The Berlinale has revealed the lineup of its Co-Production Market and we’ve got some projects we’ll be keeping a close eye on. At the top of our interest list, we find Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro, Stonewalling tandem Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka and Andreas Fontana who gave us Azor will benefit from the special Rotterdam-Berlinale Express backing for his next project: The Diplomats. 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching. Here they are:
Official Selection:
“Antonivka” (director: Kateryna Gornostai), Moon Man, Ukraine & Just a Moment, Lithuania
“Burnings” (director: Jerry Carlsson), Verket Produktion, Sweden
“Divorce During the War” (director: Andrius Blaževičius), M-Films, Lithuania
“Folk Play” (director: Mirjana Karanović), This and That Productions, Serbia
“Fragments of This Beauty” (director: Burak Çevik), Vayka Film, Turkey & Fol Films, Turkey
“The Girl With the Leica” (director: Alina Marazzi), Vivo Film, Italy
“Ich bin Marika” (director: Hajni Kis), Proton Cinema, Hungary
“Idda’s Breath” (director: Irene Dionisio), Kino Produzioni,...
Official Selection:
“Antonivka” (director: Kateryna Gornostai), Moon Man, Ukraine & Just a Moment, Lithuania
“Burnings” (director: Jerry Carlsson), Verket Produktion, Sweden
“Divorce During the War” (director: Andrius Blaževičius), M-Films, Lithuania
“Folk Play” (director: Mirjana Karanović), This and That Productions, Serbia
“Fragments of This Beauty” (director: Burak Çevik), Vayka Film, Turkey & Fol Films, Turkey
“The Girl With the Leica” (director: Alina Marazzi), Vivo Film, Italy
“Ich bin Marika” (director: Hajni Kis), Proton Cinema, Hungary
“Idda’s Breath” (director: Irene Dionisio), Kino Produzioni,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 15-25, has revealed the lineup of its Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Producers of 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching to potential financing and co-production partners at the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb. 17-21. Seventeen projects are directed by women. There were 318 submissions, a slight increase from last year.
Eighteen of the projects are already partly financed with budgets ranging between Euros 600,000 and Euros 5 million ($5.47 million). Among the directors whose new works are likely to spark interest are Ukrainian filmmakers Kateryna Gornostai, who won a Crystal Bear for “Stop-Zemlia” in 2021, and Antonio Lukich, the director of “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” which played in Venice in 2022, Italy’s Andrea Pallaoro, Serbian director and actor Mirjana Karanović, and the Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka.
The Berlinale Directors section features three brand-new projects by directors who have had films at the Berlinale in the past: “Alma” from Sally Potter,...
Producers of 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching to potential financing and co-production partners at the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb. 17-21. Seventeen projects are directed by women. There were 318 submissions, a slight increase from last year.
Eighteen of the projects are already partly financed with budgets ranging between Euros 600,000 and Euros 5 million ($5.47 million). Among the directors whose new works are likely to spark interest are Ukrainian filmmakers Kateryna Gornostai, who won a Crystal Bear for “Stop-Zemlia” in 2021, and Antonio Lukich, the director of “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” which played in Venice in 2022, Italy’s Andrea Pallaoro, Serbian director and actor Mirjana Karanović, and the Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka.
The Berlinale Directors section features three brand-new projects by directors who have had films at the Berlinale in the past: “Alma” from Sally Potter,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Co-Production Market will support 34 feature film projects from around the world.
The 2024 Berlinale has selected 34 feature film projects for its Co-Production Market, including Sally Potter’s Alma.
The festival has also chosen 202 Berlinale Talents, and 14 titles for its Forum Special strand.
Scroll down for the full list of Co-Production Market projects
The 34 feature projects in the Co-Production Market hail from 27 countries, and were selected from 318 submissions – a slight increase on 2023.
Potter’s Alma follows a family battling survivor guilt and sibling rivalries while on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist. It will be produced by Christopher Sheppard...
The 2024 Berlinale has selected 34 feature film projects for its Co-Production Market, including Sally Potter’s Alma.
The festival has also chosen 202 Berlinale Talents, and 14 titles for its Forum Special strand.
Scroll down for the full list of Co-Production Market projects
The 34 feature projects in the Co-Production Market hail from 27 countries, and were selected from 318 submissions – a slight increase on 2023.
Potter’s Alma follows a family battling survivor guilt and sibling rivalries while on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist. It will be produced by Christopher Sheppard...
- 1/9/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the 34 projects, hailing from 27 countries and selected from 318 submissions, that will be showcased at its Berlinale Co-Production Market, running from February 17 to 21. (scroll down for full list)
The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemila) and Antonio Lukich as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Monica), Turkey’s Burak Çevik (Hesitation Wound), Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife) and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling).
