Films by Carolina Markowicz, Isabel Coixet, Jaione Camborda and Isabel Herguera all have international potential.
Highly anticipated features from Isabel Coixet, Lucía Puenzo and Jaione Camborda are among the buzziest Spanish and Latin American titles screening across all strands of this year’s San Sebastián film festival. Here is a flavour of what festival audiences can expect.
Blondi (Argentina)
Dir: Dolores Fonzi
The debut feature from Argentinian actress Dolores Fonzi plays in the Horizontes Latinos section, which screens premieres entirely or partially produced in Latin America and not yet released in Spain. Fonzi also stars in the film which is...
Highly anticipated features from Isabel Coixet, Lucía Puenzo and Jaione Camborda are among the buzziest Spanish and Latin American titles screening across all strands of this year’s San Sebastián film festival. Here is a flavour of what festival audiences can expect.
Blondi (Argentina)
Dir: Dolores Fonzi
The debut feature from Argentinian actress Dolores Fonzi plays in the Horizontes Latinos section, which screens premieres entirely or partially produced in Latin America and not yet released in Spain. Fonzi also stars in the film which is...
- 9/26/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/13/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/13/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/6/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/1/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 8/30/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Alfonso Quijada’s feature follows a young woman gifted with an extraordinary sense of smell. It looks great, but fails to satisfy
This drama from El Salvador has several commendable features, starting with a tender, sympathetic central performance from Laura Osma as Josefina, a sweet young woman who discovers she has an exceptional sense of smell. However, something doesn’t quite smell right about the way the film clumsily layers uplift and violence, served up with excessively stylised visuals and sound. It’s as if writer-director Alfonso Quijada, better known hitherto as an actor and producer, doesn’t know if he wants to make a telenovela-style melodrama or something more elevated and arty – in the tradition of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow or Lila Avilés’s films The Chambermaid and Tótem – with long takes and oblique storytelling strategies. In the end, it fails to satisfy either ambition.
Josefina...
This drama from El Salvador has several commendable features, starting with a tender, sympathetic central performance from Laura Osma as Josefina, a sweet young woman who discovers she has an exceptional sense of smell. However, something doesn’t quite smell right about the way the film clumsily layers uplift and violence, served up with excessively stylised visuals and sound. It’s as if writer-director Alfonso Quijada, better known hitherto as an actor and producer, doesn’t know if he wants to make a telenovela-style melodrama or something more elevated and arty – in the tradition of Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow or Lila Avilés’s films The Chambermaid and Tótem – with long takes and oblique storytelling strategies. In the end, it fails to satisfy either ambition.
Josefina...
- 3/20/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The film is about the fight for womens’ rights in Spain in the 1970s
Filmax has acquired international rights to the 1970s-set womens rights drama In The Company Of Women, directed by Spanish actress-turned-director Silvia Munt, and is presenting a promo to buyers in Berlin.
Inspired by real events, In The Company Of Women is about a group of women from Rentería, in the Basque Country, who fought for women rights in Spain throughout the 1970s, helping many to cross the border into France, where they were able to secure safe and dignified abortions.
Alicia Falcó, Itziar Ituño and Elena Tarrats...
Filmax has acquired international rights to the 1970s-set womens rights drama In The Company Of Women, directed by Spanish actress-turned-director Silvia Munt, and is presenting a promo to buyers in Berlin.
Inspired by real events, In The Company Of Women is about a group of women from Rentería, in the Basque Country, who fought for women rights in Spain throughout the 1970s, helping many to cross the border into France, where they were able to secure safe and dignified abortions.
Alicia Falcó, Itziar Ituño and Elena Tarrats...
- 2/17/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
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If the apparent success of Amazon’s The Terminal List proved anything, it’s that there’s an audience out there for fast-moving militaristic revenge stories with more interest in a steadily escalating body count than anything deeper.
Mark Boal’s new Apple TV+ drama Echo 3 will put to the test whether viewers are willing to stick with their militaristic revenge stories if they come packaged with some nuance and characterization. Based on the Israeli format When Heroes Fly, Echo 3 has all the fetishistic shots of weapons and arbitrarily featured American flags one could ever want, and the body count rises steadily. But those things are accompanied by artier touches, whether it’s blades of grass swaying in the wind, attempts to delve superficially into the political realities of contemporary South America or just action scenes that unfold with a deliberate — right on the edge of “slow” — pace.
If the apparent success of Amazon’s The Terminal List proved anything, it’s that there’s an audience out there for fast-moving militaristic revenge stories with more interest in a steadily escalating body count than anything deeper.
Mark Boal’s new Apple TV+ drama Echo 3 will put to the test whether viewers are willing to stick with their militaristic revenge stories if they come packaged with some nuance and characterization. Based on the Israeli format When Heroes Fly, Echo 3 has all the fetishistic shots of weapons and arbitrarily featured American flags one could ever want, and the body count rises steadily. But those things are accompanied by artier touches, whether it’s blades of grass swaying in the wind, attempts to delve superficially into the political realities of contemporary South America or just action scenes that unfold with a deliberate — right on the edge of “slow” — pace.
- 11/21/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Threadlock: Llosa Drifts into Elegant Nightmare with Faithful Adaptation
For her fourth feature, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa adapts Samanta Shweblin’s enigmatic novel Fever Dream, a text which reads much like the English translated title promises. Llosa, making her first film since her equally emotionally mystical 2014 English language debut Aloft, crafts this complex narrative with necessary aplomb, elegantly navigating Schweblin’s ambiguities.
Essentially an eco-horror film slivered into anxieties of motherhood, class, and sexuality, the film is overripe with themes, the nuances of which might be missed in trying to deduce what exactly is going on. By the time it puts together all the frayed pieces, however, Llosa’s film clicks into its own resonance, inverting its gender norms for a haunting finale.…...
