Mexico’s Barbara Mori and Peru’s Christian Meier and helmer-scribe Ricardo de Montreuil are reuniting for culinary drama “Mistura,” some 17 years after their 2005 box office hit “La Mujer de Mi Hermano” (“My Brother’s Wife”).
Joining them are Magaly Solier, best known for her lead role in Peru’s Oscar-nominated and 2009 Berlinale Golden Bear winner, “The Milk of Sorrow.”
“Mistura,” which means mixture or blend, takes place in 1960s Peru where Mori plays Norma who, after being ditched by her husband (played by Meier), must face the scorn of Lima’s elitist high society. She reinvents herself by teaming up with people from the communities she previously ignored to launch a restaurant that helps her rediscover Peru, its cultural diversity and its spectacular cuisine.
Peru’s gastronomy has always been a huge draw for culinary enthusiasts and serious food critics. Three Lima restaurants made the cut in the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants list,...
Joining them are Magaly Solier, best known for her lead role in Peru’s Oscar-nominated and 2009 Berlinale Golden Bear winner, “The Milk of Sorrow.”
“Mistura,” which means mixture or blend, takes place in 1960s Peru where Mori plays Norma who, after being ditched by her husband (played by Meier), must face the scorn of Lima’s elitist high society. She reinvents herself by teaming up with people from the communities she previously ignored to launch a restaurant that helps her rediscover Peru, its cultural diversity and its spectacular cuisine.
Peru’s gastronomy has always been a huge draw for culinary enthusiasts and serious food critics. Three Lima restaurants made the cut in the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants list,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Upending arthouse tropes with musical numbers and lashings of sex, this witty debut about a Peruvian domestic worker refuses to see its heroine as a victim
Writer-director María Paz González’s first feature takes a well-worn miserabilist trope out of the arthouse drawer – a domestic worker struggles with homesickness and faces economic inequality – and upcycles it with warmth and wit to make something quite original. It’s even funny and upbeat in its final lap. It’s something of a shock, since so many films about hard-up migrant women who go in search of better lives abroad end up with their protagonists grieving, dead or punished in some other way.
It’s hard to imagine Lina (Magaly Solier) would ever let anything like poverty or despair cramp her natural style. Plucky, hard-working and sexy Af, she’s sometimes down but never out. Originally from Peru, where she has left a...
Writer-director María Paz González’s first feature takes a well-worn miserabilist trope out of the arthouse drawer – a domestic worker struggles with homesickness and faces economic inequality – and upcycles it with warmth and wit to make something quite original. It’s even funny and upbeat in its final lap. It’s something of a shock, since so many films about hard-up migrant women who go in search of better lives abroad end up with their protagonists grieving, dead or punished in some other way.
It’s hard to imagine Lina (Magaly Solier) would ever let anything like poverty or despair cramp her natural style. Plucky, hard-working and sexy Af, she’s sometimes down but never out. Originally from Peru, where she has left a...
- 8/16/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Spain’s Bendita Film Sales has picked up worldwide sales rights to coming-of-age drama “The Saint of the Impossible,” the feature debut of Swiss director Marc Wilkins. Variety has had exclusive access to the film’s trailer.
Based on a novel by Dutch writer and New York Times contributor Arnon Grunberg, “Saint” toplines Peru’s Magaly Solier (“The Milk of Sorrow”) and Tara Thaller, star of HBO’s Croatian TV drama “Success.”
Set in New York City, the story, that takes in a murder and a police raid, focuses on teenage twins Paul and Tito, virgins and illegal immigrants that believe adulthood will cure all their woes.
As Raffaella (Solier), the twins’ mother, loses herself to a Swiss pulp fiction novelist that promises stability and a future, the boys fall in love with fierce Croatian girl Kristin (Thaller).
Raffaella must piece together her sons’ secret romantic life, in order to find what happened to them.
Based on a novel by Dutch writer and New York Times contributor Arnon Grunberg, “Saint” toplines Peru’s Magaly Solier (“The Milk of Sorrow”) and Tara Thaller, star of HBO’s Croatian TV drama “Success.”
Set in New York City, the story, that takes in a murder and a police raid, focuses on teenage twins Paul and Tito, virgins and illegal immigrants that believe adulthood will cure all their woes.
As Raffaella (Solier), the twins’ mother, loses herself to a Swiss pulp fiction novelist that promises stability and a future, the boys fall in love with fierce Croatian girl Kristin (Thaller).
Raffaella must piece together her sons’ secret romantic life, in order to find what happened to them.
- 2/2/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Spain’s Latido Films has snagged worldwide sales rights – with the exception of Peru, Chile and Argentina – to Peruvian filmmaker Maria Paz Gonzalez’s feature debut, “Lina de Lima.” The dramedy’s trailer is launching exclusively in Variety ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Festival Discovery sidebar.
“Following our tradition of accompanying new talents in their incursion inro the international market, and in particular of first directors in the world of fiction, ‘Lina de Lima’ meant for us the discovery of an original voice like that of González,” said Latido head of acquisitions and festivals, Oscar Alonso.
He added: “She tells the immigration drama from a luminous point of view not previously seen: All this through a female character who reverses the preset codes and to which Magaly Solier confers an overflowing capacity for empathy. “
Solier, whose career-launching turn in Claudia Llosa’s Berlin Golden Bear winning “The Milk of Sorrow...
“Following our tradition of accompanying new talents in their incursion inro the international market, and in particular of first directors in the world of fiction, ‘Lina de Lima’ meant for us the discovery of an original voice like that of González,” said Latido head of acquisitions and festivals, Oscar Alonso.
He added: “She tells the immigration drama from a luminous point of view not previously seen: All this through a female character who reverses the preset codes and to which Magaly Solier confers an overflowing capacity for empathy. “
Solier, whose career-launching turn in Claudia Llosa’s Berlin Golden Bear winning “The Milk of Sorrow...
- 9/4/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Coming-of-age story won best Peruvian film at Lima Film Festival, screens in Berlinale Generation 14plus.
Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and has kicked off sales at the Efm on Generation 14plus selection Retablo from first-time Peruvian filmmaker Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
The Peru-Germany-Norway co-production is a coming-of-age story that won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August and shot against the backdrop of the Peruvian Andes.
The story follows a young teenager who is groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps in the titular folk art of crafting artisanal boxes depicting religious scenes and important everyday events. Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.
Enid “Pinky” Campos served as producer on Retablo and the executive producer roster comprises Lasse Scharpen, Delgado-Aparicio, Iris Roca Rey, and Menno Döring. The production companies are Siri Producciones (Peru), Catch Of The Day (Germany), and Dhf (Norway). Heretic Outreach holds worldwide...
Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and has kicked off sales at the Efm on Generation 14plus selection Retablo from first-time Peruvian filmmaker Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
The Peru-Germany-Norway co-production is a coming-of-age story that won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August and shot against the backdrop of the Peruvian Andes.
The story follows a young teenager who is groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps in the titular folk art of crafting artisanal boxes depicting religious scenes and important everyday events. Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.
Enid “Pinky” Campos served as producer on Retablo and the executive producer roster comprises Lasse Scharpen, Delgado-Aparicio, Iris Roca Rey, and Menno Döring. The production companies are Siri Producciones (Peru), Catch Of The Day (Germany), and Dhf (Norway). Heretic Outreach holds worldwide...
- 2/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Coming-of-age story won best Peruvian film at Lima Film Festival, screens in Berlinale Generation 14plus.
Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and has kicked off sales at the Efm on Generation 14plus selection Retablo from first-time Peruvian filmmaker Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
The Peru-Germany-Norway co-production is a coming-of-age story that won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August and shot against the backdrop of the Peruvian Andes.
The story follows a young teenager who is groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps in the titular folk art of crafting artisanal boxes depicting religious scenes and important everyday events. Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.
Enid “Pinky” Campos served as producer on Retablo and the executive producer roster comprises Lasse Scharpen, Delgado-Aparicio, Iris Roca Rey, and Menno Döring. The production companies are: Siri Producciones (Peru), Catch Of The Day (Germany), and Dhf (Norway). Heretic Outreach holds worldwide...
Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and has kicked off sales at the Efm on Generation 14plus selection Retablo from first-time Peruvian filmmaker Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
The Peru-Germany-Norway co-production is a coming-of-age story that won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August and shot against the backdrop of the Peruvian Andes.
The story follows a young teenager who is groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps in the titular folk art of crafting artisanal boxes depicting religious scenes and important everyday events. Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.
Enid “Pinky” Campos served as producer on Retablo and the executive producer roster comprises Lasse Scharpen, Delgado-Aparicio, Iris Roca Rey, and Menno Döring. The production companies are: Siri Producciones (Peru), Catch Of The Day (Germany), and Dhf (Norway). Heretic Outreach holds worldwide...
- 2/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Magaly Solier of 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow to star.
Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and will kick off sales at the Efm on Generations 14plus selection Retablo from Peruvian first-time filmmaker Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
The Peru-Germany-Norway co-production is a coming-of-age story that won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August and shot against the backdrop of the Peruvian Andes.
The story follows a young teenager who is groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps in the titular folk art of crafting artisanal boxes depicting religious scenes and important everyday events. Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.
Enid “Pinky” Campos served as producer on Retablo and the executive producer roster comprises Lasse Scharpen, Delgado-Aparicio, Iris Roca Rey and Menno Döring. The production companies are: Siri Productions (Peru), Catch Of The Day (Germany) and Dhf (Norway). Heretic Outreach holds worldwide rights excluding...
Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and will kick off sales at the Efm on Generations 14plus selection Retablo from Peruvian first-time filmmaker Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
The Peru-Germany-Norway co-production is a coming-of-age story that won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August and shot against the backdrop of the Peruvian Andes.
The story follows a young teenager who is groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps in the titular folk art of crafting artisanal boxes depicting religious scenes and important everyday events. Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.
Enid “Pinky” Campos served as producer on Retablo and the executive producer roster comprises Lasse Scharpen, Delgado-Aparicio, Iris Roca Rey and Menno Döring. The production companies are: Siri Productions (Peru), Catch Of The Day (Germany) and Dhf (Norway). Heretic Outreach holds worldwide rights excluding...
- 2/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Magallanes
Directed by Salvador del Solar
Peru, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Magallanes (Damián Alcázar), a struggling cab driver, also doubles as the caretaker of his former colonel from the troubled Shining Path period in Peru. When a woman from his past gets into his taxi he concocts an elaborate blackmail scheme.
There’s some complex plotting in Magallanes, and some of the more intricate ironies, which come to the fore towards the end of the second act, are deeply satisfying. Ostensibly a film about denial, Magallanes’ truest motivations are kept expertly hidden, and his ultimate payoff – a reminder of a horrific event – is no exception.
Del Solar includes plot points that, depending on how tightly woven the film should be, are either missed opportunities or nice red herrings: a couple of disgruntled, underpaid thieves who seem certain to come back violently; secret smiles from cops who always seem to know more than they do.
Directed by Salvador del Solar
Peru, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Magallanes (Damián Alcázar), a struggling cab driver, also doubles as the caretaker of his former colonel from the troubled Shining Path period in Peru. When a woman from his past gets into his taxi he concocts an elaborate blackmail scheme.
There’s some complex plotting in Magallanes, and some of the more intricate ironies, which come to the fore towards the end of the second act, are deeply satisfying. Ostensibly a film about denial, Magallanes’ truest motivations are kept expertly hidden, and his ultimate payoff – a reminder of a horrific event – is no exception.
Del Solar includes plot points that, depending on how tightly woven the film should be, are either missed opportunities or nice red herrings: a couple of disgruntled, underpaid thieves who seem certain to come back violently; secret smiles from cops who always seem to know more than they do.
- 11/3/2015
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Though it’s a harder film festival to regulate and therefore tabulate a comprehensively genuine list reflecting the totality of the fest’s offering per any individual’s perspective, the Toronto Film Festival manages to be a healthy platform for new and developing voices for those willing to sift through the multitude of titles. Of course, many new exciting voices were present that debuted at earlier film festivals, like Berlin, Sundance, and Cannes. From Guy Maddin’s co-director Evan Johnson on The Forbidden Room and Josh Mond’s stunning debut James White out of Sundance, to notable Cannes berths like Laszlo Nemes of Son of Saul, Deniz Gamz Erguven of Mustang, and Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys, 2015 brought a wide variety of new filmmakers to light. In deliberating the Top Ten New Voices out of Tiff, we focused on offerings either unique to the festival or near concurrent premieres with Locarno and Venice.
- 10/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
On the Horizon of Redemption: Del Solar’s Impressive Debut a Historically Relevant Neo-Noir
The sins of the recent past infect Peruvian actor Salvador del Solar’s stellar directorial debut, Magallanes, based on the novel La Pasajera by Alonso Cueto (Black Butterfly, 2006). A rich tapestry of characters involved in a compelling and nasty case of blackmail enhances the pulse of this compelling neo-noir, whose present is informed by the violent social revolution of the Shining Path insurgency, Peru’s communist party faction. The infamous organization, deemed terrorist by the government, waged a decade long conflict that worsened significantly when the military declared a state of emergency in outlying regions of the country, resulting in further abuse and corruption of power. With countless vicious cruelties that went unpunished, del Solar recounts a tortured redemption of sorts for one of them in this well-performed, intriguing drama.
Harvey Magallanes (Damian Alcazar) is a taxi driver in Peru,...
The sins of the recent past infect Peruvian actor Salvador del Solar’s stellar directorial debut, Magallanes, based on the novel La Pasajera by Alonso Cueto (Black Butterfly, 2006). A rich tapestry of characters involved in a compelling and nasty case of blackmail enhances the pulse of this compelling neo-noir, whose present is informed by the violent social revolution of the Shining Path insurgency, Peru’s communist party faction. The infamous organization, deemed terrorist by the government, waged a decade long conflict that worsened significantly when the military declared a state of emergency in outlying regions of the country, resulting in further abuse and corruption of power. With countless vicious cruelties that went unpunished, del Solar recounts a tortured redemption of sorts for one of them in this well-performed, intriguing drama.
Harvey Magallanes (Damian Alcazar) is a taxi driver in Peru,...
- 9/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The San Sebastian Film Festival will once again present, in its 63rd edition, some of the most outstanding Latin American films of the year. The Horizontes Latinos program will include 14 productions from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Films that have competed or premiered at important international festivals, but which have not yet been screened at a Spanish festival or had their commercial release in the country.
The selected films compete for the Horizontes Award, decided by a specific jury and coming with €35,000, of which €10,000 will go to the director of the winning film, and the remaining €25,000 to its distributor in Spain.
The section will open with Pablo Larraín’s "El Club," Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the last Berlin Festival. The film tells the tale of four men who share a secluded house in a small beach town, sent there to purge the sins they have committed in the past.
Here is the full list of titles screening in this important section:
"El Club" (The Club) Pablo Larraín (Chile) Opening Night Film
Pablo Larraín won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the last Berlin Festival with this film. Four men share a secluded house in a small beach town, sent there to purge the sins they have committed in the past.
"600 Millas" (600 Miles) Gabriel Ripstein (Mexico) Arnulfo Rubio, a young gun trafficker between the United States and Mexico, is being followed by Atf agent Hank Harris. After a risky mistake by Harris, Rubio makes a desperate decision: he smuggles the agent to Mexico. Best First Feature Award in the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival.
"El Abrazo de la Serpiente" (Embrace of the Serpent ) Ciro Guerra (Colombia - Argentina - Venezuela) Premiered at the Cannes Festival Directors’ Fortnight, the latest film from Ciro Guerra tells the epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between an Amazonian shaman and two Western explorers.
"El Botón de Nácar (The Pearl Button) Patricio Guzmán (France - Chile - Spain ) Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán talks to us in his latest documentary about water, the cosmos and ourselves, human beings. It all begins with the discovery of two mysterious buttons in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile.
