There have been contemplative documentaries about monastic life before, not least Philip Gröning’s epic Into Great Silence. The contemplative air that prevails at the start of this gorgeously shot film that focuses on the nun of the title, might indicate we are in for more of the same, but Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson’s study of Mother Vera is set to become a lot less cloistered as the nun embarks on an unexpected and transformational path.
The bulk of the film is shot in black and white, drawing its influence from the Ex-Voto photographic project about places of pilgrimage, which is how Embleton and Tomlinson met Mother Vera in the first place - the former from a film background, while the other has a strong photographic back catalogue. We’re drawn into the nun’s world by a combination of impressive visuals as she heads to prayer and an evocative soundscape that.
The bulk of the film is shot in black and white, drawing its influence from the Ex-Voto photographic project about places of pilgrimage, which is how Embleton and Tomlinson met Mother Vera in the first place - the former from a film background, while the other has a strong photographic back catalogue. We’re drawn into the nun’s world by a combination of impressive visuals as she heads to prayer and an evocative soundscape that.
- 4/15/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Venice Golden Lion contender “Miss Marx,” starring Romola Garai as the spirited daughter of philosopher Karl Marx, has secured its first tranche of international deals ahead of the September fest. (Watch the film’s exclusive trailer above.)
Written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli, with Celluloid Dreams serving as international sales agent, the film has been picked up by DDDreams in China and B-Team in Spain. In Italy, 01 — the distribution arm of Rai Cinema — will distribute the film, which is produced by Vivo film with Rai Cinema and Tarantula.
In what appears to be a refreshingly rock ‘n’ roll take on history, Garai plays Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor, a strong feminist and socialist who takes part in workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights, as well as the abolition of child labor. The film also details her tragic relationship with Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy), whom she meets in 1883.
Nicchiarelli...
Written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli, with Celluloid Dreams serving as international sales agent, the film has been picked up by DDDreams in China and B-Team in Spain. In Italy, 01 — the distribution arm of Rai Cinema — will distribute the film, which is produced by Vivo film with Rai Cinema and Tarantula.
In what appears to be a refreshingly rock ‘n’ roll take on history, Garai plays Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor, a strong feminist and socialist who takes part in workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights, as well as the abolition of child labor. The film also details her tragic relationship with Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy), whom she meets in 1883.
Nicchiarelli...
- 7/31/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Ash Is Purest White and Burning.
Turkey’s Adana Film Festival (September 22-30) has revealed its International Competition titles and jury.
The nine-strong line-up, all Turkish premieres, includes Cannes competition titles Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) and Burning (Lee Chang-Dong), Karlovy Vary winner I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians (Radu Jude) and Olivier Assayas’ Venice competition title Non-Fiction.
It also includes the Turkish premiere of Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s The Announcement, which won a special jury prize in the Horizons section at Venice Film Festival this month and is also in the festival’s National Competition.
Turkey’s Adana Film Festival (September 22-30) has revealed its International Competition titles and jury.
The nine-strong line-up, all Turkish premieres, includes Cannes competition titles Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) and Burning (Lee Chang-Dong), Karlovy Vary winner I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians (Radu Jude) and Olivier Assayas’ Venice competition title Non-Fiction.
It also includes the Turkish premiere of Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s The Announcement, which won a special jury prize in the Horizons section at Venice Film Festival this month and is also in the festival’s National Competition.
- 9/17/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The cult Us director was talkiig at the Munich Film Festival.
Rome-based Us cult director Abel Ferrara is preparing a new feature documentary of Padre Pio, the controverisal Italian monk who became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life.
Padre Pio died in 1968 at the age of 81. He was beatified and then canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, he was born Francesco Forgione and given the name of Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Ferrara said he had watched German filmmaker Philip Gröning’s...
Rome-based Us cult director Abel Ferrara is preparing a new feature documentary of Padre Pio, the controverisal Italian monk who became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life.
Padre Pio died in 1968 at the age of 81. He was beatified and then canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, he was born Francesco Forgione and given the name of Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Ferrara said he had watched German filmmaker Philip Gröning’s...
- 7/5/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
“We are a true audience festival for professionals and cinema- overs alike”.
“There’s no sign of ‘a seven year itch’,” laughs Diana Iljine, as she heads her seventh edition of the Munich Film Festival (Filmfest München) this year .
“On the contrary, the love is growing.”
Iljine points to the increasing international focus of the festival, an increase in the number of accredited press attending and a rise in audiences. It all adds up, she says, to a far greater impact being felt in Germany by the films Munich is celebrating.
She describes the opening film, the world premiere of...
“There’s no sign of ‘a seven year itch’,” laughs Diana Iljine, as she heads her seventh edition of the Munich Film Festival (Filmfest München) this year .
“On the contrary, the love is growing.”
Iljine points to the increasing international focus of the festival, an increase in the number of accredited press attending and a rise in audiences. It all adds up, she says, to a far greater impact being felt in Germany by the films Munich is celebrating.
She describes the opening film, the world premiere of...
- 7/3/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The German festival runs from June 28 to July 7.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
- 6/26/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Philip Gröning’s sibling drama leaves the Jury divided.
The latest title on the Screen Berlin 2018 Jury Grid is Philip Gröning’s three-hour sibling drama My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot, which achieves an average of 2.7 from our critics.
It recorded four scores of 3 (good) or 4 (excellent), but a 0 (bad) from Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö.
This puts it in the higher end of this year’s Grid, with Wes Anderson’s festival opener Isle Of Dogs still in top spot with 3.3.
Next up is Alonso Ruizpalacios’ heist pic Museum starring Gabriel García Bernal, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not.
The latest title on the Screen Berlin 2018 Jury Grid is Philip Gröning’s three-hour sibling drama My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot, which achieves an average of 2.7 from our critics.
It recorded four scores of 3 (good) or 4 (excellent), but a 0 (bad) from Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö.
This puts it in the higher end of this year’s Grid, with Wes Anderson’s festival opener Isle Of Dogs still in top spot with 3.3.
Next up is Alonso Ruizpalacios’ heist pic Museum starring Gabriel García Bernal, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not.
- 2/22/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Philip Gröning’s sibling drama leaves the Jury divided.
The latest title on the Screen Berlin 2018 Jury Grid is Philip Gröning’s three-hour sibling drama My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot, which achieves an average of 2.7 from our critics.
It recorded four scores of 3 (good) or 4 (excellent), but a 0 (bad) from Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö.
This puts it in the higher end of this year’s Grid, with Wes Anderson’s festival opener Isle Of Dogs still in top spot with 3.3.
Next up is Alonso Ruizpalacios’ heist pic Museum starring Gabriel García Bernal, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not.
The latest title on the Screen Berlin 2018 Jury Grid is Philip Gröning’s three-hour sibling drama My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot, which achieves an average of 2.7 from our critics.
It recorded four scores of 3 (good) or 4 (excellent), but a 0 (bad) from Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö.
This puts it in the higher end of this year’s Grid, with Wes Anderson’s festival opener Isle Of Dogs still in top spot with 3.3.
Next up is Alonso Ruizpalacios’ heist pic Museum starring Gabriel García Bernal, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not.
- 2/22/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Philip Gröning’s sibling drama splits leaves the Jury divided.
The latest title on the Screen Berlin 2018 Jury Grid is Philip Gröning’s three-hour sibling drama My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot, which achieves an average of 2.7 from our critics.
It recorded four scores of 3 (good) or 4 (excellent), but a 0 (bad) from Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö.
This puts it in the higher end of this year’s Grid, with Wes Anderson’s festival opener Isle Of Dogs still in top spot with 3.3.
Next up is Alonso Ruizpalacios’ heist pic Museum starring Gabriel García Bernal, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not.
The latest title on the Screen Berlin 2018 Jury Grid is Philip Gröning’s three-hour sibling drama My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot, which achieves an average of 2.7 from our critics.
It recorded four scores of 3 (good) or 4 (excellent), but a 0 (bad) from Dagens Nyheter’s Nicholas Wennö.
This puts it in the higher end of this year’s Grid, with Wes Anderson’s festival opener Isle Of Dogs still in top spot with 3.3.
Next up is Alonso Ruizpalacios’ heist pic Museum starring Gabriel García Bernal, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not.
- 2/22/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New films from Gus Van Sant, Mani Haghighi also receive scores.
Lav Diaz’s 234-minute black-and-white historical drama Season Of The Devil has dropped on the Screen International Berlin Jury Grid, along with Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mani Haghighi’s comedy of a blacklisted film director, Pig.
Season Of The Devil has split opinion of our jurors, with scores of 4 (excellent) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, but a 1 (poor) from Sight & Sound’s Nick James. Read the Screen review here.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot takes an average of 2.1, although 3 (good) is the mode.
