Taskovski Films has acquired world rights to the Danish doc “Daughter of Genghis,” produced by “The Lost Leonardo’s” Andreas Dalsgaard for Elk Film. The debut feature of award-winning photo-journalists Kristoffer Juel Poulsen and Christian Als, who have teamed up with leading Danish journalist Knud Brix, will world premiere in the F:act competition section of the leading international documentary festival Cph:dox in Copenhagen. Variety has secured the trailer in exclusivity.
“‘Daughter of Genghis’ is a compelling exploration of global extremism, delving into emotional dynamics and pathways to radicalization,” said Irena Taskovski, CEO of U.K.-based Taskovski Films. “Against the backdrop of Mongolia’s struggle for sovereignty amidst geopolitical tensions, the film highlights the resilience of its main character, Gerel Byamba.”
“With its potent blend of geopolitical relevance and nuanced character portrayal, the film promises significant commercial potential and wide audience appeal,” she added.
The huge collective filmmaking effort, which...
“‘Daughter of Genghis’ is a compelling exploration of global extremism, delving into emotional dynamics and pathways to radicalization,” said Irena Taskovski, CEO of U.K.-based Taskovski Films. “Against the backdrop of Mongolia’s struggle for sovereignty amidst geopolitical tensions, the film highlights the resilience of its main character, Gerel Byamba.”
“With its potent blend of geopolitical relevance and nuanced character portrayal, the film promises significant commercial potential and wide audience appeal,” she added.
The huge collective filmmaking effort, which...
- 2/28/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary “Flee” – already awarded at Sundance and Annecy – was granted the Grand Prix – Bank Millennium Award at the 18th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, which will continue online from September 16 until October 3. Jurors Agnieszka Holland, Christian Frei and Tomasz Wolski were taken by the story of a man who, about to marry his husband, decides to finally open up about his refugee past. The film also picked up the “Zwierciadło” award for the Best Film on Psychology.
“This film speaks about a real, extremely important subject in an artistically powerful, compelling, and complex way,” it was argued. “The original form, the sincerity of the main character, the lack of sentimentality and its strong emotional content make it not only an attractive movie for the wider audience, but also an important statement about the real situation of today’s refugees, helping us to understand their...
“This film speaks about a real, extremely important subject in an artistically powerful, compelling, and complex way,” it was argued. “The original form, the sincerity of the main character, the lack of sentimentality and its strong emotional content make it not only an attractive movie for the wider audience, but also an important statement about the real situation of today’s refugees, helping us to understand their...
- 9/10/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The 65th Cork International Film Festival announces its award winners - Festivals / Awards - Ireland
The D’Innocenzo brothers’ Bad Tales has snagged the Spirit of the Festival Award, whilst Estephan Wagner and Marianne Hougen-Moraga’s Songs of Repression was crowned Best Documentary. It’s a wrap for the 65th edition of the Cork International Film Festival. The event, the longest-running Irish gathering of its kind, unspooled from 8-15 November and was held virtually. Initially set to be a hybrid festival, the worrying increase in coronavirus cases and the Irish government’s announcement to implement level 3+ restrictions nationwide on 10 November forced the organisers to rethink the entire event and re-plan it digitally. The closing ceremony took place online on 14 November. The winner of this year’s Spirit of the Festival Award was Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo’s Bad Tales, a dark fairy tale set in a southern suburb of Rome, where a small community of families live with their adolescent children, starring Elio Germano in one of the.
- 11/16/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner tread carefully with their documentary profile of the German religious community the Colony of Dignity in Chile - which, in stark contrast to its tranquil name and bucolic setting, became a hotbed of sexual and physical abuse for decades.
Beneath all the religious trappings, leader Paul Schäfer created a climate of spying and brutal group beatings. In 2006, he was jailed for his crimes and died in prison, aged 88 - all facts we learn via intertitles, that fill in the backstory to the place, allowing the film itself to centre the survivors of the abuse and their ongoing experiences.
What emerges is a careful consideration of the impact of this sort of long-term abuse, particularly within the confines of a small community. Hougen-Moraga and Wagner spent more than three years building relationships with the people here and it shows in the intimacy they achieve in their interviews.
