Basil Da Cunha’s third feature, “Manga d’Terra,” bowed in Locarno’s main Competition on Friday, a strand that highlights contemporary cinema and innovative global debuts from established and emerging cineasts.
His debut, “After the Night,” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013, while his follow-up, “The End of the World,” screened in Locarno’s main competition in 2019.
A Swiss-Portuguese co-production that teams Da Cunha with Palmyre Badnier and Nicolas Wadimoff of Geneva-based Akka Films (“The Hunter’s Son”), “Manga d’Terra” continues his fervent dive into Lisbon’s Reboleira district and its rich Cape Verdean culture.
“Working with Basil Da Cunha, accompanying him in his creative process, means embracing a singular way of doing things which calls on a number of parameters, human as well as technical and economic, far removed from those usually used in the world of cinema,” Wadimoff told Variety.
“It’s a very...
His debut, “After the Night,” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013, while his follow-up, “The End of the World,” screened in Locarno’s main competition in 2019.
A Swiss-Portuguese co-production that teams Da Cunha with Palmyre Badnier and Nicolas Wadimoff of Geneva-based Akka Films (“The Hunter’s Son”), “Manga d’Terra” continues his fervent dive into Lisbon’s Reboleira district and its rich Cape Verdean culture.
“Working with Basil Da Cunha, accompanying him in his creative process, means embracing a singular way of doing things which calls on a number of parameters, human as well as technical and economic, far removed from those usually used in the world of cinema,” Wadimoff told Variety.
“It’s a very...
- 8/6/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World (Radu Jude).The lineup for the 76th edition of the festival has been announced, including new films by Eduardo Williams, Leonor Teles, Lav Diaz, Radu Jude, and others.Concorso INTERNAZIONALEAnimal (Sofia Exarchou)Critical Zone (Ali Ahmadzadeh)Essential Truths of the Lake (Lav Diaz)Home (Leonor Teles)The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)The Invisible Fight (Rainer Sarnet)Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World (Radu Jude)Lousy Carter (Bob Byington)Manga D’Terra (Basil Da Cunha)Nuit Obscure – Au Revoir Ici, N’Importe Où (Sylvain George)Patagonia (Simone Bozzelli)The Permanent Picture (Laura Ferrés)Rossosperanza (Annarita Zambrano)Stepne (Maryna Vroda)Sweet Dreams (Ena Sendijarević)The Vanishing Soldier (Dani Rosenberg)Yannick (Quentin Dupieux)Excursion (Una Gunjak).Concorso Cineasti Del PRESENTECamping du Lac (Eléonore Saintagnan)Ein Schöner Ort (Katharina Huber)Excursion (Una Gunjak)Family Portrait (Lucy Kerr)Dreaming...
- 7/6/2023
- MUBI
A stellar precursor to the busy fall film festival season, Locarno Film Festival annually premieres some of the year’s most exciting cinema and 2023 looks to be no different. Taking place from August 2-12 in the Swiss town, the festival has now unveiled its lineup for the 76th edition. Highlights include Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3 (brilliantly forgoing a second film), Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World, Lav Diaz’s Essential Truths of the Lake, Sylvain George’s Nuit Obscure – Au Revoir Ici, N’Importe Où, and Quentin Dupieux’s Yannick.
Speaking to its main section, Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, said, “From Quentin Dupieux and his edgy surrealism to Lav Diaz. From the sarcastic humor of Radu Jude to the night poetry of Sylvain Georges. From the mad inventions of Rainer Sarnet to the abstract psychedelia of Eduardo Williams.
Speaking to its main section, Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, said, “From Quentin Dupieux and his edgy surrealism to Lav Diaz. From the sarcastic humor of Radu Jude to the night poetry of Sylvain Georges. From the mad inventions of Rainer Sarnet to the abstract psychedelia of Eduardo Williams.
- 7/5/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
International competition features 16 world premieres.
The Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12) has revealed the line-up for its 76th edition, which includes the world premiere of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World.
Locarno’s international competition will comprise 17 films, including 16 world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
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These titles include Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World, his first feature since winning the Berlinale Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn in...
The Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12) has revealed the line-up for its 76th edition, which includes the world premiere of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World.
Locarno’s international competition will comprise 17 films, including 16 world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
Scroll down for full list of titles
These titles include Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World, his first feature since winning the Berlinale Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn in...
- 7/5/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The Locarno International Film Festival unveiled the full program for 2023 on Wednesday, with dozens of world premieres set to screen in the 76th edition of the Swiss festival.
Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section will include several of this season’s festival favorites, among them Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall from French director Justine Triet starring Sandra Hüller; Ken Loach’s latest (and possibly last) feature, The Old Oak; Noora Niasari’s Sundance audience award winner Shayda, featuring Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi; and Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s comedy Theater Camp, which won a special jury prize at Sundance. Other highlights include U.S. horror feature Falling Stars by directors Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki; Dammi from 71′ and White Boy Rick-helmer Yann Demange; and Magnetic Continent, the new nature documentary from March of the Penguins‘ filmmaker Luc Jacquet about the continent of Antarctica.
Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section will include several of this season’s festival favorites, among them Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall from French director Justine Triet starring Sandra Hüller; Ken Loach’s latest (and possibly last) feature, The Old Oak; Noora Niasari’s Sundance audience award winner Shayda, featuring Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi; and Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s comedy Theater Camp, which won a special jury prize at Sundance. Other highlights include U.S. horror feature Falling Stars by directors Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki; Dammi from 71′ and White Boy Rick-helmer Yann Demange; and Magnetic Continent, the new nature documentary from March of the Penguins‘ filmmaker Luc Jacquet about the continent of Antarctica.
- 7/5/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Linking to Paris-based Nadia Turincev and her producer partner Omar El Kadi to develop and produce two new Swiss films, Geneva-based Akka Films is also ramping up TV production, with Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, writer-directors of the acclaimed “My Little Sister,” Switzerland’s Oscar submission, teaming to create a new TV series .
Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013. Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019.
Presented at 2021’s online Industry Village, part of France’s Les Arc Film Festival, “O Jacaré” concludes Da Cunha’s trilogy set in the humble district of Reboleira on the outskirts of Lisbon. Described by its producers as a breathless ensemble thriller in the line of his previous features,...
Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013. Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019.
Presented at 2021’s online Industry Village, part of France’s Les Arc Film Festival, “O Jacaré” concludes Da Cunha’s trilogy set in the humble district of Reboleira on the outskirts of Lisbon. Described by its producers as a breathless ensemble thriller in the line of his previous features,...
- 3/2/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Swiss filmmaker is taking part in the 12th Les Arcs Film Festival’s online Industry Village with a project that will wrap his trilogy on the Reboleira neighbourhood in Lisbon’s suburbs. After initially rising to prominence in the 2013 Directors’ Fortnight with his feature debut, After the Night, and then proving popular in competition at Locarno in 2019 with his subsequent opus, O fim do mundo, Swiss director Basil Da Cunha is about to take part in the showcase of Industry Village's Coproduction Village (see the news) at the 12th Les Arcs Film Festival (set to unspool online from 20-22 January 2021) with his new project in development, O jacare. O jacare will wrap the filmmaker’s trilogy hinging on the very popular neighbourhood of Reboleira, in the suburbs of Lisbon. The story, written by the director himself, kicks off the day after a particularly memorable party. The inhabitants learn from.
New Projects by Paulo Miranda Maria, Delphine Girard, Mans Mansson are in the line-up.
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival is moving its industry component to January 2021 but keeping the festival itself in December.
Les Arcs Industry Village will run as a hybrid online-physical event and will be based in Paris. The programme, which is headlined by the Co-production Village and Works-in-Progress events, will take place physically in Paris, from January 17-18, and online from January 20-21.
The festival component will retain its previously announced dates of December 12-19. It is expected to go ahead mainly online,...
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival is moving its industry component to January 2021 but keeping the festival itself in December.
Les Arcs Industry Village will run as a hybrid online-physical event and will be based in Paris. The programme, which is headlined by the Co-production Village and Works-in-Progress events, will take place physically in Paris, from January 17-18, and online from January 20-21.
The festival component will retain its previously announced dates of December 12-19. It is expected to go ahead mainly online,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
New Projects by Paulo Miranda Maria, Delphine Girard, Mans Mansson are in the line-up.
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival is moving its industy component to January 2021 but keeping the festival itself in December.
Les Arcs Industry Village will run as a hybrid online-physical event and will be based in Paris. The programme, which is headlined by the Co-production Village and Works-in-Progress events, will take place physically in Paris, from January 17-18, and online from January 20-21.
The festival component will retain its previouly announced dates of December 12-19. It is expected to go ahead mainly online,...
The 12th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival is moving its industy component to January 2021 but keeping the festival itself in December.
Les Arcs Industry Village will run as a hybrid online-physical event and will be based in Paris. The programme, which is headlined by the Co-production Village and Works-in-Progress events, will take place physically in Paris, from January 17-18, and online from January 20-21.
The festival component will retain its previouly announced dates of December 12-19. It is expected to go ahead mainly online,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Co-Productions Village will unspool on 17 and 18 January in the French capital and online, with 18 projects in the offing, including works by Måns Månsson, Basil Da Cunha and Nathalie Biancheri. The health crisis and current state of lockdown in France have left the team of the Les Arcs Film Festival with no choice but to reinvent the celebration. As such, the 12th edition of the festival (whose programme will be revealed at a later date) will unspool online between 12 and 19 December 2020 (with screenings set to take place in the Bourg-Saint-Maurice Valley as soon as French cinemas reopen). The professional Industry Village segment, meanwhile, will unfold in two forms: both in person, in Paris, on 17 and 18 January and online, immediately afterwards, on 20 and 21 January. 18 projects in development (including 12...
- 11/10/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Valentyn Vasyanovych’s “Atlantis,” a dystopian film set in war-torn Ukraine, won the Crystal Arrow Award of the 11th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival.
The film, which won the top prize at Venice’s Horizons section this year, takes place in 2025 in Eastern Ukraine after a ten-year war against Russia which has left the country in ruins. “Atlantis” follows two war veterans, Sergiy (Andriy Rymaruk) and a mate, who are both affected by the war and are living in an abandoned building.
Presided over by the French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux, the jury was comprised of Santiago Amigorena, the Colombian screenwriter, producer and author, Mélanie De Biasio, the Belgian musician, Nina Hoss, the German actor, Atiq Rahimi, the Afghan director, and Antoine Reinartz, the French actor.
Besides the Cystal Arrow prize, five other kudos were handed out at les Arcs, including the Grand Jury Prize which went to Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks,...
The film, which won the top prize at Venice’s Horizons section this year, takes place in 2025 in Eastern Ukraine after a ten-year war against Russia which has left the country in ruins. “Atlantis” follows two war veterans, Sergiy (Andriy Rymaruk) and a mate, who are both affected by the war and are living in an abandoned building.
Presided over by the French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux, the jury was comprised of Santiago Amigorena, the Colombian screenwriter, producer and author, Mélanie De Biasio, the Belgian musician, Nina Hoss, the German actor, Atiq Rahimi, the Afghan director, and Antoine Reinartz, the French actor.
Besides the Cystal Arrow prize, five other kudos were handed out at les Arcs, including the Grand Jury Prize which went to Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks,...
- 12/21/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Basil Da Cunha’s O Fim do Mundo has just been unveiled as part of Locarno’s Concorso Internazionale, and this story of a young man returning to his Lisbon suburb after eight years in a juvenile facility is a surprising, visually striking achievement for the director.
Born in Switzerland, Da Cunha decided to move to Portugal – where his family comes from – as an adult, settling on the impoverished area of Reboleira, north of Lisbon. He has lived there for a dozen or so years now, making it the subject of his cinema in addition to being his home. His brand of observational drama has the subtlety of a documentarian and the energy of a genre enthusiast, making heroes onscreen out of the people he has met in the last few years.…...
Born in Switzerland, Da Cunha decided to move to Portugal – where his family comes from – as an adult, settling on the impoverished area of Reboleira, north of Lisbon. He has lived there for a dozen or so years now, making it the subject of his cinema in addition to being his home. His brand of observational drama has the subtlety of a documentarian and the energy of a genre enthusiast, making heroes onscreen out of the people he has met in the last few years.…...
