The second edition of the Cannes Market’s Investors Circle will see 10 filmmakers, including Ruben Östlund and Nadav Lapid, present their latest projects to private investors.
The directors and their lead producers will pitch their films, which range from €1-20m in budget, on May 19 at an invitation-only event in the Plage des Palmes.
Alongside Östlund and Lapid is Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose debut Plan 75 received a Camera d’Or special mention in 2022. Other directors include Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan, who is already at the festival for Midnight Screenings title The Surfer, and Italian director Laura Samani who...
The directors and their lead producers will pitch their films, which range from €1-20m in budget, on May 19 at an invitation-only event in the Plage des Palmes.
Alongside Östlund and Lapid is Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose debut Plan 75 received a Camera d’Or special mention in 2022. Other directors include Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan, who is already at the festival for Midnight Screenings title The Surfer, and Italian director Laura Samani who...
- 4/30/2024
- ScreenDaily
Tuttle revealed she will move to Berlin, learn to speak German and is excited by the state of German-language cinema.
Initial reactions from the German film industry to the appointment of Tricia Tuttle as the first female director of the Berlinale have been overwhelmingly positive.
“I truly welcome a female artistic director of the Berlinale. I think it was time that one of the big festivals has a woman as the leading person. So cheers to that!” said producer Janine Jackowski, co-founder of Komplizen Film whose production of Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms won the Golden Bear in 2019.
This sentiment was shared by Christine Berg,...
Initial reactions from the German film industry to the appointment of Tricia Tuttle as the first female director of the Berlinale have been overwhelmingly positive.
“I truly welcome a female artistic director of the Berlinale. I think it was time that one of the big festivals has a woman as the leading person. So cheers to that!” said producer Janine Jackowski, co-founder of Komplizen Film whose production of Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms won the Golden Bear in 2019.
This sentiment was shared by Christine Berg,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Further new projects include In The Land Of Limpopo by Gur Bentwich and post-war drama Wild Animals by Yona Rozenkier.
The next film from award-winning Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid will be Yes! – one of five features in to receive fresh investment from the Israel Film Fund.
The director of Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes jury prize winner Ahed’s Knee is in pre-production on the feature, and has received NIS2.2m from the Israel Film Fund.
Locally titled Ken!, Lapid’s fifth feature revolves around a character named Y. He decides that what takes real courage is not saying “no,...
The next film from award-winning Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid will be Yes! – one of five features in to receive fresh investment from the Israel Film Fund.
The director of Berlin Golden Bear winner Synonyms and Cannes jury prize winner Ahed’s Knee is in pre-production on the feature, and has received NIS2.2m from the Israel Film Fund.
Locally titled Ken!, Lapid’s fifth feature revolves around a character named Y. He decides that what takes real courage is not saying “no,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Cynical takes on life as an Israeli citizen have been a staple of Nadav Lapid’s filmography long before a Ptsd-riddled Tom Mercier tried to abjure his motherland to embrace another in Synonyms (2019). Two years after that fulminating film nabbed a Golden Bear in Berlin comes Ahed’s Knee, a vitriolic tirade on the country’s creeping “loyalty” laws that’s possibly Lapid’s most desperate and lacerating to date. The film follows a Tel Aviv director in his forties who travels to a remote village in Israel’s Arava region for a screening of his latest. The man is Y (Avshalom Pollack) and on arrival he’s greeted by a young officer for the Ministry of Culture, Yahalom (Nur Fibak), who’s there to make sure the Q&a will only touch upon a list of “sanctioned” topics. All of this happened to Lapid too, who traveled to the...
- 3/24/2022
- MUBI
Judith (Virginie Efira) with little Ninon (Loïse Benguerel) in Antoine Barraud’s mysterious Madeleine Collins
Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone with Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Théo Deroo, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Frank Onana, and Valérie Donzelli is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Glasgow Film Festival.
Antoine Barraud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Maurice Pialat filming his son for Le garçu: “He said when you direct a child, it’s actually the child directing you.”
Before Antoine arrived in New York, we discussed casting Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder, the long tradition of having women’s names as film titles, novels and plays to name just a few. In Antoine Barraud’s Portrait Of The Artist, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo loomed large and we explore the unconscious mind of...
Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone with Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Théo Deroo, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Frank Onana, and Valérie Donzelli is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Glasgow Film Festival.
Antoine Barraud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Maurice Pialat filming his son for Le garçu: “He said when you direct a child, it’s actually the child directing you.”
Before Antoine arrived in New York, we discussed casting Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder, the long tradition of having women’s names as film titles, novels and plays to name just a few. In Antoine Barraud’s Portrait Of The Artist, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo loomed large and we explore the unconscious mind of...
- 3/7/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid been working for years with lots of acclaim, the filmmaker seemed to make an even bigger splash on the international scene with “Synonyms” which won the Golden Bear, and the Fipresci Award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and introduced more audiences to wiry star Tom Mercier.
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- 2/4/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
"What's inappropriate? Inappropriate, says who?" Kino Lorber has unveiled the official US trailer for an indie drama from Israel called Ahed's Knee, the latest from acclaimed award-winning filmmaker Nadav Lapid. He won the top prize Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival a few years ago for his film Synonyms, and this is his follow-up - an extremely critical takedown of Israel and its many problems with censorship and hypocrisy. It originally premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in competition last year, and ended up winning the third place Jury Prize during the fest. An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother. Lapid wrote the film soon after the death of his own mother, who worked as an editor on many of his works. It offers a sharp critique of censorship,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After their international success, two years ago, with the politically charged, Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winning comedy Synonyms, the Lapid brothers have written yet another provocative political film, which premiered this Jully at Cannes. Its international debut, just two months after the latest conflicts in the Gaza Strip, made the subject matter all the more contemporary, urgent and pressing. And it is exactly because of that importance and the fact that the film draws obvious parallels with Nadav’s personal experience as well, that it leaves an impression of perhaps trying too hard.
A hasty motorcycle ride plunges us into the story, the scene is moody, raindrops drizzle. An eccentric and permanently exasperated film director, simply known as Y (Avshalom Pollak) - who just won a major prize at...
A hasty motorcycle ride plunges us into the story, the scene is moody, raindrops drizzle. An eccentric and permanently exasperated film director, simply known as Y (Avshalom Pollak) - who just won a major prize at...