"Chronic" Michel Franco (Mexico - France) David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he develops strong and even intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved. Best Screenplay Award-winner at the Cannes Festival.
"Desde Allá" (From Afar) Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela) Armando, aged 50, looks for young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house with him. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets Elder, aged 17, leader of a small band of thugs. Competitor in the Official Selection of the Venice Festival.
"Las Elegidas" (The Chosen Ones) David Pablos (Mexico - France) David Pablos’s second film took part at the San Sebastian Co-production Forum in 2014 and premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Festival. Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution ring in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her.
"Ixcanul" Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala - France) María, a 17 year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her family in a plantation on the Guatemalan plateau. Her days go by uneventfully until her parents arrange her marriage to the estate foreman, Ignacio. A film that landed a special mention at the last edition of Films in Progress and competed at the Berlin Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Award.
"Magallanes"
Salvador Del Solar (Peru Argentina- Colombia - Spain) Winner of Films in Progress at last year's Festival. Magallanes recognises a woman getting into a taxi. It's Celina, the young peasant girl he randomly arrested more than twenty years ago, when he was a soldier. They both have unfinished business. And for Magallanes, this is an opportunity to redeem himself. Damián Alcázar, Magaly Solier and Federico Luppi play the leading parts.
"La Obra del Siglo" (The Projcxt of Century) Carlos M. Quintela (Cuba -Argentina- Germany -Switzerland) Amidst a mosquito plague, Leonardo, struggling with the breakdown of his relationship, moves back to live with a grandfather who fights with everyone and everything, and a father living with the melancholy of the unfinished. Tiger Award-winner at the last Rotterdam Festival.
"Pulina" Santiago Mitre (Argentina- Brazil- France) Paulina decides to leave her brilliant law career to teach in a downtrodden Argentinian region. In a hostile atmosphere, she will set about her pedagogical mission, even if it means losing her boyfriend and confrontation with her father. Fipresci Prize-winner at the last Cannes Festival Critics’ Week.
"Para Minha Amada Morta" (To My Beloved) Aly Muritiba (Brazil) Fernando is a good man who takes care of his only child, Daniel, a shy and sensitive boy. Following the death of his wife Ana, every night Fernando recalls their love as he sorts out his beloved dead spouse’s belongings. One day he finds a VHS tape that will change everything. This movie participated in the Films in Progress section at the last Festival. The film took part at the Co-Production Forum in 2014.
"Te Prometo Anarquía" (I Promise You Anarchy) Julio Hernández Cordón (Mexico - Germany) Julio Hernández Cordón’s new film was selected for the Locarno Festival Competition. Miguel and Johnny have known each other since childhood. They spend their time skateboarding and having fun. To make easy money and continue skateboarding, they sell their own blood clandestinely. They turn the ploy into a business, until a major transaction doesn't turn out as they'd expected.
"La Tierra y la Sombra" (Land and Shade) César Augusto Acevedo (Colombia- Chiles - Brazil - Netherlands - France) Winner of the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Festival, after having participated at the San Sebastian Co-Production Forum in 2013, this film portrays a family as they try to repair the fragile ties that bind them in the face of their imminent disappearance, brought about by the overwhelming power of progress.
The selected films compete for the Horizontes Award, decided by a specific jury and coming with €35,000, of which €10,000 will go to the director of the winning film, and the remaining €25,000 to its distributor in Spain.
The section will open with Pablo Larraín’s "El Club," Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the last Berlin Festival. The film tells the tale of four men who share a secluded house in a small beach town, sent there to purge the sins they have committed in the past.
Here is the full list of titles screening in this important section:
"El Club" (The Club) Pablo Larraín (Chile) Opening Night Film
Pablo Larraín won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the last Berlin Festival with this film. Four men share a secluded house in a small beach town, sent there to purge the sins they have committed in the past.
"600 Millas" (600 Miles) Gabriel Ripstein (Mexico) Arnulfo Rubio, a young gun trafficker between the United States and Mexico, is being followed by Atf agent Hank Harris. After a risky mistake by Harris, Rubio makes a desperate decision: he smuggles the agent to Mexico. Best First Feature Award in the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival.
"El Abrazo de la Serpiente" (Embrace of the Serpent ) Ciro Guerra (Colombia - Argentina - Venezuela) Premiered at the Cannes Festival Directors’ Fortnight, the latest film from Ciro Guerra tells the epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between an Amazonian shaman and two Western explorers.
"El Botón de Nácar (The Pearl Button) Patricio Guzmán (France - Chile - Spain ) Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán talks to us in his latest documentary about water, the cosmos and ourselves, human beings. It all begins with the discovery of two mysterious buttons in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile.
"Chronic" Michel Franco (Mexico - France) David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he develops strong and even intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved. Best Screenplay Award-winner at the Cannes Festival.
"Desde Allá" (From Afar) Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela) Armando, aged 50, looks for young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house with him. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets Elder, aged 17, leader of a small band of thugs. Competitor in the Official Selection of the Venice Festival.
"Las Elegidas" (The Chosen Ones) David Pablos (Mexico - France) David Pablos’s second film took part at the San Sebastian Co-production Forum in 2014 and premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Festival. Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution ring in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her.
"Ixcanul" Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala - France) María, a 17 year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her family in a plantation on the Guatemalan plateau. Her days go by uneventfully until her parents arrange her marriage to the estate foreman, Ignacio. A film that landed a special mention at the last edition of Films in Progress and competed at the Berlin Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Award.
"Magallanes"
Salvador Del Solar (Peru Argentina- Colombia - Spain) Winner of Films in Progress at last year's Festival. Magallanes recognises a woman getting into a taxi. It's Celina, the young peasant girl he randomly arrested more than twenty years ago, when he was a soldier. They both have unfinished business. And for Magallanes, this is an opportunity to redeem himself. Damián Alcázar, Magaly Solier and Federico Luppi play the leading parts.
"La Obra del Siglo" (The Projcxt of Century) Carlos M. Quintela (Cuba -Argentina- Germany -Switzerland) Amidst a mosquito plague, Leonardo, struggling with the breakdown of his relationship, moves back to live with a grandfather who fights with everyone and everything, and a father living with the melancholy of the unfinished. Tiger Award-winner at the last Rotterdam Festival.
"Pulina" Santiago Mitre (Argentina- Brazil- France) Paulina decides to leave her brilliant law career to teach in a downtrodden Argentinian region. In a hostile atmosphere, she will set about her pedagogical mission, even if it means losing her boyfriend and confrontation with her father. Fipresci Prize-winner at the last Cannes Festival Critics’ Week.
"Para Minha Amada Morta" (To My Beloved) Aly Muritiba (Brazil) Fernando is a good man who takes care of his only child, Daniel, a shy and sensitive boy. Following the death of his wife Ana, every night Fernando recalls their love as he sorts out his beloved dead spouse’s belongings. One day he finds a VHS tape that will change everything. This movie participated in the Films in Progress section at the last Festival. The film took part at the Co-Production Forum in 2014.
"Te Prometo Anarquía" (I Promise You Anarchy) Julio Hernández Cordón (Mexico - Germany) Julio Hernández Cordón’s new film was selected for the Locarno Festival Competition. Miguel and Johnny have known each other since childhood. They spend their time skateboarding and having fun. To make easy money and continue skateboarding, they sell their own blood clandestinely. They turn the ploy into a business, until a major transaction doesn't turn out as they'd expected.
"La Tierra y la Sombra" (Land and Shade) César Augusto Acevedo (Colombia- Chiles - Brazil - Netherlands - France) Winner of the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Festival, after having participated at the San Sebastian Co-Production Forum in 2013, this film portrays a family as they try to repair the fragile ties that bind them in the face of their imminent disappearance, brought about by the overwhelming power of progress.
- 8/19/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Cuban film August wins the San Sebastián Co-production Fórum; Magallanes wins Films in Progress.
The 3rd San Sebastian Co-Production Forum Europe-Latin America has been won by August, a co-production betweeen Cuba ad Costa Rica.
