Alice Troughton’s The Lesson screening in Spotlight.
For the first time more than half of Tribeca Festival’s competition selections have been directed by women, the festival said as it announced the entire line-up on Tuesday.
Some 19 films or 68% of the 28-strong competition line-up hail from women, while 39 or 36% are directed by Bipoc filmmakers, including two Indigenous filmmakers. Overall 109 features will screen at the New York festival from June 7-18.
US Narrative Competition selections include world premieres of Shelly Yo’s Smoking Tigers, about a Korean American girl navigating an elite high school, and Monica Sorelle’s portrait of...
For the first time more than half of Tribeca Festival’s competition selections have been directed by women, the festival said as it announced the entire line-up on Tuesday.
Some 19 films or 68% of the 28-strong competition line-up hail from women, while 39 or 36% are directed by Bipoc filmmakers, including two Indigenous filmmakers. Overall 109 features will screen at the New York festival from June 7-18.
US Narrative Competition selections include world premieres of Shelly Yo’s Smoking Tigers, about a Korean American girl navigating an elite high school, and Monica Sorelle’s portrait of...
- 4/18/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Israeli series “The Lesson,” a taut half-hour series parable on the vicious spiral of social media confrontation, took top honors on Wednesday night at a spirited 2022 Canneseries festival whose main competition was buoyed by titles from some of the boldest players in the business.
With “The Lesson” co-lead, the extraordinary Maya Landsmann, walking off with best performance for her nuanced turn as a super-sized troubled teen who goads her liberal teacher into a personal attack on her physical appearance – a put-down which goes viral – the series can rate as the big winner at this year’s event.
Produced by Yochanan Kredo at Jasmine TV for Israeli broadcaster Kan 11 – and scoring huge numbers when aired on the network – the show, written by Deakla Keydar and directed by Eitan Zur (“Asylum City”), also exemplifies the virtues of much best Israeli TV drama: Taut, pointed writing, great acting, direction which serves the drama,...
With “The Lesson” co-lead, the extraordinary Maya Landsmann, walking off with best performance for her nuanced turn as a super-sized troubled teen who goads her liberal teacher into a personal attack on her physical appearance – a put-down which goes viral – the series can rate as the big winner at this year’s event.
Produced by Yochanan Kredo at Jasmine TV for Israeli broadcaster Kan 11 – and scoring huge numbers when aired on the network – the show, written by Deakla Keydar and directed by Eitan Zur (“Asylum City”), also exemplifies the virtues of much best Israeli TV drama: Taut, pointed writing, great acting, direction which serves the drama,...
- 4/6/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Israeli drama The Lesson has won two prizes in this year’s prestigious Canneseries Longform Competition.
Kan 11’s six-parter featuring Fauda’s Doron Ben-David about Amir, a 43-year-old teacher, and Lian, a 17-year-old student, who engage in an emotional conflict, won Best Series and Best Performance for co-lead Maya Landsman. Federation Entertainment boarded the drama several days ago.
Meanwhile, Canada’s Audrey Est Revenue won the Dior Grand Award, Best Music was awarded to Sky Deutschland’s Souls and Belgium’s Hacked took first prize in Short Form Series.
The prestigious prizes were awarded at a swanky event in Cannes tonight, which sees out the Canneseries drama forum and Mip TV.
Call My Agent! creator Fanny Herrero was President of the Jury which consisted of actors Denis O’Hare, Anne Marivin, Sami Outalbali, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Composer Daniel Pemberton. Writer Anthony Horowitz sat on the Short Form Jury.
The...
Kan 11’s six-parter featuring Fauda’s Doron Ben-David about Amir, a 43-year-old teacher, and Lian, a 17-year-old student, who engage in an emotional conflict, won Best Series and Best Performance for co-lead Maya Landsman. Federation Entertainment boarded the drama several days ago.
Meanwhile, Canada’s Audrey Est Revenue won the Dior Grand Award, Best Music was awarded to Sky Deutschland’s Souls and Belgium’s Hacked took first prize in Short Form Series.
The prestigious prizes were awarded at a swanky event in Cannes tonight, which sees out the Canneseries drama forum and Mip TV.
Call My Agent! creator Fanny Herrero was President of the Jury which consisted of actors Denis O’Hare, Anne Marivin, Sami Outalbali, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Composer Daniel Pemberton. Writer Anthony Horowitz sat on the Short Form Jury.
The...
- 4/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Federation Entertainment has boarded the anticipated Israeli series “The Lesson,” which is headlined by Doron Ben-David (“Fauda”) and Maya Landsmann (“Zero Hour”). “The Lesson” will compete at Canneseries on April 2.