Pig has mid-to-lower range scores, a mixture of 1s, 2s and a 3 from Katja Nicodemus, for an average of 1.8.
The next titles will be Philip Gröning’s My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot...
Lav Diaz’s 234-minute black-and-white historical drama Season Of The Devil has dropped on the Screen International Berlin Jury Grid, along with Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mani Haghighi’s comedy of a blacklisted film director, Pig.
Season Of The Devil has split opinion of our jurors, with scores of 4 (excellent) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, but a 1 (poor) from Sight & Sound’s Nick James. Read the Screen review here.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot takes an average of 2.1, although 3 (good) is the mode.
Pig has mid-to-lower range scores, a mixture of 1s, 2s and a 3 from Katja Nicodemus, for an average of 1.8.
The next titles will be Philip Gröning’s My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot...
- 2/21/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New films from Gus Van Sant & Mani Haghighi also receive scores
Lav Diaz’s 234-minute black-and-white historical drama Season Of The Devil has dropped on the Screen International Berlin Jury Grid, along with Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mani Haghighi’s comedy of a blacklisted film director, Pig.
Season Of The Devil has split opinion of our jurors, with scores of 4 (excellent) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, but a 1 (poor) from Sight & Sound’s Nick James. Read the Screen review here.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot takes an average of 2.1, although 3 (good) is the mode.
Pig has mid-to-lower range scores, a mixture of 1s, 2s and a 3 from Katja Nicodemus, for an average of 1.8.
The next titles will be Philip Gröning’s My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot...
Lav Diaz’s 234-minute black-and-white historical drama Season Of The Devil has dropped on the Screen International Berlin Jury Grid, along with Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mani Haghighi’s comedy of a blacklisted film director, Pig.
Season Of The Devil has split opinion of our jurors, with scores of 4 (excellent) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, but a 1 (poor) from Sight & Sound’s Nick James. Read the Screen review here.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot takes an average of 2.1, although 3 (good) is the mode.
Pig has mid-to-lower range scores, a mixture of 1s, 2s and a 3 from Katja Nicodemus, for an average of 1.8.
The next titles will be Philip Gröning’s My Brother’s Name Is Robert And He Is An Idiot...
- 2/21/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiri Menzel will also receive Berlinale Cameras.
Source: Murray Pictures/Berlin Film Festival
‘Songwriter’
Erik Poppe’s Anders Breivik drama ‘U - July 22’ has been added to the competition line-up for 2018 Berlin Film Festival, it was announced today (6 Feb) at the official programme press conference.
Dieter Kosslick, in his penultimate year as festival director, also revealed that the final Berlinale Special title will be Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter, directed by Murray Cummings. Both films will have their world premieres in Berlin.
It was announced that Willem Dafoe, Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event, which runs from 15 Feb-25 Feb.
Dafoe, nominated for an Oscar this year for The Florida Project, will be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear on February 20 before a screening of Daniel Nettheim’s 2011 film The Hunter. The festival will screen 10 of his films, including Antichrist, Mississipi Burning and [link...
Source: Murray Pictures/Berlin Film Festival
‘Songwriter’
Erik Poppe’s Anders Breivik drama ‘U - July 22’ has been added to the competition line-up for 2018 Berlin Film Festival, it was announced today (6 Feb) at the official programme press conference.
Dieter Kosslick, in his penultimate year as festival director, also revealed that the final Berlinale Special title will be Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter, directed by Murray Cummings. Both films will have their world premieres in Berlin.
It was announced that Willem Dafoe, Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiri Menzel will be honoured at the event, which runs from 15 Feb-25 Feb.
Dafoe, nominated for an Oscar this year for The Florida Project, will be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear on February 20 before a screening of Daniel Nettheim’s 2011 film The Hunter. The festival will screen 10 of his films, including Antichrist, Mississipi Burning and [link...
- 2/6/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
A total of 36 projects will be in Berlin.
Source: X-Filme
Run Lola Run
The Berlinale co-production market (February 17 – 21, 2018) will welcome 36 new feature film projects that are looking for co-producers. In addition, five production companies will be introduced in the ‘company matching’ programme.
Projects include new films by Todd Solondz, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aisling Walsh and Franka Potente.
Scroll down for lineup
Hundreds of movies have resulted from the previous fifteen editions of the event. Two films to emerge from recent editions confirmed for this year’s Competition section of the Berlinale are Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine) directed by Laura Bispuri and Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot by Philip Gröning.
For the 2018 market, 21 feature film projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €6m, were selected from 326 submissions. The projects, which will be presented by their producers already have either production support from their home countries, or financing of at least 30 percent in place.
Two additional film projects...
Source: X-Filme
Run Lola Run
The Berlinale co-production market (February 17 – 21, 2018) will welcome 36 new feature film projects that are looking for co-producers. In addition, five production companies will be introduced in the ‘company matching’ programme.
Projects include new films by Todd Solondz, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aisling Walsh and Franka Potente.
Scroll down for lineup
Hundreds of movies have resulted from the previous fifteen editions of the event. Two films to emerge from recent editions confirmed for this year’s Competition section of the Berlinale are Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine) directed by Laura Bispuri and Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot by Philip Gröning.
For the 2018 market, 21 feature film projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €6m, were selected from 326 submissions. The projects, which will be presented by their producers already have either production support from their home countries, or financing of at least 30 percent in place.
Two additional film projects...
- 1/12/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
Daughter of MineThe titles for the 68th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 15 - 25, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONDon't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant)Dovlatov (Alexey German, Jr.)Eva (Benoît Jacquot)Daughter of Mine (Laura Bispuri)In the Aisles (Thomas Stuber)Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot (Philip Gröning)Mug (Małgorzata Szumowska)Berlinale Special GALAThe Bookshop (Isabel Coixet)The Silent Revolution (Lars Kraume)Panoramal'Animale (Katharina Mückstein, Austria)Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag) (Claudia Priscilla & Kiko Goifman, Brazil)Ex Pajé (Ex Shaman) (Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil)Malambo, el hombre bueno (Malambo, the Good Man) (Santiago Loza, Argentina)Obscuro Barroco (Evangelia Kranioti, France/Greece)La omisión (The Omission) (Sebastián Schjaer, Argentina/The Netherlands/Switzerland)Profile (Timur Bekmambetov, USA/UK/Cyprus)River's Edge (Isao Yukisada, Japan)That Summer (Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden/Denmark/USA)Yocho (Foreboding) (Kiyoshi Kurosawa,...
- 12/21/2017
- MUBI
The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first group of films slated to compete for the Golden Bear, the festival’s top prize, including new titles from Gus Van Sant and Benoît Jacquot. Heading to Berlinale after its Sundance premiere is Van Sant’s “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot,” a biopic about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara. Jacquot, best known for 2012’s “Farewell, My Queen,” will premiere his remake of the the 1962 Jeanne Moreau vehicle “Eva,” starring Isabelle Huppert and Gaspard Ulliel. The previously announced opening night film is Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs,” which will also play in competition.
Read More:Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ to Open 2018 Berlin Film Festival
Two Berlinale Special Galas have also been unveiled: Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Lars Kraume’s “Das Schweigende Klassenzimmer.” The 2018 Berlin International Film...
Read More:Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ to Open 2018 Berlin Film Festival
Two Berlinale Special Galas have also been unveiled: Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Lars Kraume’s “Das Schweigende Klassenzimmer.” The 2018 Berlin International Film...
- 12/18/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The Berlinale has revealed the first films within its Competition and Berlinale Special lineups.
Source: Amazon
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
The Berlin Film Festival (15 - 25 Feb) has revealed the first films within its Competition and Berlinale Special lineups.
Directors including Benoit Jacquot, Gus Van Sant, Alexey German Jr., Małgorzata Szumowska, Philip Gröning, Thomas Stuber and Laura Bispuri will compete in this year’s Competition while Isabel Coixet and Lars Kraume feature in the Berlinale Special strand.
Alongside the previously announced opening film, Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson, seven productions and co-productions from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Serbia, the Russian Federation, and the USA are announced for the Competition.
Gus Van Sant’s drama Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far, which will debut at Sundance, is the only film announced today which is not a world premiere. Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill,...
Source: Amazon
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
The Berlin Film Festival (15 - 25 Feb) has revealed the first films within its Competition and Berlinale Special lineups.
Directors including Benoit Jacquot, Gus Van Sant, Alexey German Jr., Małgorzata Szumowska, Philip Gröning, Thomas Stuber and Laura Bispuri will compete in this year’s Competition while Isabel Coixet and Lars Kraume feature in the Berlinale Special strand.
Alongside the previously announced opening film, Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson, seven productions and co-productions from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Serbia, the Russian Federation, and the USA are announced for the Competition.
