2024 Hubert Bals Fund’s Hbf+Europe: Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid & Ala Eddine Slim Projects Get Coin
Ten projects are the latest to be awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund’s Hbf+Europe support schemes. Ten projects in all are receiving coin and among them we have an Anonymous project, plus the latest from Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid and Ala Eddine Slim. Several of these will be considered for the upcoming Locarno and Venice Film Festivals. Under the Fig Trees‘ Erige Sehiri looks at a community in Tunisia and the dilemmas that arise from welcoming a refugee child in Marie & Jolie. Danielle Arbid’s love story titled Love Conquers All is set in Beirut and tells thee tale of a young undocumented Sudanese migrant and an older local woman (Hiam Abbas).…...
- 5/7/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Erige Sehiri, Danielle Arbid and Francisco Márquez’s latest projects are among the 10 co-productions receiving €60,000 each through the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The projects, eight supported for co-production and two for post-production, are helmed by mostly first- or second-time filmmakers from Singapore, Turkey, Lebanon, Chile, Tunisia, Mexico and Argentina. The European co-producers, through which the projects are awarded, hail from the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France and Spain.
Tunisian director Sehiri, whose debut Under The Fig Tree debuted in Directors’ Fortnight 2022, is supported for Marie & Jolie. The film centres around a pastor, a trafficker...
The projects, eight supported for co-production and two for post-production, are helmed by mostly first- or second-time filmmakers from Singapore, Turkey, Lebanon, Chile, Tunisia, Mexico and Argentina. The European co-producers, through which the projects are awarded, hail from the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France and Spain.
Tunisian director Sehiri, whose debut Under The Fig Tree debuted in Directors’ Fortnight 2022, is supported for Marie & Jolie. The film centres around a pastor, a trafficker...
- 5/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea Iff) is delighted to announce the winners of the Red Sea Souk Awards – vital funding and in-kind grants to develop and boost new talent from Saudi, Arab and African directors. Three juries deliberated to finally select nine winning feature ideas and two TV series, whose creative visions will now benefit from generous prizes awarded by the Red Sea Fund and its award partners.
A total of 24 new film projects screened as part of the Red Sea Souk, with 12 titles by filmmakers of African and Arab origin, alongside 12 Red Sea Lodge projects by Saudi, Arab and African directors which have been developed over the last year through intensive workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. The Red Sea Souk Project Market jury awards are supported by the Red Sea Fund, and in the selection were five Saudi projects, eight African projects...
A total of 24 new film projects screened as part of the Red Sea Souk, with 12 titles by filmmakers of African and Arab origin, alongside 12 Red Sea Lodge projects by Saudi, Arab and African directors which have been developed over the last year through intensive workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. The Red Sea Souk Project Market jury awards are supported by the Red Sea Fund, and in the selection were five Saudi projects, eight African projects...
- 12/7/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Saudi Arabia Launches First Cinema Guild Six Year After Lifting Of Ban
Saudi Arabia has launched its first official film industry guild six years after the lifting of its 35-year cinema ban in 2017. The initiative overseen by Minister of Culture, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al-Saud, was announced during the Red Sea International Film Festival. “Having a professional association is fundamental for the development of the sector,” inaugural board member and director Hana Al Omair told a conference discussing the objectives of the new body. She said the association’s key role would be to establish legislation for the sector as well as labor rights for cinema professionals. Al Omair was joined in the discussion by the association’s president, the artist and producer Mishal Al Mutairi; veteran acting star Abdulmohsen Al-Nimr; director Tawfik Alzaidi, whose first feature Norah world premiered at the festival on Tuesday evening as well as Alaa Faden,...
Saudi Arabia has launched its first official film industry guild six years after the lifting of its 35-year cinema ban in 2017. The initiative overseen by Minister of Culture, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al-Saud, was announced during the Red Sea International Film Festival. “Having a professional association is fundamental for the development of the sector,” inaugural board member and director Hana Al Omair told a conference discussing the objectives of the new body. She said the association’s key role would be to establish legislation for the sector as well as labor rights for cinema professionals. Al Omair was joined in the discussion by the association’s president, the artist and producer Mishal Al Mutairi; veteran acting star Abdulmohsen Al-Nimr; director Tawfik Alzaidi, whose first feature Norah world premiered at the festival on Tuesday evening as well as Alaa Faden,...
- 12/6/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The third edition of the Red Sea Souk, the market arm of the Red Sea Film Festival, awarded its top prize of $100,000 to “The Return of the Prodigal Son” by Rani Massalha. Another eight feature projects and two TV series were awarded cash and in-kind prizes as part of the Red Souk Awards.
Massalha’s film, a co-production between Egypt, Tunisia and France, tells the story of Salem, a pig farmer in Egypt who is a Copt — a native Christian community in the country, often persecuted — amidst a breakout of the swine flu in 2009 that sends Egypt into a spiral of psychosis, leading the Mubarak government to pass a law to slaughter all the pigs.
In a statement, the writer-director said: “The pigs of Egypt were ‘sacrificed’ under political pressure and hysterical media coverage organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, crystalizing the structural violence of Egyptian social relations between communities.”
“Isn...
Massalha’s film, a co-production between Egypt, Tunisia and France, tells the story of Salem, a pig farmer in Egypt who is a Copt — a native Christian community in the country, often persecuted — amidst a breakout of the swine flu in 2009 that sends Egypt into a spiral of psychosis, leading the Mubarak government to pass a law to slaughter all the pigs.
In a statement, the writer-director said: “The pigs of Egypt were ‘sacrificed’ under political pressure and hysterical media coverage organized by the Muslim Brotherhood, crystalizing the structural violence of Egyptian social relations between communities.”
“Isn...
- 12/5/2023
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
“Succession” star Hiam Abbass will play a role that is the polar opposite of Marcia Roy in French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid’s age-gap drama “Love Conquers All.”
The Palestinian actor — who in the HBO series played the third and final wife of billionaire Logan Roy — will next star as Susan, a 65-year-old impoverished widow living in Beirut. There, she meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love.
The “Love Conquers All” project is being shopped in Saudi Arabia at the Red Sea Film Festival co-production platform Red Sea Souk by producers Georges Schoucair and Omar El Kadi, who say this could be the first feature Abbass will appear in after “Succession.”
The idea is that, while in “Succession” Abbass plays the shrewd wife of a very rich man, in “Love Conquers All” “the protagonists are both poor,” El Kadi told Variety. “What Danielle wants...
The Palestinian actor — who in the HBO series played the third and final wife of billionaire Logan Roy — will next star as Susan, a 65-year-old impoverished widow living in Beirut. There, she meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love.
The “Love Conquers All” project is being shopped in Saudi Arabia at the Red Sea Film Festival co-production platform Red Sea Souk by producers Georges Schoucair and Omar El Kadi, who say this could be the first feature Abbass will appear in after “Succession.”
The idea is that, while in “Succession” Abbass plays the shrewd wife of a very rich man, in “Love Conquers All” “the protagonists are both poor,” El Kadi told Variety. “What Danielle wants...
