13 projects in development and six works in progress to be presented at festival’s co-production market.
New films from the Czech Republic’s Beata Parkanová and Slovenian director Martin Turk are among the projects in development and works in progress being presented at the 24th edition of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus (coco), which takes place from November 9-11 during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus.
Parkanová’s feature project Black Blood, produced by Ondrej Zach of Prague-based Ozet Film, sees her returning to Cottbus after presenting her previous feature The Word as a work in progress at last year’s Connecting Cottbus.
New films from the Czech Republic’s Beata Parkanová and Slovenian director Martin Turk are among the projects in development and works in progress being presented at the 24th edition of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus (coco), which takes place from November 9-11 during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus.
Parkanová’s feature project Black Blood, produced by Ondrej Zach of Prague-based Ozet Film, sees her returning to Cottbus after presenting her previous feature The Word as a work in progress at last year’s Connecting Cottbus.
- 9/21/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Louise Archambault’s World War II drama “Irena’s Vow,” starring Canada’s Sophie Nélisse, the U.K.’s Dougray Scott, and Poland’s Maciej Nawrocki and Andrzej Seweryn, is in production in Poland, and is set to premiere next year, according to Film New Europe.
The film tells the story of Polish nurse Irene Gut Opdyke (born Irena Gut), who in 1982 was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal for showing remarkable courage in her attempt to save Polish Jews during World War II. In 2009, her story hit Broadway as a play, written by Dan Gordon, who is also the film’s scriptwriter.
“About 25 years ago, I was driving to my home in Los Angeles and listening to the radio. I heard a woman, Irene Gut Opdyke, telling her story. When I got home, I sat in the car in the driveway for another hour and a half, because...
The film tells the story of Polish nurse Irene Gut Opdyke (born Irena Gut), who in 1982 was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal for showing remarkable courage in her attempt to save Polish Jews during World War II. In 2009, her story hit Broadway as a play, written by Dan Gordon, who is also the film’s scriptwriter.
“About 25 years ago, I was driving to my home in Los Angeles and listening to the radio. I heard a woman, Irene Gut Opdyke, telling her story. When I got home, I sat in the car in the driveway for another hour and a half, because...
- 4/29/2022
- by Katarzyna Grynienko
- Variety Film + TV
The micro-budget feature “Focus, Grandma” from Bosnian helmer-writer Pjer Žalica is a black comedy set in Sarajevo during the spring of 1992, when members of a dysfunctional family are summoned to the bed of their dying matriarch. As the siblings and their spouses arrive from far-flung parts of Yugoslavia, their squabbles and meanderings down memory lane, as well as machinations over the anticipated inheritance, distract them from the bigger picture of what is happening to their country.
Although the storyline feels a tad familiar and the humor is less sharp than in Žalica’s debut “Fuse,” there is considerable pleasure in watching the talented players in the ensemble. This opening attraction of the now-digital 26th edition of the Sarajevo fest is available for viewing worldwide via the fest’s online platform.
After the sympathetic family doctor (Izudin Bajrović) visits the home of Marija, the titular grandma and declares her time is nigh,...
Although the storyline feels a tad familiar and the humor is less sharp than in Žalica’s debut “Fuse,” there is considerable pleasure in watching the talented players in the ensemble. This opening attraction of the now-digital 26th edition of the Sarajevo fest is available for viewing worldwide via the fest’s online platform.
After the sympathetic family doctor (Izudin Bajrović) visits the home of Marija, the titular grandma and declares her time is nigh,...
- 8/15/2020
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
The Sarajevo Film Festival, which was launched in 1995 during the four-year siege of the capital in the midst of the Bosnian War, has always relied on a mixture of self-sufficiency and smart alliances with international partners. It’s a combination that will be deployed again during its 24th edition, running Aug. 10-17.
The event is characterized by its director, Mirsad Purivatra, as an international festival with a focus on a region: Southeast Europe. Purivatra was inspired to adopt a regional focus for Sarajevo after he visited Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival, with its focus on the Nordic region. This year, Sarajevo’s industry section, CineLink, will look to Scandinavia again for inspiration, this time centered on television drama, an area of growth for both regions.
