Belgian-French comedy is directed by Stefan Liberski
Paris and London-based The Bureau has inked early pre-sales for Stefan Liberski’s Art Or F-art? starring Camille Cottin and Benoit Poelvoorde.
The Bureau co-produces alongside Belgium’s Artemis Productions and is handling international sales for the satirical look at the world of contemporary art.
Art or F-art? (L’Art de Rien) stars Poelvoorde as a conceptual painter who leaves Brussels after a career setback to settle down in French Normandy in search of creative inspiration. Cottin plays a gallery owner and manipulator who disrupts his concentration as he interacts with colourful locals...
Paris and London-based The Bureau has inked early pre-sales for Stefan Liberski’s Art Or F-art? starring Camille Cottin and Benoit Poelvoorde.
The Bureau co-produces alongside Belgium’s Artemis Productions and is handling international sales for the satirical look at the world of contemporary art.
Art or F-art? (L’Art de Rien) stars Poelvoorde as a conceptual painter who leaves Brussels after a career setback to settle down in French Normandy in search of creative inspiration. Cottin plays a gallery owner and manipulator who disrupts his concentration as he interacts with colourful locals...
- 1/8/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Annual award ceremony held in Brussels every February fetes Francophone Belgian cinema.
Belgium’s annual Les Magritte du Cinéma awards have cancelled their 11th edition, which was due to take place in February 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking their name from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, the awards were created in 2011 to fete French-language Belgian cinema. They are run by the André Delvaux Academy, which in turn was co-founded by Belgium’s Union of Producers of Francophone Films (Upff) and the directors association Pro Sphere.
A raft of national film awards traditionally takes place across...
Belgium’s annual Les Magritte du Cinéma awards have cancelled their 11th edition, which was due to take place in February 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking their name from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, the awards were created in 2011 to fete French-language Belgian cinema. They are run by the André Delvaux Academy, which in turn was co-founded by Belgium’s Union of Producers of Francophone Films (Upff) and the directors association Pro Sphere.
A raft of national film awards traditionally takes place across...
- 10/7/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The film co-stars French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais.
Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi) and WTFilms have tied up a raft of deals on French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles, following its buzzy out of competition world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The film has sold to UK (Altitude), Germany (Koch Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures) Switzerland (Praesens Film), Spain (Karma), Belgium (O’Brother Distribution), Norway (As Fidalgo), the Netherlands (Gusto Entertainment) and Brazil (Imovision).
As previously announced by Screen, Magnolia Pictures has snapped up US rights. The company previously released Dupieux’s 2010 feature...
Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi) and WTFilms have tied up a raft of deals on French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles, following its buzzy out of competition world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The film has sold to UK (Altitude), Germany (Koch Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures) Switzerland (Praesens Film), Spain (Karma), Belgium (O’Brother Distribution), Norway (As Fidalgo), the Netherlands (Gusto Entertainment) and Brazil (Imovision).
As previously announced by Screen, Magnolia Pictures has snapped up US rights. The company previously released Dupieux’s 2010 feature...
- 9/18/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Gregoire Ludig, David Marsais star in slacker comedy.
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Quentin Dupieux’s surreal French comedy Mandibles, one of the most talked-about films at Venice Film Festival.
The film earned a strong reception on the Lido and stars Gregoire Ludig and David Marsais as friends who try to train a giant fly they find in the boot of a car in the hope of getting rich.
The cast includes Adele Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Romeo Elvis, Coralie Russier, and Bruno Lochet.
Hugo Selignac and Vincent Mazel produced Mandibles for Paris-based Chi-Fou-Mi Productions. Patrick Quinet of...
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Quentin Dupieux’s surreal French comedy Mandibles, one of the most talked-about films at Venice Film Festival.
The film earned a strong reception on the Lido and stars Gregoire Ludig and David Marsais as friends who try to train a giant fly they find in the boot of a car in the hope of getting rich.
The cast includes Adele Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Romeo Elvis, Coralie Russier, and Bruno Lochet.
Hugo Selignac and Vincent Mazel produced Mandibles for Paris-based Chi-Fou-Mi Productions. Patrick Quinet of...
- 9/17/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Whacky road movie stars comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais with Adèle Exarchopoulos in a supporting role.
Screen can reveal a first international trailer for French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles ahead of its world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 5).
