With fears our winter travel will need a, let’s say, reconsideration, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming could hardly come at a better moment. High on list of highlights is Louis Feuillade’s delightful Les Vampires, which I suggest soundtracking to Coil, instrumental Nine Inch Nails, and Jóhann Jóhannson’s Mandy score. Notable too is a Sundance ’92 retrospective running the gamut from Paul Schrader to Derek Jarman to Jean-Pierre Gorin, and I’m especially excited for their look at one of America’s greatest actors, Sterling Hayden.
Special notice to Criterion editions of The Killing, The Last Days of Disco, All About Eve, and The Asphalt Jungle, and programming of Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load, among the better debuts in recent years.
See the full list of January titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
-Ship: A Visual Poem, Terrance Day, 2020
5 Fingers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952
After Migration: Calabria,...
Special notice to Criterion editions of The Killing, The Last Days of Disco, All About Eve, and The Asphalt Jungle, and programming of Ognjen Glavonić’s The Load, among the better debuts in recent years.
See the full list of January titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
-Ship: A Visual Poem, Terrance Day, 2020
5 Fingers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952
After Migration: Calabria,...
- 12/20/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: New York-based distributor Dekanalog has added two foreign-language titels to its slate.
In November, the company will release Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Mosotho drama that screened at Berlin, Sheffield, and MoMA Doc Fortnight. The U.S. sales deal was struck with Memento Films. Dekanalog previously released director Mosese’s This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection earlier this year.
The distributor has also picked up Father, the Berlin Panorama Audience Award Winner from Srdan Golubovic. The pic won the International Narrative Award at Calgary and also screened at Thessaloniki, Transylvania, and Seattle. Set in a a small town in Serbia, the movie stars Goran Bogdan and Boris Isakovic. The U.S. deal was struck with The Match Factory.
Dekanalog has now been operating for a year, its recent theatrical release was Mariam Ghani’s Afghan documentary What We Left Unfinished.
In November, the company will release Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Mosotho drama that screened at Berlin, Sheffield, and MoMA Doc Fortnight. The U.S. sales deal was struck with Memento Films. Dekanalog previously released director Mosese’s This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection earlier this year.
The distributor has also picked up Father, the Berlin Panorama Audience Award Winner from Srdan Golubovic. The pic won the International Narrative Award at Calgary and also screened at Thessaloniki, Transylvania, and Seattle. Set in a a small town in Serbia, the movie stars Goran Bogdan and Boris Isakovic. The U.S. deal was struck with The Match Factory.
Dekanalog has now been operating for a year, its recent theatrical release was Mariam Ghani’s Afghan documentary What We Left Unfinished.
- 9/2/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
In 1991 five pictures in production under the auspices of Afghan Film were interrupted. What We Left Unfinished is about those movies mid-making, but also in part the story of Afghanistan's film industry. This is not Mariam Ghani's first documentary, but her first feature. A compact 71 minutes, it manages to cover complicated history with clarity. Archive footage from a variety of sources, including the Krasnogorsk Institute, is assembled to support interviews with a variety of film-makers and actors.
Their interrupted films are five in number: The April Revolution, Downfall, Wrong Way, Agent, and The Black Diamond. Propaganda about regime change, intelligence thrillers, dramas about smuggling. Made with approval from a temporarily generous state, their production already complicated by coup, counter-coup, Communist invasion, their interruption just adds to their intrigue.
There's background provided by text, crisp subtitling and end titles all constructed by the multi-hyphenated Ghani. Ian Olds contributes to a project.
Their interrupted films are five in number: The April Revolution, Downfall, Wrong Way, Agent, and The Black Diamond. Propaganda about regime change, intelligence thrillers, dramas about smuggling. Made with approval from a temporarily generous state, their production already complicated by coup, counter-coup, Communist invasion, their interruption just adds to their intrigue.
There's background provided by text, crisp subtitling and end titles all constructed by the multi-hyphenated Ghani. Ian Olds contributes to a project.
- 8/8/2021
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Reflecting the big issues examined in this year’s film lineup, the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival’s (Cph:dox) industry section likewise grapples with such major topics as climate change, biodiversity and the tectonic shifts being felt far and wide in the global political and economic order.
The industry sidebar comprises the Forum financing and co-production event; the Conference series; the on-demand Market screening platform; the Lab talent development program; the Hub meeting and networking event; the educational Talents initiative; and the new Inter:Active Symposium, which focuses on new media.
Forum will present 35 selected co-production projects in various stages. While the projects can be in any stage of development, they have to officially launch at the Forum and not have participated in previous pitching events.
“In terms of the curation or how we select, the overall curation of the festival also counts for what we do in the industry department – it...
The industry sidebar comprises the Forum financing and co-production event; the Conference series; the on-demand Market screening platform; the Lab talent development program; the Hub meeting and networking event; the educational Talents initiative; and the new Inter:Active Symposium, which focuses on new media.
Forum will present 35 selected co-production projects in various stages. While the projects can be in any stage of development, they have to officially launch at the Forum and not have participated in previous pitching events.
“In terms of the curation or how we select, the overall curation of the festival also counts for what we do in the industry department – it...
- 4/20/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Dekanalog Acquires Dachra: "Fresh off their national theatrical launch of Quentin Dupieux's acclaimed absurdist comedy Keep An Eye Out (Au Poste!), Gotham-based distributor Dekanalog has added three acclaimed festival favorites to their bustling 2021 slate, including the acclaimed horror thriller Dachra from writer/director Abdelhamid Bouchnak, per an announcement this morning at Deadline.
