The 30th anniversary edition of the German festival ran online.
Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Conference won the main prize for best film at Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus on Sunday December 13.
It is the story that incorporates the tragedy of the Dubrovka Theatre attack in Moscow in 2002 with the fate of one woman and her family. The film, which is handled internationally by Reason8 Films, had been pitched at project stage at the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus during the FilmFestival Cottbus in 2019. It made its world premiere earlier this year at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
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Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Conference won the main prize for best film at Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus on Sunday December 13.
It is the story that incorporates the tragedy of the Dubrovka Theatre attack in Moscow in 2002 with the fate of one woman and her family. The film, which is handled internationally by Reason8 Films, had been pitched at project stage at the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus during the FilmFestival Cottbus in 2019. It made its world premiere earlier this year at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
It is...
- 12/14/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Piotr Domalewski's drama I Never Cry and Ivan Ikić's Oasis were also noticed during the 30th-anniversary edition of the German festival, this year unspooling online. Prizes worth €72,000 were handed out at the 30th edition of the FilmFestival Cottbus on 12 December during an awards ceremony broadcast online, with Ivan I Tverdovskiy's Conference named Best Film. Interestingly enough, it marked the third victory for the Russian filmmaker after Corrections Class and Zoology. “It serves as proof of the successful work of our co-production market, the international standing of both events and, last but not least, the excellent interaction between the market and the festival,” observed CEO Andreas Stein, noting that Conference was previously pitched in its connecting cottbus industry sidebar. The jury, consisting of Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Axel Ranisch, Bodo Kox, Maria Trigo Teixeira and Yang Ge, called the film “a masterpiece composed in minute detail”, noting that its “whirlwind-like power...
- 12/14/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Stars: Elizaveta Arzamasova, Sergey Garmash, Yang Ge, Kseniya Lavrova-Glinka, Andrey Nazimov, Yan Tsapnik | Written by Andrey Zolotarev | Directed by Alexander Andrushenko
Sometimes there are films that come along that tap directly into my psyche, with plots so ridiculous, so outrageous, that they engage my “must-see” synapses… The Cop Baby is one such film. After all, how could I not want to see a film with a synopsis like this:
Having failed a large covert operation and being cursed by a vengeful fortune teller, Major Chromov is trapped inside a baby’s body. The only way for Major Chromov to return to his body is to finish the operation and hunt down the most dangerous crime boss of the local mafia as a M*******King Cop Baby.
Let’s get this out of the way first… The Cop Baby is no Cop and a Half. Nope, this is not played for laughs,...
Sometimes there are films that come along that tap directly into my psyche, with plots so ridiculous, so outrageous, that they engage my “must-see” synapses… The Cop Baby is one such film. After all, how could I not want to see a film with a synopsis like this:
Having failed a large covert operation and being cursed by a vengeful fortune teller, Major Chromov is trapped inside a baby’s body. The only way for Major Chromov to return to his body is to finish the operation and hunt down the most dangerous crime boss of the local mafia as a M*******King Cop Baby.
Let’s get this out of the way first… The Cop Baby is no Cop and a Half. Nope, this is not played for laughs,...
- 7/2/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Toyon Kyyl (The Lord Eagle) by Russian director Eduard Novikov was awarded the top film prize, the Golden St. George, at the awards ceremony for the 40th Moscow International Film Festival, which drew to a close Thursday in the Russian capital.
Set in the 1930s and focused on North Russian aboriginal people, the drama was made in the North Eastern region of Yakutia, which has emerged in recent years as the country's territory of independent filmmaking.
The special jury prize went to another local film, Nu, a 64-minute-long debut feature by Yang Ge, a Chinese singer and actress who...
Set in the 1930s and focused on North Russian aboriginal people, the drama was made in the North Eastern region of Yakutia, which has emerged in recent years as the country's territory of independent filmmaking.
The special jury prize went to another local film, Nu, a 64-minute-long debut feature by Yang Ge, a Chinese singer and actress who...
- 4/26/2018
- by Vladimir Kozlov ,Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
<em>Toyon Kyyl (The Lord Eagle) </em>by Russian director Eduard Novikov was awarded the top film prize, the Golden St. George, at the awards ceremony for the 40th <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ophelia-gaspard-at-wedding-moscow-iffs-official-selection-1098720" target="_blank">Moscow International Film Festival</a>, which drew to a close Thursday in the Russian capital.
Set in the 1930s and focused on North Russian aboriginal people, the drama was made in the North Eastern region of Yakutia, which has emerged in recent years as the country's territory of independent filmmaking.
The special jury prize went to another local film, <em>Nu</em>, a 64-minute-long debut feature by Yang Ge, a Chinese singer and actress who studied in ...
Set in the 1930s and focused on North Russian aboriginal people, the drama was made in the North Eastern region of Yakutia, which has emerged in recent years as the country's territory of independent filmmaking.
The special jury prize went to another local film, <em>Nu</em>, a 64-minute-long debut feature by Yang Ge, a Chinese singer and actress who studied in ...
- 4/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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