- 12/5/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Industry speakers at festival include ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ director Jasmila Zbanic, former Marvel exec Karim Zreik.
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) has selected 26 feature film projects for its Red Sea Souk Project Market; plus a Work-in-Progress showcase, and speakers for its 360° industry events programme.
The 26 Souk projects hail from Africa and the Arab region. Titles include Djeliya, Memory Of Manding, a documentary from Burkinabe filmmaker Boubacar Sangare, whose third film A Golden Life played at the Berlinale earlier this year.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Also included is Scandar Copti’s animated documentary A Childhood,...
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) has selected 26 feature film projects for its Red Sea Souk Project Market; plus a Work-in-Progress showcase, and speakers for its 360° industry events programme.
The 26 Souk projects hail from Africa and the Arab region. Titles include Djeliya, Memory Of Manding, a documentary from Burkinabe filmmaker Boubacar Sangare, whose third film A Golden Life played at the Berlinale earlier this year.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Also included is Scandar Copti’s animated documentary A Childhood,...
- 11/7/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival has revealed details of the Red Sea Souk, the fest’s industry market that will offer meeting and networking opportunities revolving around new Arab and African product.
The Souk will take place Dec. 2-5 alongside the Nov. 30-Dec. 9 fest in Jeddah, on the Red Sea’s eastern shore. The fest’s industry side will also comprise the Red Sea Talent Days on Dec. 6-7, which will give regional talents and young filmmakers a chance to connect with industry experts.
The Red Sea Souk Project Market will showcase 26 feature-length projects from across the Arab and African region. Of these, 12 are Red Sea Lodge projects that were developed in-house during the year through workshops and labs in partnership with Italy’s Torino Film Lab.
Four of these projects will be awarded the annual Red Sea Lodge production prizes of $50,000 each.
All 26 selected projects in the...
The Souk will take place Dec. 2-5 alongside the Nov. 30-Dec. 9 fest in Jeddah, on the Red Sea’s eastern shore. The fest’s industry side will also comprise the Red Sea Talent Days on Dec. 6-7, which will give regional talents and young filmmakers a chance to connect with industry experts.
The Red Sea Souk Project Market will showcase 26 feature-length projects from across the Arab and African region. Of these, 12 are Red Sea Lodge projects that were developed in-house during the year through workshops and labs in partnership with Italy’s Torino Film Lab.
Four of these projects will be awarded the annual Red Sea Lodge production prizes of $50,000 each.
All 26 selected projects in the...
- 11/7/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has revealed the 26 projects selected as part of this year’s Red Sea Souk Market, which will run Dec. 2-5.
“The Red Sea Souk Project Market will present 26 feature-length projects from across the Arab and African region, offering a first opportunity for the industry audience to connect and build future opportunities with these projects,” organizers said on Tuesday.
Part of the selection are 12 “Red Sea Lodge” projects which were developed during the year through workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. Four of them will be awarded the annual Red Sea Lodge production prizes of $50,000 each.
All 26 projects in the market will compete for cash prizes offered by the Red Sea Fund, to be awarded by an international jury of producers. They are worth $35,000 for development, $25,000 for the jury special mention award and $100,000 for production.
Meanwhile, the...
“The Red Sea Souk Project Market will present 26 feature-length projects from across the Arab and African region, offering a first opportunity for the industry audience to connect and build future opportunities with these projects,” organizers said on Tuesday.
Part of the selection are 12 “Red Sea Lodge” projects which were developed during the year through workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. Four of them will be awarded the annual Red Sea Lodge production prizes of $50,000 each.
All 26 projects in the market will compete for cash prizes offered by the Red Sea Fund, to be awarded by an international jury of producers. They are worth $35,000 for development, $25,000 for the jury special mention award and $100,000 for production.
Meanwhile, the...
- 11/7/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Red Sea International Film Festival, has unveiled the 26 projects selected as part of its industry-focused Red Sea Souk Market, running from December 2 to 5.
Projects in development include Palestinian director Scandar Copti’s A Childhood, Lebanese-French filmmaker Danielle Arbid’s Love Conquers All and Madness And Honey Days by Iraq’s Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji.
Within the Market selection are twelve Red Sea Lodge projects which were developed during the year through intensive workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. Four of these projects will be awarded the annual Red Sea Lodge production prizes of $50,000 each.
All 26 selected projects will compete for cash prizes offered by the Red Sea Fund, to be awarded by an international jury of producers: $35,000 for development, $25,000 for the Jury Special Mention Award and $100,000 for production
Another six projects will be showcased in Works-In-Progress section including Men In The Sun by Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel,...
Projects in development include Palestinian director Scandar Copti’s A Childhood, Lebanese-French filmmaker Danielle Arbid’s Love Conquers All and Madness And Honey Days by Iraq’s Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji.
Within the Market selection are twelve Red Sea Lodge projects which were developed during the year through intensive workshops and in partnership with the Torino Film Lab. Four of these projects will be awarded the annual Red Sea Lodge production prizes of $50,000 each.
All 26 selected projects will compete for cash prizes offered by the Red Sea Fund, to be awarded by an international jury of producers: $35,000 for development, $25,000 for the Jury Special Mention Award and $100,000 for production
Another six projects will be showcased in Works-In-Progress section including Men In The Sun by Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel,...
- 11/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Portuguese doc fesitival has a reputation for showcasing formally bold films with attitude.
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
- 10/19/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Portuguese festival showcases documentaries from around the world.
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
David Thion, the French producer of Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall,” is reteaming with Guillaume Senez for “Une part manquante,” a Tokyo-set drama which Be For Films is representing in international markets.
“Une part manquante” will also reunite Senez with popular French actor Romain Duris, who starred in his 2018 film “Our Struggles” and earned a Cesar nomination for it. Brussels-based Be For Films had sold Senez’s feature debut “Keeper” and “Our Struggles” in most major territories and presented at a flurry of international festivals.
Duris will play Jay, who hasn’t seen his daughter for nine years since getting separated from his Japanese wife. As a foreigner residing in Japan, Jay was denied custody of his daughter. Hoping to find her somewhere in the city, he abandons his career as a renown chef and becomes a taxi driver. After all these years searching in vain,...
“Une part manquante” will also reunite Senez with popular French actor Romain Duris, who starred in his 2018 film “Our Struggles” and earned a Cesar nomination for it. Brussels-based Be For Films had sold Senez’s feature debut “Keeper” and “Our Struggles” in most major territories and presented at a flurry of international festivals.
Duris will play Jay, who hasn’t seen his daughter for nine years since getting separated from his Japanese wife. As a foreigner residing in Japan, Jay was denied custody of his daughter. Hoping to find her somewhere in the city, he abandons his career as a renown chef and becomes a taxi driver. After all these years searching in vain,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French author and now filmmaker Annie Ernaux is having a year. She was just awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature. Her autobiographical L’Événement was adapted by director Audrey Diwan into the critically acclaimed Happening, released last spring. And this weekend, Kino Lorber presents her directorial debut, The Super 8 Years, at Film at Lincoln Center and Dctv Firehouse in NYC, expanding to LA and select markets through January.