- 8/23/2019
- by Tommaso Tocci
- IONCINEMA.com
Basil Da Cunha’s second feature “O Fim do Mundo,” (“The End of the World”) kicked off its festival run with a premiere in Locarno’s main International Competition on Tuesday afternoon.
Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole in narrative, language and location, “O Fim do Mundo” is a 100% Swiss production from Thera Production co-produced by public broadcaster Radio Télévision Suisse (Rts). Lop Magneron’s Paris-based Wide Management is handling international sales; Swiss distribution is handled by Sister Distribution.
Thera producer Julien Rouyet has been a close friend of Da Cunha’s for 15 years now, which helps to explain the unique production setup on the director’s more recent films.
Following Spira, a young man just released from a juvenile detention center, the film tells a fictional tale that may as well be real, documenting the disappearance of predominantly black, Cape Verdean Creole-speaking Portuguese communities. Spira experiences the destruction of his...
Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole in narrative, language and location, “O Fim do Mundo” is a 100% Swiss production from Thera Production co-produced by public broadcaster Radio Télévision Suisse (Rts). Lop Magneron’s Paris-based Wide Management is handling international sales; Swiss distribution is handled by Sister Distribution.
Thera producer Julien Rouyet has been a close friend of Da Cunha’s for 15 years now, which helps to explain the unique production setup on the director’s more recent films.
Following Spira, a young man just released from a juvenile detention center, the film tells a fictional tale that may as well be real, documenting the disappearance of predominantly black, Cape Verdean Creole-speaking Portuguese communities. Spira experiences the destruction of his...
- 8/13/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The 72nd Locarno Film Festival, a longtime beacon of the international indie filmmaking community, is being shaken up under new artistic director Lili Hinstin. She is the Swiss event’s second female chief since it was founded in 1946 and one of the few women to head an A-list fest.
Hinstin takes the reins from Italy’s Carlo Chatrian who went on to become Berlinale co-director after six years at Locarno’s helm, his last edition characterized by movies with women at their center. The Swiss fest will run Aug. 7-17.
In announcing her selection, Hinstin, who previously headed France’s Entrevues Belfort Intl. Film Festival, says she’s aiming to “surprise, perturb and raise questions” and points out that “the choices you make for your first festival all tend to become a kind of manifesto.”
The Locarno opener is clearly significant: “If Only,” a partly autobiographical sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents,...
Hinstin takes the reins from Italy’s Carlo Chatrian who went on to become Berlinale co-director after six years at Locarno’s helm, his last edition characterized by movies with women at their center. The Swiss fest will run Aug. 7-17.
In announcing her selection, Hinstin, who previously headed France’s Entrevues Belfort Intl. Film Festival, says she’s aiming to “surprise, perturb and raise questions” and points out that “the choices you make for your first festival all tend to become a kind of manifesto.”
The Locarno opener is clearly significant: “If Only,” a partly autobiographical sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents,...
- 8/6/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The French firm is selling the second feature film by Swiss director Basil Da Cunha which will be vying for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Building on the success of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where it negotiated on behalf of The Father, the work by Bulgarian directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov which walked away with the Crystal Globe for Best Film, the French international sales company Wide Management will be travelling to the 72nd Locarno Film Festival (running 7 to 17 August) with yet another impressive asset in its line-up: O fim do mundo by Swiss filmmaker Basil Da Cunha, which finds itself in the running for the Golden Leopard. Discovered in 2013 in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight (where his short films Sunfish and The Living Also Cry had previously been selected in 2011 and 2012) with his first full-length film After the Night, the 1985-born...
Celebrating its 72nd edition this year, the Locarno Film Festival has been the birthplace for the finest in international arthouse cinema and this year’s lineup looks to continue the tradition. Ahead of the festival, running August 7-17, the full slate has been announced.
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.
The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Italian director Ginevra Elkann’s directorial debut, “If Only,” about kids with divorced parents, will open the 72nd Locarno Film Festival, its first edition under new artistic director Lili Hinstin, who has assembled an edgy mix of promising titles from young auteurs and more established names.
“If Only” and the fest closer, iconic Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Uzbekistan-set “To the Ends of the Earth” will both premiere in Locarno’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande.
Also set for a launch from the Piazza Grande is Amazon’s terrorist drama “7500,” directed by Patrick Vollrath, with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in tow; Valerie Donzelli’s comedy “Notre Dame”; and fellow French director Stephane Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet,” in which a teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which premiered in Cannes, will also screen on the Piazza (without talent in...
“If Only” and the fest closer, iconic Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Uzbekistan-set “To the Ends of the Earth” will both premiere in Locarno’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande.
Also set for a launch from the Piazza Grande is Amazon’s terrorist drama “7500,” directed by Patrick Vollrath, with star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in tow; Valerie Donzelli’s comedy “Notre Dame”; and fellow French director Stephane Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet,” in which a teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which premiered in Cannes, will also screen on the Piazza (without talent in...
- 7/17/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Based on their outstanding careers forged on international co-productions, 24 up-and-coming players in the European film industry have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion's (Efp) networking platform Producers on the Move. Now in its 15th year, Efp spotlights emerging European producers at the Cannes Film Festival from May 17-19 and helps them embark on successful cooperation with their similarly ambitious Producers on the Move colleagues from all over Europe.
The programas been financially supported by the Media Program (2007-2013) of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations who each made a careful selection of their national participants according to specific criteria.
The schedule of Producers on the Move includes working sessions, one-to-one speed-dating meetings and various opportunities to exchange knowledge and follow up discussions on future projects. In addition, Efp will be teaming up with the European cultural channel Arte and the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages for Producers on the Move. For the first time, Eurimages has prepared a case study exclusively for Efp's program to be discussed under the direction of Eurimages Executive Director Roberto Olla.
He points out the importance of programs such as Producers on the Move:
“This is the 4th consecutive year that Eurimages is involved with this initiative which perfectly marries our objectives of encouraging co-operation between producers so as to stimulate cinematographic co-productions and of promoting their international distribution. Further to the success of the collaboration at the Cannes Festival, the Eurimages Fund has strengthened its partnership with European Film Promotion through other initiatives which also seek to unite professionals from the European film industry in order to participate in its development on an international level.”
