Screen reveals a slate of forthcoming projects from producers promoting movies at the Seville Film Festival
Iranian director Sina Ataeian Dena is to follow his successful drama Paradise, about a struggling teacher, with two more interconnected feature films about violence in Iranian society.
Dena is to collaborate with producers Yousef Panahi (brother of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi) and Amir Hamz at Bon Voyage Films on all three films.
The second, as yet untitled, film has already started shooting in Iran, although the team have had to do so discreetly.
“We are having to be very creative in our approach to avoid challenges when making these films, each of which will take a different artistic approach to violence in Iran,” explained Panahi. “There will be a crossover in certain scenes between the three movies.”
Dena, Panahi and Hamz also revealed plans to work on a feature length film project in Shanghai with a Chinese co-production partner.
“We would also...
Iranian director Sina Ataeian Dena is to follow his successful drama Paradise, about a struggling teacher, with two more interconnected feature films about violence in Iranian society.
Dena is to collaborate with producers Yousef Panahi (brother of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi) and Amir Hamz at Bon Voyage Films on all three films.
The second, as yet untitled, film has already started shooting in Iran, although the team have had to do so discreetly.
“We are having to be very creative in our approach to avoid challenges when making these films, each of which will take a different artistic approach to violence in Iran,” explained Panahi. “There will be a crossover in certain scenes between the three movies.”
Dena, Panahi and Hamz also revealed plans to work on a feature length film project in Shanghai with a Chinese co-production partner.
“We would also...
- 11/13/2015
- by chrisevans78@hotmail.co.uk (Chris Evans)
- ScreenDaily
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner to open T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival; competition titles announced.Scroll down for competition titles
Poland’s T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) is to open with this year’s Palme d’Or winner, Blue is the Warmest Colour (La vie d’Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche.
The closing film will be the Polish premiere of Malgoska Szumowska’s Berlinale competition title and Teddy Award winner In the Name of.
Festival organizers also announced the films in competition at this year’s event.
The New Horizons International Competition consists of 12 Polish premieres including Rotterdam competition title Noche by Leonardo Brzezicki, Locarno Fipresci award winner Leviathan by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, as well as this year’s Cannes’ Un Certain Regard title Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie.
The Jury for this competition will be announced next week.
The Films in...
Poland’s T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (July 18-28) is to open with this year’s Palme d’Or winner, Blue is the Warmest Colour (La vie d’Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2) by Abdellatif Kechiche.
The closing film will be the Polish premiere of Malgoska Szumowska’s Berlinale competition title and Teddy Award winner In the Name of.
Festival organizers also announced the films in competition at this year’s event.
The New Horizons International Competition consists of 12 Polish premieres including Rotterdam competition title Noche by Leonardo Brzezicki, Locarno Fipresci award winner Leviathan by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, as well as this year’s Cannes’ Un Certain Regard title Stranger by the Lake by Alain Guiraudie.
The Jury for this competition will be announced next week.
The Films in...
- 6/27/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Rome Film Festival Announces 2012 Lineup The 2012 International Rome Film Festival lineup includes 59 world premieres and 5 international premieres. There also are two surprise films yet to be announced. Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III starring Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman is competing for the event’s top prize, as is Gabriel and Alan Polsky’s The Motel Life, starring Stephen Dorff, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning and Kris Kristofferson. Also on the competition list are Japanese director Takashi Miike’s thriller Aku No Kyoten, Jacques Dollion’s Un Enfant De Toi, and Enrique Rivero’s Mai Morire. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will make its world premiere at the festival, though none of the film’s cast is expected to attend. The festival will be held November 9-17 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. You can read the entire line-up on the festival’s website.
