The Berlinale will write to German far-right party Alternative for Germany amid an outcry after members were invited to the festival’s opening ceremony on February 15. By Sunday morning an open letter criticising the invitations had gone offline.
After the letter was signed by more than 200 film professionals from around the world, the festival issued a statement in which it said, “People – including elected representatives – who act contrary to democratic values are not welcome at the Berlinale.”
”We will express this clearly and emphatically in a personal letter to the AfD representatives as well as on other occasions.”
The Berlinale...
After the letter was signed by more than 200 film professionals from around the world, the festival issued a statement in which it said, “People – including elected representatives – who act contrary to democratic values are not welcome at the Berlinale.”
”We will express this clearly and emphatically in a personal letter to the AfD representatives as well as on other occasions.”
The Berlinale...
- 2/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale will write to German far-right party Alternative for Germany amid an outcry after members were invited to the festival’s opening ceremony on February 15. By Sunday morning an open letter criticising the invitations had gone offline.
After the letter was signed by more than 200 film professionals from around the world, the festival issued a statement in which it said, “People – including elected representatives – who act contrary to democratic values are not welcome at the Berlinale.”
”We will express this clearly and emphatically in a personal letter to the AfD representatives as well as on other occasions.”
The Berlinale...
After the letter was signed by more than 200 film professionals from around the world, the festival issued a statement in which it said, “People – including elected representatives – who act contrary to democratic values are not welcome at the Berlinale.”
”We will express this clearly and emphatically in a personal letter to the AfD representatives as well as on other occasions.”
The Berlinale...
- 2/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale will write to German far-right party Alternative for Germany ahead of the attendance of AfD members at the festival’s opening ceremony on February 15. By Sunday morning an open letter criticising the invitations of AfD politicians to attend the ceremony had gone offline.
After the letter was signed by more than 200 film professionals from around the world, the festival issued a statement in which it said, “People – including elected representatives – who act contrary to democratic values are not welcome at the Berlinale.”
”We will express this clearly and emphatically in a personal letter to the AfD representatives as well as on other occasions.
After the letter was signed by more than 200 film professionals from around the world, the festival issued a statement in which it said, “People – including elected representatives – who act contrary to democratic values are not welcome at the Berlinale.”
”We will express this clearly and emphatically in a personal letter to the AfD representatives as well as on other occasions.
- 2/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
Klára Tasovská’s film follows the story of Czechoslovak photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has boarded Klára Tasovská’s feature documentary I’m Not Everything I Want to Be ahead of its world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama strand.
The film follows the story of Libuše Jarcovjáková, a rebellious Czechoslovak photographer, whose openly personal body of work was only recently discovered by the international photographic community. Earlier this year the film received the Works in Progress Post-Production Development Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Jarcovjáková’s story begins in Prague in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s,...
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has boarded Klára Tasovská’s feature documentary I’m Not Everything I Want to Be ahead of its world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama strand.
The film follows the story of Libuše Jarcovjáková, a rebellious Czechoslovak photographer, whose openly personal body of work was only recently discovered by the international photographic community. Earlier this year the film received the Works in Progress Post-Production Development Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Jarcovjáková’s story begins in Prague in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Updated with juror names and winner of 2023 Points North Pitch.
Earlier: A first-time filmmaker has claimed the top prize at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival in Maine, one of the country’s foremost all-documentary festivals.
Director Yousef Srouji earned the Harrell Award for Three Promises, a film set in the Occupied Territories. “At the start of the 2000s, the Israeli army retaliated against the second intifada in the West Bank,” notes a description of the documentary. “All the while, Suha, a mother of two young children, decides it’s time to start a film diary. Years later, her youngest son Yousef picks up the archive and discovers the difficult choices she faced then. The three promises, made and broken, evidence the strong love of a mother to her children, to her land, and to herself. The result is a reflexive act of love in a time capsule.”
‘Three Promises...
Earlier: A first-time filmmaker has claimed the top prize at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival in Maine, one of the country’s foremost all-documentary festivals.
