Celebrating its 72nd edition this year, the Locarno Film Festival has been the birthplace for the finest in international arthouse cinema and this year’s lineup looks to continue the tradition. Ahead of the festival, running August 7-17, the full slate has been announced.
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
An occult plot is discovered in Gareth Tunley’s terrific shoestring debut as writer and director. Or is it all in the hero’s mind?
First time writer/director Gareth Tunley marshals the meagre resources of this micro-budget psychological thriller and creates a pleasingly perplexing enigma of a movie. Tom Meeten stars, face desolately etched, eyes darting, as Chris, a man whose therapy sessions unearth an occult plot that may or may not be all in his chaotic mind.
Since almost every character here is an unreliable witness or viewed through the eyes of one, this is a narrative that deliberately unsettles and unbalances the viewer, with a looping structure that is somewhat reminiscent of Omer Fast’s Remainder.
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First time writer/director Gareth Tunley marshals the meagre resources of this micro-budget psychological thriller and creates a pleasingly perplexing enigma of a movie. Tom Meeten stars, face desolately etched, eyes darting, as Chris, a man whose therapy sessions unearth an occult plot that may or may not be all in his chaotic mind.
Since almost every character here is an unreliable witness or viewed through the eyes of one, this is a narrative that deliberately unsettles and unbalances the viewer, with a looping structure that is somewhat reminiscent of Omer Fast’s Remainder.
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- 8/6/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Find out what made our top 10 films of 2016 - and which films feature on Team Screen’s overall top 10.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
- 12/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
The actor on rebellion, the power of fear, why Damian Lewis would never offer advice, and the irrelevance of awards
Tom Sturridge, 30, is the son of the actor Phoebe Nicholls and the director Charles Sturridge, who cast him, aged eight, in the TV series Gulliver’s Travels. After abandoning his A-levels, Sturridge starred in the films Being Julia, The Boat That Rocked and On the Road, and the plays Punk Rock (winning the Critics’ Circle theatre award for most outstanding newcomer), American Buffalo and Orphans on Broadway, for which he was nominated for a Tony. Sturridge has a three-year-old daughter from a previous relationship with the actor Sienna Miller. His latest film, Remainder, adapted from the Tom McCarthy novel, is directed by the visual artist Omer Fast.
As an artist, did Fast have a different approach to film-making?
I suppose that someone who began in car commercials is going to...
Tom Sturridge, 30, is the son of the actor Phoebe Nicholls and the director Charles Sturridge, who cast him, aged eight, in the TV series Gulliver’s Travels. After abandoning his A-levels, Sturridge starred in the films Being Julia, The Boat That Rocked and On the Road, and the plays Punk Rock (winning the Critics’ Circle theatre award for most outstanding newcomer), American Buffalo and Orphans on Broadway, for which he was nominated for a Tony. Sturridge has a three-year-old daughter from a previous relationship with the actor Sienna Miller. His latest film, Remainder, adapted from the Tom McCarthy novel, is directed by the visual artist Omer Fast.
As an artist, did Fast have a different approach to film-making?
I suppose that someone who began in car commercials is going to...
- 7/3/2016
- by Interview by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
This Möbius strip of a story by Tom McCarthy is both intriguing and alienating
The feature debut from the Israeli-born, Berlin-based visual artist and film-maker Omer Fast is a slippery, enigmatic adaptation of the novel by Tom McCarthy. Following a young man (Tom Sturridge) along a Möbius strip of a story from a traumatic brain injury through the recovery of his memories, the film invites comparison with Synecdoche, New York, Donnie Darko and Memento. The glossy chill of the tone is both intriguing and alienating – it draws us in, but holds us at arm’s length.
Sturridge’s character – he is never named – receives a massive payout following a freak accident. He uses it to recreate the fragments of memory from a past life – an apartment building, an elderly lady who endlessly cooks liver, a trio of cats on a roof, a boy. All of this is achieved with the help of a super fixer,...
The feature debut from the Israeli-born, Berlin-based visual artist and film-maker Omer Fast is a slippery, enigmatic adaptation of the novel by Tom McCarthy. Following a young man (Tom Sturridge) along a Möbius strip of a story from a traumatic brain injury through the recovery of his memories, the film invites comparison with Synecdoche, New York, Donnie Darko and Memento. The glossy chill of the tone is both intriguing and alienating – it draws us in, but holds us at arm’s length.
Sturridge’s character – he is never named – receives a massive payout following a freak accident. He uses it to recreate the fragments of memory from a past life – an apartment building, an elderly lady who endlessly cooks liver, a trio of cats on a roof, a boy. All of this is achieved with the help of a super fixer,...
