This year’s program of the New Asian Cinema section includes two subversive comedies from South Korea – “Hail to Hell” and “A Wild Roomer,” and a strong Indonesian accent – the drama “Autobiography.” These three impressive debuts have already caused quite a stir in the international festival circuit. The directors will come to Warsaw in November to meet with Five Flavours audiences!
Working on the competition section is always a challenge that comes with a strong sense of responsibility. How can we show the themes resonating throughout the cinemas of the continent and capture its heartbeat with just eleven films? The result of the many, often incredibly hard decisions, is a section filled with sharp portrayals of Asia, conveyed by auteurs who will surely keep on making waves in the industry. The Five Flavours audiences get a chance to discover them at the brink of their careers, and to talk about...
Working on the competition section is always a challenge that comes with a strong sense of responsibility. How can we show the themes resonating throughout the cinemas of the continent and capture its heartbeat with just eleven films? The result of the many, often incredibly hard decisions, is a section filled with sharp portrayals of Asia, conveyed by auteurs who will surely keep on making waves in the industry. The Five Flavours audiences get a chance to discover them at the brink of their careers, and to talk about...
- 9/17/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Juan Minujín as Lucio, hard at work in The Substitute
An Argentinean film which is making waves on the festival circuit around the world, Diego Lerman’s The Substitute follows a teacher, Lucio (Juan Minujín), who finds himself struggling when he moves into a troubled neighbourhood and tests his teaching skills on young people who don’t believe that they have any future worth investing in. Diego has been working hard to promote the film, and is sitting in a café in Madrid when we connect, with the world going by around him. It seems an appropriate setting for a man whose work always has a good deal happening in the background.
This film has a very distinctive visual style, and I ask Diego how important that was in the development of the film and how the story took shape.
“I always think in having an image with layers, different layers,...
An Argentinean film which is making waves on the festival circuit around the world, Diego Lerman’s The Substitute follows a teacher, Lucio (Juan Minujín), who finds himself struggling when he moves into a troubled neighbourhood and tests his teaching skills on young people who don’t believe that they have any future worth investing in. Diego has been working hard to promote the film, and is sitting in a café in Madrid when we connect, with the world going by around him. It seems an appropriate setting for a man whose work always has a good deal happening in the background.
This film has a very distinctive visual style, and I ask Diego how important that was in the development of the film and how the story took shape.
“I always think in having an image with layers, different layers,...
- 1/17/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Makbul Mubarak is a former film critic turned filmmaker, who has shot several acclaimed shorts before “Autobiography”, his feature debut which is premiering today in the Orrizonti section of Venice. Mubarak grew up in Indonesia during the latter days of the dictatorship, which lasted from 1966-1998, and describes the film as an“emotional investigation” into his childhood.
“Autobiography” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival
Rakib, a young man, is living on his own, as his father is in prison and his brother abroad for work. Eventually, Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town, comes to him and essentially forces him to be his assistant, living with him in his mansion, driving him around as he is campaigning for the next election, and doing whatever deed the older man assigns. An initially reluctant Rakim finds himself more and more attached to Purna,...
“Autobiography” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival
Rakib, a young man, is living on his own, as his father is in prison and his brother abroad for work. Eventually, Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town, comes to him and essentially forces him to be his assistant, living with him in his mansion, driving him around as he is campaigning for the next election, and doing whatever deed the older man assigns. An initially reluctant Rakim finds himself more and more attached to Purna,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The recent success of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight urban noir “Ashkal” from helmer Youssef Chebbi, and the 2021 international feature Oscar nomination for the provocative art world drama “The Man Who Sold His Skin” from director Kaouther Ben Hania reignited industry interest in projects from Tunisian directors. The Cairo Film Connection’s work-in-progress section supports this interest by offering the first Arab world look at “Red Path,” the second feature from Tunisian theater and cinema helmer Lotfi Achour (“Burning Hope”). The production is very different in style and genre from those of his aforementioned compatriots.
