review here.
- 3/1/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Some films only really work if projected on the biggest screens available, and Milko Lazarov's Berlinale closer Aga falls emphatically into that category. A narratively simple story about an elderly Yakut couple living in a yurt amid the frozen expanses of north-eastern Siberia, its impact relies very heavily on Kaloyan Bozhilov's majestic widescreen cinematography. One-off engagements in suitably huge spaces — including outdoor venues — could see this Bulgarian-German-French co-production carve a nice little niche beyond the festival circuit.
Following up his 2013 debut Alienation, which parlayed a prize-winning debut at Venice into a respectable festival run, director/co-writer...
Following up his 2013 debut Alienation, which parlayed a prize-winning debut at Venice into a respectable festival run, director/co-writer...
- 2/27/2018
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Companies to partner on English-language titles.
German production and distribution outfit Beta Cinema has acquired a minority stake in Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s London and La-based international sales outfit Cornerstone Films.
The two companies will partner on commercially-driven English-language films, combining Beta’s production and distribution operations with Cornerstone’s sales activities - the aim is for the joint alliance to create a stronger foothold for both outfits across the global marketplace.
Recent deals struck between the two outfits include Cornerstone’s sales title Georgetown, directed by Christoph Waltz, which Beta will distribute in Germany.
Beta also recently acquired a stake in renowned German film and TV production company X-Filme (Babylon Berlin), which has previously worked closely with Cornerstone.
Cornerstone’s Berlin slate includes a remake of After The Wedding starring Julianne Moore, Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light and Florence directed by Jeremy Lovering. It is also showing promos of Chiwetel Eijofor’s directorial...
German production and distribution outfit Beta Cinema has acquired a minority stake in Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s London and La-based international sales outfit Cornerstone Films.
The two companies will partner on commercially-driven English-language films, combining Beta’s production and distribution operations with Cornerstone’s sales activities - the aim is for the joint alliance to create a stronger foothold for both outfits across the global marketplace.
Recent deals struck between the two outfits include Cornerstone’s sales title Georgetown, directed by Christoph Waltz, which Beta will distribute in Germany.
Beta also recently acquired a stake in renowned German film and TV production company X-Filme (Babylon Berlin), which has previously worked closely with Cornerstone.
Cornerstone’s Berlin slate includes a remake of After The Wedding starring Julianne Moore, Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light and Florence directed by Jeremy Lovering. It is also showing promos of Chiwetel Eijofor’s directorial...
- 2/14/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
German outfit rounds out Efm slate.
German powerhouse Beta Cinema has rounded out its Berlin slate with the acquisition of three competition premieres: Emily Atef’s 3 Days In Quiberon, Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles, and Milko Lazarov’s programme closer Aga (which plays out of competition).
Screen can unveil an exclusive first trailer for Aga, director Lazarov’s second feature after his Venice 2013 debut Alienation. The film follows two Yakuts struggling to adapt to the changing world around them. When one falls ill, the other must journey to find their daughter.
It was produced by Red Carpet in co-production with 42film, Arizona Productions, Zdf/Arte and Bulgarian National Television.
Source: Beta Cinema
3 Days In Quiberon is Atef’s fifh feature. The director’s latest work sees her turn her attention to the enigmatic Austrian-born film star Romy Schneider, exploring what happened during Schneider’s last interview and photoshoot, which took place at a spa in Brittany...
German powerhouse Beta Cinema has rounded out its Berlin slate with the acquisition of three competition premieres: Emily Atef’s 3 Days In Quiberon, Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles, and Milko Lazarov’s programme closer Aga (which plays out of competition).
Screen can unveil an exclusive first trailer for Aga, director Lazarov’s second feature after his Venice 2013 debut Alienation. The film follows two Yakuts struggling to adapt to the changing world around them. When one falls ill, the other must journey to find their daughter.
It was produced by Red Carpet in co-production with 42film, Arizona Productions, Zdf/Arte and Bulgarian National Television.