French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as two goofy friends who find a giant fly trapped in their car boot and decide to train it as moneymaking venture. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Coralie Russier and India Hair as well as Belgian rapper and hip hop artist Romeo...
Screen can reveal a first international trailer for French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles ahead of its world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 5).
French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as two goofy friends who find a giant fly trapped in their car boot and decide to train it as moneymaking venture. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Coralie Russier and India Hair as well as Belgian rapper and hip hop artist Romeo...
- 9/4/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Des hommes
Belgium’s Lucas Belvaux has assembled one of his highest profile casts in some time with his latest feature Des hommes (Home Front), which reunites him with his Une Trilogy (2002) stars Catherine Frot and Jean-Pierre Darroussin who will be joined by Gerard Depardieu and Yoann Zimmer. Produced by David Frenkel and Patrick Quinet, Belvaux employs Bruno Dumont’s recent favored Dp Guillaume Deffontaines to lens. Belvaux, a five-time Cesar nominee competed in Cannes with his 2006 title The Right of the Weakest.…...
Belgium’s Lucas Belvaux has assembled one of his highest profile casts in some time with his latest feature Des hommes (Home Front), which reunites him with his Une Trilogy (2002) stars Catherine Frot and Jean-Pierre Darroussin who will be joined by Gerard Depardieu and Yoann Zimmer. Produced by David Frenkel and Patrick Quinet, Belvaux employs Bruno Dumont’s recent favored Dp Guillaume Deffontaines to lens. Belvaux, a five-time Cesar nominee competed in Cannes with his 2006 title The Right of the Weakest.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Films Boutique has scored strong first-phase sales with top arthouse distributors around the globe on Maryam Touzani’s female friendship drama “Adam” – confirming the market appeal of a title which has been selected as Morocco’s entry for the newly-named Academy Award for best international feature film.
The deals news comes on the eve of “Adam’s” first screening in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival.
Of major territories, Films Boutique has closed Japan (Longride), Spain (Karma Films), Italy (Movies Inspired), Australia (Sharmill), Sweden (Fokets Bio), Brazil (Arteplex) and Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (Mirada).
Switzerland (Filmcoopi), the Czech Republic (Artcam) and Bulgaria (Art Fest) are also licensed. As already announced, Ad Vitam, a major force in Cannes Festival buys, and Cinéart, another mainstay of Europe’s arthouse business, will distribute “Adam” in France and Benelux respectively.
“Adam” has raised interest among North American, U.K. and German buyers,...
The deals news comes on the eve of “Adam’s” first screening in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival.
Of major territories, Films Boutique has closed Japan (Longride), Spain (Karma Films), Italy (Movies Inspired), Australia (Sharmill), Sweden (Fokets Bio), Brazil (Arteplex) and Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (Mirada).
Switzerland (Filmcoopi), the Czech Republic (Artcam) and Bulgaria (Art Fest) are also licensed. As already announced, Ad Vitam, a major force in Cannes Festival buys, and Cinéart, another mainstay of Europe’s arthouse business, will distribute “Adam” in France and Benelux respectively.
“Adam” has raised interest among North American, U.K. and German buyers,...
- 9/10/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Maryam Touzani’s debut feature and Cannes-player “Adam” has been selected as Morocco’s submission to the 2020 Academy Award for best international feature film – the first time that a picture from a woman director has been chosen to represent the country.
The pic is co-written and produced by Nabil Ayouch. Touzani previously starred in, and co-wrote, Ayouch’s 2017 hit “Razzia.”
The seven-person selection committee was presided by Moroccan director Noureddine Lakhmari (“Casanegra”).
The film received a standing ovation on its world premiere at Cannes, and won an audience award at the Angouleme French Film Festival in August. Berlin-based Films Boutique acquired international sales rights to the pic before Cannes; early distribution deals have been inked in France with Ad Vitam and in Benelux with Cinéart.
The pic turns on the difficulties faced by an unwed heavily pregnant country girl in conservative Morocco. Samia – who has been rejected by the father...
The pic is co-written and produced by Nabil Ayouch. Touzani previously starred in, and co-wrote, Ayouch’s 2017 hit “Razzia.”
The seven-person selection committee was presided by Moroccan director Noureddine Lakhmari (“Casanegra”).
The film received a standing ovation on its world premiere at Cannes, and won an audience award at the Angouleme French Film Festival in August. Berlin-based Films Boutique acquired international sales rights to the pic before Cannes; early distribution deals have been inked in France with Ad Vitam and in Benelux with Cinéart.