- 6/26/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
A freak accident leaves the protagonist with enough cash to rebuild his life in an unusual way in Omer Fast’s adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s 2001 novel
Video artist Omer Fast’s adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s 2001 novel is a coolly ambiguous offering from the swelling cinema-does-memory file. Tom Sturridge’s shifty blank emerges from a freak accident with amnesia and a seven-figure payout that permits him to reconstruct some small corner of his identity; he does this not with tattoos or Post-It notes, but by restaging events using actual people and places. (Painstakingly rehearsing a bank robbery, he resembles Philip Seymour Hoffman’s writer-cum-worldbuilder in Synecdoche, New York.) Fast lends this process distinctive textures and atmosphere, achieving a heightened reality by working on recognisable London streets: we’re surely watching a form of gentrification, as plummy white male Sturridge snaffles property to regain control over his surroundings. It’s clever but chilly,...
Video artist Omer Fast’s adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s 2001 novel is a coolly ambiguous offering from the swelling cinema-does-memory file. Tom Sturridge’s shifty blank emerges from a freak accident with amnesia and a seven-figure payout that permits him to reconstruct some small corner of his identity; he does this not with tattoos or Post-It notes, but by restaging events using actual people and places. (Painstakingly rehearsing a bank robbery, he resembles Philip Seymour Hoffman’s writer-cum-worldbuilder in Synecdoche, New York.) Fast lends this process distinctive textures and atmosphere, achieving a heightened reality by working on recognisable London streets: we’re surely watching a form of gentrification, as plummy white male Sturridge snaffles property to regain control over his surroundings. It’s clever but chilly,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Who better to film McCarthy’s highly experimental novel than a video artist who had never directed a feature before? The duo talk to Phil Hoad about antiheroes, zombie flaneurs and foreseeing the gentrification of Brixton
One afternoon in 1998, a New York branch of Chase Manhattan bank received an unexpected request from a graduate art student. “The poor woman thought I was going to open some sort of account,” recalls the artist Omer Fast. “My appearance probably told her I wasn’t going to be one of those startup millionaires. But the idea I was trying to sell her was that I wanted to stage a robbery in the bank without telling the customers. The conversation was extremely short.”
“You never told me this!” interjects a tickled Tom McCarthy, whose hypnotic 2005 novel Remainder culminates in just such a staged heist. We’re discussing Fast’s film adaptation of the award-winning experimental book.
One afternoon in 1998, a New York branch of Chase Manhattan bank received an unexpected request from a graduate art student. “The poor woman thought I was going to open some sort of account,” recalls the artist Omer Fast. “My appearance probably told her I wasn’t going to be one of those startup millionaires. But the idea I was trying to sell her was that I wanted to stage a robbery in the bank without telling the customers. The conversation was extremely short.”
“You never told me this!” interjects a tickled Tom McCarthy, whose hypnotic 2005 novel Remainder culminates in just such a staged heist. We’re discussing Fast’s film adaptation of the award-winning experimental book.
- 6/17/2016
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
The first round of previews of this summer's movies is out. Also in today's roundup: Roger Ebert and Martin Scorsese on Cannes, plus articles on William Shakespeare, Lars von Trier, Robert Drew, Ivan Passer and the influence of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd on the Soviet avant-garde. We also have news of new work from Terrence Malick and Hong Sang-soo and there's a Roberto Rossellini retrospective on in Austin. Plus Omer Fast in New York and Ben Rivers in Knoxville—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 5/2/2016
- Keyframe
The first round of previews of this summer's movies is out. Also in today's roundup: Roger Ebert and Martin Scorsese on Cannes, plus articles on William Shakespeare, Lars von Trier, Robert Drew, Ivan Passer and the influence of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd on the Soviet avant-garde. We also have news of new work from Terrence Malick and Hong Sang-soo and there's a Roberto Rossellini retrospective on in Austin. Plus Omer Fast in New York and Ben Rivers in Knoxville—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 5/2/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
This is the fifth year that Iffr has included an Art: Film platform within the CineMart as part of an ongoing attempt to bring art world professionals closer together with their colleagues from cinema.
The initiative has proved very successful, supporting the development of films by Fiona Tan (Tiger contender History’s Future), Phil Collins, Michelangelo Frammartino and others. Nonetheless, the same question is often asked by potential funders - what is it all about?
