A meditative, elegiac triptych capturing three chapters in the life of the same man, Kamen Kalev’s “February” is an unconventional portrait of what the director describes as an unconventional figure: his grandfather, a reserved but complex man who lived a humble life in a village in eastern Bulgaria.
“He was a very inspiring figure to me,” Kalev told Variety during the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where “February” is screening as part of the Balkan Survey strand. “He was somebody who preferred the wild nature, rather than humans. Very, very distant, and very hard to communicate with.”
The director described how, as a young film student in Paris, he would return to his grandfather’s village on summer holidays, equipped with a handheld camera. Despite his best efforts to capture the old man’s life, however, he remained a taciturn figure.
“Once I asked him, ‘How do you feel? How do...
“He was a very inspiring figure to me,” Kalev told Variety during the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where “February” is screening as part of the Balkan Survey strand. “He was somebody who preferred the wild nature, rather than humans. Very, very distant, and very hard to communicate with.”
The director described how, as a young film student in Paris, he would return to his grandfather’s village on summer holidays, equipped with a handheld camera. Despite his best efforts to capture the old man’s life, however, he remained a taciturn figure.
“Once I asked him, ‘How do you feel? How do...
- 11/14/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The company will tease Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev’s fourth feature at the upcoming Marche.
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has acquired world sales rights to Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev’s drama February, which was recently announced as one of the titles in the Cannes Film Festival’s special 2020 Official Selection.
The film follows the trajectory of an unconventional man over three key periods of his humble life in rural eastern Bulgaria, under the banners of sun, work, sheep and birds.
“It is a poetic, timeless and unique film. It is also for Kamen, a particularly intimate story, since the...
Paris-based Memento Films International (Mfi) has acquired world sales rights to Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev’s drama February, which was recently announced as one of the titles in the Cannes Film Festival’s special 2020 Official Selection.
The film follows the trajectory of an unconventional man over three key periods of his humble life in rural eastern Bulgaria, under the banners of sun, work, sheep and birds.
“It is a poetic, timeless and unique film. It is also for Kamen, a particularly intimate story, since the...
- 6/8/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Février
Bulgaria’s Kamen Kalev ends a five year hiatus with his fourth feature, Février, produced by Celine Chapdaniel and Diane Jassem, with Dimitar Radoinov one of the few cast names announced. Ivan Chertov (who was a still photographer on Kalev’s 2011 feature The Island) will make his debut as cinematographer on his first feature. Kalev’s 2009 debut Eastern Plays and his 2011 sophomore film The Island played Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. His last feature was 2015’s Face Down, starring Melvil Poupaud.
Gist: Kalev wrote his latest, which focuses on the life of a man at the ages of eight, eighteen and eighty-two.…...
Bulgaria’s Kamen Kalev ends a five year hiatus with his fourth feature, Février, produced by Celine Chapdaniel and Diane Jassem, with Dimitar Radoinov one of the few cast names announced. Ivan Chertov (who was a still photographer on Kalev’s 2011 feature The Island) will make his debut as cinematographer on his first feature. Kalev’s 2009 debut Eastern Plays and his 2011 sophomore film The Island played Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. His last feature was 2015’s Face Down, starring Melvil Poupaud.
Gist: Kalev wrote his latest, which focuses on the life of a man at the ages of eight, eighteen and eighty-two.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Making Love (Faire L’Amour)
Director: Djinn Carrenard
Writer: Djinn Carrenard
Producers: Realitism Films’ Grégory Bernard and Diane Jassem
U.S. Distributor: Right Available
Cast: Unknown
This was a title we had pegged to be ready for Cannes last year, but not much has been discussed about the film. This is the Haitian director’s highly anticipated follow-up to his 2010 debut, Donoma, which seems to have secured him a bigger budget. Filming reportedly wrapped last spring and will feature a cast of mostly non-professional actors that Carrenard selected from workshops. His first film, which premiered at Cannes and went on to rave reviews at a select number of smaller festivals, still has yet to see a Us release, and was filmed on a microbudget. We’re excited to see what Carrenard will hopefully unveil this year.
Gist: Oussmane is a musician losing his hearing in a loveless relationship with Laure,...
Director: Djinn Carrenard
Writer: Djinn Carrenard
Producers: Realitism Films’ Grégory Bernard and Diane Jassem
U.S. Distributor: Right Available
Cast: Unknown
This was a title we had pegged to be ready for Cannes last year, but not much has been discussed about the film. This is the Haitian director’s highly anticipated follow-up to his 2010 debut, Donoma, which seems to have secured him a bigger budget. Filming reportedly wrapped last spring and will feature a cast of mostly non-professional actors that Carrenard selected from workshops. His first film, which premiered at Cannes and went on to rave reviews at a select number of smaller festivals, still has yet to see a Us release, and was filmed on a microbudget. We’re excited to see what Carrenard will hopefully unveil this year.
Gist: Oussmane is a musician losing his hearing in a loveless relationship with Laure,...
- 2/6/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
From the French filmmaker who launched his career with Rubber and hit Sundance’s World Dramatic Comp with Wrong the following year, his next film a project told in seven parts actually debuted volume I in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. So I naturally think that Wrong Cops, a freakshow starring Marilyn Manson, Mark Burnham, Grace Zabriskie, Eric Judor and a Steve Little – Sundance would not be complete without him showing up.
Gist: This is a comedy about “deranged” cops.
Production Co./Producers: Realitism Films’s Grégory Bernard and Diane Jassem
Prediction: Park City at Midnight
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
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Gist: This is a comedy about “deranged” cops.
Production Co./Producers: Realitism Films’s Grégory Bernard and Diane Jassem
Prediction: Park City at Midnight
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
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- 11/22/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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