Inspired by real events and deeply rooted in a particular social context, “Red Path” is set in an extremely poor and isolated region of Tunisia’s northwest where, in 2015, terrorists attacked two young shepherds. They decapitated the older boy and commanded his younger cousin to bring the severed head back to the family as a gruesome message.
Inspired by real events and deeply rooted in a particular social context, “Red Path” is set in an extremely poor and isolated region of Tunisia’s northwest where, in 2015, terrorists attacked two young shepherds. They decapitated the older boy and commanded his younger cousin to bring the severed head back to the family as a gruesome message.
- 11/11/2022
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
In a gated compound camouflaged by the thick, dripping vegetation of inland Indonesia, all is quiet. A curtain may stir. The hushed commentary on a TV chess match may mutter indistinctly. An insect or two may chirrup. But mostly, this dark-cornered, sinister place, which is being minded by callow young caretaker Rakib (Kevin Ardilova), feels eerily still and expectant, like a spiderweb waiting for the return of its spider. Makbul Mubarak’s “Autobiography” — the Indonesian filmmaker’s impressive debut — gives a “Godfather”-style, power-corrupting-the-naive story the Conradian overtones of “Apocalypse Now.” But with its powerful sense of mood, it emerges from Coppola’s shadow by summoning evocative, specific shadows of its own, out of Indonesia’s troubled, genocidal, terrifying past.
The spider returns. General Purna (Arswendy Bening Swara), recently a towering figure in the military dictatorship, has retired and is coming home to run for Mayor of the region. Rakib,...
The spider returns. General Purna (Arswendy Bening Swara), recently a towering figure in the military dictatorship, has retired and is coming home to run for Mayor of the region. Rakib,...
- 9/30/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Makbul Mubarak is a former film critic turned filmmaker, who has shot several acclaimed shorts before “Autobiography”, his feature debut which is premiering today in the Orrizonti section of Venice. Mubarak grew up in Indonesia during the latter days of the dictatorship, which lasted from 1966-1998, and describes the film as an“emotional investigation” into his childhood.
Autobiogarphy is screening at Venice International Film Festival
Rakib, a young man, is living on his own, as his father is in prison and his brother abroad for work. Eventually, Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town, comes to him and essentially forces him to be his assistant, living with him in his mansion, driving him around as he is campaigning for the next election, and doing whatever deed the older man assigns. An initially reluctant Rakim finds himself more and more attached to Purna,...
Autobiogarphy is screening at Venice International Film Festival
Rakib, a young man, is living on his own, as his father is in prison and his brother abroad for work. Eventually, Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town, comes to him and essentially forces him to be his assistant, living with him in his mansion, driving him around as he is campaigning for the next election, and doing whatever deed the older man assigns. An initially reluctant Rakim finds himself more and more attached to Purna,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
History currently repeating itself lends a particular frisson to Latvian theater, opera and film director Viesturs Kairiss’ “January.” It takes place in early 1991, when the nation’s push for independence (alongside other Baltic states) met with armed Soviet resistance even as the Ussr was falling apart. Those historical events are interwoven with vaguely autobiographical fiction revolving around a mildly nonconformist Riga film school student, one admittedly drawn much as the director was himself in that time and place.
With Moscow leadership again hawkish toward retaining and/or regaining territories of a former empire, this flashback has particular resonance, amplified by the use of archival news and activist-shot footage. Less compelling, if still diverting, are the more conventionally indulgent, nouvelle vague-influenced scenes that comprise a Portrait of the Artist as a Sulky Young Man. The history lesson seems fresher than this protagonist’s stale angst — he is, frankly, a bit of a pill,...
With Moscow leadership again hawkish toward retaining and/or regaining territories of a former empire, this flashback has particular resonance, amplified by the use of archival news and activist-shot footage. Less compelling, if still diverting, are the more conventionally indulgent, nouvelle vague-influenced scenes that comprise a Portrait of the Artist as a Sulky Young Man. The history lesson seems fresher than this protagonist’s stale angst — he is, frankly, a bit of a pill,...
- 6/10/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Laila Pakalnina’s “Dawn” (“Ausma”) premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in 2015.
See the trailer here.