The artists want to attract “normal” film funding. To do so, they are sometimes asked to pitch or present their projects in a way they find simplistic and reductive. The funders, for their part, can sometimes seem baffled by the esoteric nature of the artists’ projects. Art: Film was designed to help break down the suspicions and misunderstandings between the two worlds.
This year, on Monday (Feb 1), two new projects are being showcased: The Notebooks by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon...
The initiative has proved very successful, supporting the development of films by Fiona Tan (Tiger contender History’s Future), Phil Collins, Michelangelo Frammartino and others. Nonetheless, the same question is often asked by potential funders - what is it all about?
The artists want to attract “normal” film funding. To do so, they are sometimes asked to pitch or present their projects in a way they find simplistic and reductive. The funders, for their part, can sometimes seem baffled by the esoteric nature of the artists’ projects. Art: Film was designed to help break down the suspicions and misunderstandings between the two worlds.
This year, on Monday (Feb 1), two new projects are being showcased: The Notebooks by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon...
- 1/31/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Arthouse kingpin will sell Mani Haghighi’s A Dragon Arrives!.
The Match Factory has picked up international sales rights to Berlin competition entry A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!), the new feature from Iranian writer-director Mani Haghighi.
Based on a true story, the Farsi-language adventure-mystery follows three adventurous young men who are put in danger by their unauthorized investigation into the legend of a seismological phenomenon in an ancient graveyard on a mysterious island.
Haghighi produces under the banner of his Teheran-based production company Dark Precursor Productions in association with Crossfade Films.
The director’s previous feature was black-comedy Modest Reception, which won the Netpac Prize for best Asian film at the 2012 Berlinale.
The film is the fourth in Competition for German indie powerhouse The Match Factory, whose typically robust Berlinale slate also includes Rafi Pitt’s Soy Nero, Letters From War by Ivo M. Ferreira and Death In Sarajevo by Danis Tanović.
Panorama titles...
The Match Factory has picked up international sales rights to Berlin competition entry A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!), the new feature from Iranian writer-director Mani Haghighi.
Based on a true story, the Farsi-language adventure-mystery follows three adventurous young men who are put in danger by their unauthorized investigation into the legend of a seismological phenomenon in an ancient graveyard on a mysterious island.
Haghighi produces under the banner of his Teheran-based production company Dark Precursor Productions in association with Crossfade Films.
The director’s previous feature was black-comedy Modest Reception, which won the Netpac Prize for best Asian film at the 2012 Berlinale.
The film is the fourth in Competition for German indie powerhouse The Match Factory, whose typically robust Berlinale slate also includes Rafi Pitt’s Soy Nero, Letters From War by Ivo M. Ferreira and Death In Sarajevo by Danis Tanović.
Panorama titles...
- 1/28/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Indie sales kingpin will sell Mani Haghighi’s Competition title.
The Match Factory has picked up international sales rights to Berlin competition entry A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!), the new feature from Iranian writer-director Mani Haghighi.
Based on a true story, the Farsi-language adventure-mystery follows three adventurous young men who are put in danger by their unauthorized investigation into the legend of a seismological phenomenon in an ancient graveyard on a mysterious island.
Haghighi produces under the banner of his Teheran-based production company Dark Precursor Productions in association with Crossfade Films.
The director’s previous feature was black-comedy Modest Reception, which won the Netpac Prize for best Asian film at the 2012 Berlinale.
The film is the fourth in Competition for German indie powerhouse The Match Factory, whose typically robust Berlinale slate also includes Rafi Pitt’s Soy Nero, Letters From War by Ivo M. Ferreira and Death In Sarajevo by Danis Tanović.
Panorama titles...
The Match Factory has picked up international sales rights to Berlin competition entry A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!), the new feature from Iranian writer-director Mani Haghighi.
Based on a true story, the Farsi-language adventure-mystery follows three adventurous young men who are put in danger by their unauthorized investigation into the legend of a seismological phenomenon in an ancient graveyard on a mysterious island.
Haghighi produces under the banner of his Teheran-based production company Dark Precursor Productions in association with Crossfade Films.
The director’s previous feature was black-comedy Modest Reception, which won the Netpac Prize for best Asian film at the 2012 Berlinale.
The film is the fourth in Competition for German indie powerhouse The Match Factory, whose typically robust Berlinale slate also includes Rafi Pitt’s Soy Nero, Letters From War by Ivo M. Ferreira and Death In Sarajevo by Danis Tanović.
Panorama titles...
- 1/28/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Films include Shepherds and Butchers with Steve Coogan; Don’t Call Me Son from Anna Muylaert; and a documentary about a director and actress who were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il.