The pic turns on the difficulties faced by an unwed heavily pregnant country girl in conservative Morocco. Samia – who has been rejected by the father...
- 8/30/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
French producer Sylvie Pialat at Les Films du Worso is teaming up with Palme d’Or winning director Cristian Mungiu on “To the Edge of Sorrow,” a drama based on Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld ‘s book.
“To the Edge of Sorrow” inspired by a true story, follows a intrepid Jewish teenager who managed to escape from the Nazis and found refuge in the mountains where he took part in an organized resistance movement along with other Jewish of diverse backgrounds and generations. The film will be directed by Michel Spinosa (“Enchanted Interlude”). The script of the film was written in collaboration with Valérie Zenatti, Appelfeld’s French translator.
Les Films du Losange, the banner behind Michael Haneke’s films, has taken French rights to the project and is handling international sales. The film is co-produced by Belgian coproducer Patrick Quinet (Artemis) and David Silber from Israeli company Metro Communication.
The...
“To the Edge of Sorrow” inspired by a true story, follows a intrepid Jewish teenager who managed to escape from the Nazis and found refuge in the mountains where he took part in an organized resistance movement along with other Jewish of diverse backgrounds and generations. The film will be directed by Michel Spinosa (“Enchanted Interlude”). The script of the film was written in collaboration with Valérie Zenatti, Appelfeld’s French translator.
Les Films du Losange, the banner behind Michael Haneke’s films, has taken French rights to the project and is handling international sales. The film is co-produced by Belgian coproducer Patrick Quinet (Artemis) and David Silber from Israeli company Metro Communication.
The...
- 5/16/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Berlin-based Films Boutique has acquired international sales rights to Maryam Touzani’s Cannes Un Certain Regard women’s drama “Adam,” the feature debut of the Moroccan screenwriter-director who co-wrote Nabil Ayouch’s 2017 hit “Razzia,” in which she also starred.
In early distribution deals on “Adam,” Ad Vitam has acquired French distribution rights and Cinéart those to Benelux.
A women’s tale of friendship, rebirth and oppression, “Adam,” which world premieres at the Cannes Festival. It turns on the chance but life changing and enhancing encounter in Casablanca’s Medina between Samia, a heavily pregnant, single young woman down from the countryside to have her soon-to-be-born child adopted, and Abla, a widow with a vivacious eight-year-old daughter who has set up a bakery in her home to make ends meet.
Abla takes Samia in; Samia introduces Abla to some secrets of traditional Moroccan pastries, taught to her by her grandmother,...
In early distribution deals on “Adam,” Ad Vitam has acquired French distribution rights and Cinéart those to Benelux.
A women’s tale of friendship, rebirth and oppression, “Adam,” which world premieres at the Cannes Festival. It turns on the chance but life changing and enhancing encounter in Casablanca’s Medina between Samia, a heavily pregnant, single young woman down from the countryside to have her soon-to-be-born child adopted, and Abla, a widow with a vivacious eight-year-old daughter who has set up a bakery in her home to make ends meet.
Abla takes Samia in; Samia introduces Abla to some secrets of traditional Moroccan pastries, taught to her by her grandmother,...
- 5/8/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Early 2019 slate also includes Sundance selection ‘Midnight Traveler’.
Doc & Film International will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux’s upcoming Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Frot, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (Jan 17-21).
Based on the eponymous novel of Laurent Mauvignier, Depardieu co-stars as the tortured, alcoholic figure of Feu-de-Bois, a brutish troublemaker haunted by a tough childhood and the horrors he saw as a young French soldier in Algeria during the country’s 1954-62 independence war.
The story unfolds some 40 years later in remote Burgundy region...
Doc & Film International will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux’s upcoming Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Frot, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (Jan 17-21).
Based on the eponymous novel of Laurent Mauvignier, Depardieu co-stars as the tortured, alcoholic figure of Feu-de-Bois, a brutish troublemaker haunted by a tough childhood and the horrors he saw as a young French soldier in Algeria during the country’s 1954-62 independence war.
The story unfolds some 40 years later in remote Burgundy region...
- 1/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Early 2019 slate also includes Sundance selection ‘Midnight Traveler’.
Doc & Film International will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux’s upcoming Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Frot, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (Jan 17-21).