Looking back at previous editions, Efp's programme results each year in several new trans-national co-productions and gives the producers a higher profile in Cannes. For 2013, almost all of the participants are still in contact with one another and 17 co-productions are in development.
One recent success story is the coming-of-age feature The Word, directed by Anna Kazejak and co-produced by two Producers on the Move from 2011, Lukasz Dzieciol(Opus Film, Poland) and Jesper Morthorst (Sf Film Production, Denmark). The film was released in Poland in March after its premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation sidebar.
Currently in post is Dirk Ohm - The Illusionist That Disappeared, directed by Bobbie Peers. The producer Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film As, Norway), joined forces for this film with her Producers on the Move colleague from 2011, Gian-Piero Ringel (Neue Road Movies, Germany) and the 2010 Producers on the Move, Lizette Jonjic (Migma Film, Sweden). Norway has scheduled the release for September 2014. Ekerhovd and Ringel also worked together for two further projects: Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders and the six episodes for Cathedrals of Culture which have been presented at this year’s Berlinale.
The following producers were selected by the Efp member organizations:
Viktoria
Director: Maya Vitkova
Producer: Maya Vitkova
Viktoria Films, Bulgaria
selected by Bulgarian National Film Centre
Gangster of Love
Director: Nebojša Slijepcevic
Producer: Vanja Jambrović
Restart, Croatia
selected by Croation Audiovisual Centre
Burning Bush
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producer: Tomáš Hrubỳ
Nutprodukce, Czech Republic
selected by Czech Film Center
Antboy
Director: Ask Hasselbalch
Producer: Eva Jakobsen
Nimbus Film, Denmark
selected by Danish Film Institute
Concrete Night
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Producer: Mark Lwoff
Bufo, Finland
selected by Finnish Film Foundation
Möbius
Director: Eric Rochant
Producer: Mathias Rubin
Récifilms, France
selected by UniFrance films
Brides
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Gemini, Georgia
selected by Georgian National Film Center
The Special Need
Director: Carlo Zoratti
Producer: Henning Kamm
Detailfilm, Germany
selected by German Films
Standing Aside, Watching
Director: Yorgos Servetas
Producer: Konstantin Kontovrakis
Heretic Creative Producer, Greece
selected by Greek Film Centre
Land of Storms
Director: Adam Csaszi
Producer: Eszter Gyárfás
Proton Cinema, Hungary
selected by Magyar Filmunió/ Hungarian National Film Fund
Metalhead
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Producer: Árni Filippusson
Mystery, Iceland
selected by Icelandic Fim Centre
You're Ugly Too
Director: Mark Noonan
Producer: John Keville
Sp Films, Ireland
selected by Irish Film Board
Black Souls
Director: Francesco Munzi
Producer: Olivia Musini
Cinemaundici, Italy
selected by Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Monument to Michael Jackson
Director: Darko Lungulov
Co-Producer: Ognen Antov
Dream Factory Macedonia, Fyr of Macedonia
selected by Macedonian Film Agency
The Ascent
Director: Nemanja Becanovic
Producer: Ivan Djurović
Artikulacija Production, Montenegro
selected by Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
Totally True Love
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Producer: Teréz Hollo-Klausen
Anna Kron Film, Norway
selected by Norwegian Film Institute
Fuck for Forest
Director: Michal Marczak
Producer: Mikołaj Pokromski
Pokromski Studio, Poland
selected by Polish Film Institute
Collider
Director: Jason Butler
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
beActive Entertainment, Portugal
selected by Ica I.P. / Portugal
Slovakia 2.0
Director: Iveta Grófová, Juraj Herz, Martin Šulík, Miro Jelok, Mišo Suchý, Ondrej Rudavský, Peter Kerekes, Peter Krištúfek, Viera Cákanyová, Zuzana Liová
Producer: Mátyás Prikler
MPhilms, Slovak Republic
selected by Slovak Film Institute
The Extraordinary Tale
Director: José F. Ortuño, Laura Alvea
Producer: Marta Velasco
Áralan Films, Spain
selected by Icaa / Spain
Beyond Beyond
Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Producer: Petter Lindblad
Snowcloud Films, Sweden
selected by Swedish Film Institute
Ate Ver La Luz
Director: Basil da Cunha
Producer: Elodie Brunner
Box Productions, Switzerland
selected by Swiss Films
Secrets of War
Director: Dennis Bots
Producer: David Bijker
Bijker Film & TV, The Netherlands
selected by Eye International
Weekend
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
The Bureau Film Company, United Kingdom
selected by British Council...
The programas been financially supported by the Media Program (2007-2013) of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations who each made a careful selection of their national participants according to specific criteria.
The schedule of Producers on the Move includes working sessions, one-to-one speed-dating meetings and various opportunities to exchange knowledge and follow up discussions on future projects. In addition, Efp will be teaming up with the European cultural channel Arte and the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages for Producers on the Move. For the first time, Eurimages has prepared a case study exclusively for Efp's program to be discussed under the direction of Eurimages Executive Director Roberto Olla.
He points out the importance of programs such as Producers on the Move:
“This is the 4th consecutive year that Eurimages is involved with this initiative which perfectly marries our objectives of encouraging co-operation between producers so as to stimulate cinematographic co-productions and of promoting their international distribution. Further to the success of the collaboration at the Cannes Festival, the Eurimages Fund has strengthened its partnership with European Film Promotion through other initiatives which also seek to unite professionals from the European film industry in order to participate in its development on an international level.”
Looking back at previous editions, Efp's programme results each year in several new trans-national co-productions and gives the producers a higher profile in Cannes. For 2013, almost all of the participants are still in contact with one another and 17 co-productions are in development.
One recent success story is the coming-of-age feature The Word, directed by Anna Kazejak and co-produced by two Producers on the Move from 2011, Lukasz Dzieciol(Opus Film, Poland) and Jesper Morthorst (Sf Film Production, Denmark). The film was released in Poland in March after its premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation sidebar.
