Coming off another year marked by uncertainty and conflict, ordinary, unlikely heroes take center stage in a slew of new shows. While crime especially the Nordic-inspired kind is not going anywhere, and there are quite a few spectacles waiting around the corner, including Mipcom world premiere “Concordia,” intimate stories about families and friends butting heads but ultimately trying to come together continue to dominate the market stage. There are also more portrayals of strong, complicated women who dare to dream big today or in the past. The following is a list of some of the buzziest titles at Mipcom.
“After the Party”
(ITV Studios)
Penny Wilding (played by Robyn Malcolm) likes to keep herself very busy: she is a science teacher, basketball coach, environmental activist, mother and grandmother. Famously outspoken and suffering no fools, she alienates many in her close-knit community. But Penny is perfectly fine with that.
She is harboring a painful memory,...
“After the Party”
(ITV Studios)
Penny Wilding (played by Robyn Malcolm) likes to keep herself very busy: she is a science teacher, basketball coach, environmental activist, mother and grandmother. Famously outspoken and suffering no fools, she alienates many in her close-knit community. But Penny is perfectly fine with that.
She is harboring a painful memory,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Forum adds 10 more titles; Classics includes Godard, Pasolini, Russell.
New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.
Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.
German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...
New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.
Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.
German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...
- 1/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Polish Days takes place during the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw.
New films by Bartosz Konopka, Jan Komasa and Leszek Dawid are among the line-up of 25 completed films, works in progress and projects to be presented at the sixth edition of the Polish Days (July 30 - August 1) during the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.
Konopka’s The Mute, which was presented as a work in progress at last year’s Polish Days, is among five completed films being shown in closed industry screenings to international sales agents, distributors, film funders and festival programmers.
The further...
New films by Bartosz Konopka, Jan Komasa and Leszek Dawid are among the line-up of 25 completed films, works in progress and projects to be presented at the sixth edition of the Polish Days (July 30 - August 1) during the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.
Konopka’s The Mute, which was presented as a work in progress at last year’s Polish Days, is among five completed films being shown in closed industry screenings to international sales agents, distributors, film funders and festival programmers.
The further...
- 7/4/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
This year's Warsaw Film Festival offered the chance to catch up on missed gems from other festivals and check out several world and European premieres. The highlight of the International Competition was Yeşim Ustaoğlu's challenging drama Clair Obscur, a visually stunning and deeply psychological exploration of female liberty and sexuality in modern Turkey. Polish cinema was represented by the world premiere of Adam Guziński's Memories of Summer and Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, The Sun Blinded Me; the former a perceptive examination of parental relationships seen from the eyes of a 12-year-old boy, the latter a transplant of Albert Camus' The Stranger to contemporary Poland in the context of the refugee crisis.
- 10/17/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The festival has revealed its line-up of Polish films and co-productions.
True Crimes, Alexandros Avranas’ crime thriller starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg, will have its world premiere as a special screening at the upcoming Warsaw Film Festival (Oct 7-16).
The Us-Pol-uk co-production marks the English language debut of Greek director Avranas, whose previous feature Miss Violence won a Silver lion for best director at Venice Film Festival in 2013.
Based on a 2008 article in The New Yorker, the story follows a murder case that is reopened after a newly-published novel sheds light on the previously unsolved crime.
The 32nd edition of the Warsaw Film Festival has revealed the line-up of Polish films that will screen across its various strands.
True Crimes plays as a special screening. Also having its world premiere in that category is the Mex-Pol anthology film Tales Of Mexico (El Habitation), which features eight different stories from various directors, all of which...
True Crimes, Alexandros Avranas’ crime thriller starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg, will have its world premiere as a special screening at the upcoming Warsaw Film Festival (Oct 7-16).
The Us-Pol-uk co-production marks the English language debut of Greek director Avranas, whose previous feature Miss Violence won a Silver lion for best director at Venice Film Festival in 2013.
Based on a 2008 article in The New Yorker, the story follows a murder case that is reopened after a newly-published novel sheds light on the previously unsolved crime.
The 32nd edition of the Warsaw Film Festival has revealed the line-up of Polish films that will screen across its various strands.
