Marie Amachoukeli’s Ama Gloria has won the Best International Film Prize at the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, running from July 13 to July 26.
The feature, which world premiered as the opening film of Cannes Critics’ Week in May, revolves around a motherless six-year-old girl who travels to Cape Verde to reunite with her longtime nanny.
The jury presided over by Claire Denis, and also figuring Whit Stillman, Florian Zeller, Joana Vicente, and Maria Schrader praised the film’s “extraordinary poignancy, beauty and insight”.
Ama Gloria is produced by Bénédicte Couvreur, the long-time producer of Céline Sciamma and her films Petite Maman and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.
Other winners in the International Competition include Best Director for Mexico’s Lila Avilés for Berlinale-selected family drama Totem and a Special Mention for the ensemble cast of Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, which debuted in Un Certain Regard this year.
The feature, which world premiered as the opening film of Cannes Critics’ Week in May, revolves around a motherless six-year-old girl who travels to Cape Verde to reunite with her longtime nanny.
The jury presided over by Claire Denis, and also figuring Whit Stillman, Florian Zeller, Joana Vicente, and Maria Schrader praised the film’s “extraordinary poignancy, beauty and insight”.
Ama Gloria is produced by Bénédicte Couvreur, the long-time producer of Céline Sciamma and her films Petite Maman and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.
Other winners in the International Competition include Best Director for Mexico’s Lila Avilés for Berlinale-selected family drama Totem and a Special Mention for the ensemble cast of Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, which debuted in Un Certain Regard this year.
- 7/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The films are screening at this month’s Jersualem Film Festival.
Tokyo-based arthouse distributor Pandora has acquired Japanese rights to Daniel Raim’s feature documentary Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen from busy Jerusalem-based sales outfit Go2Films.
The film tells the story of how director Norman Jewison tunred the musical Fiddler On The Roof into a beloved hit feature film. Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it includes interviews with Jewison as well as with star Topol, who played Tevye, the milkman protagonist, and the composer John Williams.
Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen is screening in the Cinemania section...
Tokyo-based arthouse distributor Pandora has acquired Japanese rights to Daniel Raim’s feature documentary Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen from busy Jerusalem-based sales outfit Go2Films.
The film tells the story of how director Norman Jewison tunred the musical Fiddler On The Roof into a beloved hit feature film. Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it includes interviews with Jewison as well as with star Topol, who played Tevye, the milkman protagonist, and the composer John Williams.
Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen is screening in the Cinemania section...
- 7/21/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
A still from Pather Panchali
The 4th edition of the Jagran Film Festival will be held from September 24 – 29, 2013 in Mumbai.
The festival will feature films under seven sections: World Panorama, Indian Showcase, Indian Premieres, Jagran Shorts, T20 of Indian Cinema, Cinema of the Sellers and Films by Debut Directors.
The festival will open with Israeli film Water directed by Yael Perlov, NirSa’ar & Maya Sarfaty, YonaRozenkier, Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Barghouti, Pini Tavger & Tal Haring under the World Panorama section.
Other films in the section are Kim Yong-Hwa’s 200 Pounds Beauty, Esteban Larrain’s The Passion of Michelangelo and Sophie Blondy’s Morning Star.
Indian Showcase is a competitive section for feature films. Films like Sanjay Jadhav’s Duniyadari, Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam, Gajendra Ahire’s Touring Talkies, Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistan, Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish and Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus will compete in this section.
Jagran Classic...
The 4th edition of the Jagran Film Festival will be held from September 24 – 29, 2013 in Mumbai.
The festival will feature films under seven sections: World Panorama, Indian Showcase, Indian Premieres, Jagran Shorts, T20 of Indian Cinema, Cinema of the Sellers and Films by Debut Directors.
The festival will open with Israeli film Water directed by Yael Perlov, NirSa’ar & Maya Sarfaty, YonaRozenkier, Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Barghouti, Pini Tavger & Tal Haring under the World Panorama section.
Other films in the section are Kim Yong-Hwa’s 200 Pounds Beauty, Esteban Larrain’s The Passion of Michelangelo and Sophie Blondy’s Morning Star.
Indian Showcase is a competitive section for feature films. Films like Sanjay Jadhav’s Duniyadari, Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam, Gajendra Ahire’s Touring Talkies, Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistan, Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish and Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus will compete in this section.
Jagran Classic...
- 9/19/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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