Source: Beta Cinema
3 Days In Quiberon is Atef’s fifh feature. The director’s latest work sees her turn her attention to the enigmatic Austrian-born film star Romy Schneider, exploring what happened during Schneider’s last interview and photoshoot, which took place at a spa in Brittany...
- 2/9/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter joins the line-up Photo: Murray Pictures Limited/Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin Film Festival announced the final line-up of their competition section for the festival, which will run from February 15 to 25. They also finalised the Berlinale Special programme, adding Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter to the line-up.
Actor Willem Dafoe, European Film Market president Beki Probst, Israel Film Fund director Katriel Schory and director Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event. The festival will screen 10 of Dafoe's films, including Antichrist, The Hunter, Pasolini and The Life Aquatic. Menzel, meanwhile, will appear in Martin Sulík’s film The Interpreter.
The Norwegian production Utøya 22. juli (U - July 22), by Erik Poppe, completes the Competition programme of 24 films.
The full competition and Berlinale Special line-up is below:
Competition
3 Days in Quiberon(3 Tage in Quiberon) by Emily Atef (Germany/Austria/France) 7 Days in Entebbe by José Padilha (Us/UK) – Out...
The Berlin Film Festival announced the final line-up of their competition section for the festival, which will run from February 15 to 25. They also finalised the Berlinale Special programme, adding Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter to the line-up.
Actor Willem Dafoe, European Film Market president Beki Probst, Israel Film Fund director Katriel Schory and director Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event. The festival will screen 10 of Dafoe's films, including Antichrist, The Hunter, Pasolini and The Life Aquatic. Menzel, meanwhile, will appear in Martin Sulík’s film The Interpreter.
The Norwegian production Utøya 22. juli (U - July 22), by Erik Poppe, completes the Competition programme of 24 films.
The full competition and Berlinale Special line-up is below:
Competition
3 Days in Quiberon(3 Tage in Quiberon) by Emily Atef (Germany/Austria/France) 7 Days in Entebbe by José Padilha (Us/UK) – Out...
- 2/6/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter joins the line-up Photo: Murray Pictures Limited/Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin Film Festival announced the final line-up of their competition section for the festival, which will run from February 15 to 25. They also finalised the Berlinale Special programme, adding Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter to the line-up.
Actor Willem Dafoe, European Film Market president Beki Probst, Israel Film Fund director Katriel Schory and director Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event. The festival will screen 10 of Dafoe's films, including Antichrist, The Hunter, Pasolini and The Life Aquatic. Menzel, meanwhile, will appear in Martin Sulík’s film The Interpreter.
The Norwegian production Utøya 22. juli (U - July 22), by Erik Poppe, completes the Competition programme of 24 films.
The full competition and Berlinale Special line-up is below:
Competition
3 Days in Quiberon(3 Tage in Quiberon) by Emily Atef (Germany/Austria/France) 7 Days in Entebbe by José Padilha (Us/UK) – Out...
The Berlin Film Festival announced the final line-up of their competition section for the festival, which will run from February 15 to 25. They also finalised the Berlinale Special programme, adding Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter to the line-up.
Actor Willem Dafoe, European Film Market president Beki Probst, Israel Film Fund director Katriel Schory and director Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event. The festival will screen 10 of Dafoe's films, including Antichrist, The Hunter, Pasolini and The Life Aquatic. Menzel, meanwhile, will appear in Martin Sulík’s film The Interpreter.
The Norwegian production Utøya 22. juli (U - July 22), by Erik Poppe, completes the Competition programme of 24 films.
The full competition and Berlinale Special line-up is below:
Competition
3 Days in Quiberon(3 Tage in Quiberon) by Emily Atef (Germany/Austria/France) 7 Days in Entebbe by José Padilha (Us/UK) – Out...
- 2/6/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiri Menzel will also receive Berlinale Cameras.
Source: Murray Pictures/Berlin Film Festival
‘Songwriter’
Erik Poppe’s Anders Breivik drama ‘U - July 22’ has been added to the competition line-up for 2018 Berlin Film Festival, it was announced today (6 Feb) at the official programme press conference.