True Crimes plays as a special screening. Also having its world premiere in that category is the Mex-Pol anthology film Tales Of Mexico (El Habitation), which features eight different stories from various directors, all of which...
- 9/2/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
© (C) Fotopedrazzini.ch / Massimo PedrazziniBelow you will find our favorite films of the 69th Locarno Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Jorge MOURINHAConnections in Invisible Ink: A Look Back at Locarno 69On the International CompetitionCELLULOID Liberation Frontcoveragea Circus, a Wedding, and an Anti-ImperialistOn Tizza Covi & Reiner Frimmel's Mister Universo, Yousry Nasrallah's Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces, and Nicolas Wadimoff's Jean Ziegler, the Optimism of WillpowerFilmmakers of the Present & Signs of LifeOn Kris Avedisian's Donald Cried, Júlio Bressane's Beduino, and Anka & Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, the Sun Blinded MeINTERVIEWSTalking to Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop CinemaGUSTAVO BECKINTERVIEWSInviting Chance: An Interview with Matías PiñeiroEmbracing Uncertainty: An Interview with Eduardo WilliamsLanguage As a Rehearsal Space: An Interview with Nele Wohlatz...
- 8/19/2016
- MUBI
Dispatching to Indiewire from Locarno, Ingrid Oliveira notes that Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, screening in Locarno, centers on Rafal Mularz (Rafal Mackowiak), who "feels he has become a stranger in his own society. Living a routine sheltered from the outside world, he faces a turning point in life. An adaptation of Albert Camus's The Stranger, the film replaces the character of 'The Arab' with a black man Rafal encounters washed ashore at a beach, in a harrowing scene that has became all-too-common in Europe." We've got the trailer and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Keyframe
Dispatching to Indiewire from Locarno, Ingrid Oliveira notes that Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, screening in Locarno, centers on Rafal Mularz (Rafal Mackowiak), who "feels he has become a stranger in his own society. Living a routine sheltered from the outside world, he faces a turning point in life. An adaptation of Albert Camus's The Stranger, the film replaces the character of 'The Arab' with a black man Rafal encounters washed ashore at a beach, in a harrowing scene that has became all-too-common in Europe." We've got the trailer and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
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. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
European identity has been facing a crisis, and now the films are catching up to it. People are angrier than ever, whether they’re driven by the recent terrorist attacks in Belgium, France or Germany, by the socio-political uncertainty following the Brexit vote — and the sharp increase in racist attacks that came as a consequence of it — or even by the lingering and closely-felt effects of a mounting debt crisis. Films — acting, as they must, as a mirror of society — follow suit.
European identity has been facing a crisis, and now the films are catching up to it. People are angrier than ever, whether they’re driven by the recent terrorist attacks in Belgium, France or Germany, by the socio-political uncertainty following the Brexit vote — and the sharp increase in racist attacks that came as a consequence of it — or even by the lingering and closely-felt effects of a mounting debt crisis. Films — acting, as they must, as a mirror of society — follow suit.
- 8/12/2016
- by Ingrid Oliveira
- Indiewire
Donald CriedFor those unable or unwilling, like yours (un)truly, to sift through the boundless vapidity of what is vaguely termed “American Independent Cinema,” Locarno serves as a somewhat reliable filter, letting through the tight Swiss borders the hottest offerings from across the Atlantic. Like the country that produces it, American cinema possesses an indefatigable vitality and a fearless belief of the future with no room or even time for self-congratulatory nostalgia. Firmly rooted in the present, the American films Locarno showcased over the last few years re/present probably the most damning evidence of what remains relevant or even necessary about contemporary cinema.Donald Cried, Kris Avedisian's debut feature presented in the Cineasti del Presente section, is nothing short of brilliant in that it literally illuminates the murkiest aspects of a corrupted yet most intense friendship. It is around this noblest bond, increasingly subjected to the fluctuations of...
- 8/10/2016
- MUBI
Damián Szifrón’s Cannes Competition film Wild Tales and Palm d’Or winner Winter Sleep to open the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw.
A total of 20 films from Cannes Film Festival have been secured for the 14th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 24-Aug 3), Poland’s largest film event.