- 12/22/2021
- by Nikola Jovic
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Seville European Film Festival, a key gateway into Spain for recent European movies, celebrates its 18th edition honoring German-Spanish actor-director Daniel Brühl.
Confronting film’s post-covid recovery challenges, the festival is also strengthening its commitment to the industry.
Seville, which runs Nov. 5-13, will grant Brühl the City of Seville 2021 award and screen the Spanish premiere of his directorial debut, Beta-sold comedy thriller “Next Door,” as part of the festival’s Official Section.
French actress Emmanuelle Béart (“8 Women”) will also receive a City of Seville 2020 award as she was unable to travel to last year’s edition due to pandemic restrictions.
Seville’s figures – 225 films, 90 Spanish premieres, six competitive sections, more than 500 guests and around thirty parallel activities – confirm the event’s solidity and projection as a major cultural gathering in Spain and a reference for the European industry.
As part of the festival’s industry growth, Seville...
Confronting film’s post-covid recovery challenges, the festival is also strengthening its commitment to the industry.
Seville, which runs Nov. 5-13, will grant Brühl the City of Seville 2021 award and screen the Spanish premiere of his directorial debut, Beta-sold comedy thriller “Next Door,” as part of the festival’s Official Section.
French actress Emmanuelle Béart (“8 Women”) will also receive a City of Seville 2020 award as she was unable to travel to last year’s edition due to pandemic restrictions.
Seville’s figures – 225 films, 90 Spanish premieres, six competitive sections, more than 500 guests and around thirty parallel activities – confirm the event’s solidity and projection as a major cultural gathering in Spain and a reference for the European industry.
As part of the festival’s industry growth, Seville...
- 11/5/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Israeli drama will receive North American premiere in Toronto.
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights from Kinology to Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee following its world premiere in Competition in Cannes last month.
The film earned the jury prize on the Croisette and will receive its North American premiere in Special Presentations in Toronto in September.
A commentary on Israeli political life and personal freedoms, Ahed’s Knee centres on Y, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker mourning the loss of his mother, who descends into a spiral of rage when a government employee tries to restrict what he...
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights from Kinology to Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee following its world premiere in Competition in Cannes last month.
The film earned the jury prize on the Croisette and will receive its North American premiere in Special Presentations in Toronto in September.
A commentary on Israeli political life and personal freedoms, Ahed’s Knee centres on Y, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker mourning the loss of his mother, who descends into a spiral of rage when a government employee tries to restrict what he...
- 8/9/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Nadav Lapid’s thought-provoking film “Ahed’s Knee,” which just world premiered at Cannes and won the jury prize, has been acquired by Kino Lorber for North American distribution.
“Ahed’s Knee” will have its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section at Toronto. The film, produced by Judith Lou Levy, nabbed the jury nod at Cannes ex aequo with “Memoria” and marks Lapid’s follow up to his Berlin Golden Bear winning movie “Synonyms” which Kino Lorber also handled. The New York-based distribution banner had previously worked with Lapid on “The Kindergarten Teacher,” which played at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2014.
Represented in international markets by Kinology, “Ahed’s Knee” tells the story of Y, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker who arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library.
Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s fatal illness, he is pushed...
“Ahed’s Knee” will have its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section at Toronto. The film, produced by Judith Lou Levy, nabbed the jury nod at Cannes ex aequo with “Memoria” and marks Lapid’s follow up to his Berlin Golden Bear winning movie “Synonyms” which Kino Lorber also handled. The New York-based distribution banner had previously worked with Lapid on “The Kindergarten Teacher,” which played at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2014.
Represented in international markets by Kinology, “Ahed’s Knee” tells the story of Y, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker who arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library.
Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s fatal illness, he is pushed...
- 8/9/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Madeleine Collins,” the buzzy psychological drama directed by France’s Antoine Barraud (“Portrait of the Artist”) and toplined by popular Belgian actress Virginie Efira who plays the lesbian nun in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” is among ten competition titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section.
The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first works this year. All entries are world premieres.
Besides “Madeleine” in which Efira (pictured) plays a woman who leads a double life –– and which also features Nadav Lapid, who is also the Israeli director of “Synonyms” and also Jacqueline Bisset –– the three other pics competing in Venice Days that are not first works are: the drama “Private Desert,” by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (“Rust”) that is centered around a 40-year-old-cop’s Internet love interest who goes missing; “Dusk Stone,” by Argentina...
The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first works this year. All entries are world premieres.
Besides “Madeleine” in which Efira (pictured) plays a woman who leads a double life –– and which also features Nadav Lapid, who is also the Israeli director of “Synonyms” and also Jacqueline Bisset –– the three other pics competing in Venice Days that are not first works are: the drama “Private Desert,” by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (“Rust”) that is centered around a 40-year-old-cop’s Internet love interest who goes missing; “Dusk Stone,” by Argentina...
- 7/28/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Cannes Film Festival may have marked a big comeback moment for cinema, but dealmaking was a different story. All the usual North American players were at the festival, but only a handful of major deals materialized over the course of the 10-day event.
These included Neon’s acquisitions of Norwegian Competition entry “The Worst Person in the World” and Directors’ Fortnight winner “A Chiara” as well as Sony Pictures Classics’ pickup of the Finnish crowdpleaser “Compartment No. 6.” However, by and large, this year’s buzziest Cannes movies already had their distribution plans sorted at the start, from Palme d’Or winner “Titane” to Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” (A24).
There were plenty of lower-profile Cannes highlights that ended the festival without any North American plans announced. As theaters reopen and distributors eye new opportunities to experiment with an evolving arthouse market, we implore buyers to give these Cannes highlights a chance.
These included Neon’s acquisitions of Norwegian Competition entry “The Worst Person in the World” and Directors’ Fortnight winner “A Chiara” as well as Sony Pictures Classics’ pickup of the Finnish crowdpleaser “Compartment No. 6.” However, by and large, this year’s buzziest Cannes movies already had their distribution plans sorted at the start, from Palme d’Or winner “Titane” to Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” (A24).
There were plenty of lower-profile Cannes highlights that ended the festival without any North American plans announced. As theaters reopen and distributors eye new opportunities to experiment with an evolving arthouse market, we implore buyers to give these Cannes highlights a chance.