The film, a production of Marcela Esquivel of La Feria Producciones directed by Armando Capó, who couldn not travel to Spain due to visa problems, has been granted a €10,000 prize ($12.700).
The film is set in 1994 Cuba when the downfall of the Ussr created a crisis on the island that led to thousands abandoning the country.
Producer Marcela Esquivel told Screen that August centres on a 14 year old boy who experiences “feelings that will change his life forever through pain and nostalgia. It’s about the scars that affect us throughout our lives.“
The film has not only won the Forum, it also reached an agreement with French production company Paraíso Films.
“We can’t be happier”, said Esquivel. “This agreement...
The 3rd San Sebastian Co-Production Forum Europe-Latin America has been won by August, a co-production betweeen Cuba ad Costa Rica.
The film, a production of Marcela Esquivel of La Feria Producciones directed by Armando Capó, who couldn not travel to Spain due to visa problems, has been granted a €10,000 prize ($12.700).
The film is set in 1994 Cuba when the downfall of the Ussr created a crisis on the island that led to thousands abandoning the country.
Producer Marcela Esquivel told Screen that August centres on a 14 year old boy who experiences “feelings that will change his life forever through pain and nostalgia. It’s about the scars that affect us throughout our lives.“
The film has not only won the Forum, it also reached an agreement with French production company Paraíso Films.
“We can’t be happier”, said Esquivel. “This agreement...
- 9/25/2014
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
Lima, Feb 13: Peruvian actress Magaly Solier, star of the movies "Madeinusa" and "La Teta Asustada", announced on Facebook that she gave birth to her first baby in the city of Ayacucho.
Solier posted on her Facebook page a photo of her lying in bed with the tiny hand of her baby boy appearing by her side, together with the dedication "Welcome, my love".
Solier married cyclist Erick Mendoza Gomez in the middle of last year, and chose her own hometown to have her firstborn.
"La Teta Asustada" is a Peruvian-Spanish production by director Claudia Llosa, which won the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
Solier, who.
Solier posted on her Facebook page a photo of her lying in bed with the tiny hand of her baby boy appearing by her side, together with the dedication "Welcome, my love".
Solier married cyclist Erick Mendoza Gomez in the middle of last year, and chose her own hometown to have her firstborn.
"La Teta Asustada" is a Peruvian-Spanish production by director Claudia Llosa, which won the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
Solier, who.
- 2/13/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Blackthorn
Stars: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney | Written by Miguel Barros | Directed by Mateo Gil
The Western is a genre that slowed to a trickle, almost vanished. Horror and Sci-fi has kept it going with cross over stories with monsters and aliens but it’s definitely a genre that has weakened over the years. Films like True Grit and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford have brought it back to life with big name stars and high quality directing leading to a slow but sure re-growth, based on more serious tales of the “wild west” one of these tales is Blackthorn.
Blackthorn looks at the idea that Butch Cassidy, now going by the name of James Blackthorn didn’t die and is in hiding in Bolivia living a carefree life on a farm where his life is taming horses and living in peace.
Stars: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney | Written by Miguel Barros | Directed by Mateo Gil
The Western is a genre that slowed to a trickle, almost vanished. Horror and Sci-fi has kept it going with cross over stories with monsters and aliens but it’s definitely a genre that has weakened over the years. Films like True Grit and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford have brought it back to life with big name stars and high quality directing leading to a slow but sure re-growth, based on more serious tales of the “wild west” one of these tales is Blackthorn.
Blackthorn looks at the idea that Butch Cassidy, now going by the name of James Blackthorn didn’t die and is in hiding in Bolivia living a carefree life on a farm where his life is taming horses and living in peace.
- 7/14/2012
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
Sam Shepard excels in Mateo Gil's elegiac sequel imagining further adventures in Bolivia for the Wild Bunch leader
Back in 1969 George Roy Hill brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a self-consciously stylish western in which two notorious bandits were celebrated as forerunners of the outlaw sensibility of the 1960s. A decade later, Richard Lester, one of the film-makers credited for shaping the artistic expression of the 60s with The Knack and two Beatles films, made his only western, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Featuring two young actors, Tom Berenger and William Katt, with uncanny resemblances to Newman and Redford, the film took a quirky but generally realistic look at frontier life as it related to the pair's early criminal life and friendship, ending in the 1890s at the point where they were becoming aware of being legends, leaders of a gang called the Wild Bunch.
Back in 1969 George Roy Hill brought Paul Newman and Robert Redford together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a self-consciously stylish western in which two notorious bandits were celebrated as forerunners of the outlaw sensibility of the 1960s. A decade later, Richard Lester, one of the film-makers credited for shaping the artistic expression of the 60s with The Knack and two Beatles films, made his only western, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Featuring two young actors, Tom Berenger and William Katt, with uncanny resemblances to Newman and Redford, the film took a quirky but generally realistic look at frontier life as it related to the pair's early criminal life and friendship, ending in the 1890s at the point where they were becoming aware of being legends, leaders of a gang called the Wild Bunch.
- 4/14/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – I frankly can’t imagine how any moviegoer could favor Mateo Gil’s somber, low-key genre exercise, “Blackthorn,” over George Roy Hill’s marvelously entertaining 1969 classic, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Sure, Western buffs have often criticized Hill’s film for romanticizing its subject matter, yet there was a dark edge and tragic poignance in William Goldman’s script that earned the film its shattering ending.
Moviegoers seeking similar thrills from “Blackthorn” will be sorely disappointed. The picture is a wholly unremarkable rethinking of the Butch Cassidy legend that fails in its aspirations to leave an equally iconic imprint on the oft-mythologized tale. Miguel Barros’ script bases its premise off the conceit that Butch and Sundance’s death in the 1908 Bolivian standoff was based on unsubstantiated evidence. It’s an intriguing premise, but Barros just uses it as an excuse to concoct a less whimsical retread of Goldman’s formula.
Moviegoers seeking similar thrills from “Blackthorn” will be sorely disappointed. The picture is a wholly unremarkable rethinking of the Butch Cassidy legend that fails in its aspirations to leave an equally iconic imprint on the oft-mythologized tale. Miguel Barros’ script bases its premise off the conceit that Butch and Sundance’s death in the 1908 Bolivian standoff was based on unsubstantiated evidence. It’s an intriguing premise, but Barros just uses it as an excuse to concoct a less whimsical retread of Goldman’s formula.
- 1/3/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Western buffs have often criticized George Roy Hill’s 1969 classic, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” for romanticizing its subject matter to the point where it felt less concerned about its titular criminals and more interested in the friendship between stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Yet for all of the charm in William Goldman’s script, there was an underlying darkness and tragic poignance that allowed the final act to pack an unforgettable punch.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Moviegoers seeking similar thrills from “Blackthorn” will be sorely disappointed. It’s an unremarkable low-key rethinking of the Butch Cassidy legend, devoid of the whimsy and excitement that made the Newman/Redford film such a kick. Though it certainly isn’t an embarrassing misfire like 1979’s regrettable “Butch and Sundance: The Early Years,” it fails in its aspirations to leave an equally iconic imprint of the oft-mythologized tale. It mainly serves as an...
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Moviegoers seeking similar thrills from “Blackthorn” will be sorely disappointed. It’s an unremarkable low-key rethinking of the Butch Cassidy legend, devoid of the whimsy and excitement that made the Newman/Redford film such a kick. Though it certainly isn’t an embarrassing misfire like 1979’s regrettable “Butch and Sundance: The Early Years,” it fails in its aspirations to leave an equally iconic imprint of the oft-mythologized tale. It mainly serves as an...
- 10/14/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
★★★☆☆ Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa writes and directs well-meaning drama Amador, focusing upon the lives of Bolivian immigrants in Madrid - an under-represented group in cinematic terms - specifically Marcela (Magaly Solier) and her flower-selling partner Nelson (Pietro Sibille).
