Gina Gammell and Riley Keough’s “War Pony,” Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun” and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s “The Silent Twins” are among the several female-driven anticipated feature debuts slated for the Deauville American Film Festival’s competition.
Eight titles out of 13 features set to compete at Deauville as first films. “War Pony” world premiered at Un Certain Regard in Cannes and won the Camera d’Or for best debut. “War Pony” is a collaborative experience portraying two young Oglala Lakota men who are torn between traditions and the consumer culture surrounding them. “The Silent Twins,” which also bowed at Un Certain Regard, is a biopic of troubled twin writers June and Jennifer Gibbons starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance.
“Aftersun,” meanwhile, world premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week where it won the French Touch Prize and was acquired by A24. The melodrama stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a young father...
Eight titles out of 13 features set to compete at Deauville as first films. “War Pony” world premiered at Un Certain Regard in Cannes and won the Camera d’Or for best debut. “War Pony” is a collaborative experience portraying two young Oglala Lakota men who are torn between traditions and the consumer culture surrounding them. “The Silent Twins,” which also bowed at Un Certain Regard, is a biopic of troubled twin writers June and Jennifer Gibbons starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance.
“Aftersun,” meanwhile, world premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week where it won the French Touch Prize and was acquired by A24. The melodrama stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a young father...
- 7/27/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Bordeaux, France — French directors Zabou Breitman and Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec, Belgian distributor Lumière and French production outfit Xilam won Tributes Awards at this year’s Cartoon Movie, Europe’s biggest animated feature co-production and sales forum which closed today in the French port city of Bordeaux.
Breitman and Gobbé-Mévellec’s “The Swallows Of Kabul,” which world premiered at the Cannes Festival’s Un Certain Regard last year, is produced by Les Armateurs in co-production with Melusine Prods. and Close Up Films. The 2D watercolor-style animation adapts the bestselling book from Yasmina Khadra offering a touching “fresco” of life under Taliban rule in the Afghan capital through the intertwined stories of two couples. It marks the fifth feature of actress-director Breitman and the her first animated title and for animator Gobbé-Mévellec her debut feature. “Kabul” is sold by Paris’ Celluloid Dreams.
Nominees for the Direction Tribute Award also included Spain’s Sergio Pablos...
Breitman and Gobbé-Mévellec’s “The Swallows Of Kabul,” which world premiered at the Cannes Festival’s Un Certain Regard last year, is produced by Les Armateurs in co-production with Melusine Prods. and Close Up Films. The 2D watercolor-style animation adapts the bestselling book from Yasmina Khadra offering a touching “fresco” of life under Taliban rule in the Afghan capital through the intertwined stories of two couples. It marks the fifth feature of actress-director Breitman and the her first animated title and for animator Gobbé-Mévellec her debut feature. “Kabul” is sold by Paris’ Celluloid Dreams.
Nominees for the Direction Tribute Award also included Spain’s Sergio Pablos...
- 3/5/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
By any measure, it’s been a great year for animation. From “Frozen 2” and “Toy Story 4” bringing in huge box-office numbers in the U.S. to “Ne Zha” becoming the top-grossing Chinese animated film with more than $700 million gross to 32 official entries in the best animated feature category for the 2020 Oscars, animated stories flexed their muscles.
But those animated films are also vehicles for filmmakers to tell diverse, challenging and unexpected stories of all kinds throughout the world. Whether their films are fantasy or even historical fiction, the storytellers are drawn to the medium.
“Animation makes it easier for the audience to believe in the world we created, they might think was a fantasy world but we show them that it is not,” writes Salvador Simo in an email with Variety about his film “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles.”
The animated feature takes us through the...
But those animated films are also vehicles for filmmakers to tell diverse, challenging and unexpected stories of all kinds throughout the world. Whether their films are fantasy or even historical fiction, the storytellers are drawn to the medium.
“Animation makes it easier for the audience to believe in the world we created, they might think was a fantasy world but we show them that it is not,” writes Salvador Simo in an email with Variety about his film “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles.”
The animated feature takes us through the...
- 2/1/2020
- by Karen Idelson
- Variety Film + TV
An acclaimed French director who has also been acting since age four, Zabou Breitman made her first animated feature with 2020 awards contender The Swallows of Kabul—a film that came about, and was crafted, in an unusual and unexpected way.
Set in a Taliban-occupied Kabul in the summer of 1998, the drama centers on young lovers Mohsen and Zunaira, who work to preserve their relationship amidst a backdrop of perpetual violence and misery, until a senseless act on the part of Mohsen changes their lives forever. Screening in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, the film is based on a novel by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra, though it wasn’t the book that brought Breitman to the project.
“A young producer had the script from the book made already and thought to make, I think, a real action movie, but then thought it would be better to have an animation film.
Set in a Taliban-occupied Kabul in the summer of 1998, the drama centers on young lovers Mohsen and Zunaira, who work to preserve their relationship amidst a backdrop of perpetual violence and misery, until a senseless act on the part of Mohsen changes their lives forever. Screening in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, the film is based on a novel by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra, though it wasn’t the book that brought Breitman to the project.
“A young producer had the script from the book made already and thought to make, I think, a real action movie, but then thought it would be better to have an animation film.
- 12/4/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Winners set to be announced in Berlin on December 7.
The European Film Awards (Efa) has unveiled the four features that will compete for the animation prize.
Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles; I Lost My Body; Marona’s Fantastic Tale; and The Swallows of Kabul are all in the running for European Animated Feature Film 2019.
The winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony on December 7 in Berlin.
Salvador Simó’s Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles has already picked up several festival awards including the jury prize at the Annecy International Animation Festival in June.
The film,...
The European Film Awards (Efa) has unveiled the four features that will compete for the animation prize.
Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles; I Lost My Body; Marona’s Fantastic Tale; and The Swallows of Kabul are all in the running for European Animated Feature Film 2019.
The winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony on December 7 in Berlin.
Salvador Simó’s Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles has already picked up several festival awards including the jury prize at the Annecy International Animation Festival in June.
The film,...
- 10/15/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The long-awaited, graphically rich, 2D watercolor-style animation “The Swallows Of Kabul” from French helmers Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec provides an involving adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s elegant literary fiction. The book, an international bestseller about life under Taliban control in the Afghan capital, highlighted a dangerous act of humanity during a grim and violent time via the stories of two couples whose fates become intertwined through death, imprisonment, and remarkable self-sacrifice. This supplies the core plot of the film, with the action condensed into a tight 81 minutes. Purists may object that the prestige production takes some liberties with novel, but on the whole, the inventions by screenplay writers Sébastien Tavel, Patricia Mortagne, and co-helmer Breitman feel dramatically and poetically right.