Gus Van Sant’s drama Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far, which will debut at Sundance, is the only film announced today which is not a world premiere. Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill,...
- 12/18/2017
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Screen Daily Test
The Berlinale has revealed the first films within its Competition and Berlinale Special lineups.
Source: Amazon
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
The Berlin Film Festival (15 - 25 Feb) has revealed the first films within its Competition and Berlinale Special lineups.
Directors including Benoit Jacquot, Gus Van Sant, Alexey German Jr., Małgorzata Szumowska, Philip Gröning, Thomas Stuber and Laura Bispuri will compete in this year’s Competition while Isabel Coixet and Lars Kraume feature in the Berlinale Special strand.
Alongside the previously announced opening film, Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson, seven productions and co-productions from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Serbia, the Russian Federation, and the USA are announced for the Competition.
Gus Van Sant’s drama Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far, which will debut at Sundance, is the only film announced today which is not a world premiere. Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and [link...
Source: Amazon
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
The Berlin Film Festival (15 - 25 Feb) has revealed the first films within its Competition and Berlinale Special lineups.
Directors including Benoit Jacquot, Gus Van Sant, Alexey German Jr., Małgorzata Szumowska, Philip Gröning, Thomas Stuber and Laura Bispuri will compete in this year’s Competition while Isabel Coixet and Lars Kraume feature in the Berlinale Special strand.
Alongside the previously announced opening film, Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson, seven productions and co-productions from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Serbia, the Russian Federation, and the USA are announced for the Competition.
Gus Van Sant’s drama Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far, which will debut at Sundance, is the only film announced today which is not a world premiere. Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara and [link...
- 12/18/2017
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
Berlinale director discusses ticket sales, VOD platforms and the spirit of ‘Baumi’.
The 65th Berlinale (Feb 5-15) will be remembered in many respects as a Berlinale in the spirit of ‘Baumi’“, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick with reference to the late producer-distributor Karl ‘Baumi’ Baumgartner.
Speaking to Screen as the festival enters its final days, Kosslick recalled that “many of the films shown this year reflect his philosophy: ‘Baumi’ was the pioneer of those so-called ‘little’ films which make a really big impression, and he was a great inspiration for so many film-makers through his co-productions.“
Indeed, as just one example, Malgorzata Szumowska, whose latest feature Body is showing in the Berlinale’s competition this year, said during the goEast Film Festival that Baumgartner – who died at the age of 65 in March 2014 - had been the guiding inspiration for her career as a film-maker.
It is therefore fitting that this year’s Berlinale edition provided the setting...
The 65th Berlinale (Feb 5-15) will be remembered in many respects as a Berlinale in the spirit of ‘Baumi’“, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick with reference to the late producer-distributor Karl ‘Baumi’ Baumgartner.
Speaking to Screen as the festival enters its final days, Kosslick recalled that “many of the films shown this year reflect his philosophy: ‘Baumi’ was the pioneer of those so-called ‘little’ films which make a really big impression, and he was a great inspiration for so many film-makers through his co-productions.“
Indeed, as just one example, Malgorzata Szumowska, whose latest feature Body is showing in the Berlinale’s competition this year, said during the goEast Film Festival that Baumgartner – who died at the age of 65 in March 2014 - had been the guiding inspiration for her career as a film-maker.
It is therefore fitting that this year’s Berlinale edition provided the setting...
- 2/12/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Venice awards go to Roy Andersson dark comedy, Andrei Konchalovsky drama, Hungry Hearts.Scroll down for full list of winners
Roy Andersson’s lauded absurdist comedy A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence has scooped the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.
Silver Lion for Best Director went to Andrei Konchalovsky for The Postman’s White Nights while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence took home the Grand Jury Prize.
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor went to Adam Driver for Hungry Hearts, while Best Actress went to Alba Rohrwacher for the same film.
Romain Paul took the Best Young Actor Award for Le Dernier Coup De Marteau while Best Screenplay went to Rakhshan Banietemad and Farid Mostafavi for Tales (Ghesseha).
The Special Jury Prize went to Sivas by Kaan Mujdeci and the Lion of the Future Award for Debut Film went to Court by Chaitanya Tamhane (India) along with a...
Roy Andersson’s lauded absurdist comedy A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence has scooped the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.
Silver Lion for Best Director went to Andrei Konchalovsky for The Postman’s White Nights while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence took home the Grand Jury Prize.
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor went to Adam Driver for Hungry Hearts, while Best Actress went to Alba Rohrwacher for the same film.
Romain Paul took the Best Young Actor Award for Le Dernier Coup De Marteau while Best Screenplay went to Rakhshan Banietemad and Farid Mostafavi for Tales (Ghesseha).
The Special Jury Prize went to Sivas by Kaan Mujdeci and the Lion of the Future Award for Debut Film went to Court by Chaitanya Tamhane (India) along with a...
- 9/6/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Well, that’s basically a wrap on the Venice Film Festival and the Venezia 71 jury—chaired by Alexandre Desplat and comprised of Joan Chen, Philip Gröning, Jessica Hausner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandy Powell, Tim Roth, Elia Suleiman and Carlo Verdone—has decided the awards. The big winner? Roy Andersson’s metaphysical, long-awaited “A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence” won the Golden Lion Best Film prize (our review). Adam Driver won best actor for “Hungry Hearts” and the Grand Jury Prize went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary “The Look Of Silence” (our review). Full winners with applicable links below. Golden Lion for Best Film to: En Duva Satt PÅ En Gren Och Funderade PÅ Tillvaron A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence by Roy Andersson (Sweden, Germany, Norway, France) Silver Lion for Best Director to: Andrej Končalovskij for the film Belye Nochi Pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna (The Postman...
- 9/6/2014
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
There will again be a wide range of German films in the program when the Venice International Film Festival opens its doors for the 71st time on 27 August 2014 as the world's oldest existing film festival. "The Cut" by Fatih Akin (De/Fr/It/Ru/Pl/Jo/Tr, bombero international, Pandora Filmproduktion, corazón international) will have its world premiere in the Venezia 71 Competition. The competition for the Golden Lion also includes the debut film by the German-Turkish filmmaker Kaan Müjdeci "Sivas" (Tr/De, Müjdeci GmbH) and two other German co-productions. The director Philip Gröning is a member of the jury. The Venice Classics will be presenting "From Caligari to Hitler" by Rüdiger Suchsland (Looks Filmproduktionen). The up-and-coming generation of German filmmakers was also invited: "The Council of Birds," the first feature film by Timm Kröger (Filmakademie Baden-württemberg), will screen as a world premiere in the competition of the International Film Critics’ Week. The independent sidebar has also invited the German co-production "Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere" by Diep Hoang Nguyen (Vn/Fr/No/De, Filmallee) which was financed with support from the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund.
Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films: “As was also the case last year, there is a very strong presence for German cinema at the Lido, which makes us very happy. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and their teams!“
More German films in Venice...
German cinema is also prominently represented at the most important North American festival in Toronto (4 – 14 September 2014) with a total of 31 German films and co-productions selected for the program. Christian Petzold's "Phoenix" (Schramm Film Koerner & Weber) will celebrate its world premiere in the Special Presentations. Other world premieres will be held for "Who Am I - No System is Safe" by Baran bo Odar (Wiedemann & Berg Film) and "Labyrinth of Lies" by Giulio Ricciarelli (Claussen+Wöbke+Putz, naked eye film production) in the section of Contemporary World Cinema. The same section will feature the North American premiere of "Tour de Force" by Christian Zübert (Majestic Filmproduktion). This year will again see German Films having a stand in the Industry Area.
More German films in Toronto...
Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films: “As was also the case last year, there is a very strong presence for German cinema at the Lido, which makes us very happy. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers and their teams!“
More German films in Venice...
German cinema is also prominently represented at the most important North American festival in Toronto (4 – 14 September 2014) with a total of 31 German films and co-productions selected for the program. Christian Petzold's "Phoenix" (Schramm Film Koerner & Weber) will celebrate its world premiere in the Special Presentations. Other world premieres will be held for "Who Am I - No System is Safe" by Baran bo Odar (Wiedemann & Berg Film) and "Labyrinth of Lies" by Giulio Ricciarelli (Claussen+Wöbke+Putz, naked eye film production) in the section of Contemporary World Cinema. The same section will feature the North American premiere of "Tour de Force" by Christian Zübert (Majestic Filmproduktion). This year will again see German Films having a stand in the Industry Area.
More German films in Toronto...