The Super 8 Years, a visual extension of Ernaux’s decades-long literary quest to distill the past and future, is culled from home movies taken between 1972 and 1981, after her husband Philippe acquired an 8mm camera that became a family fixture. The film, a collaboration with her son David Ernaux-Briot, had its world premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and screened at Busan, Rome, New York and Zurich Film Festivals. It’s a range of times and places, from holidays and family events in suburban France to trips in Albania,...
The Super 8 Years, a visual extension of Ernaux’s decades-long literary quest to distill the past and future, is culled from home movies taken between 1972 and 1981, after her husband Philippe acquired an 8mm camera that became a family fixture. The film, a collaboration with her son David Ernaux-Briot, had its world premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and screened at Busan, Rome, New York and Zurich Film Festivals. It’s a range of times and places, from holidays and family events in suburban France to trips in Albania,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Ernaux’s novel Happening inspired Audrey Diwan’s Venice Lion-winning title of the same name.
French writer Annie Ernaux, whose novel Happening inspired Audrey Diwan’s Venice Lion-winning film of the same name, has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The author, known for her semi-autobiographical books combining personal memory and social justice, is the first French woman to win the prestigious award.
Diwan worked closely with Ernaux while writing her screenplay. The drama is based on Ernaux’s own experience in 1960s France when abortions were illegal.
The film’s sales agent Wild Bunch International called Ernaux an...
French writer Annie Ernaux, whose novel Happening inspired Audrey Diwan’s Venice Lion-winning film of the same name, has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The author, known for her semi-autobiographical books combining personal memory and social justice, is the first French woman to win the prestigious award.
Diwan worked closely with Ernaux while writing her screenplay. The drama is based on Ernaux’s own experience in 1960s France when abortions were illegal.
The film’s sales agent Wild Bunch International called Ernaux an...
- 10/7/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
French novelist Annie Ernaux, whose novel Happening was the inspiration for Audrey Diwan’s 2021 Venice Golden Lion winner of the same name, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 82-year-old writer is known for her body of semi-autobiographical works charting the lives of women and social change in France from the 1960s onwards.
Highlights of her literary career span her 1974 debut work Cleaned Out (Les Armoires Vides), A Man’s Place (1984), A Woman’s Story (1987) and her 2008 memoir The Years.
A number of her novels have been successfully adapted to the big screen, topped by Diwan’s Happening, which was adapted from Ernaux’s 2019 novella. Diwan, a novelist herself, consulted with Ernaux as she wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The powerful drama is based on Ernaux’s experiences when she fell pregnant as a student in the early 1960s when abortions were illegal in France.
Other features based on Ernaux...
The 82-year-old writer is known for her body of semi-autobiographical works charting the lives of women and social change in France from the 1960s onwards.
Highlights of her literary career span her 1974 debut work Cleaned Out (Les Armoires Vides), A Man’s Place (1984), A Woman’s Story (1987) and her 2008 memoir The Years.
A number of her novels have been successfully adapted to the big screen, topped by Diwan’s Happening, which was adapted from Ernaux’s 2019 novella. Diwan, a novelist herself, consulted with Ernaux as she wrote the screenplay adaptation.
The powerful drama is based on Ernaux’s experiences when she fell pregnant as a student in the early 1960s when abortions were illegal in France.
Other features based on Ernaux...
- 10/6/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
French festival wrapped on July 11.
Daniel Eisenberg’s observational documentary The Unstable Object II has won the international competition prize at French festival FIDMarseille, which wrapped on July 11.
The Unstable Object II is a study of the changing nature of work, portraying three factories with different methods of production: a prosthetics factory in the mountains of Germany; an haute-couture glove manufacturer in France, where each glove is made by hand; and a jeans factory in Turkey, where about 2000 pairs of jeans are produced daily.
A French, German, Turkish and US co-production, The Unstable Object II world premiered at Fid Marseille.
Daniel Eisenberg’s observational documentary The Unstable Object II has won the international competition prize at French festival FIDMarseille, which wrapped on July 11.
The Unstable Object II is a study of the changing nature of work, portraying three factories with different methods of production: a prosthetics factory in the mountains of Germany; an haute-couture glove manufacturer in France, where each glove is made by hand; and a jeans factory in Turkey, where about 2000 pairs of jeans are produced daily.
A French, German, Turkish and US co-production, The Unstable Object II world premiered at Fid Marseille.
- 7/12/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The directorial debut of veteran French literary star revisits 1970s France through family home videos of the period.
Paris-based company Totem has boarded sales on Directors’ Fortnight documentary The Super 8 Years, the feature directorial debut of veteran French literary star Annie Ernaux with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Ernaux, 81, is one of France’s most respected contemporary writers for her body of work capturing life for women and social change in the country from the 1960s onwards.
A number of her novels have been adapted to the big screen in recent years including Passion Simple by Danielle Arbid in 2020 and Happening by Audrey Diwan,...
Paris-based company Totem has boarded sales on Directors’ Fortnight documentary The Super 8 Years, the feature directorial debut of veteran French literary star Annie Ernaux with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Ernaux, 81, is one of France’s most respected contemporary writers for her body of work capturing life for women and social change in the country from the 1960s onwards.
A number of her novels have been adapted to the big screen in recent years including Passion Simple by Danielle Arbid in 2020 and Happening by Audrey Diwan,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Two new wide releases open this weekend, but we are looking at another weekend dominated byScream and Spider-Man: No Way Home. The face-off between the two franchise films has animated an otherwise quiet January, and while Scream swiftly displaced Spidey from the top spot last weekend with a steady lead at $30 million compared to $20 million, this weekend’s rematch could be a close one. Spider-Man, going into its sixth weekend, has seen drops in recent weeks of around 40%, and another similar drop this weekend would put it around $12 million. That’s right where Scream would be at with a 60% drop, so this weekend’s number one could go in either direction. With no new wide releases slated for next weekend, expect another rematch for the top spot.
Spider-Man’s rapid ascent up the all-time box office chart is slowing down, and having just passed Black Panther’s $700 million domestic cume...
Spider-Man’s rapid ascent up the all-time box office chart is slowing down, and having just passed Black Panther’s $700 million domestic cume...
- 1/20/2022
- by Sam Mendelsohn <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
"He gave my life rhythm. I measured time by him." Strand Releasing has unveiled an official US trailer for an indie French drama titled Simple Passion, from filmmaker Danielle Arbid. Adapted from the novel by Annie Ernaux. In this sexually frank portrait of female lust & vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common. This story "documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion." It was originally chosen as part of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival selection, but later premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film stars Laetitia Dosch and Sergei Polunin as the lovers, plus Lou-Teymour Thion and Caroline Ducey. This looks like a cautionary tale about lust more than a story about romance. This trailer is Nsfw. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Danielle Arbid's Simple Passion, direct from YouTube...
- 12/13/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The feature is adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux 2019 on her illegal abortion in 1964.