The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros.
The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.
Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative,...
The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemila) and Antonio Lukich as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Monica), Turkey’s Burak Çevik (Hesitation Wound), Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife) and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling).
The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros.
The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.
Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2006 Lebanon War lasted 34 days and cost the lives of approximately 1300 Lebanese people, along with causing severe damage to Lebanese infrastructure. The conflict, which was on the one hand between Hezbollah forces and Israel was, on the other hand, one of the first proxy wars with Iran, as they supported Hezbollah, causing further damage and loss of life. Even though the duration of the conflict was relatively short, the toll it took on the people affected by constant battles and bombardments lasted even longer, leaving a mark on many families. Throughout his work as a director and visual artist, Ahmad Ghossein has been interested in how these extreme circumstances have shaped the lives of people, in his home country Lebanon, but also all over the world. In his feature debut “All this Victory”, which won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the Venice International Film Critics Week, he...
- 4/21/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“We finished the shoot for Ely Dagher’s Harvest just as the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Lebanon.”
Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair is the founder and CEO of top Middle East independent film production house Abbout Productions and its more recently created sister company Schortcut Films.
The recent credits of Abbout Productions include Oualid Mouaness’s coming-of-age drama 1982, which was Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards’ best international film category this year; Ahmad Ghossein’s All This Victory, which premiered in Venice Critics’ Week; and Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Siam’s feature-length documentary Amal.
Schortcut Films, which he...
Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair is the founder and CEO of top Middle East independent film production house Abbout Productions and its more recently created sister company Schortcut Films.
The recent credits of Abbout Productions include Oualid Mouaness’s coming-of-age drama 1982, which was Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards’ best international film category this year; Ahmad Ghossein’s All This Victory, which premiered in Venice Critics’ Week; and Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Siam’s feature-length documentary Amal.
Schortcut Films, which he...
- 4/15/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
“We finished the shoot for Ely Dagher’s film Harvest just as the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Lebanon.”
Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair is the founder and CEO of top Middle East independent film production house Abbout Productions and its more recently created sister company Schortcut Films.
The recent credits of Abbout Productions include Oualid Mouaness’s bittersweet coming-of-age drama 1982, which premiered at Toronto and was Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards’ best international film category this year; Ahmad Ghossein’s All This Victory, which premiered in Venice Critics’ Week, winning three awards, and Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Siam’s feature-length documentary Amal.
Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair is the founder and CEO of top Middle East independent film production house Abbout Productions and its more recently created sister company Schortcut Films.
The recent credits of Abbout Productions include Oualid Mouaness’s bittersweet coming-of-age drama 1982, which premiered at Toronto and was Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards’ best international film category this year; Ahmad Ghossein’s All This Victory, which premiered in Venice Critics’ Week, winning three awards, and Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Siam’s feature-length documentary Amal.
- 4/15/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Twice Academy Award-nominated writer-director Hany Abu-Assad is teaming with Abbout Productions, Lebanon’s top indie shingle, on TV series project “The King’s Wives.”
The six-episode fiction, pitched Feb. 25 at the 2020 Berlinale Co-Pro Series, is set to be the first TV drama produced by Abbout, a Beirut-set production house run by Georges Schoucair, best known to date for films with a distinctly Arab voice.
Scheduled to shoot from fall 2021 in Morocco or Turkey, “The King’s Wives” is conceived as a multicultural project, with Palestinian-Dutch Abu-Assad as co-creator and showrunner, production by a Lebanese team, with a cast coming from all over the Arab world and international heads of departments.
A TV drama with humorous elements, set in a modern unnamed Arab monarchy, “The King’s Wives” follows Zein, a revolutionary princess who wants to challenge the monarchy and improve women’s rights.
She aligns with her progressive husband, Prince Malik,...
The six-episode fiction, pitched Feb. 25 at the 2020 Berlinale Co-Pro Series, is set to be the first TV drama produced by Abbout, a Beirut-set production house run by Georges Schoucair, best known to date for films with a distinctly Arab voice.
Scheduled to shoot from fall 2021 in Morocco or Turkey, “The King’s Wives” is conceived as a multicultural project, with Palestinian-Dutch Abu-Assad as co-creator and showrunner, production by a Lebanese team, with a cast coming from all over the Arab world and international heads of departments.
A TV drama with humorous elements, set in a modern unnamed Arab monarchy, “The King’s Wives” follows Zein, a revolutionary princess who wants to challenge the monarchy and improve women’s rights.
She aligns with her progressive husband, Prince Malik,...