After discovering that she is pregnant (and in order to make ends meet due to her husband's struggling flower-trading trade), Marcela accepts a job taking care of the elderly, bedridden Amador (Celso Bugallo) while his family are away. Amador is initially cold towards his new carer, sitting aloof as he watches television or works on his jigsaw.
After a period of time, Marcela manages to break through Amador's icy exterior, engaging him on a personal level that his family seemed unable to achieve. However, the old man's sudden death leads Marcela to extreme measures in order to secure her full pay.
The subject matter here is certainly on the dark side,...
After discovering that she is pregnant (and in order to make ends meet due to her husband's struggling flower-trading trade), Marcela accepts a job taking care of the elderly, bedridden Amador (Celso Bugallo) while his family are away. Amador is initially cold towards his new carer, sitting aloof as he watches television or works on his jigsaw.
After a period of time, Marcela manages to break through Amador's icy exterior, engaging him on a personal level that his family seemed unable to achieve. However, the old man's sudden death leads Marcela to extreme measures in order to secure her full pay.
The subject matter here is certainly on the dark side,...
- 10/14/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Chicago – In our latest western edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Blackthorn” starring Sam Shepard as the legendary Butch Cassidy!
“Blackthorn,” which was a selection at the Tribecca Film Festival, also stars Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Dominique McElligott, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney, Daniel Aguirre, Luis Bredow, Fernando Gamarra, Maria Luque and Cristian Mercado from director Mateo Gil and writer Miguel Barros. The film opens on Oct. 14, 2011 in Chicago.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Blackthorn” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Blackthorn” starring Sam Shepard as Butch Cassidy.
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“Blackthorn,” which was a selection at the Tribecca Film Festival, also stars Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Dominique McElligott, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney, Daniel Aguirre, Luis Bredow, Fernando Gamarra, Maria Luque and Cristian Mercado from director Mateo Gil and writer Miguel Barros. The film opens on Oct. 14, 2011 in Chicago.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Blackthorn” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Blackthorn” starring Sam Shepard as Butch Cassidy.
Image credit:...
- 10/4/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Fernando León De Aranoa's latest drama, "Amador." Winner of Best Director and Best Actress in an Iberoamerican Feature at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, "Amador" stars Peruvian actress Magaly Solier as young immigrant with financial troubles, facing a major moral crisis. The company will release it theatrically in New York during the second quarter of 2012, with a limited national roll-out to ...
- 9/6/2011
- Indiewire
Title: Blackthorn Directed By: Mateo Gil Written By: Miguel Barros Cast: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Nicolak Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney, Dominique McElligott Screened at: Broadway, NYC, 8/24/11 Opens: October 7, 2011, On Demand September 2, 2011 One of the more fascinating guesses that historians are wont to pursue is wondering whether certain famous or notorious people are still alive, though presumed dead. When I started teaching high-school history, the question was: “My grandmother says that Hitler is still alive. Is that true?” Not wanting to cause grandparent-teacher problems, I suggested that since the body had not been necessarily found, anything is possible. Now that Hitler is 112...
- 8/27/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
The first trailer has been released for Blackthorn, the English-language debut movie for director Mateo Gil, known for his screenplays for Vanilla Sky and The Sea Inside.
The movie explores the myth that notorious train and bank robber Butch Cassidy survived the fatal shooting he and his partner the Sundance Kid suffered in the hands of Bolivian police in 1908, and sees Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard play Cassidy. The former outlaw is living in Bolivia under the name James Blackthorn and becomes embroiled in his last adventure while trying to travel back to the United States. Blackthorn debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, after which Magnolia Pictures picked up the U.S. distribution rights.
Shot entirely in Bolivia, the terrain is beautifully shot by Gil, and looks every bit the classic American Western as the last Butch Cassidy movie, 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The movie explores the myth that notorious train and bank robber Butch Cassidy survived the fatal shooting he and his partner the Sundance Kid suffered in the hands of Bolivian police in 1908, and sees Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard play Cassidy. The former outlaw is living in Bolivia under the name James Blackthorn and becomes embroiled in his last adventure while trying to travel back to the United States. Blackthorn debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, after which Magnolia Pictures picked up the U.S. distribution rights.
Shot entirely in Bolivia, the terrain is beautifully shot by Gil, and looks every bit the classic American Western as the last Butch Cassidy movie, 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- 8/26/2011
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
Blackthorn Trailer. Mateo Gil‘s Blackthorn (2011) movie trailer stars Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Stephen Rea, and Magaly Solier. Blackthorn‘s plot synopsis: “In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.”
I haven’t seen a really good western since 3:10 to Yuma, True Grit, and Dead Wood so I will give this a watch when it comes out. Since I have not seen Cowboys & Aliens and its a hybrid, I am not counting that film. Besides, I hope this film is more like The Proposition, Unforgiven, and Once Upon a Time in the Western.
Blackthorn‘s cast also includes Padraic Delaney, Fernando Gamarra, Dominique McElligott, and Cristian Mercado.
Watch the Blackthorn movie trailer below and leave your thoughts on it in the comments section.
I haven’t seen a really good western since 3:10 to Yuma, True Grit, and Dead Wood so I will give this a watch when it comes out. Since I have not seen Cowboys & Aliens and its a hybrid, I am not counting that film. Besides, I hope this film is more like The Proposition, Unforgiven, and Once Upon a Time in the Western.
Blackthorn‘s cast also includes Padraic Delaney, Fernando Gamarra, Dominique McElligott, and Cristian Mercado.
Watch the Blackthorn movie trailer below and leave your thoughts on it in the comments section.
- 8/24/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Magnolia Pictures has finally released the first official domestic trailer and two posters for Mateo Gil’s western adventure movie Blackthorn, which stars Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea and Magaly Solier Here’s the official plot synopsis for Blackthorn: It’s been said (but unsubstantiated) that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in a standoff with [...]
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- 8/24/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
A living legend, a final adventure, an epic journey home. Magnolia Pictures recently debuted this official trailer on Apple (tip to Tfs) for Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil's new western Blackthorn, which stars Sam Shepard as the legendary Butch Cassidy in his "final" adventure. The cast also includes Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier. It's been said (but unsubstantiated) that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in a standoff with the Bolivian military in 1908 - this is that story. It actually looks pretty damn good, I'm not sure where it came from, but check out the trailer. "You're a damn legend, and here you are!" Watch the official trailer for Mateo Gil's western Blackthorn, via Apple: You can also download the Blackthorn trailer in High Defintion on Apple In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (who's now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, ...
- 8/24/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stepping into the iconic shoes previously worn by Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Sam Shepard is more than worthy to portray the iconic gunslinger. Mateo Gil, who wrote such films as Agora, The Sea Inside and Abre Los Ojos/Vanilla Sky, has directed the western Blackthorn. The film tells the story of Butch Cassidy, if he didn’t reportedly get murdered by the Bolivian army.
I was able to check out the film at Tribeca Film Festival this spring and it a well-crafted western. The first act is a bit dry but things really kick into gear when Cassidy teams up with the criminal played by Eduardo Noriega. The trailer also gives us a glimpse at a fantastic shoot-out in the middle of the barren desert. Check it out below via Apple for the film also starring Stephen Rea and Magaly Solier.
Synopsis:
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I was able to check out the film at Tribeca Film Festival this spring and it a well-crafted western. The first act is a bit dry but things really kick into gear when Cassidy teams up with the criminal played by Eduardo Noriega. The trailer also gives us a glimpse at a fantastic shoot-out in the middle of the barren desert. Check it out below via Apple for the film also starring Stephen Rea and Magaly Solier.
Synopsis:
It’s been...
- 8/24/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
“To Be Heard” and “Hot Coffee” win big at Seattle International Film Festival’s awards ceremony today at Seattle’s Space Needle.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
- 6/12/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
“To Be Heard” and “Hot Coffee” win big at Seattle International Film Festival’s awards ceremony today at Seattle’s Space Needle.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:
Siff 2011 Competition Awards
Siff 2011 Best New Director
Grand Jury Prize
Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)
Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”
Siff 2011 Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)
Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.