Beneath all the religious trappings, leader Paul Schäfer created a climate of spying and brutal group beatings. In 2006, he was jailed for his crimes and died in prison, aged 88 - all facts we learn via intertitles, that fill in the backstory to the place, allowing the film itself to centre the survivors of the abuse and their ongoing experiences.
What emerges is a careful consideration of the impact of this sort of long-term abuse, particularly within the confines of a small community. Hougen-Moraga and Wagner spent more than three years building relationships with the people here and it shows in the intimacy they achieve in their interviews.
- 11/10/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Crip Camp,” “Gunda” and “Time” are among the films that have made Doc NYC’s 2020 “Short List,” an annual attempt by the New York-based festival to identify the nonfiction films most likely to play a significant part in awards season.
Those three films were also included in the Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations for Best Documentary Feature, and on the International Documentary Association’s shortlist from which the Ida chooses nominees for the Ida Documentary Awards. They are the only three movies to land on all three lists.
Nine additional films on the Doc NYC list were also singled out either by the Ida or Critics Choice: “Boys State,” “Collective,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” “The Fight,” “MLK/FBI,” “76 Days,” “The Social Dilemma,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya.”
Other films on the Doc NYC list, which is made up of 15 documentaries, are “I Am Greta,” “On the Record” and “A Thousand Cuts.
Those three films were also included in the Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations for Best Documentary Feature, and on the International Documentary Association’s shortlist from which the Ida chooses nominees for the Ida Documentary Awards. They are the only three movies to land on all three lists.
Nine additional films on the Doc NYC list were also singled out either by the Ida or Critics Choice: “Boys State,” “Collective,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” “The Fight,” “MLK/FBI,” “76 Days,” “The Social Dilemma,” “The Truffle Hunters” and “Welcome to Chechnya.”
Other films on the Doc NYC list, which is made up of 15 documentaries, are “I Am Greta,” “On the Record” and “A Thousand Cuts.
- 11/9/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival and staple of the New York film community, announced the lineup for its 11th edition, running online November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The program includes new films about John Belushi, Pope Francis, Bill T. Jones, Jamal Khashoggi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Zappa, and many more. The 2020 festival lineup includes 107 feature-length documentaries among over 200 films and dozens of events. Included are 23 World Premieres, 12 international or North American premieres, and 7 US premieres. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by Bipoc directors (34% of the feature program).
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
World Premieres at the festival include Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo’s “A La Calle,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan,” Sian-Pierre Regis’s “Duty Free,” Noah Hutton’s “In Silico,” Nancy Buirski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The first all-virtual edition of the Doc NYC festival of nonfiction films announced its 2020 lineup on Thursday, with 107 feature documentaries about everyone from John Belushi to Jamal Khashoggi and Pope Francis to Frank Zappa,
The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”
Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.
The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...
The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”
Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.
The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...
- 10/15/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s debut feature launched at Venice 2019.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection won the main New Visions Award, the Golden Puffin, at the Reykjavik International Film Festival which wrapped its 17th edition on Sunday, October 4.
Set in Lesotho, the film is about an 80-year-old widow who learns her village will be resettled.
The jury, comprised of filmmakers Shahrbanoo Sadat and Ísold Uggadóttir and New Europe Film Sales CEO Jan Naszewski, praised the film as “a voyage to a magical and isolated place where the 80-year-old protagonist is fighting for nature...
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection won the main New Visions Award, the Golden Puffin, at the Reykjavik International Film Festival which wrapped its 17th edition on Sunday, October 4.
Set in Lesotho, the film is about an 80-year-old widow who learns her village will be resettled.
The jury, comprised of filmmakers Shahrbanoo Sadat and Ísold Uggadóttir and New Europe Film Sales CEO Jan Naszewski, praised the film as “a voyage to a magical and isolated place where the 80-year-old protagonist is fighting for nature...
- 10/6/2020
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Amsterdan event is planned as a hybrid physical-digital edition.