The festival, held in Wroclaw, will comprise screenings of around 365 films, including 199 features.
The opening film will be Damián Szifrón’s Cannes Competition film Wild Tales, an Argentinian satire co-produced by Pedro Almodovar.
A second opening film will be this year’s Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Third, after the opening gala, will be Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.
The festival will close with Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher.
Main programme
The main programme will include Aleksey German’s Hard to be God, Naomi Kawase’s Still...
A total of 20 films from Cannes Film Festival have been secured for the 14th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 24-Aug 3), Poland’s largest film event.
The festival, held in Wroclaw, will comprise screenings of around 365 films, including 199 features.
The opening film will be Damián Szifrón’s Cannes Competition film Wild Tales, an Argentinian satire co-produced by Pedro Almodovar.
A second opening film will be this year’s Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep, by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Third, after the opening gala, will be Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.
The festival will close with Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher.
Main programme
The main programme will include Aleksey German’s Hard to be God, Naomi Kawase’s Still...
- 7/2/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Rinko Kikuchi in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent."
The Airstrip (Heinz Emighol), Germany - World Premiere
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) (Corneliu Porumboiu), Romania - World Premiere
Le beau danger (René Frölke), Germany / Italy - World Premiere
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker), USA - World Premiere
Casse (Scrap Yard) (Nadège Trebal), France - International Premiere
Castanha (Davi Pretto), Brasil - World Premiere
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park), Republic of Korea / USA - World Premiere
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) (Saodat Ismailova), Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France - World Premiere
The Darkside (Warwick Thornton), Australia - International Premiere
L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping...
The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent."
The Airstrip (Heinz Emighol), Germany - World Premiere
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) (Corneliu Porumboiu), Romania - World Premiere
Le beau danger (René Frölke), Germany / Italy - World Premiere
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker), USA - World Premiere
Casse (Scrap Yard) (Nadège Trebal), France - International Premiere
Castanha (Davi Pretto), Brasil - World Premiere
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park), Republic of Korea / USA - World Premiere
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) (Saodat Ismailova), Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France - World Premiere
The Darkside (Warwick Thornton), Australia - International Premiere
L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping...
- 1/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Berlinale’s Forum line-up includes new films from Corneliu Porumboiu, Denis Côté and Guillaume Nicloux.
The strand will include 28 world premieres and eight international premieres from every continent.
Porumboiu’s Al Doilea Joc (The Second Game) follows a football match between top Romanian teams Dinamo and Steau and the experience of the director’s father who refereed the game.
In L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), French director Guillaume Nicloux has brawny gangsters kidnap controversial writer Michel Houellebecq, where he is held captive for days in a house outside Paris.
Canadian director Cote was last year nominated for the Golden Bear for Vic + Flo Saw a Bear.
Ken Jacobs’ The Guests is an expanded one-minute film turned into a 70-minute black-and-white silent film in 3D.
The strand’s Special Screenings will be announced soon.
Forum
Wp = World premiere, IP = International premiere
The Airstrip by Heinz Emigholz, Germany - Wp[p...
The strand will include 28 world premieres and eight international premieres from every continent.
Porumboiu’s Al Doilea Joc (The Second Game) follows a football match between top Romanian teams Dinamo and Steau and the experience of the director’s father who refereed the game.
In L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), French director Guillaume Nicloux has brawny gangsters kidnap controversial writer Michel Houellebecq, where he is held captive for days in a house outside Paris.
Canadian director Cote was last year nominated for the Golden Bear for Vic + Flo Saw a Bear.
Ken Jacobs’ The Guests is an expanded one-minute film turned into a 70-minute black-and-white silent film in 3D.
The strand’s Special Screenings will be announced soon.
Forum
Wp = World premiere, IP = International premiere
The Airstrip by Heinz Emigholz, Germany - Wp[p...
- 1/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Line-up includes two programmes curated by Ai Weiwei and The Yes Men.
Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox has unveiled the programme for its 11th edition, which runs Nov 7-17.
More than 200 films will be screened including 57 world and international premieres; a new prize for journalistic documentaries called F:act Award; and curated programmes from artist Ai Weiwei and activist duo The Yes Men.