Currently in post is Dirk Ohm - The Illusionist That Disappeared, directed by Bobbie Peers. The producer Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film As, Norway), joined forces for this film with her Producers on the Move colleague from 2011, Gian-Piero Ringel (Neue Road Movies, Germany) and the 2010 Producers on the Move, Lizette Jonjic (Migma Film, Sweden). Norway has scheduled the release for September 2014. Ekerhovd and Ringel also worked together for two further projects: Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders and the six episodes for Cathedrals of Culture which have been presented at this year’s Berlinale.
The following producers were selected by the Efp member organizations:
Viktoria
Director: Maya Vitkova
Producer: Maya Vitkova
Viktoria Films, Bulgaria
selected by Bulgarian National Film Centre
Gangster of Love
Director: Nebojša Slijepcevic
Producer: Vanja Jambrović
Restart, Croatia
selected by Croation Audiovisual Centre
Burning Bush
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producer: Tomáš Hrubỳ
Nutprodukce, Czech Republic
selected by Czech Film Center
Antboy
Director: Ask Hasselbalch
Producer: Eva Jakobsen
Nimbus Film, Denmark
selected by Danish Film Institute
Concrete Night
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Producer: Mark Lwoff
Bufo, Finland
selected by Finnish Film Foundation
Möbius
Director: Eric Rochant
Producer: Mathias Rubin
Récifilms, France
selected by UniFrance films
Brides
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Gemini, Georgia
selected by Georgian National Film Center
The Special Need
Director: Carlo Zoratti
Producer: Henning Kamm
Detailfilm, Germany
selected by German Films
Standing Aside, Watching
Director: Yorgos Servetas
Producer: Konstantin Kontovrakis
Heretic Creative Producer, Greece
selected by Greek Film Centre
Land of Storms
Director: Adam Csaszi
Producer: Eszter Gyárfás
Proton Cinema, Hungary
selected by Magyar Filmunió/ Hungarian National Film Fund
Metalhead
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Producer: Árni Filippusson
Mystery, Iceland
selected by Icelandic Fim Centre
You're Ugly Too
Director: Mark Noonan
Producer: John Keville
Sp Films, Ireland
selected by Irish Film Board
Black Souls
Director: Francesco Munzi
Producer: Olivia Musini
Cinemaundici, Italy
selected by Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Monument to Michael Jackson
Director: Darko Lungulov
Co-Producer: Ognen Antov
Dream Factory Macedonia, Fyr of Macedonia
selected by Macedonian Film Agency
The Ascent
Director: Nemanja Becanovic
Producer: Ivan Djurović
Artikulacija Production, Montenegro
selected by Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
Totally True Love
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Producer: Teréz Hollo-Klausen
Anna Kron Film, Norway
selected by Norwegian Film Institute
Fuck for Forest
Director: Michal Marczak
Producer: Mikołaj Pokromski
Pokromski Studio, Poland
selected by Polish Film Institute
Collider
Director: Jason Butler
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
beActive Entertainment, Portugal
selected by Ica I.P. / Portugal
Slovakia 2.0
Director: Iveta Grófová, Juraj Herz, Martin Šulík, Miro Jelok, Mišo Suchý, Ondrej Rudavský, Peter Kerekes, Peter Krištúfek, Viera Cákanyová, Zuzana Liová
Producer: Mátyás Prikler
MPhilms, Slovak Republic
selected by Slovak Film Institute
The Extraordinary Tale
Director: José F. Ortuño, Laura Alvea
Producer: Marta Velasco
Áralan Films, Spain
selected by Icaa / Spain
Beyond Beyond
Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Producer: Petter Lindblad
Snowcloud Films, Sweden
selected by Swedish Film Institute
Ate Ver La Luz
Director: Basil da Cunha
Producer: Elodie Brunner
Box Productions, Switzerland
selected by Swiss Films
Secrets of War
Director: Dennis Bots
Producer: David Bijker
Bijker Film & TV, The Netherlands
selected by Eye International
Weekend
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
The Bureau Film Company, United Kingdom
selected by British Council...
- 5/3/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
A documentary feel gives this thriller about a dealer trying to pay off a debt to a crime boss an added sense of authenticity
In the Reboleira slums of Lisbon, dealer and jailbird Sombra (Pedro Ferreira) struggles to pay off an outstanding debt to a local gang boss, his increasingly desperate situation leading him through the nocturnal streets in search of cash before being forced into armed robbery. Writer/director Basil da Cunha describes After the Night as "a genre movie in a realist context", mixing a neo-noir crime narrative with an observational strand of quasi-documentary film-making to create a vérité thriller rich with a sense of location and cultural authenticity.
While the story plays out in fairly formulaic fashion, it's the incidental detail that brings this world to life: Sombra's relationship with his pet iguana; a shamefaced encounter with a scolding but maternal auntie; the exorcism rituals of a...
In the Reboleira slums of Lisbon, dealer and jailbird Sombra (Pedro Ferreira) struggles to pay off an outstanding debt to a local gang boss, his increasingly desperate situation leading him through the nocturnal streets in search of cash before being forced into armed robbery. Writer/director Basil da Cunha describes After the Night as "a genre movie in a realist context", mixing a neo-noir crime narrative with an observational strand of quasi-documentary film-making to create a vérité thriller rich with a sense of location and cultural authenticity.
While the story plays out in fairly formulaic fashion, it's the incidental detail that brings this world to life: Sombra's relationship with his pet iguana; a shamefaced encounter with a scolding but maternal auntie; the exorcism rituals of a...
- 4/26/2014
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Dr. Garth Twa talks to Basil Da Cunha about After the Night.
Basil Da Cunha’s first feature, After The Night, is a unique hybrid in the bestiary of film. Set in the creole ghettos of Lisbon, it has the documentary grunge of social realism, like La Terra Trema (1948), Luchino Visconti’s glamorously grimy Italian neo-realist classic; or Life of Jesus (1997), Bruno Dumont’s unflinching excursion in youthful destruction; or last year’s The Selfish Giant (2013) by Clio Barnard with its traditional British surfeit of absence of hope. It’s like these films, only without the glitz. But After the Night is also a genre film, a favela noir, with a hapless, hopeless doomed anti-hero, Sombra, always on the hurt end of a beating, with bad debts and bad loans, his sass with woman turning into meek groveling, always in the wrong place.
