The selection also includes projects from Kirill Serebrennikov and Agnieszka Holland
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is among 32 projects to receive a share of €8.3m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
Cronenberg’s new feature, a co-production between Canada and France, received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. Vincent Cassel plays a widower who creates a device that allows you to connect with the dead. Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce also star in the thriller.
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The only other project to also receive €500,000 was Adrià Garcia’s animation The Treasure Of Barracuda,...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is among 32 projects to receive a share of €8.3m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
Cronenberg’s new feature, a co-production between Canada and France, received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. Vincent Cassel plays a widower who creates a device that allows you to connect with the dead. Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce also star in the thriller.
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The only other project to also receive €500,000 was Adrià Garcia’s animation The Treasure Of Barracuda,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported films we have some veteran filmmakers in David Cronenberg (The Shrouds), Agnieszka Holland (The Green Border) and Kirill Serebrennikov (Disappearance aka La disparition) landing some significant coin amounts. Also grabbing some noteworthy sums of euros are filmmakers Burhan Qurbani (No Beast So Fierce), Jonathan Millet (Lives of Hamid), Nóra Lakos (I Accidentally Wrote a Book) and Scandi helmers Jeanette Nordahl (Connections) and Fanny Ovesen (Laura). Here is the entire list which includes docus and animated films:
A Light at Midday – Elena Manrique (Spain) – €300 000
Aïcha – Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia) – €150 000
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries – Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi (Italy) – €80 000 Documentary
Blood and Mud – Jean-Gabriel Leynaud (France) – €140 000 Documentary
Catane – Ioana Mischie (Romania) – €150 000
Connections – Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark) – €302 000
Disappearance – Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) – €350 000
DJ Ahmet – Georgi Unkovski (North Macedonia) – €160 000
Dreaming of Lions – Paolo Marinou-Blanco (Portugal) – €150 000
Filipinas – Leonor Noivo (Portugal) – €74 500 Documentary
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia...
A Light at Midday – Elena Manrique (Spain) – €300 000
Aïcha – Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia) – €150 000
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries – Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi (Italy) – €80 000 Documentary
Blood and Mud – Jean-Gabriel Leynaud (France) – €140 000 Documentary
Catane – Ioana Mischie (Romania) – €150 000
Connections – Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark) – €302 000
Disappearance – Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) – €350 000
DJ Ahmet – Georgi Unkovski (North Macedonia) – €160 000
Dreaming of Lions – Paolo Marinou-Blanco (Portugal) – €150 000
Filipinas – Leonor Noivo (Portugal) – €74 500 Documentary
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia...
- 4/3/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Kino Lorber has struck a deal with Paris-based sales firm Wide for North American distribution rights to Carlos Conceição’s Locarno Film Festival war drama Tommy Guns.
The pic will receive a North American premiere at New Directors/New Films, the annual film festival hosted jointly by MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Conceição and actor João Arrais will be in attendance, and a theatrical release via Kino Lorber will follow on April 12.
Billed as “a genre-fluid fantasia” that engages with Angola’s colonial past, the pic opens in 1974, one year before the country’s independence from Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually reclaim land. It’s against this backdrop that a young tribal girl crosses paths with a Portuguese soldier, which introduces her to a new world of love and danger. At the same time, another group of soldiers, completely...
The pic will receive a North American premiere at New Directors/New Films, the annual film festival hosted jointly by MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Conceição and actor João Arrais will be in attendance, and a theatrical release via Kino Lorber will follow on April 12.
Billed as “a genre-fluid fantasia” that engages with Angola’s colonial past, the pic opens in 1974, one year before the country’s independence from Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually reclaim land. It’s against this backdrop that a young tribal girl crosses paths with a Portuguese soldier, which introduces her to a new world of love and danger. At the same time, another group of soldiers, completely...
- 2/28/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paris-based sales company Wide has acquired world sales rights to Angola-born Portuguese filmmaker Carlos Conceição’s Angolan War of Independence drama Tommy Guns, which made a well-received debut in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival on Friday.
Set against the final violent days of the conflict in 1974, the film gives a dual perspective of the conflict through the tale of a young local girl who discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier.
The film is lead produced by Terratreme Filmes, the Lisbon-based collective created by award-winning Portuguese directors João Matos, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Leonor Noivo and Luisa Homem in 2008.
Virginie Lacombe and Arnaud Quesada at Paris-based Virginie Films are on board as co-producers and Conceição and Margarida Ventura take associate producer credits under their Portuguese Mirabilis banner.