For the first time, the festival is introducing an overall theme: Everything is Under Control.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has selected 10 films for this year’s festival with the theme in mind, reflecting “artists’ role and responsibility towards the acts of the establishment”.
The festival will also screen the world premiere of Weiwei’s new film Stay Home!, about a 10-year old girl who is not allowed to receive medical care for her HIV-infection, as she is the second child in the family.
Us activist duo The Yes Men aim to bring the power of the...
Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox has unveiled the programme for its 11th edition, which runs Nov 7-17.
More than 200 films will be screened including 57 world and international premieres; a new prize for journalistic documentaries called F:act Award; and curated programmes from artist Ai Weiwei and activist duo The Yes Men.
For the first time, the festival is introducing an overall theme: Everything is Under Control.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has selected 10 films for this year’s festival with the theme in mind, reflecting “artists’ role and responsibility towards the acts of the establishment”.
The festival will also screen the world premiere of Weiwei’s new film Stay Home!, about a 10-year old girl who is not allowed to receive medical care for her HIV-infection, as she is the second child in the family.
Us activist duo The Yes Men aim to bring the power of the...
- 10/14/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Montreal’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 – 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating back to this year’s Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Tiff editions, we’re knee-deep in avant-garde world cinema from the established auteurs Assayas, Vinterberg, Ozon, Sang-Soo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Larrain, Loach, Reygadas, Ghobadi, Mungiu and Miguel Gomes. Heavy on offerings from Quebec and France, the fest also manages to offer a stellar snapshot of the up-and-comers from all corners of the globe. Among the notable titles in the (Competition category) International Selection we’ve got Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, Ursula Meier’s Sister, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (which received its theatrical release earlier this month) and Rodrigo Plá’s La Demora. Loaded in Cannes items, the Special Presentations is the fest’s A-list selections (see filmmakers named above) and the one pic...
- 9/25/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cannes is now over which means it’s time to move to Britain as the Edinburgh Film Festival kicks off!
We’ve just been sent the full line-up for the 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival which is now in it’s 66th year. We have our people (Jamie, Steven and Emma) on the ground at the event right now ready to catch as many films as they possible can throughout the next wee or two as we get to see 121 new features and 19 world premieres.
I’ll let the full press release below do the talking but let us know what you’re looking forward to in the comments section below.
World Premieres:
Berberian Sound Studio Borrowed Time Day Of The Flowers Exit Elena Flying Blind Fred Future My Love Guinea Pigs Here, Then Leave It On The Track The Life And Times Of Paul The Psychic Octopus Life Just Is Mnl...
We’ve just been sent the full line-up for the 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival which is now in it’s 66th year. We have our people (Jamie, Steven and Emma) on the ground at the event right now ready to catch as many films as they possible can throughout the next wee or two as we get to see 121 new features and 19 world premieres.
I’ll let the full press release below do the talking but let us know what you’re looking forward to in the comments section below.
World Premieres:
Berberian Sound Studio Borrowed Time Day Of The Flowers Exit Elena Flying Blind Fred Future My Love Guinea Pigs Here, Then Leave It On The Track The Life And Times Of Paul The Psychic Octopus Life Just Is Mnl...
- 5/30/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The full programme for the 66th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), which runs from 20 June to 1 July, has been officially announced and will feature nineteen World premieres and thirteen International premieres.
The Festival will showcase one hundred and twenty-one new features from fifty-two countries, including eleven European premieres and seventy-six UK premieres in addition to the World and International premieres. Highlights include the World premieres of Richard Ledes’ Fred; Nathan Silver’s Exit Elena and Benjamin Pascoe’s Leave It On The Track and European premieres of Lu Sheng’s Here, There and Yang Jung-ho’s Mirage in the maiden New Perspectives section; and the International premiere of Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio and Laurent Cantet’s 7 Days In Havana and the European premiere of Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America in the Directors’ Showcase. In addition to the new features presented,...