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has unveiled the first titles selected for edition, which is set to go ahead as a mix of physical and virtual events from November 18-29.
The festival will screen 30 documentaries first selected for the Berlinale, Sundance and Cannes under the banner Best of Fests.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The titles include The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, which debuted at Sundance before being being selected for both Cannes and Telluride (although neither took place); and Elizabeth Lo’s Stray,...
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has unveiled the first titles selected for edition, which is set to go ahead as a mix of physical and virtual events from November 18-29.
The festival will screen 30 documentaries first selected for the Berlinale, Sundance and Cannes under the banner Best of Fests.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The titles include The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, which debuted at Sundance before being being selected for both Cannes and Telluride (although neither took place); and Elizabeth Lo’s Stray,...
- 9/29/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
What are the benefits of an online festival premiere? It’s been the question on the lips of filmmakers, sales agents, distributors and exhibitors since festivals had to stop operating as physical entities. Venice marked a return to a more traditional way of doing things, while Toronto’s hybrid dance of digital industry and physical public screenings offers a different alternative. But should filmmakers accept invitations to premiere their films at purely virtual festivals?
Now that several online festivals have taken place – Cph:Dox, Locarno and Sheffield Docfest – a consensus is emerging about the efficacy of premiering films online.
Sales agents have discovered that with the right movie, digital festivals can be as profitable as physical festivals.
Filmmakers are missing the experience of meeting audiences and the press and reporting that the consumer media is less interested in digital platforms.
For distributors, it’s a case of plus ça change...
Now that several online festivals have taken place – Cph:Dox, Locarno and Sheffield Docfest – a consensus is emerging about the efficacy of premiering films online.
Sales agents have discovered that with the right movie, digital festivals can be as profitable as physical festivals.
Filmmakers are missing the experience of meeting audiences and the press and reporting that the consumer media is less interested in digital platforms.
For distributors, it’s a case of plus ça change...
- 9/11/2020
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Variety Film + TV
More than half of all competition titles directed by women.
Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the full programme for its 2020 edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4.
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The 16th edition of the festival will comprise 165 films, of which 23 are world premieres and more than half of the competition titles are directed by women. Zff also revealed that Oscar-winning UK actress Olivia Colman will receive an honorary award and Johnny Depp is set to attend the festival with a new documentary.
The feature...
Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) has unveiled the full programme for its 2020 edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4.
Scroll down for list of competition titles
The 16th edition of the festival will comprise 165 films, of which 23 are world premieres and more than half of the competition titles are directed by women. Zff also revealed that Oscar-winning UK actress Olivia Colman will receive an honorary award and Johnny Depp is set to attend the festival with a new documentary.
The feature...
- 9/10/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Festival extends screening of 90 films to April 30 and adds a handful of international offerings.
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Cph:dox) has sold 66,500 streams to its online festival, the organisation has revealed to Screen.
Using a modest multiplying factor of 1.7 (especially considering that families were in lockdown together), that means the festival’s online audience has numbered 113,000. The geographic split was 70% of audience in Copenhagen and 30% of audience elsewhere in Denmark.
This compares to last year’s record physical ticket sales of 114,000. Copenhagen Municipality has a population of 632,340.
The online programme has now been extended to April 30 for 90 titles. The physical festival...
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (Cph:dox) has sold 66,500 streams to its online festival, the organisation has revealed to Screen.
Using a modest multiplying factor of 1.7 (especially considering that families were in lockdown together), that means the festival’s online audience has numbered 113,000. The geographic split was 70% of audience in Copenhagen and 30% of audience elsewhere in Denmark.
This compares to last year’s record physical ticket sales of 114,000. Copenhagen Municipality has a population of 632,340.
The online programme has now been extended to April 30 for 90 titles. The physical festival...
- 4/9/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The film also won the inaugural Danish:dox prize.
Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner’s trauma exploration documentary Songs Of Repression led the winners at Cph:dox 2020, which presented its prizes via an online presentation this evening (March 27).
