Turkey’s Academy Award Entry for Best Foreign Language Film: ‘The Wild Pear Tree’‘The Wild Pear Tree’ by Nuri Bilge CeylanThe guilty pleasure of Cannes is seeing a 3 hour and 8 minute film that takes you into an unknown place and leads you toward a perfect ending. In this category Nuri Bilge Ceylan joins Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
The Wild Pear Tree is about Sinan, a young man returning from college who is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan, Murat Cemcir, Tamer Levent, Hazar Ergüçlü, and Dogu Demirkol in Cannes
Going on long walks, Sinan joins the town’s iman and his college...
The Wild Pear Tree is about Sinan, a young man returning from college who is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan, Murat Cemcir, Tamer Levent, Hazar Ergüçlü, and Dogu Demirkol in Cannes
Going on long walks, Sinan joins the town’s iman and his college...
- 10/27/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The guilty pleasure of Cannes is seeing a 3 hour and 8 minute film that takes you into an unknown place and leads you toward a perfect ending. In this category Nuri Bilge Ceylan joins Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
The Wild Pear Tree is about Sinan, a young man returning from college who is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan, Murat Cemcir, Tamer Levent, Hazar Ergüçlü, and Dogu Demirkol in Cannes
Going on long walks, Sinan joins the town’s iman and his college mate and they carry on a long discussion about morality, each one offering a different viewpoint, one more liberal, one more...
The Wild Pear Tree is about Sinan, a young man returning from college who is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan, Murat Cemcir, Tamer Levent, Hazar Ergüçlü, and Dogu Demirkol in Cannes
Going on long walks, Sinan joins the town’s iman and his college mate and they carry on a long discussion about morality, each one offering a different viewpoint, one more liberal, one more...
- 5/24/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The 52nd International Antalya Film Festival this year was a case of “The Show Must Go On”. In spite of several setbacks which made Turkey quite unstable and put it on the U.S. State Department’s Alert List, it took place in the beautiful Turkish seaside site of the recent G20 Conference. It rivals Cannes for its Croisette; its boulevards exceed any street in Cannes. Organized by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality whose Mayor Menderes Türel, recently reelected for a five year term, is supporting this festival in a major way and directed by Elif Dağdeviren, the Festival’s Closing Night was an extravaganza of special effects as it announced its winners and handed out its Golden Orange 35 times.
The Festival’s industry component, the one year old, Antalya Film Forum (Aff), was directed by filmmaker Zeynep Özbatur Atakan. Industry guests included, among others, Jim Stark and his partner Nicolas Celis whom I had just recently written about. Idfa’s Ally Derks, Tiff’s Piers Handling, International sales agent Catherine Le Clef, BaseWerx for Film’s Claudia Landsberger, and Producer Linda Beath who all attended in spite of warnings of terrorism in Turkey. I also had the good fortune to meet the Bosnian Dp Mirsad Herović who seems to be working non-stop in Turkey these days, on his film “Iftarlik Gazoz/Pop A Revolution”.
At the ceremony I sat next to Alin Tasciyan, President of Fipresci who was also responsible for the international press in attendance. Days later, we went to a fabulous restaurant in Istanbul and talked more about the state of the industry and Turkey in general. This evening was one of the highlights of the trip and deserves an article of its own.
The jury was presided over by the elegant Ömer Vargi, known as the director who revitalized the Turkish cinema and who is also the head of the Istanbul Film Studios. The jury members included the award winning screenwriter Tarik Tufan and L.A.’s own James Ulmer, the entertainment journalist who created a ranking list of actors, known as "The Ulmer Scale" and who wrote the books James Ulmer's Hollywood Hot List -- The Complete Guide to Star Ranking and Directors Hot List, which measure the global value of stars and directors in a variety of areas including bankability, career management, professionalism, promotion, risk factors and talent. We again shared an evening together in Istanbul where we stayed at the same boutique hotel recommend to us by Israel’s Dan and Edna Fainaru , who unfortunately broke her foot at the festival.
The most notable film was “Ivy” which won four awards: National Competition for Best Movie -- plus 100.000 Turkish Lira (3Tl = 1Us$) and whose director-writer Tolga Karaçelik won the National Competition for Best Screenplay and for Best Director (for which he also won 1 million travel miles by Turkish Airlines) and whose actor Nadir Sarıbacak won the Best Actor Award of the National Competition.
“Ivy” is Tolga Karaçelik’s second film and previously played at Sundance 2015, Tiff 2015 Contemporary World Cinema, Thessaloniki, Istanbul and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals in 2015. The story is about a ship sailing to Egypt to load goods bound for Angola. The crew is forbidden to go to shore when a lien is put on the ship because the ship’s owner has gone bankrupt leaving the crew with no salaries paid which puts them into a nasty mood. While in anchorage, supplies run out, the crew fractures into parts, small arguments escalate into major conflicts and the ship becomes a battlefield.