- 8/25/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Told in elliptical style through a series of chapters (many only minutes or even a few moments long), this is a chilling study of domestic abuse. Philip Gröning portrays what seems to be an unremarkable provincial family. The father is a police officer but not a boorish or macho one. He dotes on his daughter and laughs when his wife beats him at arm-wrestling. Only slowly does his self-loathing and capacity for violence become apparent. The bruises we see in passing on his wife's arms, back and torso reveal how viciously he is treating her. What makes this family tragedy so unsettling is the detached, sometimes banal style in which Gröning approaches his material. The wife's dependency on the husband – and need for his approval – increases as the abuse continues. The scenes of family intimacy and contentment seem grotesque given the underlying misery which neither spouse is prepared to acknowledge.
- 8/21/2014
- The Independent - Film
★★★★☆The pursuit of truth is a demand that cannot be fulfilled through seeing alone. An encounter with cinema resides through a locale of turbulent openings that allow a mental space for future thought still to be developed. Our very idea of narrative enjoyment is a misnomer, a cul-de-sac that needn't answer anything other than enjoyment. Yet there exists an avenue where the idea of enjoyment is something only to be savoured retrospectively; the experience of this achievement is of the moment - painful, meditative and transcendental. Philip Gröning's The Police Officer's Wife (2013) arrives burdened by existing on its own terms, a film experienced but not particularly enjoyed by most at Venice last year.
- 8/21/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Festival will also see director Rowan Joffe and novelist Sj Watson present Before I Go To Sleep, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong.
The 34th edition of the Cambridge Film Festival (Aug 28 - Sept 7) is to open with The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq, Guillaume Nicloux’s comedy-drama based in part on true events.
It recounts the disapperance of reclusive French novelist Michel Houellebecq during a book tour in 2011. The rumours of his whereabouts led to endless speculation, including a kidnapping. The film, which stars the novelist as himself, will be presented at the festival by Nicloux.
Special guests at this year’s festival include writer-director Rowan Joffe and novelist Sj Watson who will present Before I Go To Sleep, an amnesiac thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong.
Skip Kite will present his timely tribute to late politican Tony Benn: Will and Testament, while Andrew Sinclair, director of 1972’s...
The 34th edition of the Cambridge Film Festival (Aug 28 - Sept 7) is to open with The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq, Guillaume Nicloux’s comedy-drama based in part on true events.
It recounts the disapperance of reclusive French novelist Michel Houellebecq during a book tour in 2011. The rumours of his whereabouts led to endless speculation, including a kidnapping. The film, which stars the novelist as himself, will be presented at the festival by Nicloux.
Special guests at this year’s festival include writer-director Rowan Joffe and novelist Sj Watson who will present Before I Go To Sleep, an amnesiac thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong.
Skip Kite will present his timely tribute to late politican Tony Benn: Will and Testament, while Andrew Sinclair, director of 1972’s...
- 8/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Romania was the big winner at Vilnius’ Kino Pavasaris (Cinema Spring) festival with Tudor Cristian Jurgiu’s feature debut Japanese Dog was named Best Film in the New Europe - New Names competition.
A Romanian producer present in Vilnius expressed the hope that this latest success - after winning veteran actor Viktor Rebengiuc a Gopo Award in Bucharest last month - would spur his national film fund Cnc on to showing more support for its filmmakers.
However, Romania’s filmmaking community is still waiting in vain for the Cnc to announce the results of its latest competition for funding of film projects.
Awards for Blind Dates, Ida
The competition jury of Japanese actress Kaori Momoi, Latvian film-maker Laila Pakalnina, and festival programmers Verena von Stackelberg, Ludmila Cvikova and Dimitris Kerkinos, gave their Best Director statuette to Levan Koguashvili’s Blind Dates.
The acting honours went to Igor Samobor, the new teacher in Rok Bicek’s Class Enemy, and...
A Romanian producer present in Vilnius expressed the hope that this latest success - after winning veteran actor Viktor Rebengiuc a Gopo Award in Bucharest last month - would spur his national film fund Cnc on to showing more support for its filmmakers.
However, Romania’s filmmaking community is still waiting in vain for the Cnc to announce the results of its latest competition for funding of film projects.
Awards for Blind Dates, Ida
The competition jury of Japanese actress Kaori Momoi, Latvian film-maker Laila Pakalnina, and festival programmers Verena von Stackelberg, Ludmila Cvikova and Dimitris Kerkinos, gave their Best Director statuette to Levan Koguashvili’s Blind Dates.
The acting honours went to Igor Samobor, the new teacher in Rok Bicek’s Class Enemy, and...
- 4/4/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Title: Die Frau des Polizisten (The Police Officer’s Wife) Director: Philip Gröning Starring: Alexandra Finder, David Zimmershied, Pia & Chiara Kleeman, Horst Rehberg. The feature film, winner of the Special Jury Award at the 70th Venice Film Festival, sets a light on the important theme of femicide, with a peculiar narrative choice that splits the story into 59 chapters, each bookended by numbered “Beginning of Chapter” (Anfang Kapitel) and “End of Chapter” (Ende Kapitel). The almost three-hour look at domestic abuse in provincial Germany focuses on some random scenes from the life of young policeman Uwe, who often works the night shift, and his stay-at-home wife Christine and little [ Read More ]
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- 11/26/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Exclusive: UK deals for Abu-Assad’s Omar and Groning’s The Police Officer’s Wife.
UK distributor Soda Pictures has acquired Hany Abu-Assad’s Cannes hit Omar and Philip Goning’s Venice special jury prize winner The Police Officer’s Wife from The Match Factory.
Omar won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Billed as the first film fully-financed, cast and produced out of Palestine, the film follows three childhood friends who become ensnared in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Israeli intelligence officer after they join the Palestinian insurgency movement.
Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany and Waleed Zuaiter star.
Review: OmarINTERVIEW: Hany Abu-Assad
The Police Officer’s Wife, Philip Groning’s follow up to acclaimed 2005 documentary Into the Silence is a scientifically precise, distinctively structured exploration of a family dealing with domestic violence. David Zimmerschied and Alexandra Finder star.
Both films are currently playing at the London Film Festival and will...
UK distributor Soda Pictures has acquired Hany Abu-Assad’s Cannes hit Omar and Philip Goning’s Venice special jury prize winner The Police Officer’s Wife from The Match Factory.
Omar won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Billed as the first film fully-financed, cast and produced out of Palestine, the film follows three childhood friends who become ensnared in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Israeli intelligence officer after they join the Palestinian insurgency movement.
Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany and Waleed Zuaiter star.
Review: OmarINTERVIEW: Hany Abu-Assad
The Police Officer’s Wife, Philip Groning’s follow up to acclaimed 2005 documentary Into the Silence is a scientifically precise, distinctively structured exploration of a family dealing with domestic violence. David Zimmerschied and Alexandra Finder star.
Both films are currently playing at the London Film Festival and will...
- 10/16/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK deals for Abu-Assad’s Omar and Groning’s The Police Officer’s Wife.
UK distributor Soda Pictures has acquired Hany Abu-Assad’s Cannes hit Omar and Philip Goning’s Venice special jury prize winner The Police Officer’s Wife from The Match Factory.
Omar won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Billed as the first film fully-financed, cast and produced out of Palestine, the film follows three childhood friends who become ensnared in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Israeli intelligence officer after they join the Palestinian insurgency movement.
Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany and Waleed Zuaiter star.
Review: OmarINTERVIEW: Hany Abu-Assad
The Police Officer’s Wife, Philip Groning’s follow up to acclaimed 2005 documentary Into the Silence is a scientifically precise, distinctively structured exploration of a family dealing with domestic violence. David Zimmerschied and Alexandra Finder star.
Both films are currently playing at the London Film Festival and will...
UK distributor Soda Pictures has acquired Hany Abu-Assad’s Cannes hit Omar and Philip Goning’s Venice special jury prize winner The Police Officer’s Wife from The Match Factory.
Omar won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Billed as the first film fully-financed, cast and produced out of Palestine, the film follows three childhood friends who become ensnared in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Israeli intelligence officer after they join the Palestinian insurgency movement.
Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany and Waleed Zuaiter star.
Review: OmarINTERVIEW: Hany Abu-Assad
The Police Officer’s Wife, Philip Groning’s follow up to acclaimed 2005 documentary Into the Silence is a scientifically precise, distinctively structured exploration of a family dealing with domestic violence. David Zimmerschied and Alexandra Finder star.
Both films are currently playing at the London Film Festival and will...
- 10/16/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ A follow-up to his own fascinating 2005 documentary Into the Silence, Philip Gröning's Lff offering The Police Officer's Wife (2013) is a demanding, stylistically eccentric and often gruelling exploration of the insidious cost of domestic violence, told in a series of 59 short chapters. A jigsaw puzzle is spotted in the kitchen early on, and we too are expected to piece a narrative together which seems hell-bent on confounding and delaying information. Uwe (David Zimmerschied) is the police officer and Christine (Alexandra Finder) is the eponymous wife, whilst their young daughter Clara is played by twins.