The acquisitions, which also include Paul Negoescu's Two Lottery Tickets and Mariam Ghani's What We Left Unfinished, join a stacked 2021 lineup for Dekanalog that currently includes theatrical and digital releases of Grímur Hákonarson's TIFF darling The County, Ena Sendijarević's Rotterdam Tiger Award-winning Take Me Somewhere Nice, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's Sundance-winning This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection - Lesotho's first-ever submission to The Academy Awards.
Dachra, which is based on a terrifying true story and made waves at the world's largest genre film festivals, follows a group of students who become...
The acquisitions, which also include Paul Negoescu's Two Lottery Tickets and Mariam Ghani's What We Left Unfinished, join a stacked 2021 lineup for Dekanalog that currently includes theatrical and digital releases of Grímur Hákonarson's TIFF darling The County, Ena Sendijarević's Rotterdam Tiger Award-winning Take Me Somewhere Nice, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's Sundance-winning This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection - Lesotho's first-ever submission to The Academy Awards.
Dachra, which is based on a terrifying true story and made waves at the world's largest genre film festivals, follows a group of students who become...
- 3/23/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Gotham-based distributor Dekanalog has secured rights to a trio of titles off the festival circuit and is lining up theatrical releases for this year.
The pics are: Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s Dachra; Paul Negoescu’s Two Lottery Tickets, and Mariam Ghani’s What We Left Unfinished.
Dachra won the coveted ‘scariest film’ award at Overlook Film Festival. It is based on a true story and follows a group of students who become trapped in an isolated village while trying to solve a 25-year-old murder case.
Two Lottery Tickets sees a trio of miscreants embark on a madcap quest to retrieve a winning lottery ticket after losing it in a mugging. The film screened at Zurich and was a box office hit in its native Romania.
What We Left Unfinished is a documentary telling the real-life tale of five unfinished films from the Afghan Communist period, spanning 1978 through 1991, and a tight-knit...
The pics are: Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s Dachra; Paul Negoescu’s Two Lottery Tickets, and Mariam Ghani’s What We Left Unfinished.
Dachra won the coveted ‘scariest film’ award at Overlook Film Festival. It is based on a true story and follows a group of students who become trapped in an isolated village while trying to solve a 25-year-old murder case.
Two Lottery Tickets sees a trio of miscreants embark on a madcap quest to retrieve a winning lottery ticket after losing it in a mugging. The film screened at Zurich and was a box office hit in its native Romania.
What We Left Unfinished is a documentary telling the real-life tale of five unfinished films from the Afghan Communist period, spanning 1978 through 1991, and a tight-knit...
- 3/22/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Line-up also includes the new project from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker.
Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.
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The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).
Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...
Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).
Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
From the Afghan Abigail’s Party to the thriller made with live bullets, Mariam Ghani, daughter of the country’s president, has made a riveting documentary about five unfinished communist-era films
‘I don’t know if I was completely prepared for my parents moving back to Afghanistan,” says Mariam Ghani, a Brooklyn-based film-maker whose father, Ashraf Ghani, is now Afghan president. She was 23 at the time and had never set foot in the country. After the fall of the Taliban, post 9/11, her father worked as an adviser to the interim government, before he was elected president in 2014. Ghani become a regular visitor, exploring the country by making art, which for her is a peculiarly nerdy process.
“I love archives,” says Ghani, who is now in her 40s. “I once organised a conference on radical archives.” She has even created her own: Index of the Disappeared. “It’s an archive of...
‘I don’t know if I was completely prepared for my parents moving back to Afghanistan,” says Mariam Ghani, a Brooklyn-based film-maker whose father, Ashraf Ghani, is now Afghan president. She was 23 at the time and had never set foot in the country. After the fall of the Taliban, post 9/11, her father worked as an adviser to the interim government, before he was elected president in 2014. Ghani become a regular visitor, exploring the country by making art, which for her is a peculiarly nerdy process.
“I love archives,” says Ghani, who is now in her 40s. “I once organised a conference on radical archives.” She has even created her own: Index of the Disappeared. “It’s an archive of...
- 6/6/2019
- by Amy Fleming
- The Guardian - Film News
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- 4/17/2019
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Documentary champions ground-breaking work of four major female architects.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
- 1/30/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Documentary champions ground-breaking work of four major female architects.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House has picked up international rights to Joseph Hillel’s City Dreamers, exploring the work of female architects Phyllis Lambert, Denise Scott Brown, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
The timely film coincides with the reappraisal worldwide of the contribution made by women to architecture in the 20th Century and earlier periods in history. It is a process that is also taking place in fields such as science, art and literature.
“Showing strong women is essential and given Wide House’s passion for culture, City...
- 1/30/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Filmmakers to show footage from six projects.
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) announced on Friday (April 13) the launch of its first Works In Progress programme, which aims to connect traditionally underrepresented filmmakers with industry professionals.
On April 21 at Cinepolis Chelsea, six selected fiction and documentary feature projects will showcase up to 20 minutes of excerpts from their works, most of which are in the post-production phase.
Fiction projects selected for the programme are: Crystal Swan directed by Darya Zhuk and co-written by Zhuk and Helga Landauer Olshvang; Jezebel written and directed by Numa Perrier; and Stranger’s Arms directed by Emma Westenberg and written by Valerie Kamen.
Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) announced on Friday (April 13) the launch of its first Works In Progress programme, which aims to connect traditionally underrepresented filmmakers with industry professionals.
On April 21 at Cinepolis Chelsea, six selected fiction and documentary feature projects will showcase up to 20 minutes of excerpts from their works, most of which are in the post-production phase.
Fiction projects selected for the programme are: Crystal Swan directed by Darya Zhuk and co-written by Zhuk and Helga Landauer Olshvang; Jezebel written and directed by Numa Perrier; and Stranger’s Arms directed by Emma Westenberg and written by Valerie Kamen.
- 4/13/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
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