The Portuguese festival showcases documentaries from around the world.
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Acid focuses on first films and films without French distribution.
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 17-26. Acid focuses on films without French distributors and first features.
Six titles are world premieres including Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated family film Chicken For Linda!, which stars Laetitia Dosch and Clotilde Hesme in a story about a mother who feels guilty for punishing her daughter and tries to make it up to her by making her favourite chicken dish. Charades are handling international sales.
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 17-26. Acid focuses on films without French distributors and first features.
Six titles are world premieres including Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated family film Chicken For Linda!, which stars Laetitia Dosch and Clotilde Hesme in a story about a mother who feels guilty for punishing her daughter and tries to make it up to her by making her favourite chicken dish. Charades are handling international sales.
- 4/18/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
“It’s the place to be for non-fiction,” as one attendee put it.
A high-quality Dox:Award competition is augmenting Cph:dox’s position as the go-to documentary event of the season according to industry attendees, as its 2023 edition came to a close this weekend.
“With some festivals becoming more cutting-edge politically and artistically, we do need a place we can distribute titles, where there is a demand for the best programmes for existing and new audiences,” said Esther van Messel, founder and CEO at Swiss production, sales and distribution company First Hand Films, who said the event is ”gearing up to...
A high-quality Dox:Award competition is augmenting Cph:dox’s position as the go-to documentary event of the season according to industry attendees, as its 2023 edition came to a close this weekend.
“With some festivals becoming more cutting-edge politically and artistically, we do need a place we can distribute titles, where there is a demand for the best programmes for existing and new audiences,” said Esther van Messel, founder and CEO at Swiss production, sales and distribution company First Hand Films, who said the event is ”gearing up to...
- 3/27/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The busy public hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clichy has one psychiatrist on staff. Every day, as doggedly tracked by the nervy handheld camera of Nicolas Peduzzi’s “On the Edge,” he deals with some of the most intractable afflictions the hospital ever sees. His patients, often referred to him after being treated for other ailments, can be mentally ill, traumatized, addicted, depressed, suicidal or any combination thereof. After Claire Simon’s wonderful “Our Body” and Nicolas Philibert’s Golden Bear winner “On the Adamant,” this Cph:dox award winner is the third major doc in about as many weeks to be set deep in the belly of the French healthcare system, and while it is its own, remarkable achievement, it also merits the comparison.
Some of the doctor’s patients turn violent, and are in need of restraining and sedation. Some are hostile. Still others can, heartbreakingly, prove to...
Some of the doctor’s patients turn violent, and are in need of restraining and sedation. Some are hostile. Still others can, heartbreakingly, prove to...
- 3/25/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Swiss sales agency Lightdox has acquired the international rights to feature documentary “On the Edge” by Nicolas Peduzzi, which just had its world premiere at Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox in the Dox:award competition, and received a Special Mention from the jury, who said the film “gripped us, and took us on a journey through the labyrinth of a human mind.”
The film centers on Jamal Abdel Kader, who is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, listen to their words, and protect them from their own demons. However, the public health service is doing badly. There isn’t enough time, the caregivers are under severe strain as the institution is understaffed and underfunded. Yet Jamal and his colleagues keep striving to fulfil their mission: to heal bodies and souls.
Anna Berthollet, co-founder and CEO of Lightdox,...
The film centers on Jamal Abdel Kader, who is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, listen to their words, and protect them from their own demons. However, the public health service is doing badly. There isn’t enough time, the caregivers are under severe strain as the institution is understaffed and underfunded. Yet Jamal and his colleagues keep striving to fulfil their mission: to heal bodies and souls.
Anna Berthollet, co-founder and CEO of Lightdox,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The top Dox:Award at Cph:dox, the Copenhagen documentary festival, has gone to “Motherland” by Ukrainian-Belarussian director Alexander Mihalkovich (“My Granny From Mars”) and Ukrainian director Hanna Badziaka.
Described by Variety as “an ominous portrait of the oppressive culture of cruelty in post-Soviet Belarus,” the film follows Svetlana, whose son died during his military service as the result of violent abuse, in her quest to expose and prosecute those responsible for his death.
Dedicating the award to “all the Ukrainians fighting Russian aggression and to Belarussian political prisoners,” the directing duo thanked all those who helped them make the film, in particular the protagonists, “who were brave to stand in front of the camera and patient with us as it was a long journey of four years.”
