Projects from Greece and Ukraine lead co-production awards.
Ukrainian drama Cherry Blossoms from director Marysia Nikitiuk has picked up one of the top prizes at Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform CineLink, which handed out its awards last night (August 18).
See below for full list of winners
The project was among 12 presented at the CineLink Co-Production Market and won the Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award of €20,000.
Cherry Blossoms centres on a man and girl who escape territories in Ukraine occupied by Russia and meet a Bosnian woman who survived the Balkan wars as a child. Nikitiuk’s first feature, When The Trees Fall,...
Ukrainian drama Cherry Blossoms from director Marysia Nikitiuk has picked up one of the top prizes at Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform CineLink, which handed out its awards last night (August 18).
See below for full list of winners
The project was among 12 presented at the CineLink Co-Production Market and won the Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award of €20,000.
Cherry Blossoms centres on a man and girl who escape territories in Ukraine occupied by Russia and meet a Bosnian woman who survived the Balkan wars as a child. Nikitiuk’s first feature, When The Trees Fall,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
New Female Voices CineLink Award worth €10,000 launched this year.
The Sarajevo film festival (August 12-19) has revealed the nine feature projects and seven drama series from Southeast Europe that will take part in its Co-Production Market running as part of the CineLink industry Days.
This year the festival has also launched the Female Voices CineLink Award, worth €10,000 and presented by the Slovenian Film Centre, for one participating project in the market.
The selected projects include Hear The Yellow directed by Banu Sivaci, whose first film The Pigeon played in Generation 14plus strand at the 2018 Berlinale; and Patrimonial Fears And Other Symptoms from Elina Psykou,...
The Sarajevo film festival (August 12-19) has revealed the nine feature projects and seven drama series from Southeast Europe that will take part in its Co-Production Market running as part of the CineLink industry Days.
This year the festival has also launched the Female Voices CineLink Award, worth €10,000 and presented by the Slovenian Film Centre, for one participating project in the market.
The selected projects include Hear The Yellow directed by Banu Sivaci, whose first film The Pigeon played in Generation 14plus strand at the 2018 Berlinale; and Patrimonial Fears And Other Symptoms from Elina Psykou,...
- 6/9/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Turkish drama The Pigeon took home the Palmera de Oro (Golden Palm Tree) along with a €25,000 prize at Valencia's La Mostra.
The film, from debut director Banu Sivaci, was praised by the jury for its capacity to "extract visual and aural poetry from a hostile environment where the main character has to fight to preserve his individual liberty".
The film also won the Best Actor award for Kemal Burak Alper, who plays Yusuf, a young man whose pigeons help him cope with his tough life, Best Cinematographer for Arda Yildrian, Best Music, for Canset Özge Can and Best Screenplay for Sivaci.
The Silver Palm Tree went to Secret Ingredient, a dad and son charmer - the first Greek-Macedonian production - which was praised for its combination of humour and drama.
French film Paper Flags, directed by 19-year-old Nathan Ambrosioni, won the Bronze...
The film, from debut director Banu Sivaci, was praised by the jury for its capacity to "extract visual and aural poetry from a hostile environment where the main character has to fight to preserve his individual liberty".
The film also won the Best Actor award for Kemal Burak Alper, who plays Yusuf, a young man whose pigeons help him cope with his tough life, Best Cinematographer for Arda Yildrian, Best Music, for Canset Özge Can and Best Screenplay for Sivaci.
The Silver Palm Tree went to Secret Ingredient, a dad and son charmer - the first Greek-Macedonian production - which was praised for its combination of humour and drama.
French film Paper Flags, directed by 19-year-old Nathan Ambrosioni, won the Bronze...
- 10/27/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
L'enkas Photo: Sarah Marx
This year's Mostra de Valencia - Cinema De Mediterrani - which runs from October 18 to 28 - will see 11 films compete in its official section as it returns from a six-year hiatus.
The festival has a focus on films from Mediterranean countries and all the films will be Spanish premieres. Those in competition include Sarah Marx's debut fiction feature L'Enkas, about a young ex-con desperate to make quick cash to help his mother and Amr Salama's Sheikh Jackson - Egypt's nomination for this year's foreign language Oscar - a drama about a cleric who has a crisis of faith when he discovers his idol Michael Jackson has died.