For her fourth feature, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa adapts Samanta Shweblin’s enigmatic novel Fever Dream, a text which reads much like the English translated title promises. Llosa, making her first film since her equally emotionally mystical 2014 English language debut Aloft, crafts this complex narrative with necessary aplomb, elegantly navigating Schweblin’s ambiguities.
Essentially an eco-horror film slivered into anxieties of motherhood, class, and sexuality, the film is overripe with themes, the nuances of which might be missed in trying to deduce what exactly is going on. By the time it puts together all the frayed pieces, however, Llosa’s film clicks into its own resonance, inverting its gender norms for a haunting finale.…...
- 10/13/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Claudia Llosa returns to form with a woozy work about a cosy domesticity in rural Argentina shattered by uncanny intruders
After making high-arthouse awards-magnet The Milk of Sorrow in her native Peru in 2009, director Claudia Llosa stumbled in 2014 with her first English-language feature, Aloft which, despite its title, failed to take flight. And while seven years isn’t that long a time between films these days in the world of indie cinema, Fever Dream, feels like a return from a distant wilderness. Distribution via Netflix after a premiere at the San Sebastián film festival and short cinema run may be a decent strategy for this future cult classic – it’s a film that plays remarkably well on TV screens, especially if viewed alone late at night, as it’s all about a cosy domesticity that’s suddenly cruelly pierced by uncanny intruders.
Set in rural Argentina although apparently shot in Chile,...
After making high-arthouse awards-magnet The Milk of Sorrow in her native Peru in 2009, director Claudia Llosa stumbled in 2014 with her first English-language feature, Aloft which, despite its title, failed to take flight. And while seven years isn’t that long a time between films these days in the world of indie cinema, Fever Dream, feels like a return from a distant wilderness. Distribution via Netflix after a premiere at the San Sebastián film festival and short cinema run may be a decent strategy for this future cult classic – it’s a film that plays remarkably well on TV screens, especially if viewed alone late at night, as it’s all about a cosy domesticity that’s suddenly cruelly pierced by uncanny intruders.
Set in rural Argentina although apparently shot in Chile,...
- 10/7/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
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The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
Entries for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
The 94th Academy Awards will take place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This is the first time since 2018 that the ceremony will take place in March, having moved to avoid conflicting with the Winter Olympics.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue...
- 9/29/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Fever dream” has lately become an overused term in film marketing and criticism alike, often generically applied to anything faintly strange or surreal with fractured storytelling trickery and a lick of gauzy ambience. As a title for the latest feature from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, it serves a similarly loose, woolly purpose, despite not being particularly apt: A psychological thriller in which two mothers fear their children’s souls have gone adrift, the film’s narrative unfolds less as fever dream than waking nightmare, though its hazy, sunstruck styling lends it a certain somnambulant quality.
As with Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin’s celebrated source novel — co-adapted by the author with Llosa — the film’s original Spanish title is rather more evocative. Translating as “The Rescue Distance,” referring to the protagonist’s constant mental calculations as to how long it would take her to reach her daughter in an emergency, it...
As with Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin’s celebrated source novel — co-adapted by the author with Llosa — the film’s original Spanish title is rather more evocative. Translating as “The Rescue Distance,” referring to the protagonist’s constant mental calculations as to how long it would take her to reach her daughter in an emergency, it...
- 9/27/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
There is no shortage of fiery ambition in Claudia Llosa’s “Fever Dream.” Split between a dreamlike portrait of motherhood’s challenges and an allegorical thriller, the filmmaker’s psychological drama manifests its ideas with a woozy candor, a demeanor that demands its audience’s attention. It’s a disposition that warrants appreciation but does not succeed overall and, regrettably, equates to a wasted opportunity.
Read More: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films
Chronicling the summer vacation of a mother and her adolescent daughter, “Fever Dream” weaves the threads of its plot in a woozy, non-linear fashion.
Continue reading ‘Fever Dream’ Offers A Disorienting & Muddled Dissection Of Parental Anxiety [San Sebastian Review] at The Playlist.
Read More: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films
Chronicling the summer vacation of a mother and her adolescent daughter, “Fever Dream” weaves the threads of its plot in a woozy, non-linear fashion.
Continue reading ‘Fever Dream’ Offers A Disorienting & Muddled Dissection Of Parental Anxiety [San Sebastian Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/21/2021
- by Jonathan Christian
- The Playlist
“Detail is important,” says the disembodied voice of a young boy as a woman is dragged by her feet across the floor of a damp, dingy forest. A voice that could be hers replies as the two voices pool their memories of a day something dreadful happened. “Am I screaming?” asks the woman’s voice. “Yes,” says the boy. The stage is set for what will surely be a horror film.
No, actually. Fever Dream (Distancia De Recate), Peruvian director Claudia Llosa’s San Sebastian Film Festival premiere — which debuts on Netflix in October — is full of borrowings from the horror playbook: a lonely house in the country, a sinister town full of oddballs, a witchy wise woman the locals trust more than the over-burdened country doctor, two women going stir-crazy together and, centrally and almost inevitably, a devil child. These are, however, red herrings; the Devil is not in those tricked-up details.
No, actually. Fever Dream (Distancia De Recate), Peruvian director Claudia Llosa’s San Sebastian Film Festival premiere — which debuts on Netflix in October — is full of borrowings from the horror playbook: a lonely house in the country, a sinister town full of oddballs, a witchy wise woman the locals trust more than the over-burdened country doctor, two women going stir-crazy together and, centrally and almost inevitably, a devil child. These are, however, red herrings; the Devil is not in those tricked-up details.
- 9/21/2021
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Terror and beauty have been onscreen partners many times. But in Fever Dream, a film that lives up to its name, their connection is inextricable and eerie, shaped and propelled by an uncanny sense of emergency. Setting Claudia Llosa’s chilling new feature apart is how thoroughly it plants the viewer within its story’s emotional churn. And it wastes no time, plunging us straight into a disorienting sense of crisis in its opening seconds: A woman, seemingly paralyzed, describes in voiceover the feeling of something wormlike within her body as she’s dragged over brush by a young boy. Whether he’s taking her toward ...