Handing out the prize, the jury said: “This was such a cinematic and meaningful film that took its time unfolding the complexity of living...
Described by Variety as “an ominous portrait of the oppressive culture of cruelty in post-Soviet Belarus,” the film follows Svetlana, whose son died during his military service as the result of violent abuse, in her quest to expose and prosecute those responsible for his death.
Dedicating the award to “all the Ukrainians fighting Russian aggression and to Belarussian political prisoners,” the directing duo thanked all those who helped them make the film, in particular the protagonists, “who were brave to stand in front of the camera and patient with us as it was a long journey of four years.”
Handing out the prize, the jury said: “This was such a cinematic and meaningful film that took its time unfolding the complexity of living...
- 3/24/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Further winners include ‘Seven Winters in Tehran’, ‘Mrs. Hansen & The Bad Companions’.
Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka’s Motherland, about the brutal military culture in Belarus, has won the main Dox:Award prize at Cph:dox 2023.
The Sweden-Ukraine-Norway co-production follows two storylines: a woman trying to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the Belarusian military after her son was found dead while in the army; and a group of young friends from the techno underground who face being drafted soon.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The awards were handed out at a ceremony this evening...
Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka’s Motherland, about the brutal military culture in Belarus, has won the main Dox:Award prize at Cph:dox 2023.
The Sweden-Ukraine-Norway co-production follows two storylines: a woman trying to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the Belarusian military after her son was found dead while in the army; and a group of young friends from the techno underground who face being drafted soon.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The awards were handed out at a ceremony this evening...
- 3/24/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
For the first time, all 13 titles in the festival’s main competition are world premieres.
Cph:dox has selected 13 titles for its main Dox:Award competition, including the world premiere of Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s A Storm Foretold, about Roger Stone, former advisor to Donald Trump.
For the first time, all 13 titles in the Dox:Award selection will have their world debuts in Copenhagen.
Scroll down for the full list of Dox:Award titles
Written and directed by Guldbrandsen, A Storm Foretold takes Stone as its central character in documenting how Trump’s presidential period reached a logical conclusion with the attack on the US...
Cph:dox has selected 13 titles for its main Dox:Award competition, including the world premiere of Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s A Storm Foretold, about Roger Stone, former advisor to Donald Trump.
For the first time, all 13 titles in the Dox:Award selection will have their world debuts in Copenhagen.
Scroll down for the full list of Dox:Award titles
Written and directed by Guldbrandsen, A Storm Foretold takes Stone as its central character in documenting how Trump’s presidential period reached a logical conclusion with the attack on the US...
- 2/15/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Fox Entertainment’s MarVista Entertainment is entering into a development and production deal with TelevisaUnivision to produce 10 original Spanish-language films for ViX Plus, both sides announced Monday. ViX Plus is TelevisaUnivision’s Spanish-language subscription-based video on-demand offering; MarVista will produce 10 films across the genres of family, comedy, romance and holiday that will be available to stream exclusively on the service. TelevisaUnivision will hold the worldwide streaming distribution rights for all ten films, while MarVista is set to oversee the global distribution outside of streaming.
“It is an incredible honor to be a founding creative production partner of TelevisaUnivision on the launch of ViX Plus,” said Fernando Szew, CEO of MarVista Entertainment. “MarVista and Fox Entertainment take great pride in being leaders in delivering diverse stories and premium content across multiple genres for all viewers. We’re looking forward to introducing these initial ten films to what undoubtedly will be a...
“It is an incredible honor to be a founding creative production partner of TelevisaUnivision on the launch of ViX Plus,” said Fernando Szew, CEO of MarVista Entertainment. “MarVista and Fox Entertainment take great pride in being leaders in delivering diverse stories and premium content across multiple genres for all viewers. We’re looking forward to introducing these initial ten films to what undoubtedly will be a...
- 2/28/2022
- by Sasha Urban and Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Nicolas Peduzzi’s Houston-set documentary Ghost Song opened parallel Cannes section Acid in 2021.
Vice World News has acquired world rights for French director Nicolas Peduzzi’s documentary Ghost Song, which opened parallel Cannes section Acid in 2021.
Filmed in Houston, Texas, as a hurricane approaches, the feature documentary follows three separate characters, including rapper Omb Bloodbath, who was a close friend of George Floyd having been mentored by him as a young adult.
After its Acid debut, it went on to win the best film prize in the Permanent Revolutions section of the Seville Film Festival last November.