“The Cold of Kalander” also won four prizes: the Dr. Avni Tolunay Jury Special Award, National Competition for Best Music to François Couturier, International Competition Best Actor to Haydar Şişman and National Competition to Nuray Yeşilaraz for Best Actress.
Winning three prizes, “Memories of the Wind," about an intellectual of Armenian origin hiding from Turkish militia by the Georgian border during WWII who falls in love with the wife of the farmer offering shelter, received a great round of applause with its Audience Award in International Competition, International Award for Best Music by Eleonore Fourning and Best Visual Director Award going to Andreas Sinanos. International sales by Arizona Flms.
“For Love of the Neighborhood” won the Special Jury Award, Best Art Direction Award and Best Editing Award. “The Apprentice” won for Best First Movie, and the Best Supporting Actress Award went to Çiğdem Selışık.
Elif Dağdeviren on the state of the festival and its mission today says,
"Our aim was and will continue to be a respected film festival on a par with all the important film festivals around the world. We choose all the films, events, national and international guests according to this mission and vision.
During the first 50 years, the festival served a very important purpose to support the cinema of Turkey locally. This was at a time when there were no other festivals and very few theatres in Turkey.
Antayla opened many doors for other successful local festivals and then needed to renew itself by becoming a meeting point of both the local and the world cinema sector. And it needed to modernize itself according to the technological innovations taking place worldwide. The first two years have proven that this is not a dream but a possible reality."
List of winners:
International Competition Awards
Audience Award: “Memories of the Wind” (Director: Ozcan Alper, Producers: Soner Alper, Mustafa Oğuz, Ali Bayraktar – Turkey)
Best Music Award: Eleni Karaindrou and Irena Popoviç (“Enclave” –Serbia/Germany)
Best Actor: Haydar Şişman (“The Cold of Kalandar” - Turkey)
Best Actress: Alba Rohrwacher (“Sworn Virgin” -Italy/ Switzerland/ Germany/ Albania/ Kosovo/ France)
Best Screenplay: Alexandra-Therese Keining (“Girls Lost” - Sweden)
Best Director: Hany Abu Assad (“The Idol” – U.K./ Palestine/ Netherlands/ United Arab Emirates)
Jury Mansion Award: “Pioneer Heroes” (Director: Natalya Kudryashova, Producer: Sergey Selyanov - Russia)
Best Movie: “Memories on Stone” (Director: Shawkat Amin Korki, Producer: Mehmet Aktaş - Germany/ Iraq)
Antalya Film Forum Awards:
DigiFlame Color and Digital Effect Award: “Goodness” (Producer: Sevil Demirci / Director: Özgür Sevimli) Aff Villa Kult Berlin Artistic Residency Award: “Dormitory” (Producer: Evrim Sanal / Director: Nehir Tuna) Documentary Pitching Jury Special Award : “The Memories of Antoine Köpe” (Producer: Elsa Ginoux / Director: Nefin Dinç) Documentary Pitching Platform Award: “Mr. Gay Syria” (Producer: Cem Doruk / Director: Ayşe Toprak) with 30,000 Tl, “The Olympiad” (Producer: Tuğçe Taçkın / Director: Efe Öztezdoğan) with 30,000 Tl Fiction Pitching Jury Special Award: “Death of the Black Horses” (Producer: Gülistan Acet / Director: Ferit Karahan) Fiction Pitching Award: “Butterflies” (Producer-Director: Tolga Karaçelik) with 30,000 Tl, “The Boarding School” (Producer: Bilge Elif Özköse / Director: Rezan Yeşilbaş) with 30,000 Tl Work in Progress Award: “Rauf” (Producer: Soner Caner, Burak Ozan / Director: Barış Kaya, Soner Caner) with 100,000 Tl Honorary and Lifetime Achivement Awards:
Golden Orange Labor Award : Sonay Kanat
Honarary Award: Kathleen Turner
Lifetime Achievement Award: Catherine Deneuve
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jeremy Irons
Lifetime Achievement Award: Franco Nero
Lifetime Achievement Award: Vanessa Redgrave
Honarary Award: Aysen Gruda
Honarary Award: Erden Kıral
Honarary Award: Kayhan Yıldızoğlu
Honarary Award: Tijen Par
National Competition Awards:
Antalya Film Support Fund Award: “Snow“, Emre Erdoğdu with 100.000Tl
Documentary Audience Award : “Zerk” (Director: İnan Erbil, Producer: Doğacan Aktaş)
Short Film Audience Award: “Zilan” (Director: Mehmet Mahsum Akyel, Producer: Doğacan Aktaş)
National Competition Audience Award: “The Coop” (Director: Ufuk Bayraktar, Producer, Ufuk Bayraktar, Ali Adnan Özgür)
Behlül Dal Jury Special Award (Young Talented Actor): Yağız Can Konyalı (The Team: “For the Love of the Neighborhood”)
Dr. Avni Tolunay Jury Special Award: “ The Cold of Kalandar “(Director: Mustafa Kara, Producer: Nermin Aytekin))
Best Editing: Emre Şahin (The Team: “For the Love of the Neighborhood”)
Best Production Designer: Uykura Bayyurt (The Team: “For the Love of the Neighborhood”)
Best Cinematography: Andreas Sinanos (“Memories of the Wind”)
Best Music: François Couturier (“Memories of The Wind“), Eleonore Fourniau (“The Cold of Kalandar“)
Best Supporting Actor: Kaan Çakır (“Muna“)
Best Supporting Actress: Cigdem Selisik (“The Apprentice“)
Best Actor: Nadir Sarıbacak (“Ivy“)
Best Actress: Nuray Yeşilaraz (“The Cold of Kalandar“)
Best First Movie: “The Apprentice“ (Director: Emre Konuk)
Film-yön Best Director: Selim Evci (“Saklı“)
Best Screenplay: Tolga Karacelik (“Ivy“)
Best Director: Tolga Karacelik (“Ivy“), 1 million Turkish Arlines travel miles
Best Movie: “Ivy” (Producer: Bilge Elif Turhan, Tolga Karacelik) 100.000 Tl award...
