French director Louise Carrin, whose home for the past 13 years has been Lausanne, Switzerland, has an urge to create every day, she tells Variety. Moviemaking being a long process, for about 10 years now she has found equal satisfaction in music. She is about to release her debut rap album “Banana Part” under her alias Lweez. On Friday, she was on stage at the Visions du Réel film festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, to present her first feature film “Big Boy” (“La Cour des grands”). She spoke to Variety about her work.
Selected for the festival’s national competition, the moving film follows Amadou Diallo, a Guinean refugee, shortly after he arrived, on his own, in Lausanne. His brother died on the road to exile. His sister, the only family he has left, stayed behind. Amadou is 16 and his daily life is spent between the asylum seekers’ center and integration classes. Six...
Selected for the festival’s national competition, the moving film follows Amadou Diallo, a Guinean refugee, shortly after he arrived, on his own, in Lausanne. His brother died on the road to exile. His sister, the only family he has left, stayed behind. Amadou is 16 and his daily life is spent between the asylum seekers’ center and integration classes. Six...
- 4/11/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi is partnering with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen to exclusively bring you films directly from their International Competition section, currently in-progress in Germany.The festival is one of our favorites, a true showcase for outstanding short films. Founded in the 1950s, making it one of the oldest running festivals of its kind, it was the site of the 1962 "Oberhausen Manifesto," a battle cry for the creation of a new German cinema that presaged the arrival of Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. But the festival's focus is not just on Germany, but the world, and we're pleased to bring some of this year's best selections to our audience. These are the four films chosen by our curators, available on Mubi this month in over 250 countries around the globe.Elegance (Virpi Suutari, Finland), 6 MayThe "elegance" of the title refers not to the style of this Finnish documentary,...
- 5/5/2016
- MUBI
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