The action unfolds in 1998 (as opposed to the novel’s 2001), shortly after the fundamentalist Taliban have come to power. Historian Mohsen (voiced by Swann Arlaud) and artist Zunaira (Zita Hanrot...
The action unfolds in 1998 (as opposed to the novel’s 2001), shortly after the fundamentalist Taliban have come to power. Historian Mohsen (voiced by Swann Arlaud) and artist Zunaira (Zita Hanrot...
- 5/16/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
"Aren't we all already long dead?" Celluloid Dreams has debuted the first full trailer for French animated film The Swallows of Kabul, adapted from Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra's tragic tale capturing life in Kabul in 1998. The film is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival coming up this month, and will then play at the Annecy Film Festival also in France. The emotional story follows two couples whose lives become intertwined: "one young and liberal, whose lives are at risk under the strictures of Taliban rule, the other older and more conservative." The film has been in development for over five years, animated in France and produced by Les Armateurs, co-directed by Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec. Featuring the voices of Hiam Abbass as Mussarat, Simon Abkarian as Atiq, Zita Hanrot as Zunaira, and Swann Arlaud as Mohsen. This looks gorgeous and heartbreaking, a tough story to watch but...
- 5/9/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The production is lead produced by Les Armateurs, the Paris-based animation house behind Belleville rendez-vous.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first English-language subtitled trailer for Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé Mévellec’s feature-length animation of The Swallows Of Kabul ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The work is adapted from Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra’s tragic tale capturing life in Kabul in 1998, at the height of the conservative Taliban rule.
The emotional tale revolves around two couples whose lives become intertwined: one young and liberal, whose lives are at risk under the strictures of Taliban rule,...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first English-language subtitled trailer for Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé Mévellec’s feature-length animation of The Swallows Of Kabul ahead of its premiere in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The work is adapted from Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra’s tragic tale capturing life in Kabul in 1998, at the height of the conservative Taliban rule.
The emotional tale revolves around two couples whose lives become intertwined: one young and liberal, whose lives are at risk under the strictures of Taliban rule,...
- 5/9/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Algerian Mounia Meddour makes her feature debut with Papicha, about a teenager trying to live a normal life in the troubles Photo: Unifrance Although the official Cannes Competition received most of the attention at yesterday’s (18 April) media launch of the programme in Paris, the sidebar Un Certain Regard section is as strong and diverse as ever.
So far there are 15 titles in the selection, with eight feature film debuts, which will compete for the Camera d’Or prize and seven films by women directors, including an animated title The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbe-Mevellec, based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra.
Animation The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbe-Mevellec Photo: Unifrance Although not expected to be back in Cannes quite as quickly Christophe Honoré returns with Room 212, which only finished shooting last month. He has gathered together a diverse cast of Chiara Mastrioanni,...
So far there are 15 titles in the selection, with eight feature film debuts, which will compete for the Camera d’Or prize and seven films by women directors, including an animated title The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbe-Mevellec, based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra.
Animation The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbe-Mevellec Photo: Unifrance Although not expected to be back in Cannes quite as quickly Christophe Honoré returns with Room 212, which only finished shooting last month. He has gathered together a diverse cast of Chiara Mastrioanni,...
- 4/19/2019
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
He played iconic roles like Frankenstein's monster and Imhotep (aka The Mummy), but Boris Karloff also instilled life in so many other intriguing characters, including Morgan in The Old Dark House, coming to Blu-ray (in a 4K restoration), DVD, and digital platforms this October from the Cohen Film Collection:
Press Release: Charles S. Cohen, Chairman and CEO of Cohen Media Group, today announced that the landmark thriller The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff, will be released by the Cohen Film Collection on Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms on October 24, 2017. The home video release features the dazzling new 4K digital restoration that was screened to wide acclaim at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Based on J.B. Priestley's popular novel Benighted, this legendary classic was directed by James Whale in the fertile period between his Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. In The Old Dark House, Whale puts a surprising spin on...
Press Release: Charles S. Cohen, Chairman and CEO of Cohen Media Group, today announced that the landmark thriller The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff, will be released by the Cohen Film Collection on Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms on October 24, 2017. The home video release features the dazzling new 4K digital restoration that was screened to wide acclaim at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Based on J.B. Priestley's popular novel Benighted, this legendary classic was directed by James Whale in the fertile period between his Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. In The Old Dark House, Whale puts a surprising spin on...
- 9/26/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“Wonder Woman,” the latest addition to DC’s blockbuster superhero universe, was scheduled to be released in Lebanon on May 31. The day of it was meant to open, the movie’s theatrical run was abruptly halted by the announcement that Lebanon’s interior ministry had banned the film because actor Gal Gadot (aka Wonder Woman) is an Israeli citizen.
This wasn’t a complete surprise: Lebanon and Israel have been in an official state of war for decades; Lebanese law boycotts Israeli products, and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling to Israel or having contacts with its citizens.
And it has happened before, albeit on a smaller scale. “The Attack,” Ziad Doueiri’s 2012 adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s novel, was ultimately denied screening permission in Lebanon because the Lebanese-born filmmaker had shot the film in Israel and Palestine with an Israeli cast and crew. But unlike “The Attack,” “Wonder Woman” has nothing to do with Israel.
This wasn’t a complete surprise: Lebanon and Israel have been in an official state of war for decades; Lebanese law boycotts Israeli products, and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling to Israel or having contacts with its citizens.
And it has happened before, albeit on a smaller scale. “The Attack,” Ziad Doueiri’s 2012 adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s novel, was ultimately denied screening permission in Lebanon because the Lebanese-born filmmaker had shot the film in Israel and Palestine with an Israeli cast and crew. But unlike “The Attack,” “Wonder Woman” has nothing to do with Israel.
- 6/3/2017
- by Jim Quilty
- Indiewire
Free Radicals: Bouchareb Explores a Mother’s Nightmare in Topical Treatment
French director Rachid Bouchareb is no stranger to exploring the actions radicalized children have on their bewildered parents, as evidenced in his eloquent 2008 feature, London River. Whereas his earlier film dealt with the aftermath of disastrous actions, Bouchareb returns to the topical issue of Western recruitment into contemporary terrorist cells, this time centered on drama as it unfolds in The Road to Istanbul. We’ve become accustomed to these types of narratives from the perspectives of perplexed loved ones, desperately searching for explanations as to why friends or family were coerced or brainwashed into such despicable acts of violence, both domestically and abroad. In many ways, this is another statistical composite of such grim realities, but features a performance perfectly administered by actress Astrid Whettnall, who succinctly captures the desperation of a woman caught up in an unexpected nightmare.
