From Namibian western to animated revenge thriller, from Bosnian family saga to a lesbian vampire breakup story, 10 upscale scripted TV projects were spotlighted at the Berlinale Series Market’s Co-Pro Series on Tuesday morning, representing “unique and bold choices with regard to genre and perspective, on top of great storytelling,” Martina Bleis, Head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, observed before the presentation..
“This should attract buyers and co-producers now, and will surely convince discerning audiences once they have been made,”
With Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy joining climate change satire “S.O.L.,” created by late Ruth McCance, or Cannes-awarded director Aida Begić now focusing on “Mirrors,” it was a high-profile affair.
“This female family chronicle serves as a bridge between two centuries, two eras and two societies, shedding light on the hidden lives of Balkan women. Female secrets touch on taboos such as sexuality, violence and mental health. What would...
“This should attract buyers and co-producers now, and will surely convince discerning audiences once they have been made,”
With Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy joining climate change satire “S.O.L.,” created by late Ruth McCance, or Cannes-awarded director Aida Begić now focusing on “Mirrors,” it was a high-profile affair.
“This female family chronicle serves as a bridge between two centuries, two eras and two societies, shedding light on the hidden lives of Balkan women. Female secrets touch on taboos such as sexuality, violence and mental health. What would...
- 2/21/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
“Any resemblance to real events and dead or living people is not a coincidence. It is Intentional.” So reads a title card at the beginning of Costa-Gavras’ Z, set in an unnamed Mediterranean country that could stand in for any number of police states torn between Russian and American influence at the height of the Cold War. The 1969 Franco-Algerian production was fittingly international: While the dialogue (by Spanish writer Jorge Semprún) is in French, the plot itself, based on a book by Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, adheres to events in Greece following the 1963 assassination of a popular pacifist candidate (whose counterpart is played by Yves Montand) who’d dared to oppose the ruling junta. The titular letter, painted across the street in a climactic scene, was a protest slogan that meant “He lives.”
“Here is the new Hitchcock we have been awaiting,” crowed THR about the Greek director. “Whatever the political commitments of its makers,...
“Here is the new Hitchcock we have been awaiting,” crowed THR about the Greek director. “Whatever the political commitments of its makers,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Julian Sancton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
India is represented by four features, three shorts and one documentary at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam that opens on January 23rd. While Amit Dutta’s Museum of Imagination, a twenty-minute short will compete for the prestigious Tiger Award for Short Film; four feature films Shanghai, Miss Lovely, Ship of Theseus and I.D will be shown out of competition in various sections. Two other short films Friday Night and 21 Chitrakoot, and documentary Celluloid Man will also be screened at the festival.
Two feature film projects will participate in industry sections of the festival. National Award winning (Anhey Ghorey da daan) director Gurvinder Singh’s second feature The Fourth Direction, produced by Kartikeya Singh, will participate in Rotterdam Lab 2013. Rotterdam Lab, in partnership with Nfdc, selects one South Asian project presented at Film Bazaar so that it can follow up on previously made connections. Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Wild Fire will participate in Cinemart,...
Two feature film projects will participate in industry sections of the festival. National Award winning (Anhey Ghorey da daan) director Gurvinder Singh’s second feature The Fourth Direction, produced by Kartikeya Singh, will participate in Rotterdam Lab 2013. Rotterdam Lab, in partnership with Nfdc, selects one South Asian project presented at Film Bazaar so that it can follow up on previously made connections. Bikas Ranjan Mishra’s Wild Fire will participate in Cinemart,...
- 1/21/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai has been selected to screen in the main section Spectrum of the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Adapted from the novel ‘Z’ by Vasilis Vasilikos, the film features Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin in lead roles. It released in Indian theatres on June 7, 2012.
In Spectrum, the festival screens films by experienced directors and maestros of artistic and experimental cinema. In total, Spectrum 2013 is made up of seventy-seven features and documentaries from thirty countries, among which seven films are supported by Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund.
The festival opens on January 23 with the world premiere of Guido van Driel’s The Resurrection of a Bastard (Netherlands).
Adapted from the novel ‘Z’ by Vasilis Vasilikos, the film features Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin in lead roles. It released in Indian theatres on June 7, 2012.
In Spectrum, the festival screens films by experienced directors and maestros of artistic and experimental cinema. In total, Spectrum 2013 is made up of seventy-seven features and documentaries from thirty countries, among which seven films are supported by Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund.
The festival opens on January 23 with the world premiere of Guido van Driel’s The Resurrection of a Bastard (Netherlands).
- 1/7/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Director: Dibakar Banerjee, Writers: Urmi Juvekar and Dibakar Banerjee, Actors: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Kalki Koechlin
A masterly camera and impeccable performances by the ensemble cast can’t save the uneventful screenplay of Shanghai that is co-authored by the director Dibakar Banerjee. Unlike its source “Z” of Vasilis Vasilikos, Banerjee’s Shanghai is hardly a thriller and is political only to the extent that it deals with a few politicians.
The ambitious political saga, that is touted to be the story of a small town’s aspiration to be Shanghai riding on the Special Economic Zone (Sez) fervour, is bound to be compared to the masterly adaptation of the same text by Greek Filmmaker Costa Gavras. In comparison to Gavras, Dibakar Banerjee’s passable adaptation gives little insight into the peculiarities of the Indian system of justice and democracy. Dibakar engages very little with the politics of Special...
A masterly camera and impeccable performances by the ensemble cast can’t save the uneventful screenplay of Shanghai that is co-authored by the director Dibakar Banerjee. Unlike its source “Z” of Vasilis Vasilikos, Banerjee’s Shanghai is hardly a thriller and is political only to the extent that it deals with a few politicians.
The ambitious political saga, that is touted to be the story of a small town’s aspiration to be Shanghai riding on the Special Economic Zone (Sez) fervour, is bound to be compared to the masterly adaptation of the same text by Greek Filmmaker Costa Gavras. In comparison to Gavras, Dibakar Banerjee’s passable adaptation gives little insight into the peculiarities of the Indian system of justice and democracy. Dibakar engages very little with the politics of Special...
- 6/9/2012
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
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