The Danish project took the Dox:Award in the international main competition, awarded by a jury of the Sundance Institute’s Brenda Coughlin; Dok Leipzig festival director Christoph Terhechte; Romanian director Alexander Nanau; and Danish director Pernille Rose Grønkjær.
See below for the full list of winners
The film explores the different strategies used to deal with trauma by residents of a Chilean town that has seen systemic child abuse,...
Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner’s trauma exploration documentary Songs Of Repression led the winners at Cph:dox 2020, which presented its prizes via an online presentation this evening (March 27).
The Danish project took the Dox:Award in the international main competition, awarded by a jury of the Sundance Institute’s Brenda Coughlin; Dok Leipzig festival director Christoph Terhechte; Romanian director Alexander Nanau; and Danish director Pernille Rose Grønkjær.
See below for the full list of winners
The film explores the different strategies used to deal with trauma by residents of a Chilean town that has seen systemic child abuse,...
- 3/30/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
The Danish film has won the main prize at the online edition of Scandinavia's top documentary festival; other winners include We Hold the Line, Being Eriko, South, Mother’s Tongue and Mayor. The winners of the 17th edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival - Cph:dox were announced on Friday evening. Originally set to unspool from 18-29 March in Copenhagen, in light of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the festival cancelled all on-site events and moved its activities online instead, including the awards ceremony. The Danish production Songs of Repression, co-directed by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner, picked up the festival’s main prize, the Dox:Award. The film explores a closed-off German community in Chile with a dark past. The jury consisted of Brenda Coughlin, of the Sundance Institute (USA); Dok Leipzig director Christoph Terhechte (Germany); and filmmakers Alexander Nanau (Romania) and Pernille Rose Grønkjær (Denmark). Songs of Repression also received the.
The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, known as Cph:dox, will go digital this year in the wake of coronavirus concerns, the festival has announced.
The festival had been due to run March 18-29 with over 700 screenings planned for a program of 220 films. While the physical screenings have had to be abandoned, festival organizers said it is launching “part of the festival digitally.”
Cph:dox has partnered with online portal Festival Scope to deliver an online program, which will highlight a selection of Danish and international titles for the local audience. The festival said it was also working towards having its six competition programs judged online by appointed juries and reviewed by Danish and international critics.
Titles available on the Festival Scope portal will include Dox:Award competition titles “Songs of Repression,” from Oscar-nominated producer Signe Byrge Sørensen (“The Act of Killing”), directed by Estephan Wagner and Marianne Huge-Moraga, and “Long Live Love,...
The festival had been due to run March 18-29 with over 700 screenings planned for a program of 220 films. While the physical screenings have had to be abandoned, festival organizers said it is launching “part of the festival digitally.”
Cph:dox has partnered with online portal Festival Scope to deliver an online program, which will highlight a selection of Danish and international titles for the local audience. The festival said it was also working towards having its six competition programs judged online by appointed juries and reviewed by Danish and international critics.
Titles available on the Festival Scope portal will include Dox:Award competition titles “Songs of Repression,” from Oscar-nominated producer Signe Byrge Sørensen (“The Act of Killing”), directed by Estephan Wagner and Marianne Huge-Moraga, and “Long Live Love,...
- 3/12/2020
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
New titles from Petra Costa, Guido Hendrikx and Mila Turajlic.
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 33 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 33 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New titles from Petra Costa, Guido Hendrikx and Mila Turajlic.
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 32 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
Cph:forum, the co-production and financing strand of Denmark’s Cph: Dox, has unveiled the 32 projects it will showcase in Copenhagen from March 26-28.
The projects include Brazilian director Petra Costa’s new work Fatherland, about a daughter’s investigation into her father’s memories as he attempts to change the system in a country shaped by slavery. Costa’s most recent film, The Edge Of Democracy, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
Also selected is Guido Hendrikx’s A Wonderful Horrible Story, which blends archive footage,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Turkey is the literal bridge between Europe and the East and is increasingly in the news as the stopping point for 3 million refugees, mostly from Syria, seeking to flee to Europe and the U.S. and as a player in the newest battle for Mosul.Turkey, the bridge between East and West
The Antalya Film Festival feels it is imperative to show that life still goes on, and the creative and recreative power of entertainment leads the show.
