The Berlinale has revealed the lineup of its Co-Production Market and we’ve got some projects we’ll be keeping a close eye on. At the top of our interest list, we find Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro, Stonewalling tandem Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka and Andreas Fontana who gave us Azor will benefit from the special Rotterdam-Berlinale Express backing for his next project: The Diplomats. 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching. Here they are:
Official Selection:
“Antonivka” (director: Kateryna Gornostai), Moon Man, Ukraine & Just a Moment, Lithuania
“Burnings” (director: Jerry Carlsson), Verket Produktion, Sweden
“Divorce During the War” (director: Andrius Blaževičius), M-Films, Lithuania
“Folk Play” (director: Mirjana Karanović), This and That Productions, Serbia
“Fragments of This Beauty” (director: Burak Çevik), Vayka Film, Turkey & Fol Films, Turkey
“The Girl With the Leica” (director: Alina Marazzi), Vivo Film, Italy
“Ich bin Marika” (director: Hajni Kis), Proton Cinema, Hungary
“Idda’s Breath” (director: Irene Dionisio), Kino Produzioni,...
Official Selection:
“Antonivka” (director: Kateryna Gornostai), Moon Man, Ukraine & Just a Moment, Lithuania
“Burnings” (director: Jerry Carlsson), Verket Produktion, Sweden
“Divorce During the War” (director: Andrius Blaževičius), M-Films, Lithuania
“Folk Play” (director: Mirjana Karanović), This and That Productions, Serbia
“Fragments of This Beauty” (director: Burak Çevik), Vayka Film, Turkey & Fol Films, Turkey
“The Girl With the Leica” (director: Alina Marazzi), Vivo Film, Italy
“Ich bin Marika” (director: Hajni Kis), Proton Cinema, Hungary
“Idda’s Breath” (director: Irene Dionisio), Kino Produzioni,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 15-25, has revealed the lineup of its Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Producers of 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching to potential financing and co-production partners at the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb. 17-21. Seventeen projects are directed by women. There were 318 submissions, a slight increase from last year.
Eighteen of the projects are already partly financed with budgets ranging between Euros 600,000 and Euros 5 million ($5.47 million). Among the directors whose new works are likely to spark interest are Ukrainian filmmakers Kateryna Gornostai, who won a Crystal Bear for “Stop-Zemlia” in 2021, and Antonio Lukich, the director of “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” which played in Venice in 2022, Italy’s Andrea Pallaoro, Serbian director and actor Mirjana Karanović, and the Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka.
The Berlinale Directors section features three brand-new projects by directors who have had films at the Berlinale in the past: “Alma” from Sally Potter,...
Producers of 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching to potential financing and co-production partners at the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb. 17-21. Seventeen projects are directed by women. There were 318 submissions, a slight increase from last year.
Eighteen of the projects are already partly financed with budgets ranging between Euros 600,000 and Euros 5 million ($5.47 million). Among the directors whose new works are likely to spark interest are Ukrainian filmmakers Kateryna Gornostai, who won a Crystal Bear for “Stop-Zemlia” in 2021, and Antonio Lukich, the director of “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” which played in Venice in 2022, Italy’s Andrea Pallaoro, Serbian director and actor Mirjana Karanović, and the Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka.
The Berlinale Directors section features three brand-new projects by directors who have had films at the Berlinale in the past: “Alma” from Sally Potter,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the 34 projects, hailing from 27 countries and selected from 318 submissions, that will be showcased at its Berlinale Co-Production Market, running from February 17 to 21. (scroll down for full list)
The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemila) and Antonio Lukich as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Monica), Turkey’s Burak Çevik (Hesitation Wound), Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife) and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling).
The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros.
The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.
Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative,...
The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemila) and Antonio Lukich as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Monica), Turkey’s Burak Çevik (Hesitation Wound), Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife) and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling).
The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros.
The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.
Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Titles include Sofia Brockenshire’s ‘The Dependents’.
Eight feature documentaries will have world premieres in the international feature competition of Dok Leipzig, which runs from October 17-23 in Germany.
World debuts in the 13-strong international competition include Sofia Brockenshire’s The Dependents, an Argentina-Canada co-production about the life of an official in the Canadian Immigration Service.
Scroll down for the full competition selection
Brockenshire previously co-directed One Sister, a fiction film that debuted in Biennale College – Cinema at Venice Film Festival in 2016.
The international competition section will also launch Joseph Mangat’s Divine Factory, a Filipino-us-Taiwanese co-production that looks at the economic,...