Directed by Eitan Zur (“Asylum City”) and penned by Deakla Keydar (“Zero Hour”), the six-part drama revolves around Amir, a 43-year-old teacher, and Lian, a 17-year-old student, who engage in an emotional conflict in a fight for justice that bursts far out of the classroom.
The series explores the ripple effect of their violent clash from the classroom to the entire school, then throughout the community, to the media and into the complex political reality Israel is facing today. Leib Lev Levin, Alma Zak and Dvir Benedek round out the cast.
“The Lesson” was produced by Yochanan Kredo at Jasmine TV for the Israeli broadcaster Kan 11. The two leading actors, as well as the author and director, will be...
Directed by Eitan Zur (“Asylum City”) and penned by Deakla Keydar (“Zero Hour”), the six-part drama revolves around Amir, a 43-year-old teacher, and Lian, a 17-year-old student, who engage in an emotional conflict in a fight for justice that bursts far out of the classroom.
The series explores the ripple effect of their violent clash from the classroom to the entire school, then throughout the community, to the media and into the complex political reality Israel is facing today. Leib Lev Levin, Alma Zak and Dvir Benedek round out the cast.
“The Lesson” was produced by Yochanan Kredo at Jasmine TV for the Israeli broadcaster Kan 11. The two leading actors, as well as the author and director, will be...
- 4/1/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Martyrs Lane,” the third feature from Ruth Platt (“The Lesson”), hits Fantasia with a double momentum: Bullish word of mouth, and a recent sale to AMC Networks genre streamer Shudder for North America, U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Produced by London’s Ipso Facto Productions, whose credits take in “Irina Palm” and Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Valhalla Rising,” the LevelK sales title is a ghost story but, like the best of that kind, much more.
Leah, 10, lives in a rambling vicarage with her parents and haughty older sister. But something’s very wrong. Her mother, who sleeps clasping a golden locket, hardly has any time for her. One morning, Leah spots the locket left on the bathroom shelf. She opens it, and steals what she finds inside, sparking the nightly visits of a cherubic looking little girl, sporting shabby angel wings.
“Martyr’s Lane” is described as an...
Produced by London’s Ipso Facto Productions, whose credits take in “Irina Palm” and Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Valhalla Rising,” the LevelK sales title is a ghost story but, like the best of that kind, much more.
Leah, 10, lives in a rambling vicarage with her parents and haughty older sister. But something’s very wrong. Her mother, who sleeps clasping a golden locket, hardly has any time for her. One morning, Leah spots the locket left on the bathroom shelf. She opens it, and steals what she finds inside, sparking the nightly visits of a cherubic looking little girl, sporting shabby angel wings.
“Martyr’s Lane” is described as an...
- 8/10/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
It didn’t seem like there was a large portion of the movie-going population who felt that Todd Phillips’ “Joker” was too subtle, in either its commentary on the modern era of those who are involuntarily celibate, or its homage-like appropriation of classic Martin Scorsese movies. But maybe writer-director-producer Eugene Kotlyarenko has other information, since that’s the audience most squarely served by his noisily nihilist “Spree,” about a young rideshare driver who turns vacuously murderous in the pursuit of social media celebrity. It’s a concept that could handily be described as “Tik Tok Taxi Driver” meets “The Gig Economy King of Comedy.”
Joe Keery (“Stranger Things”) is as close to a redeeming feature as the film has, in the role of the irredeemable Kurt Kunkle. Kurt, known to his very, very few followers as @kurtsworld96, grins and pops peace signs while urging viewers to hit him up during...
Joe Keery (“Stranger Things”) is as close to a redeeming feature as the film has, in the role of the irredeemable Kurt Kunkle. Kurt, known to his very, very few followers as @kurtsworld96, grins and pops peace signs while urging viewers to hit him up during...
- 1/27/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Rome’s Mia market for TV series, feature films and documentaries wrapped positively Sunday with organizers boasting a bump in attendance just as some 2,500 executives departed in an upbeat mood after four days of dealmaking and presentations of mostly European fresh product, which elevated Italy’s global standing in the industry, especially within the TV sector.
“Italy is in a full Renaissance phase in terms of scripted,” said Walter Iuzzolino, curator of Walter Presents, the joint venture between British broadcaster Channel 4 and Global Series Network, specialized in foreign-language drama series.
Iuzzolino, who at Mia presented the Greenlit section dedicated to new series, added that there is a push underway in Italy’s TV industry “towards a gigantic upgrading of quality in terms of writing, production, acting, everything. The Italian shows showcased in Greenlit “could be playing on Channel 4 this evening in primetime,” he noted.