- 2/25/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Films from Africa and the Middle East have enjoyed significant festival presence this year – such as Mati Diop’s French-Senegalese pic “Atlantics,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. “In 2019 we saw a new generation of filmmakers emerging on the scene,” says Rémi Bonhomme program manager of Critics’ Week in Cannes and the coordinator of the Atlas Workshops, which run Dec. 3-6 at the Marrakech Film Festival.
At Cannes, in addition to Diop’s prize, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman won a Jury Special Mention award for his satire “It Must Be Heaven,” and seven African and Arab films screened in the different competitive sections. At Locarno, Senegalese writer-director Mamadou Dia’s won best first feature for “Nafi’s Father” and Algerian helmer Hassen Ferhani won best emerging director award for his documentary “143 Rue du Désert,” which won a postproduction prize at the 2018 Atlas Workshops. At Venice,...
At Cannes, in addition to Diop’s prize, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman won a Jury Special Mention award for his satire “It Must Be Heaven,” and seven African and Arab films screened in the different competitive sections. At Locarno, Senegalese writer-director Mamadou Dia’s won best first feature for “Nafi’s Father” and Algerian helmer Hassen Ferhani won best emerging director award for his documentary “143 Rue du Désert,” which won a postproduction prize at the 2018 Atlas Workshops. At Venice,...
- 11/25/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
“Creating a stimulating platform that brings together filmmakers, scholars and the public in order to encourage crucial dialogue regarding Palestine’s film industry, its culture and its politics.”
The London Palestine Film Festival (Lpff) 2019 will run in London from 15 to 30 November, in partnership with The Barbican, Curzon Soho, Institute Of Contemporary Arts (Ica), The Rio, The Tabernacle, Soas and P21 Gallery.
The Festival is proud to open its 2019 edition with the long-awaited, and now Cannes Awarded ‘Special Mention’, film “It Must Be Heaven”, by the honourable filmmaker, Elia Suleiman. The film was also selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Full Programme
It Must Be Heaven
Opening Night:
It Must Be Heaven (2019 l Elia Suleiman l 97’)
Lpff 2019 is proud to open with this long-awaited film from director Elia Suleiman.
Friday 15th November – Barbican @ 8:45pm
Family Affairs: Drama Shorts from Palestine...
The London Palestine Film Festival (Lpff) 2019 will run in London from 15 to 30 November, in partnership with The Barbican, Curzon Soho, Institute Of Contemporary Arts (Ica), The Rio, The Tabernacle, Soas and P21 Gallery.
The Festival is proud to open its 2019 edition with the long-awaited, and now Cannes Awarded ‘Special Mention’, film “It Must Be Heaven”, by the honourable filmmaker, Elia Suleiman. The film was also selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Full Programme
It Must Be Heaven
Opening Night:
It Must Be Heaven (2019 l Elia Suleiman l 97’)
Lpff 2019 is proud to open with this long-awaited film from director Elia Suleiman.
Friday 15th November – Barbican @ 8:45pm
Family Affairs: Drama Shorts from Palestine...
- 11/9/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Venice 2019: Ahmad Ghossein’s film has taken home the Grand Prize, the Audience Award and the gong for Best Technical Contribution; Scales by Shahad Ameen was crowned the winner by the under-30 jury. The International Film Critics’ Week (Sic) – an independent and parallel section organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (Sncci) as an integral part of the Venice International Film Festival – has handed out the awards of its 34th edition. The International Film Critics’ Week Grand Prize – made possible thanks to the support of the Siae – Italian Authors and Publishers Association and comprising a prize worth €5,000, handed out by an international jury consisting of Marta Bałaga, Paolo Mereghetti and Erfan Rashid – went to All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon/France/Qatar). Ghossein’s movie also picked up the Audience Award, provided thanks to the support of the Municipality of Taranto, and the Mario...
“All This Victory,” a tense war drama directed by Lebanon’s Ahmad Ghossein and set in 2006 in his country during the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, is the big winner at the Venice Critics’ Week section dedicated to first works.
The film is about a young man named Marwan who during a ceasefire goes in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village, while his wife Rana is preparing papers for their immigration to Canada. Marwan however finds no traces of his father, the ceasefire is quickly broken and the situation spiral out of control after he is forced to shelter in the home of Najib, his father’s friend, and some of Najib’s friends. As bombs hail down, tensions within the house rise; and then a group of Israeli soldiers enter the building.
“Victory,” which is produced by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine of Beirut-based...
