The Cnc and Ffa each invest €3.2mi annually in the development and co-pro fund.
New films by Wim Wenders, Angela Schanelec, Ilker Catak and Sharbanoo Sadat are among six projects supported with a total of €1.23m by the Cnc and Germany’s Federal Film Board (Ffa), co-production fund at its second session of 2023.
Each provides €3.2m for the fund annually to support co-production and project development by German and French production companies.
A total of €150,000 production support has been awarded to Wenders’ next feature documentary The Secret Of Places (working title) to be shot in 2D and 3D as a...
New films by Wim Wenders, Angela Schanelec, Ilker Catak and Sharbanoo Sadat are among six projects supported with a total of €1.23m by the Cnc and Germany’s Federal Film Board (Ffa), co-production fund at its second session of 2023.
Each provides €3.2m for the fund annually to support co-production and project development by German and French production companies.
A total of €150,000 production support has been awarded to Wenders’ next feature documentary The Secret Of Places (working title) to be shot in 2D and 3D as a...
- 7/13/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Festivals
A trio of global festival favorites — Pan Nalin‘s “Last Film Show,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki‘s “No Land’s Man” and Gurvinder Singh‘s “Crescent Night” (“Adh Chanani Raat”) — will open the 11th edition of the Bmo International Film Festival of South Asia (Iffsa), Toronto (Aug. 11-21). The festival is in-person at venues across the Greater Toronto area, featuring 120 features and shorts in 22 languages and some 40 masterclasses, workshops and special events.
Program highlights include “The Orphanage,” “Pedro,” “Once Upon A Time In Calcutta,” “Dug Dug,” “Palyad,” “Shoebox,” “No Ground Beneath the Feet,” “Deep6,” “Gandhi & Company” and “Invisible Demons” and there are world premieres for “Range Road 290” and “Anatomy of a Warrior.” Guests of honor this year are “Halo” actor Shabana Azmi and eminent screenwriter, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar (“Silsila”) and well-known South Asian industry figures present at the festival include opening film directors Farooki and Singh, filmmakers Anup Singh...
A trio of global festival favorites — Pan Nalin‘s “Last Film Show,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki‘s “No Land’s Man” and Gurvinder Singh‘s “Crescent Night” (“Adh Chanani Raat”) — will open the 11th edition of the Bmo International Film Festival of South Asia (Iffsa), Toronto (Aug. 11-21). The festival is in-person at venues across the Greater Toronto area, featuring 120 features and shorts in 22 languages and some 40 masterclasses, workshops and special events.
Program highlights include “The Orphanage,” “Pedro,” “Once Upon A Time In Calcutta,” “Dug Dug,” “Palyad,” “Shoebox,” “No Ground Beneath the Feet,” “Deep6,” “Gandhi & Company” and “Invisible Demons” and there are world premieres for “Range Road 290” and “Anatomy of a Warrior.” Guests of honor this year are “Halo” actor Shabana Azmi and eminent screenwriter, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar (“Silsila”) and well-known South Asian industry figures present at the festival include opening film directors Farooki and Singh, filmmakers Anup Singh...
- 7/19/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Festival apologises to filmmakers and audience.
The 72nd Berlinale got underway after an inauspicious start on Thursday evening (10) as “technical problems” during the opening night screening of Francois Ozon’s Peter von Kant caused the film to cut out after about 30 minutes.
During a scene in which the eponymous character is shooting a film himself, the screen at the Berlinale Palast venue suddenly went blank.
The audience was left in the dark for roughly 10 minutes, before the film restarted at a different point. It played for another couple of minutes before cutting out again, to groans from the crowd.
Audience...
The 72nd Berlinale got underway after an inauspicious start on Thursday evening (10) as “technical problems” during the opening night screening of Francois Ozon’s Peter von Kant caused the film to cut out after about 30 minutes.
During a scene in which the eponymous character is shooting a film himself, the screen at the Berlinale Palast venue suddenly went blank.
The audience was left in the dark for roughly 10 minutes, before the film restarted at a different point. It played for another couple of minutes before cutting out again, to groans from the crowd.
Audience...
- 2/10/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Here are all the winners of the 28th Vesoul Iff Asian Cinemas that took place from the 1st to the 8th of February in Vesoul, France.
Honorary Golden Cyclo:
(offered by the Agglomeration Community and the city of Vesoul)
Mrs. Leila Hatami, actress, Iran for her entire career, and Mr. Kôji Fukada, director, Japan for the all of his work.
Cyclo D’Or:
(offered by the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), International Jury: President: Ms. Leila Hatami, actress (Iran), members: Ms. Suha Arraf, director (Palestine), Ms. Tran Bich Quan, distributor, producer (France), Mr. Zig Dulay, director (Philippines)
Yanagawa by Zhang Lu (China) Beautiful, strong images, based on a powerful and perfectly told story, lead us to the discovery of brotherly relationship and love
Grand Jury Prize:
Along The Sea by Fujimoto Akio (Japan) Exposing a calm, restful nature on the one hand, harsh and merciless on the other, the film confronts...
Honorary Golden Cyclo:
(offered by the Agglomeration Community and the city of Vesoul)
Mrs. Leila Hatami, actress, Iran for her entire career, and Mr. Kôji Fukada, director, Japan for the all of his work.
Cyclo D’Or:
(offered by the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), International Jury: President: Ms. Leila Hatami, actress (Iran), members: Ms. Suha Arraf, director (Palestine), Ms. Tran Bich Quan, distributor, producer (France), Mr. Zig Dulay, director (Philippines)
Yanagawa by Zhang Lu (China) Beautiful, strong images, based on a powerful and perfectly told story, lead us to the discovery of brotherly relationship and love
Grand Jury Prize:
Along The Sea by Fujimoto Akio (Japan) Exposing a calm, restful nature on the one hand, harsh and merciless on the other, the film confronts...
- 2/9/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Zhang Lu’s “Yanagawa” (China), Hong Sung-eun’s “Aloners” (South Korea) and Fujimoto Akio’s “Along the Sea” (Japan/Vietnam) were among the top award winners at France’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas.
“Yanagawa,” which opened the 2021 Pingyao Film Festival, won the Golden Cyclo, the festival’s top honor awarded by the international jury. “Aloners,” which has previously won awards at Jeonju and Torino, won the international jury prize and the Netpac jury award.
The grand jury prize went to San Sebastian, Tokyo and Fajr player “Along the Sea,” which also won the festival’s critic’s choice award and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) jury prize. The Inalco jury also recognized Da Fei’s “The Coffin Painter” (China).