Based on the eponymous novel of Laurent Mauvignier, Depardieu co-stars as the tortured, alcoholic figure of Feu-de-Bois, a brutish troublemaker haunted by a tough childhood and the horrors he saw as a young French soldier in Algeria during the country’s 1954-62 independence war.
The story unfolds some 40 years later in remote Burgundy region...
Doc & Film International will kick-off sales on Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux’s upcoming Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Frot, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (Jan 17-21).
Based on the eponymous novel of Laurent Mauvignier, Depardieu co-stars as the tortured, alcoholic figure of Feu-de-Bois, a brutish troublemaker haunted by a tough childhood and the horrors he saw as a young French soldier in Algeria during the country’s 1954-62 independence war.
The story unfolds some 40 years later in remote Burgundy region...
- 1/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Efp’s European Shooting Stars and Producers On The Move Alumni at the Cannes Film Festival 2018Euphoria with European Shooting Stars Jasmine Trinca (Italy 2007) and Riccardo Scamarcio (Italy 2006) was produced by Viola Prestieri (Producer on the Move Italy 2013).International sales agent: True Colors. ( Andrea Pirrello).
European Film Promotion (Efp) and its member organisations are pleased to announce that 28 former participants of Efp’s Producers On The Move programme and seven Shooting Stars will be presenting their films at the Cannes Film Festival.
Efp Managing Director Sonja Heinen says:
We are delighted that we can support such outstanding acting talents and producers at an early stage of their careers by shining a spotlight on and opening new doors for them. Together with our members, we would like to congratulate them on their inspiring work being presented in Cannes.
European Film Promotion (Efp) is a unique network of 38 European member organisations who...
European Film Promotion (Efp) and its member organisations are pleased to announce that 28 former participants of Efp’s Producers On The Move programme and seven Shooting Stars will be presenting their films at the Cannes Film Festival.
Efp Managing Director Sonja Heinen says:
We are delighted that we can support such outstanding acting talents and producers at an early stage of their careers by shining a spotlight on and opening new doors for them. Together with our members, we would like to congratulate them on their inspiring work being presented in Cannes.
European Film Promotion (Efp) is a unique network of 38 European member organisations who...
- 5/3/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Two of this year’s group have films playing at the festival.
The UK’s Chris Martin, Switzerland’s Ivan Madeo [pictured, left] and Poland’s Maria Blicharska [pictured, right] are among the 20 up-and-coming European producers to be selected for the 2017 edition of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move, which takes place at Cannes Film Festival.
As in previous years, the five-day event (May 19-23) will include pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings, case studies and other meetings with the international industry gathered in Cannes.
Two of the producers from this year’s line-up have films in the festival’s programme: Poland’s Maria Blicharska will be presenting Frost in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, while France’s Didar Domehri was a co-producer on Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera which will have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section.
Producers on the Move (PoM) from previous editions of the initiative also regularly return to Cannes...
The UK’s Chris Martin, Switzerland’s Ivan Madeo [pictured, left] and Poland’s Maria Blicharska [pictured, right] are among the 20 up-and-coming European producers to be selected for the 2017 edition of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move, which takes place at Cannes Film Festival.
As in previous years, the five-day event (May 19-23) will include pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings, case studies and other meetings with the international industry gathered in Cannes.
Two of the producers from this year’s line-up have films in the festival’s programme: Poland’s Maria Blicharska will be presenting Frost in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, while France’s Didar Domehri was a co-producer on Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera which will have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section.
Producers on the Move (PoM) from previous editions of the initiative also regularly return to Cannes...
- 5/3/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Politics drama that upset France’s Front National party to market premiere at Rendez-vous with French cinema.
The French release of Lucas Belvaux’s populist politics drama This Is Our Land (Chez Nous) will go ahead as planned in February and without cuts in the face of fierce criticism from France’s far-right Front National (Fn) party, distributor Jean Labadie of Paris-based Le Pacte has vowed.
The Belgian director’s film has been in the eye of a political storm this week following the release of the first trailer on Dec 30, ahead of its scheduled Feb 22 release.
Le Pacte’s international sales team will hold buyers-only screening at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week. It will get its festival world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the end of this month.
“The film will be released in February as planned and in its current form. There will be...
The French release of Lucas Belvaux’s populist politics drama This Is Our Land (Chez Nous) will go ahead as planned in February and without cuts in the face of fierce criticism from France’s far-right Front National (Fn) party, distributor Jean Labadie of Paris-based Le Pacte has vowed.