Wide head of acquisitions Maxime Montagne, who finalised the deal in Locarno...
Set against the final violent days of the conflict in 1974, the film gives a dual perspective of the conflict through the tale of a young local girl who discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier.
The film is lead produced by Terratreme Filmes, the Lisbon-based collective created by award-winning Portuguese directors João Matos, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Leonor Noivo and Luisa Homem in 2008.
Virginie Lacombe and Arnaud Quesada at Paris-based Virginie Films are on board as co-producers and Conceição and Margarida Ventura take associate producer credits under their Portuguese Mirabilis banner.
Wide head of acquisitions Maxime Montagne, who finalised the deal in Locarno...
- 8/5/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Answering the SunInternational Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the full lineup for their "scaled-down" 51st edition, which will take place online between January 26 — February 6. As part of a full, nationwide lockdown, cinemas will remain closed in the Netherlands until at least 14 January. Tiger COMPETITIONAchrome (Maria Ignatenko)The Cloud Messenger (Rahat Mahajan)The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin/Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois)Eami (Paz Encina)Excess Will Save Us (Morgane Dziurla-Petit)Kafka for Kids (Roee Rosen)Malintzin 17 (Mara Polgovsky/Eugenio Polgovsky)Met mes (Sam de Jong)The Plains (David Easteal)Proyecto Fantasma (Roberto Doveris)Le rêve et la radio (Renaud Després-Larose/Ana Tapia Rousiouk)Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (Lei Lei)To Love Again (Gao Linyang)Yamabuki (Juichiro Yamasaki)Big Screen COMPETITIONAssault (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)Broadway (Christos Massalas)Third Grade (Jacques Doillon)Daryn’s Gym (Brett Michael Innes)Drifting Petals (Clara Law)The Harbour (Rajeev Ravi)The Island (Anca Damian)Kung Fu Zohra (Mabrouk El Mechri...
- 1/7/2022
- MUBI
This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the 14 films selected for its flagship Tiger Competition. Scroll down for the full list.
The selection is typically globe-trotting, with features ranging from Chile to China, Sweden to Israel, and Mexico to India. A jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, plus two special jury awards. On the jury are: Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki.
Last year’s winner of IFFR’s Tiger competition was Indian filmmaker Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles, which was the country’s contender for this year’s International Oscar race, though didn’t make the shortlist.
Today, the festival also confirmed the line-ups for its Big Screen Competition, which aims to bridge the gap between popular and arthouse cinema. Titles selected range from Romania to France and South Africa. The Tiger Short Competition was also unveiled.
The selection is typically globe-trotting, with features ranging from Chile to China, Sweden to Israel, and Mexico to India. A jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, plus two special jury awards. On the jury are: Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Gust Van den Berghe, Tatiana Leite, Thekla Reuten and Farid Tabarki.
Last year’s winner of IFFR’s Tiger competition was Indian filmmaker Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles, which was the country’s contender for this year’s International Oscar race, though didn’t make the shortlist.
Today, the festival also confirmed the line-ups for its Big Screen Competition, which aims to bridge the gap between popular and arthouse cinema. Titles selected range from Romania to France and South Africa. The Tiger Short Competition was also unveiled.
- 1/7/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Industry programme Nebulae was online this year.
Projects from Canada, Argentina and Portugal were the winners the Arché Awards of Doclisboa’s industry platform Nebulae. They were presented in a virtual award ceremony on Sunday evening (November 1).
The Rtp Award for the best project in the editing or first- cut stage went to Sofia Brockenshire’s Canada-Argentina project The Dependents which is based on the diaries of a Canadian immigration officer detailing 30 years of his service in Latin America and Asia.
The award sees broadcaster Rtp pay €25,000 for the TV rights for Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking African countries.
The jury was comprised of Mandy Chang,...
Projects from Canada, Argentina and Portugal were the winners the Arché Awards of Doclisboa’s industry platform Nebulae. They were presented in a virtual award ceremony on Sunday evening (November 1).
The Rtp Award for the best project in the editing or first- cut stage went to Sofia Brockenshire’s Canada-Argentina project The Dependents which is based on the diaries of a Canadian immigration officer detailing 30 years of his service in Latin America and Asia.
The award sees broadcaster Rtp pay €25,000 for the TV rights for Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking African countries.
The jury was comprised of Mandy Chang,...