Director Yousef Srouji earned the Harrell Award for Three Promises, a film set in the Occupied Territories. “At the start of the 2000s, the Israeli army retaliated against the second intifada in the West Bank,” notes a description of the documentary. “All the while, Suha, a mother of two young children, decides it’s time to start a film diary. Years later, her youngest son Yousef picks up the archive and discovers the difficult choices she faced then. The three promises, made and broken, evidence the strong love of a mother to her children, to her land, and to herself. The result is a reflexive act of love in a time capsule.”
‘Three Promises...
- 9/19/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Sara Summa’s European road movie “Arthur & Diana,” which will make its world premiere in the Discovery section of Toronto Film Festival, has been picked up for world sales by Vienna-based Square Eyes. The film is debuting its trailer with Variety.
The film centers on siblings Arthur and Diana. Together with Diana’s two-year-old son, they leave Berlin for Paris for a short, relaxed trip for the required annual safety inspection of their rusty old Renault. But the journey will turn out not so relaxed, the direction not Paris, and whether the car will get to its destination is all too questionable.
Summa said: “‘Arthur & Diana’ is a very significant film for me personally, because it is an autofictional experiment in which my two-year-old son, my brother, and I play the protagonists of this purely fictional road movie. With this second feature I wanted to convey some joie de vivre...
The film centers on siblings Arthur and Diana. Together with Diana’s two-year-old son, they leave Berlin for Paris for a short, relaxed trip for the required annual safety inspection of their rusty old Renault. But the journey will turn out not so relaxed, the direction not Paris, and whether the car will get to its destination is all too questionable.
Summa said: “‘Arthur & Diana’ is a very significant film for me personally, because it is an autofictional experiment in which my two-year-old son, my brother, and I play the protagonists of this purely fictional road movie. With this second feature I wanted to convey some joie de vivre...
- 8/22/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The film depicts a utopia where women rule the country.
Austria-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired world sales rights to Sultana’s Dream, a Spanish animation feature that will have its world premiere in the official selection at San Sebastian Film Festival in September.
The feature debut of Spanish filmmaker Isabel Herguera, Sultana’s Dream follows a Spanish artist living in India, who stumbles upon a science fiction story about Ladyland, a utopia where women rule the country while men live in seclusion and are responsible for household chores.
The story is based on a 1905 short story of the...
Austria-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired world sales rights to Sultana’s Dream, a Spanish animation feature that will have its world premiere in the official selection at San Sebastian Film Festival in September.
The feature debut of Spanish filmmaker Isabel Herguera, Sultana’s Dream follows a Spanish artist living in India, who stumbles upon a science fiction story about Ladyland, a utopia where women rule the country while men live in seclusion and are responsible for household chores.
The story is based on a 1905 short story of the...
- 7/31/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Iceland Documentary Film Festival ran July 19-23.
IceDocs – the Iceland Documentary Film Festival – hosted its first industry programme as part of the festival’s fifth edition this year, which ran July 19-23.
Industry speakers included Wouter Jansen from Square Eyes; Brigid O’Shea from Documentary Association of Europe; Helle Hansen, now a consultant and former commissioner at Norwegian Film Institute and Danish Film Institute, Clare Willats, producer and former head of Nordic film at Netflix; Tiago Costa from Cinemateca Portuguesa and Christof Wehmeier from the Icelandic Film Centre.
Against The Tide (India/France), directed by Sarvnik Kaur about two indigenous...
IceDocs – the Iceland Documentary Film Festival – hosted its first industry programme as part of the festival’s fifth edition this year, which ran July 19-23.
Industry speakers included Wouter Jansen from Square Eyes; Brigid O’Shea from Documentary Association of Europe; Helle Hansen, now a consultant and former commissioner at Norwegian Film Institute and Danish Film Institute, Clare Willats, producer and former head of Nordic film at Netflix; Tiago Costa from Cinemateca Portuguesa and Christof Wehmeier from the Icelandic Film Centre.