Norway will be the focus of a panel event as an example of how a local TV industry can transform itself, says Jovan Marjanovic, Sarajevo’s head of industry.
The event is characterized by its director, Mirsad Purivatra, as an international festival with a focus on a region: Southeast Europe. Purivatra was inspired to adopt a regional focus for Sarajevo after he visited Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival, with its focus on the Nordic region. This year, Sarajevo’s industry section, CineLink, will look to Scandinavia again for inspiration, this time centered on television drama, an area of growth for both regions.
Norway will be the focus of a panel event as an example of how a local TV industry can transform itself, says Jovan Marjanovic, Sarajevo’s head of industry.
- 8/3/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Martin Turk’s A Good Day’s Work selected for new initiative.
The Sarajevo Film Festival and Turkish national public broadcaster Trt are teaming to fund and produce a microbudget feature film from the Balkan region.
The selected project is Martin Turk’s A Good Day’s Work, which will be shot in Sarajevo in October 2017.
Turk, a graduate of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, has previously made a series of successful short films including Every Day Is Not The Same, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
He was also a second assistant director on Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning drama No Man’s Land. A Good Day’s Work will be his second narrative feature after 2012 drama Feed Me With Your Words.
The project has been selected for the pilot edition of Sarajevo City of Film for Global Screen, a new initiative from Sarajevo Film Festival and Trt...
The Sarajevo Film Festival and Turkish national public broadcaster Trt are teaming to fund and produce a microbudget feature film from the Balkan region.
The selected project is Martin Turk’s A Good Day’s Work, which will be shot in Sarajevo in October 2017.
Turk, a graduate of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, has previously made a series of successful short films including Every Day Is Not The Same, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
He was also a second assistant director on Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning drama No Man’s Land. A Good Day’s Work will be his second narrative feature after 2012 drama Feed Me With Your Words.
The project has been selected for the pilot edition of Sarajevo City of Film for Global Screen, a new initiative from Sarajevo Film Festival and Trt...
- 8/14/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Martin Turk’s A Good Day’s Work selected for new initiative.
The Sarajevo Film Festival and Turkish national public broadcaster Trt are teaming to fund and produce a micro-budget feature film from the Balkan region.
The selected project is Martin Turk’s A Good Day’s Work, which will be shot in Sarajevo in October 2017.
Turk, a graduate of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, has previously made a series of successful short films including Every Day Is Not The Same, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
He was also a second assistant director on Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning drama No Man’s Land. A Good Day’s Work will be his second narrative feature after 2012 drama Feed Me With Your Words.
The project has been selected for the pilot edition of Sarajevo City of Film for Global Screen, a new initiative from Sarajevo Film Festival and Trt...
The Sarajevo Film Festival and Turkish national public broadcaster Trt are teaming to fund and produce a micro-budget feature film from the Balkan region.
The selected project is Martin Turk’s A Good Day’s Work, which will be shot in Sarajevo in October 2017.
Turk, a graduate of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, has previously made a series of successful short films including Every Day Is Not The Same, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
He was also a second assistant director on Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning drama No Man’s Land. A Good Day’s Work will be his second narrative feature after 2012 drama Feed Me With Your Words.
The project has been selected for the pilot edition of Sarajevo City of Film for Global Screen, a new initiative from Sarajevo Film Festival and Trt...
- 8/14/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Holy Strokes!: Turk’s Debut Loses Its Appetite
Born out of a collaboration with the Torino Film Lab comes Martin Turk’s feature directorial debut, Feed Me With Your Words, a three tiered narrative structure told from thee separate points of view from an overlapping timeline. Turk, who has worked as assistant director to Danis Tanovic and Maja Weiss, shows an intriguing knack for establishing a broody foreboding, but his overlapping ellipses lead to an underwhelming conclusion that feels disappointingly contrived.
On a seemingly normal day, Matej (Sebastian Cavazza) suddenly begins receiving phone calls from his estranged father, Janez (Boris Cavazza) whom he hasn’t spoken with in over a decade. Reluctantly, he finally answers his phone and finds that his younger brother Robert, who had been living with his parents in the Slovenian countryside, had recently traveled to Turin and has seemingly disappeared. Janez needs Matej’s help...