French director Rachid Bouchareb is no stranger to exploring the actions radicalized children have on their bewildered parents, as evidenced in his eloquent 2008 feature, London River. Whereas his earlier film dealt with the aftermath of disastrous actions, Bouchareb returns to the topical issue of Western recruitment into contemporary terrorist cells, this time centered on drama as it unfolds in The Road to Istanbul. We’ve become accustomed to these types of narratives from the perspectives of perplexed loved ones, desperately searching for explanations as to why friends or family were coerced or brainwashed into such despicable acts of violence, both domestically and abroad. In many ways, this is another statistical composite of such grim realities, but features a performance perfectly administered by actress Astrid Whettnall, who succinctly captures the desperation of a woman caught up in an unexpected nightmare.
- 2/19/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
La route des lacs (Road to Istanbul)
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Writers: Rachid Bouchareb, Zoe Galeron, Yasmina Khadra, Olivier Lorelle
Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb continues a prolific shooting schedule with his latest project, La route des lacs (Road to Istanbul), which tackles an extremely topical scenario regarding terrorist recruits and Isis when a mother discovers her child has joined the dangerous organization. Recently, Bouchareb has been navigating the Us Pacific Southwest with English language items Just Like a Woman (2012) and his 2014 remake of Two Men in Town. For this latest, he pairs with regular co-writers Lorelle, Galeron, and Yasmina Khadra (who penned the exceptional 2012 film The Attack for Ziad Doueiri, which Bouchareb produced), and the film will be headlined by Belgian actress Astrid Whettnall and rising star Pauline Burlet (who appeared in La Vie En Rose as well as Asghar Farhadi’s The Past in 2013). Thus far, this sounds similar to Bouchareb’s 2008 film,...
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Writers: Rachid Bouchareb, Zoe Galeron, Yasmina Khadra, Olivier Lorelle
Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb continues a prolific shooting schedule with his latest project, La route des lacs (Road to Istanbul), which tackles an extremely topical scenario regarding terrorist recruits and Isis when a mother discovers her child has joined the dangerous organization. Recently, Bouchareb has been navigating the Us Pacific Southwest with English language items Just Like a Woman (2012) and his 2014 remake of Two Men in Town. For this latest, he pairs with regular co-writers Lorelle, Galeron, and Yasmina Khadra (who penned the exceptional 2012 film The Attack for Ziad Doueiri, which Bouchareb produced), and the film will be headlined by Belgian actress Astrid Whettnall and rising star Pauline Burlet (who appeared in La Vie En Rose as well as Asghar Farhadi’s The Past in 2013). Thus far, this sounds similar to Bouchareb’s 2008 film,...
- 1/5/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Kurosawa shoots first ever French-language film.
Celluloid Dreams has picked up sales on Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s upcoming French-language fantasy tale The Women In The Silver Plate starring Olivier Gourmet and Tahar Rahim.
Gourmet plays Stephane, a former fashion photographer obsessed with an old 19th century photography technique, said to have given eternal after-life to the souls of the people whose image it captured.
Rahim plays Jean, a new assistant, who quickly falls under the spell of Marie, Stephane’s only daughter and model. When Marie takes a mysterious fall one evening, the difference between image and reality becomes much harder to decipher.
Kurosawa’s first French language film, it is currently in post-production having shot earlier this year on the outskirts of Paris.
It is produced by Paris-based Michiko Yoshitake of Film-in-Evolution and Jérôme Dopffer Les Productions Balthazar are co-producing with Tokyo-based Bitters End, with the backing of Franco-German broadcaster Arte.
Kurosawa is in Cannes...
Celluloid Dreams has picked up sales on Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s upcoming French-language fantasy tale The Women In The Silver Plate starring Olivier Gourmet and Tahar Rahim.
Gourmet plays Stephane, a former fashion photographer obsessed with an old 19th century photography technique, said to have given eternal after-life to the souls of the people whose image it captured.
Rahim plays Jean, a new assistant, who quickly falls under the spell of Marie, Stephane’s only daughter and model. When Marie takes a mysterious fall one evening, the difference between image and reality becomes much harder to decipher.
Kurosawa’s first French language film, it is currently in post-production having shot earlier this year on the outskirts of Paris.
It is produced by Paris-based Michiko Yoshitake of Film-in-Evolution and Jérôme Dopffer Les Productions Balthazar are co-producing with Tokyo-based Bitters End, with the backing of Franco-German broadcaster Arte.
Kurosawa is in Cannes...
- 5/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
Based on Yasmina Khadra’s international bestseller, The Attack is a patient, poetic glimmer of brilliance that serenely glides into the crashing tides of Middle Eastern terrorism. As small as one marriage and as sweeping as two countries relentlessly pitted against each other on the world stage, director Ziad Doueiri, originally from Beirut, Lebanon, maturely forgoes carnage for curiosity, slaughter for suspense, and rage for regret.
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- 12/11/2013
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
Sneak Peek director Ziad Doueiri's political thriller "The Attack", adapted from author Yasmina Khadra’s international bestseller, available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack November 12, 2013:
"...surgeon 'Dr. Amin Jaafari' has a loving wife, exemplary career, and many friends.
"But his picture perfect life is suddenly turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the police inform him that his wife 'Siham', who also died in the explosion, was responsible.
" Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his homeland in pursuit of the truth..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Attack"...
"...surgeon 'Dr. Amin Jaafari' has a loving wife, exemplary career, and many friends.
"But his picture perfect life is suddenly turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the police inform him that his wife 'Siham', who also died in the explosion, was responsible.
" Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his homeland in pursuit of the truth..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Attack"...
- 11/13/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
With the year coming to a sudden end, so begins our rush to catch up on the movies we missed this year, and one that many of us at The Playlist will be catching up with is "The Attack." Our own Jessica Kiang was ahead of the curve, falling for the "surefooted and fearless" movie at the Marrakech Film Festival last fall, and putting it on her Best Of 2012 list. And while the picture landed on our list of anticipated summer movies, a lot us still didn't have a chance to check it out. But that's about to change. Based on Yasmina Khadra's prize-winning and bestselling novel, and adapted by director Ziad Doueiri, the story follows Palestinian surgeon Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) who is fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down...