- 9/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Terror and beauty have been onscreen partners many times. But in Fever Dream, a film that lives up to its name, their connection is inextricable and eerie, shaped and propelled by an uncanny sense of emergency. Setting Claudia Llosa’s chilling new feature apart is how thoroughly it plants the viewer within its story’s emotional churn. And it wastes no time, plunging us straight into a disorienting sense of crisis in its opening seconds: A woman, seemingly paralyzed, describes in voiceover the feeling of something wormlike within her body as she’s dragged over brush by a young boy. Whether he’s taking her toward ...
- 9/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Remember the promising breakout feature, “The Milk of Sorrow,” from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa? She also helmed the very strong “Aloft” with Jennifer Connelly in 2014. Well, it’s been seven years since her last feature, but Netflix is backing her latest, “Fever Dream,” based on the best-selling novel by Samanta Schewblin. This film is eligible to be Peru’s selection for the International Feature Oscar, and the picture will make its world premiere at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival.
Continue reading ‘Fever Dream’ Trailer: Claudia Llosa’s Latest Drama Arrives On Netflix In October at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Fever Dream’ Trailer: Claudia Llosa’s Latest Drama Arrives On Netflix In October at The Playlist.
- 9/16/2021
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
With Netflix’s Spanish-language thriller “Fever Dream,” a likely Oscar submission from Peru that debuts at the San Sebastian Film Festival on September 20, Claudia Llosa (Oscar-nominated “Milk of Sorrow”) returns to South America after filming her English-language follow-up, family drama “Aloft,” starring Jennifer Connelly.
The atmospheric, hallucinatory “Fever Dream” is another mother and son fable. After the birth of Llosa’s second child, the director read the magic realist novel “Distancia de Rescate,” by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, and instantly saw the movie in her mind. “Usually, I’m not looking for things to adapt, but it just captured me in such a way that I needed to do it,” Llosa said on a Zoom call from her home in Barcelona. She wrote Berlin-based Schweblin to ask for a meeting. She wanted the author to help her adapt the story.
Then the director approached producer Mark Johnson, who had been...
The atmospheric, hallucinatory “Fever Dream” is another mother and son fable. After the birth of Llosa’s second child, the director read the magic realist novel “Distancia de Rescate,” by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, and instantly saw the movie in her mind. “Usually, I’m not looking for things to adapt, but it just captured me in such a way that I needed to do it,” Llosa said on a Zoom call from her home in Barcelona. She wrote Berlin-based Schweblin to ask for a meeting. She wanted the author to help her adapt the story.
Then the director approached producer Mark Johnson, who had been...
- 9/16/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
With Netflix’s Spanish-language thriller “Fever Dream,” a likely Oscar submission from Peru that debuts at the San Sebastian Film Festival on September 20, Claudia Llosa (Oscar-nominated “Milk of Sorrow”) returns to South America after filming her English-language follow-up, family drama “Aloft,” starring Jennifer Connelly.
The atmospheric, hallucinatory “Fever Dream” is another mother and son fable. After the birth of Llosa’s second child, the director read the magic realist novel “Distancia de Rescate,” by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, and instantly saw the movie in her mind. “Usually, I’m not looking for things to adapt, but it just captured me in such a way that I needed to do it,” Llosa said on a Zoom call from her home in Barcelona. She wrote Berlin-based Schweblin to ask for a meeting. She wanted the author to help her adapt the story.
Then the director approached producer Mark Johnson, who had been...
The atmospheric, hallucinatory “Fever Dream” is another mother and son fable. After the birth of Llosa’s second child, the director read the magic realist novel “Distancia de Rescate,” by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, and instantly saw the movie in her mind. “Usually, I’m not looking for things to adapt, but it just captured me in such a way that I needed to do it,” Llosa said on a Zoom call from her home in Barcelona. She wrote Berlin-based Schweblin to ask for a meeting. She wanted the author to help her adapt the story.
Then the director approached producer Mark Johnson, who had been...
- 9/16/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Fernando León de Aranoa’s ‘The Good Boss’, Icíar Bollaín’s ‘Maixabel’ and ‘La Abuela’ from Paco Plaza are all in competition.
A total of 14 Spanish productions have been selected for the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25).
These include four titles which will compete for the Golden Shell, including The Good Boss, starring Javier Bardem, which marks the third time in official selection for Fernando León de Aranoa. The Madrid filmmaker won the Golden Shell for best film with Mondays In the Sun back in 2002. The Good Boss is a black comedy and is set in an industrial sales manufacturing business.
A total of 14 Spanish productions have been selected for the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25).
These include four titles which will compete for the Golden Shell, including The Good Boss, starring Javier Bardem, which marks the third time in official selection for Fernando León de Aranoa. The Madrid filmmaker won the Golden Shell for best film with Mondays In the Sun back in 2002. The Good Boss is a black comedy and is set in an industrial sales manufacturing business.
- 7/30/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Universal Pictures Int’l Spain has snatched theatrical distribution rights to the Spanish remake of romcom “A Boyfriend for my Wife” (“Un Novio para mi Mujer”), now shooting in Barcelona.
The 2008 Argentine original by Juan Taratuto, starring Adrian Suar, lured up to 1.5 million admissions in Argentina and has been remade in a slew of territories, including Mexico, Brazil, Italy, China, France, Chile, Vietnam and, most successfully, in South Korea where it sold five million admissions.
Its story revolves around a man who finds a rather unorthodox way of getting rid of his lovely but insufferable wife: Finding her a boyfriend so that she dumps him instead. He picks a well-known Lothario to seduce her but the scheme backfires on him.
Directed by Laura Mañá from a screenplay penned with Pol Cortecans (“Bienvenidos a la familia”), the Spanish remake is produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures and Athos Pictures along with the...