The international jury accorded special mentions to Chung Mong-Hong’s Venice selection “The Falls” (Taiwan), Brillante Mendoza’s Busan Kim Ji Seok Award winner...
“Yanagawa,” which opened the 2021 Pingyao Film Festival, won the Golden Cyclo, the festival’s top honor awarded by the international jury. “Aloners,” which has previously won awards at Jeonju and Torino, won the international jury prize and the Netpac jury award.
The grand jury prize went to San Sebastian, Tokyo and Fajr player “Along the Sea,” which also won the festival’s critic’s choice award and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) jury prize. The Inalco jury also recognized Da Fei’s “The Coffin Painter” (China).
The international jury accorded special mentions to Chung Mong-Hong’s Venice selection “The Falls” (Taiwan), Brillante Mendoza’s Busan Kim Ji Seok Award winner...
- 2/8/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
After her successful debut “Wolf and Sheep” (2016), which premiered to awards at Cannes’ Quinzanne selection, the only female filmmaker from Afghanistan to achieve such success, Shahrbanoo Sadat, got back to the festival circuit with its follow-up “The Orphanage”, the intended second instalment of the pentalogy based on the diaries of her writer friend Anwar Hashimi. It premiered last year at the same section of Cannes, before heading up on a long festival tour with the last stop (for now at least) at Zagreb Film Festival, where it played in the main competition.
“The Orphanage” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at...
“The Orphanage” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at...
- 2/2/2022
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Last August, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat managed to escape from Kabul with part of her family as Taliban fighters took over the city while U.S. forces withdrew.
Now, her “Weekend With…Shahrbanoo Sadat” event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, starting on Saturday Jan. 29, will give U.S. audiences an opportunity to dive deep into the bold young filmmaker’s three works: “Not at Home,” “Wolf and Sheep,” and “The Orphanage.”
“With everything that’s happened in Afghanistan, I think it’s important, especially for American audiences, to take a look at my films,” Sadat tells Variety, in order to see her country “from a different point of view.”
“My cinema focusses on the everyday life of people,” the director notes.
“Not at Home,” the first work in the series, is a hybrid documentary/feature film that Sadat co-directed with her German producing partner Katja Adomeit.
Now, her “Weekend With…Shahrbanoo Sadat” event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, starting on Saturday Jan. 29, will give U.S. audiences an opportunity to dive deep into the bold young filmmaker’s three works: “Not at Home,” “Wolf and Sheep,” and “The Orphanage.”
“With everything that’s happened in Afghanistan, I think it’s important, especially for American audiences, to take a look at my films,” Sadat tells Variety, in order to see her country “from a different point of view.”
“My cinema focusses on the everyday life of people,” the director notes.
“Not at Home,” the first work in the series, is a hybrid documentary/feature film that Sadat co-directed with her German producing partner Katja Adomeit.
- 1/28/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
“Drive My Car” filmmaker Hamaguchi Ryusuke, director Karim Ainouz (Berlin-winner “Central Airport Thf”) and actor Connie Nielsen (“Wonder Woman”) will join president M. Night Shyamalan on the international jury of the Berlin Film Festival.
Also serving on the international jury are producer Saïd Ben Saïd (“Benedetta”) and filmmakers Anne Zohra Berrached (“24 Weeeks”) and writer-director Tsitsi Dangarembga (“I Want a Wedding Dress”). The international jury decides the Golden and the Silver Bear winners.
The jury for the festival’s Encounters strand includes Mubi director of content Chiara Marañón and filmmakers Ben Rivers (Venice Fipresci prize winner “Two Years at Sea”) and Silvan Zürcher (Berlin Fipresci prize winner “The Girl and the Spider”). They will choose the winners for the strand’s best film, best director and the special jury awards.
The jury for the Gwff Best First Feature Award includes Gaia Furrer, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival’s Venice...
Also serving on the international jury are producer Saïd Ben Saïd (“Benedetta”) and filmmakers Anne Zohra Berrached (“24 Weeeks”) and writer-director Tsitsi Dangarembga (“I Want a Wedding Dress”). The international jury decides the Golden and the Silver Bear winners.
The jury for the festival’s Encounters strand includes Mubi director of content Chiara Marañón and filmmakers Ben Rivers (Venice Fipresci prize winner “Two Years at Sea”) and Silvan Zürcher (Berlin Fipresci prize winner “The Girl and the Spider”). They will choose the winners for the strand’s best film, best director and the special jury awards.
The jury for the Gwff Best First Feature Award includes Gaia Furrer, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival’s Venice...
- 1/26/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival has confirmed its various juries, including who will be joining M. Night Shyamalan to award the International Competition prizes.
Alongside International Jury president Shyamalan will be Karim Aïnouz (Brazil / Algeria), Anne Zohra Berrached (Germany), Saïd Ben Saïd (France / Tunisia), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan), and Connie Nielsen (Denmark / USA).
In the competitive Encounters program, a three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award: Director of Content Chiara Marañón (Spain), artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers (United Kingdom) as well as producer, screenwriter and director Silvan Zürcher (Switzerland).
Elsewhere, the Gff Best First Feature will be awarded to one debut film across Berlin’s various sections, and will be decided by a three-person jury: Gaia Furrer (Italy), Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka) and Shahrbanoo Sadat (Afghanistan).
The Berlin Documentary Award jury this year are: Wang Bing (People’s...
Alongside International Jury president Shyamalan will be Karim Aïnouz (Brazil / Algeria), Anne Zohra Berrached (Germany), Saïd Ben Saïd (France / Tunisia), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan), and Connie Nielsen (Denmark / USA).
In the competitive Encounters program, a three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award: Director of Content Chiara Marañón (Spain), artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers (United Kingdom) as well as producer, screenwriter and director Silvan Zürcher (Switzerland).
Elsewhere, the Gff Best First Feature will be awarded to one debut film across Berlin’s various sections, and will be decided by a three-person jury: Gaia Furrer (Italy), Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka) and Shahrbanoo Sadat (Afghanistan).
The Berlin Documentary Award jury this year are: Wang Bing (People’s...
- 1/26/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Sadat was in conversation at the Zurich Film Summit.
Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, well known internationally for her Cannes features Wolf & Sheep and The Orphanage, escaped Kabul one month ago with her family to come to Europe.
Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival’s Zurich Summit on Sept 25, she said she hopes to keep her passion for filmmaking going despite the turmoil in her homeland, wanting to show the many “colours” of Afghanistan.
With the help of many international friends including her Danish producer Katja Adomeit, Sadat was able to take a French flight out of Kabul.
In her final days living in Kabul,...
Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, well known internationally for her Cannes features Wolf & Sheep and The Orphanage, escaped Kabul one month ago with her family to come to Europe.
Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival’s Zurich Summit on Sept 25, she said she hopes to keep her passion for filmmaking going despite the turmoil in her homeland, wanting to show the many “colours” of Afghanistan.
With the help of many international friends including her Danish producer Katja Adomeit, Sadat was able to take a French flight out of Kabul.
In her final days living in Kabul,...
- 9/27/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Holding forth at a masterclass she delivered at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Tabakalera venue on Tuesday Sept. 21, Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker whose body of work includes 2019 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight film “The Orphanage” and Cannes 2016 film “Wolf And Sheep,” dispelled some misconceptions about Afghan cinema and her country.
Fearing persecution like many fellow Afghan artists, the director had fled Kabul in August after the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country. She teared up when speaking about her father, a farmer, who had to flee Afghanistan with her just as harvest season was about to begin, just one of millions whose lives have been upended by the country’s collapse after 20 years under Western rule.
“I am ashamed to say that we produced few films in the past 20 years,” she said, adding that the most fertile period was from 2014 when a large withdrawal of U.S. troops then...
Fearing persecution like many fellow Afghan artists, the director had fled Kabul in August after the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country. She teared up when speaking about her father, a farmer, who had to flee Afghanistan with her just as harvest season was about to begin, just one of millions whose lives have been upended by the country’s collapse after 20 years under Western rule.
“I am ashamed to say that we produced few films in the past 20 years,” she said, adding that the most fertile period was from 2014 when a large withdrawal of U.S. troops then...
- 9/21/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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Edinburgh TV Fest 2021
High-profile gathering: One arguably positive impact of lockdown life has been how efficient international industry events have become, admittedly after a few bumps in the road. Hats off to organizers of the Edinburgh TV Fest, who this week put on a jam-packed procession of high-profile panels, not just one after the other but even at times overlapping. It was hard to keep up with it all, but no doubt that the overall quality of discussion was high.
Highlights: Where to begin? Jack Thorne set the tone for the event in the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture slot. The National Treasure scribe called out the TV industry, saying it had “failed disabled people. Utterly and totally.” His words echoed throughout the following days,...
Edinburgh TV Fest 2021
High-profile gathering: One arguably positive impact of lockdown life has been how efficient international industry events have become, admittedly after a few bumps in the road. Hats off to organizers of the Edinburgh TV Fest, who this week put on a jam-packed procession of high-profile panels, not just one after the other but even at times overlapping. It was hard to keep up with it all, but no doubt that the overall quality of discussion was high.
Highlights: Where to begin? Jack Thorne set the tone for the event in the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture slot. The National Treasure scribe called out the TV industry, saying it had “failed disabled people. Utterly and totally.” His words echoed throughout the following days,...
- 8/27/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
A major new study polled 1300 actors about their experiences.
UK actors from ethnically diverse backgrounds continue to face widespread institutional racism at work, according to a major new survey.
The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity at Birmingham City University polled 1,300 actors about their experiences between March and April this year.
Among the key findings: 55% of respondents said they have directly experienced racism in the workplace, while 79% felt roles continue to stereotype their ethnicities.
The research flagged up casting as a particular concern. 61% said they felt unable to turn down auditions that stereotype ethnicities, with 64% having experienced racist stereotyping in an audition.
UK actors from ethnically diverse backgrounds continue to face widespread institutional racism at work, according to a major new survey.
The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity at Birmingham City University polled 1,300 actors about their experiences between March and April this year.
Among the key findings: 55% of respondents said they have directly experienced racism in the workplace, while 79% felt roles continue to stereotype their ethnicities.
The research flagged up casting as a particular concern. 61% said they felt unable to turn down auditions that stereotype ethnicities, with 64% having experienced racist stereotyping in an audition.
- 8/24/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The award-winning director is best known for Wolf And Sheep and The Orphanage.
Award-winning Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat has made it out of Afghanistan after a tense few days awaiting safe passage, her Copenhagen-based producer Katja Adomeit has announced.
Sadat is best known for her second feature Wolf And Sheep, which won the main award at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2016, and third feature The Orphanage, which also played in the parallel section in 2019.
“With the help of the French government and from people all around the world, Shahrbanoo made it after many days together with nine family members through the...
Award-winning Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat has made it out of Afghanistan after a tense few days awaiting safe passage, her Copenhagen-based producer Katja Adomeit has announced.
Sadat is best known for her second feature Wolf And Sheep, which won the main award at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2016, and third feature The Orphanage, which also played in the parallel section in 2019.
“With the help of the French government and from people all around the world, Shahrbanoo made it after many days together with nine family members through the...
- 8/23/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
SAG-AFTRA & WGA East Join News Unions Urging President Biden To Help Journalists Fleeing Afghanistan
The presidents of five unions representing journalists are calling on President Joe Biden to support news crews and their families who are trying to flee Afghanistan.
“The United States government must stand behind a free press,” they said in a letter sent to Biden today. “We now ask for your administration’s support for our colleagues and journalists overseas who are desperately trying to flee Afghanistan. We call on your administration to facilitate the safe transit of all journalists, interpreters, translators, camera crews, support staff and their families to protected areas of the U.S.-controlled airport in Kabul and to facilitate the movement of those journalists and their families out of Afghanistan.”
The letter was signed by SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, WGA East president Beau Willimon, NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss, National Writers Union president Larry Goldbetter and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians president Charlie Braico.
Afghan Filmmaker...
“The United States government must stand behind a free press,” they said in a letter sent to Biden today. “We now ask for your administration’s support for our colleagues and journalists overseas who are desperately trying to flee Afghanistan. We call on your administration to facilitate the safe transit of all journalists, interpreters, translators, camera crews, support staff and their families to protected areas of the U.S.-controlled airport in Kabul and to facilitate the movement of those journalists and their families out of Afghanistan.”
The letter was signed by SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, WGA East president Beau Willimon, NewsGuild president Jon Schleuss, National Writers Union president Larry Goldbetter and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians president Charlie Braico.
Afghan Filmmaker...
- 8/23/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Kabul-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat has made it out of Afghanistan, her producer Katja Adomeit formally announced on Monday.
Sadat was able to make it through thronging crowds and Taliban checkpoints into the airport, along with nine of her family members, after numerous days of trying, said Adomeit, who is also CEO of Adomeit Film. Sadat is currently in Abu Dhabi and will soon board a plane to Europe. Her passage was aided by the French government and “help from people all around the world,” Adomeit said.