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer who faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself, in a case...
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer who faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself, in a case...
- 1/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Films include Shepherds and Butchers, starring Steve Coogan; Don’t Call Me Son from Anna Muylaert; and a documentary about a director and actress who were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il and forced to make films.
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself...
The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.
A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.
Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself...
- 1/21/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Berlinale Co-Production Market matches 36 new feature film projects with international co-production partners .
The 13th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb 14-16) has unveiled the 36 feature film projects from 29 different countries that will look to forge international co-production and financing partnerships.
Among the directors of the selected projects are Ciro Guerra, whose Embrace of the Serpent was presented as a project at a past edition of the market and is nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
Also included Jasmila Zbanic, winner of the Golden Bear in 2006; Irish director Mark Noonan, who presented his debut film You’re Ugly Too last year at the Berlinale in the Generation Kplus programme and is currently working on his second feature film; as well as a host of other acclaimed directors such as Diego Lerman, Oliver Schmitz, Brandon Cronenberg and Alvaro Brechner.
The latest feature from Roar Uthang, who directed...
The 13th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb 14-16) has unveiled the 36 feature film projects from 29 different countries that will look to forge international co-production and financing partnerships.
Among the directors of the selected projects are Ciro Guerra, whose Embrace of the Serpent was presented as a project at a past edition of the market and is nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
Also included Jasmila Zbanic, winner of the Golden Bear in 2006; Irish director Mark Noonan, who presented his debut film You’re Ugly Too last year at the Berlinale in the Generation Kplus programme and is currently working on his second feature film; as well as a host of other acclaimed directors such as Diego Lerman, Oliver Schmitz, Brandon Cronenberg and Alvaro Brechner.
The latest feature from Roar Uthang, who directed...
- 1/14/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
As if new films from the Coens and Jeff Nichols weren’t enough, the 2016 Berlin Film Festival has further expanded their line-up, adding some of our most-anticipated films of the year. Mia Hansen-Løve, following up her incredible, sadly overlooked drama Eden, will premiere the Isabelle Huppert-led Things to Come, while Thomas Vinterberg, Lav Diaz, André Téchiné, and many more will stop by with their new features. Check out the new additions below, followed by some previously announced films, notably John Michael McDonagh‘s War on Everyone.
Competition
Cartas da guerra (Letters from War)
Portugal
By Ivo M. Ferreira (Na Escama do Dragão)
With Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova
World premiere
Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad! (A Dragon Arrives!)
Iran
By Mani Haghighi (Modest Reception, Men at Work)
With Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Ehsan Goudarzi, Kiana Tajammol
International premiere
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) – documentary
Italy / France
By Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro Gra, El Sicario...
Competition
Cartas da guerra (Letters from War)
Portugal
By Ivo M. Ferreira (Na Escama do Dragão)
With Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova
World premiere
Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad! (A Dragon Arrives!)
Iran
By Mani Haghighi (Modest Reception, Men at Work)
With Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Ehsan Goudarzi, Kiana Tajammol
International premiere
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) – documentary
Italy / France
By Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro Gra, El Sicario...
- 1/11/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
GeniusThe films included in the lineup for the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, taking place between February 11 - 21, are starting to be announced.Opening FILMHail, Caesar! (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, USA)COMPETITIONBoris without Béatrice (Denis Côté, Canada)Genius (Michael Grandage, UK/USA)Alone in Berlin (Vincent Perez, Germany/France/UK)Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, USA)Zero Days (Alex Gibney, USA)Berlinale SPECIALThe Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (Morgan Neville, USA)The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, bartek Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton, UK)Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore, USA)PANORAMAJá, Olga Hepnarová (Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda, Czech Republic/Poland/Slowak Republic/France)Junction 48 (Udi Aloni, Israel/Germany/USA)Les Premiers, les Derniers (Bouli Lanners, France/Belgium)Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller, USA)Nakom (Kelly Daniela Norris, Tw Pittman, Ghana/USA)Remainder (Omer Fast, United Kingdom/Germany)S one strane (Zrinko Ogresta,...
- 12/17/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Other titles include Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan, starring Greta Gerwig, and David Farr’s The Ones Below, starring David Morrissey.Scroll down for full lists
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced the first titles in Panorama – its strand that comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles.
The initial features include three from the UK, with John Michael McDonagh returning to Berlin for the world premiere of War On Everyone.
The film, a satire centred on two corrupt cops in New Mexico, stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James and Tessa Thompson.