The 2008 Argentine original by Juan Taratuto, starring Adrian Suar, lured up to 1.5 million admissions in Argentina and has been remade in a slew of territories, including Mexico, Brazil, Italy, China, France, Chile, Vietnam and, most successfully, in South Korea where it sold five million admissions.
Its story revolves around a man who finds a rather unorthodox way of getting rid of his lovely but insufferable wife: Finding her a boyfriend so that she dumps him instead. He picks a well-known Lothario to seduce her but the scheme backfires on him.
Directed by Laura Mañá from a screenplay penned with Pol Cortecans (“Bienvenidos a la familia”), the Spanish remake is produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures and Athos Pictures along with the...
- 7/22/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
A day after San Sebastian Film Festival announced that films by Laurent Cantet, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Claudia Llosa and Claire Simon will be part of the make-up of their next edition, TIFF programmers are slowly making their section by section announcements. have announced opening and closing night Gala films, a slew of Cannes Film Festival items that premiered in the last two weeks, a couple of Berlin titles, legit world premieres and a small helping of titles that will be mentioned shortly for Venice/Telluride line-ups. Stephen Chbosky’s Dear Evan Hansen opens the fest and Zhang Yimou’s One Second (which was nabbed by Neon and premiered in Berlin) will close the fest.…...
- 7/20/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
While we have yet to get the full lineups for Venice and TIFF, we are starting to see how some of the later fall festivals are going to fare, in terms of features. And even though the San Sebastian Film Festival begins after both Venice and TIFF, the Spanish event is already shaping up to be a strong festival, as we are getting a small sampling of the lineup that will debut in mid-September.
Continue reading San Sebastian 2021 First Wave Announcement Includes New Features From Terence Davies, Claudia Llosa, Claire Simon & More at The Playlist.
Continue reading San Sebastian 2021 First Wave Announcement Includes New Features From Terence Davies, Claudia Llosa, Claire Simon & More at The Playlist.
- 7/19/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
The San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled first competition titles from the likes of Laurent Cantet, Terence Davies, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Claudia Llosa and Claire Simon.
The Official Selection of the 69th edition of the fest, set to run from Sept. 17 through Sept. 25, will also feature Inés Barrionuevo’s fourth feature film, along with Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg’s first features.
French filmmaker Cantet competed in the Spanish festival with Foxfire (2012), but will this year return with Arthur Rambo, starring Rabah Naït Oufella as a successful writer forced to deal with the hate messages he posted in the past ...
The Official Selection of the 69th edition of the fest, set to run from Sept. 17 through Sept. 25, will also feature Inés Barrionuevo’s fourth feature film, along with Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg’s first features.
French filmmaker Cantet competed in the Spanish festival with Foxfire (2012), but will this year return with Arthur Rambo, starring Rabah Naït Oufella as a successful writer forced to deal with the hate messages he posted in the past ...
- 7/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled first competition titles from the likes of Laurent Cantet, Terence Davies, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Claudia Llosa and Claire Simon.
The Official Selection of the 69th edition of the fest, set to run from Sept. 17 through Sept. 25, will also feature Inés Barrionuevo’s fourth feature film, along with Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg’s first features.
French filmmaker Cantet competed in the Spanish festival with Foxfire (2012), but will this year return with Arthur Rambo, starring Rabah Naït Oufella as a successful writer forced to deal with the hate messages he posted in the past ...
The Official Selection of the 69th edition of the fest, set to run from Sept. 17 through Sept. 25, will also feature Inés Barrionuevo’s fourth feature film, along with Alina Grigore, Zhang Ji and Tea Lindeburg’s first features.
French filmmaker Cantet competed in the Spanish festival with Foxfire (2012), but will this year return with Arthur Rambo, starring Rabah Naït Oufella as a successful writer forced to deal with the hate messages he posted in the past ...
- 7/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 69th San Sebastian Film Festival has confirmed its first crop of Competition titles, including Terence Davies’ Benediction starring Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi.
The movie chronicles different moments in the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier and anti-war poet who survived the First World War. This will be British director Davies’ third time competing for the Golden Shell – San Seb’s top award – following The Deep Blue Sea in 2011 and Sunset Song in 2015.
Also on the early list is the latest film from Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who previously bagged the San Seb New Directors Award with her debut, Innocence, in 2004, while her second feature, Evolution, landed the Special Jury Prize in the Official Selection in 2015. She returns this year with Earwig. Based on the novel by Brian Catling, it tells the story of Albert, a man employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice.
Claudia Llosa, winner...
The movie chronicles different moments in the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier and anti-war poet who survived the First World War. This will be British director Davies’ third time competing for the Golden Shell – San Seb’s top award – following The Deep Blue Sea in 2011 and Sunset Song in 2015.
Also on the early list is the latest film from Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who previously bagged the San Seb New Directors Award with her debut, Innocence, in 2004, while her second feature, Evolution, landed the Special Jury Prize in the Official Selection in 2015. She returns this year with Earwig. Based on the novel by Brian Catling, it tells the story of Albert, a man employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice.
Claudia Llosa, winner...
- 7/19/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The 69th edition of the festival will run from September 17-25.
Features from Terence Davies and Lucile Hadzihalilovic will play in the Official Selection of the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25), which has announced its first titles today.
Davies will compete for the Golden Shell for best film with Benediction, his biopic of soldier and anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon, which shot last autumn starring Screen Star of Tomorrow 2014 Jack Lowden, alongside Simon Russell Beale and Peter Capaldi.
French director Hadzihalilovic’s third feature Earwig is based on Brian Catling’s novel of the same name, and tells the...
Features from Terence Davies and Lucile Hadzihalilovic will play in the Official Selection of the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25), which has announced its first titles today.