The Belgian director’s film has been in the eye of a political storm this week following the release of the first trailer on Dec 30, ahead of its scheduled Feb 22 release.
Le Pacte’s international sales team will hold buyers-only screening at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week. It will get its festival world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the end of this month.
“The film will be released in February as planned and in its current form. There will be...
- 1/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
Kebab Royal
Directors: Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodsworth
Writers: Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodsworth
Another Belgian directing duo we’re committed to championing is Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodsworth (who we also included prematurely on our 2015 list). Starting out as documentarians, they segued into narrative film with 2006’s Khadak, eventually spinning a loosely related trilogy with 2009’s Altiplano and 2012’s The Fifth Season (2012). While it’s possible to obtain copies of the first two, for some confounding reason, their last feature never received distribution in the Us even though it’s a fascinating, transfixing film. They filmed their latest, Kebab Royal, past March, which is now in post-production. Their films are often characterized by offbeat, surreal flourishes, and their latest concerns Nicolas II, the onerous Belgian King. Stuck on an economic mission in Istanbul, he learns of Flanders’ declaration for dependence while he’s away, and a simultaneous solar storm knocks out communication and airplanes.
Directors: Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodsworth
Writers: Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodsworth
Another Belgian directing duo we’re committed to championing is Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodsworth (who we also included prematurely on our 2015 list). Starting out as documentarians, they segued into narrative film with 2006’s Khadak, eventually spinning a loosely related trilogy with 2009’s Altiplano and 2012’s The Fifth Season (2012). While it’s possible to obtain copies of the first two, for some confounding reason, their last feature never received distribution in the Us even though it’s a fascinating, transfixing film. They filmed their latest, Kebab Royal, past March, which is now in post-production. Their films are often characterized by offbeat, surreal flourishes, and their latest concerns Nicolas II, the onerous Belgian King. Stuck on an economic mission in Istanbul, he learns of Flanders’ declaration for dependence while he’s away, and a simultaneous solar storm knocks out communication and airplanes.
- 1/13/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Contemporary Films inks deal with Doc & Film for No Home Movie, the final film of the late director.
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature, No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting...
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature, No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting...
- 12/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Contemporary Films inks deal with Doc & Film for the late director’s final film.
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting a UK theatrical run next year. A release...
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting a UK theatrical run next year. A release...
- 12/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker pushed boundaries with her experimental, female-focused films.
Belgian-born experimental film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman has died at the age of 65.
Her long-time producer Patrick Quinet of Brussels-based Artemis Film confirmed Akerman’s death.
“She was a hugely important cineaste who by her singularity revolutionised parts of international cinema,” he told Afp.
Quinet did not give the cause of Akerman’s death but French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Paris-based film-maker committed suicide on Monday evening (Oct 5).
Career
Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors.
Her mother’s experiences in Auschwitz during World War Two, where she lost both her parents, would haunt Akerman all her life and permeate many of her works including the recent No Home Movie, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Akerman made her first film, Saute Ma Ville, in 1968 at age 17, having dropped out of film school in Belgium after just one term.
The...
Belgian-born experimental film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman has died at the age of 65.
Her long-time producer Patrick Quinet of Brussels-based Artemis Film confirmed Akerman’s death.
“She was a hugely important cineaste who by her singularity revolutionised parts of international cinema,” he told Afp.
Quinet did not give the cause of Akerman’s death but French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Paris-based film-maker committed suicide on Monday evening (Oct 5).
Career
Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors.
Her mother’s experiences in Auschwitz during World War Two, where she lost both her parents, would haunt Akerman all her life and permeate many of her works including the recent No Home Movie, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Akerman made her first film, Saute Ma Ville, in 1968 at age 17, having dropped out of film school in Belgium after just one term.
The...
- 10/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker pushed boundaries with her experimental, female-focused films.
Belgian-born experimental film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman has died at the age of 65.
Her long-time producer Patrick Quinet of Brussels-based Artemis Film confirmed Akerman’s death.
“She was a hugely important cineaste who by her singularity revolutionised parts of international cinema,” he told Afp.
Quinet did not give the cause of Akerman’s death but French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Paris-based film-maker committed suicide on Monday evening (Oct 5).
Career
Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors.
Her mother’s experiences in Auschwitz during World War Two, where she lost both her parents, would haunt Akerman all her life and permeate many of her works including the recent No Home Movie, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Akerman made her first film, Saute Ma Ville, in 1968 at age 17, having dropped out of film school in Belgium after just one term.