The Festival’s industry component, the one year old, Antalya Film Forum (Aff), was directed by filmmaker Zeynep Özbatur Atakan. Industry guests included, among others, Jim Stark and his partner Nicolas Celis whom I had just recently written about. Idfa’s Ally Derks, Tiff’s Piers Handling, International sales agent Catherine Le Clef, BaseWerx for Film’s Claudia Landsberger, and Producer Linda Beath who all attended in spite of warnings of terrorism in Turkey. I also had the good fortune to meet the Bosnian Dp Mirsad Herović who seems to be working non-stop in Turkey these days, on his film “Iftarlik Gazoz/Pop A Revolution”.
At the ceremony I sat next to Alin Tasciyan, President of Fipresci who was also responsible for the international press in attendance. Days later, we went to a fabulous restaurant in Istanbul and talked more about the state of the industry and Turkey in general. This evening was one of the highlights of the trip and deserves an article of its own.
The jury was presided over by the elegant Ömer Vargi, known as the director who revitalized the Turkish cinema and who is also the head of the Istanbul Film Studios. The jury members included the award winning screenwriter Tarik Tufan and L.A.’s own James Ulmer, the entertainment journalist who created a ranking list of actors, known as "The Ulmer Scale" and who wrote the books James Ulmer's Hollywood Hot List -- The Complete Guide to Star Ranking and Directors Hot List, which measure the global value of stars and directors in a variety of areas including bankability, career management, professionalism, promotion, risk factors and talent. We again shared an evening together in Istanbul where we stayed at the same boutique hotel recommend to us by Israel’s Dan and Edna Fainaru , who unfortunately broke her foot at the festival.
The most notable film was “Ivy” which won four awards: National Competition for Best Movie -- plus 100.000 Turkish Lira (3Tl = 1Us$) and whose director-writer Tolga Karaçelik won the National Competition for Best Screenplay and for Best Director (for which he also won 1 million travel miles by Turkish Airlines) and whose actor Nadir Sarıbacak won the Best Actor Award of the National Competition.
“Ivy” is Tolga Karaçelik’s second film and previously played at Sundance 2015, Tiff 2015 Contemporary World Cinema, Thessaloniki, Istanbul and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals in 2015. The story is about a ship sailing to Egypt to load goods bound for Angola. The crew is forbidden to go to shore when a lien is put on the ship because the ship’s owner has gone bankrupt leaving the crew with no salaries paid which puts them into a nasty mood. While in anchorage, supplies run out, the crew fractures into parts, small arguments escalate into major conflicts and the ship becomes a battlefield.
“The Cold of Kalander” also won four prizes: the Dr. Avni Tolunay Jury Special Award, National Competition for Best Music to François Couturier, International Competition Best Actor to Haydar Şişman and National Competition to Nuray Yeşilaraz for Best Actress.
Winning three prizes, “Memories of the Wind," about an intellectual of Armenian origin hiding from Turkish militia by the Georgian border during WWII who falls in love with the wife of the farmer offering shelter, received a great round of applause with its Audience Award in International Competition, International Award for Best Music by Eleonore Fourning and Best Visual Director Award going to Andreas Sinanos. International sales by Arizona Flms.
“For Love of the Neighborhood” won the Special Jury Award, Best Art Direction Award and Best Editing Award. “The Apprentice” won for Best First Movie, and the Best Supporting Actress Award went to Çiğdem Selışık.
