Tim Roth, who stars in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” has joined the cast of Mia Hansen-Love’s English-language debut, “Bergman Island,” a supernatural melodrama with Vicky Krieps and Mia Wasikowska.
Charles Gillibert’s CG Cinema is producing “Bergman Island.” Gillibert previously collaborated with Hansen-Love on “Eden,” which played at Toronto.
Sold by Kinology, “Bergman Island” follows a couple of American filmmakers who travel to the Swedish island of Faro, where filmmaking icon Ingmar Bergman lived, to write their respective films. The two get lost between fiction and reality amid the island’s mysterious landscapes.
Now considered one of France’s most successful production companies, CG Cinema is about to increase its scope, launching new collaborations with established and promising directors across the world, such as France’s Alain Guiraudie (“Stranger by the Lake”) and Amandine Gay, Thailand’s Phuttiphong Aroonpheng and China’s Qiu Cheng.
Charles Gillibert’s CG Cinema is producing “Bergman Island.” Gillibert previously collaborated with Hansen-Love on “Eden,” which played at Toronto.
Sold by Kinology, “Bergman Island” follows a couple of American filmmakers who travel to the Swedish island of Faro, where filmmaking icon Ingmar Bergman lived, to write their respective films. The two get lost between fiction and reality amid the island’s mysterious landscapes.
Now considered one of France’s most successful production companies, CG Cinema is about to increase its scope, launching new collaborations with established and promising directors across the world, such as France’s Alain Guiraudie (“Stranger by the Lake”) and Amandine Gay, Thailand’s Phuttiphong Aroonpheng and China’s Qiu Cheng.
- 5/15/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A team of engineers stands below a bridge. Shadows from moving train cars – also being reflected inside a frame within a frame – scurry across the dirt. The camera zooms in and out, panning between them, completely uninterested in masking the motion or change in depth, as they adjust their tripod, taking calculated measurements. 360 panoramic shots circle around them; its detached camera movement initially seems unconcerned with immersion or illusion. “Guess with your eyes,” someone suggests.
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- 4/5/2019
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
While trying to explain a reality that is shifting in front of him, a surveyor looks into the past in Qiu Sheng’s feature debut Suburban Birds. A moody, seductive drama that stubbornly refuses explication, the story takes place in Qiu’s hometown of Hangzhou. Loosely based on a real-life 2009 building collapse, Suburban Birds is also a coming-of-age story about school friends whose lives are disrupted by urban renewal. Filmmaker spoke with Qiu Sheng during this year’s annual New Directors/New Films series. Suburban Birds screened without incident at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival, but when Qiu was faced with new regulations, […]...
- 4/4/2019
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
While trying to explain a reality that is shifting in front of him, a surveyor looks into the past in Qiu Sheng’s feature debut Suburban Birds. A moody, seductive drama that stubbornly refuses explication, the story takes place in Qiu’s hometown of Hangzhou. Loosely based on a real-life 2009 building collapse, Suburban Birds is also a coming-of-age story about school friends whose lives are disrupted by urban renewal. Filmmaker spoke with Qiu Sheng during this year’s annual New Directors/New Films series. Suburban Birds screened without incident at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival, but when Qiu was faced with new regulations, […]...
- 4/4/2019
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Two previously scheduled New Directors/New Films screenings of Qiu Sheng’s “Suburban Birds” that were canceled because of changes to a Chinese film law have been rescheduled. The film will now screen Saturday April 6 at 8:30pm at MoMA Theater 2, followed by a Q&A with the director, and Sunday April 7 at 7:45pm at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, without a Q&A. It will also begin a run at the Metrograph starting Friday April 5, with the film set to debut in Los Angeles on April 19.
“Suburban Birds” had screened at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2018, and it received the “dragon seal” from the Chinese government, meaning that its content had been approved by film censors, in mid-February. However, a law that was published last year but only just recently took effect requires that mainland filmmakers also receive a release certificate to...
“Suburban Birds” had screened at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2018, and it received the “dragon seal” from the Chinese government, meaning that its content had been approved by film censors, in mid-February. However, a law that was published last year but only just recently took effect requires that mainland filmmakers also receive a release certificate to...
- 4/3/2019
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Something is causing the ground to shift underneath a new Chinese suburb in writer-director Qiu Sheng’s intriguing, adept debut feature. High-rise towers are listing to the side, and residents are being evacuated. As Suburban Birds begins, a team of engineers is on-site to investigate the cause—ideally quickly, without disrupting the planned subway tunneling, so that this little part of China’s development boom can proceed. Make way for tomorrow! It’s left to Qiu to survey the restless earth around the foundations of the future, via a subtle structural gambit that marks his voice as one worth listening to.
As the four-man crew take measurements, knock off early, and indulge in the occasional after-work binge-drinking, low man on the totem pole Xiahao’s (Mason Lee) lack of motivation and affect in comparison to his workmates marks him out as the protagonist according to the dictates of arthouse logic.
As the four-man crew take measurements, knock off early, and indulge in the occasional after-work binge-drinking, low man on the totem pole Xiahao’s (Mason Lee) lack of motivation and affect in comparison to his workmates marks him out as the protagonist according to the dictates of arthouse logic.