Moreover, it is obvious today to those people with alert perception that men are not succeeding in ruling the world very well. Women must take on their 51% role. Let a cosmetic culture rule the world rather than a culture of arms. (Mac does happen to be a sponsor of the festival and their gifts were great, including a free makeup session for the closing night gala!).
Venus and Mars may have been lovers,...
The Antalya Film Festival feels it is imperative to show that life still goes on, and the creative and recreative power of entertainment leads the show.
Moreover, it is obvious today to those people with alert perception that men are not succeeding in ruling the world very well. Women must take on their 51% role. Let a cosmetic culture rule the world rather than a culture of arms. (Mac does happen to be a sponsor of the festival and their gifts were great, including a free makeup session for the closing night gala!).
Venus and Mars may have been lovers,...
- 10/28/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Hamptons International Film Festival’s top prizes have gone to Bulgarian-Greek drama Glory (Slava) and Us documentary The Eagle Huntress.
The Hamptons International Film Festival has given is Best Narrative Feature award to Bulgarian-Greek drama Glory (Slava) (pictured), directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov and its Best Documentary Feature award to Us entry The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell.
French-Qatari crime story Divines, from Houda Benyamina, and Denmark’s Those Who Jump, from Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé got honourable mentions in, respectively, the narrative feature and documentary feature categories.
The festival’s Tangerine Entertainment Juice Fund Award, which honours an outstanding female narrative filmmakers, went to Wakefield, directed by Robin Swicord.
Other winners announced in the festival’s East Hampton awards ceremony included:
Hiff Award Winner for Best Narrative Short Film presented by the Wall Street Journal
The Silence (Il Silenzio), directed by Ali Asgari and Farnoosh Samadi.
Hiff Award Winner...
The Hamptons International Film Festival has given is Best Narrative Feature award to Bulgarian-Greek drama Glory (Slava) (pictured), directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov and its Best Documentary Feature award to Us entry The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell.
French-Qatari crime story Divines, from Houda Benyamina, and Denmark’s Those Who Jump, from Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé got honourable mentions in, respectively, the narrative feature and documentary feature categories.
The festival’s Tangerine Entertainment Juice Fund Award, which honours an outstanding female narrative filmmakers, went to Wakefield, directed by Robin Swicord.
Other winners announced in the festival’s East Hampton awards ceremony included:
Hiff Award Winner for Best Narrative Short Film presented by the Wall Street Journal
The Silence (Il Silenzio), directed by Ali Asgari and Farnoosh Samadi.
Hiff Award Winner...
- 10/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Hamptons International Film Festival’s top prizes have gone to Bulgarian-Greek drama Glory (Slava) and Us documentary The Eagle Huntress.
The Hamptons International Film Festival has given is Best Narrative Feature award to Bulgarian-Greek drama Glory (Slava) (pictured), directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov and its Best Documentary Feature award to Us entry The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell.
French-Qatari crime story Divines, from Houda Benyamina, and Denmark’s Those Who Jump, from Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé got honourable mentions in, respectively, the narrative feature and documentary feature categories.
The festival’s Tangerine Entertainment Juice Fund Award, which honours an outstanding female narrative filmmakers, went to Wakefield, directed by Robin Swicord.
Other winners announced in the festival’s East Hampton awards ceremony included:
Hiff Award Winner for Best Narrative Short Film presented by the Wall Street Journal
The Silence (Il Silenzio), directed by Ali Asgari and Farnoosh Samadi.
Hiff Award Winner...
The Hamptons International Film Festival has given is Best Narrative Feature award to Bulgarian-Greek drama Glory (Slava) (pictured), directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov and its Best Documentary Feature award to Us entry The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell.
French-Qatari crime story Divines, from Houda Benyamina, and Denmark’s Those Who Jump, from Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé got honourable mentions in, respectively, the narrative feature and documentary feature categories.
The festival’s Tangerine Entertainment Juice Fund Award, which honours an outstanding female narrative filmmakers, went to Wakefield, directed by Robin Swicord.