Elif Dağdeviren on the state of the festival and its mission today says,
"Our aim was and will continue to be a respected film festival on a par with all the important film festivals around the world. We choose all the films, events, national and international guests according to this mission and vision.
During the first 50 years, the festival served a very important purpose to support the cinema of Turkey locally. This was at a time when there were no other festivals and very few theatres in Turkey.
Antayla opened many doors for other successful local festivals and then needed to renew itself by becoming a meeting point of both the local and the world cinema sector. And it needed to modernize itself according to the technological innovations taking place worldwide. The first two years have proven that this is not a dream but a possible reality."
List of winners:
International Competition Awards
Audience Award: “Memories of the Wind” (Director: Ozcan Alper, Producers: Soner Alper, Mustafa Oğuz, Ali Bayraktar – Turkey)
Best Music Award: Eleni Karaindrou and Irena Popoviç (“Enclave” –Serbia/Germany)
Best Actor: Haydar Şişman (“The Cold of Kalandar” - Turkey)
Best Actress: Alba Rohrwacher (“Sworn Virgin” -Italy/ Switzerland/ Germany/ Albania/ Kosovo/ France)
Best Screenplay: Alexandra-Therese Keining (“Girls Lost” - Sweden)
Best Director: Hany Abu Assad (“The Idol” – U.K./ Palestine/ Netherlands/ United Arab Emirates)
Jury Mansion Award: “Pioneer Heroes” (Director: Natalya Kudryashova, Producer: Sergey Selyanov - Russia)
Best Movie: “Memories on Stone” (Director: Shawkat Amin Korki, Producer: Mehmet Aktaş - Germany/ Iraq)
Antalya Film Forum Awards:
DigiFlame Color and Digital Effect Award: “Goodness” (Producer: Sevil Demirci / Director: Özgür Sevimli) Aff Villa Kult Berlin Artistic Residency Award: “Dormitory” (Producer: Evrim Sanal / Director: Nehir Tuna) Documentary Pitching Jury Special Award : “The Memories of Antoine Köpe” (Producer: Elsa Ginoux / Director: Nefin Dinç) Documentary Pitching Platform Award: “Mr. Gay Syria” (Producer: Cem Doruk / Director: Ayşe Toprak) with 30,000 Tl, “The Olympiad” (Producer: Tuğçe Taçkın / Director: Efe Öztezdoğan) with 30,000 Tl Fiction Pitching Jury Special Award: “Death of the Black Horses” (Producer: Gülistan Acet / Director: Ferit Karahan) Fiction Pitching Award: “Butterflies” (Producer-Director: Tolga Karaçelik) with 30,000 Tl, “The Boarding School” (Producer: Bilge Elif Özköse / Director: Rezan Yeşilbaş) with 30,000 Tl Work in Progress Award: “Rauf” (Producer: Soner Caner, Burak Ozan / Director: Barış Kaya, Soner Caner) with 100,000 Tl Honorary and Lifetime Achivement Awards:
Golden Orange Labor Award : Sonay Kanat
Honarary Award: Kathleen Turner
Lifetime Achievement Award: Catherine Deneuve
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jeremy Irons
Lifetime Achievement Award: Franco Nero
Lifetime Achievement Award: Vanessa Redgrave
Honarary Award: Aysen Gruda
Honarary Award: Erden Kıral
Honarary Award: Kayhan Yıldızoğlu
Honarary Award: Tijen Par
National Competition Awards:
Antalya Film Support Fund Award: “Snow“, Emre Erdoğdu with 100.000Tl
Documentary Audience Award : “Zerk” (Director: İnan Erbil, Producer: Doğacan Aktaş)
Short Film Audience Award: “Zilan” (Director: Mehmet Mahsum Akyel, Producer: Doğacan Aktaş)
National Competition Audience Award: “The Coop” (Director: Ufuk Bayraktar, Producer, Ufuk Bayraktar, Ali Adnan Özgür)
Behlül Dal Jury Special Award (Young Talented Actor): Yağız Can Konyalı (The Team: “For the Love of the Neighborhood”)
Dr. Avni Tolunay Jury Special Award: “ The Cold of Kalandar “(Director: Mustafa Kara, Producer: Nermin Aytekin))
Best Editing: Emre Şahin (The Team: “For the Love of the Neighborhood”)
Best Production Designer: Uykura Bayyurt (The Team: “For the Love of the Neighborhood”)
Best Cinematography: Andreas Sinanos (“Memories of the Wind”)
Best Music: François Couturier (“Memories of The Wind“), Eleonore Fourniau (“The Cold of Kalandar“)
Best Supporting Actor: Kaan Çakır (“Muna“)
Best Supporting Actress: Cigdem Selisik (“The Apprentice“)
Best Actor: Nadir Sarıbacak (“Ivy“)
Best Actress: Nuray Yeşilaraz (“The Cold of Kalandar“)
Best First Movie: “The Apprentice“ (Director: Emre Konuk)
Film-yön Best Director: Selim Evci (“Saklı“)
Best Screenplay: Tolga Karacelik (“Ivy“)
Best Director: Tolga Karacelik (“Ivy“), 1 million Turkish Arlines travel miles
Best Movie: “Ivy” (Producer: Bilge Elif Turhan, Tolga Karacelik) 100.000 Tl award...