McDonagh was previously in Panorama in 2011 with The Guard and 2013 with Calvary.
Also from the UK is David Farr’s The Ones Below, which revolves around a couple expecting their first child who discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below. Receiving its European...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced the first titles in Panorama – its strand that comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles.
The initial features include three from the UK, with John Michael McDonagh returning to Berlin for the world premiere of War On Everyone.
The film, a satire centred on two corrupt cops in New Mexico, stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James and Tessa Thompson.
McDonagh was previously in Panorama in 2011 with The Guard and 2013 with Calvary.
Also from the UK is David Farr’s The Ones Below, which revolves around a couple expecting their first child who discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below. Receiving its European...
- 12/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The new issue of Film Comment features opposing takes on László Nemes's Son of Saul, an interview with Todd Haynes and reviews of Omer Fast’s Remainder, Guy Maddin’s Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, Fellipe Barbosa's Casa Grande, Rick Alverson's Entertainment, Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Nicholas Hytner's The Lady in the Van, John Crowley's Brooklyn, Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang and Jay Roach's Trumbo, plus: Alex Cox on L.M. “Kit” Carson and Lawrence Schiller’s The Last Movie and Matías Piñeiro on Setsuko Hara in No Regrets for Our Youth. Also in today's roundup: David Bordwell on Wes Anderson and Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin on Chantal Akerman. » - David Hudson...
- 11/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new issue of Film Comment features opposing takes on László Nemes's Son of Saul, an interview with Todd Haynes and reviews of Omer Fast’s Remainder, Guy Maddin’s Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, Fellipe Barbosa's Casa Grande, Rick Alverson's Entertainment, Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Nicholas Hytner's The Lady in the Van, John Crowley's Brooklyn, Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang and Jay Roach's Trumbo, plus: Alex Cox on L.M. “Kit” Carson and Lawrence Schiller’s The Last Movie and Matías Piñeiro on Setsuko Hara in No Regrets for Our Youth. Also in today's roundup: David Bordwell on Wes Anderson and Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin on Chantal Akerman. » - David Hudson...
- 11/6/2015
- Keyframe
Generally speaking, a viewer represents something of a blank canvas – entering in to a project mostly unenlightened, hoping to be inspired, to become immersed in a narrative and to inhabit a whole new world. It’s what allows Omer Fast’s experimental feature Remainder to be so absorbing, as our entry point is a blank
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- 10/7/2015
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Star of Rush and Inglourious Basterds to become a partner at German production company.
Daniel Brühl, the German star of A Most Wanted Man, Rush and Marvel’s forthcoming Captain America: Civil War, is set to become a partner at Hamburg/Berlin-based production company Amusement Park Film.
Brühl will join forces with Malte Grunert and Klaus Dohle as a producer with the aim of finding, developing and producing material across both film and television. Their focus will be on English-language products.
The collaboration has been in the pipeline for some years following Brühl and Grunert’s first experience of working together on Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man (2014).
Brühl and Grunert are both attending the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) this coming week with their own projects.
Brühl will be in town to support Colonia, Florian Gallenberger’s thriller set in 1973 Chile in which he co-stars with Emma Watson...
Daniel Brühl, the German star of A Most Wanted Man, Rush and Marvel’s forthcoming Captain America: Civil War, is set to become a partner at Hamburg/Berlin-based production company Amusement Park Film.
Brühl will join forces with Malte Grunert and Klaus Dohle as a producer with the aim of finding, developing and producing material across both film and television. Their focus will be on English-language products.
The collaboration has been in the pipeline for some years following Brühl and Grunert’s first experience of working together on Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man (2014).
Brühl and Grunert are both attending the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) this coming week with their own projects.
Brühl will be in town to support Colonia, Florian Gallenberger’s thriller set in 1973 Chile in which he co-stars with Emma Watson...
