Croatian event moved to November for the first time, excluded documentary programme to strengthen the industry section.
The 13th Zagreb Film Festival (Nov 14-22) saw Lászlo Nemes’ Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul win the main prize, the Golden Pram for best feature film and a cash prize of €4,000.
The holocaust drama beat 12 other first or second films by their directors, including Icelandic duo Rams and Sparrows, indie hit Me Earl And The Dying Girl, Czech offerings Family Film and Home Care, and Venezuela’s Venice winner From Afar.
The jury, comprising directors Levan Koguashvili and Jessica Woodworth, and producer Christoph Thoke, said of the winner: ”It’s shattering. It’s a masterpiece. It’s unforgettable. A physical experience. An extraordinary film.”
Special mentions went to Tobias Lindholm’s A War, which world premiered at Venice, and Australia-Vanuatu co-production Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, which won the audience prize in the Venice Critics’ Week.
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The 13th Zagreb Film Festival (Nov 14-22) saw Lászlo Nemes’ Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul win the main prize, the Golden Pram for best feature film and a cash prize of €4,000.
The holocaust drama beat 12 other first or second films by their directors, including Icelandic duo Rams and Sparrows, indie hit Me Earl And The Dying Girl, Czech offerings Family Film and Home Care, and Venezuela’s Venice winner From Afar.
The jury, comprising directors Levan Koguashvili and Jessica Woodworth, and producer Christoph Thoke, said of the winner: ”It’s shattering. It’s a masterpiece. It’s unforgettable. A physical experience. An extraordinary film.”
Special mentions went to Tobias Lindholm’s A War, which world premiered at Venice, and Australia-Vanuatu co-production Tanna by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, which won the audience prize in the Venice Critics’ Week.
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- 11/23/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Rams wins Special Jury Prize and Audience Award, The Treasure picks up Best Romanian Film at 14th Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj
Juan Schnitman’s The Fire has won the top prize at the 14th Transilvania International Film Festival (May 29-July 7).
The Argentinian relationship drama, which received its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, won the Transilvania Trophy and a €15,000 cash prize at the Cluj-Napoca event.
The Special Jury Prize, worth €1,500, and the audience award for one of the 12 first or second films by their directors in the international competition, went to Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams.
The Icelandic film won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last month.
The most popular film overall at the festival was Operation Arctic by Grethe Bøe-Waal from Norway, one of the countries in Focus at this year’s Tiff, along with Argentina.
Bulgarian-Greek hit The Lesson, which has already won a string of awards at Sofia, Thessaloniki, Gothenburg...
Juan Schnitman’s The Fire has won the top prize at the 14th Transilvania International Film Festival (May 29-July 7).
The Argentinian relationship drama, which received its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, won the Transilvania Trophy and a €15,000 cash prize at the Cluj-Napoca event.
The Special Jury Prize, worth €1,500, and the audience award for one of the 12 first or second films by their directors in the international competition, went to Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams.
The Icelandic film won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last month.
The most popular film overall at the festival was Operation Arctic by Grethe Bøe-Waal from Norway, one of the countries in Focus at this year’s Tiff, along with Argentina.
Bulgarian-Greek hit The Lesson, which has already won a string of awards at Sofia, Thessaloniki, Gothenburg...
- 6/8/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
The School of Film Agents 2014 will take place Aug 15-24 in Wroclaw and feature eight projects.
The School of Film Agents (Sofa) will have its second edition in Wroclaw from Aug 15-24, it was announced in Karlovy Vary on Monday [7].
Sofa is a workshop programme which supports international film professionals and mediators in the realisation of film cultural projects, initiated and started last year by Nikolai Nikitin [pictured], the Berlinale delegate for Eastern Europe.
Within the framework of Karlovy Vary’s Works in Progress, Nikitin introduced the eight participants from “Sofa-relevant terrtories”: Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, the Baltic countries and Greece.
“We are looking for projects that are about developing the film infrastructure of their country,” Nikitin told Screendaily. “If you look at France, Germany, UK, they are developed markets with lots of possibilities to finance, show, and archive your movie.
“Further to the east you go, there are less options to finance a film, usually...
The School of Film Agents (Sofa) will have its second edition in Wroclaw from Aug 15-24, it was announced in Karlovy Vary on Monday [7].
Sofa is a workshop programme which supports international film professionals and mediators in the realisation of film cultural projects, initiated and started last year by Nikolai Nikitin [pictured], the Berlinale delegate for Eastern Europe.
