Now in its tenth year, the UK festival is to open with Momcilo Mrdakovic’s Mamarosh [pictured].
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has unveiled its full programme for this year’s tenth anniversary.
Momcilo Mrdakovic’s Mamarosh will receive its UK premiere as the opening film on Sept 17, one of 19 UK premieres and six world premieres at this year’s festival. Other UK premieres at the festival include Feo Aladag’s Inbetween Worlds and Barbara Miller’s Forbidden Voices.
The festival will close on Sept 21 with a preview of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.
Coinciding with the referendum for an independent Scotland and with Berwick-upon-Tweed the border town between England and Scotland, this year’s edition will have a theme of “Border Crossing”.
For the full lineup, visit the festival’s website.
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has unveiled its full programme for this year’s tenth anniversary.
Momcilo Mrdakovic’s Mamarosh will receive its UK premiere as the opening film on Sept 17, one of 19 UK premieres and six world premieres at this year’s festival. Other UK premieres at the festival include Feo Aladag’s Inbetween Worlds and Barbara Miller’s Forbidden Voices.
The festival will close on Sept 21 with a preview of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.
Coinciding with the referendum for an independent Scotland and with Berwick-upon-Tweed the border town between England and Scotland, this year’s edition will have a theme of “Border Crossing”.
For the full lineup, visit the festival’s website.
- 8/13/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
New films from Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes to also world premiere at Window To Europe Film Festival.
New films by Gérard Depardieu, Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes will have their world premieres at the 22nd edition of the Window To Europe Film Festival (Aug 8-15) in the Russian town of Vyborg situated close to the border with Finland.
French director Philippe Martinez’s tale of redemption and revenge Viktor, which stars Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley and Eli Danker, will open a competition section dedicated to films co-produced with Russia.
Viktor, which was shot in Chechnya and Moscow last summer and is being handled internationally by UK-based sales agent Saradan Media, will be released by Paradise in Russian cinemas on September 4.
Co-production competition
Other co-productions selected include Zanussi’s Foreign Body, produced by his own company Studio Filmowe Tor with Italy’s Revolver Film and Russia’s Ineureka and Bella Vostok Ltd; Uzbek director Dilmurod Masaidov’s thriller...
New films by Gérard Depardieu, Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes will have their world premieres at the 22nd edition of the Window To Europe Film Festival (Aug 8-15) in the Russian town of Vyborg situated close to the border with Finland.
French director Philippe Martinez’s tale of redemption and revenge Viktor, which stars Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley and Eli Danker, will open a competition section dedicated to films co-produced with Russia.
Viktor, which was shot in Chechnya and Moscow last summer and is being handled internationally by UK-based sales agent Saradan Media, will be released by Paradise in Russian cinemas on September 4.
Co-production competition
Other co-productions selected include Zanussi’s Foreign Body, produced by his own company Studio Filmowe Tor with Italy’s Revolver Film and Russia’s Ineureka and Bella Vostok Ltd; Uzbek director Dilmurod Masaidov’s thriller...
- 8/5/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
As this year’s Moscow International Film Festival readies for launch, Germany’s Media Luna New Films has picked up international distribution rights to a title in competition at the 35th edition.
The Cologne-based sales agent has secured teenage drama The Kids From The Port, the second feature from Spanish director Alberto Morais.
It will see Morais return to Moscow’s main competition, having won the Golden George and the Fipresci International Critics’ Prize at the Russian festival two years ago for his feature debut Las Olas, which also received the Silver George for actor Carlos Álvarez-Nóvia.
Media Luna has also secured the rights to Slovenian director Nejc Gazvoda’s Dual, which will have its world premiere in Karlovy Vary’s East of the West Competition on July 3.
The love story between two young women is Gazvoda’s second feature after his internationally acclaimed debut A Trip.
Media Luna will also have the international premiere of [link...
The Cologne-based sales agent has secured teenage drama The Kids From The Port, the second feature from Spanish director Alberto Morais.
It will see Morais return to Moscow’s main competition, having won the Golden George and the Fipresci International Critics’ Prize at the Russian festival two years ago for his feature debut Las Olas, which also received the Silver George for actor Carlos Álvarez-Nóvia.
Media Luna has also secured the rights to Slovenian director Nejc Gazvoda’s Dual, which will have its world premiere in Karlovy Vary’s East of the West Competition on July 3.
The love story between two young women is Gazvoda’s second feature after his internationally acclaimed debut A Trip.
Media Luna will also have the international premiere of [link...
- 6/19/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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