Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
- 8/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
In an impassioned and perceptive manner, Loving (Milosc) breaks down the essence of a marriage on the verge of collapse. The sharply-written script goes beyond the surface in order to expose all the ingredients crucial for the formation and further development of a full-bodied relationship. Basing its premise on the foundation that even the slightest alteration in the trajectory of a seemingly blissful marriage might have catastrophic consequences, the film gives way to a slow-burn examination of the characters' inability to cope with a sudden tragedy that strikes violently like a bolt from the blue.In a small town somewhere in Poland, a couple is expecting their first child. Maria (Julia Kijowska) and Tomek (Marcin Dorocinski) are at that point in their married life where even such common...
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- 3/5/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Piotr Kobus’ distribution-production company Manana is to produce Tomasz Wasilewski’s third feature which aims to go into produciton at the end of 2014.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Wasilewski, whose second feature Floating Skyscrapers won the main prize at the East of the West Competition in Karlovy Vary earlier this month, revealed that he is currently working on a new screenplay with the working title of Zjednoczone Stany Milosci (United States of Love).
“My third film is going to be a portrait of four women right after Communism collapsed,” he explained. “This is an interesting period because it is a kind of ‘no man’s land’ for Polish cinema. There are films about the Communist period and nowadays, but there is a gap about how the changes influenced people.
“The mentality of the Polish people, and especially women, changed a lot during this time following the fall...
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at this week’s New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, Wasilewski, whose second feature Floating Skyscrapers won the main prize at the East of the West Competition in Karlovy Vary earlier this month, revealed that he is currently working on a new screenplay with the working title of Zjednoczone Stany Milosci (United States of Love).
“My third film is going to be a portrait of four women right after Communism collapsed,” he explained. “This is an interesting period because it is a kind of ‘no man’s land’ for Polish cinema. There are films about the Communist period and nowadays, but there is a gap about how the changes influenced people.
“The mentality of the Polish people, and especially women, changed a lot during this time following the fall...
- 7/26/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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