European TV took center stage,...
“Italy is in a full Renaissance phase in terms of scripted,” said Walter Iuzzolino, curator of Walter Presents, the joint venture between British broadcaster Channel 4 and Global Series Network, specialized in foreign-language drama series.
Iuzzolino, who at Mia presented the Greenlit section dedicated to new series, added that there is a push underway in Italy’s TV industry “towards a gigantic upgrading of quality in terms of writing, production, acting, everything. The Italian shows showcased in Greenlit “could be playing on Channel 4 this evening in primetime,” he noted.
European TV took center stage,...
- 10/20/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, the leading movie event in Central and Eastern Europe, unveiled its competition lineup Tuesday with a geographically diverse selection, which includes 10 world and two international premieres.
Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou brings the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Sundance debut “Lilting” with a moving drama about a young man of Vietnamese descent rediscovering his roots in “Monsoon,” starring “Crazy Rich Asians” actor Henry Golding.
Germany’s Jan-Ole Gerster follows his well-received debut, “Oh Boy,” winner of the European Film Academy’s European Discovery Award, with the world premiere of “Lara,” a psychological study starring Corinna Harfouch.
Kara Hayward, best-known for “Moonrise Kingdom,” stars in U.S. director Martha Stephens’ 1960s Oklahoma-set drama “To the Stars,” which premiered at Sundance and makes its international premiere at Karlovy Vary.
Spain’s Jonás Trueba “combines lightness and charm with intense existential emotions,” according to Kviff, in “August Virgin.
Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou brings the follow-up to his critically acclaimed Sundance debut “Lilting” with a moving drama about a young man of Vietnamese descent rediscovering his roots in “Monsoon,” starring “Crazy Rich Asians” actor Henry Golding.
Germany’s Jan-Ole Gerster follows his well-received debut, “Oh Boy,” winner of the European Film Academy’s European Discovery Award, with the world premiere of “Lara,” a psychological study starring Corinna Harfouch.
Kara Hayward, best-known for “Moonrise Kingdom,” stars in U.S. director Martha Stephens’ 1960s Oklahoma-set drama “To the Stars,” which premiered at Sundance and makes its international premiere at Karlovy Vary.
Spain’s Jonás Trueba “combines lightness and charm with intense existential emotions,” according to Kviff, in “August Virgin.
- 5/28/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: French sales outfit Wide Management has pre-sold drama Glory, the next film from the directorial duo behind festival award-winner The Lesson (Urok).
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are in post-production on the Bulgarian drama, which will be ready in time for Cannes and stars Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Italy’s I Wonder Pictures has snapped up the film, having previously acquired The Lesson, which it will release in March.
The Lesson debuted at Toronto 2014, was a finalist for the Lux Prize and won the new director’s award at San Sebastian.
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are in post-production on the Bulgarian drama, which will be ready in time for Cannes and stars Margita Gosheva (The Lesson).
Italy’s I Wonder Pictures has snapped up the film, having previously acquired The Lesson, which it will release in March.
The Lesson debuted at Toronto 2014, was a finalist for the Lux Prize and won the new director’s award at San Sebastian.
- 2/16/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Turkish drama also picks up Stockholm Film Festival audience award.
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang been named the 2015 European Parliament Lux Prize for cinema at a ceremony in Strasbourg this morning. The winner is decided by a ballot of MEPs.
Mustang tells the story of five sisters who have been promised to husbands through forced marriages but who, determined to live their own lives, break the yoke of tradition.
It beat competition from Jonas Carpignano’s Italian immigration drama Mediterranea and Bulgaria-Greek co-pro The Lesson (Urok) by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, said of the finalists: “These very different films raise fundamental questions.
How must our continent of emigration change in order to evolve into a continent of immigration? What is the role of women in societies on our doorstep? How is the economic crisis undermining our lives together?
“These European films deserve our support and I am proud that the...
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang been named the 2015 European Parliament Lux Prize for cinema at a ceremony in Strasbourg this morning. The winner is decided by a ballot of MEPs.
Mustang tells the story of five sisters who have been promised to husbands through forced marriages but who, determined to live their own lives, break the yoke of tradition.
It beat competition from Jonas Carpignano’s Italian immigration drama Mediterranea and Bulgaria-Greek co-pro The Lesson (Urok) by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, said of the finalists: “These very different films raise fundamental questions.
How must our continent of emigration change in order to evolve into a continent of immigration? What is the role of women in societies on our doorstep? How is the economic crisis undermining our lives together?
“These European films deserve our support and I am proud that the...