Uwe works late and is often tired, but his and Christine's life seems a happy one. Gradually, however, we suspect that things are not entirely rosy. We spot bruises on Christine's arm. Perhaps it's nothing; after all, they are a couple who indulge in occasional bouts of horseplay and the like. Yet, following an inexplicable burst of temper on Uwe's behalf,...
Uwe works late and is often tired, but his and Christine's life seems a happy one. Gradually, however, we suspect that things are not entirely rosy. We spot bruises on Christine's arm. Perhaps it's nothing; after all, they are a couple who indulge in occasional bouts of horseplay and the like. Yet, following an inexplicable burst of temper on Uwe's behalf,...
- 10/14/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
In Competition
Golden Lion – Sacro Gra, directed by Gianfranco Rosi
Silver Lion (Best Director) – Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence
Grand Jury Prize – Stray Dogs, directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Special Jury Prize – The Police Officer's Wife, directed by Philip Gröning
Volpi Cup for Best Actor – Themis Panou, Miss Violence
Volpi Cup for Best Actress – Elena Cotta, A Street in Palermo
Best Screenplay – Philomena, written by Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Tye Sheridan, Joe
Horizons (Orizzonti)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film – Eastern Boys, directed by Robin Campillo
Orizzonti Award for Best Director – Uberto Pasolini, Still Life
Special Orizzonti Jury Prize – Ruin, directed by Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Special Orizzonti Prize for Innovative Content – Fish & Cat, directed by Shahram Mokri
Lion of the Future Award
Best Debut Film – White Shadow, directed by Noaz Deshe
Fipresci
Competition Fipresci Prize – Tom at the Farm, directed by Xavier Dolan...
Golden Lion – Sacro Gra, directed by Gianfranco Rosi
Silver Lion (Best Director) – Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence
Grand Jury Prize – Stray Dogs, directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Special Jury Prize – The Police Officer's Wife, directed by Philip Gröning
Volpi Cup for Best Actor – Themis Panou, Miss Violence
Volpi Cup for Best Actress – Elena Cotta, A Street in Palermo
Best Screenplay – Philomena, written by Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Tye Sheridan, Joe
Horizons (Orizzonti)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film – Eastern Boys, directed by Robin Campillo
Orizzonti Award for Best Director – Uberto Pasolini, Still Life
Special Orizzonti Jury Prize – Ruin, directed by Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Special Orizzonti Prize for Innovative Content – Fish & Cat, directed by Shahram Mokri
Lion of the Future Award
Best Debut Film – White Shadow, directed by Noaz Deshe
Fipresci
Competition Fipresci Prize – Tom at the Farm, directed by Xavier Dolan...
- 9/8/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
A still from Kush
Shubhashish Bhutiani’s short film Kush, the lone Indian entry at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film.
Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival showcases new trends in world cinema. The Orizzonti Jury was chaired by Paul Schrader and composed of Catherine Corsini, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Frédéric Fonteyne, Kseniya Rappoport and Amr Waked.
Kush featuring Sonika Chopra, Shayaan Sameer and Anil Sharma is inspired by a true story : In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
Bhutiani recently graduated from School of Visual Arts (Sva) in New York.
List Of Awards:
Golden...
Shubhashish Bhutiani’s short film Kush, the lone Indian entry at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film.
Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival showcases new trends in world cinema. The Orizzonti Jury was chaired by Paul Schrader and composed of Catherine Corsini, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Frédéric Fonteyne, Kseniya Rappoport and Amr Waked.
Kush featuring Sonika Chopra, Shayaan Sameer and Anil Sharma is inspired by a true story : In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
Bhutiani recently graduated from School of Visual Arts (Sva) in New York.
List Of Awards:
Golden...
- 9/8/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Venice Golden Lion returned to the host country after fifteen years this evening with Gianfranco Rosi's biography of a Rome ring road, Sacro Gra, picking up the festival's top prize. Renowned director Bernardo Bertolucci and his jury plumped for high arthouse cinema over the more crowd-pleasing fare of Stephen Frears' British offering Philomena, which had to make do with the award for Best Screenplay. Best Actor and Best Director went respectively to Themis Panou and Alexandros Avranas for Greek family abuse drama Miss Violence. Although the film (for this reviewer at least) is an exploitative, nasty piece of work, it's undeniably well-directed, and Panou is utterly brilliant as the chilling pater familias.
The Grand Jury Prize was reserved for Tsai Ming-liang's dark horse Stray Dogs which, with its ten-minute long takes of people staring at walls and eating cabbages, could well be a test case for cinephile seriousness.
The Grand Jury Prize was reserved for Tsai Ming-liang's dark horse Stray Dogs which, with its ten-minute long takes of people staring at walls and eating cabbages, could well be a test case for cinephile seriousness.
- 9/7/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Once again the European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Film Sales Support (Fss) initiative will come to Toronto to link sales companies from all over Europe to a great array of buyers from across the globe. Supported by the Media Programme of the European Union, Fss has now been aiding the European film industry fro the last 10 years.
"Toronto has and is an important informal market and an important festival for European films, the distributors see the films in a different mood, more quietly, the public screenings are working well. It is a key place to launch a film or to complete previous sales on films that were in Cannes, Venice, Locarno...” (Loïc Magneron, Wide)
“Tiff is a major pillar of the annual festival calendar. Aside from a proliferation of North American buyers, it also attracts top tier international distributors so a favorable reception at Tiff can significantly increase a film's commercial prospects”. (Andrew Orr, Independent)
Due to the limited amount of resources, only 52 out of the 60 films submitted to the Efp will receive financial support to be marketed during the Tiff, which runs from September 5 to 15. This year alone, 372 films total, over 150 from Europe, will screen at the festival many of which will see their world or international premiers there.
Supported films and companies at Tiff 2013
Alpha Violet (France), rep. Virginie Devesa The Summer of Flying Fish (El Verano de los Peces Voladores) by Marcela Said, France, Chile, 2013
Arri Worldsales (Germany), rep. Moritz Hemminger Exit Marrakech by Caroline Link, Germany, 2013 Home from Home (Die Andere Heimat) by Edgar Reitz, Germany, France, 2013
Athens Filmmakers' Co-Operative (Greece), rep. Venia Vergou Wild Duck by Yannis Sakaridis, Greece, 2013
Bac Films Distribution (France), rep. Clémentine Hugot The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (L'Entrange Couleur Ded Larmes De Ton Corps) by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, 2013
Beta Cinema (Germany), rep. Tassilo Hallbauer Le Grand-Cahier by János Szász, Germany, Hungary, Austria, France, 2013
Blonde S. A. (Greece), rep. Fenia Cossovitsa Standing Aside, Watching (Na Kathese Kai Na Kitas) by Yorgos Servetas, Greece, 2013
Capricci Films (France), rep. Julien Rejl Story of My Death (Historia De La Meva Mort) by Albert Serra, Spain, France, 2013 The Battle of Tabato (A Batalha De Tabato) by João Viana, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, 2013
Celluloid Dreams (France), rep. Hengameh Panahi Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) by Daniele Luchetti, Italy, 2013
Cité Films (France), rep. Raphaël Berdugo Faith Connections (Faith Connections) by Pan Nalin, France, India, 2013
Doc & Film International (France), rep. Daniela Elstner, Alice Damiani Violette by Martin Provost, France, Belgium, 2013 South is Nothing (Il Sud E'Niente by Fabio Mollo, Italy, France, 2013
Dogwoof (United Kingdom), rep. Ana Vincente Inreallife by Beeban Kidron, UK, 2013
Ealing Metro International (United Kingdom), rep. Natalie Brenner, Will Machin Half of a Yellow Sun by Biyi Bandele, UK, 2013 The Stag by John Butler, Ireland, 2013
Embankment Films (United Kingdom), rep. Tim Haslam Le Week-End by Roger Michell, UK, 2013
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (The Netherlands), rep. Maarten Swart The Dinner (Het Diner) by Menno Meyjes, The Netherlands, 2013
Fantasia Ltd (Greece), rep. Nicoletta Romeo The Daughter (I Kori) by Thanos Anastopoulos, Greece, Italy, 2013
Film Factory Entertainment (Spain), rep. Vicente Canales Cannibal (Canibal) by Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain, 2013 Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (Zipi & Zape y el Club de la Canica) by Oskar Santos, Spain, 2013
Films Boutique (Germany), rep. Jean-Christophe Simon Walesa. Man of Hope (Walesa) by Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2013
Films Distribution (France), rep. Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, François Yon Eastern Boys by Robin Campillo, France, 2013 Under the Starry Sky (Des Etoiles) by Dyana Gaye, France, Senegal, 2013
Heretic (Greece), rep. Giorgos Karnavas The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (I Aionia Epistrofi Tou Antoni Paraskeva) by Elina Psykou, Greece, 2013