- 9/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 59Th BFI London Film Festival Announces Full 2015 Programme
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
- 9/1/2015
- by John
- SoundOnSight
First Look, which New York's Museum of the Moving Image calls "not just a festival of new films" but "a festival about new approaches to filmmaking," opens tonight with Jessica Hausner's Amour fou and runs through January 18. We're gathering overviews ranging from Tony Pipolo's for Artforum, wherein he writes about Jon Jost’s Coming to Terms with James Benning, Kyle Turner in the Notebook on two new shorts by Gina Telaroli, Sam Weisberg in the Voice on Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge, Max Nelson in Reverse Shot on two 3D films by Ken Jacobs—plus interviews and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
First Look, which New York's Museum of the Moving Image calls "not just a festival of new films" but "a festival about new approaches to filmmaking," opens tonight with Jessica Hausner's Amour fou and runs through January 18. We're gathering overviews ranging from Tony Pipolo's for Artforum, wherein he writes about Jon Jost’s Coming to Terms with James Benning, Kyle Turner in the Notebook on two new shorts by Gina Telaroli, Sam Weisberg in the Voice on Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge, Max Nelson in Reverse Shot on two 3D films by Ken Jacobs—plus interviews and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/9/2015
- Keyframe
The Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival has become a bastion of obscure films by talented, on-the-rise filmmakers. From January 9 through January 18, the Long Island City haven will host a mix of screenings, some of which are free (check the museum website for details), all of which are worth a couple hours of your life. Not oriented towards the casual moviegoer, this is a series of films that careen from slow and silent to overtly experimental, feature-length adventures and 10-minute freak-outs. There’s not a wholly bad film in the batch, but we’ve picked a handful of filmmakers whose works really deserve your attention. Omer Fast Omer Fast’s "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (57m), which has nothing to do with the iconic Flannery O’Connor story, is a cinematic adaptation of an art installation Fast orchestrated in 2013. The film, like its progenitor piece, depicts the...
- 1/9/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Indiewire
Pornographic films now employ, with some regularity, a quadruple screen/angle effect, allowing viewers to choose which feed to look at. But it's doubtful that any smut film has featured a subplot in which hoodlums steal a fossilized egg from a mansion lawn. Also unlikely: that any porno flick to date has been based — however loosely — on a Flannery O'Connor short story.
Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge can lay claim to such bizarre distinctions. The film premieres in the U.S. this Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image's fourth annual First Look Festival, which will show roughly forty films starting January 9.
Fast's documentary/narrative hybrid, which glimpses a day in the life of several real-life porn stars, is an unapologetic te...
Omer Fast's Everything That Rises Must Converge can lay claim to such bizarre distinctions. The film premieres in the U.S. this Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image's fourth annual First Look Festival, which will show roughly forty films starting January 9.
Fast's documentary/narrative hybrid, which glimpses a day in the life of several real-life porn stars, is an unapologetic te...
- 1/7/2015
- Village Voice
For Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image to house an event like the First Look series—opening this Friday and running through January 18—is a cinematic blessing. Here, in its fourth year, you’ll find undistributed gems, but, though its similarities to other festivals halt with “undistributed,” the curation of the series is precise and impeccable, giving an illusion of intimacy. This year, with selections from Omer Fast, Gina Telaroli, and Jessica Hausner, there’s a stress on waking nightmares; films whose atmospheres are bone chilling in both overt and subtle ways.
Ville Marie
Opening with a title card dedicating the film to Carlos Lorenzo, Ville Marie—one of the many experimental films being exhibited during the series—intentionally or otherwise becomes a living fever dream, its use of double and reverse exposure reminiscent of E. Elias Merhige’s horror experiment Begotten. That film sought to expose the horror of creation,...
Ville Marie
Opening with a title card dedicating the film to Carlos Lorenzo, Ville Marie—one of the many experimental films being exhibited during the series—intentionally or otherwise becomes a living fever dream, its use of double and reverse exposure reminiscent of E. Elias Merhige’s horror experiment Begotten. That film sought to expose the horror of creation,...
- 1/6/2015
- by Kyle Turner
- MUBI
The falling leaves are a sure sign it’s now the beginning of awards season, with Oscar short lists starting to leak out, Ida Awards prepping their program and the Emmy’s already handing out golden statues. Also, on the festival circuit this month we have a whole host of big lineup announcements coming from a hefty set of acronym loving non-fiction fests the world over, from Cph:dox and Doc NYC, to Idfa and Ridm. Best of Fests Docs is a monthly snapshot of the films and filmmakers that are the make-up of the docu film festival and awards circuit. Check out the full rundown below:
Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th
The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...
Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th
The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...
- 10/28/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
K5 International has taken on distribution for Martin Zandvliet’s Land Of Mine (Under Sandet) about a sensitive chapter in Danish post-war history.
Zandvliet’s most ambitious film to date after his 2009 debut Applause and 2011’s A Funny Man is inspired by true events where more than 2,000 German prisoners of war were forced shortly after the Second World War to clear mines laid by German occupying forces along the Danish West coast. More than half of the young Germans were killed or seriously maimed.