- 11/24/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Today, at the Venice Days press conference, the First Vice-President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, and the President of the Committee on Culture and Education, Silvia Costa, announced the three films selected to contend for the 2015 Lux Film Prize: "Mediterranea" by Jonas Carpignano, "Mustang" by Deniz Gamze, and "Urok" ("The Lesson") by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. The three competing films will tour from Venice to all 28 EU member states between October and December, and based on a vote by the Members of the European Parliament, one of these three finalists will, on November 25, be awarded with the ninth edition of the...
- 7/24/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Mediterranea, Mustang and Urok (The Lesson) to get distribution support.
Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Urok (The Lesson) have been selected as finalists for the Luz Prize.
The trio, revealed at a press conference for Venice Days by first vice president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the president of the Committee on Culture and Education Silvia Costa, will be subtitled into all 24 official European languages and will be screened in more than 20 festivals.
The films will vie for this year’s Lux Prize at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) with the winner receiving additional distribution support.
Mediterranea is Carpignano’s feature film debut and is an adaptation of his 2011 short A Chjana; the topical story focuses on immigrants who make the difficult journey across the mediterranean from Africa to Italy. The film is a co-production between Italy, United States...
Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Urok (The Lesson) have been selected as finalists for the Luz Prize.
The trio, revealed at a press conference for Venice Days by first vice president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the president of the Committee on Culture and Education Silvia Costa, will be subtitled into all 24 official European languages and will be screened in more than 20 festivals.
The films will vie for this year’s Lux Prize at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) with the winner receiving additional distribution support.
Mediterranea is Carpignano’s feature film debut and is an adaptation of his 2011 short A Chjana; the topical story focuses on immigrants who make the difficult journey across the mediterranean from Africa to Italy. The film is a co-production between Italy, United States...
- 7/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
Mediterranea, Mustang and Urok (The Lesson) to get distribution support.
Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Urok (The Lesson) have been selected as finalists for the Luz Prize.
The trio, revealed at a press conference for Venice Days by first vice president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the president of the Committee on Culture and Education Silvia Costa, will be subtitled into all 24 official European languages and will be screened in more than 20 festivals.
The films will vie for this year’s Lux Prize at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) with the winner receiving additional distribution support.
Mediterranea is Carpignano’s feature film debut and is an adaptation of his 2011 short A Chjana; the topical story focuses on immigrants who make the difficult journey across the mediterranean from Africa to Italy. The film is a co-production between Italy, United States...
Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Urok (The Lesson) have been selected as finalists for the Luz Prize.
The trio, revealed at a press conference for Venice Days by first vice president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the president of the Committee on Culture and Education Silvia Costa, will be subtitled into all 24 official European languages and will be screened in more than 20 festivals.
The films will vie for this year’s Lux Prize at the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) with the winner receiving additional distribution support.
Mediterranea is Carpignano’s feature film debut and is an adaptation of his 2011 short A Chjana; the topical story focuses on immigrants who make the difficult journey across the mediterranean from Africa to Italy. The film is a co-production between Italy, United States...
- 7/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
Debut features dominate this year’s competition lineup; Radu Jude, Radu Muntean among In Focus lineup.Full lineups below
The competition lineup of the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (August 14 – 22) will include world premieres of two first features and the regional premieres of László Nemes’ Son of Saul and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier.
Debut features dominate the competition programme this year, with six out of the ten selected films competing for the Heart of Sarajevo Award first films.
Three films are from directors returning to the festival’s competition - Dalibor Matanić from Croatia, Corneliu Porumboiu from Romania, and Karl Markovics from Austria – and the lineup is rounded out with Tsangari from Greece.
Competition Programme – Feature Film 2015
World Premieres
Our Everyday Life / NAŠA Svakodnevna PRIČA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, 2015, 90 min, dir. Ines Tanović (first feature)
Entanglement / Dolanma
Turkey, 2015, 86 min, dir. Tunç Davut (first feature)
International Premieres
Back Home / ACASĂ La Tata
Romania, 2014, 91 min. dir. Andrei Cohn...
The competition lineup of the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival (August 14 – 22) will include world premieres of two first features and the regional premieres of László Nemes’ Son of Saul and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier.
Debut features dominate the competition programme this year, with six out of the ten selected films competing for the Heart of Sarajevo Award first films.
Three films are from directors returning to the festival’s competition - Dalibor Matanić from Croatia, Corneliu Porumboiu from Romania, and Karl Markovics from Austria – and the lineup is rounded out with Tsangari from Greece.
