The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has announced the juries and additional programming for the upcoming 14th edition, which runs April 6-10 in Hollywood.
Three films have been added to the line-up on April 10, including Lena Khan’s feature debut The Tiger Hunter, and a community screening of Sami Khan’s Khoya.
A restored version of Sujata, provided by the National Film Archive Of India, will screen as a tribute to director Bimal Roy on the 50th anniversary of his death.
The jury for the 2016 Narrative Film Competition includes:
· Shonali Bose, film-maker (Margarita, With A Straw & Amu);
· Shalini Dore, Variety; and
· Alesia Weston, international consultant to independent film-makers and film festivals.
The jury for the 2016 Short Film Competition includes:
· Rizwan Manji, actor (Jim Jarmusch’s upcoming Paterson);
· Aldo Velasco, director and editor (Chittagong); and
· Laura Nix, documentary film-maker (The Yes Men Are Revolting).
As previously announced, the festival will open with Angry Indian Goddesses (pictured) and the...
Three films have been added to the line-up on April 10, including Lena Khan’s feature debut The Tiger Hunter, and a community screening of Sami Khan’s Khoya.
A restored version of Sujata, provided by the National Film Archive Of India, will screen as a tribute to director Bimal Roy on the 50th anniversary of his death.
The jury for the 2016 Narrative Film Competition includes:
· Shonali Bose, film-maker (Margarita, With A Straw & Amu);
· Shalini Dore, Variety; and
· Alesia Weston, international consultant to independent film-makers and film festivals.
The jury for the 2016 Short Film Competition includes:
· Rizwan Manji, actor (Jim Jarmusch’s upcoming Paterson);
· Aldo Velasco, director and editor (Chittagong); and
· Laura Nix, documentary film-maker (The Yes Men Are Revolting).
As previously announced, the festival will open with Angry Indian Goddesses (pictured) and the...
- 3/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Kalki Koechlin’s Margarita with a Straw has hit film festival circuits and has since then gone round the globe, being the toast of the festival circuit and setting audiences on fire with a positive impact. The film is directed by established veteran Shonali Bose who is well known in the film fraternity for her upbeat unconventional and deep-rooted film making. The Amu director has yet again unraveled a work of art in this production with Kalki Koechlin in the lead. More so it has gone on to win and become critically acclaimed worldwide. To name a few festivals where the film has been presented are Sundance, Palm Springs, Tallinn Black Nights, Busan, BFI London Film festival.
An eye for detail is what sets apart a good film from great. Margarita with a Straw released its first look on YouTube where ace composer/director Joi Barua was roped in to...
An eye for detail is what sets apart a good film from great. Margarita with a Straw released its first look on YouTube where ace composer/director Joi Barua was roped in to...
- 3/22/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Dukhtar, Margarita With A Straw and Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain among outstanding schedule of independent South Asian films to be screened as part of 17th annual Laff.
Organizers have announced the full roster of films and special events for this year’s London Asian Film Festival (Laff) – Europe’s oldest showcase for South Asian cinema.
The Festival takes place across London from 19 March to 28 March and features a string of exciting and acclaimed independent feature films, master classes, special screenings, debates and the Festival’s celebrated short films competition.
This year’s Festival highlights include critically acclaimed films such as Margarita With A Straw, Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain, Dukhtar, Rang Rasiya, The World Before Her and Haider.
The 17th edition London Asian Film Festival is once again organized by Tongues on Fire, which has built an unparalleled reputation for promoting independent cinema as well as providing a showcase for female filmmakers.
Organizers have announced the full roster of films and special events for this year’s London Asian Film Festival (Laff) – Europe’s oldest showcase for South Asian cinema.
The Festival takes place across London from 19 March to 28 March and features a string of exciting and acclaimed independent feature films, master classes, special screenings, debates and the Festival’s celebrated short films competition.
This year’s Festival highlights include critically acclaimed films such as Margarita With A Straw, Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain, Dukhtar, Rang Rasiya, The World Before Her and Haider.
The 17th edition London Asian Film Festival is once again organized by Tongues on Fire, which has built an unparalleled reputation for promoting independent cinema as well as providing a showcase for female filmmakers.