- 3/26/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Vasan Bala’s “The Man Who Feels No Pain,” and Qiu Sheng’s “Suburban Birds” are among 11 films set for competition at the third edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” will open the festival in an out of competition slot.
Other films in competition include: “Aga” by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria); “All Good,” by Eva Trobisch (Germany); “Clean Up,” by Kwon Man-ki (South Korea); “Jesus,” by Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan); “Scarborough,” by Barnaby Southcombe (U.K.) “School’s Out” by Sebastien Marnier (France); “The Good Girls,” by Alejandra Marquez (Mexico); “The Guilty,” by Gustav Moller (Denmark); and “White Blood” by Barbara Sarasola – Day (Argentina). The competition is only open to first or second time feature directors.
The lineup was announced Thursday in Macau by artistic director Mike Goodridge. The jury which will select the prize-winners includes Chen Kaige as president, alongside Mabel Cheung (Hong Kong...
Other films in competition include: “Aga” by Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria); “All Good,” by Eva Trobisch (Germany); “Clean Up,” by Kwon Man-ki (South Korea); “Jesus,” by Hiroshi Okuyama (Japan); “Scarborough,” by Barnaby Southcombe (U.K.) “School’s Out” by Sebastien Marnier (France); “The Good Girls,” by Alejandra Marquez (Mexico); “The Guilty,” by Gustav Moller (Denmark); and “White Blood” by Barbara Sarasola – Day (Argentina). The competition is only open to first or second time feature directors.
The lineup was announced Thursday in Macau by artistic director Mike Goodridge. The jury which will select the prize-winners includes Chen Kaige as president, alongside Mabel Cheung (Hong Kong...
- 11/8/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Peter Farrelly’s Oscar-tipped Green Book will open the festival.
Peter Farrelly’s Green Book will open the third edition of the International Film Festival and Awards Macao (Iffam), which also unveiled its full line-up at a press conference in Macau today.
The international competition for first and second-time filmmakers will screen 11 films, including China’s Suburban Birds, India’s The Man Who Feels No Pain and Japan’s Jesus (see full line-up below). The best film in the international competition will receive a cash prize of $60,000.
As previously announced, Chinese director Chen Kaige is heading the competition jury.
This...
Peter Farrelly’s Green Book will open the third edition of the International Film Festival and Awards Macao (Iffam), which also unveiled its full line-up at a press conference in Macau today.
The international competition for first and second-time filmmakers will screen 11 films, including China’s Suburban Birds, India’s The Man Who Feels No Pain and Japan’s Jesus (see full line-up below). The best film in the international competition will receive a cash prize of $60,000.
As previously announced, Chinese director Chen Kaige is heading the competition jury.
This...
- 11/8/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The film is Xinjiang-born Lina Wang’s directorial debut.
Taiwan-based Flash Forward Entertainment has acquired all rights outside China to A First Farewell, which is set to world premiere in Asian Future competition at the upcoming Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film is Xinjiang-born Lina Wang’s directorial debut, which is about a Muslim farm boy’s friendship with a lively little girl, his relationship with his deaf-mute mother, and his subsequent separation from both of them. Through this coming-of-age story filmed in Uighur language, Wang pays tribute to her hometown.
“It is the first independent Uighur film from China...
Taiwan-based Flash Forward Entertainment has acquired all rights outside China to A First Farewell, which is set to world premiere in Asian Future competition at the upcoming Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film is Xinjiang-born Lina Wang’s directorial debut, which is about a Muslim farm boy’s friendship with a lively little girl, his relationship with his deaf-mute mother, and his subsequent separation from both of them. Through this coming-of-age story filmed in Uighur language, Wang pays tribute to her hometown.
“It is the first independent Uighur film from China...
- 10/24/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Like the beautiful “Wrath of Silence” last year, “Suburban Birds” premiered at debut-only First Festival in Xining, China, and has now landed at London Film Festival. Written and directed by Qiu Sheng, “Suburban Birds” is enigmatic and poetic and fits snugly in the “magical realism” category as two distinct strands run parallel through the movie and the intertwining connections are blurry and slippery to catch.
Suburban Birds is screening at BFI London Film Festival
A team of three land surveyors, Xiahao (Mason Lee), Ant (Deng Jing) and their boss Han (Xiao Xiao) is on a work mission in a suburban area to discover the entity of a sudden subsidence of the ground causing the buildings to tilt and making it unsafe for the new subway to be approved. In their inspection, they are tightly followed by Officer Jiang (Wang Xinyu) who represents the economical or political interest in the subway...
Suburban Birds is screening at BFI London Film Festival
A team of three land surveyors, Xiahao (Mason Lee), Ant (Deng Jing) and their boss Han (Xiao Xiao) is on a work mission in a suburban area to discover the entity of a sudden subsidence of the ground causing the buildings to tilt and making it unsafe for the new subway to be approved. In their inspection, they are tightly followed by Officer Jiang (Wang Xinyu) who represents the economical or political interest in the subway...
- 10/15/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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