The Festival will showcase one hundred and twenty-one new features from fifty-two countries, including eleven European premieres and seventy-six UK premieres in addition to the World and International premieres. Highlights include the World premieres of Richard Ledes’ Fred; Nathan Silver’s Exit Elena and Benjamin Pascoe’s Leave It On The Track and European premieres of Lu Sheng’s Here, There and Yang Jung-ho’s Mirage in the maiden New Perspectives section; and the International premiere of Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio and Laurent Cantet’s 7 Days In Havana and the European premiere of Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America in the Directors’ Showcase. In addition to the new features presented,...
- 5/30/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
"It doesn't take long at all for the personal and the political to merge seamlessly in 5 Broken Cameras, an immediately involving and moving portrait of the Palestinian troubles through the eyes of one of the film's co-directors, Emad Burnat," begins Chris Cabin in Slant. "A lifelong resident of the small village of Bil'in, Burnat quickly went from being a man of the soil to a man with a movie camera in 2005, just as his fourth son, Gibreel, was born in his small West Bank village and has continued to film the struggles of his village against the settlers — a word used to refer to nearly all Israeli private citizens who occupy disputed territory. Spanning from the birth of Gibreel to the end of 2010, 5 Broken Cameras is made up almost entirely of footage shot by Mr Burnat, which was then edited by Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker and film professor who's...
- 3/27/2012
- MUBI
"Where's "Trailers 1'?" you might be asking. That roundup's built right into the entry on the lineup for the Bright Future program, where I've embedded 18 trailers. This batch gathers trailers for features in the Tiger Awards Competition and the main Spectrum program.
First, this from the International Film Festival Rotterdam: "José Luis Torres Leiva made this year's leader for the Hubert Bals Fund. Copia imperfecta is a beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer."
Tiger Awards Competition
Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan's Voice of my Father (Babamin sesi)
Huang Ji's Egg and Stone (Jidan he shitou)
Maja Miloš's Clip (Klip)
Óskar Thor Axelsson's Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's It Looks Pretty from a Distance (Z daleka widok jest piękny)
Park Hong-Min's A Fish (Mulgogi)
Midi Z's Return to Burma
Babis Makridis's L
Okuda Yosuke's Tokyo Playboy...
First, this from the International Film Festival Rotterdam: "José Luis Torres Leiva made this year's leader for the Hubert Bals Fund. Copia imperfecta is a beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer."
Tiger Awards Competition
Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan's Voice of my Father (Babamin sesi)
Huang Ji's Egg and Stone (Jidan he shitou)
Maja Miloš's Clip (Klip)
Óskar Thor Axelsson's Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's It Looks Pretty from a Distance (Z daleka widok jest piękny)
Park Hong-Min's A Fish (Mulgogi)
Midi Z's Return to Burma
Babis Makridis's L
Okuda Yosuke's Tokyo Playboy...
- 1/18/2012
- MUBI
Voice of My Father
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, opening on January 25 and running through February 5, has announced two lineups today, the Tiger Awards Competition 2012 for first and second feature films — 15 films in all — and the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012 with 21 films. Straight from the release:
Tiger Awards Competition 2012
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday), Dominga Sotomayor, Chile/Netherlands, 2012, 96’, World premiere, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film. Sotomayor’s feature film début, expertly shot by Barbara Alvarez, is a Chilean road movie set in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family. Seen through eyes of the kids in the back, they embark on a four day holiday trip to the north, while the marriage is falling apart. Dominga Sotomayor’s short film Videojuego was screened in Rotterdam in 2010. De jueves a domingo was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence 2010.
Babamin sesi (Voice of My Father), Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan,...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, opening on January 25 and running through February 5, has announced two lineups today, the Tiger Awards Competition 2012 for first and second feature films — 15 films in all — and the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012 with 21 films. Straight from the release:
Tiger Awards Competition 2012
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday), Dominga Sotomayor, Chile/Netherlands, 2012, 96’, World premiere, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film. Sotomayor’s feature film début, expertly shot by Barbara Alvarez, is a Chilean road movie set in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family. Seen through eyes of the kids in the back, they embark on a four day holiday trip to the north, while the marriage is falling apart. Dominga Sotomayor’s short film Videojuego was screened in Rotterdam in 2010. De jueves a domingo was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence 2010.