- 7/19/2021
- by Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
This year’s Cannes Film Festival would have been a momentous occasion even if the films failed to deliver. Taking place in July instead of May after the 2020 edition was canceled, the very existence of the glitzy red-carpet cinematic celebration represented something of a comeback for the global film industry. Fortunately, the program didn’t disappoint, either. Major directors and rising stars alike made the trip to the French Riviera for one of the strongest selections in recent memory: a wide range of movie experiences from around the world that made the case for the survival of the art form, however it gets out into the world. Here are the 12 best movies from the 74th edition.
“After Yang” (Kogonada)
More speculative than “Columbus” yet no less poignant, Kogonada’s second feature is the kind of cozy sci-fi marvel that can only be made by someone with an incorruptible belief in...
“After Yang” (Kogonada)
More speculative than “Columbus” yet no less poignant, Kogonada’s second feature is the kind of cozy sci-fi marvel that can only be made by someone with an incorruptible belief in...
- 7/18/2021
- by Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Nadav Lapid was used to mining the past. With 2014’s “The Kindergarten Teacher,” he worked childhood poems into the script, while basing his Berlinale winning follow-up, “Synonyms,” on his early days in France after leaving Israel.
But with “Ahed’s Knee,” which premieres on July 7 in competition at Cannes, the filmmaker confronted uncharted terrain: his present day.
“This movie was one trembling gesture of urgency and movement — a kind of ode to the present, to the here and now,” Lapid said. “It took me two-weeks-and-a-half to write the script, whereas ‘Synonyms’ took me over a year. More than any other of my movies, this one is one unbroken gesture; it’s one movement, one brushstroke.”
Lapid poured his professional, political, and personal misgivings into the livewire film, which follows a filmmaker over the course of one day as he struggles with his mother’s imminent death while dealing with government officials hostile to his work.
But with “Ahed’s Knee,” which premieres on July 7 in competition at Cannes, the filmmaker confronted uncharted terrain: his present day.
“This movie was one trembling gesture of urgency and movement — a kind of ode to the present, to the here and now,” Lapid said. “It took me two-weeks-and-a-half to write the script, whereas ‘Synonyms’ took me over a year. More than any other of my movies, this one is one unbroken gesture; it’s one movement, one brushstroke.”
Lapid poured his professional, political, and personal misgivings into the livewire film, which follows a filmmaker over the course of one day as he struggles with his mother’s imminent death while dealing with government officials hostile to his work.
- 7/8/2021
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Nadav Lapid’s film begins with some distinctively original sequences about his movie-directing hero, but sinks into anguished monologuing
Here is a fierce, jagged shard of autofictional rage from the Israeli director Nadav Lapid, the winner of the Berlin Golden Bear in 2019 for his previous movie Synonyms. There is some really distinctive film-making language here, with the looming, uncontrolled closeups, whip-pans between characters for dialogue scenes, the throbbing sound design and some really sensational musical set pieces.
But the mystery and the unprocessed anger that make this film interesting all come at the beginning. As it begins to explain more and more about what drives its leading character, the film becomes less and less interesting and the stridently melodramatic finale, as well as being highly unlikely in ordinary plot terms, feels a little bit self-exculpatory.
Here is a fierce, jagged shard of autofictional rage from the Israeli director Nadav Lapid, the winner of the Berlin Golden Bear in 2019 for his previous movie Synonyms. There is some really distinctive film-making language here, with the looming, uncontrolled closeups, whip-pans between characters for dialogue scenes, the throbbing sound design and some really sensational musical set pieces.
But the mystery and the unprocessed anger that make this film interesting all come at the beginning. As it begins to explain more and more about what drives its leading character, the film becomes less and less interesting and the stridently melodramatic finale, as well as being highly unlikely in ordinary plot terms, feels a little bit self-exculpatory.
- 7/7/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
When writer-director Nadav Lapid was doing press for his Berlinale-winning “Synonyms” in 2019, he told a funny story about his conflicted approach to the Israeli notions of masculinity and national identity that rage across his films: When his sister-in-law had a baby boy, she asked him for advice as to whether or not they should circumcise the child. “I totally understand if you don’t want your son to be Israeli,” Lapid told her, channeling his late mother’s lifelong hope that her children would leave the country behind. “But if you’re staying in Israel, then be Israeli.”
Cut to: Tel Aviv a year or so later, when Lapid and his girlfriend welcomed a baby boy of their own. Suddenly, the foreskin was on the other foot (so to speak), and he found that some things are easier to prescribe than they are to practice. “When thoughts become facts, sometimes they become very,...
Cut to: Tel Aviv a year or so later, when Lapid and his girlfriend welcomed a baby boy of their own. Suddenly, the foreskin was on the other foot (so to speak), and he found that some things are easier to prescribe than they are to practice. “When thoughts become facts, sometimes they become very,...
- 7/7/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Israeli writer/director Nadav Lapid has been on the international radar for quite some time, 2011’s “Policeman” made international waves, and 2014’s ‘The Kindergarten Teacher” was so well regarded, Hollywood, Netflix, and Maggie Gyllenhaal made a remake in 2018. But things started to really take off for Lapid after “Synonyms” won the Golden Bear award at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2019 and introduced most of the world to breakout star Tom Mercier.
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- 7/7/2021
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The winners for the virtual 2021 Berlin International Film Festival have been revealed, and Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s satire “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” received the Golden Bear for best film. The competition jury celebrated the film as “a rare and essential quality of a lasting art work,” adding in a statement, “It captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time. Of this very moment of human existence.”
This year’s Berlinale competition jury was made up of six former winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear: “There is No Evil” director Mohammad Rasoulof, “Synonyms” filmmaker Nadav Lapid, “Touch Me Not” helmer Adina Pintilie, “On Body and Soul” director Ildiko Enyedi, “Fire at Sea” filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, and “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” director Jasmila Zbanic.
The Silver Bear...
This year’s Berlinale competition jury was made up of six former winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear: “There is No Evil” director Mohammad Rasoulof, “Synonyms” filmmaker Nadav Lapid, “Touch Me Not” helmer Adina Pintilie, “On Body and Soul” director Ildiko Enyedi, “Fire at Sea” filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, and “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” director Jasmila Zbanic.
The Silver Bear...
- 3/5/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Popular French theater director Jean-Christophe Meurisse is making his sophomore film outing with “Bloody Oranges,” a black comedy headlined by Denis Podalydès (“La Belle Epoque”), Blanche Gardin (“Delete History”) and Christophe Paou (“Synonyms”).