- 12/20/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Lesson by co-directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov was the big winner at this year’s Sofia International Film Festival in Bulgaria.
The duo’s feature debut became the second Bulgarian feature in Siff’s 19-year history to receive the international jury’s Grand Prix after Dragomir Sholev’s Shelter in 2011.
The Lesson also picked up the Audience Award, the Fipresci International Critics’ Prize and the award for the Best Bulgarian Feature Film.
Accepting the award, Valchanov pointed to the importance of the Sofia Meetings where The Lesson had originally been pitched and said that this event should be ¨an example¨ to the Bulgarian state to develop a long-term and sustainable film policy for the future.
The sentiment was echoed by international jury president Stephan Komanderev (The Judgement) when he presented the ¨Sofia City Of Film¨ Grand Prix to the young directors.
The Lesson, which is handled internationally by Wide Management, premiered last year...
The duo’s feature debut became the second Bulgarian feature in Siff’s 19-year history to receive the international jury’s Grand Prix after Dragomir Sholev’s Shelter in 2011.
The Lesson also picked up the Audience Award, the Fipresci International Critics’ Prize and the award for the Best Bulgarian Feature Film.
Accepting the award, Valchanov pointed to the importance of the Sofia Meetings where The Lesson had originally been pitched and said that this event should be ¨an example¨ to the Bulgarian state to develop a long-term and sustainable film policy for the future.
The sentiment was echoed by international jury president Stephan Komanderev (The Judgement) when he presented the ¨Sofia City Of Film¨ Grand Prix to the young directors.
The Lesson, which is handled internationally by Wide Management, premiered last year...
- 3/16/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Russian film Leviathan has taken out the award for Best Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards held in Brisbane last night.
Producer by Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov, and co-produced by Marianna Sardarova, Leviathan follows the plight of a man who is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. It was directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
The Apsa Award for directing went to Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his work on the film Winter Sleep, which has also been awarded a Palme d.Or. Though he was unable to attend the ceremony, his award was accepted by his long time producing partner Zeynep Özbatur Atakan.
New Zealand actor Chris Curtis took home the gong for Best Performance by an Actor for his role in The Dark Horse, while Australia.s David Gulpilil received a special mention for his role in Charlie.s Country.
Producer by Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov, and co-produced by Marianna Sardarova, Leviathan follows the plight of a man who is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. It was directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
The Apsa Award for directing went to Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his work on the film Winter Sleep, which has also been awarded a Palme d.Or. Though he was unable to attend the ceremony, his award was accepted by his long time producing partner Zeynep Özbatur Atakan.
New Zealand actor Chris Curtis took home the gong for Best Performance by an Actor for his role in The Dark Horse, while Australia.s David Gulpilil received a special mention for his role in Charlie.s Country.
- 12/11/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Redmayne lauded for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for Best Director to Kyrgyzstan’s Marat Sarulu for Move...
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for Best Director to Kyrgyzstan’s Marat Sarulu for Move...
- 12/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Other prizes included a Best Actor prize for Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for...
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for...
- 12/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Force Majeure, Leviathan and Nymphomaniac among nominees.
The nominations for the 27th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 13 in Riga.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut - Volume I & II and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep will compete for European Film, with every director - apart from von Trier - up for European Director alongside Steven Knight for Locke and Paolo Virzi for Human Capital.
Roger Michell’s Le Week-End is up for European Comedy, alongside Paco León’s Carmina & Amen and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
European Film 2014
Force Majeure (Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway)
Written & Directed By: [link...
The nominations for the 27th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 13 in Riga.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut - Volume I & II and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep will compete for European Film, with every director - apart from von Trier - up for European Director alongside Steven Knight for Locke and Paolo Virzi for Human Capital.
Roger Michell’s Le Week-End is up for European Comedy, alongside Paco León’s Carmina & Amen and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
European Film 2014
Force Majeure (Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway)
Written & Directed By: [link...
- 11/8/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Leviathan leads contenders; 36 films from 21 countries in the running.
Films in the running for the 2014 Apsa for Best Feature Film include Winter Sleep (Turkey, France, Germany), Leviathan (Russia), I’m Not Angry (Iran), The Owners (Kazakhstan), and Memories on Stone (Iraqi Kurdistan, Germany).