The film is about a young man named Marwan who during a ceasefire goes in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village, while his wife Rana is preparing papers for their immigration to Canada. Marwan however finds no traces of his father, the ceasefire is quickly broken and the situation spiral out of control after he is forced to shelter in the home of Najib, his father’s friend, and some of Najib’s friends. As bombs hail down, tensions within the house rise; and then a group of Israeli soldiers enter the building.
“Victory,” which is produced by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine of Beirut-based...
- 9/6/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The strand will open with Indian animation Bombay Rose, and close with Joshua Gil’s fantasy drama Sanctorum.
The line-up for the 2019 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent strand Critics’ Week (which runs August 28-September 7) has been unveiled.
The competition section includes Rare Beasts, the directorial debut of UK actress Bille Piper, in which she stars with Leo Bill, David Thewlis, Kerry Fox, and newcomer Toby Woolf.
Also in the competition are Lithuanian documentary director Mantas Kvedaravicius’ feature debut Parthenon; Shahad Ameen’s Saudi Arabian mermaid fantasy Scales; and Ahmad Ghossein’s All This Victory set in Lebanon...
The line-up for the 2019 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent strand Critics’ Week (which runs August 28-September 7) has been unveiled.
The competition section includes Rare Beasts, the directorial debut of UK actress Bille Piper, in which she stars with Leo Bill, David Thewlis, Kerry Fox, and newcomer Toby Woolf.
Also in the competition are Lithuanian documentary director Mantas Kvedaravicius’ feature debut Parthenon; Shahad Ameen’s Saudi Arabian mermaid fantasy Scales; and Ahmad Ghossein’s All This Victory set in Lebanon...
- 7/19/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Venice Film Festival (Aug 28 – Sept 7) Critics’ Week lineup was unveiled today with seven films playing in competition including UK pic Rare Beasts, the directorial debut of Doctor Who actress Billie Piper.
Piper also stars in the feature about a struggling young writer and mother who comes from a dysfunctional family. Also starring are Leo Bill, Lily James and David Thewlis. UK outfit Western Edge Pictures produces in association with Moffen Media Limited.
Also among the lineup are Saudi title Scales by Shahad Ameen, a magical-realist mermaid movie set during a mythical Arabian past; and All This Victory, a drama set in 2006 in Lebanon during the war between Hezbollah and Israel, directed by Ahmad Ghossein.
Lithuanian pic Parthenon will play in competition as will Chilean title The Prince, a prison-set gay melodrama starring Alfredo Castro. Danish director Marie Grahto will premiere Psychosia while Italy will be represented by Ascanio Petrini’s Tony Driver.
Piper also stars in the feature about a struggling young writer and mother who comes from a dysfunctional family. Also starring are Leo Bill, Lily James and David Thewlis. UK outfit Western Edge Pictures produces in association with Moffen Media Limited.
Also among the lineup are Saudi title Scales by Shahad Ameen, a magical-realist mermaid movie set during a mythical Arabian past; and All This Victory, a drama set in 2006 in Lebanon during the war between Hezbollah and Israel, directed by Ahmad Ghossein.
Lithuanian pic Parthenon will play in competition as will Chilean title The Prince, a prison-set gay melodrama starring Alfredo Castro. Danish director Marie Grahto will premiere Psychosia while Italy will be represented by Ascanio Petrini’s Tony Driver.
- 7/19/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Rare Beasts,” the directorial debut of British stage and screen actress Billie Piper is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, which has unveiled its lineup of nine first works, four of them from female filmmakers.
Produced by Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge Pictures in association with Moffen Media Limited, “Rare Beasts” is “a completely unhinged comedy,” section chief Giona Nazzaro said.
Piper plays Mandy, a struggling young writer and mother who comes from a dysfunctional family and falls upon a troubled man played by Leo Bill (“Peterloo”). The high-caliber cast of Brits also includes Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) and David Thewlis, best known as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series.
The out-of-competition opener for Critics’ Week will be Indian animation film “Bombay Rose” by Gitanjali Rao, which Nazzaro described as a love story between a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy and also...
Produced by Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge Pictures in association with Moffen Media Limited, “Rare Beasts” is “a completely unhinged comedy,” section chief Giona Nazzaro said.
Piper plays Mandy, a struggling young writer and mother who comes from a dysfunctional family and falls upon a troubled man played by Leo Bill (“Peterloo”). The high-caliber cast of Brits also includes Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) and David Thewlis, best known as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series.
The out-of-competition opener for Critics’ Week will be Indian animation film “Bombay Rose” by Gitanjali Rao, which Nazzaro described as a love story between a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy and also...
- 7/19/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Festival will also pay tribute to Velvet Revolution, unveils industry strands.
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 28-July 6) will honour Czech cinematographer Vladimír Smutný and Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.