- 11/12/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 12, 2013
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Cohen Media Group
Highly acclaimed war movie The Attack takes a new look at the affect of suicide bombers.
The foreign film follows Amin Jaafari, a successful Israeli Palestinian surgeon. He’s fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, with a loving wife (Reymonde Amsellem), exemplary career and many Jewish friends.
But his life is turned upside down after a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves 17 people dead, and the Isreali police tell Amin that his wife not only died but was also the suicide bomber. Shattered, Amin leaves the security of his adopted homeland to enter the Palestinian territories to find the zealots who recruited his wife.
Based on the award-winning and best-selling novel by Yasmina Khadra, The Attack was adapted and directed by Ziad Doueiri (Lila Says).
The film was applauded by critics, who gave it 90% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Cohen Media Group
Highly acclaimed war movie The Attack takes a new look at the affect of suicide bombers.
The foreign film follows Amin Jaafari, a successful Israeli Palestinian surgeon. He’s fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, with a loving wife (Reymonde Amsellem), exemplary career and many Jewish friends.
But his life is turned upside down after a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves 17 people dead, and the Isreali police tell Amin that his wife not only died but was also the suicide bomber. Shattered, Amin leaves the security of his adopted homeland to enter the Palestinian territories to find the zealots who recruited his wife.
Based on the award-winning and best-selling novel by Yasmina Khadra, The Attack was adapted and directed by Ziad Doueiri (Lila Says).
The film was applauded by critics, who gave it 90% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
- 10/25/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Lebanese writer/director Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut – ’98, Lila Says- ’04) finally returns behind the camera for his third feature, an adaptation of the novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. A successful Arab surgeon living in Israel finds his life shattered when he finds his wife was involved in a suicide bombing thus sending him on a journey full of unintentional discovery. A thoroughly profound, layered and complex film, the Israeli and Palestinian conflict provides the backdrop for what is essentially a thriller with a love story at its core. With Ali Suliman in a dramatically anchor-heavy lead role, and equally strong perfs from supporting players Reymond Amsalem and Uri Gavriel, according to our four-star review, “this is perhaps the most humanistic take on the never-ending conflict to ever be presented on the screen, definitely an important and compelling film.” The Attack [06.21 - NYC and Washington] received its world premiere showing at Tiff last fall where...
- 8/5/2013
- by Yama Rahimi
- IONCINEMA.com
Criminal or Heroine: A Terrible Marital Secret Makes Doueiri’s Return A Profound Statement
There is a scene in Ziad Doueiri’s latest film in which a priest and the film’s protagonist discuss two very disturbing realities about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One is a man for whom Israel has meant a place where his life has come to fruition, while the other is the voice of many more who live afflicted by the lack of national identity and tangible freedom. The Attack is a complex story that though it revolves around the well-known discrepancies between the two parties involved, is not a political film. It instead focuses on the emotional scarring and motivations of the people who have to live with the consequences of their leaders’ decisions.
Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is a surgeon who saves Jewish and Arab lives alike everyday. His life in Tel Aviv as a...
There is a scene in Ziad Doueiri’s latest film in which a priest and the film’s protagonist discuss two very disturbing realities about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One is a man for whom Israel has meant a place where his life has come to fruition, while the other is the voice of many more who live afflicted by the lack of national identity and tangible freedom. The Attack is a complex story that though it revolves around the well-known discrepancies between the two parties involved, is not a political film. It instead focuses on the emotional scarring and motivations of the people who have to live with the consequences of their leaders’ decisions.
Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is a surgeon who saves Jewish and Arab lives alike everyday. His life in Tel Aviv as a...
- 8/1/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – “The Attack,” opening this week at the Landmark Century in Chicago, is a melancholy, mournful piece about an unimaginable tragedy and a man faced with the realization that he may not know the truth about the woman he loved. It’s an accomplished drama anchored by an understated, captivating performance from an actor who fills nearly every frame of every scene.
It is about an attack not just on innocent lives but a man’s very understanding of his family. It’s a strong alternative to blockbuster fare this weekend.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Ali Suliman plays Amin Jaafari, a successful Palestinian doctor working and living in Tel Aviv. On the same night he accepts an award for his accomplishments, he is called into deal with a waking nightmare. A bomb has gone off, killing over a dozen people, many of them children, and this doctor has to deal with the bloody aftermath.
It is about an attack not just on innocent lives but a man’s very understanding of his family. It’s a strong alternative to blockbuster fare this weekend.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Ali Suliman plays Amin Jaafari, a successful Palestinian doctor working and living in Tel Aviv. On the same night he accepts an award for his accomplishments, he is called into deal with a waking nightmare. A bomb has gone off, killing over a dozen people, many of them children, and this doctor has to deal with the bloody aftermath.
- 7/24/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Canadian distribution: Remstar Films has acquired Parkland and Dark Places in a deal with Exclusive Media while separately D Films has struck a deal with Cohen Media Group for The Attack.
Remstar plans an autumn release for Parkland, which is produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and recounts the chaotic events at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital on the day John F Kennedy was assassinated.
Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Jacki Weaver and Billy Bob Thornton star and Peter Landesman directs from his screenplay.
Dark Places will star Charlize Theron as the survivors of a family massacre and is based on the thriller by Gillian Flynn. Production is set to commence in August in Louisiana. Gilles Paquet-Brenner wrote the screenplay and will direct. The film will open in 2014.
Remstar’s slate includes jOBS, Adore, Devil’s Knot and Dallas Buyers Club.
D Films will release The Attack [pictured] in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal on Aug 2 and roll out nationwide in the...
Remstar plans an autumn release for Parkland, which is produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and recounts the chaotic events at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital on the day John F Kennedy was assassinated.
Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Jacki Weaver and Billy Bob Thornton star and Peter Landesman directs from his screenplay.
Dark Places will star Charlize Theron as the survivors of a family massacre and is based on the thriller by Gillian Flynn. Production is set to commence in August in Louisiana. Gilles Paquet-Brenner wrote the screenplay and will direct. The film will open in 2014.
Remstar’s slate includes jOBS, Adore, Devil’s Knot and Dallas Buyers Club.
D Films will release The Attack [pictured] in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal on Aug 2 and roll out nationwide in the...
- 7/17/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ziad Doueiri’s third feature film is a profoundly beautiful adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s best-selling novel, The Attack. A stark portrait of love, politics, and betrayal, The Attack is set in Tel Aviv, Israel and tells the story of an Arab husband who must face the truth about himself and his own class-related cultural blindness when a community tragedy hits and haunts especially close to home....