Leviathan, also nominated for Achievement in Cinematography for Mikhail Krichman, has received three nominations in total, the most for any film.
In total, 36 films from 21 countries are in the running for awards.
Nominees vying for the award in the Achievement in Directing category are: Rolf de Heer (Charlie’s Country, Australia), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Russia), Im Kwon-taek (Revivre, South Korea), Rakhshan Banietemad (Tales, Iran) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Turkey, France, Germany).
For the first time, a film from Syria has received a nomination, with Silvered Water, Syria Self-portrait (Syria, France) nominated for the Apsa for Best Feature Documentary.
Films from the China and Russia lead the nominations with six each, closely followed...
Films in the running for the 2014 Apsa for Best Feature Film include Winter Sleep (Turkey, France, Germany), Leviathan (Russia), I’m Not Angry (Iran), The Owners (Kazakhstan), and Memories on Stone (Iraqi Kurdistan, Germany).
Leviathan, also nominated for Achievement in Cinematography for Mikhail Krichman, has received three nominations in total, the most for any film.
In total, 36 films from 21 countries are in the running for awards.
Nominees vying for the award in the Achievement in Directing category are: Rolf de Heer (Charlie’s Country, Australia), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Russia), Im Kwon-taek (Revivre, South Korea), Rakhshan Banietemad (Tales, Iran) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Turkey, France, Germany).
For the first time, a film from Syria has received a nomination, with Silvered Water, Syria Self-portrait (Syria, France) nominated for the Apsa for Best Feature Documentary.
Films from the China and Russia lead the nominations with six each, closely followed...
- 10/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th edition collects titles that date back to last year’s Venice and Toronto Int. Film Festivals moving into Sundance-Rotterdam-Berlin and finally Cannes of ’14. Among the 31 European countries represented, we’ve got likes of the Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan leading the huge pack of contenders including Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida. Here’s the complete list of 50!:
Alienation
ОТЧУЖДЕНИЕ (Otchujdenie)
Bulgaria
Directed By: Milko Lazarov
Written By: Milko Lazarov, Kitodar Todorov & Georgi Tenev
Produced By: Veselka Kiryakova
Amour Fou
Austria/Luxembourg/Germany
Written & Directed By: Jessica Hausner
Produced By: Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu & Philippe Bober
Beautiful Youth
Hermosa Juventud
Spain/France
Directed By: Jaime Rosales
Written By: Jaime Rosales & Enric Rufas
Produced By: Jaime Rosales,...
Alienation
ОТЧУЖДЕНИЕ (Otchujdenie)
Bulgaria
Directed By: Milko Lazarov
Written By: Milko Lazarov, Kitodar Todorov & Georgi Tenev
Produced By: Veselka Kiryakova
Amour Fou
Austria/Luxembourg/Germany
Written & Directed By: Jessica Hausner
Produced By: Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu & Philippe Bober
Beautiful Youth
Hermosa Juventud
Spain/France
Directed By: Jaime Rosales
Written By: Jaime Rosales & Enric Rufas
Produced By: Jaime Rosales,...
- 9/16/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winner has found its Us home.
Adopt Films has earmarked a year-end release in time for awards season consideration after striking a deal with sales agent Memento Films International.
Winter Sleep centres on the drama that unfolds at a mountaintop hotel run by a former actor. Ceylan co-wrote the screenplay with Ebru Ceylan
Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sozen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Peckan, Serhat Kilic, Nejat Isler, Tmaer Levent and Nadir Saribacak star in the Turkey-Germany-France co-production.
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan produced and Sezgi Uztun served as executive producer.
Adopt Films has earmarked a year-end release in time for awards season consideration after striking a deal with sales agent Memento Films International.
Winter Sleep centres on the drama that unfolds at a mountaintop hotel run by a former actor. Ceylan co-wrote the screenplay with Ebru Ceylan
Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sozen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Peckan, Serhat Kilic, Nejat Isler, Tmaer Levent and Nadir Saribacak star in the Turkey-Germany-France co-production.
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan produced and Sezgi Uztun served as executive producer.
- 6/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Istanbul-based course to select 15 participants.
The European Women’s Audiovisual network is planning a course devoted to online marketing and distribution, to be held in Istanbul April 25-27.
Applications are open until April 7 and only 15 participants will be selected for the course, which is presented with Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan’s Zeyno Films.
The course will cover how to use branding for films, how to successfully crowd-fund, digital distribution possibilities and pitfalls to be aware of when distributing online.
Experts set to lead the course are Distrify’s Andy Green [pictured], Digital Leadership Institute’s Cheryl Miller, Coffee and Cigarettes’ Eduardo Panizzo, and Turkish crowdfunding expert Seda Kilic Artas.
More information and the application form can be found here.
The European Women’s Audiovisual network is planning a course devoted to online marketing and distribution, to be held in Istanbul April 25-27.