French novelist, screenwriter and director Audrey Diwan broke into cinema as the co-writer of a series of thrillers including Paris Under Watch, The Connection and recent Cannes selection and box office hit Bac Nord with her former partner Cédric Jimenez.
She arrives in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year with her second solo feature Happening. Adapted from the 2019 work of respected French writer Annie Ernaux, it recounts the author’s struggle to get an abortion as a student in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised...
French novelist, screenwriter and director Audrey Diwan broke into cinema as the co-writer of a series of thrillers including Paris Under Watch, The Connection and recent Cannes selection and box office hit Bac Nord with her former partner Cédric Jimenez.
She arrives in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year with her second solo feature Happening. Adapted from the 2019 work of respected French writer Annie Ernaux, it recounts the author’s struggle to get an abortion as a student in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised...
- 9/6/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Production and distribution company Arcadia Films is set to expand with two new appointments to its management team in Bec Janek and Anna Dadic.
The duo will steer the company with founding partners, producer Lisa Shaunessy and head of distribution Alexandra Burke.
Janek will be Arcadia’s head of production, having already worked as a co-producer on its sci-fi 2067 and line producer for upcoming film Sissy. A former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm, her credits also include the Cannes-selected short film, Dots.
Of her new role, she said: “I have known Lisa and Alex for many years and I’m excited to join this dynamic and creative company in this role to advance their bold and exciting production output.”
A former theatrical agent at Hla, Dadic will be head of development, managing the current feature slate and expanding slate of scripted television.
Already underway in development under Dadic is...
The duo will steer the company with founding partners, producer Lisa Shaunessy and head of distribution Alexandra Burke.
Janek will be Arcadia’s head of production, having already worked as a co-producer on its sci-fi 2067 and line producer for upcoming film Sissy. A former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm, her credits also include the Cannes-selected short film, Dots.
Of her new role, she said: “I have known Lisa and Alex for many years and I’m excited to join this dynamic and creative company in this role to advance their bold and exciting production output.”
A former theatrical agent at Hla, Dadic will be head of development, managing the current feature slate and expanding slate of scripted television.
Already underway in development under Dadic is...
- 8/5/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Australian producer-distributor Arcadia, whose recent credits include Netflix pic 2067 with Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten, has made two hires and revealed its upcoming distribution and development slates.
Bec Janek is joining as Head of Production and Anna Dadic will take the role of Head of Development.
Janek comes into the role after a close collaboration with Arcadia, more recently as a co-producer on sci fi feature 2067 and line producer on Sissy, starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type). Prior to those films, Janek produced Cannes 2018 shhort Dots and was a former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm.
Janek will be responsible for shepherding projects into production and will take the lead on select projects.
Dadic, a former theatrical agent at Hla Management, will manage Arcadia’s feature development slate and expand Arcadia’s slate of scripted TV.
Already underway in development under Dadic are the sci-fi series The Immaculate Void,...
Bec Janek is joining as Head of Production and Anna Dadic will take the role of Head of Development.
Janek comes into the role after a close collaboration with Arcadia, more recently as a co-producer on sci fi feature 2067 and line producer on Sissy, starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type). Prior to those films, Janek produced Cannes 2018 shhort Dots and was a former executive at Russell Crowe’s Ssm.
Janek will be responsible for shepherding projects into production and will take the lead on select projects.
Dadic, a former theatrical agent at Hla Management, will manage Arcadia’s feature development slate and expand Arcadia’s slate of scripted TV.
Already underway in development under Dadic are the sci-fi series The Immaculate Void,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Gentile’s Paris-based The Film, the banner behind Julie Delpy’s upcoming show “On the Verge,” is developing a string of projects with emerging filmmakers, notably Yaël Cojot-Goldberg’s “Farewell Caracas” and Mehdi Fikri’s drama “Et maintenant, le feu.”
The company is also producing Danielle Arbid’s “Des châteaux qui brûlent,” based on Arno Bertina’ book, and Delpy’s next French-language movie, “Les Barbares,” a culture clash film set in Brittany.
“Farewell Caracas,” co-written by Cojot-Goldberg and Thomas Vincent (the co-director of “Bodyguard”), is set in the 1970s in Venezuela and is a semi-autobiographical tale. The film revolves around French expats who move to Venezuela and will star Melanie Thierry (“In Therapy”), Arieh Worthalter (“Girl”) and Mathieu Amalric (“Sound of Metal”). It tells the story of the helmer’s parents whose love for one another got tested after her father, who was a well-established banker, spiralled out of control after discovering Klaus Barbie,...
The company is also producing Danielle Arbid’s “Des châteaux qui brûlent,” based on Arno Bertina’ book, and Delpy’s next French-language movie, “Les Barbares,” a culture clash film set in Brittany.
“Farewell Caracas,” co-written by Cojot-Goldberg and Thomas Vincent (the co-director of “Bodyguard”), is set in the 1970s in Venezuela and is a semi-autobiographical tale. The film revolves around French expats who move to Venezuela and will star Melanie Thierry (“In Therapy”), Arieh Worthalter (“Girl”) and Mathieu Amalric (“Sound of Metal”). It tells the story of the helmer’s parents whose love for one another got tested after her father, who was a well-established banker, spiralled out of control after discovering Klaus Barbie,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Les Films Pelleas, the Paris-based production banner behind Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s “Anais in Love” at Cannes’ Critics Week, is powering a female-driven slate with new projects by Justine Trier (“Sibyl”), Katell Quillévéré (“Heal the Living”) and Danielle Arbid (“Suzanne et Osmane”).
“Anatomie d’une chute” marks Triet’s follow up to “Sibyl,” which competed at Cannes in 2019. Les Films Pelleas is producing the movie with Marie-Ange Luciani’s Les Films de Pierre (“Bpm (Beats Per Minute)”). A departure from Trier’s previous films, “Anatomie d’une chute” is a procedural drama revolving around a woman who being investigated for the murder of her husband who was found dead. During the investigation, the detective first suspect an accident or a suicide and eventually believe it’s a murder. The key witness in the case turns out to be the couple’s blind son, who faces a moral dilemma.
“It’s a...
“Anatomie d’une chute” marks Triet’s follow up to “Sibyl,” which competed at Cannes in 2019. Les Films Pelleas is producing the movie with Marie-Ange Luciani’s Les Films de Pierre (“Bpm (Beats Per Minute)”). A departure from Trier’s previous films, “Anatomie d’une chute” is a procedural drama revolving around a woman who being investigated for the murder of her husband who was found dead. During the investigation, the detective first suspect an accident or a suicide and eventually believe it’s a murder. The key witness in the case turns out to be the couple’s blind son, who faces a moral dilemma.
“It’s a...
- 7/10/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Sergei Polunin and Laetitia Dosch in Simple Passion. Danielle Arbid: 'I don’t think there are that many films that are so physically explicit although in the current crisis I think we need to feel and see the touch of others' Photo: Julien Roche/Unifrance When Danielle Arbid was delving around for the subject for her new film Simple Passion (Passion simple) little did she realise that she had been carrying it around in her pocket for a number of years.