- 3/18/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
The sweet and edgy coming-of-age film Margarita, With a Straw recently thrilled on the red carpet at the 58th BFI London Film Festival, as it had its highly-anticipated European premiere screening. The red carpet saw an impressive turnout of media and paparazzi, as the stars of the film, its director and the inspiration for the film, the director’s cousin Malini, all walked the star-studded red carpet in London.
The award-winning Margarita, With A Straw was screened on 17th and 18th October 2014 at Vue West End Cinema and Vue Cinema Islington, London respectively, and received a standing ovation when it was screened. The film is produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Jakhotia Group, Ishan Talkies and Adapt, and the sales agent is Wide Management.
The Kalki Koechlin starrer is a slice of life film wherein ‘Laila’ embarks on a journey to seek love and acceptance. It not only received a standing...
The award-winning Margarita, With A Straw was screened on 17th and 18th October 2014 at Vue West End Cinema and Vue Cinema Islington, London respectively, and received a standing ovation when it was screened. The film is produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Jakhotia Group, Ishan Talkies and Adapt, and the sales agent is Wide Management.
The Kalki Koechlin starrer is a slice of life film wherein ‘Laila’ embarks on a journey to seek love and acceptance. It not only received a standing...
- 10/23/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
After a fantastic reception at last month’s Toronto International Film Festival, the 58th BFI London Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for director Shonali Bose’s Margarita, With a Straw. Produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Jakhotia Group, Ishan Talkies and Adapt, the film will be screened on 17th & 18th October 2014 at Vue West End Cinema & Vue Cinema Islington, London respectively. The international sales agent is Wide Management.
The Kalki Koechlin starrer Margarita, With a Straw is a slice of life film wherein Laila embarks on the journey to seek love and acceptance. The film not only received a standing ovation at its world premiere but also won the prestigious Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) award for Best Asian Film at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival.
The film is directed by Bengali film-maker Shonali Bose, whose award-winning film Amu previously explored the suppressed history of...
The Kalki Koechlin starrer Margarita, With a Straw is a slice of life film wherein Laila embarks on the journey to seek love and acceptance. The film not only received a standing ovation at its world premiere but also won the prestigious Netpac (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) award for Best Asian Film at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival.
The film is directed by Bengali film-maker Shonali Bose, whose award-winning film Amu previously explored the suppressed history of...
- 10/2/2014
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Margarita, with a Straw directed by Shonali Bose will receive a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2014 in Contemporary World Cinema programme.
The programme presents the latest works of some of the most provocative and important voices in cinema from around the globe. Bose’s debut film Amu had also been screened at Toronto in 2005.
Margarita, with a Straw revolves around Laila (Kalki Koechlin), a young romantic and a secret rebel in a wheelchair. Undeterred by cerebral palsy, she embarks on exhilarating adventures of self discovery, which cause a rift both within and with those she is closest to. Ultimately, it is in the intensity of these bonds where she must find the strength to truly be herself.
Megha Ramaswamy’s short film Newborns will screen in the inaugural Short Cuts International programme. 36 international shorts from 29 countries will be screened in the newly introduced short film section at the festival.
The programme presents the latest works of some of the most provocative and important voices in cinema from around the globe. Bose’s debut film Amu had also been screened at Toronto in 2005.
Margarita, with a Straw revolves around Laila (Kalki Koechlin), a young romantic and a secret rebel in a wheelchair. Undeterred by cerebral palsy, she embarks on exhilarating adventures of self discovery, which cause a rift both within and with those she is closest to. Ultimately, it is in the intensity of these bonds where she must find the strength to truly be herself.
Megha Ramaswamy’s short film Newborns will screen in the inaugural Short Cuts International programme. 36 international shorts from 29 countries will be screened in the newly introduced short film section at the festival.
- 8/13/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
M argarita, With A Straw is one of the five projects selected for the Work In Progress Lab of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Shonali Bose:
Shonali Bose
Tell us about your project. What language is it in?
Margarita, With A Straw is the journey of a teenage disabled musician who yearns for love, sex and external affirmation. It is in Hindi and English.