Roland Møller, who made his screen debut in Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer’s prison drama R, is cast in his first lead role as the Danish Sergeant Carl Leopold Rasmussen in charge of the prisoners, with Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, who received a Silver Bear as Best Actor at the 2012 Berlinale for his performance in A Royal Affair and was a Shooting Star last year, as Lieutenant Ebbe.
Other leads -...
Zandvliet’s most ambitious film to date after his 2009 debut Applause and 2011’s A Funny Man is inspired by true events where more than 2,000 German prisoners of war were forced shortly after the Second World War to clear mines laid by German occupying forces along the Danish West coast. More than half of the young Germans were killed or seriously maimed.
Roland Møller, who made his screen debut in Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer’s prison drama R, is cast in his first lead role as the Danish Sergeant Carl Leopold Rasmussen in charge of the prisoners, with Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, who received a Silver Bear as Best Actor at the 2012 Berlinale for his performance in A Royal Affair and was a Shooting Star last year, as Lieutenant Ebbe.
Other leads -...
- 8/22/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Thriller directed by Omer Fast acquired for international sales by The Match Factory.
The Match Factory has boarded international sales on Remainder, visual artist Omer Fast’s thriller now in pre-production.
Soda Pictures will distribute in the UK and Ireland; Piffl Medien has German rights.
Tom Sturridge is set to star in the story, adapted from Tom McCarthy’s novel, about a man who has to reconstruct his past out of lost memories; he gets a large financial settlement for an accident he can¹t remember without any wholly reliable witnesses.
Fast, who writes and directs, said the film is “an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he’s most vulnerable: In absolute control.”
The film will shoot for six weeks on location in London and Berlin this spring; post-production will be done in Hamburg.
Fast’s artworks are in permanent collections at Tate Modern and Lacma; his latest installation...
The Match Factory has boarded international sales on Remainder, visual artist Omer Fast’s thriller now in pre-production.
Soda Pictures will distribute in the UK and Ireland; Piffl Medien has German rights.
Tom Sturridge is set to star in the story, adapted from Tom McCarthy’s novel, about a man who has to reconstruct his past out of lost memories; he gets a large financial settlement for an accident he can¹t remember without any wholly reliable witnesses.
Fast, who writes and directs, said the film is “an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he’s most vulnerable: In absolute control.”
The film will shoot for six weeks on location in London and Berlin this spring; post-production will be done in Hamburg.
Fast’s artworks are in permanent collections at Tate Modern and Lacma; his latest installation...
- 2/11/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme of the Berlinale include four feature films and two documentaries.
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
- 12/18/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme of the Berlinale include four feature films and two documentaries.
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai [pictured]is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai [pictured]is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
- 12/18/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
With work of 2,000 artists from galleries worldwide the fair at Regent's Park, London, attracts collectors with deep pockets
It is chucking it down in Regent's Park, cars are splashing pedestrians, expensive frocks and suits are getting drenched. And, once you are inside the UK's biggest commercial art fair, you can add to the experience by buying your own dirty black puddle.
Each one of Marlie Mul's resin and sand hyperreal puddles would cost you €4,000 (£3,400)from the Frieze stand belonging to Fluxia, a young gallery based in Milan.
If you are not interested in splashing out on a puddle, then there are a further 151 contemporary art galleries displaying works in the vast tent that has appeared in the London park for the past 10 years.
As thousands descend on the fair – some buying, an awful lot more wishing they had the money to buy – hundreds of other galleries and museums open shows...
It is chucking it down in Regent's Park, cars are splashing pedestrians, expensive frocks and suits are getting drenched. And, once you are inside the UK's biggest commercial art fair, you can add to the experience by buying your own dirty black puddle.
Each one of Marlie Mul's resin and sand hyperreal puddles would cost you €4,000 (£3,400)from the Frieze stand belonging to Fluxia, a young gallery based in Milan.
If you are not interested in splashing out on a puddle, then there are a further 151 contemporary art galleries displaying works in the vast tent that has appeared in the London park for the past 10 years.
As thousands descend on the fair – some buying, an awful lot more wishing they had the money to buy – hundreds of other galleries and museums open shows...
- 10/16/2013
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
The line-up of the 2nd edition of the Dharamshala International Film festival has been announced. The festival will showcase feature films, documentaries and short films.
Organised by White Crane Arts & Media; the festival will be held from October 24 – 27, 2013 in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala.
This year, a new section ‘Art and Film’ has been introduced at the festival in collaboration with Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation. The section will feature art films made by international artists Sean Snyder, Wael Shawky, Marine Hugonnier, Omer Fast, Walid Raad and Rabih Mroué.