Basil Da Cunha’s first feature, After The Night, is a unique hybrid in the bestiary of film. Set in the creole ghettos of Lisbon, it has the documentary grunge of social realism, like La Terra Trema (1948), Luchino Visconti’s glamorously grimy Italian neo-realist classic; or Life of Jesus (1997), Bruno Dumont’s unflinching excursion in youthful destruction; or last year’s The Selfish Giant (2013) by Clio Barnard with its traditional British surfeit of absence of hope. It’s like these films, only without the glitz. But After the Night is also a genre film, a favela noir, with a hapless, hopeless doomed anti-hero, Sombra, always on the hurt end of a beating, with bad debts and bad loans, his sass with woman turning into meek groveling, always in the wrong place.
- 4/25/2014
- by Dr. Garth Twa
- Pure Movies
At first glance what would appear to be a story framed within the teeming favelas of Rio de Janeiro, is actually a gangland yarn set in the similarly rundown (if previously unexplored cinematically) Creola slums of Lisbon, Portugal. With After the Night, young Swiss-born filmmaker Basil da Cunha has sculpted a dark, moody and satisfyingly grim tale of an outsider who seems to exist in the shadows of the night.
Sombra (Pedro Ferreira) is a dishevelled and mysterious figure who lives a solitary life with ‘Dragon’, his pet iguana. He is forever crawling around the rooftops next to the threadbare room he calls home, and his only friend appears to be a young girl who lives with her family next door, and whom Sombra is fiercely protective of. He is also in some kind of mysterious debt to the local drug dealer and crime boss, who he has been an associate of in the past.
Sombra (Pedro Ferreira) is a dishevelled and mysterious figure who lives a solitary life with ‘Dragon’, his pet iguana. He is forever crawling around the rooftops next to the threadbare room he calls home, and his only friend appears to be a young girl who lives with her family next door, and whom Sombra is fiercely protective of. He is also in some kind of mysterious debt to the local drug dealer and crime boss, who he has been an associate of in the past.
- 4/24/2014
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★☆☆☆Selected as part of the Directors' Fortnight strand at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Basil da Cunha's feature debut After the Night (2013) paints an initially intriguing picture of nocturnal life in Lisbon's crime-ridden suburbs, but ultimately fails to match its style with the substance needed to genuinely grip. Our guide through the halflight is the dreadlocked Sombra (Pedro Ferreira), a destitute ex-con on the run after a local crime lord decides to collects his debts in full. With only a pet bearded dragon (da Cunha here recalling Werner Herzog's similar fascination with reptiles in 2009's Bad Lieutenant) and a rusty machete as allies, Sombra leads us across the rooftops as he attempts to avoid the gun-toting gang.
- 4/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
"There are quite a few bombshells" said an excited General Delegate Edouard Waintrop, when he announced the selection for the 45th Directors' Fortnight, last year, ahead of the the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The selection included 7 first feature films and 3 second features out of the 21 titles on the list. Among them was Basil da Cunha's feature film debut, Até ver a luz (or After Hours), a drama/thriller. Here's how it's described: Straight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the Creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can’t get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader...
- 3/26/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The Bristol based short film festival has partnered with Swiss Films and Swiss short film festival International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur for this year’s edition.
The 2013 Encounters Film Festival will have a Swiss focus, thanks to a partnership with Swiss Films and International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, with backing from the Swiss Embassy, the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain and Helvetic Airways.
The short film festival, which runs September 17-22 in Bristol, will showcase works from upcoming Swiss filmmakers and animators as well as hosting a live music event, an artist’s installation, a filmmakers focus and a pop-up Cine Chalet.
A special strand - ‘God You’re So Square’ - curated by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - aims to “break down conventional image of the Swiss psyche (efficient, boring, predictable) by exploring dysfunctional males who are struggling to find their place in society.”
The selection includes The Living Also Cry by upcoming filmmaker Basil da Cunha, whose first feature...
The 2013 Encounters Film Festival will have a Swiss focus, thanks to a partnership with Swiss Films and International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, with backing from the Swiss Embassy, the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain and Helvetic Airways.
The short film festival, which runs September 17-22 in Bristol, will showcase works from upcoming Swiss filmmakers and animators as well as hosting a live music event, an artist’s installation, a filmmakers focus and a pop-up Cine Chalet.
A special strand - ‘God You’re So Square’ - curated by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - aims to “break down conventional image of the Swiss psyche (efficient, boring, predictable) by exploring dysfunctional males who are struggling to find their place in society.”
The selection includes The Living Also Cry by upcoming filmmaker Basil da Cunha, whose first feature...
- 7/17/2013
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
Ate ver a luz – Basil Da Cunha
Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Buzz: Basil da Cunha is a Swiss filmmaker of Portuguese descent. In 2011 and 2012, his short films Nuvem and Os vivos também choram were part of the official selection in Directors’ Fortnight, where the latter short was awarded a Special Mention from the Jury. Expectations are high for Da Cunha’s first feature film. However, based on the images, it promises to be another gritty, crime-riddled, violent drama, set in the Afro-Portuguese community in Lisbon. Let’s hope Da Cunha brings something new to this oft-treaded setting.
The Gist: Straight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can’t get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader who begins to mistrust him, he starts...
Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Buzz: Basil da Cunha is a Swiss filmmaker of Portuguese descent. In 2011 and 2012, his short films Nuvem and Os vivos também choram were part of the official selection in Directors’ Fortnight, where the latter short was awarded a Special Mention from the Jury. Expectations are high for Da Cunha’s first feature film. However, based on the images, it promises to be another gritty, crime-riddled, violent drama, set in the Afro-Portuguese community in Lisbon. Let’s hope Da Cunha brings something new to this oft-treaded setting.
The Gist: Straight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can’t get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader who begins to mistrust him, he starts...
- 5/15/2013
- by Moen Mohamed
- IONCINEMA.com
"There are quite a few bombshells" said an excited General Delegate Edouard Waintrop, when he announced the selection for the 45th Directors' Fortnight, which takes place starting This Week, from May 16th to 26th as part of the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The selection includes 7 first feature films and 3 second features out of the 21 titles on the list. Among them is Basil da Cunha's feature film debut, Après la nuit (Até ver a luz), a drama/thriller. Here's how it's described: Straight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the Creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can’t get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an...