“The beauty of ‘Dawn’ lies in its richness, ambiguity and willfully elusive intentions. Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneers (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scouts), a young boy named Morozov denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son.
See the trailer here.
“The beauty of ‘Dawn’ lies in its richness, ambiguity and willfully elusive intentions. Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneers (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scouts), a young boy named Morozov denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, at any expense. In our film, 75 years later, we call him little Janis. He is a pioneer who lives on the Soviet collective farm “Dawn”. His father is an enemy of the farm (and the Soviet system) and plots against it. Little Janis betrays his father; his father takes revenge upon his son.
- 11/10/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Tasters of the films in competition at this week’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Click here to see the full competition line-ups.
Opening FilmWhere To Invade Next - Michael Moore Grand JuryJim: The James Foley Story - Brian Oakes Brothers - Wojciech Staron The Settlers - Shimon Dotan Bobby Sands: 66 Days - Brendan J Byrne Presenting Princess Shaw - Ido Haar City 40 - Samira Goetschel Tempestad - Tatiana Huezo The Land of the Enlightened - Pieter-Jan De Pue Notes On Blindness - Peter Middleton, James Spinney Environmental JurySeed: The Untold Story - Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz Kivalina - Gina Abatemarco Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping - Denis Delestrac...
Click here to see the full competition line-ups.
Opening FilmWhere To Invade Next - Michael Moore Grand JuryJim: The James Foley Story - Brian Oakes Brothers - Wojciech Staron The Settlers - Shimon Dotan Bobby Sands: 66 Days - Brendan J Byrne Presenting Princess Shaw - Ido Haar City 40 - Samira Goetschel Tempestad - Tatiana Huezo The Land of the Enlightened - Pieter-Jan De Pue Notes On Blindness - Peter Middleton, James Spinney Environmental JurySeed: The Untold Story - Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz Kivalina - Gina Abatemarco Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping - Denis Delestrac...
- 6/9/2016
- ScreenDaily
Competition titles revealed; retrospectives of Ken Loach and Chantal Akerman; speakers include HBO documentaries president Sheila Nevins and revered filmmaker Da Pennebaker. Scroll down for competition films
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
- 5/5/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Competition titles revealed; retrospectives of Ken Loach and Chantal Akerman; speakers include HBO documentaries president Sheila Nevins and legendary filmmaker Da Pennebaker.Scroll down for competition films
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.
As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.
The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.
There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.
Competition titles...
- 5/5/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
goEast winners in Wiesbaden; Polish Film Institute backs Ida producers; Berlin-based A Company launches Ukrainian distributor.
Russian director Aleksandr Kott’s Insight was named Best Film at this year’s goEast Festival of Central and European Cinema (20-26 April) in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The intimate drama charting a love affair between a blind man and his nurse premiered at last year’s Kinotavr festival in Sochi and was also shown at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn.
During the festival, Kott, whose previous films include the 2010 war drama The Brest Fortress and 2014’s Test, confirmed to Screen that his next feature project, Soyuz Spaseniya (Union Of Salvation), will begin shooting from next year for a release date at the end of 2018.
The $10.7m (RUB700m) production from Direktsiya Kino with Russia’s Channel One Television is a historical drama set at the beginning of the 19th century about the founding of secret political society the Decembrists.
This...
Russian director Aleksandr Kott’s Insight was named Best Film at this year’s goEast Festival of Central and European Cinema (20-26 April) in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The intimate drama charting a love affair between a blind man and his nurse premiered at last year’s Kinotavr festival in Sochi and was also shown at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn.
During the festival, Kott, whose previous films include the 2010 war drama The Brest Fortress and 2014’s Test, confirmed to Screen that his next feature project, Soyuz Spaseniya (Union Of Salvation), will begin shooting from next year for a release date at the end of 2018.
The $10.7m (RUB700m) production from Direktsiya Kino with Russia’s Channel One Television is a historical drama set at the beginning of the 19th century about the founding of secret political society the Decembrists.
This...
- 4/27/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Sonja Prosenc’s History Of Love scooped three prizes at the co-production forum.
