The latest effort by Portuguese maestro Pedro Costa continues raking in the awards, having scooped the top prize at the Spanish gathering, where other European films also excelled. After having scooped the Golden Leopard at the most recent Locarno Film Festival and racked up further wins at other more recent festivals, such as France’s La-Roche-sur-Yon, the latest (and inimitable) work by outstanding Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela, has come out on top at the 57th Gijón International Film Festival. The jury, made up of directors Andrés Duque and Meritxell Colell, director of the Chicago Film Festival Mimi Plauché, distributor Christophe Mercier and musician Juan Pedro Martín “Pucho”, the frontman of the band Vetusta Morla, handed the Principality of Asturias Award for Best Feature in the Official Section to this new instalment in the Portuguese helmer’s cinematic world, an impressive chiaroscuro about mourning and despair in the Cape Verdean immigrant.
- 11/24/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The Safest Place in the World won the main prize and Babado received €1,000, while Peruvian-French project The Memory of Butterflies got the Arquipélago residency. Doclisboa's Arché event, a laboratory of professional activities aimed at directors, producers and other film professionals from Iberoamerican countries and Italy, held its fifth edition this year during the festival (17-27 October). This time around, 13 projects from Portugal, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Italy, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain and Mexico took part in preparation and pitching with their tutors Andrés Duque, Karen Akerman and Virginia García del Pino. The Rtp Award for best project in the post-production stage, worth €25,000, went to The Safest Place in the World by Brazilian filmmakers Aline Lata (Obsession) and Helena Wolfenson (Corpos Livres). Produced by Evelyn Mab and Priscilla Pomerantzeff of the Sao Paolo-based company Krassivaya Filmes, the film portrays the last three years in the life of...
- 10/31/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Rotterdam has a unique position in the festival circuit, avoiding the simultaneous frenzy of premieres in Sundance and the jockeying for major titles at Berlin, Cannes and Venice, and instead taking chances on under the radar discoveries from around the world. The Bright Future competition focuses on unique, emerging filmmakers but across all the sections you’ll find work that fits that mandate. This edition’s best films announced an exciting group of filmmakers that deserve your attention. Here are 10 standout world premieres from Iffr to look out for in 2019.
“Again Once Again”
Written and directed by Romina Paula, known best as a regular in the films of Matías Piñeiro and seen most recently in Mariano Llinas’ 13-hour-epic “La flor,” this assured first feature was the most impressive debut at the festival. A docu-fiction, the film stars Paula as herself as she and her four-year old boy Ramón stay with...
“Again Once Again”
Written and directed by Romina Paula, known best as a regular in the films of Matías Piñeiro and seen most recently in Mariano Llinas’ 13-hour-epic “La flor,” this assured first feature was the most impressive debut at the festival. A docu-fiction, the film stars Paula as herself as she and her four-year old boy Ramón stay with...
- 2/2/2019
- by Adam Cook
- Indiewire
Andrés Duque's Oleg and the Rare Arts (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 9 - July 9, 2017 as a Special Discovery.I first met Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk through his film scores. In Russia, no one would be able to physically recognize Karavaichuk, but everyone can identify his music. It’s a triumph of the artist, at least on a personal level, to remain alive but invisible. Karavaichuk doesn’t like people, he is a punk from another time—controversial, a defender of freedom and an enemy of money. This makes him a philosopher with visions about art that are incorruptible and unquestionable.I felt a very strong compulsion to go there and register those truths, because nowadays I feel they are fading. I wanted to capture his words, his crazy way of associating ideas, his gestures and above all his music. As a whole,...