Dieter Kosslick, in his penultimate year as festival director, also revealed that the final Berlinale Special title will be Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter, directed by Murray Cummings. Both films will have their world premieres in Berlin.
It was announced that Willem Dafoe, Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event, which runs from 15 Feb-25 Feb.
Dafoe, nominated for an Oscar this year for The Florida Project, will be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear on February 20 before a screening of Daniel Nettheim’s 2011 film The Hunter. The festival will screen 10 of his films, including Antichrist, Mississipi Burning and [link...
Source: Murray Pictures/Berlin Film Festival
‘Songwriter’
Erik Poppe’s Anders Breivik drama ‘U - July 22’ has been added to the competition line-up for 2018 Berlin Film Festival, it was announced today (6 Feb) at the official programme press conference.
Dieter Kosslick, in his penultimate year as festival director, also revealed that the final Berlinale Special title will be Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter, directed by Murray Cummings. Both films will have their world premieres in Berlin.
It was announced that Willem Dafoe, Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event, which runs from 15 Feb-25 Feb.
Dafoe, nominated for an Oscar this year for The Florida Project, will be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear on February 20 before a screening of Daniel Nettheim’s 2011 film The Hunter. The festival will screen 10 of his films, including Antichrist, Mississipi Burning and [link...
- 2/6/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
New features from Steven Soderbergh and Brazilian director Jose Padilha (The Elite Squad) will have their world premieres in Berlin this year. Soderbergh's Unsane, starring The Crown's Claire Foy, and Padilha's 7 Days in Entebbe, with Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl, both secured gala, out-of-competition slots at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 15-25.
Berlin announced its final lineup Monday, adding two more titles to this year's competition: Lav Diaz's Philippine drama Season of the Devil and Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer Museum, from Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Aga, the latest from Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov, will also have...
Berlin announced its final lineup Monday, adding two more titles to this year's competition: Lav Diaz's Philippine drama Season of the Devil and Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer Museum, from Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Aga, the latest from Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov, will also have...
- 1/22/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Unga Astrid picked for Berlinale Special.
Source: Wiki Commons
Steven Soderbergh, José Padilha
Five more films have joined the main lieups of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 15 - 25). A further six films have been selected for the programme of the Berlinale Special.
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane will get an out of competition world premiere. It stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah and Juno Temple and was reportedly shot on iPhone.
Also premiering out of competition is José Padilha’s true story thriller 7 Days In Entebbe, starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl and Eddie Marsan.
New films from Lav Diaz and Alonso Ruizpalacios will play in competition.
Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince and Becoming Astrid by Pernille Fischer Christensen have been added to the Berlinale Special Gala section.
Read more: Robert Pattinson, Christian Petzold movies join Berlin Film Festival Competition
23 of the 24 titles...
Source: Wiki Commons
Steven Soderbergh, José Padilha
Five more films have joined the main lieups of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 15 - 25). A further six films have been selected for the programme of the Berlinale Special.
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane will get an out of competition world premiere. It stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah and Juno Temple and was reportedly shot on iPhone.
Also premiering out of competition is José Padilha’s true story thriller 7 Days In Entebbe, starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl and Eddie Marsan.
New films from Lav Diaz and Alonso Ruizpalacios will play in competition.
Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince and Becoming Astrid by Pernille Fischer Christensen have been added to the Berlinale Special Gala section.
Read more: Robert Pattinson, Christian Petzold movies join Berlin Film Festival Competition
23 of the 24 titles...
- 1/22/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Israeli title Fig Tree among selection.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has revealed its line-up of Work in Progress titles set to participate at the event’s industry strand CineLink.
The 10 titles include Balkan projects, as well as several from further afield, such as Alamork Davidian’s Fig Tree, which recently won an award at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point competition, and Reem Saleh’s Lebanon-Egypt doc What Comes Around.