- 5/13/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
First film in 20 years from Alejandro Jodorowsky, as Clio Barnard and Paul Wright fly flag for Britain
The line-up of this year's Cannes film festival is now complete after the announcement of the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week selections.
The Director's Fortnight has added 20 titles to its already-announced opener, The Congress, from Ari "Waltz With Bashir" Folman, a part-animated adaptation of Stanislaw "Solaris" Lem's sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress.
Highlights include La Danza de la Realidad, the first film for more than two decades from cult Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (best known for El Topo), and a complementary documentary, Jodorowsky's Dune, about the director's disastrous attempt to film Frank Herbert's giant novel. Two more Chilean directors, Sebastian Silva, with his Sundance hit Magic Magic, starring Michael Cera, and Marcela Said with The Summer of the Flying Fish, have had films selected alongside.
Directors Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop has...
The line-up of this year's Cannes film festival is now complete after the announcement of the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week selections.
The Director's Fortnight has added 20 titles to its already-announced opener, The Congress, from Ari "Waltz With Bashir" Folman, a part-animated adaptation of Stanislaw "Solaris" Lem's sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress.
Highlights include La Danza de la Realidad, the first film for more than two decades from cult Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (best known for El Topo), and a complementary documentary, Jodorowsky's Dune, about the director's disastrous attempt to film Frank Herbert's giant novel. Two more Chilean directors, Sebastian Silva, with his Sundance hit Magic Magic, starring Michael Cera, and Marcela Said with The Summer of the Flying Fish, have had films selected alongside.
Directors Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop has...
- 4/24/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The Directors Fortnight announced its full lineup on Tuesday, including nine short films and 21 features which will run parallel to the Cannes Film Festival in May. Notable selections include the Ruairi Robinson’s sci-fi film Last Days on Mars, starring Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Romola Garai (The Hour), and Olivia Williams (Rushmore), and Sebastian Silva’s thriller Magic Magic, about a tourist in Chile who starts to experience a metal breakdown, with Juno Temple (Killer Joe) and Michael Cera (Arrested Development).
Avant-garde Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) will return to the Festival with a film about his life,...
Avant-garde Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) will return to the Festival with a film about his life,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup is virtually complete, though an Out of Competition selection or two may still be announced. This morning from Paris the fest announced their full Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine) selection, which we already knew would open with Ari Folman's The Congress, but added to that are a couple of Sundance features including Sebastian Silva's Magic Magic starring Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino and Agustin Silva and Jim Mickle's cannibal feature We are What We are. Additionally, Ruairi Robinson arrives with Last Days on Mars, a sci-fi thriller starring Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai and Elias Koteas centered on a group of astronaut explorers who succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars. There will also be a special tribute to director Alejandro Jodorowosky who has a film in the selection, La Danza De La Realidad,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Directors Fortnight section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning, with 21 features and 9 short films making the cut. As previously announced, the section -- which runs May 16-26 -- will open with Ari Folman's "The Congress." It will be joined by two films from Sundance -- Jim Mickle’s cannibal thriller “We Are What We Are” and Sebastian Silva’s psychological suspenser “Magic Magic” -- as well as a few notable world premieres: Clio Barnard’s follow-up to "The Arbor," “The Selfish Giant,” and Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson's sci-fi thriller "Last Days on Mars," with Liev Schreiber and Romola Garai. Complete list of films in the section below. Asterisks denote a first film, which is thus eligible for Cannes' Camera d'Or award. Features The Congress, dir: Ari Folman A Strange Course Of Events, dir: Raphael Nadjari Apres La Nuit, dir: Basil Da Cunha* The Apaches,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Heavy on the French film items and with a side dish of Chilean influence, this year’s Directors’ Fortnight also known as the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is offering “double” Alejandro Jodorowosky, and the highly anticipated titles we predicted from the likes of Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Serge Bozon (Tip Top). Repping Chile, we have Sebastián Silva’s Magic Magic (review) which is joined by another Sundance preemed title in Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are (fittingly this is the remake of Somos lo que hay (which was featured in the section in 2010). Upping the sci-fi quotient by joining the already announced The Congress, we find Ruairi Robinson highly anticipated feature debut with Last Days On Mars. Anurag Kashyap makes it two for two years, after unloading the almost six hour Gangs of Wasseypur, he returns with Ugly, while Tehilim (Main Comp in 2007) helmer Raphaël Nadjari returns...
- 4/23/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A tale of "action, gore and laughs" whose budget was raised from donations, figures among the more unusual offerings in the Cannes Director's Fortnight whose full programme was launched today (23 April).
Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin will give the Brooklyn-based director his first taste of the madness of Cannes. Saulnier raised $37,828 last August with a short video pitch through Kickstarter, the world's largest funding platform for creative projects.
The other features competing for the Camera d’Or prize include Raphaël Nadjari’s Above The Hill a return to Cannes for the Israeli-French filmmaker after a 14-year gap.
After The Night by Basil Da Cunha is the first feature from the Swiss director who of whose previous short films were featured in the Director’s Fortnight.
A Voyager, the first film in 18 years from Oscar-winning documentarian Marcel Ophuls, 85, who turns the focus on himself and his personal history, promises to be.
Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin will give the Brooklyn-based director his first taste of the madness of Cannes. Saulnier raised $37,828 last August with a short video pitch through Kickstarter, the world's largest funding platform for creative projects.
The other features competing for the Camera d’Or prize include Raphaël Nadjari’s Above The Hill a return to Cannes for the Israeli-French filmmaker after a 14-year gap.
After The Night by Basil Da Cunha is the first feature from the Swiss director who of whose previous short films were featured in the Director’s Fortnight.
A Voyager, the first film in 18 years from Oscar-winning documentarian Marcel Ophuls, 85, who turns the focus on himself and his personal history, promises to be.