- 6/9/2017
- MUBI
The Masked MonkeysThe cutting edge of cinema culture at this moment is not what’s premiering in competition at Cannes or picking up the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Rather, it is at the quietly flourishing but deeply influential genre of film festival focusing on new and adventurous work in documentary filmmaking. More than any red carpet extravaganza, this type of festival is consistently challenging audiences to expand their understanding of how the art of cinema explores reality and how reality complicates moviemaking. Whether big, like Copenhagen’s Cph:dox, or smaller, like Missouri’s True/False Film Fest, these events go further than the traditional and staid vision of festivals devoted to documentary film, whose emphasis is above all on the camera as a bland tool to invisibly tell a nonfiction story, and instead present more closely curated programs that showcase the infinite nuance and complexity—not to mention shades...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
Below you will find our favorite films of the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as an index of our coverage.Daniel Kasmantop Picksi. Lejos de los árboles, Le Moulin, Female Student Guerilla, Noche de vino tintoII. Juke: Passages from Films of Spencer Williams, Warsaw Bridge, MotherIII. Night and Fog in the ZonaIV. Where the Chocolate Mountains, ElliV. Operation Avalanche, Sixty Six, Fata Morgana, Cada vez que..., Oleg y las raras artes, ActeonCOVERAGEFirst Steps: Ear, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson), Lejos de los árboles (Jacinto Esteva Grewe)Acting Out: General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe (Pere Portabella), Esquizo (Ricardo Bofill), Actor Martinez (Mike Ott, Nathan Silver)Japan's Cinematic Revolutionary: Sex Game (Masao Adachi), Female Student Guerilla (Masao Adachi), Artist of Fasting (Masao Adachi)The Streets, the Mountains, the Snow, and the Ocean: Noche de vino tinto (José María Nunes), Where the Chocolate Mountains (Pat O'Neill), Cinéma...
- 2/7/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
MotherThe International Short Film Festival Rotterdam is winding down and the atmosphere is changing, especially as the business-heavy, concurrent CineMart market has ended, and sales agents and young filmmakers and producers are being swapped out at the festival gathering points and at screenings in exchange for the local Dutch moviegoing population. These new audiences for the festival's last few days are the lucky ones, for three wonderful, delicate films have emerged as real discoveries and powerful highlights of the 11-day experience.The best new work of fiction I saw here at the festival is a cornerstone of what makes an event like Rotterdam special: A dedication to films of soul-warm fragility whose fineness is so rare that such moves are unfairly assumed to be unfit for wider exposure. The Slovenian film Mother, by Vlado Škafar, is launched here and deserves to travel far afield: its tenderness, flushed with inquisitive compassion,...
- 2/6/2016
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Mubi is proud to present the 2nd Dialogue of Culture International Film Festival (Dciff), hosted globally online by Mubi. This free film festival will run online from November 1 – 14, 2013, and be available exclusively on Mubi.
The Dciff is the world's first film festival dedicated to the worldwide phenomenon of people in search of their identity in the era of mass migration and globalization. Its goal is to jumpstart a dialogue between cultures through the universal language of cinema.
The festival program includes films from across the globe, giving voice to multiple perspectives on issues of culture and identity. To create a global dialogue and promote better understanding between cultures, the participating filmmakers, producers, and rights holders have agreed to show their films online for free. The Dciff and Mubi are proud to bring these vital and necessary films to a global audience.
The 2013 Program:
After the Battle (Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt/France) Alì Blue Eyes (Claudio Giovannesi,...
The Dciff is the world's first film festival dedicated to the worldwide phenomenon of people in search of their identity in the era of mass migration and globalization. Its goal is to jumpstart a dialogue between cultures through the universal language of cinema.
The festival program includes films from across the globe, giving voice to multiple perspectives on issues of culture and identity. To create a global dialogue and promote better understanding between cultures, the participating filmmakers, producers, and rights holders have agreed to show their films online for free. The Dciff and Mubi are proud to bring these vital and necessary films to a global audience.
The 2013 Program:
After the Battle (Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt/France) Alì Blue Eyes (Claudio Giovannesi,...
- 11/1/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Molotov is dropping the word “maricón.”
The Mexican rock band issued a statement via Twitter Monday night saying it would drop the anti-gay slur in light of a vicious attack against Chilean teen Esteban Navarro. Assailants allegedly attacked the 19-year-old Navarro last month with with a machete, knives and iron bars while yelling anti-gay insults at him. The attack resulted in the amputation of Navarro's leg.