Eight feature documentaries will have world premieres in the international feature competition of Dok Leipzig, which runs from October 17-23 in Germany.
World debuts in the 13-strong international competition include Sofia Brockenshire’s The Dependents, an Argentina-Canada co-production about the life of an official in the Canadian Immigration Service.
Scroll down for the full competition selection
Brockenshire previously co-directed One Sister, a fiction film that debuted in Biennale College – Cinema at Venice Film Festival in 2016.
The international competition section will also launch Joseph Mangat’s Divine Factory, a Filipino-us-Taiwanese co-production that looks at the economic,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Dok Co-Pro Market will run from October 17-18.
New documentaries from Jasmila Zbanic, Ziad Kalthoum and Susanne Kim are among 34 projects from 32 countries selected for this year’s Dok Co-Pro Market (October 17-18) taking place during Dok Leipzig.
Zbanic, whose documentary One Day In Sarajevo was shown at Dok Leipzig in 2015, will be pitching Blum about the Jewish Bosnian businessman and philanthropist Emerik Blum. Syrian filmmaker Kalthoum, whose 2017 film Taste of Cement won the Grand Prix in Nyon among numerous other awards, will be in Leipzig with On The Edge Of My Shadow which already has production partners from Germany,...
New documentaries from Jasmila Zbanic, Ziad Kalthoum and Susanne Kim are among 34 projects from 32 countries selected for this year’s Dok Co-Pro Market (October 17-18) taking place during Dok Leipzig.
Zbanic, whose documentary One Day In Sarajevo was shown at Dok Leipzig in 2015, will be pitching Blum about the Jewish Bosnian businessman and philanthropist Emerik Blum. Syrian filmmaker Kalthoum, whose 2017 film Taste of Cement won the Grand Prix in Nyon among numerous other awards, will be in Leipzig with On The Edge Of My Shadow which already has production partners from Germany,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Taste Of Cement Margate Film Festival returned to Kent for its fourth year this week with a five-day programme of in-venue screenings. From tomorrow a selection from the festival will be available to watch online for viewers further afield.
This year’s theme of ‘Borders/Boundaries’ explores ever-present social and global tensions, and in particular, looks at borders and boundaries of a more intangible nature, such as political borders, personal boundaries, relationships, identity and spirit.
Among the films screening in the online programme is beautifully shot essay documentary Taste Of Cement. Ziad Kalthoum's film roams a Lebanese construction site where most of the workers are Syrian and face a strict curfew on when they come and go from the site. The film offers a thoughtful and lingering meditation on construction and destruction - as the workers rebuild Beirut in the daytime while watching their homeland come under bombardment at night.
This year’s theme of ‘Borders/Boundaries’ explores ever-present social and global tensions, and in particular, looks at borders and boundaries of a more intangible nature, such as political borders, personal boundaries, relationships, identity and spirit.
Among the films screening in the online programme is beautifully shot essay documentary Taste Of Cement. Ziad Kalthoum's film roams a Lebanese construction site where most of the workers are Syrian and face a strict curfew on when they come and go from the site. The film offers a thoughtful and lingering meditation on construction and destruction - as the workers rebuild Beirut in the daytime while watching their homeland come under bombardment at night.
- 10/31/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Five works in progress and 11 films in development due to be showcased at event running December 8-11.
The Red Souk, the industry component of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival’s project market, has unveiled fresh details for its inaugural edition running December 8-11.
Running within the framework of its larger parent festival, which will also mark its first edition this year from December 6-15, the souk will focus on Arab and African filmmakers and will feature a project market, work in progress screenings, an exhibition space and an industry talks programme.
Lebanese-French director Wissam Charaf’s Beirut-set romantic drama Dirty Difficult Dangerous,...
The Red Souk, the industry component of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival’s project market, has unveiled fresh details for its inaugural edition running December 8-11.
Running within the framework of its larger parent festival, which will also mark its first edition this year from December 6-15, the souk will focus on Arab and African filmmakers and will feature a project market, work in progress screenings, an exhibition space and an industry talks programme.
Lebanese-French director Wissam Charaf’s Beirut-set romantic drama Dirty Difficult Dangerous,...
- 9/30/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Mary Berry BBC Series
Great British Bake Off alum and Britain’s Best Home Cook judge Mary Berry is reteaming with BBC One for Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts. The three-part series, which will also air on iPlayer, sees Berry help novice cooks who want to surprise a loved one with a great meal, teaching them a selection of achievable, impressive dishes. On the day of the special event, Berry and two celebrity helpers will be on hand to assist. Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts is produced by Rumpus Media. Emily Hudd and Kelly Sparks are executive producers. Applications for aspiring cooks are open and an air date has yet to be set.
