Golden Bear winner Semih Kaplanoglu to present new feature.
The 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has unveiled its competition line-up.
Three world premieres and four regional premieres will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo.
Golden Bear-winning director Semih Kaplanoğlu will compete with his latest feature Grain, which has its world premiere in Sarajevo. The film is his first feature since 2010 drama Honey, which won Berlin Film Festival’s top prize and was nominated for three prizes at the European Film Awards.
His new film is a dystopian story set in a world where a genetic crisis leads to massive crop failure. The Match Factory is handling sales.
Also having world premieres in Sarajevo are two debut features: Emanuel Pârvu’s Romanian feature Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things and Gentian Koçi’s Albanian-Greek feature Daybreak.
Among the regional premieres are Rezo Gigineishvili’s Hostages, which premiered...
The 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has unveiled its competition line-up.
Three world premieres and four regional premieres will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo.
Golden Bear-winning director Semih Kaplanoğlu will compete with his latest feature Grain, which has its world premiere in Sarajevo. The film is his first feature since 2010 drama Honey, which won Berlin Film Festival’s top prize and was nominated for three prizes at the European Film Awards.
His new film is a dystopian story set in a world where a genetic crisis leads to massive crop failure. The Match Factory is handling sales.
Also having world premieres in Sarajevo are two debut features: Emanuel Pârvu’s Romanian feature Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things and Gentian Koçi’s Albanian-Greek feature Daybreak.
Among the regional premieres are Rezo Gigineishvili’s Hostages, which premiered...
- 7/18/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
10 directors will be presented at Sydney Film Festival.
European Film Promotion (Efp) has announced the line-up for its second year of Europe! Voices of Women in Film at the Sydney Film Festival.
The selection includes both new and established female European directors, with the aim being to introduce them to Australian audiences, industry and the press.
Among those selected this year are Shahrbanoo Sadat, whose 2011 film Vice Versa One earned her a residence at Cinéfondation in Cannes 2011. She presents her feature debut Wolf And Sheep, which is among five features in this cohort.
Hope Dickson Leach, one of Screen’s former Stars of Tomorrow, has also been selected with her feature debut The Levelling.
Amanda Kernell is also among the selection, her film Sami Blood having been shown at Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam.
The Sydney Film Festival takes place June 7-18, 2017.
Full Europe! Voices of Women 2017 selection:Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel, [link...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has announced the line-up for its second year of Europe! Voices of Women in Film at the Sydney Film Festival.
The selection includes both new and established female European directors, with the aim being to introduce them to Australian audiences, industry and the press.
Among those selected this year are Shahrbanoo Sadat, whose 2011 film Vice Versa One earned her a residence at Cinéfondation in Cannes 2011. She presents her feature debut Wolf And Sheep, which is among five features in this cohort.
Hope Dickson Leach, one of Screen’s former Stars of Tomorrow, has also been selected with her feature debut The Levelling.
Amanda Kernell is also among the selection, her film Sami Blood having been shown at Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam.
The Sydney Film Festival takes place June 7-18, 2017.
Full Europe! Voices of Women 2017 selection:Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel, [link...
- 5/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Berlin’s Panorama lineup also includes new films from Us, China and Brazil.
Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.
A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.
The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.
Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...
Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.
A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.
The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.
Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...
- 1/25/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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