Slovenia was the big winner at this year’s edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum with Sonja Prosenc’s second feature History Of Love picking up three awards.
The film’s producer Rok Secen, one of the co-founders of Ljubljana-based Monoo, was presented with the Eave Scholarship Award to participate in the European producers’ training programme.
In addition, Film London’s Helena Mackenzie and Rome New Cinema Network’s Alexia di Vito chose Prosenc’s contemporary psychological drama to receive their prize of a guaranteed place at the London Production Finance Market and Rome’s New Cinema Network next October.
Moreover, History of Love, which is currently structured as a Slovenian-Icelandic-Croatian co-production, was one of six projects to receive support from Re-act Co-Development Funding Scheme launched by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund with the Slovenian Film Centre and th Croatian...
Slovenia was the big winner at this year’s edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum with Sonja Prosenc’s second feature History Of Love picking up three awards.
The film’s producer Rok Secen, one of the co-founders of Ljubljana-based Monoo, was presented with the Eave Scholarship Award to participate in the European producers’ training programme.
In addition, Film London’s Helena Mackenzie and Rome New Cinema Network’s Alexia di Vito chose Prosenc’s contemporary psychological drama to receive their prize of a guaranteed place at the London Production Finance Market and Rome’s New Cinema Network next October.
Moreover, History of Love, which is currently structured as a Slovenian-Icelandic-Croatian co-production, was one of six projects to receive support from Re-act Co-Development Funding Scheme launched by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund with the Slovenian Film Centre and th Croatian...
- 1/27/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The producers of The Throne have returned their $10,600 prize, citing a desire to help the festival’s growth.
The team behind The Throne, which won Best Film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) last week, have returned their $10,600 (€10,000) prize to the festival.
Production company Tiger Pictures and director Lee Joon-ik stated that they were impressed with the festival and they wished to donate their grant to help Black Nights become “a new European hub to create cinematic joy and fun.”
The Throne, which is South Korea’s Oscar submission for 2015, follows an 18th-century Korean ruling family. It also took the Best Music prize during the festival’s award ceremony on Nov 27.
The film’s screenwriter and producer, Cho Chul-hyun—who accepted the awards on behalf of Lee and music director Bang Jun-seok who were both absent—left a handwritten letter on Dec 1 to Festival Director Tiina Lokk explaining what Lee and Tiger Pictures wanted...
The team behind The Throne, which won Best Film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) last week, have returned their $10,600 (€10,000) prize to the festival.
Production company Tiger Pictures and director Lee Joon-ik stated that they were impressed with the festival and they wished to donate their grant to help Black Nights become “a new European hub to create cinematic joy and fun.”
The Throne, which is South Korea’s Oscar submission for 2015, follows an 18th-century Korean ruling family. It also took the Best Music prize during the festival’s award ceremony on Nov 27.
The film’s screenwriter and producer, Cho Chul-hyun—who accepted the awards on behalf of Lee and music director Bang Jun-seok who were both absent—left a handwritten letter on Dec 1 to Festival Director Tiina Lokk explaining what Lee and Tiger Pictures wanted...
- 12/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
New festival director Leena Pasanaen also talks future plans.
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
- 11/2/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
New films by Vitaly Mansky, Alexandru Belc and Joseph Gordillo are among the world premieres in competition at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 - Nov 1).
Mansky’s Russian-German-Czech-North Korean co-production Under The Sun, about the everyday life of a North Korean family, will compete in the festival’s international competition for feature-length documentaries and animation films with such films as Alexander Sokurov’s Venice title Francofonia, Wojciech Staron’s Brothers, Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side and Anca Damian’s animation The Magic Mountain. .
Greek filmmaker Maria Economou’s The Longest Run, about the fate of two young refugees picked up at the Greek border and the festival’s opening film, Time Will Tell by Andreas Voigt, are the other two world premieres apart from Mansky’s film.
German competition
New documentaries by Mario Schneider (Naked Beauty), André Schäfer (Herr von Bohlen) and Tom Lemke (Land on Water) are among the films to receive their world premieres...