Applications are open until April 7 and only 15 participants will be selected for the course, which is presented with Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan’s Zeyno Films.
The course will cover how to use branding for films, how to successfully crowd-fund, digital distribution possibilities and pitfalls to be aware of when distributing online.
Experts set to lead the course are Distrify’s Andy Green [pictured], Digital Leadership Institute’s Cheryl Miller, Coffee and Cigarettes’ Eduardo Panizzo, and Turkish crowdfunding expert Seda Kilic Artas.
More information and the application form can be found here.
- 3/31/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Winter Sleep
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and wife/actress/producer Ebru Ceylan
Producers: Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan (has been Ceylan’s producer since Climates).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen
There was a time when Kar-Wai, Ki Duk, Almodovar could do no wrong. And while they’ve had recent bumps in the road, apart from Haneke the filmmaker personality who has landed number one on our 2014 list has been solid for more than a decade. Since he preemed his third film 2002′s Distant in Cannes, he has been batting near a thousand with Climates, Three Monkeys and arguably one of the best films of 2011 in Once Upon A Time in Anatolia. Nuri Bilge Ceylan might follow up his masterwork set in the sprawling hills with what looks like a portrait in a more unforgiving terrain. Production lasted four...
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and wife/actress/producer Ebru Ceylan
Producers: Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan (has been Ceylan’s producer since Climates).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen
There was a time when Kar-Wai, Ki Duk, Almodovar could do no wrong. And while they’ve had recent bumps in the road, apart from Haneke the filmmaker personality who has landed number one on our 2014 list has been solid for more than a decade. Since he preemed his third film 2002′s Distant in Cannes, he has been batting near a thousand with Climates, Three Monkeys and arguably one of the best films of 2011 in Once Upon A Time in Anatolia. Nuri Bilge Ceylan might follow up his masterwork set in the sprawling hills with what looks like a portrait in a more unforgiving terrain. Production lasted four...
- 3/7/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
"One of the most fascinating and entertaining asides in British cinema, Sabu is just meta-colonial enough to maintain relevance," writes Joseph Jon Lanthier in Slant, wrapping his review of the 30th package in Criterion's Eclipse series, Sabu!
Michael Koresky on Sabu's debut: "The seeds of Elephant Boy were sown in 1929, when [Robert] Flaherty, famous for his groundbreaking 1922 Eskimo documentary, Nanook of the North, approached Alexander Korda about doing a story, set in Mexico, about a boy and his bull. Korda wanted to work with Flaherty but changed the bull to an elephant, basing his idea on his favorite Kipling tale. When production began years later, Flaherty shot more than 55 hours of footage in India; meanwhile, Zoltán Korda was commissioned to direct the more story-driven scenes at England's Denham Studios, for which Sabu was flown in. What could have been a schizophrenic film instead became a masterful amalgamation of its two parts,...
Michael Koresky on Sabu's debut: "The seeds of Elephant Boy were sown in 1929, when [Robert] Flaherty, famous for his groundbreaking 1922 Eskimo documentary, Nanook of the North, approached Alexander Korda about doing a story, set in Mexico, about a boy and his bull. Korda wanted to work with Flaherty but changed the bull to an elephant, basing his idea on his favorite Kipling tale. When production began years later, Flaherty shot more than 55 hours of footage in India; meanwhile, Zoltán Korda was commissioned to direct the more story-driven scenes at England's Denham Studios, for which Sabu was flown in. What could have been a schizophrenic film instead became a masterful amalgamation of its two parts,...
- 11/30/2011
- MUBI
The 23rd European Film Awards Photo credit: Efa/René Velli
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer triumphed at this year’s European Film Academy’s 23rd European Film Awards. The film, which I have reviewed here, took the best screenwriter, composer, director and the overall film award, at a ceremony on Saturday (04/12/2010) in snowy Tallinn, Estonia – European Capital of Culture 2011. The best animated feature film award went to Sylvain Chomet’s Illusionist – watch this space for a review in the next few days.
Around 1,400 guests were welcomed by German comedy star Anke Engelke and Estonian actor Märt Avandi who were the show’s hosts and over 2,300 members of the European Film Academy are said to have voted at the awards. The individual awards were presented by a line-up of European actors and actresses, among them Efa Ambassador Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Jean-Marc Barr (France), Hannelore Elsner (Germany), Nikolaj Lie Kaas...
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer triumphed at this year’s European Film Academy’s 23rd European Film Awards. The film, which I have reviewed here, took the best screenwriter, composer, director and the overall film award, at a ceremony on Saturday (04/12/2010) in snowy Tallinn, Estonia – European Capital of Culture 2011. The best animated feature film award went to Sylvain Chomet’s Illusionist – watch this space for a review in the next few days.
