Blerta Basholli’s ‘Hive’ and Ninja Thyberg’s ‘Pleasure’ are among the films screening.
Blerta Basholli’s Hive is one of 10 female-directed features chosen for the Sydney Film Festival and European Film Promotion’s sixth Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative.
Screen is a media partner on the initative
The Sydney Film Festival is set to take place in-person from November 3-14, having been postponed twice – from June and August – due to concerns over rising Covid-19 cases in the. Australian city. Last year’s Europe! Voices Of Women in Film event took place virtually.
Basholli, who is from Kosovo,...
Blerta Basholli’s Hive is one of 10 female-directed features chosen for the Sydney Film Festival and European Film Promotion’s sixth Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative.
Screen is a media partner on the initative
The Sydney Film Festival is set to take place in-person from November 3-14, having been postponed twice – from June and August – due to concerns over rising Covid-19 cases in the. Australian city. Last year’s Europe! Voices Of Women in Film event took place virtually.
Basholli, who is from Kosovo,...
- 8/10/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Greek directors are contending with the coronavirus crisis, on top of their country’s pre-existing economic struggles, by weaving the pandemic into their narratives and project presentations.
That’s one trend that surfaced when five work-in-progress feature films, three docs, were digitally showcased to sales agents, distributors and programmers on Tuesday during Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, the Cannes Virtual Film Market’s annual pics-in-post industry showcase supported by the Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival.
“This past month during this pandemic period many of us were cooking, and are still cooking at home,” said director Angeliki Antoniou presenting her drama “Green Sea” which turns on a woman who has lost her memory but not ability to cook, and so is afforded a second opportunity in life.
“Preparing food was very important for most of us; it had almost a healing influence on our souls,” Antoniou added. “Just like it happens in ‘Green Sea,...
That’s one trend that surfaced when five work-in-progress feature films, three docs, were digitally showcased to sales agents, distributors and programmers on Tuesday during Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, the Cannes Virtual Film Market’s annual pics-in-post industry showcase supported by the Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival.
“This past month during this pandemic period many of us were cooking, and are still cooking at home,” said director Angeliki Antoniou presenting her drama “Green Sea” which turns on a woman who has lost her memory but not ability to cook, and so is afforded a second opportunity in life.
“Preparing food was very important for most of us; it had almost a healing influence on our souls,” Antoniou added. “Just like it happens in ‘Green Sea,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
There was a time not long ago when any talk of Greek cinema quickly turned to a movement loosely characterized as the Greek Weird Wave, known for a certain deadpan aesthetic that was popularized with the breakout success of Yorgos Lanthimos (“Dogtooth”) and Athina Rachel Tsangari (“Attenberg”).
That has changed, if the label ever truly fit to begin with. “I don’t believe that there is a specific Greek wave,” says Christos Nikou, whose debut feature, “Apples,” about a lonely man who becomes a victim of an unexplained surge of amnesia in his city, is being sold by Alpha Violet during the Cannes virtual market.
“My intention was to make a movie more close to the cinema I love as a viewer,” he continues. “Movies that create their own worlds and have conceptual ideas and at the same time have an unusual and complete story to narrate.”
It’s an artistic vision that,...
That has changed, if the label ever truly fit to begin with. “I don’t believe that there is a specific Greek wave,” says Christos Nikou, whose debut feature, “Apples,” about a lonely man who becomes a victim of an unexplained surge of amnesia in his city, is being sold by Alpha Violet during the Cannes virtual market.
“My intention was to make a movie more close to the cinema I love as a viewer,” he continues. “Movies that create their own worlds and have conceptual ideas and at the same time have an unusual and complete story to narrate.”
It’s an artistic vision that,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Haf, New Horizons, Thessaloniki and Nfdc Film Bazaar have each contributed five.
Twenty works-in-progress from four international film events have been selected for the online Marché du Film’s Goes To Cannes showcase, which runs from June 22-24.
Five titles will be presented by each of Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf); Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival; Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Tiff); and for the first time, India’s Nfdc Film Bazaar.
The projects will be presented during two-hour online screenings from June 22-23. Industry professionals who attend the online screenings will be able to...
Twenty works-in-progress from four international film events have been selected for the online Marché du Film’s Goes To Cannes showcase, which runs from June 22-24.
Five titles will be presented by each of Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf); Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival; Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Tiff); and for the first time, India’s Nfdc Film Bazaar.
The projects will be presented during two-hour online screenings from June 22-23. Industry professionals who attend the online screenings will be able to...
- 5/26/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Agnieszka Zwiefka’s “Wika!” Angeliki Antoniou’s “Green Sea” and Wong Fei-pang’s “Dear Immigrants: What Was Your First Meal?” will all feature at the Marché du Film’s 2020 Goes to Cannes, one of the highest-profile industry events at the Cannes Film Market.
This year’s Goes to Event runs June 22-23, at the beginning of the Marché du Film added to what looks like a packed schedule of screenings.
A pix-in-post showcase traditionally running the second week of Cannes and frequented by sales agents, distributors and film fest heads, this year’s Goes to Cannes, now in its eighth edition, will source five features a piece from three traditional Goes To partners: the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival, and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Joining the Goes to Lineup for the first time is Nfdc Film Bazaar, organized by India...
This year’s Goes to Event runs June 22-23, at the beginning of the Marché du Film added to what looks like a packed schedule of screenings.
A pix-in-post showcase traditionally running the second week of Cannes and frequented by sales agents, distributors and film fest heads, this year’s Goes to Cannes, now in its eighth edition, will source five features a piece from three traditional Goes To partners: the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf), Poland’s New Horizons International Film Festival, and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Joining the Goes to Lineup for the first time is Nfdc Film Bazaar, organized by India...
- 5/26/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
- With Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit out of the foreign Oscar picture, Ioncinema.com predicts a four-way race between audience faves Persepolis, The Counterfeiters, 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Caramel. Spain's The Orphanage has the best chance at completing the 5 pack. That said everything else is just a formality. The final five picks will be announced on Jan. 22. The Oscar ceremony takes place Feb. 24. 2008 Foreign Oscar Long ListArgentina: Xxy (Lucia Puenzo)Australia: The Home Song Stories (Tony Ayres) Austria: The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)Azerbaijan: Caucasia (Farid Gumbatov)Bangladesh: On The Wings Of Dreams (Golam Rabbany Biblob)Belgium: Ben X (Nic Balthazar) Bosnia and Herzegovina: It's Hard To Be Nice (Srdjan Vuletic)Brazil: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Cao Hamburger)Bulgaria: Warden of the Dead (Ilian Simeonov)Canada: The Days of Darkness (Denys Arcand)Chile: Padre nuestro (Our Father) - (Rodrigo Sepulveda)China: The Knot (Yun shui
- 10/18/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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