- 6/12/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Critics' Week has already begun celebrating its 50th anniversary by posting 50 video interviews with directors and actors who've seen their work debut in this section at Cannes. We're celebrating, too. In association with the 4+1 Film Festival, Mubi is presenting a retrospective of some of the greatest films first seen in Critics' Week over the past half-century. And even though the first 1000 views of each of the films will be free to you, the viewer, the rights holders will carry on receiving their duly earned revenue.
The retrospective encompasses over 100 titles in all, but please do keep in mind that rights issues can get complicated and not every film can be available in every country. That said, here's a quick overview of just some of the highlights:
Over in the Garage, a La Semaine Blogathon is already on the roll, starting with Kj Farrington's entry on Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know,...
The retrospective encompasses over 100 titles in all, but please do keep in mind that rights issues can get complicated and not every film can be available in every country. That said, here's a quick overview of just some of the highlights:
Over in the Garage, a La Semaine Blogathon is already on the roll, starting with Kj Farrington's entry on Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know,...
- 5/14/2011
- MUBI
Just added today on Netflix: My top two choices of 2010? The Movie Gods must really hate my social life. Take a trip to the afterlife, visit a bizarre Greek family and weep for a Peruvian atrocity in these bleak streams.
• • •
Enter The Void
When Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a foreign drug dealer living in Tokyo with his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), is fatally shot in a police raid, his spirit leaves his body in a hallucinatory odyssey that merges his past, present and future into a chaotic whole. This riveting third film from provocative French auteur Gaspar Noe screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Cyril Roy co-stars.
It's good to know that should you feel like getting wet but short on Pcp, you only have to fire Netflix up and watch this movie to get roughly the same effect. I've twice written and gushed about this...
• • •
Enter The Void
When Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a foreign drug dealer living in Tokyo with his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), is fatally shot in a police raid, his spirit leaves his body in a hallucinatory odyssey that merges his past, present and future into a chaotic whole. This riveting third film from provocative French auteur Gaspar Noe screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Cyril Roy co-stars.
It's good to know that should you feel like getting wet but short on Pcp, you only have to fire Netflix up and watch this movie to get roughly the same effect. I've twice written and gushed about this...
- 1/25/2011
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Cronos" (1993)
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Released by Criterion Collection
After years of being out of print, Guillermo del Toro's feature debut is getting the Criterion treatment and del Toro has gone all out to make it one of the best discs ever with new interviews, his 1987 short "Geometria," two audio commentaries, a video tour of his home office, and more.
"300 Killers" (2010)
Directed by Matt Jaissle
Released by Midnight Releasing
A police chief (Johnny Andrews) who sees his city falling under the thumb of a ruthless drug dealer and sends out his best detective (Anthony Tomei) to put a stop to it in Matt Jaissle's action film.
"Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright" (2010)
Directed by R. Ellis Frazier
Released by Maya Home Entertainment
Aidan Quinn stars as a billionaire who flees to Tijuana after he's on the run...
"Cronos" (1993)
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro
Released by Criterion Collection
After years of being out of print, Guillermo del Toro's feature debut is getting the Criterion treatment and del Toro has gone all out to make it one of the best discs ever with new interviews, his 1987 short "Geometria," two audio commentaries, a video tour of his home office, and more.
"300 Killers" (2010)
Directed by Matt Jaissle
Released by Midnight Releasing
A police chief (Johnny Andrews) who sees his city falling under the thumb of a ruthless drug dealer and sends out his best detective (Anthony Tomei) to put a stop to it in Matt Jaissle's action film.
"Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright" (2010)
Directed by R. Ellis Frazier
Released by Maya Home Entertainment
Aidan Quinn stars as a billionaire who flees to Tijuana after he's on the run...
- 12/5/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Director: Claudia Llosa Writer: Claudia Llosa Starring: Magaly Solier, Susy Sánchez, Efrain Solís While on her deathbed, an elderly Peruvian woman (Barbara Lazon) sings a tale of woe about being raped and forced-fed her dead husband's gunpowder-seasoned penis during the Sendero Luminoso’s Shining Path campaigns of the 1980s. The woman’s daughter, Fausta (Magaly Solier), purportedly consumed her mother’s fear from these events when, as a child, she suckled the milk [of sorrow] from her mother’s “frightened teats.” Fausta’s vacant and timorous soul has been overburdened, if not totally overrun, by fear. She walks the streets with blank black eyes revealing only one emotion -- sheer terror -- as she cowers closely to the walls purportedly to avoid evil spirits, but more likely to avoid people. Lacking in social skills and petrified of the outside world, Fausta is forced to find employment upon her mother’s death in...
- 8/27/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
In the opening scene of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk Of Sorrow, a dying Peruvian woman sings her final song: a monotone ballad that describes how when she was younger, she was raped by guerrillas and forced to swallow her dead husband’s penis. Her grown daughter, Magaly Solier, has heard these stories all her life, and has internalized her mother’s fear of the outside world. (Her uncle insists that the fear was transmitted to Solier via her mother’s breast milk.) She’s also come up with her own way to ward off rapists: by inserting a potato ...
- 8/26/2010
- avclub.com
Fausta (Magaly Solier), the heroine of "The Milk of Sorrow," Peru's first Oscar-nominated film, is a beautiful, tremulous young woman of indigenous descent who's afraid of walking home alone. She's prone to sudden nosebleeds, scarcely speaks except to sing melancholy songs and has placed a potato in her hoo-ha as an rape prevention measure -- it's begun to sprout, causing her health problems, and she has to occasionally give the protruding roots a trim.
Her family finds her, unsurprisingly, a bit of a downer. They describe her as suffering from a malady, as being infected by "the milk of sorrow." According to them, Fausta suckled dread along with breast milk from her mother, who was raped and horrifically abused during the height of Peru's internal unrest, and now she's "without a soul because it hid underground out of fear."
Whether or not it's due to this folk illness -- and...
Her family finds her, unsurprisingly, a bit of a downer. They describe her as suffering from a malady, as being infected by "the milk of sorrow." According to them, Fausta suckled dread along with breast milk from her mother, who was raped and horrifically abused during the height of Peru's internal unrest, and now she's "without a soul because it hid underground out of fear."
Whether or not it's due to this folk illness -- and...
- 8/26/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
For Claudia Llosa, director of the Berlinale-winning and Academy Award-nominated Peruvian film The Milk of Sorrow, magical realism isn’t a literary genre or filmic device, it’s an element of national identity and consciousness. Her film, easily the most critically-lauded film to emerge from Peru, is set in the rough-hewn mountain settlements on the outskirts of Lima. It concerns a young Peruvian woman (the captivating Magaly Solier) who, having contracted a mysterious disease that is passed on via breast milk to the daughters of rape victims taken by soliders serving Peru’s deposed terrorist regime, sets out to bury her newly deceased mother. Her uncle, with whom she lives, is about to marry off his rather bone-headed, carefree...
- 8/25/2010
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
"Only death is obligatory," Noe (Efraín Solis) says in The Milk of Sorrow, "the rest is because we want to." After earning a rare measure of trust from Fausta (Magaly Solier), a traumatized young Peruvian villager who has just lost her mother, Noe becomes exasperated with the extreme fear that circumscribes her life. A gardener at the Lima estate where Fausta takes a job as a maid, he bridges the film's metaphorical distance between the godless, pragmatic privilege of the city and the deterministic mythologizing of the rural poor, literally: He is the only outsider she will allow to escort her home in the evenings, she being too terrified to walk alone.
- 8/24/2010
- Movieline
Grace (Jasmin Tabatabai) is a war photographer who abandons her career after suffering from some terrible losses and Max (Olivier Gourmet), her husband, is an eye doctor who often works at a clinic in Peru. At the same time, we follow the story of Saturnina (Magaly Solier) and the village (Turumba) nearby that is being victimized by mercury contamination. The combination of sorrow, anger and hope takes hold of the film, essentially describing how people might be living separate lives but are coping with the same issues: the awakening of inner pain, the will to find peace within and find security in their own “land”. Validating the true meaning of what it is to see your own land being possessed by foreign hands, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth's Altiplano is comprised of beautiful shots, symbolic imagery and carries a mood reminiscent of Alejandro Jorodowsky's films. While both filmmakers aren't of Peruvian descent,...