Last week, Sadat’s friends contacted by Variety remained concerned for her safety.
Sadat’s first feature, “Wolf and Sheep,” was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2010. She was only 20 years old at the time, making her the youngest-ever selected for the program. The film went on to win the main award at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section in 2016. It was the first installment...
Sadat was able to make it through thronging crowds and Taliban checkpoints into the airport, along with nine of her family members, after numerous days of trying, said Adomeit, who is also CEO of Adomeit Film. Sadat is currently in Abu Dhabi and will soon board a plane to Europe. Her passage was aided by the French government and “help from people all around the world,” Adomeit said.
Last week, Sadat’s friends contacted by Variety remained concerned for her safety.
Sadat’s first feature, “Wolf and Sheep,” was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in 2010. She was only 20 years old at the time, making her the youngest-ever selected for the program. The film went on to win the main award at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section in 2016. It was the first installment...
- 8/23/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker whose credits include 2019 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight pic The Orphanage, has successfully fled Kabul, according to her Danish producers Adomeit Film.
The director had been attempting to escape the Taliban incursion, which has seen the group swiftly take Afghanistan’s capital city and overthrown the government. Many artists and journalists have been evacuated fearing persecution.
Producer Katja Adomeit said the French government had helped Sadat and nine of her family members make it through Taliban checkpoints into the embattled airport, where they were flown to Abu Dhabi ahead of boarding a plane to Europe.
Last week, Deadline reported on Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s efforts to escape Kabul, which eventually resulted in her successfully leaving the country. Others have been less fortunate. German broadcaster Deutsche Welle said on Friday that a relative of one of its editors had been killed in a targeted attack.
For an...
The director had been attempting to escape the Taliban incursion, which has seen the group swiftly take Afghanistan’s capital city and overthrown the government. Many artists and journalists have been evacuated fearing persecution.
Producer Katja Adomeit said the French government had helped Sadat and nine of her family members make it through Taliban checkpoints into the embattled airport, where they were flown to Abu Dhabi ahead of boarding a plane to Europe.
Last week, Deadline reported on Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s efforts to escape Kabul, which eventually resulted in her successfully leaving the country. Others have been less fortunate. German broadcaster Deutsche Welle said on Friday that a relative of one of its editors had been killed in a targeted attack.
For an...
- 8/23/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Cannes-winning Afghan filmmaker who last week spoke passionately to The Hollywood Reporter about her efforts to escape Kabul days after it fell to the Taliban, has finally managed to leave the country.
The director, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, made it out of Afghanistan on Monday, according to a statement from her producer at Adomeit Film, Katja Adomeit.
“With the help of the French government and the help from people all ...
The director, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, made it out of Afghanistan on Monday, according to a statement from her producer at Adomeit Film, Katja Adomeit.
“With the help of the French government and the help from people all ...
- 8/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Cannes-winning Afghan filmmaker who last week spoke passionately to The Hollywood Reporter about her efforts to escape Kabul days after it fell to the Taliban, has finally managed to leave the country.
The director, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, made it out of Afghanistan on Monday, according to a statement from her producer at Adomeit Film, Katja Adomeit.
“With the help of the French government and the help from people all ...
The director, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, made it out of Afghanistan on Monday, according to a statement from her producer at Adomeit Film, Katja Adomeit.
“With the help of the French government and the help from people all ...
- 8/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sahraa Karimi, the Afghan filmmaker who hit the headlines this week with her pleas to the international cinema community as the situation worsened in her home country, says she has managed to leave Kabul.
Chaotic and distressing scenes have been relayed from Kabul airport in the last few days after the Taliban swiftly took control of the capital city, prompting many to desperately look for an escape route to avoid persecution. Earlier today, U.S., UK and other troops moved to secure the airport and begin a more orderly evacuation, following videos that showed civilians clinging to aircraft as they took off from the tarmac.
The goal is to evacuate 1,000 people a day from Kabul, but western forces have acknowledged that the Taliban could potentially close the airport at any moment.
“My dear friends do not worry, I am fine and safe,” Karimi tweeted today. She followed up with another...
Chaotic and distressing scenes have been relayed from Kabul airport in the last few days after the Taliban swiftly took control of the capital city, prompting many to desperately look for an escape route to avoid persecution. Earlier today, U.S., UK and other troops moved to secure the airport and begin a more orderly evacuation, following videos that showed civilians clinging to aircraft as they took off from the tarmac.
The goal is to evacuate 1,000 people a day from Kabul, but western forces have acknowledged that the Taliban could potentially close the airport at any moment.
“My dear friends do not worry, I am fine and safe,” Karimi tweeted today. She followed up with another...
- 8/17/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Shahrbanoo Sadat, one of Afghanistan’s best-known film directors, has spoken with The Hollywood Reporter from Kabul as she, like tens of thousands of Afghanis, is trying with her family to escape the Afghan capital, and the country.
Sadat, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, described the nightmarish situation she faces as she waits for news on whether she will be able to fly out from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where there were scenes of chaos ...
Sadat, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, described the nightmarish situation she faces as she waits for news on whether she will be able to fly out from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where there were scenes of chaos ...
- 8/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Shahrbanoo Sadat, one of Afghanistan’s best-known film directors, has spoken with The Hollywood Reporter from Kabul as she, like tens of thousands of Afghanis, is trying with her family to escape the Afghan capital, and the country.
Sadat, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, described the nightmarish situation she faces as she waits for news on whether she will be able to fly out from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where there were scenes of chaos ...
Sadat, who won the top Directors’ Fortnight award in Cannes for her first feature, the rural Afghanistan-set Wolf and Sheep, in 2016 and returned three years later with her well-received follow up The Orphanage, described the nightmarish situation she faces as she waits for news on whether she will be able to fly out from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where there were scenes of chaos ...
- 8/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
1844 Ent. Nabs U.S. Distribution, International to Argentina’s ‘A School in Cerro Hueso’ (Exclusive)
Los Angeles-based company 1844 Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution and international sales rights to Argentine Betania Cappato’s feature debut “Una escuela en Cerro Hueso” (“A School in Cerro Hueso”).
The autism-themed film, inspired in Cappato’s direct family events, earned a special mention at March’s Berlinale Generation Kplus sidebar.
1844 Entertainment plans to release the movie in U.S. theaters in fourth quarter 2021, supported by a virtual cinema in the case of theaters not yet running by then at a full capacity.
“A School in Cerro Hueso” narrates the inner journey of Ema, a six-year-old girl diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
When Ema reaches school age, her parents move with her from Argentina’s Santa Fe to a humble coastal town at the shore of the Paraná River, where the only school that accepted her application is located.