Brussels-based outfit Best Friend Forever has acquired international sales rights to the film, which is produced by Rectangle Prods. “(“It Must Be Heaven,” “Climax”) and Mamma Roman.
“Bloody Oranges” marks Meurisse’s follow-up to “Apnee,” which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2016. Meurisse is also a well-known figure in the world of theater, having launched the Chiens de Navarre theater troupe.
“Bloody Oranges” takes place in contemporary France and weaves the stories of a retired couple overwhelmed by debt trying to win a dance contest, a minister of economy who is suspected of tax evasion, a teenage girl coming across a sexual maniac and young lawyer trying to climb the social ladder. When the shoe drops, the...
Brussels-based outfit Best Friend Forever has acquired international sales rights to the film, which is produced by Rectangle Prods. “(“It Must Be Heaven,” “Climax”) and Mamma Roman.
“Bloody Oranges” marks Meurisse’s follow-up to “Apnee,” which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2016. Meurisse is also a well-known figure in the world of theater, having launched the Chiens de Navarre theater troupe.
“Bloody Oranges” takes place in contemporary France and weaves the stories of a retired couple overwhelmed by debt trying to win a dance contest, a minister of economy who is suspected of tax evasion, a teenage girl coming across a sexual maniac and young lawyer trying to climb the social ladder. When the shoe drops, the...
- 3/1/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the International Jury for its 71st edition. All the jury members are winners of Berlin’s Golden Bear for best film.
The jury will comprise Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, Israeli director Nadav Lapid, Romania director Adina Pintilie, Hungary director Ildikó Enyedi, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić. There will be no jury president this year. The jury will view the competition films in a movie theater in Berlin.
Rasoulof won the Golden Bear for “There Is No Evil” in 2020; Lapid for “Synonyms” in 2019; Pintilie for “Touch Me Not” in 2018; Enyedi for “On Body and Soul” in 2017; Rosi for “Fire at Sea” in 2016; and Žbanić for “Grbavica” in 2006.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian said: “I’m happy and honored that six filmmakers I admire a great deal have enthusiastically accepted our invitation to take part in this unique edition. They express not only...
The jury will comprise Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, Israeli director Nadav Lapid, Romania director Adina Pintilie, Hungary director Ildikó Enyedi, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić. There will be no jury president this year. The jury will view the competition films in a movie theater in Berlin.
Rasoulof won the Golden Bear for “There Is No Evil” in 2020; Lapid for “Synonyms” in 2019; Pintilie for “Touch Me Not” in 2018; Enyedi for “On Body and Soul” in 2017; Rosi for “Fire at Sea” in 2016; and Žbanić for “Grbavica” in 2006.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian said: “I’m happy and honored that six filmmakers I admire a great deal have enthusiastically accepted our invitation to take part in this unique edition. They express not only...
- 2/1/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Gregoire Melin’s Kinology, the Paris-based company handling Leos Carax’s and Mia Hansen-Love’s next films, has added a string of ambitious new films from a mix of emerging and seasoned directors.
Kinology has launched sales on “A Girl’s Room,” a stylish psychological thriller directed by Finnish up-and-coming helmer Aino Suni; “The Divide,” a stars-packed film by French director Catherine Corsini (“Three Worlds”); “Third Grade” by veteran director Jacques Doillon (“Ponette”); and “Morning Calm,” a director-driven sprawling thriller by Denis Dercourt. All films are now in post and Kinology is showing first images, teasers or trailers to buyers at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, which kicked off Jan. 13.
Suni’s feature debut, “A Girl’s Room,” follows Elina, a 17-year-old aspiring Finnish rapper forced to leave her home for the south of France after her mother finds a French boyfriend. There, she is drawn to her new stepsister Sofia,...
Kinology has launched sales on “A Girl’s Room,” a stylish psychological thriller directed by Finnish up-and-coming helmer Aino Suni; “The Divide,” a stars-packed film by French director Catherine Corsini (“Three Worlds”); “Third Grade” by veteran director Jacques Doillon (“Ponette”); and “Morning Calm,” a director-driven sprawling thriller by Denis Dercourt. All films are now in post and Kinology is showing first images, teasers or trailers to buyers at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, which kicked off Jan. 13.
Suni’s feature debut, “A Girl’s Room,” follows Elina, a 17-year-old aspiring Finnish rapper forced to leave her home for the south of France after her mother finds a French boyfriend. There, she is drawn to her new stepsister Sofia,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
This week, we have a handful of horror shorts from around the globe to share with Daily Dead readers! Today, we have Bienvenue from writer/director Vincent Julé, which may make you think twice before your next Airbnb stay:
"A couple has booked an apartment for one night. It looks just like the ad, but their attention is drawn to something. Or someone ? Watch this (and watch out) before your next vacation!"
Cast
Claire Juliette Allain (Têtard)
Mathieu Quentin Pradelle
L’enfant Gaël Raës
Crew
Writer-Director Vincent Julé
Producer Arié Chamouni for JohnDoe Production
Cinematographer Raphaël Vandenbussche
Editor Tianès Montasser
Composer Théo Bedoucha
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"A couple has booked an apartment for one night. It looks just like the ad, but their attention is drawn to something. Or someone ? Watch this (and watch out) before your next vacation!"
Cast
Claire Juliette Allain (Têtard)
Mathieu Quentin Pradelle
L’enfant Gaël Raës
Crew
Writer-Director Vincent Julé
Producer Arié Chamouni for JohnDoe Production
Cinematographer Raphaël Vandenbussche
Editor Tianès Montasser
Composer Théo Bedoucha
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- 10/28/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September).
In another change to the eligibility rules,...
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September).
In another change to the eligibility rules,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Cineworld will begin reopening its cinemas in England with a lineup featuring a special 4Dx screening program that includes four films projected for the first time in the chain’s exclusive multi-sensory 4Dx extreme cinema format.
Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” Chris Columbus’ “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” Alfonso Cuarón’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” will get Cineworld’s 4Dx treatment in 24 cinemas across England. They will be joined in cinemas this weekend by “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” previously screened in 4Dx by Cineworld.
4Dx screenings use in-room practical effects such as motion, water, wind, scent and lighting, timed to what’s happening on the screen. Utilizing high-tech motion programming, audience members’ seats also move in synch with the film’s action.
During the Covid downtime, Cineworld executed full scale refurbishments and special format installations in Wolverhampton, Swindon,...
Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” Chris Columbus’ “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” Alfonso Cuarón’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” will get Cineworld’s 4Dx treatment in 24 cinemas across England. They will be joined in cinemas this weekend by “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” previously screened in 4Dx by Cineworld.
4Dx screenings use in-room practical effects such as motion, water, wind, scent and lighting, timed to what’s happening on the screen. Utilizing high-tech motion programming, audience members’ seats also move in synch with the film’s action.
During the Covid downtime, Cineworld executed full scale refurbishments and special format installations in Wolverhampton, Swindon,...
- 7/29/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Kelly Reichardt is pulling double duty at this year's Locarno Film Festival.
First Cow, the latest feature from the acclaimed American indie director, will open the 2020 Locarno fest August 5 and Reichardt will also join Locarno's international jury judging this year's competition.
Israeli director Nadav Lapid (Synonyms) and Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection) join Reichardt on the Locarno jury, which this year will pick the best projects from the 10 in-development works in the festival's Films After Tomorrow lineup. The projects, which include new works by arthouse ...
First Cow, the latest feature from the acclaimed American indie director, will open the 2020 Locarno fest August 5 and Reichardt will also join Locarno's international jury judging this year's competition.
Israeli director Nadav Lapid (Synonyms) and Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection) join Reichardt on the Locarno jury, which this year will pick the best projects from the 10 in-development works in the festival's Films After Tomorrow lineup. The projects, which include new works by arthouse ...
- 7/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Paul Verhoeven, the acclaimed director of “RoboCop” and “Starship Troopers,” is working on a French-language TV series based on Guy de Maupassant’s “Bel Ami” novel, which will be produced by Saïd Ben Saïd.
Deadline reported that Verhoeven will serve as showrunner and direct all eight episodes of the series, which will offer a contemporary spin on the novel, according to Ben Saïd. The original “Bel Ami” novel, published in 1885, centered on a corrupt journalist in Paris who rose to power by manipulating a series of powerful and wealthy women. The series will be written by Dutch screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, who collaborated with Verhoeven on films such as “Black Book” and “Turkish Delight.” Which broadcaster would eventually air the series is still being discussed, and filming is expected to begin in France in summer 2021, according to Ben Saïd.
Ben Saïd, through a representative, confirmed his Deadline comments on the project to IndieWire.
Deadline reported that Verhoeven will serve as showrunner and direct all eight episodes of the series, which will offer a contemporary spin on the novel, according to Ben Saïd. The original “Bel Ami” novel, published in 1885, centered on a corrupt journalist in Paris who rose to power by manipulating a series of powerful and wealthy women. The series will be written by Dutch screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, who collaborated with Verhoeven on films such as “Black Book” and “Turkish Delight.” Which broadcaster would eventually air the series is still being discussed, and filming is expected to begin in France in summer 2021, according to Ben Saïd.
Ben Saïd, through a representative, confirmed his Deadline comments on the project to IndieWire.
- 5/12/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Hubert Sauper’s latest film won the 2020 World Cinema grand jury prize in Park City last month.
Kino Lorber, a prolific distributor of Berlinale Golden Bear winners, has acquired Us rights at the Efm to Wild Bunch sales title and Sundance winner Epicentro.
Hubert Sauper’s (Darwin’s Nightmare) latest film won the 2020 World Cinema grand jury prize in Park City last month and paints of an immersive portrait of post-colonial Cuba.
Sauper explores the effect of a century of interventionism on the Caribbean island and the resilience of the people, in particular the children, whom he calls “young prophets...
Kino Lorber, a prolific distributor of Berlinale Golden Bear winners, has acquired Us rights at the Efm to Wild Bunch sales title and Sundance winner Epicentro.
Hubert Sauper’s (Darwin’s Nightmare) latest film won the 2020 World Cinema grand jury prize in Park City last month and paints of an immersive portrait of post-colonial Cuba.
Sauper explores the effect of a century of interventionism on the Caribbean island and the resilience of the people, in particular the children, whom he calls “young prophets...
- 2/23/2020
- ScreenDaily
Every year, the Berlin International Film Festival plays host to some of the richest and most rewarding cinematic works of the year. In 2019, the festival screened Joanna Hogg’s lacerating “The Souvenir” after its Sundance premiere, as well as the slept-on fever dream that was “Monos,” and Nadav Lapid’s widely acclaimed “Synonyms,” the closing night film that also happened to take home the Golden Bear award.
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- 2/18/2020
- by Nicholas Laskin
- The Playlist
Over the course of a single year, the staff of IndieWire consumes a dizzying amount of films, thanks to packed film festival slates, stuffed streaming offerings, and regular old theatrical releases. Along the way, we find plenty of films to love, and closing out another year at the movies gives us a chance to keep spreading the good word of the year’s best (at least in our eyes).
For those of you obsessed with numbers, IndieWire’s overall top five film picks likely don’t surprise: Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” was the clear favorite, but it was followed by an array of darlings, including Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” the Safdie brothers’ “Uncut Gems,” Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.” And while those top favorites appeared on a number of lists, a few films only appeared on one, including...
For those of you obsessed with numbers, IndieWire’s overall top five film picks likely don’t surprise: Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” was the clear favorite, but it was followed by an array of darlings, including Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” the Safdie brothers’ “Uncut Gems,” Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.” And while those top favorites appeared on a number of lists, a few films only appeared on one, including...
- 12/23/2019
- by IndieWire Staff
- Indiewire
International distribution and sales outfit Kew Media Distribution has upped Graham Begg to the newly-created role of Svp Acquisitions & Business Development. In his position, Begg will oversee a portfolio of acquisitions across scripted, non-scripted, documentary and factual entertainment properties, and will advise on corporate activities and business development. He will also work with the 13 production companies owned by Kew, looking to further exploiting their owned IP globally. Begg joined Kew in 2018 as VP, Business Development and Producer Relations.
The 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) has added several titles to its program, including Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, and Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, which bowed in Cannes and will have its Asian premiere in Macao. Also joining the festival list are Wong Hing-Fan’s Hong Kong drama I’m Living It, Tiago Guedes’ Portuguese feature The Domain (A Herdade), and the newly-restored...
The 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) has added several titles to its program, including Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, and Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, which bowed in Cannes and will have its Asian premiere in Macao. Also joining the festival list are Wong Hing-Fan’s Hong Kong drama I’m Living It, Tiago Guedes’ Portuguese feature The Domain (A Herdade), and the newly-restored...