- 8/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
A quiet film from Peru, “The Milk of Sorrow” is not without a sense of urgency. Fausta (Magaly Solier) suffers from the titular disease transmitted to her in infancy by her mother, who experienced horrific trauma at the hands of terrorists. Fausta lives in constant fear: She won’t walk through the city alone, she flinches at the touch of a man and she has inserted a potato into her vagina to repel rapists.
When her elderly mother dies, Fausta is determined to bury her in their village, but she can’t afford either a coffin or transportation. Fausta’s uncle, with whom she lives, is anxious to have the body removed by the time his bridezilla daughter gets married, so Fausta takes a job as a night housekeeper for an angst-ridden pianist, singing sweet melodies for comfort. There she meets a gentle gardener who helps her blossom. A timid girl,...
When her elderly mother dies, Fausta is determined to bury her in their village, but she can’t afford either a coffin or transportation. Fausta’s uncle, with whom she lives, is anxious to have the body removed by the time his bridezilla daughter gets married, so Fausta takes a job as a night housekeeper for an angst-ridden pianist, singing sweet melodies for comfort. There she meets a gentle gardener who helps her blossom. A timid girl,...
- 8/23/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Were this information for any other movie, I may not bother to share it just yet, choosing instead to wait for a trailer or footage from in front of the camera but frankly, there aren’t enough westerns being made and not nearly enough that have this much potential so you get the kitten caboodle early.
It was announced last year that long time Alejandro Amenábar (Open Your Eyes, The Others, Vanilla Sky) collaborator Mateo Gil (who has co-written all of Amenábar’s films) would be making his directorial debut with Blackthorn, a sort of sequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The film stars Sam Shepard as Butch Cassidy, now an older man living in Bolivia, raising horses under the name of James Blackthorn. Wanting to see home one last time, he heads back to the Us but along the desert, he comes across Ernesto Apodaca (Eduardo Noriega...
It was announced last year that long time Alejandro Amenábar (Open Your Eyes, The Others, Vanilla Sky) collaborator Mateo Gil (who has co-written all of Amenábar’s films) would be making his directorial debut with Blackthorn, a sort of sequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The film stars Sam Shepard as Butch Cassidy, now an older man living in Bolivia, raising horses under the name of James Blackthorn. Wanting to see home one last time, he heads back to the Us but along the desert, he comes across Ernesto Apodaca (Eduardo Noriega...
- 7/15/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film The Milk of Sorrow, by Claudia Llosa, will finally get a theatrical release at the Cinema Village in New York on Friday, August 27, 2010. Other major Us cities, like Los Angeles, will follow.
The strange, surreal, sci-fi-tinged dramatic Peruvian thriller about rape, war, gender equality, and humanity stars Magaly Solier as a woman who develops a strange 'illness' transmitted from mother to child through breast milk as a result of abuse and mistreatment at the hands of enemies during a civil war...
Fausta (Magaly Solier) suffers from “the milk of sorrow”, an illness transmitted through mother’s milk by women who have been violated or mistreated during the war of terror in Peru. The war has ended, but Fausta's life is a reminder of it because "the illness of fear" stole her soul. Now, her mother’s sudden death forces her to...
The strange, surreal, sci-fi-tinged dramatic Peruvian thriller about rape, war, gender equality, and humanity stars Magaly Solier as a woman who develops a strange 'illness' transmitted from mother to child through breast milk as a result of abuse and mistreatment at the hands of enemies during a civil war...
Fausta (Magaly Solier) suffers from “the milk of sorrow”, an illness transmitted through mother’s milk by women who have been violated or mistreated during the war of terror in Peru. The war has ended, but Fausta's life is a reminder of it because "the illness of fear" stole her soul. Now, her mother’s sudden death forces her to...
- 6/11/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Iron Man 2 (12A)
(Jon Favreau, 2010, Us) Robert Downey Jr, Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow. 125 mins
Considering his CEO status, it's no surprise that Tony Stark's return feels more like an upgrade than a sequel. It's this season's must-have tech-form with a human interface, machine-tooled for enhanced multiplex performance, even if it has trouble finding much to say. Downey divides his time between battling his own ego and Rourke's ridiculous Russian baddie – among other myriad convoluted Marvel-universe subplots – but it's all about as exciting as the launch of a new MacBook.
Revanche (15)
(Götz Spielmann, 2008, Aus) Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko. 122 mins
An Austrian noir thriller, this takes the heist-gone-wrong set-up to intriguing new territory – the countryside – giving our sympathetic crook a new perspective, and bringing him perilously close to his cop nemesis.
Valhalla Rising (15)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009, Den/UK) Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson. 100 mins
This gory, hallucinatory Viking odyssey makes an indelible impression,...
(Jon Favreau, 2010, Us) Robert Downey Jr, Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow. 125 mins
Considering his CEO status, it's no surprise that Tony Stark's return feels more like an upgrade than a sequel. It's this season's must-have tech-form with a human interface, machine-tooled for enhanced multiplex performance, even if it has trouble finding much to say. Downey divides his time between battling his own ego and Rourke's ridiculous Russian baddie – among other myriad convoluted Marvel-universe subplots – but it's all about as exciting as the launch of a new MacBook.
Revanche (15)
(Götz Spielmann, 2008, Aus) Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko. 122 mins
An Austrian noir thriller, this takes the heist-gone-wrong set-up to intriguing new territory – the countryside – giving our sympathetic crook a new perspective, and bringing him perilously close to his cop nemesis.
Valhalla Rising (15)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009, Den/UK) Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson. 100 mins
This gory, hallucinatory Viking odyssey makes an indelible impression,...
- 4/30/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Jose here (and
First of all here's a picture of Diego Luna to go with what I wrote last week and for all you girls and guys who think he's dreamy.
Next my recommendations from the festival (seek them out whenever they open near you!)
1. Zona Sur (Bolivia, 2009): think Godardian formalism meets The Maid.
2. Lebanon (Israel, 2009): really I don't know what's wrong with Israel! This movie would've been a lock for the foreign language win in the year of The Hurt Locker.
3. Kinatay (Philippines, 2009): not as shocking and perverted as Ebert would have you think but still superb, taut cinema from a remote land.
4. Garapa (Brazil, 2009): if Michael Haneke and Roberto Rossellini had a child and he made a documentary...
5. Tu (A)mor (Spain, 2009): the most heartbreaking film since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...and it's ten minutes long!
Pictured to your left is screenwriter Michael Tolkin (The Player,...
First of all here's a picture of Diego Luna to go with what I wrote last week and for all you girls and guys who think he's dreamy.
Next my recommendations from the festival (seek them out whenever they open near you!)
1. Zona Sur (Bolivia, 2009): think Godardian formalism meets The Maid.
2. Lebanon (Israel, 2009): really I don't know what's wrong with Israel! This movie would've been a lock for the foreign language win in the year of The Hurt Locker.
3. Kinatay (Philippines, 2009): not as shocking and perverted as Ebert would have you think but still superb, taut cinema from a remote land.
4. Garapa (Brazil, 2009): if Michael Haneke and Roberto Rossellini had a child and he made a documentary...
5. Tu (A)mor (Spain, 2009): the most heartbreaking film since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...and it's ten minutes long!
Pictured to your left is screenwriter Michael Tolkin (The Player,...
- 3/24/2010
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
It's a wrap! The Martin Gropius Bau is empty and the final pickups follow. This is a work in progress and readers are invited and welcome to contribute. Presales have returned in reaction to the reduced number of finished films on offer over the past two markets. Presales applies across the board from Us to French and even Italian films. English language films are increasingly coming out of the major non English language territories but local product is impacting sales on Us films internationally. Business was quickly wrapped up but it was done with a healthy number of buys reported. Lower prices have become accepted but the market must have product as this event proved.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
- 3/9/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Two Oscar nominations - one for La teta asustada and one for Ajami - marks the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund as an early arbiter of the world's taste in the finest of international cinema.