- 6/24/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
Lebanese-American writer-director Ziad Doueiri captures, in his Tel Aviv-set terrorist drama "The Attack," what it means to be the man in the middle. The film is opening June 21 stateside after playing the festival circuit. But it is banned in Lebanon, because Doueiri shot the film in Tel Aviv, breaking the Lebanese law forbidding a citizen to go to Israel. Update: In fact, Doueiri told NPR, the Arab League has banned the film in all 22 Arab States. It will show July 5 in Israel. Based on Yasmina Khadra's novel, this riveting story is about a Palestinian surgeon (Ali Suliman) working and --he thinks--accepted as a high-end professional in Tel Aviv. He comes home to his family every night and adores his doting wife (Reymonde Amsellem). When she dies in a suicide bombing, the grieving husband is utterly baffled and unable to understand how or why she --of all people--could have been...
- 6/21/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Winner of two awards at San Sebastian, Ziad Doueiri's "The Attack," based on the bestselling novel by Yasmina Khadra, opens in theaters on June 21 from Cohen Media Group. Below, Doueiri shares one of his favorite sequences from the film. Official synopsis per Cohen Media: Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted homeland and enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the truth. Once there, he finds himself in ever more dangerous places and situations. Determined, he presses on seeking answers to questions he never thought he.
- 6/18/2013
- by Ziad Doueiri
- Indiewire
"About your wife, doctor." Cohen Media has debuted a trailer for indie drama The Attack, from filmmaker Ziad Doueiri. It tells the story of a successful Israeli Palestinian surgeon, played by Ali Suliman, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society with his wife, played by Reymond Amsalem. But his life is turned upside down after a suicide bombing in the city leaves nineteen dead, and police inform him his wife is responsible. There's a big twist stated up front that's a tough reveal, but necessary, because that's the entire plot. I saw this in Telluride and loved it; a powerful, moving story of how we cope with the harsh realities of this world. Here's the official trailer for Ziad Doueiri's The Attack, originally from Indiewire: An Arab surgeon (played by Ali Suliman) living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife (played by Reymond Amsalem) in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
- 5/1/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Winner of two awards at San Sebastian, Ziad Doueiri's "The Attack," based on the bestselling novel by Yasmina Khadra, opens in theaters on June 21 from Cohen Media Group. Indiewire has the exclusive trailer. For more indie film trailers check out Indiewire's trailer page, sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics. Official synopsis per Cohen Media: Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted homeland and enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the truth. Once there, he finds himself in ever more dangerous places and situations.
- 5/1/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Indiewire
On Monday Night, City of Lights, City of Angels -- the annual French film festival in Hollywood -- concluded by awarding Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri's Tel Aviv-set thriller "The Attack" with three top prizes including the Audience Award and the Special Critics' Prize. (Trailer below.) Based on a novel by Yasmina Khadra, "The Attack" concerns an Arab surgeon who learns of his wife's dark past in the wake of a suicide bombing (read The Playlist's review here). Doueiri previously directed the coming-of-age drama "Lila Says" (2004) and in the 1990s, was a camera assistant to Quentin Tarantino on four of his features including "Jackie Brown" and "Pulp Fiction." "The Attack" will be released in the Us by Cohen Media Group on June 21. Other prizes at Col-coa went to Christian Vincent's "Haute Cuisine" and Regis Roinsard's "Populaire," both of which will be distributed by The Weinstein Company later this summer.
- 4/23/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
One of the most interesting U.S. Distributors these days is Cohen Media Group. Its films are daring and interesting, ranging from documentaries like Chasing Madoff and Frozen River to multi-award winning Spanish film Blancanieves. Later this month it will release the daring film The Attack based on the best selling novel L'Attentat by renowned Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra.
The Attack, directed by Ziad Doueiri and written by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma won three honors at the recently concluded Col*Coa, the second largest French Film Festival in the world after Cannes. The Col*Coa Audience Award, the Critics Special Prize and the new Coming Soon Award, a prize given in association with Kpcc 89.3, to a film presented with an attached U.S. distributor.
“Stunning.... a film of intelligence and emotional power. Quite apart from its social importance, The Attack is a damn good, pulse-pounding mystery.”Victoria Ellison, La Weekly
“Chilling, brilliantly filmed and inherently fascinating. The film unfolds masterfully, without a single false step. It’s hard to imagine any audience remaining unmoved by this mournful tale. -- Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter
Cohen Media Group's principals are stellar and yet not flamboyantly "Hollywood". Charles Cohen, Chairman and CEO has developed the spectacular Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood as one of his real estate projects. I love how its red glass hull looms over my own neighborhood in West Hollywood and how I can write every day at the beautiful West Hollywood Library whose glass wall compasses the entire Pcd as the view from my seat.
Partner Edmondo Schwartz personifies the modern hybrid of both entrepreneur and financer. His interests encompass the real estate, entertainment, restaurant and financing fields. He is currently President of Ems Enterprises, a full service real estate firm; General Partner of The Saike Group, an investment-banking firm; and President of Burritos International, a restaurant concept development company, which owns, operates, and develops fast food restaurants. In the past, Schwartz has also served as President of Empire Pictures, a distributor of foreign and independent films in the theatrical, DVD and television markets throughout the United States. Mr. Schwartz currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Bergen Performing Arts Center. He is a former board member of the Make a Wish foundation of Metro New York and was involved with City Meals on Wheels.
On the filmic side of this company, partner Steve Scheffer served over twenty-five years as a senior executive at Home Box Office (HBO) primarily as President of Film Programming responsible for overseeing the acquisition of all motion pictures for HBO as well as HBO’s investments in and production of theatrical films. Prior to HBO, Scheffer held executive positions at Time Life Films, Allied Artists, Polydor Records, MGM and Columbia Pictures.
President Daniel Battsek most recently was President of National Geographic Films, where he acquired projects for development/production, operated a boutique theatrical domestic distribution arm for art-house titles and documentaries including the Oscar-nominated Restrepo, and oversaw National Geographic large-screen and IMAX projects. Prior to joining National Geographic, Mr. Battsek served at Miramax Films, where as head of international he established a very positive image and reputation for himself. He was instrumental in acquiring, green-lighting or distributing such renowned and award winning films as Tsotsi (Best Foreign Language Oscar), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Queen, Happy-Go-Lucky, No Country for Old Men (Best Feature Film Oscar) and There Will Be Blood.