There, the family will begin a new life as Ema...
The autism-themed film, inspired in Cappato’s direct family events, earned a special mention at March’s Berlinale Generation Kplus sidebar.
1844 Entertainment plans to release the movie in U.S. theaters in fourth quarter 2021, supported by a virtual cinema in the case of theaters not yet running by then at a full capacity.
“A School in Cerro Hueso” narrates the inner journey of Ema, a six-year-old girl diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
When Ema reaches school age, her parents move with her from Argentina’s Santa Fe to a humble coastal town at the shore of the Paraná River, where the only school that accepted her application is located.
There, the family will begin a new life as Ema...
- 5/18/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Movie about an affair between a woman and an older man aims to challenge stereotype of Afghan women as weak and repressed
There are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. Military helicopters swirl overhead, creating vast clouds of dust.
There are thousands of reasons why you shouldn’t walk around this city, she says, and most people don’t.
There are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. Military helicopters swirl overhead, creating vast clouds of dust.
There are thousands of reasons why you shouldn’t walk around this city, she says, and most people don’t.
- 3/7/2021
- by Rob Walker
- The Guardian - Film News
Afghan filmmaker’s ‘Kabul Jan’ won the Baumi Script Development Award.
Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat has won the Baumi Script Development Award for her project Kabul Jan, which will be pitched at next week’s Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The award, worth €20,000, will be presented virtually at the Berlinale next week.
Sadat is the Afghan director, writer and producer whose debut Wolf And Sheep won the top Art Cinema Award prize in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2016. Her follow-up, The Orphanage, was also selected for the Cannes parallel section in 2019 and won best film at the Reykjavik International Film Festival.
Sadat...
Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat has won the Baumi Script Development Award for her project Kabul Jan, which will be pitched at next week’s Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The award, worth €20,000, will be presented virtually at the Berlinale next week.
Sadat is the Afghan director, writer and producer whose debut Wolf And Sheep won the top Art Cinema Award prize in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2016. Her follow-up, The Orphanage, was also selected for the Cannes parallel section in 2019 and won best film at the Reykjavik International Film Festival.
Sadat...
- 2/26/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has named the winners from its industry-focused programs Pro Days and Cinemart, which were held online this year.
A live-streamed event from Rotterdam saw various awards handed out, including the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which went to Cora by Evi Kalogiropoulou, produced by Neda Film (Greece). The jury described the film as “a supernatural drama featuring two unexpected female characters struggling for freedom and identity in a unique and colourful industrial setting”.
The ArteKino International Award, worth €6,000 to be put towards a project’s development, went to A Dutiful Wife by Haolu Wang, produced by Factory Gate Films (China). The Filmmore Post-production Award, worth €7,500 to be put towards VFX and post-production, went to Kabul Jan by Shahrbanoo Sadat, produced by Adomeit Film Ug (Germany), Adomeit Film ApS (Denmark), Wolf Pictures (Afghanistan).
The Wouter Barendrecht Award, worth €5,000 and eligible for projects where the...
A live-streamed event from Rotterdam saw various awards handed out, including the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which went to Cora by Evi Kalogiropoulou, produced by Neda Film (Greece). The jury described the film as “a supernatural drama featuring two unexpected female characters struggling for freedom and identity in a unique and colourful industrial setting”.
The ArteKino International Award, worth €6,000 to be put towards a project’s development, went to A Dutiful Wife by Haolu Wang, produced by Factory Gate Films (China). The Filmmore Post-production Award, worth €7,500 to be put towards VFX and post-production, went to Kabul Jan by Shahrbanoo Sadat, produced by Adomeit Film Ug (Germany), Adomeit Film ApS (Denmark), Wolf Pictures (Afghanistan).
The Wouter Barendrecht Award, worth €5,000 and eligible for projects where the...
- 2/5/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Rotterdam Film Festival’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart came to a close on Friday with awards for projects from Greece, China and Afghanistan, including the latest work from Kabul-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat. Juries handed out a total of five IFFR Pro awards to promising film projects participating in this year’s co-production market.
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s “Cora,” produced by Athens-based Neda Films, won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award, presented by CineMart and the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund to a project that is or will be a European co-production.
While emphasizing “the quality and diversity of projects developed by experienced directors and new talents,” the jury said it ultimately “chose to support a supernatural drama featuring two unexpected female characters struggling for freedom and identity in a unique and colorful industrial setting.”
Haolu Wang’s “A Dutiful Wife,” produced by Beijing-based Factory Gate Films, nabbed the €6,000 ArteKino International Award,...
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s “Cora,” produced by Athens-based Neda Films, won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award, presented by CineMart and the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund to a project that is or will be a European co-production.
While emphasizing “the quality and diversity of projects developed by experienced directors and new talents,” the jury said it ultimately “chose to support a supernatural drama featuring two unexpected female characters struggling for freedom and identity in a unique and colorful industrial setting.”
Haolu Wang’s “A Dutiful Wife,” produced by Beijing-based Factory Gate Films, nabbed the €6,000 ArteKino International Award,...
- 2/5/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Five projects win cash prizes at the closing of IFFR Pro Days and CineMart.
Greek supernatural drama Cora has won the Eurimages Co-production Award, worth €20,000, at the closing ceremony of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart co-production market.
The film will mark the feature directorial debut of Evi Kalogiropoulou, whose Motorway 65 was nominated for best short film at Cannes 2020, and follows two young women who fall in love and struggle to escape the confines of a dystopian patriarchal society.
Awarding the prize, open to CineMart projects that will be a European co-production, the jury said it...
Greek supernatural drama Cora has won the Eurimages Co-production Award, worth €20,000, at the closing ceremony of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart co-production market.
The film will mark the feature directorial debut of Evi Kalogiropoulou, whose Motorway 65 was nominated for best short film at Cannes 2020, and follows two young women who fall in love and struggle to escape the confines of a dystopian patriarchal society.
Awarding the prize, open to CineMart projects that will be a European co-production, the jury said it...
- 2/5/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Danish-German company Adomeit Film is set to explore uncharted territory with what could be the world’s first romantic comedy set in Afghanistan.
Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “Kabul Jan,” the third part in a planned pentalogy based on co-writer Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical work, follows a young camera operator who falls in love with a married TV reporter twice her age.
Set in the biggest private TV station in Kabul, the story explores the forbidden romance while also examining the often dangerous work of reporters in the bustling newsroom along with the absurdities of modern-day life in the city.
“It’s also a tribute to all the journalists in Afghanistan,” says producer Katja Adomeit, noting the alarming number of reporters who have been killed in the country in recent months.