Born out of a collaboration with the Torino Film Lab comes Martin Turk’s feature directorial debut, Feed Me With Your Words, a three tiered narrative structure told from thee separate points of view from an overlapping timeline. Turk, who has worked as assistant director to Danis Tanovic and Maja Weiss, shows an intriguing knack for establishing a broody foreboding, but his overlapping ellipses lead to an underwhelming conclusion that feels disappointingly contrived.
On a seemingly normal day, Matej (Sebastian Cavazza) suddenly begins receiving phone calls from his estranged father, Janez (Boris Cavazza) whom he hasn’t spoken with in over a decade. Reluctantly, he finally answers his phone and finds that his younger brother Robert, who had been living with his parents in the Slovenian countryside, had recently traveled to Turin and has seemingly disappeared. Janez needs Matej’s help...
- 4/22/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
- 9/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Wedged between Sundance and Berlin is the extremely important Rotterdam film festival. Rotterdam functions as Europe's first major film fest of the year, but it seconds as a premiere destination for filmmakers such as Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), Amat Escalante (Sangre) and Juraj Lehotsky (Blind Loves) who make the kind of films that need a "helping hand". This list is of obvious interest because we'll be talking about this projects-turned-into-films down the road - we only need to look at Venice/Tiff for recent examples such as Samuel Maoz's Lebanon and Shirin Neshat's Women without Men to see the quality of films that got their start here. - Wedged between Sundance and Berlin is the extremely important Rotterdam film festival. Rotterdam functions as Europe's first major film fest of the year, but it seconds as a premiere destination for filmmakers such as Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), Amat Escalante...
- 12/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris -- The Festival de Cannes' 18th Residence de la Cinefondation will welcome its next crop of directors March 1-July 15, festival organizers said Monday.
Festival president Gilles Jacob and his jury chose six directors from a pool of 160 applicants for the educational program.
The six include first-time filmmakers Israeli Yael Gidron with "Nature Film," Polish Rafael Kapelinski ("Up on the Roof"), Slovenian Martin Turk ("Feed Me With Your Words") and German Andreas Bolm ("The Revenant").
Also chosen were Guatemalan Julio Hernandez-Cordon ("Dust") and Chilean Esteban Larrain ("La Vierge de Penablanca"), both second features.
Founded in 2000, the successful program has seen 65% of the projects it has supported turned into feature films, not including the 22 films in preproduction that, if made, would see that figure soar to 89%.
The initiative was created to help directors with the writing process and production of their films. The 2009 Festival de Cannes is set for May 13-...
Festival president Gilles Jacob and his jury chose six directors from a pool of 160 applicants for the educational program.
The six include first-time filmmakers Israeli Yael Gidron with "Nature Film," Polish Rafael Kapelinski ("Up on the Roof"), Slovenian Martin Turk ("Feed Me With Your Words") and German Andreas Bolm ("The Revenant").
Also chosen were Guatemalan Julio Hernandez-Cordon ("Dust") and Chilean Esteban Larrain ("La Vierge de Penablanca"), both second features.
Founded in 2000, the successful program has seen 65% of the projects it has supported turned into feature films, not including the 22 films in preproduction that, if made, would see that figure soar to 89%.
The initiative was created to help directors with the writing process and production of their films. The 2009 Festival de Cannes is set for May 13-...
- 3/2/2009
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- From March 1st 2009 to July 15th 2009, the filmmakers mentioned below will be part of Cannes' 2009 La Résidence de la Cinéfondation - a programme which helps young filmmakers write the screenplay and prepare for the production of their first or second feature film. Gilles Jacob and jury chose from over 160 applicants. This year's batch of unknown filmmakers come from Central America and Europe. "La Résidence de la Cinéfondation enjoys very encouraging results: 65% of the projects it has supported since its foundation in 2000 have been made and, for the most part, distributed. This figure can be raised to 89% if the 22 films currently in pre-production are taken into account. On theatre release right now are Pièces Détachées by Aaron Fernandez, Los Bastardos by Amat Escalante, Adrian Sitaru’s Pic-Nic and, coming soon, Delta by Kornel Mundrunczo." Yaël Gidron (Israeli, 27) with Nature Film (1st feature), follows the return of Daphna to the army
- 3/2/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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