And worker bee, Gary Ruben, Executive Vice President at the Cohen Media Group, has headed his own company and began his career in the first days of video, working with Media Home Entertainment as head of acquisitions so many years ago. Over 25 years of experience in the motion picture and television business, he formed and ran First Independent Pictures, a specialty distribution company, was Executive Vice President, Sales and Acquisitions for Artisan Entertainment, was at October Films, where he held the position of VP, Ancillary Distribution and Library Acquisitions.
A new addition is John Kochman who is helping Cmg with French films. He is also Unifrance's long-time New York-based director.
Cohen Media Group has Blancanieves now in U.S. release and coming soon are The Artist and the Model by Fernando Trueba and sold to them by 6 Sales, The Attack, In the House by Francois Ozon and also screening at Col*Coa, Terraferma, You Will Be My Son. Past films included The Other Son, The Thief of Bagdad, Tristana, Farewell, My Queen; The Lady, Delicacy, Chasing Madoff, Frozen River, My Afternoons with Margueritte, Oranges and Sunshine.
The Attack directed by Ziad Doueiri is a Lebanese feature, an intense drama about an Israeli-Palestinian man whose life is shattered after discovering the secrets his wife has kept from him. Co-written by Joelle Touma and the film's director Ziad Doueiri, the film stars Ali Sulliman (Paradise Now) and Reymonde Amsellem. It was in the Official Selection: 2012 Telluride Film Festival, Official Selection 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and received Special Mention of the Jury at the 2012 San Sebastian Film Festival and was the Winner of the Golden Star (Best Film) at the 2012 Marrakech International Film Festival.
The Attack, directed by Ziad Doueiri and written by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma won three honors at the recently concluded Col*Coa, the second largest French Film Festival in the world after Cannes. The Col*Coa Audience Award, the Critics Special Prize and the new Coming Soon Award, a prize given in association with Kpcc 89.3, to a film presented with an attached U.S. distributor.
“Stunning.... a film of intelligence and emotional power. Quite apart from its social importance, The Attack is a damn good, pulse-pounding mystery.”Victoria Ellison, La Weekly
“Chilling, brilliantly filmed and inherently fascinating. The film unfolds masterfully, without a single false step. It’s hard to imagine any audience remaining unmoved by this mournful tale. -- Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter
Cohen Media Group's principals are stellar and yet not flamboyantly "Hollywood". Charles Cohen, Chairman and CEO has developed the spectacular Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood as one of his real estate projects. I love how its red glass hull looms over my own neighborhood in West Hollywood and how I can write every day at the beautiful West Hollywood Library whose glass wall compasses the entire Pcd as the view from my seat.
Partner Edmondo Schwartz personifies the modern hybrid of both entrepreneur and financer. His interests encompass the real estate, entertainment, restaurant and financing fields. He is currently President of Ems Enterprises, a full service real estate firm; General Partner of The Saike Group, an investment-banking firm; and President of Burritos International, a restaurant concept development company, which owns, operates, and develops fast food restaurants. In the past, Schwartz has also served as President of Empire Pictures, a distributor of foreign and independent films in the theatrical, DVD and television markets throughout the United States. Mr. Schwartz currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Bergen Performing Arts Center. He is a former board member of the Make a Wish foundation of Metro New York and was involved with City Meals on Wheels.
On the filmic side of this company, partner Steve Scheffer served over twenty-five years as a senior executive at Home Box Office (HBO) primarily as President of Film Programming responsible for overseeing the acquisition of all motion pictures for HBO as well as HBO’s investments in and production of theatrical films. Prior to HBO, Scheffer held executive positions at Time Life Films, Allied Artists, Polydor Records, MGM and Columbia Pictures.
President Daniel Battsek most recently was President of National Geographic Films, where he acquired projects for development/production, operated a boutique theatrical domestic distribution arm for art-house titles and documentaries including the Oscar-nominated Restrepo, and oversaw National Geographic large-screen and IMAX projects. Prior to joining National Geographic, Mr. Battsek served at Miramax Films, where as head of international he established a very positive image and reputation for himself. He was instrumental in acquiring, green-lighting or distributing such renowned and award winning films as Tsotsi (Best Foreign Language Oscar), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Queen, Happy-Go-Lucky, No Country for Old Men (Best Feature Film Oscar) and There Will Be Blood.
And worker bee, Gary Ruben, Executive Vice President at the Cohen Media Group, has headed his own company and began his career in the first days of video, working with Media Home Entertainment as head of acquisitions so many years ago. Over 25 years of experience in the motion picture and television business, he formed and ran First Independent Pictures, a specialty distribution company, was Executive Vice President, Sales and Acquisitions for Artisan Entertainment, was at October Films, where he held the position of VP, Ancillary Distribution and Library Acquisitions.
A new addition is John Kochman who is helping Cmg with French films. He is also Unifrance's long-time New York-based director.
Cohen Media Group has Blancanieves now in U.S. release and coming soon are The Artist and the Model by Fernando Trueba and sold to them by 6 Sales, The Attack, In the House by Francois Ozon and also screening at Col*Coa, Terraferma, You Will Be My Son. Past films included The Other Son, The Thief of Bagdad, Tristana, Farewell, My Queen; The Lady, Delicacy, Chasing Madoff, Frozen River, My Afternoons with Margueritte, Oranges and Sunshine.
The Attack directed by Ziad Doueiri is a Lebanese feature, an intense drama about an Israeli-Palestinian man whose life is shattered after discovering the secrets his wife has kept from him. Co-written by Joelle Touma and the film's director Ziad Doueiri, the film stars Ali Sulliman (Paradise Now) and Reymonde Amsellem. It was in the Official Selection: 2012 Telluride Film Festival, Official Selection 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and received Special Mention of the Jury at the 2012 San Sebastian Film Festival and was the Winner of the Golden Star (Best Film) at the 2012 Marrakech International Film Festival.
- 4/22/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The exclusive new trailer for Ziad Doueiri's "The Attack" shows a perfect life destroyed by a suicide bombing that kills seventeen children. The film, which won twice at San Sebastian and also screened to acclaim at Toronto, will have a limited release on June 21 from Cohen Media Group. For more indie film trailers check out Indiewire's trailer page, sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics. Based on the bestselling novel by Yasmina Khadra, "The Attack" follows Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), an award winning Arab Israeli surgeon who discovers that his wife was involved in a nearby suicide bombing that killed nineteen people. Taken into questioning by the Israeli police, Amin denies that his wife Siham (Reymonde Amsellem) had anything to do with the attack, but soon finds a posthumous letter from her admitting to the act. In the tense trailer, Amin goes on a mission to find those who he believes brainwashed his wife,...