The project is among the titles selected this year for the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market and one...
Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “Kabul Jan,” the third part in a planned pentalogy based on co-writer Anwar Hashimi’s autobiographical work, follows a young camera operator who falls in love with a married TV reporter twice her age.
Set in the biggest private TV station in Kabul, the story explores the forbidden romance while also examining the often dangerous work of reporters in the bustling newsroom along with the absurdities of modern-day life in the city.
“It’s also a tribute to all the journalists in Afghanistan,” says producer Katja Adomeit, noting the alarming number of reporters who have been killed in the country in recent months.
The project is among the titles selected this year for the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market and one...
- 1/29/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin International Film Festival’s European Film Market (EFM) has confirmed details for how its online incarnation will work March 1-5.
As Deadline revealed, Dennis Ruh took the reins at the EFM in September 2020 and faces an unconventional first edition.
“International sales agents have filled their lineups for the start of the year and have an attractive variety of films on offer. Many films are also currently in production and ready for pre-sales. We want the digital EFM in 2021 to be an impulse for a new beginning in the international film industry,” said Ruh today. “Since the EFM is an integral part of an international convention calendar, and therefore part of an economic system that includes events such as the Marché du Film in Cannes and the American Film Market in Los Angeles, a later date is not an option.”
The Efm will condense the industry sessions from its...
As Deadline revealed, Dennis Ruh took the reins at the EFM in September 2020 and faces an unconventional first edition.
“International sales agents have filled their lineups for the start of the year and have an attractive variety of films on offer. Many films are also currently in production and ready for pre-sales. We want the digital EFM in 2021 to be an impulse for a new beginning in the international film industry,” said Ruh today. “Since the EFM is an integral part of an international convention calendar, and therefore part of an economic system that includes events such as the Marché du Film in Cannes and the American Film Market in Los Angeles, a later date is not an option.”
The Efm will condense the industry sessions from its...
- 1/15/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Efm market screenings will be available in 120-minute windows.
The Berlinale’s European Film Market (Efm) has given details of its upcoming edition that is running online from March 1-5, including how its market screenings platform will work.
The Efm will also include a presentation of the Berlinale’s film selection.
Films will be available to watch by delegates within a 120-minute time window from a designated start time. These will be determined by local time zone. For example, a film available from 10.00-12.00 in Berlin would be available from 10.00-12.00 in any other global location.
Additionally, the online Efm...
The Berlinale’s European Film Market (Efm) has given details of its upcoming edition that is running online from March 1-5, including how its market screenings platform will work.
The Efm will also include a presentation of the Berlinale’s film selection.
Films will be available to watch by delegates within a 120-minute time window from a designated start time. These will be determined by local time zone. For example, a film available from 10.00-12.00 in Berlin would be available from 10.00-12.00 in any other global location.
Additionally, the online Efm...
- 1/15/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Selection includes upcoming features from Berlinale award-winner Carla Simon and San Sebastian award-winner Johannes Nyholm.
CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed the 17 feature projects to be showcased at the upcoming edition, which will take place entirely online.
The market will run February 1-5, during the 50th IFFR, and will invite filmmakers to pitch their projects virtually to a host of international film professionals in tailored one-to-one meetings, as well as online presentations that are open to all CineMart guests.
Eleven of the filmmakers are returning to IFFR after previously screening films at earlier editions,...
CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed the 17 feature projects to be showcased at the upcoming edition, which will take place entirely online.
The market will run February 1-5, during the 50th IFFR, and will invite filmmakers to pitch their projects virtually to a host of international film professionals in tailored one-to-one meetings, as well as online presentations that are open to all CineMart guests.
Eleven of the filmmakers are returning to IFFR after previously screening films at earlier editions,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
After her successful debut “Wolf and Sheep” (2016), which premiered to awards at Cannes’ Quinzanne selection, the only female filmmaker from Afghanistan to achieve such success, Shahrbanoo Sadat, got back to the festival circuit with its follow-up “The Orphanage”, the intended second instalment of the pentalogy based on the diaries of her writer friend Anwar Hashimi. It premiered last year at the same section of Cannes, before heading up on a long festival tour with the last stop (for now at least) at Zagreb Film Festival, where it played in the main competition.
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at the dusk of the Soviet rule there. We meet him (the non-professional...
The slightly fantastical drama “Wolf and Sheep” was partly centred around the boy named Qodrat (Quodratollah Qadiri) and his growing up in rural Afghanistan. In “The Orphanage”, we follow him through his teenage years spent in the titular institution in the country’s capital Kabul at the dusk of the Soviet rule there. We meet him (the non-professional...
- 11/21/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Traditional programme sections return in this special online edition. The 18th Zagreb Film Festival will take place entirely online 8-15 November on platforms kinoeuropa.hr and croatian.film, and on the festival’s official web page, www.zff.hr. Back in place are the traditional Golden Pram competition for best first or second film, as well as two short film competitions and the Together Again programme of films by former Golden Pram nominees in which the award is decided on by the audience. Nine films will be competing for the Golden Pram award. Three are coming from Cannes: Shahrbanoo Sadat's 2019 Directors' Fortnight entry The Orphanage (Denmark/Germany/Luxembourg/France/Afghanistan) and two of this year's Label titles: Charlène Favier's Slalom (France/Belgium) and Magnus von Horn's Sweat (Poland/Sweden). Another three competition entries are coming out of Venice: Tarzan and Arab Nasser's Palestinian Oscar submission Gaza...
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s debut feature launched at Venice 2019.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection won the main New Visions Award, the Golden Puffin, at the Reykjavik International Film Festival which wrapped its 17th edition on Sunday, October 4.
Set in Lesotho, the film is about an 80-year-old widow who learns her village will be resettled.
The jury, comprised of filmmakers Shahrbanoo Sadat and Ísold Uggadóttir and New Europe Film Sales CEO Jan Naszewski, praised the film as “a voyage to a magical and isolated place where the 80-year-old protagonist is fighting for nature...
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection won the main New Visions Award, the Golden Puffin, at the Reykjavik International Film Festival which wrapped its 17th edition on Sunday, October 4.
Set in Lesotho, the film is about an 80-year-old widow who learns her village will be resettled.
The jury, comprised of filmmakers Shahrbanoo Sadat and Ísold Uggadóttir and New Europe Film Sales CEO Jan Naszewski, praised the film as “a voyage to a magical and isolated place where the 80-year-old protagonist is fighting for nature...