The Best of recent Indian Shorts curated by filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will also be showcased.
Besides, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark will make its world premiere at the festival.
Some of the film personalities who will attend the festival are: Jacek Borcuch (Lasting), Nishtha Jain (Gulabi Gang), Nitin Kakkar (Filmistaan), Avijit Mukul Kishore (To Let the World In), Nagraj Manjule (Fandry...
Organised by White Crane Arts & Media; the festival will be held from October 24 – 27, 2013 in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala.
This year, a new section ‘Art and Film’ has been introduced at the festival in collaboration with Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation. The section will feature art films made by international artists Sean Snyder, Wael Shawky, Marine Hugonnier, Omer Fast, Walid Raad and Rabih Mroué.
The Best of recent Indian Shorts curated by filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will also be showcased.
Besides, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark will make its world premiere at the festival.
Some of the film personalities who will attend the festival are: Jacek Borcuch (Lasting), Nishtha Jain (Gulabi Gang), Nitin Kakkar (Filmistaan), Avijit Mukul Kishore (To Let the World In), Nagraj Manjule (Fandry...
- 10/16/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
New Delhi, Oct 10: The Dharamshala Film Festival, starting Oct 24, will showcase the works of international film artists that have never been screened in India earlier.
Films like Israeli filmmaker Omer Fast's "Continuity", French filmmaker Marine Hugonnier's " Ariana" and Lebanese filmmaker Rabih Mroué's "The Pixelated Revolution" will be screened in the Art and Film section, said a statement.
These films have been specially curated in collaboration with Diff partner, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), an art foundation based in Vienna, Austria.
Art world figure Francesca von Habsburg, also the founder of TBA21, will be present for this segment.
Other filmmakers attending the festival include.
Films like Israeli filmmaker Omer Fast's "Continuity", French filmmaker Marine Hugonnier's " Ariana" and Lebanese filmmaker Rabih Mroué's "The Pixelated Revolution" will be screened in the Art and Film section, said a statement.
These films have been specially curated in collaboration with Diff partner, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), an art foundation based in Vienna, Austria.
Art world figure Francesca von Habsburg, also the founder of TBA21, will be present for this segment.
Other filmmakers attending the festival include.
- 10/10/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Voice of My Father
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, opening on January 25 and running through February 5, has announced two lineups today, the Tiger Awards Competition 2012 for first and second feature films — 15 films in all — and the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012 with 21 films. Straight from the release:
Tiger Awards Competition 2012
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday), Dominga Sotomayor, Chile/Netherlands, 2012, 96’, World premiere, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film. Sotomayor’s feature film début, expertly shot by Barbara Alvarez, is a Chilean road movie set in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family. Seen through eyes of the kids in the back, they embark on a four day holiday trip to the north, while the marriage is falling apart. Dominga Sotomayor’s short film Videojuego was screened in Rotterdam in 2010. De jueves a domingo was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence 2010.
Babamin sesi (Voice of My Father), Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan,...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, opening on January 25 and running through February 5, has announced two lineups today, the Tiger Awards Competition 2012 for first and second feature films — 15 films in all — and the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2012 with 21 films. Straight from the release:
Tiger Awards Competition 2012
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday), Dominga Sotomayor, Chile/Netherlands, 2012, 96’, World premiere, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film. Sotomayor’s feature film début, expertly shot by Barbara Alvarez, is a Chilean road movie set in and around the car belonging to a middle-class family. Seen through eyes of the kids in the back, they embark on a four day holiday trip to the north, while the marriage is falling apart. Dominga Sotomayor’s short film Videojuego was screened in Rotterdam in 2010. De jueves a domingo was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence 2010.
Babamin sesi (Voice of My Father), Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan,...
- 1/12/2012
- MUBI
Big one today. Let's begin with Movieline's St VanAirsdale introducing his interview with Wim Wenders: "Until the End of the World was conceived over most of the 80s, filmed on four continents (including video smuggled out of China), and foresaw a future abetted by such diversions as mobile viewing devices, proto-gps and a highly sought-after contraption that records images for the blind. Starring William Hurt, Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin, Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow among an international ensemble of actors, the film also skyrocketed to a $23 million budget and found its distributors — including Warner Bros in the United States — requiring cuts that reduced it to barely a quarter of Wenders's original vision. Later locked in at just under five hours, it's the type of material that today would be a shoo-in for a cable miniseries that could probably win Emmys for everyone involved. Twenty years on, however, it's relatively lost to the mainstream,...
- 11/16/2011
- MUBI
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