Davies will compete for the Golden Shell for best film with Benediction, his biopic of soldier and anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon, which shot last autumn starring Screen Star of Tomorrow 2014 Jack Lowden, alongside Simon Russell Beale and Peter Capaldi.
French director Hadzihalilovic’s third feature Earwig is based on Brian Catling’s novel of the same name, and tells the...
- 7/19/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Terence Davies' Benediction Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival British director Terence Davies' Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction is among the first titles announced in the Official Selection this year's San Sebastian Film Festival, which will run from September 17 to 25.
The film, which stars Jack Lowden, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Capaldi will be joined by UK co-production Earwig, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose connection to the festival stretches back to 2004 when she won the New Directors Award for Innocence. Her latest tells the story of a man employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice.
Hadzihalilovic is one of six female directors included in the first set of titles, alongside established filmmakers Inés Barrionuevo, who brings coming-of-age tale Camila Comes Out At Night, Claire Simon, who brings drama I Want To Talk about Duras and Berlin Golden Bear winner Claudia Llosa, whose latest film Fever Dream...
The film, which stars Jack Lowden, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Capaldi will be joined by UK co-production Earwig, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose connection to the festival stretches back to 2004 when she won the New Directors Award for Innocence. Her latest tells the story of a man employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice.
Hadzihalilovic is one of six female directors included in the first set of titles, alongside established filmmakers Inés Barrionuevo, who brings coming-of-age tale Camila Comes Out At Night, Claire Simon, who brings drama I Want To Talk about Duras and Berlin Golden Bear winner Claudia Llosa, whose latest film Fever Dream...
- 7/19/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Spanish-French co-production involves Barcelona-based Arcadia and France’s Noodles Production and Les Films du Worso.
Elle Driver will introduce sales on Spanish director Pablo Berger’s feature-length animation Robot Dreams at the upcoming European Film Market.
It is Berger’s fourth feature, after multi-award-winning silent melodrama Blancanieves and 2017 fantasy comedy-drama Abracadabra.
The director’s first foray into animation, it is adapted from the popular 2007 graphic novel of the same name by US artist Sara Varon, set in an imaginary 1980s New York populated by animals with no definable age or gender.
The storyline revolves around the friendship between Dog and...
Elle Driver will introduce sales on Spanish director Pablo Berger’s feature-length animation Robot Dreams at the upcoming European Film Market.
It is Berger’s fourth feature, after multi-award-winning silent melodrama Blancanieves and 2017 fantasy comedy-drama Abracadabra.
The director’s first foray into animation, it is adapted from the popular 2007 graphic novel of the same name by US artist Sara Varon, set in an imaginary 1980s New York populated by animals with no definable age or gender.
The storyline revolves around the friendship between Dog and...
- 2/22/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
It’s been a banner year for Latin American cinema where 18 countries, including newcomer Suriname, have submitted films to vie for the international feature Oscar. Half of this year’s crop are by women, many of them debuts. Several entries focus on the plight of Indigenous people and other marginalized groups.
Despite the region’s chauvinistic societies, female cinematic voices have grown in strength in recent years. Some credit the #MeToo movement for the shift in attitudes and the growing number of femme directors in the region. In Bolivia, 85% of the producers are said to be women.
In some nations, private and public initiatives encourage more aspiring Indigenous and other marginalized filmmakers to create their visions. Mexico’s film institute Imcine, run by filmmaker Maria Novaro and her mostly female team, introduced a film fund for Indigenous and Afro-descendent filmmakers in 2019.
Strong female-led debuts hail from the likes of Peru,...
Despite the region’s chauvinistic societies, female cinematic voices have grown in strength in recent years. Some credit the #MeToo movement for the shift in attitudes and the growing number of femme directors in the region. In Bolivia, 85% of the producers are said to be women.
In some nations, private and public initiatives encourage more aspiring Indigenous and other marginalized filmmakers to create their visions. Mexico’s film institute Imcine, run by filmmaker Maria Novaro and her mostly female team, introduced a film fund for Indigenous and Afro-descendent filmmakers in 2019.
Strong female-led debuts hail from the likes of Peru,...
- 1/27/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Following two wins in the past three years, contenders from across the Americas are championing local culture and community.
The lack of physical festivals has not helped any film this year, and the relatively low-key roster from the Americas could have used the opportunity to break out a little-known filmmaker or remind voters of some of the more familiar names in play.
No film from the region made it onto the 10-strong shortlist last season and, despite speculation that some filmmakers might be holding back their latest work for what is hoped will be a return to physical festivals in...
The lack of physical festivals has not helped any film this year, and the relatively low-key roster from the Americas could have used the opportunity to break out a little-known filmmaker or remind voters of some of the more familiar names in play.
No film from the region made it onto the 10-strong shortlist last season and, despite speculation that some filmmakers might be holding back their latest work for what is hoped will be a return to physical festivals in...
- 1/12/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Fever Dream
Another title delayed from a predicted 2020 premiere was the fourth film from Peru’s Claudia Llosa, who in this instance, received the backing from the Netflix folks. Produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams alongside Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions, Fever Dream was shot in Chile by Oscar Faura (who has lensed all of J.A. Bayona’s work to date). Maria Valverde, Dolores Fonzi, and Guillermo Pfening star. Llosa broke out in 2006 with her debut Madeinusa, which competed in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition and then she won the Golden Bear in Berlin for her second feature, The Milk of Sorrow in 2009.…...
Another title delayed from a predicted 2020 premiere was the fourth film from Peru’s Claudia Llosa, who in this instance, received the backing from the Netflix folks. Produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams alongside Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions, Fever Dream was shot in Chile by Oscar Faura (who has lensed all of J.A. Bayona’s work to date). Maria Valverde, Dolores Fonzi, and Guillermo Pfening star. Llosa broke out in 2006 with her debut Madeinusa, which competed in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition and then she won the Golden Bear in Berlin for her second feature, The Milk of Sorrow in 2009.…...