Competition Programme – Feature Film 2015
World Premieres
Our Everyday Life / NAŠA Svakodnevna PRIČA
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, 2015, 90 min, dir. Ines Tanović (first feature)
Entanglement / Dolanma
Turkey, 2015, 86 min, dir. Tunç Davut (first feature)
International Premieres
Back Home / ACASĂ La Tata
Romania, 2014, 91 min. dir. Andrei Cohn...
- 7/21/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Mexican feature Perpetual Sadness and Israeli drama Next to Her take top prizes at Greek festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
Mexican director Jorge Perez Solorzano’s Perpetual Sadness (La Tirisia) was named best film at the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Oct 31 - Nov 9) winning the Golden Alexander.
It beat competition from 13 other first and second films screened in this year’s international competition section.
The film deals with the stoicism and the sadness shared by women in a remote village facing the departure of their sons in search of work. World sales are handled by Media Luna.
It marks the second consecutive year that a Mexican production has won top honours at Thessaloniki. Last year, Diego Quemada-Diez’s Golden Dream (La jaula de oro) scooped the top award as well as best director.
Some 10 Mexican features have played in competition at the festival since 2000, winning cropping 12 principal awards.
Israeli feature...
Mexican director Jorge Perez Solorzano’s Perpetual Sadness (La Tirisia) was named best film at the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Oct 31 - Nov 9) winning the Golden Alexander.
It beat competition from 13 other first and second films screened in this year’s international competition section.
The film deals with the stoicism and the sadness shared by women in a remote village facing the departure of their sons in search of work. World sales are handled by Media Luna.
It marks the second consecutive year that a Mexican production has won top honours at Thessaloniki. Last year, Diego Quemada-Diez’s Golden Dream (La jaula de oro) scooped the top award as well as best director.
Some 10 Mexican features have played in competition at the festival since 2000, winning cropping 12 principal awards.
Israeli feature...
- 11/10/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
White God and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence bookend the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
The 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Oct 31-Nov 9) kicks off today with the Cannes Certain Regard Gran Prix awarded White God by Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó.
It concludes November 9 with the Venice Golden Lion awarded A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Swedish director Roy Andersson.
Both directors will be present as they are set to also receive homages.
Also receiving tributes are legendary German actress Hanna Schygulla, Us director Ramin Bahrani and his Serbian colleague Želimir Žilnik.
They will enjoy retrospectives of their films and will offer master classes.
Among others attending are Fatih Akin to present The Cut, Ira Sachs to introduce Love Is Strange co-produced by local production powerhouse, Christos Konstantakopoulos’ Faliro House boasting among its international coproductions slate Jarmush’s Only Lovers Left Alive plus two upcomig Terrence Malick films in post...
The 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Oct 31-Nov 9) kicks off today with the Cannes Certain Regard Gran Prix awarded White God by Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó.
It concludes November 9 with the Venice Golden Lion awarded A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Swedish director Roy Andersson.
Both directors will be present as they are set to also receive homages.
Also receiving tributes are legendary German actress Hanna Schygulla, Us director Ramin Bahrani and his Serbian colleague Želimir Žilnik.
They will enjoy retrospectives of their films and will offer master classes.
Among others attending are Fatih Akin to present The Cut, Ira Sachs to introduce Love Is Strange co-produced by local production powerhouse, Christos Konstantakopoulos’ Faliro House boasting among its international coproductions slate Jarmush’s Only Lovers Left Alive plus two upcomig Terrence Malick films in post...
- 10/31/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Carlos Vermut’s Spanish drama wins best film and best director; Dennis Lehane wins best screenplay for The Drop.Scroll down for other awards
Spanish drama Magical Girl has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
Carlos Vermut also won the Silver Shell for best director for the film, produced by Madrid-based Aquí y Allí Films and is sold by Films Distribution.
Jury chairman Fernando Bovaira described Vermut as “a disturbing, delicate and unique voice”.
The film, which debuted at Toronto and is currently screening at Zurich before going on to Busan, centres on the wish of an ill child who wants the dress in Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Her father sets out to obtain it but enters a world of blackmail and tragedy.
It marks Vermut’s second film after Diamond Flash.
The Special Jury Prize went to Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), the new film by...
Spanish drama Magical Girl has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
Carlos Vermut also won the Silver Shell for best director for the film, produced by Madrid-based Aquí y Allí Films and is sold by Films Distribution.
Jury chairman Fernando Bovaira described Vermut as “a disturbing, delicate and unique voice”.
The film, which debuted at Toronto and is currently screening at Zurich before going on to Busan, centres on the wish of an ill child who wants the dress in Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Her father sets out to obtain it but enters a world of blackmail and tragedy.
It marks Vermut’s second film after Diamond Flash.
The Special Jury Prize went to Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), the new film by...
- 9/27/2014
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda) michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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