- 11/18/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Yoav (Tom Mercier) is speed-walking down the rainy streets of Paris, past cafes and cars and people reading newspapers; he’s moving so fast that the camera can barely keep up with him. Once he finds the apartment he’s going to crash in —and the key to the front door under the mat — the twentysomething Israeli makes himself at home. Halfway through some interrupted mid-shower onanism, Yoav runs into the bare living room, slips on the hardwood floor…and finds that everything from his clothes to his sleeping bag has just been stolen.
- 11/1/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities
The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring from the near-inscrutable heart of Nadav Lapid’s accomplished third feature, Synonyms, which purportedly navigates certain autobiographical experiences of the Israeli director’s first experiences in Paris. Like the linguistic version of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), the focus is a troubled protagonist as a stranger in a strange land, at the center of a potential love triangle fashioned by circumstances which become increasingly troubling. Sinister political ideations are an underlining force in Lapid’s freewheeling and episodic narrative, which may leave many inclined to frustration thanks to the level of cultural subtexts and literal translation impediments which might make the film more meaningful to audiences familiar with certain stereotypes informing the specific relationships.…...
The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring from the near-inscrutable heart of Nadav Lapid’s accomplished third feature, Synonyms, which purportedly navigates certain autobiographical experiences of the Israeli director’s first experiences in Paris. Like the linguistic version of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), the focus is a troubled protagonist as a stranger in a strange land, at the center of a potential love triangle fashioned by circumstances which become increasingly troubling. Sinister political ideations are an underlining force in Lapid’s freewheeling and episodic narrative, which may leave many inclined to frustration thanks to the level of cultural subtexts and literal translation impediments which might make the film more meaningful to audiences familiar with certain stereotypes informing the specific relationships.…...
- 10/25/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
‘Synonyms’ Film Review: French-Israeli Identity Drama Pushes Protagonist, and Audience, to the Limit
How much indulgence might you feel for a young man going through an existential identity crisis? “Synonyms,” the kinetic new drama from writer-director Nadav Lapid (the original “The Kindergarten Teacher”), is so wrapped up in the intense emotions of its millennial protagonist that tolerance becomes not only an expectation but also a requirement.
Though often surrounded by people, Yoav (powerful newcomer Tom Mercier) is also very much alone in his search for self-definition. He arrives in Paris after a traumatic stint in the Israeli army, to stay in a gorgeous but apparently abandoned rental apartment. His belongings are stolen immediately, which is particularly inconvenient since he’s just taken a freezing bath and is naked.
The chill nearly kills him, but his wealthy young neighbors, Caroline (Louise Chevillotte) and Emile, find him just in time. They rescue him, in a sense, warming him up and giving him clothes and money.
Though often surrounded by people, Yoav (powerful newcomer Tom Mercier) is also very much alone in his search for self-definition. He arrives in Paris after a traumatic stint in the Israeli army, to stay in a gorgeous but apparently abandoned rental apartment. His belongings are stolen immediately, which is particularly inconvenient since he’s just taken a freezing bath and is naked.
The chill nearly kills him, but his wealthy young neighbors, Caroline (Louise Chevillotte) and Emile, find him just in time. They rescue him, in a sense, warming him up and giving him clothes and money.
- 10/24/2019
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
The 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) — held Nov. 7-17 — provides St. Louis filmgoers with the opportunity to view the finest in world cinema: international films, documentaries, American indies, and shorts that can only be seen on the big screen at the festival. Sliff will screen 389 films: 81 narrative features, 63 documentary features, 227 shorts, and 18 film programs exclusive to the Cinema for Students program. The fest also will feature 12 special-event programs, including our closing-night awards presentation. This year’s festival has 63 countries represented.
Sliff will present our usual array of fest buzz films and Oscar contenders, including “The Apollo,” “Atlantics,” “The Chambermaid,” “Clemency,” “Cunningham,” “A Faithful Man,” “Frankie,” “A Hidden Life,” “Just Mercy,” “The Kill Team,” “Little Joe,” “Marriage Story,” “Nomad,” “Olympic Dreams,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Premature,” “The Report,” “The Rest,” “Seahorse,” “The Song of Names,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Synonyms,” “A Tramway in Jerusalem,” “The Traitor,...
Sliff will present our usual array of fest buzz films and Oscar contenders, including “The Apollo,” “Atlantics,” “The Chambermaid,” “Clemency,” “Cunningham,” “A Faithful Man,” “Frankie,” “A Hidden Life,” “Just Mercy,” “The Kill Team,” “Little Joe,” “Marriage Story,” “Nomad,” “Olympic Dreams,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Premature,” “The Report,” “The Rest,” “Seahorse,” “The Song of Names,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Synonyms,” “A Tramway in Jerusalem,” “The Traitor,...
- 10/15/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Synonyms Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Nadav Lapid Screenwriter: Nadav Lapid, Haïm Lapid Cast: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevilotte Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/5/19 Opens: October 25, 2019 Thomas Wolfe said you Can’t Go Home Again, in fact that is the title of […]
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- 10/15/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Hamptons Intl. Film Festival continues its 27-year run as a premier showcase for both contemporary global cinema and the most eagerly awaited awards season prestige movies.
Unspooling among the tony beach towns of New York’s Long Island, it’s earned a reputation as a kind of East Coast Telluride.
“It’s pretty busy,” says executive director Anne Chaisson. “Twenty-five thousand people descending on the area to come see movies is significant.”
Running Oct. 10-14, Hiff is less focused on splashy world premieres than in serving as a comfortable, slightly glamorous waystation for the most acclaimed titles on the international festival circuit. If there’s a movie you’ve heard about from Cannes, Venice or Berlin, you’re likely to find it in East Hampton.
Artistic director David Nugent, a Hamptons local, takes a curatorial approach to programming.
“We’re trying to bring a mixture of what we think...
Unspooling among the tony beach towns of New York’s Long Island, it’s earned a reputation as a kind of East Coast Telluride.
“It’s pretty busy,” says executive director Anne Chaisson. “Twenty-five thousand people descending on the area to come see movies is significant.”
Running Oct. 10-14, Hiff is less focused on splashy world premieres than in serving as a comfortable, slightly glamorous waystation for the most acclaimed titles on the international festival circuit. If there’s a movie you’ve heard about from Cannes, Venice or Berlin, you’re likely to find it in East Hampton.