- 1/2/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Screening of Brillante Mendoza’s The Masseur marks centenary of cinema in the Philippines
Locarno’s Open Doors programme, aimed at supporting independent cinema in the Global South and East, has unveiled its screening selections for this year’s hybrid edition of its parent event.
Locarno was forced to cancel in April due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will instead unfold mainly online under the banner of ’Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films’, with a compact programme of physical theatrical screenings in situ during its original dates of August 5 to 15.
Open Doors, which is in the second-year of a three-year...
Locarno’s Open Doors programme, aimed at supporting independent cinema in the Global South and East, has unveiled its screening selections for this year’s hybrid edition of its parent event.
Locarno was forced to cancel in April due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will instead unfold mainly online under the banner of ’Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films’, with a compact programme of physical theatrical screenings in situ during its original dates of August 5 to 15.
Open Doors, which is in the second-year of a three-year...
- 7/16/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín knows he’s been fortunate during the pandemic. He just sold his Kristen-Stewart-as-Princess-Diana biopic “Spencer” to Neon and Topic Studios for a cool $4 million out of the virtual Cannes market. He also has an Apple TV+ series in the works with Warner Bros. Television and Bad Robot, “Lisey’s Story,” which Stephen King adapted from his novel and stars Julianne Moore as a widow in free-fall after the death of her husband.
However, like everything else, production on “Lisey’s Story” shut down in mid-March. “We were [shooting] for six months in a row and we had a few weeks left, and we had to stop, so I guess we’re wondering and seeing how we restart, how are those conditions. I don’t have clarity today,” Larraín said during a recent Cannes market conversation with Mubi founder and CEO Efe Cakarel.
Perhaps an even greater concern, he said,...
However, like everything else, production on “Lisey’s Story” shut down in mid-March. “We were [shooting] for six months in a row and we had a few weeks left, and we had to stop, so I guess we’re wondering and seeing how we restart, how are those conditions. I don’t have clarity today,” Larraín said during a recent Cannes market conversation with Mubi founder and CEO Efe Cakarel.
Perhaps an even greater concern, he said,...
- 6/27/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Nuria Valls
Valls already has 14 producer or exec-producer credits, including Eugenio Mira’s “Grand Piano,” Fernando González Molina’s Spanish blockbuster “Palm Trees in the Snow,” and Dan Krauss’ “The Kill Team;” all alongside her partner Adrián Guerra at Nostromo. Her latest productions include Alex and David Pastor’s “The Occupant” and Molina’s “Offering to the Storm,” both acquired by Netflix. Valls will shortly resume shooting on “Los favoritos de Midas,” created by Mateo Gil, her first TV series. “I’d like to do exactly what we’ve done so far: Making all kinds of movies we’d like to watch, not only genre.”
Oriol MAYMÓ
Maymó participated in the production of Rodrigo Cortés’ “Buried,” Marcel Barrena’s “Little World” and Pau Freixas’ TV-series “The Red Band Society” among many other titles. Now based out of Corte y Confección, he has produced Leticia Dolera’s Canneseries winner “A Perfect...
Valls already has 14 producer or exec-producer credits, including Eugenio Mira’s “Grand Piano,” Fernando González Molina’s Spanish blockbuster “Palm Trees in the Snow,” and Dan Krauss’ “The Kill Team;” all alongside her partner Adrián Guerra at Nostromo. Her latest productions include Alex and David Pastor’s “The Occupant” and Molina’s “Offering to the Storm,” both acquired by Netflix. Valls will shortly resume shooting on “Los favoritos de Midas,” created by Mateo Gil, her first TV series. “I’d like to do exactly what we’ve done so far: Making all kinds of movies we’d like to watch, not only genre.”
Oriol MAYMÓ
Maymó participated in the production of Rodrigo Cortés’ “Buried,” Marcel Barrena’s “Little World” and Pau Freixas’ TV-series “The Red Band Society” among many other titles. Now based out of Corte y Confección, he has produced Leticia Dolera’s Canneseries winner “A Perfect...
- 6/22/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Natasha Braier has worked on a wide variety of films, from Claudia Llosa’s intense 2009 drama The Milk of Sorrow / La Teta Asustada to Nicolas Winding Refn’s ice-cold 2016 feature The Neon Demon. In 2018 she shot Gloria Bell, Sebastián Lelio’s English-language remake of his earlier movie Gloria. Last year she was director of cinematography on Alma Har’el’s feature debut Honey Boy. Braier’s work is distinguished not only by her vivid imagery but also by her acute psychological insight into characters and narrative. Braier was in preproduction on Don’t Worry Darling, director Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to Booksmart, when the […]...
- 4/29/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Natasha Braier has worked on a wide variety of films, from Claudia Llosa’s intense 2009 drama The Milk of Sorrow / La Teta Asustada to Nicolas Winding Refn’s ice-cold 2016 feature The Neon Demon. In 2018 she shot Gloria Bell, Sebastián Lelio’s English-language remake of his earlier movie Gloria. Last year she was director of cinematography on Alma Har’el’s feature debut Honey Boy. Braier’s work is distinguished not only by her vivid imagery but also by her acute psychological insight into characters and narrative. Braier was in preproduction on Don’t Worry Darling, director Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to Booksmart, when the […]...
- 4/29/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
AMC has greenlighted National Anthem, an eight-episode musical dramedy anthology series from writer/director Scott Z. Burns, and Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul executive producer Mark Johnson. Oscar and Grammy winning musician T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart) is attached as the series’ music producer with words and music by The Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn
National Anthem is the first series greenlit under a new multi-year overall deal Johnson has signed with AMC Studios, under which he will develop new series for the company’s Entertainment Group as well as other content companies.
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Written by Burns, National Anthem is the tragically funny story of a middle class midwestern family...
National Anthem is the first series greenlit under a new multi-year overall deal Johnson has signed with AMC Studios, under which he will develop new series for the company’s Entertainment Group as well as other content companies.