- 10/6/2020
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Each month, we're commissioning a different artist to create a movie poster for a film exclusively playing on the platform. This June, Jeffrey Fisher has made a poster for Shahrbanoo Sadat's The Orphanage, which is is exclusively playing on Mubi in most countries from May 14 - June 13, 2020 as part of the series The New Auteurs.***Below you can find some preliminary sketches for the design:...
- 5/13/2020
- MUBI
In Shahrbanoo Sadat’s energetic and captivating drama, a movie-mad boy is forced to live in a Soviet-run orphanage during the 1981 occupation
In 2016, the young Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat won a prize at the Directors’ fortnight in Cannes for her quasi-autobiographical debut Wolf and Sheep, about shepherd children in the mountains of central Afghanistan. Now Sadat, who is 29, has directed a sequel, following the life of one of these children: Quodrat, now a teenager and still played by the same non-professional, Quodratollah Qadiri.
He is shown living in Kabul during the Russian occupation in 1981. Both his parents are dead. Movie-mad and obsessed with Bollywood pictures, Quodrat is arrested for selling cinema tickets on the black market, and he is made to live in a Soviet-run orphanage, where the lessons are in Russian. There is bullying and intrigue, but also opportunities for adventure.
In 2016, the young Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat won a prize at the Directors’ fortnight in Cannes for her quasi-autobiographical debut Wolf and Sheep, about shepherd children in the mountains of central Afghanistan. Now Sadat, who is 29, has directed a sequel, following the life of one of these children: Quodrat, now a teenager and still played by the same non-professional, Quodratollah Qadiri.
He is shown living in Kabul during the Russian occupation in 1981. Both his parents are dead. Movie-mad and obsessed with Bollywood pictures, Quodrat is arrested for selling cinema tickets on the black market, and he is made to live in a Soviet-run orphanage, where the lessons are in Russian. There is bullying and intrigue, but also opportunities for adventure.
- 5/13/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Shahrbanoo Sadat's The Orphanage is exclusively playing on Mubi in most countries from May 14 - June 13, 2020 as part of the series The New Auteurs.While working on The Orphanage, I was fighting with two clichés. One “orphanage” and the other “Afghanistan." I wanted to show an orphanage where my best friend Anwar Hashimi lived for almost eight years during the years 1984-1992 in Kabul.The orphanage I wanted to talk about was not one of those orphanages that we see in movies or we read about in books, where children are starving or having a really miserable life, and they get beaten and have to work. It was the opposite.Before 1984, Anwar was a street kid, selling black market tickets in front of cinema theatres for Bollywood films that were very popular in Afghanistan that time as well as now. He ended up in the Russian orphanage in Kabul...
- 5/8/2020
- MUBI
Parallel sections issue joint statement on the decision to abandon 2020 editions due to Covid-19.
Cannes parallel sections Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Acid announced on Wednesday (April 15) that they were cancelling their 2020 editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respected sidebars had originally been due to take place alongside the Cannes Film Festival during its cancelled dates of May 12-23, and had then been holding out to run during a potential end-June, start-July slot, which has now also been abandoned after the French government extended a ban on large gatherings to mid-July.
”Following the French president’s April 13 announcement banning...
Cannes parallel sections Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Acid announced on Wednesday (April 15) that they were cancelling their 2020 editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respected sidebars had originally been due to take place alongside the Cannes Film Festival during its cancelled dates of May 12-23, and had then been holding out to run during a potential end-June, start-July slot, which has now also been abandoned after the French government extended a ban on large gatherings to mid-July.
”Following the French president’s April 13 announcement banning...
- 4/15/2020
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Buoyancy’.
Two Australian films – Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy and Daniel Gordon’s feature documentary The Australian Dream – are nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Some 37 films for 22 countries are nominated for the 13th iteration of the awards, which will be presented in Brisbane in November. Overall, films from China received the most nominations; 13 in total across seven films – the country is represented in all but one category.
Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son (Di Jiu Tian Chang) leads the tally with nominations across six categories: actor (Wang Jingchun), actress (Yong Mei), screenplay, cinematography (Kim Hyunseok), directing (Wang Xiaoshuai) and Best Feature Film.
Fellow nominees for Best Feature Film are Pema Tseden’s Balloon; Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain and Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winning Parasite.
Announced today alongside the nominations was the Asia Pacific Screen Forum,...
Two Australian films – Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy and Daniel Gordon’s feature documentary The Australian Dream – are nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Some 37 films for 22 countries are nominated for the 13th iteration of the awards, which will be presented in Brisbane in November. Overall, films from China received the most nominations; 13 in total across seven films – the country is represented in all but one category.
Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son (Di Jiu Tian Chang) leads the tally with nominations across six categories: actor (Wang Jingchun), actress (Yong Mei), screenplay, cinematography (Kim Hyunseok), directing (Wang Xiaoshuai) and Best Feature Film.
Fellow nominees for Best Feature Film are Pema Tseden’s Balloon; Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain and Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winning Parasite.
Announced today alongside the nominations was the Asia Pacific Screen Forum,...
- 10/16/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
16th festival under the direction of Hronn Marinosdottir also showcases new Icelandic works in progress.
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
- 10/5/2019
- by 172¦Fionnuala Halligan¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
16th festival under the direction of Hronn Marinosdottir also showcases new Icelandic works in progress.
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
The 16th Rejykavik International Film Festival (Riff) has awarded its top prize – the Golden Puffin - to Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage, the Bollywood-tinged drama about an Afghan boy who is sent to a Russian facility which is enjoying a strong festival run after its premiere at Quinzaine in May. The winner of the sidebar Competition, A Different Tomorrow, went to the documentary Midnight Traveller, by Hassan Fazili, a documentary performer since its Sundance bow.
The Puffin awards capped a busy festival in which...
- 10/5/2019
- by 172¦Fionnuala Halligan¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Most selections are North American, Us premieres.
Polish and Dutch Oscar submissions Corpus Christi and Instinct are among the international competition line-ups announced by the 55th Chicago International Film Festival on Monday (16).
Most of the films screening in the festival’s international sections are North American and Us premieres and have already been selected to represent their country in the Academy’s best international feature film race. They include Our Mothers (Belgium), and Spider (Chile).
Several of last year’s festival selections represent their countries this season, among them Aga (Bulgaria), Joy (Austria), Dear Son (Tunisia) and Wolkenbruch’s Wondrous...
Polish and Dutch Oscar submissions Corpus Christi and Instinct are among the international competition line-ups announced by the 55th Chicago International Film Festival on Monday (16).
Most of the films screening in the festival’s international sections are North American and Us premieres and have already been selected to represent their country in the Academy’s best international feature film race. They include Our Mothers (Belgium), and Spider (Chile).