Which stage of development is it in currently? Who all have you cast in the film?
We are in the process of getting the Sound, Music, Colour grading, Visual Effects, Mixing and Di done. Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, William Moseley and Sayani Gupta are in the lead.
Tell us a little about yourself and your work.
I graduated from the UCLA film School with an Mfa in Directing. My debut film Amu, written, produced and directed by me won numerous awards including two National Awards (Best Film,...
Shonali Bose
Tell us about your project. What language is it in?
Margarita, With A Straw is the journey of a teenage disabled musician who yearns for love, sex and external affirmation. It is in Hindi and English.
Which stage of development is it in currently? Who all have you cast in the film?
We are in the process of getting the Sound, Music, Colour grading, Visual Effects, Mixing and Di done. Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, William Moseley and Sayani Gupta are in the lead.
Tell us a little about yourself and your work.
I graduated from the UCLA film School with an Mfa in Directing. My debut film Amu, written, produced and directed by me won numerous awards including two National Awards (Best Film,...
- 11/19/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Shonali Bose
Shonali Bose’s feature film Margarita, with a Straw that won her the Sundance Institute– Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2012 has completed principal photography. The film was shot in India in March and in New York in June 2013.
The film features Kalki Koechlin (Shanghai, That Girl in Yellow Boots), Revathy (Thevar Magan, Dhoop, Marupadiyam) and William Moseley who played Peter Pevensie in the film series The Chronicles of Narnia.
Produced by Bose’s production company Ishan Talkies and Viacom 18, the film is still in need of finishing funds. It is expected to be ready by October this year.
The film revolves around Laila (Koechlin) who falls repeatedly in love, yearns to have sex and wants to be a Bollywood lyricist.
Academy award winner Resool Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire) is the sound designer of the film. Prasoon Joshi ( Taare Zameen Par, Rang de Basanti) has penned the lyrics. Anne Misawa ( Treeless Mountain,...
Shonali Bose’s feature film Margarita, with a Straw that won her the Sundance Institute– Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2012 has completed principal photography. The film was shot in India in March and in New York in June 2013.
The film features Kalki Koechlin (Shanghai, That Girl in Yellow Boots), Revathy (Thevar Magan, Dhoop, Marupadiyam) and William Moseley who played Peter Pevensie in the film series The Chronicles of Narnia.
Produced by Bose’s production company Ishan Talkies and Viacom 18, the film is still in need of finishing funds. It is expected to be ready by October this year.
The film revolves around Laila (Koechlin) who falls repeatedly in love, yearns to have sex and wants to be a Bollywood lyricist.
Academy award winner Resool Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire) is the sound designer of the film. Prasoon Joshi ( Taare Zameen Par, Rang de Basanti) has penned the lyrics. Anne Misawa ( Treeless Mountain,...
- 7/5/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai, April 18: Actress Konkona Sen Sharma enjoys working with first-time directors because she feels they convey something special through their work.
"I have worked with many first-time directors -- Ayan (Mukherjee), Zoya (Akhtar), Shonali Bose, who did 'Amu' and now Kannan Iyer. After working with these people, I have found that the first-time directors bring something very special to the table," the 34-year-old said here in an interview.
"I don't have any qualms (about working with first-time directors). If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special," added.
"I have worked with many first-time directors -- Ayan (Mukherjee), Zoya (Akhtar), Shonali Bose, who did 'Amu' and now Kannan Iyer. After working with these people, I have found that the first-time directors bring something very special to the table," the 34-year-old said here in an interview.
"I don't have any qualms (about working with first-time directors). If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special," added.
- 4/18/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Doordarshan’s double standard policy to not telecast national award winning film I Am has not gone down well with the filmmaking fraternity. While it is a mandate to show all national award winning films, the public broadcaster shied away from Onir’s I Am as it has been given a U/A rating by the Central Board of Film Certification.
“I think they should start giving national awards to only films with U certificate. In a nation of children where they don’t want us to grow up so they can manipulate us any which way, all the awards should also have an eligibility criteria of U certificate,” lashes out filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.