The Lebanese-born filmmaker, who moved to France at 17 to study literature and journalism, had wanted to find a book to adapt that dealt with love and sex in a frank and revealing way.
“I found Annie Ermaux’s book Passion Simple to be very intimate and powerful. I used to give it as a present to any of my friends who had fallen in love, even though the...
The Lebanese-born filmmaker, who moved to France at 17 to study literature and journalism, had wanted to find a book to adapt that dealt with love and sex in a frank and revealing way.
“I found Annie Ermaux’s book Passion Simple to be very intimate and powerful. I used to give it as a present to any of my friends who had fallen in love, even though the...
- 2/4/2021
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cinemas may be closed, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any compelling, and moving productions finding their way to our (smaller) screens, for us to immerse ourselves in and enjoy. This week marks the digital release – exclusive on Curzon Home Cinema – of the brilliant French romance piece Simple Passion, starring Laetitia Dosch (Jeune Femme) and controversial Russian ballet dancer turned actor Sergei Polunin.
To mark the film’s release we spoke to Dosch about her beguiling and emotive turn in this Danielle Arbid drama, as she speaks about getting into the head of this complex role, and why she felt it was so hugely important to have so much trust in her director. Talking to us at the annual, and wonderful UniFrance event called ‘Rendezvous with French Cinema’, we also asked about working with co-star Polunin, and how the events of the past year have affected the French film industry.
To mark the film’s release we spoke to Dosch about her beguiling and emotive turn in this Danielle Arbid drama, as she speaks about getting into the head of this complex role, and why she felt it was so hugely important to have so much trust in her director. Talking to us at the annual, and wonderful UniFrance event called ‘Rendezvous with French Cinema’, we also asked about working with co-star Polunin, and how the events of the past year have affected the French film industry.
- 2/3/2021
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Laetitia Dosch is sensational as a lecturer passionately embroiled with Sergei Polunin’s reptilian Russian diplomat
The French-Swiss actor Laetitia Dosch lavishes all her underappreciated star quality on this insouciantly explicit movie about amour fou and erotic obsession, adapted by the director Danielle Arbid from the 1991 novel by Annie Ernaux.
Dosch plays Hélène, a university lecturer in Paris, divorced with a young son, who has fallen passionately in love with an icily sexy, dead-eyed and tattooed young Russian diplomat called Alexandre, played by Ukrainian-born ballet star Sergei Polunin. When he is not driving too fast while buzzing from Scotch in his top-of-the-range Audi and giving Hélène top-of-the-range orgasms, Alexandre has a habit of not returning her pitifully submissive voicemails. He casually leaves her waiting in the midday hotel room where they’d agreed to meet in all her brand new La Perla lingerie, while he disappears back to Moscow to...
The French-Swiss actor Laetitia Dosch lavishes all her underappreciated star quality on this insouciantly explicit movie about amour fou and erotic obsession, adapted by the director Danielle Arbid from the 1991 novel by Annie Ernaux.
Dosch plays Hélène, a university lecturer in Paris, divorced with a young son, who has fallen passionately in love with an icily sexy, dead-eyed and tattooed young Russian diplomat called Alexandre, played by Ukrainian-born ballet star Sergei Polunin. When he is not driving too fast while buzzing from Scotch in his top-of-the-range Audi and giving Hélène top-of-the-range orgasms, Alexandre has a habit of not returning her pitifully submissive voicemails. He casually leaves her waiting in the midday hotel room where they’d agreed to meet in all her brand new La Perla lingerie, while he disappears back to Moscow to...
- 2/3/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“Bad Tales,” a drama written and directed by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, has been acquired by Strand Releasing for North American distribution. Sold by The Match Factory, the movie world premiered in competition at Berlin in 2019 and won the Silver Bear for best screenplay.
The drama unfolds in the suburbs of Rome and is set over the course of a fateful summer. The film revolves around a seemingly normal family in which the devious deeds of fathers, and the passivity of mothers create a bad influence for their children.
Since opening in Berlin, “Bad Tales” went on to play at a flurry of festivals, notably Karlovy Vary, Zurich, BFI London and El Gouna festivals.
“‘Bad Tales’ is one of the brightest films to come out of the Berlin Film Festival, and the brother’s unique vision definitely makes them auteurs that fit perfectly in line with Strand’s eclectic library,...
The drama unfolds in the suburbs of Rome and is set over the course of a fateful summer. The film revolves around a seemingly normal family in which the devious deeds of fathers, and the passivity of mothers create a bad influence for their children.
Since opening in Berlin, “Bad Tales” went on to play at a flurry of festivals, notably Karlovy Vary, Zurich, BFI London and El Gouna festivals.
“‘Bad Tales’ is one of the brightest films to come out of the Berlin Film Festival, and the brother’s unique vision definitely makes them auteurs that fit perfectly in line with Strand’s eclectic library,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Strand Releasing has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Franco-Lebanese auteur Danielle Arbid’s “Simple Passion,” a Cannes 2020 title that played strong on the fall festival circuit.
Announced as part of the Cannes 2020 selection, the French-language film premiered in San Sebastian, and would go on to play Busan, Moscow and Zurich ahead of a planned release in France later this year.
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s 1992 bestseller, the film tracks an emotionally-toxic but physically combustible relationship between a Parisian academic (Laetitia Dosch) and her mercurial – and married – Russian paramour (dancer Sergei Polunin). Their relationship begins to curdle when one party shows more than carnal interest in the other.
Reviewing the film out of San Sebastian, Variety critic Guy Lodge praised lead actress Laetitia Dosch’s star turn, calling her a “vital life source” and noting that she “holds nothing back physically, but it’s her face, constantly registering shifting internal tides of desire,...
Announced as part of the Cannes 2020 selection, the French-language film premiered in San Sebastian, and would go on to play Busan, Moscow and Zurich ahead of a planned release in France later this year.
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s 1992 bestseller, the film tracks an emotionally-toxic but physically combustible relationship between a Parisian academic (Laetitia Dosch) and her mercurial – and married – Russian paramour (dancer Sergei Polunin). Their relationship begins to curdle when one party shows more than carnal interest in the other.
Reviewing the film out of San Sebastian, Variety critic Guy Lodge praised lead actress Laetitia Dosch’s star turn, calling her a “vital life source” and noting that she “holds nothing back physically, but it’s her face, constantly registering shifting internal tides of desire,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Danielle Arbid’s film was selected for the Cannes 2020 label and premiered at San Sebastian.
Pyramide International has unveiled a raft of deals on French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid’s Passion Simple after its well-received festival premiere at San Sebastian in September.
In fresh deals on the back of screenings at San Sebastian and Toronto, where it played in the TIFF Industry Selects section for buyers, it has been acquired for German-speaking territories (Wild Bunch Germany), UK (Curzon), Portugal (Pris) and FunFilm (Quebec).
In pre-sales, the French-language drama sold to Japan (Cetera International), Cis (Planeta Inform), South Korea (Jinjin Pictures) and...
