Heretic Outreach, the sales arm of Greek boutique production company Heretic Films, and the Bureau Sales, the overseas licensing arm of London- and Paris-based production houses The Bureau/Le Bureau, are repping international sales rights in Cannes for “Pari,” by writer-director Siamak Etemadi.
The feature debut of the Iranian-born Etemadi, who lives in Greece, “Pari” is the story of an Iranian couple who arrive in Athens to visit their rebellious son, only to discover that he’s gone missing. When circumstances force the boy’s mother, Pari, to return to Iran, she decides to continue the search on her own, traveling into the darkest corners of an alien city to find the missing student.
“It’s a film of great emotional suspense and tension,” says Heretic’s Konstantinos Kontovrakis. “It’s a search…for a missing person that gradually becomes the story of a woman searching for herself and her own freedom.
The feature debut of the Iranian-born Etemadi, who lives in Greece, “Pari” is the story of an Iranian couple who arrive in Athens to visit their rebellious son, only to discover that he’s gone missing. When circumstances force the boy’s mother, Pari, to return to Iran, she decides to continue the search on her own, traveling into the darkest corners of an alien city to find the missing student.
“It’s a film of great emotional suspense and tension,” says Heretic’s Konstantinos Kontovrakis. “It’s a search…for a missing person that gradually becomes the story of a woman searching for herself and her own freedom.
- 5/1/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Presenters and winners voice concerns about lack of funding in Greek film industry.
Elina Psykou’s drama Son Of Sofia was the big winner at the Iris Hellenic Film Academy (Helfiac) Awards on Monday evening (April 23), winning five prizes from 13 nominations, including best film and director.
The Last Note from veteran director Pandelis Voulgaris and Dora Masklavanou’s Polyxeni won four awards each.
Son Of Sofia, which won the best international narrative feature award at Tribeca 2017 and played at Sarajevo, Jeonju, Moscow, Stockholm, Cottbus, Gijon, Kolkata and Carthage festivals, was also awarded best screenplay for Psykou, best supporting actor for...
Elina Psykou’s drama Son Of Sofia was the big winner at the Iris Hellenic Film Academy (Helfiac) Awards on Monday evening (April 23), winning five prizes from 13 nominations, including best film and director.
The Last Note from veteran director Pandelis Voulgaris and Dora Masklavanou’s Polyxeni won four awards each.
Son Of Sofia, which won the best international narrative feature award at Tribeca 2017 and played at Sarajevo, Jeonju, Moscow, Stockholm, Cottbus, Gijon, Kolkata and Carthage festivals, was also awarded best screenplay for Psykou, best supporting actor for...
- 4/24/2018
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
It’s hard to believe that up until 1971, “The Divine Order” was being invoked as the reason women did not have the right to vote in Switzerland. This sweetly moving demonstration of what can be accomplished with people band together (in this case, the women of a small village in Switzerland) is a joy to watch.Marie Leuenberger as Nora
“The more we push, the more the men do what they want,” Nora, played by Marie Leuenberger tells a pamphleteer encouraging approval of the referendum about to be voted upon granting women the right to vote in a very conservative Swiss village.
Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused. Nora’s life, too,...
“The more we push, the more the men do what they want,” Nora, played by Marie Leuenberger tells a pamphleteer encouraging approval of the referendum about to be voted upon granting women the right to vote in a very conservative Swiss village.
Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused. Nora’s life, too,...
- 11/13/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Argentinian filmmaker and Us actor honoured in Poland.
Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
- 7/21/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Argentinean filmmaker and Us actor honoured in Poland.
Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel and Us actor Edward Norton were the guests of honour at the seventh edition of the Transatlantyk Festival which comes to a close in the Polish city of Lodz on Friday evening (July 21).
Martel became the second woman director - after Germany’s Margarethe von Trotta - and the 11th filmmaker overall, to be awarded the Fipresci 90+ statuette in celebration of the International Federation of Film Critics’ ten decades of activities.
Fipresci general secretary Klaus Eder travelled to Lodz to present the award along with Transatlantyk’s director Jan A.P. Kaczmarek to Martel at a gala ceremony last night (Thursday) before a screening of her 2008 film The Headless Woman.
Previous recipients include Jean-Jacques Annaud, Edgar Reitz, Bela Tarr and the late Andrzej Wajda, while the choice of Martel this year was particularly fitting since the Polish festival had the Power of Woman as an overlying...
- 7/21/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Golden Bear winner Semih Kaplanoglu to present new feature.
The 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has unveiled its competition line-up.
Three world premieres and four regional premieres will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo.
Golden Bear-winning director Semih Kaplanoğlu will compete with his latest feature Grain, which has its world premiere in Sarajevo. The film is his first feature since 2010 drama Honey, which won Berlin Film Festival’s top prize and was nominated for three prizes at the European Film Awards.
His new film is a dystopian story set in a world where a genetic crisis leads to massive crop failure. The Match Factory is handling sales.
Also having world premieres in Sarajevo are two debut features: Emanuel Pârvu’s Romanian feature Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things and Gentian Koçi’s Albanian-Greek feature Daybreak.
Among the regional premieres are Rezo Gigineishvili’s Hostages, which premiered...
The 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has unveiled its competition line-up.
Three world premieres and four regional premieres will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo.
Golden Bear-winning director Semih Kaplanoğlu will compete with his latest feature Grain, which has its world premiere in Sarajevo. The film is his first feature since 2010 drama Honey, which won Berlin Film Festival’s top prize and was nominated for three prizes at the European Film Awards.
His new film is a dystopian story set in a world where a genetic crisis leads to massive crop failure. The Match Factory is handling sales.
Also having world premieres in Sarajevo are two debut features: Emanuel Pârvu’s Romanian feature Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things and Gentian Koçi’s Albanian-Greek feature Daybreak.
Among the regional premieres are Rezo Gigineishvili’s Hostages, which premiered...
- 7/18/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Expanding outfit teams with Dogtooth assistant producer.
Growing Greek production and sales outfit Heretic is to launch a consulting company for international producers: Heretic Asterisk, which will focus on marketing and festival launch strategies.
The initiative is being run with Dogtooth assistant producer Vicky Miha.
Heretic Asterisk will also provide guidance in funding applications for international institutions, development and financing strategies for projects, strategic planning for distribution and marketing, as well as co-ordinating all promotional material for completed films.
Miha said: “Our goal with Heretic Asterisk is to make the producer’s life a bit simpler, by co-ordinating parts of the work that cannot be easily handled by individual producers or small teams. Partnering with Heretic’s dynamic team can result to nothing but a creative powerhouse.”
The Athens-based production house was founded in 2013 by Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis. Latest credits include Tribeca 2017 winner Son Of Sofia.
In 2015, Heretic introduced its sales arm Heretic Outreach...
Growing Greek production and sales outfit Heretic is to launch a consulting company for international producers: Heretic Asterisk, which will focus on marketing and festival launch strategies.
The initiative is being run with Dogtooth assistant producer Vicky Miha.
Heretic Asterisk will also provide guidance in funding applications for international institutions, development and financing strategies for projects, strategic planning for distribution and marketing, as well as co-ordinating all promotional material for completed films.
Miha said: “Our goal with Heretic Asterisk is to make the producer’s life a bit simpler, by co-ordinating parts of the work that cannot be easily handled by individual producers or small teams. Partnering with Heretic’s dynamic team can result to nothing but a creative powerhouse.”
The Athens-based production house was founded in 2013 by Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis. Latest credits include Tribeca 2017 winner Son Of Sofia.
In 2015, Heretic introduced its sales arm Heretic Outreach...
- 5/20/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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