Smutný, a seven-time winner of the Czech Lion for best cinematography, will receive the Kviff President’s Award. His best-known work includes films with Jiří Svoboda and Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák.
Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (1926-2008), a five-time Palme d’Or nominee and Silver Bear winner (for Alexandria Why? in 1979), will be honoured at Kviff with a retrospective of 11 remastered films, comprising early lesser-known works and internationally recognised classics.
The...
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 28-July 6) will honour Czech cinematographer Vladimír Smutný and Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.
Smutný, a seven-time winner of the Czech Lion for best cinematography, will receive the Kviff President’s Award. His best-known work includes films with Jiří Svoboda and Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák.
Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (1926-2008), a five-time Palme d’Or nominee and Silver Bear winner (for Alexandria Why? in 1979), will be honoured at Kviff with a retrospective of 11 remastered films, comprising early lesser-known works and internationally recognised classics.
The...
- 4/17/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Arab cinema is raising its profile on the international festival circuit and so is the Doha Film Institute, which is supporting 10 films at the Venice fest and market.
The key Qatari incubator and financing source for filmmakers from the Middle East and beyond is repped this year on the Lido by new pics from Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and also Sudan, Brazil, Serbia and Montenegro. It’s a diverse batch that stands as “testament of our commitment to nurturing young talents in the region” and also to “our focus on supporting world-class cinema from around the world,” says Dfi CEO Fatma Al Remaihi.
Al Remaihi is particularly proud that the Dfi-supported contingent on the Lido includes Serbian director Mila Turajlic’s “The Other Side of Everything.” The doc, which thrashes out the dissolution of Yugoslavia through the director’s family history, launched last year at Toronto and will be...
The key Qatari incubator and financing source for filmmakers from the Middle East and beyond is repped this year on the Lido by new pics from Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and also Sudan, Brazil, Serbia and Montenegro. It’s a diverse batch that stands as “testament of our commitment to nurturing young talents in the region” and also to “our focus on supporting world-class cinema from around the world,” says Dfi CEO Fatma Al Remaihi.
Al Remaihi is particularly proud that the Dfi-supported contingent on the Lido includes Serbian director Mila Turajlic’s “The Other Side of Everything.” The doc, which thrashes out the dissolution of Yugoslavia through the director’s family history, launched last year at Toronto and will be...
- 9/5/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
“All This Victory,” a drama set in 2006 in Lebanon during the war between Hezbollah and Israel, has won the Eastern Promises Works in Progress Award at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival. The competition is devoted to projects from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, former Soviet Union countries, and, for the first time this year, the Middle East.
In director Ahmad Ghossein’s film, a coproduction between Lebanon, France and Germany, Marwan goes in search of his father, who has refused to leave his village. He finds no traces of him and when the ceasefire ends suddenly, he is forced to shelter in the home of Najib, his father’s friend, and some of Najib’s friends. As bombs hail down, tensions within the house rise; then a group of Israeli soldiers enter the building.
The jury was comprised of Matthijs Wouter Knol, director of the Berlinale’s European Film Market,...
In director Ahmad Ghossein’s film, a coproduction between Lebanon, France and Germany, Marwan goes in search of his father, who has refused to leave his village. He finds no traces of him and when the ceasefire ends suddenly, he is forced to shelter in the home of Najib, his father’s friend, and some of Najib’s friends. As bombs hail down, tensions within the house rise; then a group of Israeli soldiers enter the building.
The jury was comprised of Matthijs Wouter Knol, director of the Berlinale’s European Film Market,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Jamie Lang and Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Ahmad Ghossein’s Lebanese film wins in first year award is open to films from the Middle East.
The winners of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘Eastern Promises’ - the rebranded name for the event’s industry offerings - were revealed last night at its annual industry party.
The works in progress award, open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, was won the Lebanon/France/Germany co-production All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects pitched during the event.
“The project is based on a true story,...
The winners of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘Eastern Promises’ - the rebranded name for the event’s industry offerings - were revealed last night at its annual industry party.
The works in progress award, open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, was won the Lebanon/France/Germany co-production All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects pitched during the event.
“The project is based on a true story,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Laurence Boyce
- ScreenDaily
The 46 projects include 25 feature and documentary works.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day event will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day event will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 46 projects include 25 feature and documentary works.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day even will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
The Venice Gap-Financing Market has selected the projects for its 5th edition, to be held from August 31-September 2 during the Venice film festival.
Organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, the three-day even will present 46 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding.
The titles include 25 feature fiction and documentary projects; 15 virtual reality works; and six projects developed during the workshop of Biennale College Cinema.
Fiction projects include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends Of The Earth (working title), which shot in Uzbekistan in April and May,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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