Other winners announced in the festival’s East Hampton awards ceremony included:
Hiff Award Winner for Best Narrative Short Film presented by the Wall Street Journal
The Silence (Il Silenzio), directed by Ali Asgari and Farnoosh Samadi.
Hiff Award Winner...
- 10/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
Projects include The Distant Barking of Dogs, from The Act of Killing production company Final Cut For Real.
The Nordisk Panorama Forum for Co-financing of Documentaries, to be held in Malmo, Sweden from Sept 18-20, has selected 24 documentary projects to be pitched to industry professionals.
They include Johan Von Sydow’s Swedish documentary about American musician Tiny Tim; Lea Glob’s Danish documentary about a female painter’s coming of age in Paris; Emil Trier’s feature debut about Norwegian con man Waleed Ahmed; and The Act of Killing production company Final Cut For Real’s new Ukraine-set project The Distant Barking of Dogs [pictured], directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont.
The full list of projects being pitched16, dir Kenneth Elvebaak, Fuglene (Norway)Adil and the Spy, dirs Randi Mossige-Norheim & Johan Palmgren, Mantaray Film (Sweden)Apolonia, Apolonia, dir Lea Glob, Danish Documentary (Denmark)Confessions of a Military Dictatorship, dir Karen Stokkendal Poulsen, Bullitt Film (Denmark...
The Nordisk Panorama Forum for Co-financing of Documentaries, to be held in Malmo, Sweden from Sept 18-20, has selected 24 documentary projects to be pitched to industry professionals.
They include Johan Von Sydow’s Swedish documentary about American musician Tiny Tim; Lea Glob’s Danish documentary about a female painter’s coming of age in Paris; Emil Trier’s feature debut about Norwegian con man Waleed Ahmed; and The Act of Killing production company Final Cut For Real’s new Ukraine-set project The Distant Barking of Dogs [pictured], directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont.
The full list of projects being pitched16, dir Kenneth Elvebaak, Fuglene (Norway)Adil and the Spy, dirs Randi Mossige-Norheim & Johan Palmgren, Mantaray Film (Sweden)Apolonia, Apolonia, dir Lea Glob, Danish Documentary (Denmark)Confessions of a Military Dictatorship, dir Karen Stokkendal Poulsen, Bullitt Film (Denmark...
- 7/29/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The organizers of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff) announced that the winners of the Berlinale 2016 will be present on this years programme.
The programme will include the winners of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize; “Death in Sarajevo” (Bosnia-Herzegovina) by the Danis Tanovic, the winner of the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize; “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery” (Philippines) by Lav Diaz; and winner of the Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Cinematography); “Crosscurrent” (China) by Yang Chao.
The Hkiff will also present the winners of the Teddy Award Best Feature Film; “Tomcat” (Austria) by Handl Klaus. Both winners of the Ecumenical Prize (Forum 2016); “Barakah meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and “Those Who Jump” (Denmark) by Abou Bakar Sidibé, Estephan Wagner and Mortiz Siebert.
Last but not least the festival will screen the winners of the Golden Bear for Best Short; “Batrachian’s Ballad” (Portugal) by Leonor Teles, and...
The programme will include the winners of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize; “Death in Sarajevo” (Bosnia-Herzegovina) by the Danis Tanovic, the winner of the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize; “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery” (Philippines) by Lav Diaz; and winner of the Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Cinematography); “Crosscurrent” (China) by Yang Chao.
The Hkiff will also present the winners of the Teddy Award Best Feature Film; “Tomcat” (Austria) by Handl Klaus. Both winners of the Ecumenical Prize (Forum 2016); “Barakah meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and “Those Who Jump” (Denmark) by Abou Bakar Sidibé, Estephan Wagner and Mortiz Siebert.
Last but not least the festival will screen the winners of the Golden Bear for Best Short; “Batrachian’s Ballad” (Portugal) by Leonor Teles, and...
- 2/24/2016
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: New agreement covers Us, UK and Mexico.