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Written by Burns, National Anthem is the tragically funny story of a middle class midwestern family...
- 3/24/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Distancia de rescate
Peru’s Claudia Llosa teams with Netflix for her fourth feature, Fever Dream, produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams in conjunction with Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions. Shot in Chile by Oscar Faura (who has lensed all of J.A. Bayona’s titles to date), Llosa employs Maria Valverde, Dolores Fonzi, Guillermo Pfening in the cast. Llosa became immediately of note in 2006 with her debut Madeinusa, which competed in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition. She won the Golden Bear in Berlin for her sophomore film The Milk of Sorrows in 2009, and then won the Teddy for Best Short in 2012 for Loxoro.…...
Peru’s Claudia Llosa teams with Netflix for her fourth feature, Fever Dream, produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams in conjunction with Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions. Shot in Chile by Oscar Faura (who has lensed all of J.A. Bayona’s titles to date), Llosa employs Maria Valverde, Dolores Fonzi, Guillermo Pfening in the cast. Llosa became immediately of note in 2006 with her debut Madeinusa, which competed in Sundance’s World Dramatic competition. She won the Golden Bear in Berlin for her sophomore film The Milk of Sorrows in 2009, and then won the Teddy for Best Short in 2012 for Loxoro.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Spain’s Latido Films has snagged worldwide sales rights – with the exception of Peru, Chile and Argentina – to Peruvian filmmaker Maria Paz Gonzalez’s feature debut, “Lina de Lima.” The dramedy’s trailer is launching exclusively in Variety ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Festival Discovery sidebar.
“Following our tradition of accompanying new talents in their incursion inro the international market, and in particular of first directors in the world of fiction, ‘Lina de Lima’ meant for us the discovery of an original voice like that of González,” said Latido head of acquisitions and festivals, Oscar Alonso.
He added: “She tells the immigration drama from a luminous point of view not previously seen: All this through a female character who reverses the preset codes and to which Magaly Solier confers an overflowing capacity for empathy. “
Solier, whose career-launching turn in Claudia Llosa’s Berlin Golden Bear winning “The Milk of Sorrow...
“Following our tradition of accompanying new talents in their incursion inro the international market, and in particular of first directors in the world of fiction, ‘Lina de Lima’ meant for us the discovery of an original voice like that of González,” said Latido head of acquisitions and festivals, Oscar Alonso.
He added: “She tells the immigration drama from a luminous point of view not previously seen: All this through a female character who reverses the preset codes and to which Magaly Solier confers an overflowing capacity for empathy. “
Solier, whose career-launching turn in Claudia Llosa’s Berlin Golden Bear winning “The Milk of Sorrow...
- 9/4/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Winta McGrath.
At the ripe old age of 13 Winta McGrath has scored his second role in an international production: a sci-fi drama series which marks Ridley Scott’s TV directing debut.
McGrath joins fellow Aussie Travis Fimmel in Raised by Wolves, which revolves around two androids who are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet.
As the colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is both treacherous and difficult.
Commissioned by the Us network TNT, which is available in 89 million homes, and written by the showrunner Aaron Guzikowski, the series is in pre-production in Cape Town.
McGrath will play Campion, a scrappy and soulful 12-year-old who was raised from birth by Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim). When a ship of humans arrives from Earth, Campion is exposed to followers of religion for...
At the ripe old age of 13 Winta McGrath has scored his second role in an international production: a sci-fi drama series which marks Ridley Scott’s TV directing debut.
McGrath joins fellow Aussie Travis Fimmel in Raised by Wolves, which revolves around two androids who are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet.
As the colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is both treacherous and difficult.
Commissioned by the Us network TNT, which is available in 89 million homes, and written by the showrunner Aaron Guzikowski, the series is in pre-production in Cape Town.
McGrath will play Campion, a scrappy and soulful 12-year-old who was raised from birth by Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim). When a ship of humans arrives from Earth, Campion is exposed to followers of religion for...
- 1/17/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate)
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa breaks a five year hiatus and returns with her fourth feature Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate). Notably, Llosa will be the first Peruvian director of a Netflix film with this project which is being produced by Juan and Pablo Larrain through Fabula Productions as well as Oscar winner Mark Johnson and Tom Williams for Gran Via Productions. Returning to South America after her 2014 English debut, Llosa will head to Argentina with her latest project. Llosa competed in Sundance with her 2006 debut Madeinusa, which also took home the Fipresci Prize in Rotterdam.…...
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa breaks a five year hiatus and returns with her fourth feature Fever Dream (Distancia de Rescate). Notably, Llosa will be the first Peruvian director of a Netflix film with this project which is being produced by Juan and Pablo Larrain through Fabula Productions as well as Oscar winner Mark Johnson and Tom Williams for Gran Via Productions. Returning to South America after her 2014 English debut, Llosa will head to Argentina with her latest project. Llosa competed in Sundance with her 2006 debut Madeinusa, which also took home the Fipresci Prize in Rotterdam.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The film is being produced by Mark Johnson and Pablo Larrain.
Claudia Llosa, the director of the Oscar-nominated The Milk Of Sorrow, is set to become the first Peruvian filmmaker to direct a Netflix film with the Spanish-language Distancia De Rescate. It is based on the novel ‘Fever Dream’ by Argentinian writer Samantha Schweblin who co-wrote the screenplay with Llosa.
The film is being produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams for Gran Via Production, with Juan and Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions, which won this year’s foreign-language Oscar for the A Fantastic Woman for Chile.
Production is scheduled...
Claudia Llosa, the director of the Oscar-nominated The Milk Of Sorrow, is set to become the first Peruvian filmmaker to direct a Netflix film with the Spanish-language Distancia De Rescate. It is based on the novel ‘Fever Dream’ by Argentinian writer Samantha Schweblin who co-wrote the screenplay with Llosa.
