Valentin Merz’s “De Noche los Gatos Son Pardos” scooped the biggest prize, the Cinegrell First Look Award, at this year’s Locarno Festival First Look pix-in-post competition, one of its industry centerpieces.
Now in its tenth edition, First Look’s focus this year was Switzerland with a jury and industry audience given the chance to preview six upcoming Swiss feature films at various stages of rough or final cut.
The Cinegrell First Look Award consists in SFr 50,000 of post-production services from Cinegrell, a Zurich-based services and restoration company.
Merz’s second feature, after the time and character-hopping “A Vulgar Adventure,” “De Noche” turns on Valentin, a film director, who disappears half way through shooting a libertine costume drama in wooded hills. Robin, its Dp and Valentin’s lover, travels to the shores of Mexico’s Pacific Ocean, fulfilling a promise he once made to Valentin.
Produced by Marie Lanne-Chesnot and Merz at Andrea Film,...
Now in its tenth edition, First Look’s focus this year was Switzerland with a jury and industry audience given the chance to preview six upcoming Swiss feature films at various stages of rough or final cut.
The Cinegrell First Look Award consists in SFr 50,000 of post-production services from Cinegrell, a Zurich-based services and restoration company.
Merz’s second feature, after the time and character-hopping “A Vulgar Adventure,” “De Noche” turns on Valentin, a film director, who disappears half way through shooting a libertine costume drama in wooded hills. Robin, its Dp and Valentin’s lover, travels to the shores of Mexico’s Pacific Ocean, fulfilling a promise he once made to Valentin.
Produced by Marie Lanne-Chesnot and Merz at Andrea Film,...
- 8/8/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The winner of the grand prix is directed by Japan’s Kyoshi Sugita.
Japanese director Kyoshi Sugita’s Haruhara San’s Recorder has won the main prize of France’s FIDMarseille festival, the grand prix of the international competition.
Inspired by a poem by Naoko Higashi, the film was produced by Jun Higeno of Iha Films. It is stars Chika Araki as a woman who has just moved into a new apartment.
Festival director Jean-Pierre Rehm described the film as “uncompromising” and as “a pure cinematographic poem,” one that “abandons the lazy, tired concept of plot to progress by successive...
Japanese director Kyoshi Sugita’s Haruhara San’s Recorder has won the main prize of France’s FIDMarseille festival, the grand prix of the international competition.
Inspired by a poem by Naoko Higashi, the film was produced by Jun Higeno of Iha Films. It is stars Chika Araki as a woman who has just moved into a new apartment.
Festival director Jean-Pierre Rehm described the film as “uncompromising” and as “a pure cinematographic poem,” one that “abandons the lazy, tired concept of plot to progress by successive...
- 7/26/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The French film festival opens on July 22.
There is a film festival going ahead in the south of France this summer - and it’s not Cannes.
FIDMarseille is breaking new ground this year simply by taking place. The festival opens tonight, Wednesday July 22, and is running until Sunday July 26. It is the first proper physical film event of its kind, certainly in Europe, since the coronavirus pandemic began.
As Jean-Pierre Rehm, executive officer of the festival, explains staging it has been a huge challenge. “We thought first of cancelling,” Rehm recalls. “Then we thought of going online. Then, when...
There is a film festival going ahead in the south of France this summer - and it’s not Cannes.
FIDMarseille is breaking new ground this year simply by taking place. The festival opens tonight, Wednesday July 22, and is running until Sunday July 26. It is the first proper physical film event of its kind, certainly in Europe, since the coronavirus pandemic began.
As Jean-Pierre Rehm, executive officer of the festival, explains staging it has been a huge challenge. “We thought first of cancelling,” Rehm recalls. “Then we thought of going online. Then, when...
- 7/22/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
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