Vice World News...
Vice World News has acquired world rights for French director Nicolas Peduzzi’s documentary Ghost Song, which opened parallel Cannes section Acid in 2021.
Filmed in Houston, Texas, as a hurricane approaches, the feature documentary follows three separate characters, including rapper Omb Bloodbath, who was a close friend of George Floyd having been mentored by him as a young adult.
After its Acid debut, it went on to win the best film prize in the Permanent Revolutions section of the Seville Film Festival last November.
Vice World News...
- 2/14/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Southern Spain’s annual showcase of standout recent European auteur cinema, the Seville European Film Festival, wrapped its 18th edition Saturday, Nov. 13 with a slew of prizes scattered among its various contenders, with the top prize, the Giraldillo de Oro, going to Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom” and its lead, Franz Rogowski, nabbing the best actor award. The Andalusian screenwriters association, Asecan, also chose the drama as the best film in the festival’s official selection.
Set in post-war Germany, “Great Freedom” has been racking up rave reviews and prizes across the festival circuit, starting with its Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize and most recently in Athens and Sarajevo where it topped their awards. In it, Hans, played by Rogowski, is imprisoned repeatedly for being gay. The only constant in his life is his cellmate, Viktor, a convicted murderer, with whom his initial repulsion turns to something akin to love.
Set in post-war Germany, “Great Freedom” has been racking up rave reviews and prizes across the festival circuit, starting with its Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prize and most recently in Athens and Sarajevo where it topped their awards. In it, Hans, played by Rogowski, is imprisoned repeatedly for being gay. The only constant in his life is his cellmate, Viktor, a convicted murderer, with whom his initial repulsion turns to something akin to love.
- 11/14/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The film is about the imminent arrival of a hurricane in Houston.
Paris-based MPM Premium has boarded sales on Nicolas Peduzzi’s documentary Ghost Song, which opened Cannes’ Acid section.
Filmed in Houston, Texas, as the city prepares for the imminent arrival of a hurricane, the work follows three separate characters, including a rapper OMBBloodbath, who was a mentee and friend of George Floyd.
It is Peduzzi’s second feature documentary after Southern Belle, about a troubled Texas heiress, which won the grand prize in the French competition at FIDMarseille 2017.
MPM head of sales Quentin Worthington is reporting strong interest...
Paris-based MPM Premium has boarded sales on Nicolas Peduzzi’s documentary Ghost Song, which opened Cannes’ Acid section.
Filmed in Houston, Texas, as the city prepares for the imminent arrival of a hurricane, the work follows three separate characters, including a rapper OMBBloodbath, who was a mentee and friend of George Floyd.
It is Peduzzi’s second feature documentary after Southern Belle, about a troubled Texas heiress, which won the grand prize in the French competition at FIDMarseille 2017.
MPM head of sales Quentin Worthington is reporting strong interest...
- 7/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Nine prizes will be handed out by the FIDLab jury.
FIDLab, the international co-production incubator of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille has once again gone virtual, and is showcasing 16 works from filmmakers from across the globe from June 14-18. The festival runs from July 19-25.
Despite the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic, FIDLab head Fabienne Moris says it hasn’t affected the number of submissions.
“On the contrary, there has been more than a 60 percent increase in applications over the past two years, linked to the growing reputation of FIDLab,” she notes.
Moris points to such examples Manque de la Banca’s Ski,...
FIDLab, the international co-production incubator of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille has once again gone virtual, and is showcasing 16 works from filmmakers from across the globe from June 14-18. The festival runs from July 19-25.
Despite the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic, FIDLab head Fabienne Moris says it hasn’t affected the number of submissions.
“On the contrary, there has been more than a 60 percent increase in applications over the past two years, linked to the growing reputation of FIDLab,” she notes.
Moris points to such examples Manque de la Banca’s Ski,...
- 6/18/2021
- by Nikki Baughan
- ScreenDaily
A jury of Colombian producer Diana Bustamante Escobar, Italian curator Leonardo Bigazzi, and David Schwartz of Netflix’s Paris Theatre in New York will choose the award winners.
FIDLab, the international co-production incubator of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille has once again gone virtual, and is showcasing 16 works from filmmakers from across the globe from June 14-18. The festival runs from July 19-25.
Despite the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic, FIDLab head Fabienne Moris says it hasn’t affected the number of submissions. “On the contrary, there has been more than a 60 percent increase in applications over the past two years,...