I Am, which won the 59th national award for Best Hindi Film and Best Lyrics, ironically is deemed fit for telecast on satellite channels which allow films with U/A ratings.
“What really angers me is...
“I think they should start giving national awards to only films with U certificate. In a nation of children where they don’t want us to grow up so they can manipulate us any which way, all the awards should also have an eligibility criteria of U certificate,” lashes out filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.
I Am, which won the 59th national award for Best Hindi Film and Best Lyrics, ironically is deemed fit for telecast on satellite channels which allow films with U/A ratings.
“What really angers me is...
- 7/9/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Despite the mandate for telecast of all national award winning films on Doordarshan, the national broadcaster won’t be able to telecast Onir’s I Am that won two national awards this year including Best Hindi film.
“We had edited about 7 minutes of the films; all abuses, kisses or anything that might seem unfit. And then I was told that the subject of the film cannot be U. Which means Doordarshan will not be able to screen my film,” said Onir.
I Am is a series of four short stories about issues facing modern Indian society, ranging from policing of homosexual men to adult survivors of childhood sex-abuse, and unmarried motherhood.
“If all satellite channels can telecast UA films, why should the Doordarshan audience be deemed unfit for the same? As a film that has received National Award we get preference and a little bit more money for Dd telecast.
“We had edited about 7 minutes of the films; all abuses, kisses or anything that might seem unfit. And then I was told that the subject of the film cannot be U. Which means Doordarshan will not be able to screen my film,” said Onir.
I Am is a series of four short stories about issues facing modern Indian society, ranging from policing of homosexual men to adult survivors of childhood sex-abuse, and unmarried motherhood.
“If all satellite channels can telecast UA films, why should the Doordarshan audience be deemed unfit for the same? As a film that has received National Award we get preference and a little bit more money for Dd telecast.
- 7/5/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Mumbai, March 20: Once bitten twice shy is a proverb you cannot apply to filmmaker Shonali Bose. For the second time in her life, she is trying to make "Margarita. With a Straw", a film on a largely untouched subject - cerebral palsy.
This time, she is armed with a little experience. The film is inspired by her cousin who suffers from the disease.
Her "Amu" in 2005 was a rare feature film to be made on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Though it helped sensitise people about the issue, making it was an uphill task.
"Since it was a low budget film, I thought I would easily get funds from the Sikh community. But I found that.
This time, she is armed with a little experience. The film is inspired by her cousin who suffers from the disease.
Her "Amu" in 2005 was a rare feature film to be made on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Though it helped sensitise people about the issue, making it was an uphill task.
"Since it was a low budget film, I thought I would easily get funds from the Sikh community. But I found that.
- 3/20/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
DearCinema brings to you a few voices that define the Indie scene in India today, ruminating over what independent cinema means to them. Straight from the horse’s mouth. Following the eloquent Q [Indie Head Rush: By (Q)aushiq Mukherjee], in the second in the series, Shonali Bose who directed the national award winning film Amu and won the Sundance Institute– Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2012 writes about the compromises she refused to make while treading the indie tightrope.
Shonali Bose
I taught for a year at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. And this is what I told my students. Be very sure, be very committed, be very passionate about your films – otherwise choose another line of work. It’s one of the toughest professions in the world!
What does it mean to be an independent filmmaker whether in La or in Bombay?
To my mind, it’s being a writer-director or filmmaker who does not compromise.
Shonali Bose
I taught for a year at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. And this is what I told my students. Be very sure, be very committed, be very passionate about your films – otherwise choose another line of work. It’s one of the toughest professions in the world!
What does it mean to be an independent filmmaker whether in La or in Bombay?
To my mind, it’s being a writer-director or filmmaker who does not compromise.
- 2/18/2012
- by Shonali Bose
- DearCinema.com
Anand Mahindra with Shonali Bose
Indian director Shonali Bose (Amu, 2005) is one of the four filmmakers who won the Sundance Institute– Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2012 announced at the Sundance Film Festival today.
The winning directors and projects are: Shonali Bose, Margarita. With A Straw from India; Ariel Kleiman, Partisan from Australia; Etienne Kallos, Vrystaat (Free State) from South Africa; and Dominga Sotomayor, Late To Die Young from Chile.