Against The Tide (India/France), directed by Sarvnik Kaur about two indigenous...
- 7/26/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has boarded Tana Gilbert’s feature debut “Malqueridas” ahead of its world premiere as part of Venice’s International Critics’ Week. The documentary was shot entirely on clandestine cell phones by the inmates of a women’s prison in Chile.
” ‘Malqueridas’ forms a collective memory of this often abandoned community, and shows how these mothers – and their love – withstand the trials of life in jail, far from family and loved ones,” according to a press statement. “In prison, they find affection in other partners who share their situation as mutual support among these women becomes a form of resistance and empowerment.”
Gilbert stated: “ ‘Malqueridas’ has an extensive team of very talented and hard-working people who have been working on this film for seven years. The relationship we built with all the women who participated has transformed us forever. Cinema allows us to open dialogues between human groups,...
” ‘Malqueridas’ forms a collective memory of this often abandoned community, and shows how these mothers – and their love – withstand the trials of life in jail, far from family and loved ones,” according to a press statement. “In prison, they find affection in other partners who share their situation as mutual support among these women becomes a form of resistance and empowerment.”
Gilbert stated: “ ‘Malqueridas’ has an extensive team of very talented and hard-working people who have been working on this film for seven years. The relationship we built with all the women who participated has transformed us forever. Cinema allows us to open dialogues between human groups,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has acquired international rights to Theo Montoya’s debut feature “Anhell69,” ahead of its world premiere in Venice Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week. The producers include Bianca Oana, who also produced Alexander Nanau’s Oscar-nominated doc “Collective,” and Berlinale winner “Touch Me Not” by Adina Pintilie.
A haunting, cinematic portrait of the young queer scene in Medellín, “Anhell69” follows Montoya’s short film on the same subject, “Son on Sodom,” which premiered in Cannes 2020.
In “Anhell69,” a funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín forms the cast for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, like many friends of the director. “Anhell69” explores the dreams,...
A haunting, cinematic portrait of the young queer scene in Medellín, “Anhell69” follows Montoya’s short film on the same subject, “Son on Sodom,” which premiered in Cannes 2020.
In “Anhell69,” a funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín forms the cast for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, like many friends of the director. “Anhell69” explores the dreams,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Turkey-Canada co-production directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik and Blake Williams.
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has acquired world rights to A Woman Escapes, directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik and Blake Williams, ahead of its world premiere at France’s FIDMarseille (July 5-11).
The Turkish-Canadian co-production will play in the international competition of the festival.
The feature was shot in a variety of formats by the three directors with Canada’s Bohdanowicz filming in 16mm, fellow Torontonian Williams shooting in 3D and Turkey’s Cevik using 4K video.
The story centres on a woman who moves to Paris to...
Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has acquired world rights to A Woman Escapes, directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik and Blake Williams, ahead of its world premiere at France’s FIDMarseille (July 5-11).
The Turkish-Canadian co-production will play in the international competition of the festival.
The feature was shot in a variety of formats by the three directors with Canada’s Bohdanowicz filming in 16mm, fellow Torontonian Williams shooting in 3D and Turkey’s Cevik using 4K video.
The story centres on a woman who moves to Paris to...
- 6/20/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
This page will update with the latest support measures from the screen industries.
The international film and TV industry is responding to the war in Ukraine with various support initiatives to try to help the millions of people affected.
Screen is collecting a list, below, of initiatives that are seeking to benefit or offer support to the people of Ukraine and those displaced from the country.
We are looking to gather as many relevant initiatives as possible. Please email details about the initiative, where it is based and how people can get involved, to Screen here.
Ukraine: film & TV support...
The international film and TV industry is responding to the war in Ukraine with various support initiatives to try to help the millions of people affected.
Screen is collecting a list, below, of initiatives that are seeking to benefit or offer support to the people of Ukraine and those displaced from the country.
We are looking to gather as many relevant initiatives as possible. Please email details about the initiative, where it is based and how people can get involved, to Screen here.