FIDLab, the international co-production incubator of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille has once again gone virtual, and is showcasing 16 works from filmmakers from across the globe from June 14-18. The festival runs from July 19-25.
Despite the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic, FIDLab head Fabienne Moris says it hasn’t affected the number of submissions. “On the contrary, there has been more than a 60 percent increase in applications over the past two years,...
- 6/18/2021
- by Nikki Baughan
- ScreenDaily
The lineup for the 2021 Cannes Acid has been announced. See also the full lineups of the Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight and Critics’ Week.AyaFEATURE FILMSAya (Simon Coulibaly Gillard)The Candidate (Thomas Paulot)A Corsican Summer (Pascal Tagnati)Down With The King (Diego Ongaro)Ghost Town (Nicolas Peduzzi)Little Palestine, Diary Of A Siege (Abdallah Al-Khatib)Soy Libre (Laure Portier)Vedette (Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard)Venus By The Water (Lin Wan)...
- 6/8/2021
- MUBI
A full picture of the Cannes Film Festival is now coming into focus with the unveiling of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup. Following the Official Selection and the Critics’ Week lineups, this sidebar features Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated sequel The Souvenir Part II, as well as new films by Miguel Gomes, Jonas Carpignano, Clio Barnard, Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, Matías Piñeiro, and more.
See below.
Features
A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère)
The Braves (Anaïs Volpé)
A Brighter Tomorrow (Yassine Qnia)
Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesen)
The Employer and the Employee (Manuel Nieto)
Europa (Haider Rashid)
Futura
Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
The Hill where Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)
Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
Magnetic Beats (Vincent Cardona)
Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)
Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)
Neptune Frost
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
Our Men (Rachel Lang)
Returning to Reims (Fragments) (Jean-Gabriel Périot...
See below.
Features
A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère)
The Braves (Anaïs Volpé)
A Brighter Tomorrow (Yassine Qnia)
Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesen)
The Employer and the Employee (Manuel Nieto)
Europa (Haider Rashid)
Futura
Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
The Hill where Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)
Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
Magnetic Beats (Vincent Cardona)
Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)
Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)
Neptune Frost
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
Our Men (Rachel Lang)
Returning to Reims (Fragments) (Jean-Gabriel Périot...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Past attendees include Oscar-nominated Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, Berlinale Golden Bear winner Radu Jude.
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the nine independent features it will be showcasing in its parallel Cannes section this July.
International features include Belgium-based director Simon Coulibaly Gillard’s debut feature Aya. It revolves around a young girl whose life in a coastal village in the southern Ivory Coast is threatened by rising sea waters.
The selection also features Syria-born Palestinian filmmaker Abdullah Al Khateeb’s documentary Little Palestine, Diary Of A Siege about life in the Palestinian...
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the nine independent features it will be showcasing in its parallel Cannes section this July.
International features include Belgium-based director Simon Coulibaly Gillard’s debut feature Aya. It revolves around a young girl whose life in a coastal village in the southern Ivory Coast is threatened by rising sea waters.
The selection also features Syria-born Palestinian filmmaker Abdullah Al Khateeb’s documentary Little Palestine, Diary Of A Siege about life in the Palestinian...
- 6/8/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
10th edition of lab selects 12 projects.
French festival FIDMarseille, known for its focus on experimental, boundary-pushing work spanning both documentary and fiction, has unveiled the selection of projects due to be presented at the 10th edition of its project development event.
Running July 12-13, the FIDLab will feature 12 projects, selected out of 322 submissions.
They includeThe River, the latest film from Lebanese filmmaker Ghassan Salhab after his well-travelled, awarding-winning dramas The Valley and The Mountain.
It revolves around a younger woman and older man whose lunch in a mountain restaurant is disrupted by fighter planes overhead, pushing them out into nature...
French festival FIDMarseille, known for its focus on experimental, boundary-pushing work spanning both documentary and fiction, has unveiled the selection of projects due to be presented at the 10th edition of its project development event.
Running July 12-13, the FIDLab will feature 12 projects, selected out of 322 submissions.
They includeThe River, the latest film from Lebanese filmmaker Ghassan Salhab after his well-travelled, awarding-winning dramas The Valley and The Mountain.
It revolves around a younger woman and older man whose lunch in a mountain restaurant is disrupted by fighter planes overhead, pushing them out into nature...
- 5/18/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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