- 11/2/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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The Cinema Travellers [my review]
Shirley Abraham cowrites and codirects a documentary about itinerant movie theaters in India. (male subjects)
The Nothing Factory [IMDb] pictured
Luisa Homem and Leonor Noivo are among the cowriters of this Portugeuse musical drama about factory workers (mostly male) who are worried about being laid off. (male director)
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The Cinema Travellers [my review]
Shirley Abraham cowrites and codirects a documentary about itinerant movie theaters in India. (male subjects)
The Nothing Factory [IMDb] pictured
Luisa Homem and Leonor Noivo are among the cowriters of this Portugeuse musical drama about factory workers (mostly male) who are worried about being laid off. (male director)
Please let me know if I’ve missed any movies directed by, written by, or about women.
Please help me continue this work with your financial support. A recurring contribution or a one-time donation, even only $1, is a great help, and tells me that my work here is valued. Thank you. Links here for PayPal, Patreon, and other methods of donating.
Find more movies by and about women using the Here Are the Women tag.
- 1/25/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Exclusive: Météore Films acquires feature for France ahead of Cannes premiere.
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Météore Films acquires feature for France ahead of Cannes premiere.
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has taken on sales of Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s delocalisation comedy-drama The Nothing Factory (A Fabrica De Nada) ahead of its premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The feature – combining drama, comedy and the occasional musical number - revolves around a group of factory-workers who turn-up for their shift one morning to discover the management has removed its machinery overnight.
It is the first sign of a massive lay-off. Most of the workers refuse to cooperate in redundancy negotiations and start to occupy the site, but when the factory bosses simply disappear, they left are high and dry. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.
In a first deal for Mfi, Mathieu Berthon’s Paris-based Météore Films has snapped up rights for France ahead of its Cannes debut.
It is a timely acquisition for the company on the...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Comedy-drama added to Cannes sidebar.
Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar has added Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s feature debut The Nothing Factory to its 2017 selection.
The comedy-drama (with an occasional music number, according to a Cannes release) will play as a special screening. The majority of the Directors’ Fortnight line-up was revealed last week.
The film was produced by João Matos and Jorge Silva Melo for Portuguese outfit Terratreme. Pinho co-wrote the script with Leonor Noivo, Tiago Hespanha and Luisa Homem.
It follows a group of factory workers who go on strike in an attempt to block the relocation of their workplace by its crooked owners.
Vasco Viana was the cinematographer and the film was shot on 16mm. Cláudia Oliveira was the editor and João Gazua handled sound.
According to a statement from Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Édouard Waintrop, the film “dissects and riffs on the subject of de-industrialization, unemployment, and the...
Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar has added Portuguese director Pedro Pinho’s feature debut The Nothing Factory to its 2017 selection.
The comedy-drama (with an occasional music number, according to a Cannes release) will play as a special screening. The majority of the Directors’ Fortnight line-up was revealed last week.
The film was produced by João Matos and Jorge Silva Melo for Portuguese outfit Terratreme. Pinho co-wrote the script with Leonor Noivo, Tiago Hespanha and Luisa Homem.
It follows a group of factory workers who go on strike in an attempt to block the relocation of their workplace by its crooked owners.
Vasco Viana was the cinematographer and the film was shot on 16mm. Cláudia Oliveira was the editor and João Gazua handled sound.
According to a statement from Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Édouard Waintrop, the film “dissects and riffs on the subject of de-industrialization, unemployment, and the...
- 4/25/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists.
Audiences at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival got used to hearing a familiar statement: “I just saw a Portuguese film.” They were hard to ignore. Fourteen films of some 200 in the lineup were directed or produced by Portuguese people and were distributed across different sections of the festivals. Viewed together, they have a lot to say about the state of a country’s cinema and its ability to wrestle with broad historical concerns.
These included the so-called “blasphemous” biopic of a Lisbon patron saint in João Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist” and “Correspondences,” directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes, which focuses on a letter...
Audiences at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival got used to hearing a familiar statement: “I just saw a Portuguese film.” They were hard to ignore. Fourteen films of some 200 in the lineup were directed or produced by Portuguese people and were distributed across different sections of the festivals. Viewed together, they have a lot to say about the state of a country’s cinema and its ability to wrestle with broad historical concerns.
These included the so-called “blasphemous” biopic of a Lisbon patron saint in João Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist” and “Correspondences,” directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes, which focuses on a letter...
- 8/12/2016
- by Raquel Morais
- Indiewire
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