Congratulations to directors Claudia Llosa, Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti on the Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film 2010. The winner of the Golden Bear 2009, La Teta Asustada (Milk of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa from Peru, and Ajami by Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti (Israel) were both funded by the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund.
World Cinema Fund Day at the Berlinale: Feb 17, 2010, 11am-2 pm at the Filmhaus, Potsdamer Str. 2, 4th floor
“Strategy makes sense, and passion does, too…”
The Wcf Day will once again provide an opportunity to learn more about the programme, successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives, and partners of the Wcf. On this occasion the World Cinema Fund will present its...
Congratulations to directors Claudia Llosa, Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti on the Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film 2010. The winner of the Golden Bear 2009, La Teta Asustada (Milk of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa from Peru, and Ajami by Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti (Israel) were both funded by the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund.
World Cinema Fund Day at the Berlinale: Feb 17, 2010, 11am-2 pm at the Filmhaus, Potsdamer Str. 2, 4th floor
“Strategy makes sense, and passion does, too…”
The Wcf Day will once again provide an opportunity to learn more about the programme, successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives, and partners of the Wcf. On this occasion the World Cinema Fund will present its...
- 2/10/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
The Oscar nomination of Peru's La Teta Asustada (Milk of Sorrow) has generated a lot of excitement in the Andean nation, media reports said. Claudia Llosa's La Teta Asustada became Peru's first film to be nominated at the Oscars in the foreign language category. The film was one of the five nominees in that category. "Peru in the Oscars", "Peru on Display" and "Nominated to Make History", were some of the headlines splashed on Lima dailies on Wednesday. The film's 23-year-old protagonist, Magaly Solier, was given rose bouquets and greeted by dozens of cheering fans when she arrived in Huanta city, ...
- 2/4/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Following up her performances in Claudia Llosa's Madeinusa (2005) and The Milk of Sorrow (2009) with her characterization of Saturnina in Altiplano (2009)--directed by the Belgian filmmaking team of Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Khadak, 2006)--the beautiful Magaly Solier confirms her position as the cinematic icon of indigenous resistance. It is also the only film I've ever seen to chart the organic (i.e., political) process by which a Black Madonna is born. Hands down, Altiplano was my favorite film from the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival and I'm hoping to have the opportunity to watch it again soon at a Bay Area venue.
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- 1/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's sophomore feature La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow, 2009) stars Magaly Solier--with whom she worked on Madeinusa (2005)--and addresses the fears of abused women during Peru's recent history. It won both the Golden Bear award and Fipresci prize at the 2009 Berlinale, as well as the award for best movie in the 24 Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara in Mexico. It is Peru's official submission to this year's Academy Awards®. In that capacity, it made an appearance in the Awards Buzz program at the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, with Llosa in attendance to address questions from her audience at the film's first Psiff screening.
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- 1/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The Greek film Dogtooth by director Yorgos Lanthimos won the $15,000 Louve D'Or prize [1] at the 38th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema at the weekend. The seriously twisted black comedy stunned audiences world wide starting at Cannes where it picked up the Prix Un Certain Regard [2]. Always unpredictable and certainly provocative, the picture is bound to raise a few questions and eyebrows. You can read our review here or listen to it here. Here is a list of all the other winners Jury's Special Mention- The Red Race, Chao Gan (Chine/Allemagne, 2009) Acting Award - Magaly Solier pour Fausta : La Teta Asustada, Claudia Llosa (Pérou, 2009) Daniel Langlois Innovation Award - Should I Really Do It?, Ismail Necmi (Turquie, 2008) Cinémathèque québécoise Grand Prize -Nuages Sur La Ville, Simon Galiero (Québec/Canada, 2009) Jury's Special Mention - Crackie, Sherry White (Canada, 2009) Loup argenté, Best Short Film Award -Jalkeilaa Tass, Maarit Suomi-Väänäen (Finlande, 2009) Grand Prix...
- 10/20/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
From a press release
Montreal, Saturday October 17, 2009 – The Festival du nouveau cinéma of Montreal is proud to announce the prize winners of its 38th edition:
Louve D’Or – Quebecor – Best first, second or third feature film in the International Selection with $15,000 cash
Canine, Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece, 2009)
Jury’s Special Mention
The Red Race, Chao Gan (China/Germany, 2009)
Acting Award – Best actor in a feature film in the International Selection
Magaly Solier in Fausta : La Teta Asustada, directed by Claudia Llosa (Peru, 2009)
*Jury: Cameron Bailey, Lucie Amyot, Kim Massee, Mario Fortin and Kim Nguyen.
Daniel Langlois Innovation Award
Should I Really Do It?, Ismail Necmi (Turkey, 2008)
*Jury: Cameron Bailey, Lucie Amyot, Kim Massee, Mario Fortin and Kim Nguyen.
The winner will receive a trophy made by the sculptor Vasco Ceccon.
Focus – Cinémathèque québécoise Grand Prize (1,500$ cash and 3,500$ in services) – Best feature film in the Focus section
Nuages Sur La Ville,...
Montreal, Saturday October 17, 2009 – The Festival du nouveau cinéma of Montreal is proud to announce the prize winners of its 38th edition:
Louve D’Or – Quebecor – Best first, second or third feature film in the International Selection with $15,000 cash
Canine, Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece, 2009)
Jury’s Special Mention
The Red Race, Chao Gan (China/Germany, 2009)
Acting Award – Best actor in a feature film in the International Selection
Magaly Solier in Fausta : La Teta Asustada, directed by Claudia Llosa (Peru, 2009)
*Jury: Cameron Bailey, Lucie Amyot, Kim Massee, Mario Fortin and Kim Nguyen.
Daniel Langlois Innovation Award
Should I Really Do It?, Ismail Necmi (Turkey, 2008)
*Jury: Cameron Bailey, Lucie Amyot, Kim Massee, Mario Fortin and Kim Nguyen.
The winner will receive a trophy made by the sculptor Vasco Ceccon.
Focus – Cinémathèque québécoise Grand Prize (1,500$ cash and 3,500$ in services) – Best feature film in the Focus section
Nuages Sur La Ville,...
- 10/18/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Toronto -- Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani¹s horror homage "Amer," a Belgium-France film that depicts three parts in a woman's life, took home the top audience award at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
Meanwhile, the Greek satirical film "Canine" from Yorgos Lanthimos took home the juried Louve d'Or trophy as Montreal's top auteur film festival wrapped Saturday night.
"Canine" won out over 16 other competition titles that included U.S. director Sean Baker's "Prince of Broadway"; "Les Signes Vitaux," by Canadian director Sophie Deraspe; Ryan Arnold's "Skidlove," also from Canada; and Johan Grimonprez's "Double Take," a Benelux co-production.
The Louve d'Or jury gave special mention to the China/Germany co-production "The Red Race" by Chao Gan.
Montreal's best acting award went to Magaly Solier, star of Claudia Llosa's Peruvian film "Fausta: La Teta Asustada."
The festival¹s 38th edition also saw the Turkish film "Should I Really Do It?...
Meanwhile, the Greek satirical film "Canine" from Yorgos Lanthimos took home the juried Louve d'Or trophy as Montreal's top auteur film festival wrapped Saturday night.
"Canine" won out over 16 other competition titles that included U.S. director Sean Baker's "Prince of Broadway"; "Les Signes Vitaux," by Canadian director Sophie Deraspe; Ryan Arnold's "Skidlove," also from Canada; and Johan Grimonprez's "Double Take," a Benelux co-production.
The Louve d'Or jury gave special mention to the China/Germany co-production "The Red Race" by Chao Gan.
Montreal's best acting award went to Magaly Solier, star of Claudia Llosa's Peruvian film "Fausta: La Teta Asustada."
The festival¹s 38th edition also saw the Turkish film "Should I Really Do It?...
- 10/18/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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