Independent Film Sales (United Kingdom), rep. Karina Gechtman, Abigail Walsh The Sea by Stephen Brown, UK, Ireland, 2013 Starred Up by David Mackenzie, UK, 2013
Latido Films (Spain), rep. Miren Zamora Honeymoon (Libanky) by Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic/Slovak Republic, 2013
LevelK (Denmark), rep. Tine Klint Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Spies Og Glistrup) by Christoffer Boe, Denmark, 2013
Linel Films (United Kingdom), rep. Aran Hughes To The Wolf (Sto Lyko) by Aran Hughes & Christina Koutsospyrou, Greece, UK, France, 2013
Minds Meet (Belgium), rep. Tomas Leyers I'm The Same I'm An Other by Caroline Strubbe, Belgium, The Netherlands, 2013
MK2 (France), rep. Victoire Thevenin Hotel (Hotell) by Lisa Langseth, Sweden, Denmark, 2012
Mpm Film (France), rep. Pierre Menahem For Those Who Can Tell No Tales by Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, 2013
Negativ s.r.o. (Czech Republic), rep. Zuzana Bielikova Miracle (Zazrak) by Juraj Lehotský, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2013
Pathé Distribution (France), rep. Muriel Sauzay The Finishers by Nils Tavernier, France, 2013 Quai d'Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2013
Pausilypon Films (Greece), rep. Menelaos Karamaghiolis J.A.C.E. - Just Another Confused Elephant by Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Greece, Portugal, Macedonia, Turkey, 2012
Picture Tree International (Germany), rep. Andreas Rothbauer Mary Queen of Scots by Thomas Imbach, Switzerland, 2013 Metalhead (Malmhaus) by Ragnar Bragason, Iceland, Norway, 2013
PPProductions (Greece), rep. Thanassis Karathanos Septmeber by Penny Panayotopoulou, Greece, Germany, 2013
Pyramide International (France), rep. Agathe Mauruc Giraffada by Rani Massalha, France, Germany, Italy, 2013
Rezo (France), rep. Laurent Danielou, Sebastien Chesneau The Station (Blutgletscher) by Marvin Kren, Austria, 2013 Abuse of Weakness (Abus De Faibless) by Catherine Breillat, France, Belgium, Germany, 2013
The Match Factory (Germany), rep. Michael Weber, Thania Dimitrakopoulou The Police Officer's Wife (Die Frau Des Polizisten) by Philip Gröning, Germany, 2013 Qissa (Quissa) by Anup Singh, Germany, India, The Netherlands, France, 2013
The Yellow Affair (Sweden), rep. Miira Paasilinna Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydan) by Dome Karukoski, Finland, 2013
TrustNordisk (Denmark), rep. Susan Wendt, Nicolai Korsgaard Pioneer (Pioner) by Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Norway, 2013 We Are The Best (Vi Ar Bast!) by Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 2013
Wide (France), rep. Loic Magneron Bobo by Ines Oliveira, Portugal, 2013
Wide House (France), rep. Garreau Geoffrey Ain't Misbehavin, A Marcel Ophuls Journey (Un Voyageur) by Marcel Ophuls, France, 2013
Wild Bunch (France), rep. Vicent Maraval, Gary Farkas Going Away (Un Beau Dimanche) by Nicole Garcia, France, 2013 A Promise (Une Promesse) by Patrice Leconte, France, Belgium, 2013...
"Toronto has and is an important informal market and an important festival for European films, the distributors see the films in a different mood, more quietly, the public screenings are working well. It is a key place to launch a film or to complete previous sales on films that were in Cannes, Venice, Locarno...” (Loïc Magneron, Wide)
“Tiff is a major pillar of the annual festival calendar. Aside from a proliferation of North American buyers, it also attracts top tier international distributors so a favorable reception at Tiff can significantly increase a film's commercial prospects”. (Andrew Orr, Independent)
Due to the limited amount of resources, only 52 out of the 60 films submitted to the Efp will receive financial support to be marketed during the Tiff, which runs from September 5 to 15. This year alone, 372 films total, over 150 from Europe, will screen at the festival many of which will see their world or international premiers there.
Supported films and companies at Tiff 2013
Alpha Violet (France), rep. Virginie Devesa The Summer of Flying Fish (El Verano de los Peces Voladores) by Marcela Said, France, Chile, 2013
Arri Worldsales (Germany), rep. Moritz Hemminger Exit Marrakech by Caroline Link, Germany, 2013 Home from Home (Die Andere Heimat) by Edgar Reitz, Germany, France, 2013
Athens Filmmakers' Co-Operative (Greece), rep. Venia Vergou Wild Duck by Yannis Sakaridis, Greece, 2013
Bac Films Distribution (France), rep. Clémentine Hugot The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (L'Entrange Couleur Ded Larmes De Ton Corps) by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, 2013
Beta Cinema (Germany), rep. Tassilo Hallbauer Le Grand-Cahier by János Szász, Germany, Hungary, Austria, France, 2013
Blonde S. A. (Greece), rep. Fenia Cossovitsa Standing Aside, Watching (Na Kathese Kai Na Kitas) by Yorgos Servetas, Greece, 2013
Capricci Films (France), rep. Julien Rejl Story of My Death (Historia De La Meva Mort) by Albert Serra, Spain, France, 2013 The Battle of Tabato (A Batalha De Tabato) by João Viana, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, 2013
Celluloid Dreams (France), rep. Hengameh Panahi Those Happy Years (Anni Felici) by Daniele Luchetti, Italy, 2013
Cité Films (France), rep. Raphaël Berdugo Faith Connections (Faith Connections) by Pan Nalin, France, India, 2013
Doc & Film International (France), rep. Daniela Elstner, Alice Damiani Violette by Martin Provost, France, Belgium, 2013 South is Nothing (Il Sud E'Niente by Fabio Mollo, Italy, France, 2013
Dogwoof (United Kingdom), rep. Ana Vincente Inreallife by Beeban Kidron, UK, 2013
Ealing Metro International (United Kingdom), rep. Natalie Brenner, Will Machin Half of a Yellow Sun by Biyi Bandele, UK, 2013 The Stag by John Butler, Ireland, 2013
Embankment Films (United Kingdom), rep. Tim Haslam Le Week-End by Roger Michell, UK, 2013
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (The Netherlands), rep. Maarten Swart The Dinner (Het Diner) by Menno Meyjes, The Netherlands, 2013
Fantasia Ltd (Greece), rep. Nicoletta Romeo The Daughter (I Kori) by Thanos Anastopoulos, Greece, Italy, 2013
Film Factory Entertainment (Spain), rep. Vicente Canales Cannibal (Canibal) by Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain, 2013 Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (Zipi & Zape y el Club de la Canica) by Oskar Santos, Spain, 2013
Films Boutique (Germany), rep. Jean-Christophe Simon Walesa. Man of Hope (Walesa) by Andrzej Wajda, Poland, 2013
Films Distribution (France), rep. Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, François Yon Eastern Boys by Robin Campillo, France, 2013 Under the Starry Sky (Des Etoiles) by Dyana Gaye, France, Senegal, 2013
Heretic (Greece), rep. Giorgos Karnavas The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (I Aionia Epistrofi Tou Antoni Paraskeva) by Elina Psykou, Greece, 2013
Independent Film Sales (United Kingdom), rep. Karina Gechtman, Abigail Walsh The Sea by Stephen Brown, UK, Ireland, 2013 Starred Up by David Mackenzie, UK, 2013
Latido Films (Spain), rep. Miren Zamora Honeymoon (Libanky) by Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic/Slovak Republic, 2013
LevelK (Denmark), rep. Tine Klint Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Spies Og Glistrup) by Christoffer Boe, Denmark, 2013
Linel Films (United Kingdom), rep. Aran Hughes To The Wolf (Sto Lyko) by Aran Hughes & Christina Koutsospyrou, Greece, UK, France, 2013
Minds Meet (Belgium), rep. Tomas Leyers I'm The Same I'm An Other by Caroline Strubbe, Belgium, The Netherlands, 2013
MK2 (France), rep. Victoire Thevenin Hotel (Hotell) by Lisa Langseth, Sweden, Denmark, 2012
Mpm Film (France), rep. Pierre Menahem For Those Who Can Tell No Tales by Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, 2013
Negativ s.r.o. (Czech Republic), rep. Zuzana Bielikova Miracle (Zazrak) by Juraj Lehotský, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2013
Pathé Distribution (France), rep. Muriel Sauzay The Finishers by Nils Tavernier, France, 2013 Quai d'Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2013
Pausilypon Films (Greece), rep. Menelaos Karamaghiolis J.A.C.E. - Just Another Confused Elephant by Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Greece, Portugal, Macedonia, Turkey, 2012
Picture Tree International (Germany), rep. Andreas Rothbauer Mary Queen of Scots by Thomas Imbach, Switzerland, 2013 Metalhead (Malmhaus) by Ragnar Bragason, Iceland, Norway, 2013
PPProductions (Greece), rep. Thanassis Karathanos Septmeber by Penny Panayotopoulou, Greece, Germany, 2013
Pyramide International (France), rep. Agathe Mauruc Giraffada by Rani Massalha, France, Germany, Italy, 2013
Rezo (France), rep. Laurent Danielou, Sebastien Chesneau The Station (Blutgletscher) by Marvin Kren, Austria, 2013 Abuse of Weakness (Abus De Faibless) by Catherine Breillat, France, Belgium, Germany, 2013
The Match Factory (Germany), rep. Michael Weber, Thania Dimitrakopoulou The Police Officer's Wife (Die Frau Des Polizisten) by Philip Gröning, Germany, 2013 Qissa (Quissa) by Anup Singh, Germany, India, The Netherlands, France, 2013
The Yellow Affair (Sweden), rep. Miira Paasilinna Heart of a Lion (Leijonasydan) by Dome Karukoski, Finland, 2013
TrustNordisk (Denmark), rep. Susan Wendt, Nicolai Korsgaard Pioneer (Pioner) by Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Norway, 2013 We Are The Best (Vi Ar Bast!) by Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 2013
Wide (France), rep. Loic Magneron Bobo by Ines Oliveira, Portugal, 2013
Wide House (France), rep. Garreau Geoffrey Ain't Misbehavin, A Marcel Ophuls Journey (Un Voyageur) by Marcel Ophuls, France, 2013
Wild Bunch (France), rep. Vicent Maraval, Gary Farkas Going Away (Un Beau Dimanche) by Nicole Garcia, France, 2013 A Promise (Une Promesse) by Patrice Leconte, France, Belgium, 2013...