The film is being produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams for Gran Via Production, with Juan and Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions, which won this year’s foreign-language Oscar for the A Fantastic Woman for Chile.
Production is scheduled...
- 12/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Claudia Llosa, director of Oscar-nominated drama The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) will be the first Peruvian director of a Netflix film. Spanish-language drama Distancia de Rescate, based on the novel Fever Dream by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, is due to begin production in Chile in early 2019 from a script co-written by Llosa and Schweblin.
The film will be produced by Rain Man and Breaking Bad producer Mark Johnson and Tom Williams for Johnson’s Gran Via Productions, working in conjunction with Juan and Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions of Santiago, winner of the foreign-language Oscar for A Fantastic Woman.
Set in a sleepy, rural community in Argentina, the film will tell the haunting story of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ties that bind a parent to a child.
“The film will portray the love and fear surrounding motherhood through a complex feminine prism,...
The film will be produced by Rain Man and Breaking Bad producer Mark Johnson and Tom Williams for Johnson’s Gran Via Productions, working in conjunction with Juan and Pablo Larrain’s Fabula Productions of Santiago, winner of the foreign-language Oscar for A Fantastic Woman.
Set in a sleepy, rural community in Argentina, the film will tell the haunting story of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ties that bind a parent to a child.
“The film will portray the love and fear surrounding motherhood through a complex feminine prism,...
- 12/11/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Acclaimed Peruvian director Claudia Llosa (Aloft, The Milk of Sorrow) has signed on to adapt the novel Fever Dream as a feature film for Netflix.
Based on the book Distancia de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream tells a kind of ghost story, set in a sleepy community in rural Argentina. A woman named Amanda is dying in a clinic in a town where she's gone on vacation. As she dies, a child named David interrogates her about the events leading up to her sickness. What follows is a haunting, hallucinatory tale of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ...
Based on the book Distancia de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream tells a kind of ghost story, set in a sleepy community in rural Argentina. A woman named Amanda is dying in a clinic in a town where she's gone on vacation. As she dies, a child named David interrogates her about the events leading up to her sickness. What follows is a haunting, hallucinatory tale of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ...
- 12/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Acclaimed Peruvian director Claudia Llosa (Aloft, The Milk of Sorrow) has signed on to adapt the novel Fever Dream as a feature film for Netflix.
Based on the book Distancia de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream tells a kind of ghost story, set in a sleepy community in rural Argentina. A woman named Amanda is dying in a clinic in a town where she's gone on vacation. As she dies, a child named David interrogates her about the events leading up to her sickness. What follows is a haunting, hallucinatory tale of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ...
Based on the book Distancia de Rescate by Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream tells a kind of ghost story, set in a sleepy community in rural Argentina. A woman named Amanda is dying in a clinic in a town where she's gone on vacation. As she dies, a child named David interrogates her about the events leading up to her sickness. What follows is a haunting, hallucinatory tale of broken souls, toxins, looming environmental and spiritual catastrophes, and the ...
- 12/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Starring “La casa de papel’s” Ursula Corberó, “The Tree of Blood,” the latest movie from Spain’s Julio Medem, is being brought onto the international market at Rome’s Mia market by FilmSharks Intl., which has acquired world sales rights.
FilmSharks Intl. will continue introducing the film to buyers at the American Film Market, which opens Oct. 31 in Santa Monica.
The deal was negotiated by FilmSharks Intl.’s Guido Rud and Sandra Tapia, Ignasi Estapé and Ibon Cormenzana at the film’s lead producer Arcadia Motion Pictures (Amp).
A romantic thriller which Diamond Films Spain will release in Spain on Nov. 1 on over 200 locations, said FilmSharks’ Guido Rud, “The Tree of Blood” (El Arbol de la Sangre) marks the latest movie from the Cormenzana-founded, and the ninth fiction feature of Medem, a director whose debut, 1991’s “Vacas,” helped bring down the flag on the modern Spanish cinema through...
FilmSharks Intl. will continue introducing the film to buyers at the American Film Market, which opens Oct. 31 in Santa Monica.
The deal was negotiated by FilmSharks Intl.’s Guido Rud and Sandra Tapia, Ignasi Estapé and Ibon Cormenzana at the film’s lead producer Arcadia Motion Pictures (Amp).
A romantic thriller which Diamond Films Spain will release in Spain on Nov. 1 on over 200 locations, said FilmSharks’ Guido Rud, “The Tree of Blood” (El Arbol de la Sangre) marks the latest movie from the Cormenzana-founded, and the ninth fiction feature of Medem, a director whose debut, 1991’s “Vacas,” helped bring down the flag on the modern Spanish cinema through...
- 10/21/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/17/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Update With Key Speeches: Hungarian title On Body And Soul takes best film; Aki Kaurismaki, Sebastian Lelio among winners; Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro scoop Panorama audience awards; 2018 festival dates revealed.
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival took place this evening (18 Feb) with winners including Ildiko Enyedi, Alain Gomis, Agnieszka Holland and Sebastian Lelio.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Ildikò Enyedi’s Hungarian feature On Body and Soul - the unusual love story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in a harsh world - was the big winner on the night taking home the Golden Bear for best film in the Competition as well as the Ecumenical and Fipresci juries’ prizes for best film in the Official Competition and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award.
Enyedi’s film - which is handled internationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique and had been hotly tipped for the Golden Bear - is...
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival took place this evening (18 Feb) with winners including Ildiko Enyedi, Alain Gomis, Agnieszka Holland and Sebastian Lelio.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Ildikò Enyedi’s Hungarian feature On Body and Soul - the unusual love story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in a harsh world - was the big winner on the night taking home the Golden Bear for best film in the Competition as well as the Ecumenical and Fipresci juries’ prizes for best film in the Official Competition and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award.
Enyedi’s film - which is handled internationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique and had been hotly tipped for the Golden Bear - is...
- 2/18/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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