Viacom Buys Chilean TV Network
ViacomCBS Networks International has closed previously announced acquisition of Chilevisión from WarnerMedia. The acquisition includes Chilevisión’s free-to-air television network, which is Chile...
Great British Bake Off alum and Britain’s Best Home Cook judge Mary Berry is reteaming with BBC One for Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts. The three-part series, which will also air on iPlayer, sees Berry help novice cooks who want to surprise a loved one with a great meal, teaching them a selection of achievable, impressive dishes. On the day of the special event, Berry and two celebrity helpers will be on hand to assist. Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts is produced by Rumpus Media. Emily Hudd and Kelly Sparks are executive producers. Applications for aspiring cooks are open and an air date has yet to be set.
Viacom Buys Chilean TV Network
ViacomCBS Networks International has closed previously announced acquisition of Chilevisión from WarnerMedia. The acquisition includes Chilevisión’s free-to-air television network, which is Chile...
- 9/30/2021
- by Tom Grater, Nancy Tartaglione and Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
An economic crisis, Covid-19 spike and devastating Beirut explosion have all impacted the industry.
The recent experiences of the filmmakers behind Sarajevo CineLink title The Maiden’s Pond have revealed the multiple challenges facing those operating within the troubled Lebanese film industry.
The film, written and directed by Emmy award-winning Bassem Breche, was first brought to Sarajevo in 2017 as a guest project at the CineLink Coproduction market through the collaboration between the festival and the Doha Film Institute. It is close to being finished.
However, a dramatic spike in Covid cases in Lebanon combined with the economic crisis and massive...
The recent experiences of the filmmakers behind Sarajevo CineLink title The Maiden’s Pond have revealed the multiple challenges facing those operating within the troubled Lebanese film industry.
The film, written and directed by Emmy award-winning Bassem Breche, was first brought to Sarajevo in 2017 as a guest project at the CineLink Coproduction market through the collaboration between the festival and the Doha Film Institute. It is close to being finished.
However, a dramatic spike in Covid cases in Lebanon combined with the economic crisis and massive...
- 8/20/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Two of the season’s most reliable groups when it comes to forecasting the eventual Academy Awards nominees for Documentary Feature have now announced the shortlists for their own programs. The International Documentary Association (Ida) and Doc NYC, one of the largest documentary film festivals in the country, both boast great track records with either nominating, awarding and/or screening major contenders for the Oscars in recent years.
Doc NYC, who announced a short list of 15 titles for their 2018 festival which runs from November 8th to 15th, has overlapped their own short list with the academy’s short list with 9 to 10 titles in each of the last five years. In addition, they’ve included 4 to 5 titles that went on to be Oscar-nominated and in the last seven years they’ve screened the documentary that won the Academy Award.
Ida is comparably prescient, having matched their award nominees with the eventual...
Doc NYC, who announced a short list of 15 titles for their 2018 festival which runs from November 8th to 15th, has overlapped their own short list with the academy’s short list with 9 to 10 titles in each of the last five years. In addition, they’ve included 4 to 5 titles that went on to be Oscar-nominated and in the last seven years they’ve screened the documentary that won the Academy Award.
Ida is comparably prescient, having matched their award nominees with the eventual...
- 10/15/2018
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
Mohamed Bakri, left, named Best Actor at the awards for Wajib, which also took home the Best Film and Best Screenplay accolades
Wajib was the big winner at the second Annual Critics Awards organised by the Arab Cinema Center. Annemarie Jacir's drama about a father and his ex-pat son coming together in Nazareth to deliver wedding invitations was named Best Film and took home the award for Best Screenplay. Mohamed Bakri, who stars as the film's dad - alongside his real-life son Saleh - was named Best Actor.
The award for Best Director went to the Oscar-nominated Ziad Doueiri for The Insult - exploring a clash between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee - while Mariam Al Ferjani was given the Best Actress prize for her role as a woman who faces a night of hell at the hands of the authorities after being raped in Beauty And The Dogs.
Wajib was the big winner at the second Annual Critics Awards organised by the Arab Cinema Center. Annemarie Jacir's drama about a father and his ex-pat son coming together in Nazareth to deliver wedding invitations was named Best Film and took home the award for Best Screenplay. Mohamed Bakri, who stars as the film's dad - alongside his real-life son Saleh - was named Best Actor.