“As an act of solidarity with Esteban Navarro and the Lgbt community, we are choosing to refrain from using the word “maricon” in our song lyrics during our upcoming U.S. tour,” Molotov's statement says. “This word was used by Esteban’s assailants in this pointless attack, and therefore, has no place in our set.”
Molotov's statement comes amid pressure from Lgbt activists to drop "Puto," one of their most popular songs, from their setlist ahead of a U.S. tour beginning Tuesday in Orlando.
The Mexican rock band issued a statement via Twitter Monday night saying it would drop the anti-gay slur in light of a vicious attack against Chilean teen Esteban Navarro. Assailants allegedly attacked the 19-year-old Navarro last month with with a machete, knives and iron bars while yelling anti-gay insults at him. The attack resulted in the amputation of Navarro's leg.
“As an act of solidarity with Esteban Navarro and the Lgbt community, we are choosing to refrain from using the word “maricon” in our song lyrics during our upcoming U.S. tour,” Molotov's statement says. “This word was used by Esteban’s assailants in this pointless attack, and therefore, has no place in our set.”
Molotov's statement comes amid pressure from Lgbt activists to drop "Puto," one of their most popular songs, from their setlist ahead of a U.S. tour beginning Tuesday in Orlando.
- 7/30/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Battlestar Galactica's James Callis has joined Arrow. He'll be playing The Dodger, a jewel thief who forces innocent people to steal for him.
Spencer Cox, AIDS activist, Act Up member, and a founder of the Treatment Action Group has passed away at the age of 44. Larry Kramer remembers him. "As someone who was in a room in the same hospital as Spencer and at the same time, and who is having his own awful and painful heath problems, it is hard to fall into denial about what we still dont know and have yet to find out, to save our own lives, the lives of Spencer, and yes, Larry too. With sweet Spencer's death went an enormous body of instinct that far surpassed many of the 'educated' doctors he had to deal with."
The final version of the Defense Budget does not have the ban on same-sex weddings on...
Spencer Cox, AIDS activist, Act Up member, and a founder of the Treatment Action Group has passed away at the age of 44. Larry Kramer remembers him. "As someone who was in a room in the same hospital as Spencer and at the same time, and who is having his own awful and painful heath problems, it is hard to fall into denial about what we still dont know and have yet to find out, to save our own lives, the lives of Spencer, and yes, Larry too. With sweet Spencer's death went an enormous body of instinct that far surpassed many of the 'educated' doctors he had to deal with."
The final version of the Defense Budget does not have the ban on same-sex weddings on...
- 12/19/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Today's announcement from the International Film Festival Rotterdam lays out the full lineup for the Bright Future program. With descriptions from the festival:
World premieres
A la cantábrica (To La Cantábrica), Ezequiel Erriquez, Argentina. A "coming of age film set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the economic crisis of the late 1990s." Blog.
Corta, Felipe Guerrero, Colombia, Argentina, France. Guerrero "associates the work of sugar cane harvesters with the process of 16mm filmmaking. This film is a beautiful, cinematic meditation reminiscent of the work of Sharon Lockhart or Ben Russell." The Ultimate Pranx Case, Influenz Films, Canada. "In 2010, three boys had a prank with a girl at school and streamed it live on Internet. What started as an innocent joke soon got completely out of hand." Par exemple, Electre (Electre, For Instance), Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Léon, France. "In this eclectic homage to the Greek tragedy, Balibar and...
World premieres
A la cantábrica (To La Cantábrica), Ezequiel Erriquez, Argentina. A "coming of age film set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the economic crisis of the late 1990s." Blog.
Corta, Felipe Guerrero, Colombia, Argentina, France. Guerrero "associates the work of sugar cane harvesters with the process of 16mm filmmaking. This film is a beautiful, cinematic meditation reminiscent of the work of Sharon Lockhart or Ben Russell." The Ultimate Pranx Case, Influenz Films, Canada. "In 2010, three boys had a prank with a girl at school and streamed it live on Internet. What started as an innocent joke soon got completely out of hand." Par exemple, Electre (Electre, For Instance), Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Léon, France. "In this eclectic homage to the Greek tragedy, Balibar and...
- 1/15/2012
- MUBI
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