Several of last year’s festival selections represent their countries this season, among them Aga (Bulgaria), Joy (Austria), Dear Son (Tunisia) and Wolkenbruch’s Wondrous...
- 9/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
16 titles will play across three Kinoscope sections.
Nadav Lapid’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, Juliano Dornelles’ Cannes Competition entry Bacurau and Anna Eborn’s Rotterdam award winner Transnistra are among the selection for the Kinoscope strand at Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-23 2019).
The festival has selected 16 titles across three sections.
Scroll down for the full list of films
The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.
One title from the UK, Peter Strickland’s dark comedy In Fabric, is chosen, in the Kinoscope Surreal section.
Nadav Lapid’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, Juliano Dornelles’ Cannes Competition entry Bacurau and Anna Eborn’s Rotterdam award winner Transnistra are among the selection for the Kinoscope strand at Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-23 2019).
The festival has selected 16 titles across three sections.
Scroll down for the full list of films
The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.
One title from the UK, Peter Strickland’s dark comedy In Fabric, is chosen, in the Kinoscope Surreal section.
- 7/26/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Edward Berger said he had received little support for his career from the German industry.
Viola Fügen and Michael Weber of Berlin-based Pola Pandora Filmproduktion picked up the inaugural €100,000 CineCoPro prize at the Munich Film Festival on Friday July 5, at a ceremony during which writer-director Edward Berger described the German film industry as “a cinematic wasteland” in a provocative keynote speech.
Pola Pandora won for its role as the German co-production partner of Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao.
Berger, best known for his work on international TV series including Sky’s Patrick Melrose, Ufa Fiction’s Deutschland 83,...
Viola Fügen and Michael Weber of Berlin-based Pola Pandora Filmproduktion picked up the inaugural €100,000 CineCoPro prize at the Munich Film Festival on Friday July 5, at a ceremony during which writer-director Edward Berger described the German film industry as “a cinematic wasteland” in a provocative keynote speech.
Pola Pandora won for its role as the German co-production partner of Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao.
Berger, best known for his work on international TV series including Sky’s Patrick Melrose, Ufa Fiction’s Deutschland 83,...
- 7/9/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
There will also be a focus on the region’s producers as co-production partners.
France’s Les Arcs Film Festival will celebrate the cinema of Finland and the Baltics at its 11th edition running December 14-21.
The honorary focuses will explore recent feature and short films from Finland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, by both established and emerging talents.
The dynamism of the four territories as co-production partners will also be put under the spotlight at the Les Coproduction Village, which lies at the heart of the meeting’s industry activities in the French Alps.
The territory showcases are being organised...
France’s Les Arcs Film Festival will celebrate the cinema of Finland and the Baltics at its 11th edition running December 14-21.
The honorary focuses will explore recent feature and short films from Finland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, by both established and emerging talents.
The dynamism of the four territories as co-production partners will also be put under the spotlight at the Les Coproduction Village, which lies at the heart of the meeting’s industry activities in the French Alps.
The territory showcases are being organised...
- 6/20/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Amusing, at times poignant Bollywood re-creations are used in “The Orphanage” much as Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat mixed folklore with realism in her award-winning “Wolf and Sheep,” in both cases to add heightened levels of cultural significance and an element of fantasy as necessary correlatives to hardscrabble lives. While Sadat’s second feature is something of a comedown from her 2016 debut, her latest balances a clear-eyed re-creation of a teen’s time in an orphanage with a certain nostalgia for childhood innocence, augmented by the imaginative freedom of the Bollywood scenes. Though unlikely to travel as widely as “Wolf,” Sadat’s “Orphanage” will find a warm welcome at festivals worldwide.
The two films mine the unpublished diary of her friend and muse Anwar Hashimi, whose life story will continue in further projected installments. Actor Qodratollah Qadiri resumes the role of Qodrat, now 15 and first seen here sleeping in an abandoned...
The two films mine the unpublished diary of her friend and muse Anwar Hashimi, whose life story will continue in further projected installments. Actor Qodratollah Qadiri resumes the role of Qodrat, now 15 and first seen here sleeping in an abandoned...
- 5/22/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Back in the U.S.S.R.: Sadat Goes Back to Soviet-Ruled Afghanistan in Amiable Sophomore Film
Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep, which solidified her as the first woman director from Afghanistan to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, Shahrbanoo Sadat returns with another adaptation of Anwar Hashimi’s diaries with The Orphanage (which is meant to serve as the next chapter of a planned pentalogy based on the author’s autobiography). Set in late 1980’s Soviet-ruled Kabul, Hashimi’s memories are translated through the eyes of several young boys residing in an orphanage while the country hinges on civil war about to be brought on by the Mujahideen.…...
Following the success of her celebrated 2016 debut, Wolf and Sheep, which solidified her as the first woman director from Afghanistan to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, Shahrbanoo Sadat returns with another adaptation of Anwar Hashimi’s diaries with The Orphanage (which is meant to serve as the next chapter of a planned pentalogy based on the author’s autobiography). Set in late 1980’s Soviet-ruled Kabul, Hashimi’s memories are translated through the eyes of several young boys residing in an orphanage while the country hinges on civil war about to be brought on by the Mujahideen.…...
- 5/18/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s second feature, a young man who daydreams of action-packed Bollywood heroics finds himself in a considerably more dangerous position in real life: that of an orphan scraping by in Kabul at the end of the 1980s, with the Soviets maintaining control as the Mujahideen fight to take their land back.
Part two of a planned five-part series that began with 2016’s Wolf and Sheep — which, like this movie, premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight — The Orphanage (Parwareshgah) is a small yet touching chronicle where innocent teenage boys fall prey to socio-political forces way ...
Part two of a planned five-part series that began with 2016’s Wolf and Sheep — which, like this movie, premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight — The Orphanage (Parwareshgah) is a small yet touching chronicle where innocent teenage boys fall prey to socio-political forces way ...
- 5/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s second feature, a young man who daydreams of action-packed Bollywood heroics finds himself in a considerably more dangerous position in real life: that of an orphan scraping by in Kabul at the end of the 1980s, with the Soviets maintaining control as the Mujahideen fight to take their land back.
Part two of a planned five-part series that began with 2016’s Wolf and Sheep — which, like this movie, premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight — The Orphanage (Parwareshgah) is a small yet touching chronicle where innocent teenage boys fall prey to socio-political forces way ...
Part two of a planned five-part series that began with 2016’s Wolf and Sheep — which, like this movie, premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight — The Orphanage (Parwareshgah) is a small yet touching chronicle where innocent teenage boys fall prey to socio-political forces way ...
- 5/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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