Imanol Rayo’s “Dog Days,” a coming-of-age story set one sizzling summer in the Spanish countryside, won the top prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which wrapped with an award ceremony Wednesday night.
The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development. Producer Iker Ganuza of Spanish production outfit Lamia was on hand to accept the prize from the jury, which praised the film as “a story about both emerging and buried passions, approached with a very personal touch of sensibility.”
Speaking to Variety ahead of the Thessaloniki industry event, Rayo described his “sensual summer story” as “a reflection on the way in which the intervention of the human being or ‘climate change’ modifies the landscapes, habits and lives of ordinary people.” The director’s debut feature, “Two Brothers,...
The Basque director’s fourth feature took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development. Producer Iker Ganuza of Spanish production outfit Lamia was on hand to accept the prize from the jury, which praised the film as “a story about both emerging and buried passions, approached with a very personal touch of sensibility.”
Speaking to Variety ahead of the Thessaloniki industry event, Rayo described his “sensual summer story” as “a reflection on the way in which the intervention of the human being or ‘climate change’ modifies the landscapes, habits and lives of ordinary people.” The director’s debut feature, “Two Brothers,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Copenhagen’s Cph Pix (April 9-22) will be bookended by films from two Danish directors shooting in the UK – Jeppe Ronde’s Welsh teen suicide drama Bridgend [pictured] and Thomas Vinterberg’s Thomas Hardy adaptation, Far From The Madding Crowd.
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
- 3/12/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Fund awards a total of $8.3m to new titles from Susanne Bier, Miguel Gomes and Yorgos Lanthimos among others.
The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has agreed to support 20 projects of feature films, animations and documentaries for a total amount of $8.3m (€6.1m). The meeting ran from Oct 15-17 inVilnius.
Titles to benefit include:
Kosac - Zvonimir Juric (Croatia)
(Croatia, Slovenia)
Another Day of Life - Raul de la Fuente (Spain), Nenow Damian (Poland)
(Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany) Animation
As Mil e uma Noites - Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
(Portugal, France, Germany)
FRANCOØNIA, le Louvre sous l’occupation - Alexandre Sokourov (Russia)
(France, Germany, Netherlands) Documentary
The Girl King - Mika Kaurismaki (Finland)
(Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden)
Druga strana svega - Mila Turajlic (Serbia) Documentary
(Serbia, France)
Onder het hart - Nicole Van Kilsdonk (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Belgium)
Melody - Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium)
(Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
Le Portail - Régis Wargnier (France)
(France...
The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has agreed to support 20 projects of feature films, animations and documentaries for a total amount of $8.3m (€6.1m). The meeting ran from Oct 15-17 inVilnius.
Titles to benefit include:
Kosac - Zvonimir Juric (Croatia)
(Croatia, Slovenia)
Another Day of Life - Raul de la Fuente (Spain), Nenow Damian (Poland)
(Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany) Animation
As Mil e uma Noites - Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
(Portugal, France, Germany)
FRANCOØNIA, le Louvre sous l’occupation - Alexandre Sokourov (Russia)
(France, Germany, Netherlands) Documentary
The Girl King - Mika Kaurismaki (Finland)
(Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden)
Druga strana svega - Mila Turajlic (Serbia) Documentary
(Serbia, France)
Onder het hart - Nicole Van Kilsdonk (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Belgium)
Melody - Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium)
(Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
Le Portail - Régis Wargnier (France)
(France...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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