- 4/22/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paris – Following last week’s announcement of Ari Folman’s The Congress as its opening film, the Directors' Fortnight has announced the complete lineup for the annual sidebar. The 45th Fortnight will screen 21 feature films, including 16 world premieres, and 9 short films. The features in this year's fortnight, which runs May 16-26, include Raphael Nadjari’s Above the Hill. It will be the Israeli-French filmmaker’s return to Cannes after a five-year absence; his his 2008 film Tehilim competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition. Exclusive Photos: THR's Cannes 2012 Portraits After the Night by Basil Da Cunha is
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- 4/22/2013
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This morning the official 2013 Cannes Film Festival line-up was announced from Paris, France. The committee saw 1,858 films submitted this year and while additional titles will continue to be announced, this morning we got the full Competition and Un Certain Regard lineup and it looks amazing so far. Among the films announced In Competition so far, many were expected including Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur, Asghar Farhadi's The Past and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis. Additionally James Gray's once titled Lowlife starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner will play, but under the name The Immigrant and Takashi Miike's cop thriller Wara No Tate (Straw Shield) has also made the competition list. However, the biggest "surprise" is the inclusion of Alexander Payne's black-and-white film Nebraska, which is sure to be a big attention getter,...
- 4/18/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal's new movie No has been honoured with a top award at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Director Pablo Larrian's historical drama, starring Bernal as a Chilean advertising executive who helps to topple dictator General Augusto Pinochet's regime, was named the winner of the Art Cinema Award, the most prestigious prize in the Directors' Fortnight section, on Friday.
Filmmaker Merzak Allouache was also celebrated with the Europa Cinemas Label accolade for El taaib (The Repentant), which was named the Best European film in competition at Cannes, while Noemie Lvovsky's Camille redouble (Camille Rewinds), The Curse by Fyzal Boulifa and Basil da Cunha's Os vivos tambem choram (The Living Also Cry) were also among the award winners, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Director Pablo Larrian's historical drama, starring Bernal as a Chilean advertising executive who helps to topple dictator General Augusto Pinochet's regime, was named the winner of the Art Cinema Award, the most prestigious prize in the Directors' Fortnight section, on Friday.
Filmmaker Merzak Allouache was also celebrated with the Europa Cinemas Label accolade for El taaib (The Repentant), which was named the Best European film in competition at Cannes, while Noemie Lvovsky's Camille redouble (Camille Rewinds), The Curse by Fyzal Boulifa and Basil da Cunha's Os vivos tambem choram (The Living Also Cry) were also among the award winners, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
- 5/25/2012
- WENN
Edouard Waintrop, Artistic Director of Directors' Fortnight, has presented the lineup for this year's edition, running from May 17 through 27.
Features
Merzak Allouache's El Taaib. Evene claims it's an angry film aimed at the malaise of Algerian society.
Rodney Ascher's Room 237. A documentary about the plethora of theories that have sprung up over the years regarding just what Stanley Kubrick was up to when he made The Shining (1980). More here. IFC Midnight picked up North American rights just yesterday.
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner's Ernest et Célestine. From the makers of A Town Called Panic, this is an animated adaptation of a series of books about a little mouse who doesn't want to become a dentist and a big bear who doesn't want to become a notary. Site.
Benjamin Ávila's Infancia clandestina. From the San Sebastian Film Festival: "Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum,...
Features
Merzak Allouache's El Taaib. Evene claims it's an angry film aimed at the malaise of Algerian society.
Rodney Ascher's Room 237. A documentary about the plethora of theories that have sprung up over the years regarding just what Stanley Kubrick was up to when he made The Shining (1980). More here. IFC Midnight picked up North American rights just yesterday.
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner's Ernest et Célestine. From the makers of A Town Called Panic, this is an animated adaptation of a series of books about a little mouse who doesn't want to become a dentist and a big bear who doesn't want to become a notary. Site.
Benjamin Ávila's Infancia clandestina. From the San Sebastian Film Festival: "Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum,...
- 4/25/2012
- MUBI
We’ve already got a great line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but a few more quality films have been added to the Directors’ Fortnight section. Most notably is the latest film from Michel Gondry, The We and the I (more details on that one here). Then we’ve got Sightseers, the next film from Ben Wheatley, who gave us the frightening Kill List earlier this year. There’s also two Sundance films, one the excellent documentary on Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining, Room 237, as well as the absurdly funny Wrong, from Quentin Dupieux (update: looks like it’s actually a brand-new short titled Wrong Cops, starring Marilyn Manson). Check out the line-up below.
Longs Metrages / Feature Films
3 de / by Pablo Stoll Ward (Uruguay, Allemagne, Argentine / Uruguay, Germany, Argentina) – Première internationale
Adieu Berthe, l’enterrement de mémé / Granny’s Funeral de / by Bruno Podalydès (France) – Première mondiale...
Longs Metrages / Feature Films
3 de / by Pablo Stoll Ward (Uruguay, Allemagne, Argentine / Uruguay, Germany, Argentina) – Première internationale
Adieu Berthe, l’enterrement de mémé / Granny’s Funeral de / by Bruno Podalydès (France) – Première mondiale...
- 4/24/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Yes, there's even more. With the lineup at the Cannes Film Festival already boasting a plethora of top-tier talent and highly anticipated films, the sidebar Directors' Fortnight is not to be outdone, and today they have unveiled their unusually name-brand-heavy lineup.
Michel Gondry's "The We & The I," Ben Wheatley's "Sightseers," plus new films by Pablo Lorrain, Quentin Dupieux and the late Raoul Ruiz will the lead the charge in 2012. Gondry's film has been rumored for south of France for a while now, but when it didn't show up in the Cannes lineup, and with the director already lensing his next effort "Mood Indigo," we figured we'd have to wait until the fall for "The We And The I." But the feature, which has been kept under wraps, and stars a cast of unknowns, will get a grand bow as the Opening Night film.
Elsewhere in the lineup: "Kill List...
Michel Gondry's "The We & The I," Ben Wheatley's "Sightseers," plus new films by Pablo Lorrain, Quentin Dupieux and the late Raoul Ruiz will the lead the charge in 2012. Gondry's film has been rumored for south of France for a while now, but when it didn't show up in the Cannes lineup, and with the director already lensing his next effort "Mood Indigo," we figured we'd have to wait until the fall for "The We And The I." But the feature, which has been kept under wraps, and stars a cast of unknowns, will get a grand bow as the Opening Night film.
Elsewhere in the lineup: "Kill List...
- 4/24/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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