- 9/7/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Surprise choice for Golden Lion is Italian documentary. Silver Lion for best director goes to Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence.
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
It marks the first time a documentary has ever won the Golden Lion.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
Review: Sacro Grareview: Miss Violence
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes:
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra, Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou, Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)Best Actor: Themis Panou, Miss ViolenceBest...
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
It marks the first time a documentary has ever won the Golden Lion.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
Review: Sacro Grareview: Miss Violence
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes:
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra, Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou, Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)Best Actor: Themis Panou, Miss ViolenceBest...
- 9/7/2013
- ScreenDaily
Surprise choice for Golden Lion is Italian documentary. Silver Lion for best director goes to Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence.
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Themis Panou in Miss Violence
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Elena Cotta inVIA Castellana Bandiera by Emma Dante (Italy, Switzerland...
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Themis Panou in Miss Violence
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Elena Cotta inVIA Castellana Bandiera by Emma Dante (Italy, Switzerland...
- 9/7/2013
- ScreenDaily
There are many films in competition at Venice this year that, whilst being perfectly competent, are more like BBC dramas than festival films. Philip Gröning’s Die Frau des Polizisten isn’t one of them.
Uwe (David Zimmerschied) is a policeman in a provincial German town. When we watch him at work, it is often in the surrounding countryside. Yet this is no tale of bucolic loveliness. Uwe beats his wife Christine (Alexandra Finder) with an intensity and frequency that builds throughout the film’s 175 minutes until the inevitable and tragic denouement. Initially, though, Gröning shows a happy family, the couple with their young daughter Clara out hunting Easter eggs in the woods or eating and laughing together in the kitchen.
The film is broken up into chapters. We see squirrels in the park, a fox trotting down a residential street at night and Uwe killing an injured deer. These...
Uwe (David Zimmerschied) is a policeman in a provincial German town. When we watch him at work, it is often in the surrounding countryside. Yet this is no tale of bucolic loveliness. Uwe beats his wife Christine (Alexandra Finder) with an intensity and frequency that builds throughout the film’s 175 minutes until the inevitable and tragic denouement. Initially, though, Gröning shows a happy family, the couple with their young daughter Clara out hunting Easter eggs in the woods or eating and laughing together in the kitchen.
The film is broken up into chapters. We see squirrels in the park, a fox trotting down a residential street at night and Uwe killing an injured deer. These...
- 9/7/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bookmakers are saying that Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs is now the frontrunner to win the Golden Lion choosen by the international jury headed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Second on the classification is Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, while the third position goes to Philip Gröning's The Police Officer's Wife.Trying to guess the winners of a Festival is of course a very meaningless diversion: we're not talking about the Oscars, but of nine, almost random personalities with different tastes and ideas. From what we've seen, every single title could be a potential winner or loser, since no title really stands out from the others. That's why, in this last dispatch, we find it better to talk about some very good movies we've seen in the collateral sections, out...
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- 9/6/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
Philipp Gröning’s The Police Officer’s Wife
Section: Wavelengths
Dates: Tuesday 10, Thursday 12, Saturday 14
Buzz: Despite early sour reactions from across the pond, Philip Gröning’s latest remains a black hole of intrigue. It’s hard to pass on pedigree, especially one as penetrating as this director’s. His previous fiction efforts, The Terrorists and L’Amour, l’argent, l’amour, both took home Bronze Leopards from Locarno, while his meditative documentary, Into Great Silence, beautifully depicted the life of Carthusian monks in the French Alps and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance back in 2005. Often compared to Bergman and his modern counterpart Haneke, Gröning is worthy of the correlation. His latest moral exploration – that of domestic violence – looks to perpetuate the notion with a pair of brave performances by Alexandra Finder and David Zimmerschied in the leading roles.
The Gist: A simple film. A man, a woman, a child.
Section: Wavelengths
Dates: Tuesday 10, Thursday 12, Saturday 14
Buzz: Despite early sour reactions from across the pond, Philip Gröning’s latest remains a black hole of intrigue. It’s hard to pass on pedigree, especially one as penetrating as this director’s. His previous fiction efforts, The Terrorists and L’Amour, l’argent, l’amour, both took home Bronze Leopards from Locarno, while his meditative documentary, Into Great Silence, beautifully depicted the life of Carthusian monks in the French Alps and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance back in 2005. Often compared to Bergman and his modern counterpart Haneke, Gröning is worthy of the correlation. His latest moral exploration – that of domestic violence – looks to perpetuate the notion with a pair of brave performances by Alexandra Finder and David Zimmerschied in the leading roles.
The Gist: A simple film. A man, a woman, a child.
- 9/2/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
To a certain audience, the return of Philip Gröning is big news. The German director has been working for twenty years or so, but his last film, 2005’s “Into Great Silence,” a documentary about the Carthesian monks of the French Alps, really saw him win recognition, becoming a favorite on the festival circuit and winning the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. It’s taken eight years, but Gröning has returned, and not just with a new film, but with his first fiction feature in thirteen years in the shape of “The Police Officer’s Wife,” which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival today. The first thing that catches your attention is the film’s distinctive structure: it’s divided into 59 chapters, varying from seven or eight minutes to barely ten seconds in duration, with a fade in and out, and announced by a "Start Of Chapter X" and "End of Chapter X" title.
- 8/30/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Continuing our preview of the 20 titles in the running for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, which kicks off next week. Today's selection includes new films from Jonathan Glazer, Kelly Reichardt, Xavier Dolan, Amos Gitai and Philip Gröning. "Under the Skin," directed by Jonathan Glazer: Regular readers may well have worked out that this is my most anticipated title of the Venice Film Festival -- if not the entire remainder of 2013. Impatiently, I held out a sliver of hope that Glazer's long-awaited third feature would show up in Cannes, but it was always likeliest to premiere on the...
- 8/26/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Exclusive: Jean-Luc Godard and Ursula Meier are among 14 directors set to participate in an omnibus film that will mark next year’s centenary of the First World War.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily in Locarno, Meier - who has become known to international festival and cinema audiences through her last two features Home and Sister - confirmed that she and 83-year-old Godard will be making short films for the omnibus project Les Ponts de Sarajevo.
The omnibus will be coordinated by Paris-based production house Cinétévé.
The film will be part of a week-long event from June 21-28, 2014, titled “Sarajevo: Coeur de L’Europe”, organised in collaboration with the City of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Film Festival, Jazzfest Sarajevo, Centre André Malraux, Goethe-Institut and the British Council.
“Most of the contributions will be documentary or essay-type films, but I am one of a couple of film-makers who will be making a fiction film,” Meier explained...
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily in Locarno, Meier - who has become known to international festival and cinema audiences through her last two features Home and Sister - confirmed that she and 83-year-old Godard will be making short films for the omnibus project Les Ponts de Sarajevo.