The...
Belgian-born experimental film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman has died at the age of 65.
Her long-time producer Patrick Quinet of Brussels-based Artemis Film confirmed Akerman’s death.
“She was a hugely important cineaste who by her singularity revolutionised parts of international cinema,” he told Afp.
Quinet did not give the cause of Akerman’s death but French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Paris-based film-maker committed suicide on Monday evening (Oct 5).
Career
Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors.
Her mother’s experiences in Auschwitz during World War Two, where she lost both her parents, would haunt Akerman all her life and permeate many of her works including the recent No Home Movie, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Akerman made her first film, Saute Ma Ville, in 1968 at age 17, having dropped out of film school in Belgium after just one term.
The...
- 10/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker pushed boundaries with her experimental, female-focused films.
Belgian-born experimental film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman has died at the age of 65.
Her long-time producer Patrick Quinet of Brussels-based Artemis Film confirmed Akerman’s death.
“She was a hugely important cineaste who by her singularity revolutionised parts of international cinema,” he told Afp.
Quinet did not give the cause of Akerman’s death but French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Paris-based film-maker committed suicide on Monday evening (Oct 5).
Career
Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors.
Her mother’s experiences in Auschwitz during World War Two, where she lost both her parents, would haunt Akerman all her life and permeate many of her works including the recent No Home Movie, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Akerman made her first film, Saute Ma Ville, in 1968 at age 17, having dropped out of film school in Belgium after just one term.
The...
Belgian-born experimental film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman has died at the age of 65.
Her long-time producer Patrick Quinet of Brussels-based Artemis Film confirmed Akerman’s death.
“She was a hugely important cineaste who by her singularity revolutionised parts of international cinema,” he told Afp.
Quinet did not give the cause of Akerman’s death but French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Paris-based film-maker committed suicide on Monday evening (Oct 5).
Career
Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors.
Her mother’s experiences in Auschwitz during World War Two, where she lost both her parents, would haunt Akerman all her life and permeate many of her works including the recent No Home Movie, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival over the summer.
Akerman made her first film, Saute Ma Ville, in 1968 at age 17, having dropped out of film school in Belgium after just one term.
The...
- 10/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
France’s Diaphana Distribution has picked up Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s long-gestating project, The Young Karl Marx.
The film centres on the budding friendship between Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.
The title character is played by August Diehl. Stefan Konarske, one of the stars of Philip Koch’s Outside The Box, plays Engels.
Konarske replaces Alexander Fehling, who left the role to play the boyfriend of Claire Danes’ character in Us TV drama Homeland.
The film is a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film.
Shooting began at the beginning of September and continue for nine weeks to Nov 7.
Sales agent Films Distribution pre-sold the feature to Germany’s Neue Visionen Filmverleih at this year’s Berlinale.
The film centres on the budding friendship between Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.
The title character is played by August Diehl. Stefan Konarske, one of the stars of Philip Koch’s Outside The Box, plays Engels.
Konarske replaces Alexander Fehling, who left the role to play the boyfriend of Claire Danes’ character in Us TV drama Homeland.
The film is a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film.
Shooting began at the beginning of September and continue for nine weeks to Nov 7.
Sales agent Films Distribution pre-sold the feature to Germany’s Neue Visionen Filmverleih at this year’s Berlinale.
- 9/29/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Company to handle international sales on Raoul Peck’s long gestating The Young Karl Marx; key roles cast.
Films Distribution is to handle international sales on Haitian-born Raoul Peck long gestating project, The Young Karl Marx, about the budding friendship between the young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
The title characters will be played by two former Shooting Stars at the Berlinale: August Diehl, who was selected as Germany’s Shooting Star in 2000, will portray Marx.
Engels has been cast with Alexander Fehling, one of the Shooting Stars line-up in 2011, who is best known to international audiences as staff sergeant Wilhelm in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and was the young Goethe in Goethe!.
The Young Karl Marx is being structured as a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin/Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film. Principal photography is set to roll this summer.
Peck’s latest...
Films Distribution is to handle international sales on Haitian-born Raoul Peck long gestating project, The Young Karl Marx, about the budding friendship between the young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
The title characters will be played by two former Shooting Stars at the Berlinale: August Diehl, who was selected as Germany’s Shooting Star in 2000, will portray Marx.