Pyramide International has unveiled a raft of deals on French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid’s Passion Simple after its well-received festival premiere at San Sebastian in September.
In fresh deals on the back of screenings at San Sebastian and Toronto, where it played in the TIFF Industry Selects section for buyers, it has been acquired for German-speaking territories (Wild Bunch Germany), UK (Curzon), Portugal (Pris) and FunFilm (Quebec).
In pre-sales, the French-language drama sold to Japan (Cetera International), Cis (Planeta Inform), South Korea (Jinjin Pictures) and...
- 10/26/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Festival spearheaded by Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux set to run in Lyon October 10 to 18.
France’s Lumière Film Festival will host 23 titles from the Cannes Film Festival’s special 2020 Official Selection at its 12th edition running October 10 to 18 in Lyon.
The festival spearheaded by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux, in his other role as head of the Institut Lumière, is pushing on with the 2020 edition in the face of rising Covid-19 restrictions in France following a surge in cases in the country.
The Lumière showcase represents just under half the 56 titles selected for Cannes’s special 2020 Official Selection that it...
France’s Lumière Film Festival will host 23 titles from the Cannes Film Festival’s special 2020 Official Selection at its 12th edition running October 10 to 18 in Lyon.
The festival spearheaded by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux, in his other role as head of the Institut Lumière, is pushing on with the 2020 edition in the face of rising Covid-19 restrictions in France following a surge in cases in the country.
The Lumière showcase represents just under half the 56 titles selected for Cannes’s special 2020 Official Selection that it...
- 10/7/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
There's passion aplenty in French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid's latest but she joins a rich catalogue of French filmmakers - most notably Catherine Breillat - who point out that, no matter how romance starts, it's never that simple in the end. Which is not to say that single mum Hélène (Laetitia Dosch) doesn't think it will be. After all, although she's hooking up with younger married Russian Alexandre (Sergei Polunin) for hot and heavy sex on the afternoons when he calls her, she tells him she doesn't want any more than he is offering. "You're in love with love itself," her friend says - although Arbid shows us that it's the sexual rush, in particular, that thrills. We might see Hélène and Alexandre engaged in brief pre or post-coital conversation but it is inconsequential, suggesting that if they went on an actual date the chat would soon dry up.
Arbid's film.
Arbid's film.
- 9/30/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Despite their individual box-office success, the exceedingly mild Bdsm frolics of the “Fifty Shades” films did little to revive Hollywood’s interest in the kind of frosty, high-style erotic drama that was de rigueur in the early 1990s — around the time that French writer Annie Ernaux scored some international renown with her sexually frank autofiction novel “Simple Passion.” French filmmakers’ loyalty to such material has remained more steadfast, however, so it’s somewhat surprising that it’s taken nearly 20 years for Ernaux’s provocation to reach the screen. Finally, Franco-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid has taken a gutsy stab at it, with an imperfect but glassily compelling study of obsessive, finally debilitating desire that honors its source with an unblinking female gaze.
The result, publicly premiering in San Sebastian after being selected for this year’s cancelled Cannes fest, plays something like Catherine Breillat let loose on E.L. James, with all the sensual highs and occasional,...
The result, publicly premiering in San Sebastian after being selected for this year’s cancelled Cannes fest, plays something like Catherine Breillat let loose on E.L. James, with all the sensual highs and occasional,...
- 9/25/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The streets of the Spanish town are much quieter than usual.
The San Sebastian International Film Festival opened last night with the world premiere of Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
As in Venice earlier this month, face coverings and social distancing rules were required by everyone attending the opening gala and the red carpet was reserved exclusively to press photographers and TV cameras rather than the usual local crowds.
The Covid-19 pandemic means far fewer international names are attending the festival this year and the streets of the picturesque Basque town are much quieter than usual during festival time.
The San Sebastian International Film Festival opened last night with the world premiere of Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
As in Venice earlier this month, face coverings and social distancing rules were required by everyone attending the opening gala and the red carpet was reserved exclusively to press photographers and TV cameras rather than the usual local crowds.
The Covid-19 pandemic means far fewer international names are attending the festival this year and the streets of the picturesque Basque town are much quieter than usual during festival time.
- 9/19/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Nine out of 13 features will be presented as world premieres.
San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff) is set to world premiere a raft of new features, which will compete for the coveted Golden Shell award.
The 68th edition, which runs September 18-26, will see 13 films play in competition from the Official Selection, nine of which are world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
These include Harry Macqueen’s UK drama Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, and UK documentary Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan, directed by Julien Temple and produced by Johnny Depp.
San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff) is set to world premiere a raft of new features, which will compete for the coveted Golden Shell award.
The 68th edition, which runs September 18-26, will see 13 films play in competition from the Official Selection, nine of which are world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
These include Harry Macqueen’s UK drama Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, and UK documentary Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan, directed by Julien Temple and produced by Johnny Depp.
- 9/18/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Titles include ‘Nomadland’, ‘The Courier’, Regina King’s ‘One Night In Miami’ and Venice opener ‘The Ties’.
The Zurich Film Festival has added 12 gala premieres to its 2020 line-up, including several selected for Venice and Toronto.
The 16th edition of the festival has secured Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland, starring and produced by Frances McDormand, which will receive a simultaneous world premiere next week in Venice and Toronto.
Films set to receive their international premieres at the festival include Daniele Luchetti’s Italian drama The Ties (aka Lacci), which opened Venice on Wednesday, and Sonke Wortmann’s German comedy Contra.
Zurich will...
The Zurich Film Festival has added 12 gala premieres to its 2020 line-up, including several selected for Venice and Toronto.
The 16th edition of the festival has secured Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland, starring and produced by Frances McDormand, which will receive a simultaneous world premiere next week in Venice and Toronto.
Films set to receive their international premieres at the festival include Daniele Luchetti’s Italian drama The Ties (aka Lacci), which opened Venice on Wednesday, and Sonke Wortmann’s German comedy Contra.
Zurich will...
- 9/4/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Industry registration closes on September 2.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organisers on Tuesday (September 1) announced a selection of 30 global acquisition titles outside the Official Selection.
TIFF Industry Selects titles hail from 29 countries and have been hand-picked by TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams and will screen to accredited users on the festival’s dedicated press and industry platform, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro. Industry registration closes on September 2.
2020 TIFF Industry Selects Titles:
A Good Man (France) Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
After Love (UK) Aleem Khan
And Tomorrow The Entire World (Germany/France) Julia Von Heinz
Apples (Greece) Christos Nikou
Baby Done (New...
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organisers on Tuesday (September 1) announced a selection of 30 global acquisition titles outside the Official Selection.
TIFF Industry Selects titles hail from 29 countries and have been hand-picked by TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams and will screen to accredited users on the festival’s dedicated press and industry platform, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro. Industry registration closes on September 2.
2020 TIFF Industry Selects Titles:
A Good Man (France) Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
After Love (UK) Aleem Khan
And Tomorrow The Entire World (Germany/France) Julia Von Heinz
Apples (Greece) Christos Nikou
Baby Done (New...