Babamin sesi (Voice of My Father), Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan,...
- 1/12/2012
- MUBI
After Berlin Panorama, Indians films are conspicuous by their absence in Rotterdam Tiger Awards lineup. The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam announced the lineup for its prestigious Tiger Awards Competition for Feature films and Short films.
Fifteen films have been selected for Iffr’s Tiger Awards Competition 2012. The Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012 comprises twenty-one films.
At Iffr 2011, The Image Threads by Vipin Vijay had made it to the Tiger Awards Competition for first or second films while Natasha Mendonca’s Jan Villa had won the Tiger Award Competition for Short Films.
Tiger Competition 2012
Thursday Till Sunday (De jueves a domingo), Dominga Sotomayor (Chile/Netherlands) [world premiere] [Hbf]
Chilean family drama-road movie.
Voice of My Father (Babamin sesi), Orhan Eskiköy & Zeynel Dogan (Turkey/Germany) [world premiere] [Hbf]
Meditation on identity, family ties and a country in transition.
Neighbouring Sounds (O som ao redor), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil) [world premiere] [Hbf]
A middle class neighborhood is changed when...
Fifteen films have been selected for Iffr’s Tiger Awards Competition 2012. The Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012 comprises twenty-one films.
At Iffr 2011, The Image Threads by Vipin Vijay had made it to the Tiger Awards Competition for first or second films while Natasha Mendonca’s Jan Villa had won the Tiger Award Competition for Short Films.
Tiger Competition 2012
Thursday Till Sunday (De jueves a domingo), Dominga Sotomayor (Chile/Netherlands) [world premiere] [Hbf]
Chilean family drama-road movie.
Voice of My Father (Babamin sesi), Orhan Eskiköy & Zeynel Dogan (Turkey/Germany) [world premiere] [Hbf]
Meditation on identity, family ties and a country in transition.
Neighbouring Sounds (O som ao redor), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil) [world premiere] [Hbf]
A middle class neighborhood is changed when...
- 1/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam has selected its 15 films vying for their 2012 Tiger Awards Competition, including eight world premieres. All films mark first or second features for the filmmakers. Highlights include "It Looks Pretty from a Distance," the directorial debut of Polish visual artists Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal, and "A Fish," directed by Hong-min Park, the first 3D film to screen in Rotterdam's competition lineup. This year's jury was also announced. Among the chosen members: Brazilian actress and filmmaker Helena Ignez ("The Red Light Bandit"); Ludmila Cvikova, Head of International Programming of the Doha Film Institute, Qatar and former programmer of the International Film Festival Rotterdam; Tine Fischer, director of Cph:dox, the international documentary film festival in Copenhagen, Denmark; filmmaker Eric Khoo from Singapore, who’s animated feature film "Tatsumi" screens in the...
- 1/11/2012
- Indiewire
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the first five titles lined up for its Tiger Awards Competition 2012. To compete, films must be first or second works, and all five of these are narrative feature debuts.
Huang Ji's Jidan he shitou (Egg and Stone), a world premiere from China. Iffr: "Huang Ji shot her feature début drama in her Hunan province hometown with a cast of non-professional actors. Like numerous others in China, the 14-year-old protagonist is living with relatives because her parents are working a big city. She has few friends, and at home she tries to keep her door shut."
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's Z daleka widok jest piekny (It Looks Pretty from a Distance) (site), an international premiere from Poland and the Us. Iffr: "In their debut feature film, renowned visual artists and painters Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal explore the dark and antisocial sides of life on the beautiful Polish countryside,...
Huang Ji's Jidan he shitou (Egg and Stone), a world premiere from China. Iffr: "Huang Ji shot her feature début drama in her Hunan province hometown with a cast of non-professional actors. Like numerous others in China, the 14-year-old protagonist is living with relatives because her parents are working a big city. She has few friends, and at home she tries to keep her door shut."
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's Z daleka widok jest piekny (It Looks Pretty from a Distance) (site), an international premiere from Poland and the Us. Iffr: "In their debut feature film, renowned visual artists and painters Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal explore the dark and antisocial sides of life on the beautiful Polish countryside,...
- 11/21/2011
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