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
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
“Spring is coming earlier and earlier each year.”
A vast icy field somewhere in Siberia reveals itself to the viewers’ eyes, with only the faint line of the horizon marking a border, a change somehow in this landscape before the white is disturbed by a small figure and a sleigh. Making his way towards a yet unknown destination somewhere ahead of him is Nanook (Mikhail Aprosimov), a man who lives in this region with his wife Sedna (Feodosia Ivanova). He is looking for food, for some prey caught up in the traps he has laid the day before, and finally to dig a hole in the ground to catch some fish.
Even though “Ága” is supposed to be set in our time and age, the way of life Sedna and Nanook live is archaic, to the point you might think you have entered a time machine. Only a few interventions...
A vast icy field somewhere in Siberia reveals itself to the viewers’ eyes, with only the faint line of the horizon marking a border, a change somehow in this landscape before the white is disturbed by a small figure and a sleigh. Making his way towards a yet unknown destination somewhere ahead of him is Nanook (Mikhail Aprosimov), a man who lives in this region with his wife Sedna (Feodosia Ivanova). He is looking for food, for some prey caught up in the traps he has laid the day before, and finally to dig a hole in the ground to catch some fish.
Even though “Ága” is supposed to be set in our time and age, the way of life Sedna and Nanook live is archaic, to the point you might think you have entered a time machine. Only a few interventions...
- 11/4/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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
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