The omnibus will be coordinated by Paris-based production house Cinétévé.
The film will be part of a week-long event from June 21-28, 2014, titled “Sarajevo: Coeur de L’Europe”, organised in collaboration with the City of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Film Festival, Jazzfest Sarajevo, Centre André Malraux, Goethe-Institut and the British Council.
“Most of the contributions will be documentary or essay-type films, but I am one of a couple of film-makers who will be making a fiction film,” Meier explained...
- 8/14/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world auteurs) to the latest from Tsai Ming-liang, Ben Wheatley (Karlovy Vary winner A Field In England), Albert Serra (Locarno debuted Story Of My Death), Wang Bing and that Rotterdam offering that we never thought we’d have the chance to see from Cristi Puiu, the ’13 edition of the Wavelenths programme is for those who need a little spunk in their cinema.
Of the titles that additionally caught our attention we have the Locarno preemed A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, the world premiere of (see pic above) La ultíma película – by Raya Martin and Cinemascope/Locarno programmer Mark Peranson (making his feature debut), Into Great Silence docu-helmer Philip Gröning’s The Police Officer’s Wife and a title that...
Of the titles that additionally caught our attention we have the Locarno preemed A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, the world premiere of (see pic above) La ultíma película – by Raya Martin and Cinemascope/Locarno programmer Mark Peranson (making his feature debut), Into Great Silence docu-helmer Philip Gröning’s The Police Officer’s Wife and a title that...
- 8/13/2013
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Rithy Panh’s Un Certain Regard winner takes its place alongside Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England and new films from Canada’s Stephen Broomer and Chris Kennedy in the Wavelengths section.
The selection of short, medium-length and feature work includes Caroline Strubbe’s I’m The Same, I’m An Other; Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s La Ultima Pelicula; and Albert Serra’s Story Of My Death.
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
Short Film PROGRAMMESWavelengths 1: Variations On…Variations On A Cellophane Wrapper David Rimmer (Restoration courtesy of Academy Film Archive) (Canada)Pop Takes Luther Price (Us)Airship Kenneth Anger (Us)El Adios Largos Andrew Lampert (Mexico-us)The Realist Scott Stark (Us)Wavelengths 2: Now & ThenInstants Hannes Schüpbach (Switzerland)Pepper’s Ghost Stephen Broomer (Canada)Man In Motion, 2012 (Homme En Mouvement...
The selection of short, medium-length and feature work includes Caroline Strubbe’s I’m The Same, I’m An Other; Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s La Ultima Pelicula; and Albert Serra’s Story Of My Death.
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to run from Sept 5-15.
Wp = World premiere
IP = International premiere
Np = North American premiere
Cp = Canadian premiere
Tp = Toronto premiere
Short Film PROGRAMMESWavelengths 1: Variations On…Variations On A Cellophane Wrapper David Rimmer (Restoration courtesy of Academy Film Archive) (Canada)Pop Takes Luther Price (Us)Airship Kenneth Anger (Us)El Adios Largos Andrew Lampert (Mexico-us)The Realist Scott Stark (Us)Wavelengths 2: Now & ThenInstants Hannes Schüpbach (Switzerland)Pepper’s Ghost Stephen Broomer (Canada)Man In Motion, 2012 (Homme En Mouvement...
- 8/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Venice International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 70th edition.
Official Competition
Es-Stouh (Merzak Allouache, Algeria/France)
L'Intrepido (Gianna Amelio, Italy)
Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas, Greece)
Via Castellana Bandiera (Emma Dante, Italy/Switzerland/France)
Tom à la ferme (Xavier Dolan, Canada/France)
Child of God (James Franco, USA)
Philomena (Stephen Frears, UK)
La Jalousie (Philippe Garrel, France)
The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, UK/USA)
Ana Arabia (Amos Gitai, Israel/France)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK/USA)
Joe (David Gordon Green, USA)
The Police Officer's Wife (Philip Gröning, Germany)
Parkland (Peter Landesman, USA)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld (Errol Morris, USA)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
Sacro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, Chinese Taipei/France)
Out Of Competition
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Shinji Aramaki, Japan)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, USA)
Summer '82 — When Zappa Came to Siciliy (Salvo Cuccia,...
Official Competition
Es-Stouh (Merzak Allouache, Algeria/France)
L'Intrepido (Gianna Amelio, Italy)
Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas, Greece)
Via Castellana Bandiera (Emma Dante, Italy/Switzerland/France)
Tom à la ferme (Xavier Dolan, Canada/France)
Child of God (James Franco, USA)
Philomena (Stephen Frears, UK)
La Jalousie (Philippe Garrel, France)
The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, UK/USA)
Ana Arabia (Amos Gitai, Israel/France)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK/USA)
Joe (David Gordon Green, USA)
The Police Officer's Wife (Philip Gröning, Germany)
Parkland (Peter Landesman, USA)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld (Errol Morris, USA)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
Sacro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, Chinese Taipei/France)
Out Of Competition
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Shinji Aramaki, Japan)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, USA)
Summer '82 — When Zappa Came to Siciliy (Salvo Cuccia,...
- 7/26/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Following the announcement that came earlier this week, launching yet another hugely impressive line-up at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the respective line-up has now been announced for what is in some ways its European counterpart, the 2013 Venice Film Festival.
The announcement shows that the two will continue to have a number of films overlapping, including Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (the Opening Night Film in Venice), Peter Landesman’s Parkland, Stephen Frears’ Philomena, and more. But it also brings with its news of where a number of films will be making their debut, including Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem; the latest film from Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises; James Franco’s Child of God; Lee Sang-il’s Yurusarezaru Mono, the Japanese remake of Unforgiven; and Steven Knight’s Locke, led by Tom Hardy, and shot in one take.
In Competition
Es-Stouh – Merzak Alloucache (Algeria, France, 94’) L’Intrepido – Gianni Amelio (Italy,...
The announcement shows that the two will continue to have a number of films overlapping, including Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (the Opening Night Film in Venice), Peter Landesman’s Parkland, Stephen Frears’ Philomena, and more. But it also brings with its news of where a number of films will be making their debut, including Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem; the latest film from Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises; James Franco’s Child of God; Lee Sang-il’s Yurusarezaru Mono, the Japanese remake of Unforgiven; and Steven Knight’s Locke, led by Tom Hardy, and shot in one take.
In Competition
Es-Stouh – Merzak Alloucache (Algeria, France, 94’) L’Intrepido – Gianni Amelio (Italy,...
- 7/26/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
- Like the Sundacne lab experience and what the Rotterdam film festival does for burgeoning filmmakers with CineMart, the Berlinale Co-production Market (a 3-day event that takes place between the 10th-12th of Feb) is (as this year proves) an important manner in which to find production dollars for international film projects by high-caliber directors and new filmmakers. Take a look at this year's list (you'll find some familiar names) below - 35 were chosen out of almost 400 projects. Projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2008 (listed alphabetically by production company) The Hecatomb (Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev), A-One Films, Russia/MacT, France Carpet Boy (Director: Deepa Mehta), Arsam & Lucid Pictures, France/UK The Last Mission (Director: Agnieszka Holland), Bow and Axe Entertainment, Poland Blanco (Director: Christophe Van Rompaey), Cccp, Belgium The Visitor (Director: Aaron Woodley), Creative Engine Pictures, Canada The Famous and the Dead (Director: Esmir Filho), Dezenove Som e Imagens, Brazil Lake
- 1/15/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
CANNES -- Philip Groening has won the 2006 German Camera prize for his documentary Into Great Silence. The film, which won the World Cinema Special Jury Prize this year at the Sundance Film Festival, is the first look inside the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France. Told without interviews or voice-over commentary, Silence relies on its visuals and incidental sound to follow the monks' daily rituals. Silence has become a crossover hit in Germany, earning more than 1.1 million ($1.4 million) in theatrical release for X Verleih.
- 5/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- The Venice Film Festival has named producer Paula Wagner to head the jury voting on the Lion of the Future prize, which is awarded to the festival's best debut film. The festival also appointed German director Philip Groening to head the jury that will select the winner of the Horizons competition for films illustrating new trends in cinema. Wagner was the producer on two films in current distribution: Mission: Impossible III and Ask the Dust. She also produced Elizabethtown, The Last Samurai, and both previous editions of Mission: Impossible. Wagner has worked in the past with emerging new directors such as Billy Ray (on Shattered Glass) and Alejandro Amenabar (on The Others). The Lion of the Future prize gives 100,000 ($127,000) and 20,000 meters of Kodak film stock to the best first feature presented at the festival. Groening directed the documentary Into Great Silence which premiered at the Venice festival last year. The 63rd edition of the Venice festival will run from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9.
- 5/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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