- 4/17/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Indiewire
Harvey Keitel, Brenda Blethyn, Ellen Burstyn and Luis Guzman have all joined the cast of Enemy Way. They will join Forest Whitaker in the drama.
In the film Whitaker will play “a man struggling to rebuild his life in a small New Mexico town after 18 years in prison. Keitel will play the Sheriff who launches a campaign to return Whitaker’s character to prison for life.”
Rachid Bouchareb is directing from a script he co-wrote with Olivier Lorelle and Yasmina Khadra.
Its nice to see Keitel in something that has the potential to be good. The last thing I saw him in was Little Fockers, or as I like to call it Wasting Good Actors to Beat the Focking Shit Out if a Tired Premise.
Source: Variety...
In the film Whitaker will play “a man struggling to rebuild his life in a small New Mexico town after 18 years in prison. Keitel will play the Sheriff who launches a campaign to return Whitaker’s character to prison for life.”
Rachid Bouchareb is directing from a script he co-wrote with Olivier Lorelle and Yasmina Khadra.
Its nice to see Keitel in something that has the potential to be good. The last thing I saw him in was Little Fockers, or as I like to call it Wasting Good Actors to Beat the Focking Shit Out if a Tired Premise.
Source: Variety...
- 4/8/2013
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
Dubai - The Attack, a drama centered on the aftermath of a suicide bombing and its impact on an Arab surgeon living in Israel, won top honors - the Golden Star for best film - at the 12th annual Marrakech International Film Festival. The competition jury, headed by President John Boorman and including such industry VIPs as Gemma Arterton and James Gray, picked the politically-charged drama from director Ziad Doueiri, which was based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra. A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm's dramatic thriller about the capturing of a Danish merchant ship by Somali pirates, was also a big winner. The
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- 12/9/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Dtff), the annual cultural celebration of Doha Film Institute (Dfi), has announced the juries to select the winners of the Arab Film Competition, the only competition at any regional film festival dedicated wholly to honouring Arab cinema talent. The members of the four juries, drawn from across the world, include internationally acclaimed film professionals, authors and cultural thought leaders. They will evaluate the Arab Film Competition's three segments - Feature Narrative, Feature Documentary and Short Film - as well as the 'Made in Qatar' segment of the festival, devoted to films made by Qatar-based talent. The awards have total prize money of over Us$440,000. The Feature Narrative jury will be headed by renowned Tunisian actress Hend Sabry (The Yacoubian Building, Whatever Lola Wants and Asmaa). The other jury members are: Indian director Ashutoush Gowariker (Lagaan, Jodhaa Akbar); Dr. Emad Amralla Sultan, Deputy General Manager of...
- 11/19/2012
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
"The Attack," by the Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut), a former assistant cameraman on films by Quentin Tarantino, tells an unsettling story about Israel and Palestine. As it opens, an Arab surgeon Amin Jafaari (Ali Suliman) receives an Israeli prize for his life’s work. The same surgeon treats victims of a bombing that kills Jewish children, and the prime suspect turns out to be the surgeon’s wife. Amins is ostracized from most of his Jewish colleagues. After initial denial, Amin accepts that that hard evidence that his wife was the bomber, and travels to the Occupied Territories to find the sheik who taught and counseled her. The film adapts a novel by the Algerian writer, Yasmina Khadra, who publishes under a pseudonym. Shot in a thriller mode that accentuates melodrama, "The Attack" breaks new ground (certainly in Arab cinema) by confronting the role that ordinary citizens can...
- 9/12/2012
- by David D'Arcy
- Indiewire
Ziad Doueiri, director and co-writer of the hot-button terrorist-themed film The Attack, has signed with UTA. The film drew glowing reviews at last weekend’s Telluride Film Festival and will screen as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend. Telluride Review: The Attack The psychological thriller centers on a successful Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv who must confront a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a deadly suicide bombing. The Attack was adapted from Yasmina Khadra's international best-seller of the same name. The Lebanese-born director’s two previous feature films -- 2005’s Lila Says and
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- 9/8/2012
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cohen Media Group and Focus World are teaming up to release The Attack in the U.S. and Canada in 2013. Cohen Media Group will be handling theatrical release and DVD distribution and sales while Focus World will be controlling all digital media and television rights.
The Attack, adapted from Yasmina Khadra.s international bestseller by the film.s director, Ziad Doueiri and with a screenplay by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma, is produced by Jean Bréhat and Rachid Bouchareb. John Wells is also a producer on the film. The Attack is a 3B Production and Douri Film, Uag, Scope Pictures and Random House Films co-production.
The Attack marks Doueiri.s third feature, following his critically acclaimed films West Beirut and Lila Says. Acclaimed international actor Ali Suliman (Paradise Now) stars as Amin Jaafari, an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon who has fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. His picture-perfect life is turned upside...
The Attack, adapted from Yasmina Khadra.s international bestseller by the film.s director, Ziad Doueiri and with a screenplay by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma, is produced by Jean Bréhat and Rachid Bouchareb. John Wells is also a producer on the film. The Attack is a 3B Production and Douri Film, Uag, Scope Pictures and Random House Films co-production.
The Attack marks Doueiri.s third feature, following his critically acclaimed films West Beirut and Lila Says. Acclaimed international actor Ali Suliman (Paradise Now) stars as Amin Jaafari, an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon who has fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. His picture-perfect life is turned upside...
- 8/27/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cohen Media Group and Focus World are joining forces for the North American 2013 release of Ziad Doueiri's "The Attack," a drama-thriller following an Arab surgeon who uncovers a shocking secret about his late wife, a victim of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The film will be a special presentation at Toronto in September. "The Attack" is Doueiri's third feature, following his critical successes "West Beirut" (1998) and "Lily Says" (2004), both of which had robust festival runs. The film is adapted from Yasmina Khadra's international bestseller, and stars Ali Suliman in the lead role. Programmer notes from the Tiff website: When a suicide bomber strikes at a Tel Aviv café, Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a highly respected surgeon, treats the wounded victims of the blast at a nearby hospital — at least those who will let him, as some refuse to be attended to by a.