The awards had been instituted in 2011 in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. Each of the four winning filmmakers will receive a cash award of $10,000, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival for targeted industry and creative meetings, year-round mentoring from Institute staff and creative advisors, participation in a Feature Film Program Lab, and ongoing creative and strategic support.
“We are grateful to the Mahindra Group for building with us, this multifaceted program, which embraces our joint global...
Indian director Shonali Bose (Amu, 2005) is one of the four filmmakers who won the Sundance Institute– Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2012 announced at the Sundance Film Festival today.
The winning directors and projects are: Shonali Bose, Margarita. With A Straw from India; Ariel Kleiman, Partisan from Australia; Etienne Kallos, Vrystaat (Free State) from South Africa; and Dominga Sotomayor, Late To Die Young from Chile.
The awards had been instituted in 2011 in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. Each of the four winning filmmakers will receive a cash award of $10,000, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival for targeted industry and creative meetings, year-round mentoring from Institute staff and creative advisors, participation in a Feature Film Program Lab, and ongoing creative and strategic support.
“We are grateful to the Mahindra Group for building with us, this multifaceted program, which embraces our joint global...
- 1/25/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Years after three films were made on Bhagat Singh around the same time; it is set to happen again. This time, it’s Surjya Sen of the Chittagong uprising, who will have two films made on him, Ashutosh Gowarikar’s ‘Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey’ starring Abhishek Bachchan and Shonali Bose’s (of Amu fame) Chittagong starring Manoj Bajpai.
According to Shonali, she and her husband have worked on it for four years. They’re surprised that Gowarikar is making a film on it. However, they have discussed it with Gowarikar who has assured them that he is doing a different aspect of the historical event.
Shonali admits that she likes Gowarikar and his films a lot. He had also praised her Amu when it released.
Gowarikar.
According to Shonali, she and her husband have worked on it for four years. They’re surprised that Gowarikar is making a film on it. However, they have discussed it with Gowarikar who has assured them that he is doing a different aspect of the historical event.
Shonali admits that she likes Gowarikar and his films a lot. He had also praised her Amu when it released.
Gowarikar.
- 1/29/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
BERLIN -- Sometimes in April takes on the Rwandan genocide of 1994 with a story that incorporates both the big picture and a drama about a specific family. Writer-director Raoul Peck, who told the story of the rise to power and assassination of a Congolese leader in Lumumba, has the disadvantage of coming late to the subject. Along with several books about the horrifying events that left upward of 1 million people dead, several documentaries and the Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda already have brought Rwanda to the screen. Undoubtedly, there are many, many stories arising from these atrocities yet to be told. But Peck's generic approach, in which one fictional tale tries to encompass the entire tragedy, falls considerably short of the mark.
In the United States, the film will air on HBO, where many people who successfully have avoided any book or movie will get exposed to the story perhaps for the first time, so this might do much good. In territories where April will get released theatrically, the film might have less impact.
The story is split between two Aprils, in 2004 and 1994, and tells the experiences of Augustin Muganza (Idris Elba). Peck contrives the makeup of his family in such a way that he can include as many horror stories as possible. Thus, Augustin is a Hutu army officer, but his wife (Carole Karemera) is Tutsi. His brother Honore (Oris Erhuero) works at a radio station known as "hate radio" that broadcasts a call to arms for Hutus to slaughter Tutsis during the three-month carnage. And Augustin's girlfriend in 2004, Martine (Pamela Nomvete), teaches at a Catholic girls school in 1994, which one of his daughters attends.
In April 2004, during the national Day of Remembrance, Augustin receives a letter from Honore, asking Augustin to visit him in prison in Tanzania, where he is about to plead guilty at the International Criminal Tribunal. Martine urges him to go. Augustin reluctantly does so, and the movie moves back and forth between the two Aprils to fill us in on what happened to the family -- and the nation.
A third sequence takes place behind closed doors in Washington, where U.S. officials debate and temporize but do nothing to stop the massacre. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Prudence Bushnell (Debra Winger) argues for action but gets nowhere. The impression left by these scenes -- that blame for nonintervention lies solely with the U.S. government and not other U.N. member states, including European powers with genuine stakes in the region -- is simplistic and misleading.