Mansky’s Russian-German-Czech-North Korean co-production Under The Sun, about the everyday life of a North Korean family, will compete in the festival’s international competition for feature-length documentaries and animation films with such films as Alexander Sokurov’s Venice title Francofonia, Wojciech Staron’s Brothers, Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side and Anca Damian’s animation The Magic Mountain. .
Greek filmmaker Maria Economou’s The Longest Run, about the fate of two young refugees picked up at the Greek border and the festival’s opening film, Time Will Tell by Andreas Voigt, are the other two world premieres apart from Mansky’s film.
German competition
New documentaries by Mario Schneider (Naked Beauty), André Schäfer (Herr von Bohlen) and Tom Lemke (Land on Water) are among the films to receive their world premieres...
- 10/8/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Projects from Italy, Ireland, Hungary and Poland were the winners at this year’s edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production market.
The market featured 22 international projects, comprising 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries from 29 countries.
Carlo Zoratti’s La Vita Nuova, a mix between documentary and fiction about a group of people re-enacting their dreams as a form of spiritual healing, received the Wemw Development Award at an awards ceremony in Trieste’s Palazzo del Governo on Tuesday evening (Jan 20).
The €1.4m production by Zoratti’s own Udine-based production outfit Alpis has Germany’s DETAiLFILM onboard as a co-producer again after they worked together on Zoratti’s previous film, the feature documentary debut The Special Need.
A documentary was also the winner of the new Egg Digital Cinema Award which was given to Dublin-based Jeremiah Cullinane of Planet Korda Pictures for his production of Lithuanian-born writer director Olga Cernovaite’s Butterfly City.
This creative...
The market featured 22 international projects, comprising 12 fiction feature films and 10 documentaries from 29 countries.
Carlo Zoratti’s La Vita Nuova, a mix between documentary and fiction about a group of people re-enacting their dreams as a form of spiritual healing, received the Wemw Development Award at an awards ceremony in Trieste’s Palazzo del Governo on Tuesday evening (Jan 20).
The €1.4m production by Zoratti’s own Udine-based production outfit Alpis has Germany’s DETAiLFILM onboard as a co-producer again after they worked together on Zoratti’s previous film, the feature documentary debut The Special Need.
A documentary was also the winner of the new Egg Digital Cinema Award which was given to Dublin-based Jeremiah Cullinane of Planet Korda Pictures for his production of Lithuanian-born writer director Olga Cernovaite’s Butterfly City.
This creative...
- 1/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The general mood of journalists at the 61st Berlin Film Festival was disappointment: reports generally characterised the selection as dismal. The Independent’s Jonathan Romney explained that the festival tended to ‘test your tolerance for the worthy’, just like every other year. The term ‘worthy’ makes the films sound depressing and dull, but as Romney also observed, the Berlinale had ‘no lemons’: many films looked at real-life problems in a new way and so, for my part, I typically left the cinema feeling stimulated and uplifted rather than sad or irritated.
It seems that the festival juries, too, found plenty to praise: of the nearly 400 films in the festival, 45 won awards. The ceremony for the 61st Berlin Film Festival took place on Saturday, Feburary 19th, and while the full list of awards is too lengthy to summarise in detail, the following should provide you with a nice list of...
It seems that the festival juries, too, found plenty to praise: of the nearly 400 films in the festival, 45 won awards. The ceremony for the 61st Berlin Film Festival took place on Saturday, Feburary 19th, and while the full list of awards is too lengthy to summarise in detail, the following should provide you with a nice list of...
- 2/22/2011
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
By A.J. Goldmann - February 20, 2011
Asghar Farhadi’s “Nader and Simin” was the big winner at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, which announced its awards Saturday evening, a day prior to the end of the fest.
Farhadi won the Silver Bear for best director two years ago for his film “About Elly.” “Nader and Simin” was widely seen as a shoo-in for the Golden Bear, both for its outstanding quality in a year of insipid competition fare and the spotlight thrown on Iranian cinema by incarcerated director Jafar Panahi, for whom the festival kept an open jury seat for the duration of the festival.