Ukraine: film & TV support...
- 6/2/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Execs from Protagnist, Square Eyes and Brazil’s O2 Play spoke virtually on a Rotterdam panel.
Sales and distribution experts discussed the realities of doing business in the post-pandemic landscape at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Speaking on a virtual panel, Wouter Jansen, founder of Vienna-based sales and festival distribution agency Square Eyes, said there is a need for increased specialisation to tackle sales and distribution challenges in the increasingly competitive, post-Covid world.
Jansen, whose company focuses on helping non-mainstream films find audiences, said his work is “part talent development, and so really personal. This is what sales involves now.
Sales and distribution experts discussed the realities of doing business in the post-pandemic landscape at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
Speaking on a virtual panel, Wouter Jansen, founder of Vienna-based sales and festival distribution agency Square Eyes, said there is a need for increased specialisation to tackle sales and distribution challenges in the increasingly competitive, post-Covid world.
Jansen, whose company focuses on helping non-mainstream films find audiences, said his work is “part talent development, and so really personal. This is what sales involves now.
- 2/5/2022
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
Vienna-based sales agent acquires worldwide rights to Philip Scheffner’s Europe and Dane Komljen’s Afterwater.
Wouter Jansen’s Vienna-based sales and distribution outfit Square Eyes has added two Berlinale Forum titles to its EFM slate.
The first is Philip Scheffner’s Europe which was originally conceived as documentary and is described by Jansen as a “forced fiction”. It tells the story of Zohra Hamadi (Rhim Ibrir) who lives in France and has just undergone major surgery. For the first time in her life, she can walk upright, virtually pain-free. Her husband Hocine is waiting in Algeria to finally get a family reunification visa,...
Wouter Jansen’s Vienna-based sales and distribution outfit Square Eyes has added two Berlinale Forum titles to its EFM slate.
The first is Philip Scheffner’s Europe which was originally conceived as documentary and is described by Jansen as a “forced fiction”. It tells the story of Zohra Hamadi (Rhim Ibrir) who lives in France and has just undergone major surgery. For the first time in her life, she can walk upright, virtually pain-free. Her husband Hocine is waiting in Algeria to finally get a family reunification visa,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Vienna-based sales outfit Square Eyes has acquired Saeed Taji Farouky’s “A Thousand Fires,” which will open the Locarno Film Festival’s Critics’ Week section.
Set in the Magway region of Myanmar, which is home to one of the oldest oil industries in the world, “A Thousand Fires” is a portrait of a family in flux and a story of intergenerational conflict and compromise. It follows Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin, a husband and wife who run an unregulated oil field, producing a barrel every few days in the hopes of seeing their youngest son succeed and breaking the cycle of poverty.
“When I first met Thein Shwe, he immediately reminded me of my own father, and I instinctively knew I wanted to make a film with him and his family,” said Farouky, whose documentary feature “Tell Spring Not to Come This Year” won the Panorama Audience Award and the...
Set in the Magway region of Myanmar, which is home to one of the oldest oil industries in the world, “A Thousand Fires” is a portrait of a family in flux and a story of intergenerational conflict and compromise. It follows Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin, a husband and wife who run an unregulated oil field, producing a barrel every few days in the hopes of seeing their youngest son succeed and breaking the cycle of poverty.
“When I first met Thein Shwe, he immediately reminded me of my own father, and I instinctively knew I wanted to make a film with him and his family,” said Farouky, whose documentary feature “Tell Spring Not to Come This Year” won the Panorama Audience Award and the...
- 8/3/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Vienna-based sales company Square Eyes has acquired Tomasz Wolski’s Polish animated documentary “1970,” which picked up the Special Jury Award at this year’s Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel.
The stop-motion animated pic, which is screening at the Krakow Film Festival, chronicles the increasingly violent efforts by Poland’s communist leaders to end widespread demonstrations over rising prices of food and other everyday items.