The projects will be presented to around 40 industry delegates, and a jury consisting of Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival), Paz Lazaro (Berlin International Film Festival), Hedi Zardi (LuxBox), Petra Gobel (The Post Republic) and Serkan Yildirim (Trt) will award three prizes: the Post Republic Award (€50,000 in kind), the CineLink Restart Award (€20,000 in kind), and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (€30,000 in cash).
Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic commented: “The CineLink Work in Progress strand has proved to be incredibly effective for both the...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has revealed its line-up of Work in Progress titles set to participate at the event’s industry strand CineLink.
The 10 titles include Balkan projects, as well as several from further afield, such as Alamork Davidian’s Fig Tree, which recently won an award at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point competition, and Reem Saleh’s Lebanon-Egypt doc What Comes Around.
The projects will be presented to around 40 industry delegates, and a jury consisting of Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival), Paz Lazaro (Berlin International Film Festival), Hedi Zardi (LuxBox), Petra Gobel (The Post Republic) and Serkan Yildirim (Trt) will award three prizes: the Post Republic Award (€50,000 in kind), the CineLink Restart Award (€20,000 in kind), and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (€30,000 in cash).
Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic commented: “The CineLink Work in Progress strand has proved to be incredibly effective for both the...
- 7/26/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-nominated UK director Tanel Toom and Estonian documentary maker Jaak Kilmi are among 22 film-makers with film projects in the fifth edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (Jan 18-20).
Estonian-born Toom, who was nominated for The Confession (his graduation film from the UK’s Nfts), will be in Trieste with his fiction feature debut, the sci-fi thriller Gateway 6, to be produced by Matt Wilkinson and Ben Pullen’s Stigma Films, while Latvian producer Antra Gaile of Mistrus Media will be pitching Kilmi’s People From Nowhere.
A total of 10 documentaries and 12 fiction feature projects from 13 countries were selected from a record 285 submissions, including 57 from Italy, 38 from the UK, 19 from Canada, 15 from Ireland, 13 from the Us, and 143 from Eastern Europe.
Since Wemw’s 2015 edition has a focus on English-speaking countries, the line-up includes:
veteran Canadian film-maker Anne Henderson’s documentary project Missing Persona;
the Us-Italian co-production The Oldest Man Alive by Antonio Tibaldi, to be produced...
Estonian-born Toom, who was nominated for The Confession (his graduation film from the UK’s Nfts), will be in Trieste with his fiction feature debut, the sci-fi thriller Gateway 6, to be produced by Matt Wilkinson and Ben Pullen’s Stigma Films, while Latvian producer Antra Gaile of Mistrus Media will be pitching Kilmi’s People From Nowhere.
A total of 10 documentaries and 12 fiction feature projects from 13 countries were selected from a record 285 submissions, including 57 from Italy, 38 from the UK, 19 from Canada, 15 from Ireland, 13 from the Us, and 143 from Eastern Europe.
Since Wemw’s 2015 edition has a focus on English-speaking countries, the line-up includes:
veteran Canadian film-maker Anne Henderson’s documentary project Missing Persona;
the Us-Italian co-production The Oldest Man Alive by Antonio Tibaldi, to be produced...
- 1/5/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Next Tuesday, Sept. 30 is the cut-off date for contenders in the Best Foreign Language Film category to be released in their home countries. Slowly but surely all corners of the globe have been declaring their participants, and as these things go, it's been a relatively drama-free build so far. Ok, there have been a couple of eyebrow raisers. Bulgaria's submission, for instance, caused quite a stir some weeks back when Ivan Nichev's "Bulgarian Rhapsody" got the call. The director being a member of the Bulgarian National Film Council that made the choice, as well as the fact that the film has barely been seen (ergo globally vetted) outside of Bulgaria, caused many in the region to speak up. An online petition was even launched to protest the picture's submission and outdated representation of the Bulgaria's film culture. Favorites for the selection in the lead-ip included Maya Vitkova's Sundance...
- 9/22/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
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