The international jury of the 61st Berlin Film Festival, presided over by actress Isabella Rossellini, jointly awarded the Silver Bears for acting to the ensemble cast of “Nader and Simin.” Among the six actors and actresses who shared the two statues was the director’s teenage daughter,...
Asghar Farhadi’s “Nader and Simin” was the big winner at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, which announced its awards Saturday evening, a day prior to the end of the fest.
Farhadi won the Silver Bear for best director two years ago for his film “About Elly.” “Nader and Simin” was widely seen as a shoo-in for the Golden Bear, both for its outstanding quality in a year of insipid competition fare and the spotlight thrown on Iranian cinema by incarcerated director Jafar Panahi, for whom the festival kept an open jury seat for the duration of the festival.
The international jury of the 61st Berlin Film Festival, presided over by actress Isabella Rossellini, jointly awarded the Silver Bears for acting to the ensemble cast of “Nader and Simin.” Among the six actors and actresses who shared the two statues was the director’s teenage daughter,...
- 2/21/2011
- by Screen Comment
- Screen Comment
Iranian drama Nader And Simin, A Separation has been named Best Film at the Berlinale film festival in Germany.
As well as the event's coveted Golden Bear, Asghar Farhadi's controversial film also picked up Silver Bears for Best Male and Female Actor/Actress.
German moviemaker Ulrich Koehler took the Best Director Silver Bear Sleeping Sickness, while Hungary's Bela Tarr landed the Jury Grand Prize for The Turin Horse.
Italian actress Isabella Rossellini presided over the Berlin competition jury, which included German actress Nina Hoss and costume designer Sandy Powell.
Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeremy Irons, Colin Firth, Helena Bonham-Carter and Ralph Fiennes were among the international stars who graced the 11-day festival in Berlin.
The full list of leading Berlinale winners is:
Golden Bear for Best Film
Nader and Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear, The Jury Grand Prix
The Turin Horse
Silver Bear, Best Director
Ulrich Kohler for Sleeping Sickness
Silver Bear, Best Actress
for ensemble in Nader & Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear, Best Actor
for ensemble in Nader & Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear, Outstanding Artistic Achievement
Wojciech Staron for The Prize
Ex Aequo
Barbara Enriquez for The Prize
Silver Bear, Best Script
Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj for The Forgiveness Of Blood
Alfred Bauer Prize
If Not Us, Who?...
As well as the event's coveted Golden Bear, Asghar Farhadi's controversial film also picked up Silver Bears for Best Male and Female Actor/Actress.
German moviemaker Ulrich Koehler took the Best Director Silver Bear Sleeping Sickness, while Hungary's Bela Tarr landed the Jury Grand Prize for The Turin Horse.
Italian actress Isabella Rossellini presided over the Berlin competition jury, which included German actress Nina Hoss and costume designer Sandy Powell.
Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeremy Irons, Colin Firth, Helena Bonham-Carter and Ralph Fiennes were among the international stars who graced the 11-day festival in Berlin.
The full list of leading Berlinale winners is:
Golden Bear for Best Film
Nader and Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear, The Jury Grand Prix
The Turin Horse
Silver Bear, Best Director
Ulrich Kohler for Sleeping Sickness
Silver Bear, Best Actress
for ensemble in Nader & Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear, Best Actor
for ensemble in Nader & Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear, Outstanding Artistic Achievement
Wojciech Staron for The Prize
Ex Aequo
Barbara Enriquez for The Prize
Silver Bear, Best Script
Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj for The Forgiveness Of Blood
Alfred Bauer Prize
If Not Us, Who?...
- 2/21/2011
- WENN
Nader and Simin, a Separation and the other winners of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival have been announced. The 61st Annual Berlin International Film Festival, often called the Berlinale, is “one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media events.With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world.” The full listing of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival winners is below.
Golden Bear for Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix
A torinói ló (The Turin Horse) by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear – Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear – Best Actress
to the actress-ensemble in Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear – Best...
Golden Bear for Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix
A torinói ló (The Turin Horse) by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear – Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear – Best Actress
to the actress-ensemble in Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear – Best...