The Eye On Films (EoF) network has signed a new library deal that will see its films made available to users of streaming platform Mubi in the UK, Us and Mexico.
EoF is a support support platform for the distribution of first and second feature films, launched by Wide in 2011 with the support of the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme.
The network now has more than 120 international partners including 52 festivals and 50 distributors in more than 40 countries with a catalogue of more than 70 films.
New EoF titles in the Berlinale selection includes Stephan Richter’s One Of Us; Those Who Jump by Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner and Abou Bakar Sidibe; Who is Oda by Kamilla Pfeffer;You’ll Never Blone by Alex Anwandter; and Nakom by Kelly Daniela Norris and Tw Pittman.
A new festival that has been added to that list is Split Film Festival, which runs for...
The Eye On Films (EoF) network has signed a new library deal that will see its films made available to users of streaming platform Mubi in the UK, Us and Mexico.
EoF is a support support platform for the distribution of first and second feature films, launched by Wide in 2011 with the support of the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme.
The network now has more than 120 international partners including 52 festivals and 50 distributors in more than 40 countries with a catalogue of more than 70 films.
New EoF titles in the Berlinale selection includes Stephan Richter’s One Of Us; Those Who Jump by Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner and Abou Bakar Sidibe; Who is Oda by Kamilla Pfeffer;You’ll Never Blone by Alex Anwandter; and Nakom by Kelly Daniela Norris and Tw Pittman.
A new festival that has been added to that list is Split Film Festival, which runs for...
- 2/18/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Programme includes 34 world premieres.
The line-up for the 46th Berlinale Forum has been announced and will feature a total of 44 films in its main programme, of which 34 are world premieres and nine international premieres.
One focus of this year’s programme is the Arab region, with films shot by mainly young directors from an area that stretches between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, exploring both the past and present of their homelands.
In A Magical Substance Flows into Me, artist Jumana Manna sets out in search of the musical diversity of the Palestinian region.
Tamer El Said’s feature In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina) sends his alter-ego Khalid through the director’s home city of Cairo, which is in a state of uproar.
Maher Abi Samra’s documentary A Maid for Each (Makhdoumin) grapples with the employment of maids from the Global South in middle-class Lebanese households, a practice...
The line-up for the 46th Berlinale Forum has been announced and will feature a total of 44 films in its main programme, of which 34 are world premieres and nine international premieres.
One focus of this year’s programme is the Arab region, with films shot by mainly young directors from an area that stretches between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, exploring both the past and present of their homelands.
In A Magical Substance Flows into Me, artist Jumana Manna sets out in search of the musical diversity of the Palestinian region.
Tamer El Said’s feature In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina) sends his alter-ego Khalid through the director’s home city of Cairo, which is in a state of uproar.
Maher Abi Samra’s documentary A Maid for Each (Makhdoumin) grapples with the employment of maids from the Global South in middle-class Lebanese households, a practice...
- 1/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 7th annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival is like having four different fests crammed into an exhaustive three days on Aug. 27-29. It’s an outrageous underground fest, an animation festival, a documentary fest and a horror movie festival: The culmination of a month of fests run by Atlanta’s Festival League. There’s tons of short films, documentaries, features and more.
There’s lots of great stuff to recommend, too. On the last night of the fest, there will be a screening of Chris Hansen‘s second feature film, Endings, which tells the touching story of three people spending their last day on Earth together. The film was reviewed on Bad Lit a few months ago. On the short film front, there’s Loretta Hintz‘s wild lesbian bestiality (sort of) tale, The Sheep and the Ranch Hand and two films by the perpetually awesome Neil Ira Needleman, Meeskit...
There’s lots of great stuff to recommend, too. On the last night of the fest, there will be a screening of Chris Hansen‘s second feature film, Endings, which tells the touching story of three people spending their last day on Earth together. The film was reviewed on Bad Lit a few months ago. On the short film front, there’s Loretta Hintz‘s wild lesbian bestiality (sort of) tale, The Sheep and the Ranch Hand and two films by the perpetually awesome Neil Ira Needleman, Meeskit...
- 8/18/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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