IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose feature films are premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the look and visual language of these highly anticipated films.
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard, Critics’ Week, and Acid
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight and Marché du Film
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
“Boy from Heaven”
Dir: Tarik Saleh, DoP: Pierre Aim
Format: 4K Arriraw
Camera: Arri Lf
Lens: Scorpio 40mm
Aim: “Boy from Heaven” is the third film I made with Tarik after “The Nile Hilton Incident” and “The Contractor.” To shoot Tarik’s latest film, we only used one lens: the 40mm scope Scorpio. The general idea of...
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard, Critics’ Week, and Acid
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight and Marché du Film
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
“Boy from Heaven”
Dir: Tarik Saleh, DoP: Pierre Aim
Format: 4K Arriraw
Camera: Arri Lf
Lens: Scorpio 40mm
Aim: “Boy from Heaven” is the third film I made with Tarik after “The Nile Hilton Incident” and “The Contractor.” To shoot Tarik’s latest film, we only used one lens: the 40mm scope Scorpio. The general idea of...
- 5/27/2022
- by Chris O'Falt and Erik Adams
- Indiewire
Majid Majidi had been making movies for quite some time when he rose to worldwide attention for “Children Of Heaven”, a poignant 1997 film featuring the life of impoverished children in Iran. He followed it up with a darker, far more tragic version in 1999 with “The Colour Of Paradise”, in which he told the tale of a blind child. In 2020, Majidi was suddenly back under the limelight, due to his ” Sun Children” not only premiering but also winning an award at Venice.
“Sun Children” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
Majidi’s latest tells the story of twelve-year-old Ali and a bunch of his friends. Their fathers are absent from their lives, whether they are dead, constantly intoxicated, missing or in prison. Thus, they have to accept the responsibility of supporting themselves and their family, which they do through small jobs in a garage. However, the income is clearly not enough,...
“Sun Children” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
Majidi’s latest tells the story of twelve-year-old Ali and a bunch of his friends. Their fathers are absent from their lives, whether they are dead, constantly intoxicated, missing or in prison. Thus, they have to accept the responsibility of supporting themselves and their family, which they do through small jobs in a garage. However, the income is clearly not enough,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Raktim Nandi
- AsianMoviePulse
A gust of progressive and very feminine wind sweeps through the empty corridors of soon-to-crumble male institution in “The Warden”, second feature from Iranian director Nima Javidi, whose 2014 debut “Melbourne” collected a good deal of awards and consensus. Equally location-centered and set in a closed environment, The Warden is less claustrophobic than “Melbourne” and more evocative and darkly atmospheric.
“The Warden” is screening at the BFI London Film Festival 2019
A gallows with its black outline under the pouring rain is the first, strongly allusive scene of the movie. A group of prison wardens is trying to take it apart but the old artifact is too strongly built and refuses to came down. The whole prison building is about to be evacuated and the inmates relocated in new facilities due to the construction of a new airstrip just where the old building sits. Major Jahed (Navid Mohammadzadeh) is the head of...
“The Warden” is screening at the BFI London Film Festival 2019
A gallows with its black outline under the pouring rain is the first, strongly allusive scene of the movie. A group of prison wardens is trying to take it apart but the old artifact is too strongly built and refuses to came down. The whole prison building is about to be evacuated and the inmates relocated in new facilities due to the construction of a new airstrip just where the old building sits. Major Jahed (Navid Mohammadzadeh) is the head of...
- 10/4/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
GOLD COAST, Queensland -- Korean writer-director Lee Chang Dong's Secret Sunshine and a trio of Iranian films dominated Tuesday's inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Sunshine was a dual winner -- earning the award for best feature film as well as a best actress nod for its star, Jeon Do-Yeon, also a winner at the Festival de Cannes.
Three Iranian films took top prizes: Mainline helmers Raksha Bani-Etemead and Mohsen Abdolvahab won for achievement in directing; Hooman Behmanesh earned the cinematography nod for his work on Those Three; and Nightbus, a black-and-white war drama set against the Iran-Iraq conflict of the 1980s, won a special Jury Grand Prize.
"The Jury Grand Prize to Night Bus acknowledges the extraordinary achievements of Iran in filmmaking and the particular finesse that the writer and director, Kiumars Pourhamad, and his fine ensemble cast have brought to their craft," said jury president Shbana Azmi, an Indian actress.
The awards were "an initiative whose time has come, politically and culturally."...
Sunshine was a dual winner -- earning the award for best feature film as well as a best actress nod for its star, Jeon Do-Yeon, also a winner at the Festival de Cannes.
Three Iranian films took top prizes: Mainline helmers Raksha Bani-Etemead and Mohsen Abdolvahab won for achievement in directing; Hooman Behmanesh earned the cinematography nod for his work on Those Three; and Nightbus, a black-and-white war drama set against the Iran-Iraq conflict of the 1980s, won a special Jury Grand Prize.
"The Jury Grand Prize to Night Bus acknowledges the extraordinary achievements of Iran in filmmaking and the particular finesse that the writer and director, Kiumars Pourhamad, and his fine ensemble cast have brought to their craft," said jury president Shbana Azmi, an Indian actress.
The awards were "an initiative whose time has come, politically and culturally."...
- 11/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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