Around 1,400 guests were welcomed by German comedy star Anke Engelke and Estonian actor Märt Avandi who were the show’s hosts and over 2,300 members of the European Film Academy are said to have voted at the awards. The individual awards were presented by a line-up of European actors and actresses, among them Efa Ambassador Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Jean-Marc Barr (France), Hannelore Elsner (Germany), Nikolaj Lie Kaas...
- 12/6/2010
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
The 2010 European Film Award winners were announced this weekend, and the results are quite surprising. Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer swept the awards winning six in total, including best film, director, actor (Ewan McGregor), screenwriter (Polanski and Robert Harris), production designer (Albrecht Konrad), and composer (Alexandre Desplat).
Hit the jump for the full list.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2010
Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Editor 2010
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer 2010
Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer
European Composer 2010
Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Discovery 2010- Prix Fipresci
Lebanon,...
Hit the jump for the full list.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2010
Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Editor 2010
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer 2010
Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer
European Composer 2010
Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Discovery 2010- Prix Fipresci
Lebanon,...
- 12/6/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The European Film Awards were presented this evening in Tallinn, Estonia, and it's turned out to be a good night for Roman Polanski and The Ghost Writer. The loot: European Film (in this case, meaning "best"), Director, Screenwriter (Polanski and Robert Harris), Actor (Ewan McGregor), Composer (Alexandre Desplat) and Production Design (Albrecht Konrad).
European Actress: Sylvie Testud (for her performance in Jessica Hausner's Lourdes). The European Discovery Prix Fipresci, presented to a director for his or her first feature, goes to Samuel Maoz for Lebanon. Maoz noted that he was pleasantly surprised to be discovered as he nears the age of 50. The film also picked up the Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award for Giora Bejach.
The Documentary Prix Arte goes to Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light; Jaco van Dormael's Mr Nobody has won the People's Choice Award. Animated Feature: Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist. Editing:...
European Actress: Sylvie Testud (for her performance in Jessica Hausner's Lourdes). The European Discovery Prix Fipresci, presented to a director for his or her first feature, goes to Samuel Maoz for Lebanon. Maoz noted that he was pleasantly surprised to be discovered as he nears the age of 50. The film also picked up the Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award for Giora Bejach.
The Documentary Prix Arte goes to Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light; Jaco van Dormael's Mr Nobody has won the People's Choice Award. Animated Feature: Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist. Editing:...
- 12/5/2010
- MUBI
The European Film Awards were held yesterday in Estonia's capital Tallin (next year the ceremony will be in Malta). Roman Polanski and Ewan McGregor both appeared via the wonders of the internet (you may have heard Polanski doesn't travel much) to accept for The Ghost Writer. The mystery thriller about a politician under fire and the two sorry writers who attempt to ghost his memoirs is filled with twists. It opened way back in March 2010 but it's apparently not done surprising us. Against the odds, it's been resurfacing in the awards conversation... and not just here. It took home a record-breaking 6 prizes, only losing "people's choice".
The previous Efa record holders, according to Screen Daily, were Spain's Talk to Her (2002) and Germany's Goodbye Lenin (2003) both of which, we foreign film Oscar obsessed must note, notoriously missed out on Oscar's Foreign Film category in their years (albeit for different reasons).
The...
The previous Efa record holders, according to Screen Daily, were Spain's Talk to Her (2002) and Germany's Goodbye Lenin (2003) both of which, we foreign film Oscar obsessed must note, notoriously missed out on Oscar's Foreign Film category in their years (albeit for different reasons).
The...
- 12/5/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Award season is among us on both sides of the Atlantic. Today the European Film Academy handed out their annual awards in Tallinn, Estonia and the big winner of the evening was Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer, claiming six awards, including Best Picture. Lebanon Israeli's Golden Lion winner of 2009, collected a pair: the award for European discovery, handed out to first time directors ("it's an honor being discovered when you're close to 50", said 48 year old director Samuel Maoz upon receiving the award), and the award for Best Cinematography, handed to Giora Bejach, for his extraordinary work, shooting an (almost) entire film from the Pov of a tank. Lebanon has an enormous artistic appeal, as it demonstrates the claustrophobic feeling leading audiences to believe the film was shot within the confines a tank, when in reality, Maoz didn't have a tank at his disposal. Israeli audiences didn't seem to connect to the film,...
- 12/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The European Film Awards are not predictive of Oscars. But six wins for The Ghost Writer moves the film to the top of the screener pile. Maybe some folks will watch it now. One of my favorite films of last year, it shares with Shutter Island and The Town a formal elegance and control. These films are well-made across the board. But they are also genre films, accessible and fun--as opposed to high art. That is the question. This is no The Pianist. Summit is pushing the movie for awards consideration. The full list of winners is below. The Winners European Co-production Award - Prix Eurimages Zeynep Özbatur Atakan European Composer Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award Giora Bejach ...
- 12/4/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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