The award for Best Director went to the Oscar-nominated Ziad Doueiri for The Insult - exploring a clash between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee - while Mariam Al Ferjani was given the Best Actress prize for her role as a woman who faces a night of hell at the hands of the authorities after being raped in Beauty And The Dogs.
- 5/16/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Wajib’ took best film and best screenplay.
Palestinian director and Un Certain Regard jury member Annemarie Jacir scooped best film and best screenplay for father-son drama Wajib in the second edition of the Arab Critics Awards, which were announced in Cannes on Saturday.
Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri clinched best director for his Oscar-nominated political drama The Insult.
In other awards for Wajib, Mohamed Bakri clinched best actor for his performance as a father personally delivering invitations for his daughter’s marriage as per Nazareth tradition with his estranged son, who has returned home for the wedding.
Mariam Alferjani, a Screen...
Palestinian director and Un Certain Regard jury member Annemarie Jacir scooped best film and best screenplay for father-son drama Wajib in the second edition of the Arab Critics Awards, which were announced in Cannes on Saturday.
Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri clinched best director for his Oscar-nominated political drama The Insult.
In other awards for Wajib, Mohamed Bakri clinched best actor for his performance as a father personally delivering invitations for his daughter’s marriage as per Nazareth tradition with his estranged son, who has returned home for the wedding.
Mariam Alferjani, a Screen...
- 5/13/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Emily Atef’s film about actress Romy Schneider receives 10 nods including best film, best direction.
Emily Atef’s Berlinale Competition film 3 Days in Quiberon has dominated the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (also known as the Lola Awards).
It scored ten nods, including best feature film, best direction, best lead actress (for Marie Bäumer), best supporting actor, best cinematography and best film score.
The Rohfilm Factory production will compete in the best feature film category with another of this year’s Berlinale competition films, Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles, the Berlinale Special title The Silent Revolution,...
Emily Atef’s Berlinale Competition film 3 Days in Quiberon has dominated the nominations for this year’s German Film Awards (also known as the Lola Awards).
It scored ten nods, including best feature film, best direction, best lead actress (for Marie Bäumer), best supporting actor, best cinematography and best film score.
The Rohfilm Factory production will compete in the best feature film category with another of this year’s Berlinale competition films, Thomas Stuber’s In The Aisles, the Berlinale Special title The Silent Revolution,...
- 3/14/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Titles include films by Sergei Loznitsa and Barbet Schroeder.Scroll Down For Full List
The European Film Academy has unveiled the 15 documentaries that have been recommended for nomination for the 2017 European Film Awards.
They include Austerlitz from Palme d’Or nominated director Sergei Loznitsa, which premiered at Venice; Sonia Kronlund’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Nothingwood; and Barbet Schroeder’s The Venerable W, which played out of competition at Cannes.
Also nominated is Ziad Kalthoum Taste Of Cement, winner of the Best Feature-Length Film in the international competition at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel, and Andreas Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon’s The War Show, which won best film in the Venice Days section at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
Efa Members will now vote for five documentary nominations ahead of an awards ceremony on December 9 in Berlin, Germany.
Ten documentary festivals each put forward one film, which received its world premiere at the respective festival’s latest...
The European Film Academy has unveiled the 15 documentaries that have been recommended for nomination for the 2017 European Film Awards.
They include Austerlitz from Palme d’Or nominated director Sergei Loznitsa, which premiered at Venice; Sonia Kronlund’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Nothingwood; and Barbet Schroeder’s The Venerable W, which played out of competition at Cannes.
Also nominated is Ziad Kalthoum Taste Of Cement, winner of the Best Feature-Length Film in the international competition at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel, and Andreas Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon’s The War Show, which won best film in the Venice Days section at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
Efa Members will now vote for five documentary nominations ahead of an awards ceremony on December 9 in Berlin, Germany.
Ten documentary festivals each put forward one film, which received its world premiere at the respective festival’s latest...
- 8/15/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Michael Haneke’s Happy End also among titles in non-competitive strand.
The Sarajevo International Film Festival (August 11-18) has unveiled the line-up for its Kinoscope programme, with 17 titles competing.
The non-competitive strand, which first launched in 2012, selects titles from around the globe and excludes territories featured in the main competition.
Among this year’s cohort are major titles to have competed at Cannes including the Palme d’Or-winner The Square, Michael Haneke’s latest feature Happy End and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s well-received Loveless.
Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa’s Gabriel And The Mountain, Léonor Serraille’s Montparnasse Bienvenüe, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider and Valeska Grisebach’s Western are also included.
The 2017 Kinoscope Line-up
Ava
France, 2017, 105 min.