Artistic director David Nugent, a Hamptons local, takes a curatorial approach to programming.
“We’re trying to bring a mixture of what we think...
- 10/10/2019
- by Akiva Gottlieb
- Variety Film + TV
New section sees three up-and-coming Filipino directors competing with five indie filmmakers from Southeast Asia.
The Philippines’ QCinema International Film Festival is launching a new competition section, Asian Next Wave, that will focus on emerging filmmakers from the Southeast Asian region.
The new section sees three up-and-coming Filipino directors, who received production funding from the festival, competing with five indie filmmakers from other countries in Southeast Asia.
The three local films in competition are Rae Red’s Babae At Baril, Arnel Barbarona’s Kaaway Sa Sulod and The Cleaners from Glenn Barit, while Southeast Asian titles include Mattie Do’s The Long Walk,...
The Philippines’ QCinema International Film Festival is launching a new competition section, Asian Next Wave, that will focus on emerging filmmakers from the Southeast Asian region.
The new section sees three up-and-coming Filipino directors, who received production funding from the festival, competing with five indie filmmakers from other countries in Southeast Asia.
The three local films in competition are Rae Red’s Babae At Baril, Arnel Barbarona’s Kaaway Sa Sulod and The Cleaners from Glenn Barit, while Southeast Asian titles include Mattie Do’s The Long Walk,...
- 10/7/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
In his third feature, “Synonyms,” Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid proves he has a fascination with people who take things too far, whether extremists, romantics, or some inextricable mesh of the two. His first film, “Policeman” follows anti-terrorist agents and the young radicals they clash with. His second, “The Kindergarten Teacher”—remade in English with Maggie Gyllenhaal in the titular role—traces the life of a poetry-obsessed elementary school teacher who finds deranged hope in an unlikely prodigy.
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- 10/4/2019
- by Luke Hicks
- The Playlist
When he founded the California Film Institute in 1977, Mark Fishkin didn’t know much about running a film festival. Not many people did — there were few major film festivals in the United States at the time, and it would be decades before there emerged anything like today’s bustling international festival circuit. Fishkin had recently moved to California from the small town of Ouray, Colo., about an hour’s drive to Telluride the long way around Mt. Sneffels. He’d visited once or twice while the festival was on, by chance, and had seen how they did things out there and it inspired him, when he founded a festival of his own, to do things a little differently.
The first Mill Valley Film Festival took place Aug. 11-13, 1978, and was intended, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from that summer, to “honor successful filmmakers living or working out of Marin County,...
The first Mill Valley Film Festival took place Aug. 11-13, 1978, and was intended, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from that summer, to “honor successful filmmakers living or working out of Marin County,...
- 10/3/2019
- by Calum Marsh
- Variety Film + TV
First Cow director Kelly Reichardt with Orion Lee, John Magaro and Film at Lincoln Center Director of Programing Dennis Lim Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Two free events have been added to the 57th New York Film Festival - a tribute to producer Ben Barenholtz who died on June 26, 2019, with Eamonn Bowles, Ethan Coen, and John Turturro, moderated by Annette Insdorf; and a screening of Lynne Ramsay’s Brigitte, commissioned by Miu Miu, followed by a Q&a with Ramsay and Brigitte Lacombe.
The Irishman, Joker and The Wolf of Wall Street producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff with Jane Rosenthal, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Free conversations with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on Young Ahmed; Nadav Lapid on Synonyms; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff and David Hinojosa; Ric Burns (Oliver Sacks: His Own Life), Tania Cypriano (Born To Be), Ivy Meeropol (Bully.
Two free events have been added to the 57th New York Film Festival - a tribute to producer Ben Barenholtz who died on June 26, 2019, with Eamonn Bowles, Ethan Coen, and John Turturro, moderated by Annette Insdorf; and a screening of Lynne Ramsay’s Brigitte, commissioned by Miu Miu, followed by a Q&a with Ramsay and Brigitte Lacombe.
The Irishman, Joker and The Wolf of Wall Street producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff with Jane Rosenthal, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Free conversations with Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on Young Ahmed; Nadav Lapid on Synonyms; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff and David Hinojosa; Ric Burns (Oliver Sacks: His Own Life), Tania Cypriano (Born To Be), Ivy Meeropol (Bully.
- 9/28/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Above: French poster for Parasite.This evening the 57th edition of the New York Film Festival comes in like a lion with the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and, as I’ve been doing every year since 2010, I have tried to collect posters for all of the twenty-nine films in the main slate. Sadly, it’s a rather uninspiring bunch this year, many of them nothing more than an arresting still with the title slapped on, which isn’t unusual for festival posters, but there still seem to be fewer designs of note than usual this year. The most unique poster—to me, though it won’t be to everybody’s taste—is the simple sketch of a bird (a pheasant?) for Angela Shanelec’s I Was at Home, But..., but that poster premiered nine months ago for the film’s Berlin debut. Last year, I had...
- 9/27/2019
- MUBI
Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. rights to “Young Ahmed,” the latest film from Belgian auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the distributor announced Wednesday.
The film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where the Dardenne Brothers won the Best Director prize, and it will play at the upcoming New York Film Festival following a North American premiere at the Colcoa French Film Festival in LA. This acquisition gives Kino Lorber five films playing in Nyff’s main slate, including Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole,” Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s “Bacurau,” Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” and Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms.”
The film will be rolled out in theaters in early 2020, followed by VOD and home video release.
“Young Ahmed” is a portrait of a 13-year-old, Belgian-Arab Muslim teenager named Ahmed (played...
The film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where the Dardenne Brothers won the Best Director prize, and it will play at the upcoming New York Film Festival following a North American premiere at the Colcoa French Film Festival in LA. This acquisition gives Kino Lorber five films playing in Nyff’s main slate, including Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole,” Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s “Bacurau,” Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” and Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms.”
The film will be rolled out in theaters in early 2020, followed by VOD and home video release.
“Young Ahmed” is a portrait of a 13-year-old, Belgian-Arab Muslim teenager named Ahmed (played...
- 9/18/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
“Young Ahmed,” which won the best director prize at Cannes for Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, has been acquired for the U.S. by Kino Lorber. The film will have its North American premiere at Colcoa and will go on to play at New York Film Festival.
Set in a small town, “Young Ahmed” follows a Belgian Muslim teenager named Ahmed (played by newcomer Idir Ben Addi) who lives with his secular single mother and siblings, and falls under the influence of a magnetic extremist imam. Ahmed is radicalized and becomes fixated on killing his female teacher in the name of his religious convictions.