- 2/20/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
What a night for Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin, a Separation. Not only has the International Jury of this year's Berlinale, presided over by Isabella Rossellini, awarded the film the Golden Bear, but, in a most unusual move, the jury's also decided to give the Silver Bear for Best Actor and Silver Bear for Best Actress to the male and femaie ensembles, respectively. Actress Sarina Farhadi (above) thanked all those in Iran who've stood in line for hours for tickets to see the film — which, we might as well go ahead and mention, has also picked up the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for best film in the Competition.
Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse has won the Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear). Tarr was on hand to accept the award, but decided to say nothing once he'd gotten up on stage. The Turin Horse is Fipresci's choice for best film in Competition.
Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse has won the Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear). Tarr was on hand to accept the award, but decided to say nothing once he'd gotten up on stage. The Turin Horse is Fipresci's choice for best film in Competition.
- 2/20/2011
- MUBI
Nader and Simin, a Separation
The competition at the 61st Berlin Film Festival just came to an end so it’s right time to announce some winners!
For the first time in the history of the Berlinale, The Golden Bear went to Iran! Asghar Farhadi‘s drama Nader and Simin, a Separation (a look at contemporary Iranian society) took the top three awards including the Golden Bear for best pic and ensemble male and female casts for actor and actress Silver Bears.
Now, that’s what we call a warm reception!
On receiving his Golden Bear, Farhadi said that he had never thought that he would win and then took a moment to think of his country and his imprisoned colleague Jafar Panahi who had been prevented from coming to Berlin to serve on the International Jury.
Nader and Simin, a Separation follows the title’s couple when the husband,...
The competition at the 61st Berlin Film Festival just came to an end so it’s right time to announce some winners!
For the first time in the history of the Berlinale, The Golden Bear went to Iran! Asghar Farhadi‘s drama Nader and Simin, a Separation (a look at contemporary Iranian society) took the top three awards including the Golden Bear for best pic and ensemble male and female casts for actor and actress Silver Bears.
Now, that’s what we call a warm reception!
On receiving his Golden Bear, Farhadi said that he had never thought that he would win and then took a moment to think of his country and his imprisoned colleague Jafar Panahi who had been prevented from coming to Berlin to serve on the International Jury.
Nader and Simin, a Separation follows the title’s couple when the husband,...
- 2/20/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
We haven't mentioned the Berlinale at all in the heat of Oscar week. So let's do that, shall we? Better late than never. The festival closes tomorrow but the awards were handed out over the past two days.
"Nader and Simin: A Separation" Golden Bear
Asghar Fahradi, who got a lot of Oscar buzz a couple years back (though no nomination) for About Elly, won this year's Golden Bear for Nader & Simin: A Separation (2011). The Hollywood Reporter explains the film like so.
Farhadi's drama traces the breakup of a Iranian family set against the political tensions in Tehran. While not overtly political, Nader and Simin is starkly critical of conditions in Iran, notably the country's huge class divide. It was widely tipped to win Berlin's top prize, not least because of the current upheaval in the Middle East.
Fahradi dedicated his prize to jailed filmmaker Jafar Panihi who was also...
"Nader and Simin: A Separation" Golden Bear
Asghar Fahradi, who got a lot of Oscar buzz a couple years back (though no nomination) for About Elly, won this year's Golden Bear for Nader & Simin: A Separation (2011). The Hollywood Reporter explains the film like so.
Farhadi's drama traces the breakup of a Iranian family set against the political tensions in Tehran. While not overtly political, Nader and Simin is starkly critical of conditions in Iran, notably the country's huge class divide. It was widely tipped to win Berlin's top prize, not least because of the current upheaval in the Middle East.
Fahradi dedicated his prize to jailed filmmaker Jafar Panihi who was also...
- 2/19/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
HollywoodNews.com: The Awards of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival were bestowed yesterday in Berlin. Below all the awards – official and independent juries – of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
Prizes Of The International Jury
Golden Bear For The Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nader And Simin, A Separation
by Asghar Farhadi
Jury Grand Prix-silver Bear
A torinói ló
The Turin Horse
by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear For Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for
Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear For Best Actress
to the actress-ensemble in
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear For Best Actor
to the actor-ensemble in
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear For An Outstanding Artistic Achievement
In The Categorycamera
Wojciech Staron for the camera in
El premio (The Prize) by Paula Markovitch
ex aequo
In The Category Production Design...