The film captures the tensions and fears as chaos rages in the streets and includes more than enough sequences of mass murder to get across the point that madness gripped the entire nation. However, none of its characters is sufficiently developed so that an audience really can identify with him, which is what makes Hotel Rwanda so much more powerful. Dialogue often deteriorates into speeches, and characters habitually make geopolitical points.
This Berlinale has its share of movies about ethnic carnage, such as Amu, about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, and Massacre, about the Christian militia's murder of Palestinian civilians in refugee camps in 1982. Such films need to be made and seen. But they usually hit home strongest when filmmakers are willing to put as much effort into drama and character as into political posturing.
SOMETIMES IN APRIL
HBO Films
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Raoul Peck; Producer: Daniel Delume; Executive producers: Raoul Peck, Joel Stillerman; Director of photography: Eric Guichard; Production designer: Benoit Barouh; Music: Bruno Coulais; Costume designer: Paule Mangenot; Editor: Jacques Comets. Cast: Augustin: Idris Elba; Prudence Bushnell: Debra Winger; Jeanne: Carole Karemera; Martine: Pamela Nomvete; Honore: Oris Erhuero; Xavier: Fraser James; Lionel: Noah Emmerich.
No MPAA rating, running time 140 minutes.
In the United States, the film will air on HBO, where many people who successfully have avoided any book or movie will get exposed to the story perhaps for the first time, so this might do much good. In territories where April will get released theatrically, the film might have less impact.
The story is split between two Aprils, in 2004 and 1994, and tells the experiences of Augustin Muganza (Idris Elba). Peck contrives the makeup of his family in such a way that he can include as many horror stories as possible. Thus, Augustin is a Hutu army officer, but his wife (Carole Karemera) is Tutsi. His brother Honore (Oris Erhuero) works at a radio station known as "hate radio" that broadcasts a call to arms for Hutus to slaughter Tutsis during the three-month carnage. And Augustin's girlfriend in 2004, Martine (Pamela Nomvete), teaches at a Catholic girls school in 1994, which one of his daughters attends.
In April 2004, during the national Day of Remembrance, Augustin receives a letter from Honore, asking Augustin to visit him in prison in Tanzania, where he is about to plead guilty at the International Criminal Tribunal. Martine urges him to go. Augustin reluctantly does so, and the movie moves back and forth between the two Aprils to fill us in on what happened to the family -- and the nation.
A third sequence takes place behind closed doors in Washington, where U.S. officials debate and temporize but do nothing to stop the massacre. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Prudence Bushnell (Debra Winger) argues for action but gets nowhere. The impression left by these scenes -- that blame for nonintervention lies solely with the U.S. government and not other U.N. member states, including European powers with genuine stakes in the region -- is simplistic and misleading.
The film captures the tensions and fears as chaos rages in the streets and includes more than enough sequences of mass murder to get across the point that madness gripped the entire nation. However, none of its characters is sufficiently developed so that an audience really can identify with him, which is what makes Hotel Rwanda so much more powerful. Dialogue often deteriorates into speeches, and characters habitually make geopolitical points.
This Berlinale has its share of movies about ethnic carnage, such as Amu, about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, and Massacre, about the Christian militia's murder of Palestinian civilians in refugee camps in 1982. Such films need to be made and seen. But they usually hit home strongest when filmmakers are willing to put as much effort into drama and character as into political posturing.
SOMETIMES IN APRIL
HBO Films
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Raoul Peck; Producer: Daniel Delume; Executive producers: Raoul Peck, Joel Stillerman; Director of photography: Eric Guichard; Production designer: Benoit Barouh; Music: Bruno Coulais; Costume designer: Paule Mangenot; Editor: Jacques Comets. Cast: Augustin: Idris Elba; Prudence Bushnell: Debra Winger; Jeanne: Carole Karemera; Martine: Pamela Nomvete; Honore: Oris Erhuero; Xavier: Fraser James; Lionel: Noah Emmerich.
No MPAA rating, running time 140 minutes.
- 2/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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