“We are proud to present to U.S. audiences the latest masterwork from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne,” said Kino Lorber senior vice president Wendy Lidell, who negotiated the deal with Eva Diederix, head of international sales of Wild Bunch and CAA Media Finance. “Like all their great films,...
Set in a small town, “Young Ahmed” follows a Belgian Muslim teenager named Ahmed (played by newcomer Idir Ben Addi) who lives with his secular single mother and siblings, and falls under the influence of a magnetic extremist imam. Ahmed is radicalized and becomes fixated on killing his female teacher in the name of his religious convictions.
“We are proud to present to U.S. audiences the latest masterwork from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne,” said Kino Lorber senior vice president Wendy Lidell, who negotiated the deal with Eva Diederix, head of international sales of Wild Bunch and CAA Media Finance. “Like all their great films,...
- 9/18/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Gersh Agency has signed acclaimed Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid, whose latest feature Synonyms (Synonymes) won Berlin’s Golden Bear for Best Film earlier this year.
Well-received French and Hebrew-language drama Synonyms, which had its North American premiere at Tiff last night, follows a young Israeli man who absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary. The film has already played at a host of international festivals.
Pic is being released by Kino Lorber in the U.S. in late October and will also play the New York Film Festival.
Lapid is well known on the arthouse circuit for Israeli movies including Policeman, which won the Locarno Festival Special Jury Prize in 2011 and Cannes critical hit The Kindergarten Teacher, released by Kino Lorber and later remade in English with Maggie Gyllenhaal.
He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University.
Well-received French and Hebrew-language drama Synonyms, which had its North American premiere at Tiff last night, follows a young Israeli man who absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary. The film has already played at a host of international festivals.
Pic is being released by Kino Lorber in the U.S. in late October and will also play the New York Film Festival.
Lapid is well known on the arthouse circuit for Israeli movies including Policeman, which won the Locarno Festival Special Jury Prize in 2011 and Cannes critical hit The Kindergarten Teacher, released by Kino Lorber and later remade in English with Maggie Gyllenhaal.
He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University.
- 9/10/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Pietro Marcello’s epic drama “Martin Eden” starring Luca Marinelli. The movie made its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a warm critical welcome.
“Martin Eden” is now set to have its North American premiere on closing night of Toronto’s competitive Platform section, before heading to the New York Film Festival.
Shot in Super 16mm, “Martin Eden” is an adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel of the same name, and is transposed to 20th century Naples. The sprawling drama follows the journey of Martin Eden (Marinelli), a handsome but unschooled sailor who falls in love with an upper-class woman who introduces him to literature and inspires him to become a writer.
“Martin Eden” marks Marcello’s second fiction film after “Lost and Beautiful.” The helmer previously directed several documentary features, including “The Mouth of the Wolf.
“Martin Eden” is now set to have its North American premiere on closing night of Toronto’s competitive Platform section, before heading to the New York Film Festival.
Shot in Super 16mm, “Martin Eden” is an adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel of the same name, and is transposed to 20th century Naples. The sprawling drama follows the journey of Martin Eden (Marinelli), a handsome but unschooled sailor who falls in love with an upper-class woman who introduces him to literature and inspires him to become a writer.
“Martin Eden” marks Marcello’s second fiction film after “Lost and Beautiful.” The helmer previously directed several documentary features, including “The Mouth of the Wolf.
- 9/6/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe word is out: Mubi has acquired the worldwide rights for Luca Guadagnino's luminous short film The Staggering Girl, starring Julianne Moore, Mia Goth, KiKi Layne, Kyle MacLachlan and more. Deadline has the full report.We're very saddened that due to Ontario's arts funding cuts, the essential feminist film magazine cléo has announced their immediate closure. At The Globe & Mail, the magazine's editors and contributors reflect upon their run and the tangible community it fostered.The wait for Apichatpong Weerasethakul's long gestating project with Tilda Swinton, entitled Memoria, is nearly over. The film has finally gone to camera, and Variety provides a glimpse of the set.Recommended Viewing With The Laundromat, it looks like Soderbergh returns to his (welcomed!) comedic register alongside a stellar cast—Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Sharon Stone...
- 8/28/2019
- MUBI
It’s time for another trailer round-up, my friends. This is the spot where we compile the odds and ends of the movie trailer world, and try to highlight titles that may be a bit more under-the-radar compared to the bigger films we cover. Check out our trailer round-up below! Rogue Warfare In Rogue Warfare, “a group […]
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- 8/25/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
"Gosh, life is sublime." Kino Lorber has released the official Us trailer for an award-winning indie drama titled Synonyms, aka Synonymes, from Israeli writer/director Nadav Lapid. This premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and it won the Golden Bear, the top prize there, which it definitely deserves (here's my review). Based on the real life experiences of Lapid, Synonyms explores the challenges of putting down roots in a new place. Tom Mercier stars as Yoav, an Israeli man who shows up in Paris, France. His "attempts to find himself awaken past demons and open up an existential abyss in this tragicomic puzzle that wisely knows how to keep its secrets." Also starring Quentin Dolmaire and Louise Chevillotte. The film is also adored by most critics, with David Ehrlich (read his review) describing it as a "sui generis work of tormented genius." Any & every cinephile needs to...
- 8/22/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid made a splash with both his gripping debut Policeman and his follow-up The Kindergarten Teacher, but he earned his highest accolade yet with Synonyms, which picked up the Golden Bear at Berlinale. Telling the story of an Israeli man who moves to Paris and is caught adrift as he wrestles with identity, it’s a thoroughly riveting character study that consistently catches one off guard in evolving ways. Ahead of a U.S. release in October via Kino Lorber and stops at Tiff and Nyff, the new trailer has arrived.
Ed Frankl said in our review, “Relocation becomes dislocation in director Nadav Lapid’s intense, beguiling Synonyms. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the story follows a young Israeli man who moves to Paris in the hope of shedding his past and remolding his identity, yet instead finds his sense of self chipped away at.
Ed Frankl said in our review, “Relocation becomes dislocation in director Nadav Lapid’s intense, beguiling Synonyms. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the story follows a young Israeli man who moves to Paris in the hope of shedding his past and remolding his identity, yet instead finds his sense of self chipped away at.
- 8/22/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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