Square Eyes also recently added Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee’s German-French documentary work “Bottled Songs 1-4,” a collection of shorts that follow the directors’ investigation of online jihadist propaganda and how media-savvy groups like Isis make effective use of stylistic devices drawn from Hollywood blockbusters.
“Bottled Songs 1-4” is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Harbour section.
Likewise unspooling at IFFR is Square Eyes’ Dutch doc “A Man and a Camera” by Guido Hendrikx. The pic offers a silent tour of Dutch front doors,...
The stop-motion animated pic, which is screening at the Krakow Film Festival, chronicles the increasingly violent efforts by Poland’s communist leaders to end widespread demonstrations over rising prices of food and other everyday items.
Square Eyes also recently added Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee’s German-French documentary work “Bottled Songs 1-4,” a collection of shorts that follow the directors’ investigation of online jihadist propaganda and how media-savvy groups like Isis make effective use of stylistic devices drawn from Hollywood blockbusters.
“Bottled Songs 1-4” is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Harbour section.
Likewise unspooling at IFFR is Square Eyes’ Dutch doc “A Man and a Camera” by Guido Hendrikx. The pic offers a silent tour of Dutch front doors,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Award-winning filmmakers join forces with Vienna-based sales agent.
Award-winning filmmakers Ena Sendijarević and Guido Hendrikx have joined forced with sales agent Wouter Jansen to launch director-driven Dutch production company Aventura.
The new outfit will formally launch tomorrow alongside the world premiere of Hendrikx’s feature documentary A Man And A Camera, which debuts in the main competition of Cph:Dox. The film was coproduced by Aventura and Jasper Boon’s company, boondocs.
Jansen’s Vienna-based sales outfit Square Eyes will handle select international sales for Aventura’s titles, starting with A Man And A Camera.
Hendrikx is a Dutch filmmaker,...
Award-winning filmmakers Ena Sendijarević and Guido Hendrikx have joined forced with sales agent Wouter Jansen to launch director-driven Dutch production company Aventura.
The new outfit will formally launch tomorrow alongside the world premiere of Hendrikx’s feature documentary A Man And A Camera, which debuts in the main competition of Cph:Dox. The film was coproduced by Aventura and Jasper Boon’s company, boondocs.
Jansen’s Vienna-based sales outfit Square Eyes will handle select international sales for Aventura’s titles, starting with A Man And A Camera.
Hendrikx is a Dutch filmmaker,...
- 4/22/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Austrian outfit will be in charge of the IDFA First Appearance Competition winner’s world sales. After winning IDFA’s First Appearance Competition recently (see the news), Alina Gorlova’s groundbreaking documentary This Rain Will Never Stop, a Ukrainian-Latvian-German-Qatari co-production, will be sold worldwide by Austrian-based firm Square Eyes, founded by veteran programmer Wouter Jansen. In detail, the story of This Rain Will Never Stop, penned by Gorlova and Maksym Nakonchnyi, follows a 20-year-old boy called Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death. The technical crew included sound designer Vasyl Yavtushenko, composers Goran Gora and Serge Synthkey, and DoP Vyacheslav Tsvetkov. Other films currently repped by the agency are Karolis Kaupinis’s Nova Lituania (Lithuania’s bid for the 2021 Academy.
The 14th edition of the pan-European initiative dedicated to short films ran online, with new projects from Hanis Bagashov and Hilke Rönnfeldt receiving the main awards. Organised for the 14th time, the European Short Pitch (Esp) ran online from 12-13 November. At this edition — the first organised by a new team, with Julie Marnay as the head of the programme and Olga Lamontanara as the head of the Coproduction Forum — the Esp invited 12 projects currently at script stage and 2 works in progress. The teams behind the projects were mentored by a team of consultants including Britta Krause, Juho Kuosmanen, Antonio Piazza, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Gabrielle Dumon, Una Gunjak, Wouter Jansen and Matthieu Taponier in various sessions. On 12 November, the participants pitched their projects in front of a handpicked audience of film professionals, while their one-on-one meetings were held the next day. For the first time...
- 11/16/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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