- 8/27/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Participant Productions may jump on Focus Features' "The Attack." Based on the book by Yasmina Khadra, the story tells of an Arab surgeon based in Tel Aviv discovers that his wife has been involved in a suicide bombing. The film is to be directed by Lebanese helmer Ziad Doueiri who is adapting the project. Participant is no stranger in projects on the Middle East; the company financed Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper and Jeffrey Wright back in 2005. That film earned Geroge Clooney an Oscar® and Golden Globe win. ...
- 2/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Participant Productions may jump on Focus Features' "The Attack." Based on the book by Yasmina Khadra, the story tells of an Arab surgeon based in Tel Aviv discovers that his wife has been involved in a suicide bombing. The film is to be directed by Lebanese helmer Ziad Doueiri who is adapting the project. Participant is no stranger in projects on the Middle East; the company financed Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" starring George Clooney, Matt Damon...
- 2/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Participant Productions may jump on Focus Features' "The Attack." Based on the book by Yasmina Khadra, the story tells of an Arab surgeon based in Tel Aviv discovers that his wife has been involved in a suicide bombing. The film is to be directed by Lebanese helmer Ziad Doueiri who is adapting the project. Participant is no stranger in projects on the Middle East; the company financed Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" starring George Clooney, Matt Damon...
- 2/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here's your daily dose of film news for Feb. 10, 2009:
• Greta Gerwig joins Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's next drama "Greenburg." Plot details are kept under wraps, but you can expect the story to deal with people and their complex relationships similar to his previous films. Gerwig starred in "Baghead" and "Hannah Takes the Stairs." (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Gianni Amelio is adapting Albert Camus' novel "The First Man," an unfinished autobiography found in a briefcase when Camus died in a car crash in 1960. Variety says the film will start shooting in April in North Africa and France. Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes and Claudia Cardinale are set to star.
• Hafsia Herzi has joined Emmanuelle Beart in "Ma Campagne de Nuit," a film directed by Helen Lauren and Isabelle Brockard. Not much is known about the plot at this stage. (Variety)
• Participant Media is in talks to join Focus Features' project "The Attack,...
• Greta Gerwig joins Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's next drama "Greenburg." Plot details are kept under wraps, but you can expect the story to deal with people and their complex relationships similar to his previous films. Gerwig starred in "Baghead" and "Hannah Takes the Stairs." (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Gianni Amelio is adapting Albert Camus' novel "The First Man," an unfinished autobiography found in a briefcase when Camus died in a car crash in 1960. Variety says the film will start shooting in April in North Africa and France. Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes and Claudia Cardinale are set to star.
• Hafsia Herzi has joined Emmanuelle Beart in "Ma Campagne de Nuit," a film directed by Helen Lauren and Isabelle Brockard. Not much is known about the plot at this stage. (Variety)
• Participant Media is in talks to join Focus Features' project "The Attack,...
- 2/11/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
- Participant might have a bed partner in Summit for the next five years, but based on their film production history, throw them a project that deals with Middle East politics and there is a better than average chance that Jeff Skoll will bite -- of course, it also helps when you've signed a wealthy deal with a production company (Imagenation) based out of the oil rich, hungry-for-Hollywood-product country of Abu Dhabi. Ziad Doueiri (from the great coming-of-age title West Beyrouth fame) has been working on the screenplay for a while now -- he is set to direct the project (which would be his first since 2004's Lila Says). Based on the French novel by Yasmina Khadra, this is about an affluent Palestinian doctor working in an Israeli hospital whose life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife may have become a suicide bomber....
- 2/10/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Berlin -- Move over, Pink Panther. Here come the Black Panthers.
Two English-language European film projects aim to bring leading figures from the U.S. Black Power movement to the big screen soon.
Franco-Algerian producer-writer-director Rachid Bouchareb, whose film "London River" screens here in competition, is setting up a movie on the early life of Angela Davis, a leading figure of the civil rights movement and one-time FBI renegade.
Meanwhile, Berlin-based Egoli Tossell films, whose latest picture, "Hilde," screens here as a Berlinale Special Gala, is in preproduction on a feature film based on Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale.
Davis, who once studied here at Berlin's Humboldt University, became a cause celebre in the late 1960s when she was sacked from her post as philosophy professor at UCLA for being a communist. She later found herself on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list after guns used in a...
Two English-language European film projects aim to bring leading figures from the U.S. Black Power movement to the big screen soon.
Franco-Algerian producer-writer-director Rachid Bouchareb, whose film "London River" screens here in competition, is setting up a movie on the early life of Angela Davis, a leading figure of the civil rights movement and one-time FBI renegade.
Meanwhile, Berlin-based Egoli Tossell films, whose latest picture, "Hilde," screens here as a Berlinale Special Gala, is in preproduction on a feature film based on Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale.
Davis, who once studied here at Berlin's Humboldt University, became a cause celebre in the late 1960s when she was sacked from her post as philosophy professor at UCLA for being a communist. She later found herself on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list after guns used in a...
- 2/5/2009
- by By Charles Masters and Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- Nicolas Cage, Brendan Fraser and Danny Glover -- back for a second straight year -- will be among those lending star power to the 5th annual Dubai International Film Festival.
Director Oliver Stone also will be in town, accompanying the Middle-East premiere of "W.," while Indian screen stars Abhishek Bachnan and Sonam Kapoor will help turn the eyes of the subcontinent toward Dubai.
Over the weekend, festival organizers took the wraps off this year's Cultural Bridge panel, which will see Toronto International Film Festival co-director Cameron Bailey, Algerian novelist Mohammed Moulessehoul, Jamaican-American singer and social activist Harry Belafonte, Ethiopian-American filmmaker Haile Gerima and Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta discuss issues involving tolerance and world peace.
Organizers also announced the juries for the festival's Muhr Awards. Spread across five categories, including this year's debuting AsiaAfrica section, the Muhr nods will award a total $576,000 to winning filmmakers.
Among...
Director Oliver Stone also will be in town, accompanying the Middle-East premiere of "W.," while Indian screen stars Abhishek Bachnan and Sonam Kapoor will help turn the eyes of the subcontinent toward Dubai.
Over the weekend, festival organizers took the wraps off this year's Cultural Bridge panel, which will see Toronto International Film Festival co-director Cameron Bailey, Algerian novelist Mohammed Moulessehoul, Jamaican-American singer and social activist Harry Belafonte, Ethiopian-American filmmaker Haile Gerima and Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta discuss issues involving tolerance and world peace.
Organizers also announced the juries for the festival's Muhr Awards. Spread across five categories, including this year's debuting AsiaAfrica section, the Muhr nods will award a total $576,000 to winning filmmakers.
Among...
- 11/24/2008
- by By Jolanta Chudy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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