Within the framework of Karlovy Vary’s Works in Progress, Nikitin introduced the eight participants from “Sofa-relevant terrtories”: Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, the Baltic countries and Greece.
“We are looking for projects that are about developing the film infrastructure of their country,” Nikitin told Screendaily. “If you look at France, Germany, UK, they are developed markets with lots of possibilities to finance, show, and archive your movie.
“Further to the east you go, there are less options to finance a film, usually...
- 7/8/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Projects from Bulgaria, Belgium and Macedonia have picked up prizes at the When East Meets West (Wemw) international co-production meetings in Trieste.
The main prize, the Wemw Development Award, provided by the local regional fund Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund (Fvg), went to Bulgarian producer Martichka Bozhilova and director Galin Stoev for Endless Garden, which is looking for a Belgian co-producer.
The €1.1m dramedy will be theatre director Stoev’s debut feature and already has Berlin-based Thomas Kufus’ zero one film and Media onboard as partners.
Endless Garden had previously been pitched during the Sofia Meetings last March.
A special mention was given by the jury of Eave’s Kristina Trapp, Torino Film Lab’s Mathieu Darras and the Berlinale’s Nikolai Nikitin to the Czech/Slovak documentary comedy Never Give Up by Matej Minac.
A new prize this year, sponsored by Belgium’s Filmmore with €5,000 worth of post-production services, went to the...
The main prize, the Wemw Development Award, provided by the local regional fund Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund (Fvg), went to Bulgarian producer Martichka Bozhilova and director Galin Stoev for Endless Garden, which is looking for a Belgian co-producer.
The €1.1m dramedy will be theatre director Stoev’s debut feature and already has Berlin-based Thomas Kufus’ zero one film and Media onboard as partners.
Endless Garden had previously been pitched during the Sofia Meetings last March.
A special mention was given by the jury of Eave’s Kristina Trapp, Torino Film Lab’s Mathieu Darras and the Berlinale’s Nikolai Nikitin to the Czech/Slovak documentary comedy Never Give Up by Matej Minac.
A new prize this year, sponsored by Belgium’s Filmmore with €5,000 worth of post-production services, went to the...
- 1/22/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
All titles for the main industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival have been announced.
Polish Days focusses on the presentation of the latest Polish films to the industry in a series of closed screenings. This year’s edition will run from July 24-26.
Around 200 sales agents, distributors, producers, TV buyers and festival programmers will be given access to six new Polish films, nine works in progress and 12 pitches of projects in development.
Completed filmsPapusza by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof KrauzeFloating Skyscrapers by Tomasz WasilewskiThe Man Who Made Angels Fly by Wiktoria SzymańskaSix Degrees by Bartosz DombrowskiCaged Swallow by Bartosz WarwasWarsaw Stories by Maciej Cuske, Kacper Lisowski, Nenad Mikovic and Mateusz Rakowicz.Works in progressNude Area: Love In 15 Fragments by Urszula AntoniakThe Mighty Angel by Wojciech SmarzowskiRed Spider by Marcin KoszałkaJack Strong by Władysław PasikowskiThe Photographer by Waldemar KrzystekLittle Crushes by Irek Grzyb and Aleksandra GowinKebab & Horoscope by Grzegorz JaroszukHardkor Disko by Krzysztof SkoniecznyPerformer...
Polish Days focusses on the presentation of the latest Polish films to the industry in a series of closed screenings. This year’s edition will run from July 24-26.
Around 200 sales agents, distributors, producers, TV buyers and festival programmers will be given access to six new Polish films, nine works in progress and 12 pitches of projects in development.
Completed filmsPapusza by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof KrauzeFloating Skyscrapers by Tomasz WasilewskiThe Man Who Made Angels Fly by Wiktoria SzymańskaSix Degrees by Bartosz DombrowskiCaged Swallow by Bartosz WarwasWarsaw Stories by Maciej Cuske, Kacper Lisowski, Nenad Mikovic and Mateusz Rakowicz.Works in progressNude Area: Love In 15 Fragments by Urszula AntoniakThe Mighty Angel by Wojciech SmarzowskiRed Spider by Marcin KoszałkaJack Strong by Władysław PasikowskiThe Photographer by Waldemar KrzystekLittle Crushes by Irek Grzyb and Aleksandra GowinKebab & Horoscope by Grzegorz JaroszukHardkor Disko by Krzysztof SkoniecznyPerformer...
- 7/16/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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