Director: Léa Mysius
Gabriel And The Mountain / Gabriel E A Montanha
Brazil, France, 2017, 127 min.
Director: Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
A Ghost Story
USA, 2017, 93 min.
Director: David Lowery
Godspeed / Yi Lu Shun Feng
Taiwan, 2016, 111 min.
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Happy End
France, Austria, Germany...
The Sarajevo International Film Festival (August 11-18) has unveiled the line-up for its Kinoscope programme, with 17 titles competing.
The non-competitive strand, which first launched in 2012, selects titles from around the globe and excludes territories featured in the main competition.
Among this year’s cohort are major titles to have competed at Cannes including the Palme d’Or-winner The Square, Michael Haneke’s latest feature Happy End and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s well-received Loveless.
Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa’s Gabriel And The Mountain, Léonor Serraille’s Montparnasse Bienvenüe, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider and Valeska Grisebach’s Western are also included.
The 2017 Kinoscope Line-up
Ava
France, 2017, 105 min.
Director: Léa Mysius
Gabriel And The Mountain / Gabriel E A Montanha
Brazil, France, 2017, 127 min.
Director: Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
A Ghost Story
USA, 2017, 93 min.
Director: David Lowery
Godspeed / Yi Lu Shun Feng
Taiwan, 2016, 111 min.
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Happy End
France, Austria, Germany...
- 7/25/2017
- ScreenDaily
The Gaze of the Sea, School Life, Stars of Gaomeigu also winners at Swiss fetsival.
Ziad Kalthoum’s second feature documentary Taste of Cement was awarded the Chf 20,000 Sesterce d’Or for the Best Feature-Length Film in the International Competition at the 48th edition of Visions du Réel in Switzerland’s Nyon.
According to the jury of filmmakers Joelle Bertosa, Lluis Minarro and Sergio Oksman, the film about Syrian construction workers building a skyscraper in Beirut uses expressed “the human capacity to create beauty, but also to destroy everything”.
The production by Germany’s Basis Berlin Filmproduktion with partners from Lebanon, Syria, UAE and Qatar is being handled internationally by the Canadian sales company Syndicado who had acquired the film ahead of its world premiere in Nyon.
The feature film in the International Competition went to Mexican filmmaker Jose Álvarez’s The Gaze of the Sea, about a journey to mourn the deaths of a group of fishermen...
Ziad Kalthoum’s second feature documentary Taste of Cement was awarded the Chf 20,000 Sesterce d’Or for the Best Feature-Length Film in the International Competition at the 48th edition of Visions du Réel in Switzerland’s Nyon.
According to the jury of filmmakers Joelle Bertosa, Lluis Minarro and Sergio Oksman, the film about Syrian construction workers building a skyscraper in Beirut uses expressed “the human capacity to create beauty, but also to destroy everything”.
The production by Germany’s Basis Berlin Filmproduktion with partners from Lebanon, Syria, UAE and Qatar is being handled internationally by the Canadian sales company Syndicado who had acquired the film ahead of its world premiere in Nyon.
The feature film in the International Competition went to Mexican filmmaker Jose Álvarez’s The Gaze of the Sea, about a journey to mourn the deaths of a group of fishermen...
- 5/2/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Also in Nyon: Gloria Films projects; Docs in Progress
Wide House is to handle international sales on veteran French director Claire Simon’s latest feature documentary The Village which she presented at the Pitching du Réel during the Doc Outlook - International Market (Docm) in Switzerland’s Nyon this week.
The €604,000 production by Petit à Petit Production centres on a documentary film festival held in the village of Lussas in South Ardeche that has created an internet TV platform and production studio for independent documentaries, and on the resistance to this from the local farming community.
Simon, whose previous feature documentary The Graduation (Le Concours) was also handled by Wide House and won the Documentary Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, explained that The Village is being conceived as a double format with a documentary series and a feature film. France’s Ciné plus has already come onboard as a partner for the 7 x 26 minute...
Wide House is to handle international sales on veteran French director Claire Simon’s latest feature documentary The Village which she presented at the Pitching du Réel during the Doc Outlook - International Market (Docm) in Switzerland’s Nyon this week.
The €604,000 production by Petit à Petit Production centres on a documentary film festival held in the village of Lussas in South Ardeche that has created an internet TV platform and production studio for independent documentaries, and on the resistance to this from the local farming community.
Simon, whose previous feature documentary The Graduation (Le Concours) was also handled by Wide House and won the Documentary Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, explained that The Village is being conceived as a double format with a documentary series and a feature film. France’s Ciné plus has already come onboard as a partner for the 7 x 26 minute...
- 4/27/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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