- 10/11/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
This year's Palme d'or winner (Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) is a glowing example of exact purpose that the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam serves: supporting national cinemas and filmmakers through various stages of production. The Fund’s Fall 2010 Selection Round includes one of our profiled Ioncinephile filmmakers in Mexico's Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, who won over critics and film festival prizes (2010 Tiger Award) with Alamar, and who is now in the development phase of his next project entitled, Sombra del arbol (Tree Shade). In total, four projects from Mexico are receiving well-needed coin. Here are the selected projects: Postproduction & Final Financing Ausensias (Absences) - Milagros Mumenthaler; Argentina Black Blood - Miaoyan Zhang; China Flying Fish - Sanjeewa Pelanwattage; Sri Lanka The Old Donkey - Li Ruijun; China Paraísos Artificiales (Artificial Paradises) - Yulene Olaizola; Mexico Digital Production If It Is Not Now,...
- 10/14/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Twenty-four film projects have been selected by the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) to receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops. In the current round, the fund is giving 349,000 euros to projects from 13 Asian, African or Latin-American countries. The selection includes new films by established filmmakers such as Martín Rejtman, Enrique Rivero, James Lee and many first time filmmakers. The ...
- 10/13/2010
- Indiewire
Catalina Saavedra unleashes a star lead performance in this gripping Chilean thriller
Sebastián Silva's film is an unexpected combination: a gripping psychological thriller, and also a poignant human drama. It really is edge-of-the-seat stuff, with a startling denouement, and an outstanding central performance from Catalina Saavedra. She plays Raquel, the live-in uniformed maid, working for a well-to-do family in Santiago, Chile, in a handsome house with a pool, attending to the needs of the master and mistress along with their lively teenage children. She must also show respect to the children's very haughty and patrician grandmother, who comes to visit and does not hesitate to give her views on how the household should be run.
Raquel is treated as one of the family – that is, like a tiresome, but affectionately regarded cousin or poor relation – and the film opens with an uneasy and embarrassing birthday celebration that the children's...
Sebastián Silva's film is an unexpected combination: a gripping psychological thriller, and also a poignant human drama. It really is edge-of-the-seat stuff, with a startling denouement, and an outstanding central performance from Catalina Saavedra. She plays Raquel, the live-in uniformed maid, working for a well-to-do family in Santiago, Chile, in a handsome house with a pool, attending to the needs of the master and mistress along with their lively teenage children. She must also show respect to the children's very haughty and patrician grandmother, who comes to visit and does not hesitate to give her views on how the household should be run.
Raquel is treated as one of the family – that is, like a tiresome, but affectionately regarded cousin or poor relation – and the film opens with an uneasy and embarrassing birthday celebration that the children's...
- 8/26/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Enrique Rivero's Mexican drama "Parque vía" won top honors Saturday at the 61st edition of the Locarno Film Festival.
Winner of the festival's Golden Leopard, the film centers on a elderly recluse (Nolberto Coria) who struggles to reconnect with the outside world after living in an empty house for several years.
The Special Jury Prize went to "33 sceny z zycia" ("33 Scenes from Life"), Malgoska Szumowska's drama about a young woman whose life slowly starts to fall apart after she learns her mother has cancer. Starring is German actress Julia Jentsch, whose credits include "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" and "The Downfall."
Denis Côté took home the best director award for "Elle veut le chaos," a drama about a father who pushes his daughter into prostitution because he's unable to provide financial security for his family.
Meanwhile, Ilaria Occhini snatched the Leopard for best actress for her performance in Federico Bondi's "Mar Nero.
Winner of the festival's Golden Leopard, the film centers on a elderly recluse (Nolberto Coria) who struggles to reconnect with the outside world after living in an empty house for several years.
The Special Jury Prize went to "33 sceny z zycia" ("33 Scenes from Life"), Malgoska Szumowska's drama about a young woman whose life slowly starts to fall apart after she learns her mother has cancer. Starring is German actress Julia Jentsch, whose credits include "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" and "The Downfall."
Denis Côté took home the best director award for "Elle veut le chaos," a drama about a father who pushes his daughter into prostitution because he's unable to provide financial security for his family.
Meanwhile, Ilaria Occhini snatched the Leopard for best actress for her performance in Federico Bondi's "Mar Nero.
- 8/19/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.