Engels has been cast with Alexander Fehling, one of the Shooting Stars line-up in 2011, who is best known to international audiences as staff sergeant Wilhelm in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and was the young Goethe in Goethe!.
The Young Karl Marx is being structured as a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin/Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film. Principal photography is set to roll this summer.
Peck’s latest...
- 2/7/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #12. Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth’s Kebab Royal
Kebab Royal
Director: Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth // Writer: Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
A Belgian directing duo that you may be unfamiliar with but shouldn’t be is Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth. Starting out as documentarians, they segued into narrative film with 2006′s Khadak, eventually spinning a loosely related trilogy with 2009′s Altiplano and 2012′s The Fifth Season (2012). While it’s possible to obtain copies of the first two, for some confounding reason, their last feature never received distribution in the Us even though it’s a fascinating, transfixing film. They’ve recently received another round of funding for their latest feature, Kebab Royal, descried as “a hair-raising quintessence of European fairy tales around the last king of the Belgians lost in the Balkans.”
Cast: Not available.
Production Co.: Bo Films’ Peter Brosens, Artémis’ Patrick Quinet (Almayer’s Folly), Topkapi Films’ Frans Van Gestel (Nude Area).
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Director: Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth // Writer: Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
A Belgian directing duo that you may be unfamiliar with but shouldn’t be is Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth. Starting out as documentarians, they segued into narrative film with 2006′s Khadak, eventually spinning a loosely related trilogy with 2009′s Altiplano and 2012′s The Fifth Season (2012). While it’s possible to obtain copies of the first two, for some confounding reason, their last feature never received distribution in the Us even though it’s a fascinating, transfixing film. They’ve recently received another round of funding for their latest feature, Kebab Royal, descried as “a hair-raising quintessence of European fairy tales around the last king of the Belgians lost in the Balkans.”
Cast: Not available.
Production Co.: Bo Films’ Peter Brosens, Artémis’ Patrick Quinet (Almayer’s Folly), Topkapi Films’ Frans Van Gestel (Nude Area).
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- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Berlin -- Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges -- veteran producers from two of Europe's tiniest countries -- are the joint winners of this year's Prix Eurimages.
The prize, now in its third year, honors excellence in European co-production and takes its name from the European Council's Euroimages co-production subsidy fund.
Through her Entre Chein et Loup production house in Belgium Elbaum has co-produced European art house fare ranging from Marina de Van's psychodrama "Don't Look Back" starring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci to the Pierre Paul Renders' comedy "Mr. Average" (2006) to the period drama "Saint-Cyr" (2000) featuring Isabelle Huppert. From his base in Luxembourg, Thiltges and his Samsa Film operation have delivered some 40 features, among them Ben Sombogaart's Oscar-nominee "Twin Sisters" (2002) and action comedy "Jcvd" starring Mr. Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Elbaum and Thiltges also helped form, together with Patrick Quinet, Sebastien Delloye and Claude Waringo,...
The prize, now in its third year, honors excellence in European co-production and takes its name from the European Council's Euroimages co-production subsidy fund.
Through her Entre Chein et Loup production house in Belgium Elbaum has co-produced European art house fare ranging from Marina de Van's psychodrama "Don't Look Back" starring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci to the Pierre Paul Renders' comedy "Mr. Average" (2006) to the period drama "Saint-Cyr" (2000) featuring Isabelle Huppert. From his base in Luxembourg, Thiltges and his Samsa Film operation have delivered some 40 features, among them Ben Sombogaart's Oscar-nominee "Twin Sisters" (2002) and action comedy "Jcvd" starring Mr. Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Elbaum and Thiltges also helped form, together with Patrick Quinet, Sebastien Delloye and Claude Waringo,...
- 10/19/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Daratt (top); Kevin Bishop, Siobhan Hewlett, Marianne Faithfull in Irina Palm (middle); Nadja Uhl, Thekla Reuten in Twin Sisters (bottom) The European Film Academy has announced that the winners of the 2009 Prix Eurimages, an award "acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry," will go to two producers "who have combined their efforts to develop and promote European cinema": Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges, heads of, respectively, Entre Chien et Loup in Belgium and Samsa Film in Luxemburg. Additionally, they have joined forces with Patrick Quinet, Sébastien Delloye and Claude Waringo to create Liaison Cinématographique, a production company based in Paris. Under [...]...
- 10/19/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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