Prizes Of The International Jury
Golden Bear For The Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nader And Simin, A Separation
by Asghar Farhadi
Jury Grand Prix-silver Bear
A torinói ló
The Turin Horse
by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear For Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for
Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear For Best Actress
to the actress-ensemble in
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear For Best Actor
to the actor-ensemble in
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi
Silver Bear For An Outstanding Artistic Achievement
In The Categorycamera
Wojciech Staron for the camera in
El premio (The Prize) by Paula Markovitch
ex aequo
In The Category Production Design...
- 2/19/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi won the Golden Bear for the Best Film at the 61st Berlinale. The Silver Bear went to The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr. Ulrich Köhler won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness).
The festival concluded on Saturday evening. Indian actor-producer Aamir Khan served on the main Jury of the festival. Patang (The Kite) by Prashant Bhargava was screened in the 41st Berlinale Forum. Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in the Panorama section.
List of Main Awards at Berlinale:
Golden Bear For The Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nader And Simin, A Separation
by Asghar Farhadi
Jury Grand Prix-silver Bear
A torinói ló
The Turin Horse
by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear For Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for
Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear For Best Actress...
The festival concluded on Saturday evening. Indian actor-producer Aamir Khan served on the main Jury of the festival. Patang (The Kite) by Prashant Bhargava was screened in the 41st Berlinale Forum. Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, Kaushik Mukherjee’s Gandu and Phil Cox’s The Bengali Detective were presented in the Panorama section.
List of Main Awards at Berlinale:
Golden Bear For The Best Film
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nader And Simin, A Separation
by Asghar Farhadi
Jury Grand Prix-silver Bear
A torinói ló
The Turin Horse
by Béla Tarr
Silver Bear For Best Director
Ulrich Köhler for
Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)
Silver Bear For Best Actress...
- 2/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Awards of the International Jury of the Berlinale 2011 Golden Bear for Best Film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix A torinói ló (The Turin Horse) by Béla Tarr Silver Bear - Best Director Ulrich Köhler for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness) Silver Bear - Best Actress to the actress-ensemble in Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi Farhadi Sarina, Bayat Sareh, Hatami Leila Silver Bear - Best Actor to the actor-ensemble in Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Achievement Wojciech Staron for the camera in El premio (The Prize) by Paula Markovitch ex aequo Barbara Enriquez for the production design in El premio (The Prize) by Paula Markovitch Silver Bear - Best Script Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj for The Forgiveness Of Blood...
- 2/19/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
The competition at the 61st Berlinale came to an end tonight with a glitzy star-studded ceremony in the Berlinale Palast. Jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was again honoured in his absence, whilst Diane Kruger was among the actors who were in attendance.
Here were the winners from the main competition section of the festival, as selected by a jury headed by Isabella Rossellini. You can find my reviews of each film by clicking on the title;
New Perspectives in Cinema: Andres Veiel – If Not Us, Who
Silver Bear for Best Script: Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj – The Forgiveness of Blood
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: shared by Wojciech Staron (cinematographer) and Barbara Enriquez (production designer) – El Premio
Silver Bear for the Best Actress: Female Ensemble – Nader and Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Male Ensemble – Nader and Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear for Best Director: Ulrich Kohler,...
Here were the winners from the main competition section of the festival, as selected by a jury headed by Isabella Rossellini. You can find my reviews of each film by clicking on the title;
New Perspectives in Cinema: Andres Veiel – If Not Us, Who
Silver Bear for Best Script: Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj – The Forgiveness of Blood
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: shared by Wojciech Staron (cinematographer) and Barbara Enriquez (production designer) – El Premio
Silver Bear for the Best Actress: Female Ensemble – Nader and Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Male Ensemble – Nader and Simin, A Separation
Silver Bear for Best Director: Ulrich Kohler,...
- 2/19/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
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