- 9/1/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Danielle Arbid’s Passion simple spearheads this new group of films vying for the Golden Shell. Since its intention to collaborate with the Cannes Film Festival in this atypical year 2020 was announced, the San Sebastián International Film Festival has continued to add films with the Cannes 2020 imprint to its programme. The upcoming 68th edition, to be held between 18 and 26 September, has just announced a new set of five films to be included in the Official Section, where one of the films that have received the green light from Thierry Frémaux and his team, Passion simple, by the French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid, stands out. The filmmaker has previously taken part twice in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and now travels to the Basque city with this Franco-Belgian co-production starring Laetitia Dosch and Sergei Polunin — an adaptation of the novel of the same name by French author Annie Ernaux, in...
Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan joins the Official Selection Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival
British directors Julien Temple and Harry Mcqueen will compete in the Official Selection at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs from September 18 to 26.
Harry Mcqueen's Supernova stars Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as two old friends whose unique focus lies in spending time together when one of them is diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Temple's Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan considers the life and work of The Pogues frontman.
A further three films have been announced. French director Danielle Arbid's adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel Passion Simple about a woman who loses her head over a Russian diplomat will compete alongside Argentinian Eduardo Crespo's We Will Never Die (Nosotros Nunca Moriremos), which tells the story of a trip undertaken by a boy...
British directors Julien Temple and Harry Mcqueen will compete in the Official Selection at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs from September 18 to 26.
Harry Mcqueen's Supernova stars Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as two old friends whose unique focus lies in spending time together when one of them is diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Temple's Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan considers the life and work of The Pogues frontman.
A further three films have been announced. French director Danielle Arbid's adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel Passion Simple about a woman who loses her head over a Russian diplomat will compete alongside Argentinian Eduardo Crespo's We Will Never Die (Nosotros Nunca Moriremos), which tells the story of a trip undertaken by a boy...
- 8/6/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Matt Dillon’s “El Gran Fellove,” Julien Temple’s “Crock of Gold” and Harry Macqueen’s “Supernova” have been added to San Sebastian’s Official Selection, along with two other main competition players, from French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid and Argentina’s Eduardo Crespo.
The five new features will all bow at San Sebastian as world premieres, the festival announced Thursday. Arbid’s “Passion simple” was confirmed in June as a Cannes Official Selection title.
U.S. actor Dillon’s second outing as a director after “City of Ghosts,” “El Gran Fellove” is a Dillon passion project, announced back in 2015. The doc feature centers on Cuban musician Francisco Fellove, a leading light of the jazz/Cuban bolero ‘Filin’ movement which expanded from Cuba to Mexico in the 1950s. It will play at San Sebastian as a special screening.
Produced by Johnny Depp and screening in main competition, Temple’s “Crock of...
The five new features will all bow at San Sebastian as world premieres, the festival announced Thursday. Arbid’s “Passion simple” was confirmed in June as a Cannes Official Selection title.
U.S. actor Dillon’s second outing as a director after “City of Ghosts,” “El Gran Fellove” is a Dillon passion project, announced back in 2015. The doc feature centers on Cuban musician Francisco Fellove, a leading light of the jazz/Cuban bolero ‘Filin’ movement which expanded from Cuba to Mexico in the 1950s. It will play at San Sebastian as a special screening.
Produced by Johnny Depp and screening in main competition, Temple’s “Crock of...
- 8/6/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Matt Dillon’s ‘El Gran Fellove’ has also been selected to play out of competition.
San Sebastian International Film Festival has added four new titles that will compete for the Golden Shell award at its 68th edition, set to run September 18-26.
They include Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, Eduardo Crespo’s We Will Never Die, Danielle Arbid’s Simple Passion and Julien Temple’s Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan.
The festival has also added documentary El Gran Fellove as a special screening out of competition, which marks the second feature directed by actor Matt Dillon.
All...
San Sebastian International Film Festival has added four new titles that will compete for the Golden Shell award at its 68th edition, set to run September 18-26.
They include Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, Eduardo Crespo’s We Will Never Die, Danielle Arbid’s Simple Passion and Julien Temple’s Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan.
The festival has also added documentary El Gran Fellove as a special screening out of competition, which marks the second feature directed by actor Matt Dillon.
All...
- 8/6/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
San Sebastian Film Festival has added five features to this year’s line-up, including Matt Dillon’s second film as a director The Great Felllove, and Julien Temple’s Shane McGowan doc Crock Of Gold.
The Temple pic will be presented in Competition alongside Harry McQueen’s Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, Danielle Arbid’s France-Belgium drama Passion Simple, and Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Crespo’s We Will Never Die.
Dillon’s movie, which is a documentary that chronicles the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco Fellove, is presented as a Special Screening.
Passion Simple was previously selected for the Cannes Label this year, and will have its world premiere in San Sebastian alongside several other Cannes 2020 titles. You can read more on the line-up here. The event is opening with Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
The fest is due to take place in the...
The Temple pic will be presented in Competition alongside Harry McQueen’s Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, Danielle Arbid’s France-Belgium drama Passion Simple, and Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Crespo’s We Will Never Die.
Dillon’s movie, which is a documentary that chronicles the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco Fellove, is presented as a Special Screening.
Passion Simple was previously selected for the Cannes Label this year, and will have its world premiere in San Sebastian alongside several other Cannes 2020 titles. You can read more on the line-up here. The event is opening with Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival.
The fest is due to take place in the...
- 8/6/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Always attentive to Lebanon, a country friendly to France for two thousand years, we are overwhelmed by the latest tragedy that has struck the country.
We send a thought to all of these French-speaking people and more particularly for our filmmaker friends who have been coming to Vesoul for 27 years to present their films, from Dima Al Joundi (Fica documentary audience award 2007 and Fica 2020) to Joana Hadjithomas, from Elias Khlat to Mai Masri, from Milka Assaf to the immense Jocelyne Saab (Medal of La Francophonie Fica 2009), who died last year. The works of Nadine Labaki, Philippe Aractingi, Danielle Arbid, Randa Chahal Sabbag, Ghassam Salhab, Jean Chamoun, Ziad Doueri, Assad Fouladkar (Fica 2002 public fiction award), Jacques Debs, Nicolas Damuni, Emir Kreideih, … have, also, been presented at Fica Vesoul.
Dima Al-joundi MartineThèrouanne
Long live this courageous people resisting so many trials!
Martine and Jean-Marc Thèrouanne, Director and General Delegate and the whole...
We send a thought to all of these French-speaking people and more particularly for our filmmaker friends who have been coming to Vesoul for 27 years to present their films, from Dima Al Joundi (Fica documentary audience award 2007 and Fica 2020) to Joana Hadjithomas, from Elias Khlat to Mai Masri, from Milka Assaf to the immense Jocelyne Saab (Medal of La Francophonie Fica 2009), who died last year. The works of Nadine Labaki, Philippe Aractingi, Danielle Arbid, Randa Chahal Sabbag, Ghassam Salhab, Jean Chamoun, Ziad Doueri, Assad Fouladkar (Fica 2002 public fiction award), Jacques Debs, Nicolas Damuni, Emir Kreideih, … have, also, been presented at Fica Vesoul.