Other countries represented include Tunisia (Selma Balcar's El Jaida and Nace Khemir's Whispering Sands), Italy (Marco Tullio Giordana's Nome Di Donna), Turkey (Banu Sivaci's The Pigeon) and Lebanon (Lucien Bourjiely's Heaven Without People).
New artistic director Eduardo Guillot said: "This.
This year's Mostra de Valencia - Cinema De Mediterrani - which runs from October 18 to 28 - will see 11 films compete in its official section as it returns from a six-year hiatus.
The festival has a focus on films from Mediterranean countries and all the films will be Spanish premieres. Those in competition include Sarah Marx's debut fiction feature L'Enkas, about a young ex-con desperate to make quick cash to help his mother and Amr Salama's Sheikh Jackson - Egypt's nomination for this year's foreign language Oscar - a drama about a cleric who has a crisis of faith when he discovers his idol Michael Jackson has died.
Other countries represented include Tunisia (Selma Balcar's El Jaida and Nace Khemir's Whispering Sands), Italy (Marco Tullio Giordana's Nome Di Donna), Turkey (Banu Sivaci's The Pigeon) and Lebanon (Lucien Bourjiely's Heaven Without People).
New artistic director Eduardo Guillot said: "This.
- 10/10/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Turkish film festival celebrated 25th edition this year.
Directorial duo Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s drama Sibel and Tolga Karacelik’s quirky road movie Butterflies were among the top winners at the Adana International Film Festival (Sept 22-30) over the weekend.
Sibel – revolving around an ostracised, mute young woman living in a mountain village whose life is transformed when she helps an injured fugitive in hiding - won the festival’s Golden Boll for best film in the national competition focused on Turkish cinema.
Damla Sönmez won best actress for her performance as the titular Sibel, while Emin Gürsoy...
Directorial duo Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s drama Sibel and Tolga Karacelik’s quirky road movie Butterflies were among the top winners at the Adana International Film Festival (Sept 22-30) over the weekend.
Sibel – revolving around an ostracised, mute young woman living in a mountain village whose life is transformed when she helps an injured fugitive in hiding - won the festival’s Golden Boll for best film in the national competition focused on Turkish cinema.
Damla Sönmez won best actress for her performance as the titular Sibel, while Emin Gürsoy...
- 10/1/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sofia Film Festival winners also announced.
Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s second feature film project Wolf was awarded the Danny Lerner Grand Prix for best international project at the 15th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market this weekend.
The Nu Boyana Film Studios’ CEO Yariv Lerner handed over a prize of €50,000 in services and a cheque for €5,000 to Biancheri and her producer Jessie Fisk for what the director describes as “a high concept, absurdist arthouse drama”.
Budgeted at €1.2m, Wolf is set to be the first project to go into production by Fisk’s production company Feline Films.
Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s second feature film project Wolf was awarded the Danny Lerner Grand Prix for best international project at the 15th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market this weekend.
The Nu Boyana Film Studios’ CEO Yariv Lerner handed over a prize of €50,000 in services and a cheque for €5,000 to Biancheri and her producer Jessie Fisk for what the director describes as “a high concept, absurdist arthouse drama”.
Budgeted at €1.2m, Wolf is set to be the first project to go into production by Fisk’s production company Feline Films.
- 3/19/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first 16 titles to screen next year in its Generation sidebar of youth and children's films.
The lineup includes several world premieres, among them 303, a road movie from German director Hans Weingartner (The Edukators) and Cobain, the latest from Dutch director Nanouk Leopold (Brownian Movement), which follows a 15-year-old boy on his search for his self-destructive mother.
The 2018 Generation also includes several debuts, among them The Pigeon, from Turkish director Banu Sivaci; Denmark from director Kasper Rune Larsen; and Red Cow, the feature debut of Israeli filmmaker Tsivia Barkai.
The Generation...
The lineup includes several world premieres, among them 303, a road movie from German director Hans Weingartner (The Edukators) and Cobain, the latest from Dutch director Nanouk Leopold (Brownian Movement), which follows a 15-year-old boy on his search for his self-destructive mother.
The 2018 Generation also includes several debuts, among them The Pigeon, from Turkish director Banu Sivaci; Denmark from director Kasper Rune Larsen; and Red Cow, the feature debut of Israeli filmmaker Tsivia Barkai.
The Generation...
- 12/19/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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