Dima Al-joundi MartineThèrouanne
Long live this courageous people resisting so many trials!
Martine and Jean-Marc Thèrouanne, Director and General Delegate and the whole...
- 8/6/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Caracas-based Veloz Distribución may be the only Venezuelan company attending Cannes’s Marché du Film this year, but the five-year-old shingle has some impressive film and TV projects in development, including the latest work by celebrated auteur Román Chalbaud.
Headed by actress Elaiza Gil and writer-director Edgar Rocca, Veloz is also in the process of launching VelozStreaming, a new VOD service described as “more of a virtual cinema” and “a little in the spirit of Mubi.” The company is on the lookout for films for the platform as well as for another new Venezuelan streaming service, Click a Cine, established by a group of filmmakers, producers and actors, among them producer Carlos Malavé.
Chalbaud, the iconic Venezuelan filmmaker whose debut feature, “Adolescence of Cain,” premiered in San Sebastian in 1959 alongside Alfred Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest,” is next directing “Violence,” a film about femicide, feminism and political corruption.
Chalbuad, says Rocca,...
Headed by actress Elaiza Gil and writer-director Edgar Rocca, Veloz is also in the process of launching VelozStreaming, a new VOD service described as “more of a virtual cinema” and “a little in the spirit of Mubi.” The company is on the lookout for films for the platform as well as for another new Venezuelan streaming service, Click a Cine, established by a group of filmmakers, producers and actors, among them producer Carlos Malavé.
Chalbaud, the iconic Venezuelan filmmaker whose debut feature, “Adolescence of Cain,” premiered in San Sebastian in 1959 alongside Alfred Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest,” is next directing “Violence,” a film about femicide, feminism and political corruption.
Chalbuad, says Rocca,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Endowed with the Official Selection label, the films by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar and Danielle Arbid spearhead a slate that also includes the upcoming Philippe Béziat documentary. With a line-up of nine titles, including two features stamped with the Official Selection label, French international sales agent Pyramide International (headed up by Eric Lagesse) will be springing into action at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film Online (22-26 June). The first film endowed with the label is A Good Man, the sixth feature by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (who turned heads on the Piazza Grande at Locarno in 2016 with Heaven Will Wait as well as with the box-office smash Once in a Lifetime in 2014). The cast includes Noémie Merlant, Soko, Vincent Dedienne, Gabriel Almer, Alysson Paradis, Anne Loiret, Geneviève Mnich and Jonas Ben Ahmed.Written by the director together with Christian Sonderegger (Coby), the story revolves around Aude and Benjamin, who have been.
Arguably, the 72nd edition of Cannes was one of the most historic editions in history for Asian cinema. After winning the Palme d’Or, Parasite and Bong Joon-ho quickly became a household names around the world. Even though we won’t quite get the drama of an in-person film festival this year (thanks to Covid-19), the 73rd edition of Cannes still released its full roster of would-be premieres. We’ve listed here the Asian films that did make 2020’s Official Selection.
Some overview: Asian films make up around 24% of the 55 films selected, most of which hail from East and Central Asia. Of the selection, we have some familiar names along with some newcomers, including a CGI Ghibli film, a sequel to zombie-thriller “Train to Busan,” and an omnibus love letter to Hong Kong by some of its most famous directors. See the full list below!
concept art for “Peninsula,” the...
Some overview: Asian films make up around 24% of the 55 films selected, most of which hail from East and Central Asia. Of the selection, we have some familiar names along with some newcomers, including a CGI Ghibli film, a sequel to zombie-thriller “Train to Busan,” and an omnibus love letter to Hong Kong by some of its most famous directors. See the full list below!
concept art for “Peninsula,” the...
- 6/10/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
2020 has seen the cancellation of many film festivals around the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though Cannes, one of the most prestigious festivals, won’t be going ahead they have compiled 2020’s Official Selection.
Comprising of 56 films that would have been selected to play at this year’s festival, the selection is made up of features from filmmakers that have been selected at least before, newcomers, documentary’s and animations.
Amongst the line-up is Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ and ‘Mangrove’ which McQueen has dedicated to George Floyd.
“I dedicate these films to George Floyd and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere,” said McQueen. “‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ Black Lives Matter.”
Others amongst the line-up include Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated ‘The French Dispatch,...
Comprising of 56 films that would have been selected to play at this year’s festival, the selection is made up of features from filmmakers that have been selected at least before, newcomers, documentary’s and animations.
Amongst the line-up is Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ and ‘Mangrove’ which McQueen has dedicated to George Floyd.
“I dedicate these films to George Floyd and all the other black people that have been murdered, seen or unseen, because of who they are, in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere,” said McQueen. “‘If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.’ Black Lives Matter.”
Others amongst the line-up include Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated ‘The French Dispatch,...
- 6/4/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The selection includes films from Wes Anderson, Naomi Kawase and two Steve McQueen projects.
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its special 2020 Official Selection.
Festival President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris, held without journalists this year.
With the 2020 physical festival cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Official Selection titles will be “supported” by Cannes as they screen in autumn festivals and beyond.
The 56-strong line-up includes Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch; two Steve McQueen projects - Mangrove and Lovers Rock; Maïwenn’s DNA; Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers; Thomas Vinterberg...
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its special 2020 Official Selection.
Festival President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris, held without journalists this year.
With the 2020 physical festival cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Official Selection titles will be “supported” by Cannes as they screen in autumn festivals and beyond.
The 56-strong line-up includes Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch; two Steve McQueen projects - Mangrove and Lovers Rock; Maïwenn’s DNA; Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers; Thomas Vinterberg...
- 6/3/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Updated: While early statements from Cannes announced that there were 16 female directors with films in the Official Selection, when the lineup was announced, it included 13 female-directed projects. This number has been updated throughout this post.
Just two years after its adoption of the the 5050×2020 gender-parity pledge, the Cannes Film Festival’s typically resistant path to diversity and inclusion among its filmmaker ranks has gotten an unexpected kick in the pants. This year’s festival, already very different than its predecessors due to global events, will harbor another change: a “significant increase” in the number of female filmmakers whose work has been stamped as a Cannes selection. In Cannes numbers, that means a big percentage jump from 2019 (initially reported as up nearly five percent), but no gain in terms of how many actual films from women are included (just 13 out of 56).
Predictably, this year’s Cannes lineup includes plenty of returning talent,...
Just two years after its adoption of the the 5050×2020 gender-parity pledge, the Cannes Film Festival’s typically resistant path to diversity and inclusion among its filmmaker ranks has gotten an unexpected kick in the pants. This year’s festival, already very different than its predecessors due to global events, will harbor another change: a “significant increase” in the number of female filmmakers whose work has been stamped as a Cannes selection. In Cannes numbers, that means a big percentage jump from 2019 (initially reported as up nearly five percent), but no gain in terms of how many actual films from women are included (just 13 out of 56).
Predictably, this year’s Cannes lineup includes plenty of returning talent,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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