The Chadian cinema industry is very small. It is currently comprised of only two filmmakers: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and Issa Serge Coelo. The creation of a new film school in N’Djamena hopes to change this. Haroun is the country’s premiere director. He won the Grand Special Jury prize at Venice for Daratt (Dry Season), and the Jury Prize at Cannes for A Screaming Man. He acknowledges that, “Audiences all around the world have a lot of clichés about African cinema.” >> -Gary Kramer...
- 9/2/2015
- Keyframe
The Chadian cinema industry is very small. It is currently comprised of only two filmmakers: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun and Issa Serge Coelo. The creation of a new film school in N’Djamena hopes to change this. Haroun is the country’s premiere director. He won the Grand Special Jury prize at Venice for Daratt (Dry Season), and the Jury Prize at Cannes for A Screaming Man. He acknowledges that, “Audiences all around the world have a lot of clichés about African cinema.” >> -Gary Kramer...
- 9/2/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Abbas Kiarostami is to head the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The Iranian director and screenwriter has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times and won in 1997 with Taste of Cherry.
The 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will also include directors Noémie Lvovsky (France), Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad), and Joachim Trier (Norway).
They will be tasked with awarding three prizes to films submitted by students from film schools around the world, which will be presented in the Cinéfondation Selection, to be announced at a later date.
The Cinéfondation Prizes will be announced by the Jury on May 22, at a ceremony to be followed by a screening of the winning films.
The Jury will also decide the Short Film Palme d’or to be awarded at the prize-giving ceremony on May 24.
Kiarostami rose to international fame with Where is the Friend’s Home (1987) and went on to present...
The Iranian director and screenwriter has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times and won in 1997 with Taste of Cherry.
The 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will also include directors Noémie Lvovsky (France), Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad), and Joachim Trier (Norway).
They will be tasked with awarding three prizes to films submitted by students from film schools around the world, which will be presented in the Cinéfondation Selection, to be announced at a later date.
The Cinéfondation Prizes will be announced by the Jury on May 22, at a ceremony to be followed by a screening of the winning films.
The Jury will also decide the Short Film Palme d’or to be awarded at the prize-giving ceremony on May 24.
Kiarostami rose to international fame with Where is the Friend’s Home (1987) and went on to present...
- 3/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 15th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) presented by Reliance Entertainment and organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami) scheduled between 17th-24th October is all set to showcase the best of contemporary French cinema and welcome artists for the 6th edition of the Rendez-vous with French Cinema co-organized with The French Embassy in India, Institut Français en Inde and Unifrance films.
As part of the festival highlights, Costa Gavras will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony in the presence of His Excellency Mr François Richier, Ambassador of France to India who will grace us with his presence especially for this occasion. Among others, Nathalie Baye, jury member of the international section, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, director of the film “Grigris”, Guillaume Brac, director of the film “Tonnerre” (Competition) and Leos Carax, well known film maker who will be conducting a masters class.
The special section “Rendez-vous...
As part of the festival highlights, Costa Gavras will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony in the presence of His Excellency Mr François Richier, Ambassador of France to India who will grace us with his presence especially for this occasion. Among others, Nathalie Baye, jury member of the international section, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, director of the film “Grigris”, Guillaume Brac, director of the film “Tonnerre” (Competition) and Leos Carax, well known film maker who will be conducting a masters class.
The special section “Rendez-vous...
- 10/18/2013
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
A minor work from the emerging master of African cinema, Mahamat Saleh-Haroun, this is elevated by a heightened female perspective and some rousing dance scenes
Mahamat Saleh-Haroun now revisits that theme of father-son bonding which was such an important part of his earlier movies Our Father (2002), Dry Season (2006) and A Screaming Man (2010). But now he progresses away from this template — in the same meandering way that characterises his storytelling — to a closer identification with women. It is a typically calm, lucid drama, presented in the director's unforced, cinematic vernacular and attractively and sympathetically acted. There is also some great music from the Senegalese composer Wasis Diop, brother of the director Djibril Diop Mambety. However, I couldn't help feeling that this was a slight and contrived piece, compared to his earlier work.
Saleh-Haroun's lead is non-professional Souleymane Deme, who plays Grigris, a brilliant dancer despite a leg disability. He earns spare...
Mahamat Saleh-Haroun now revisits that theme of father-son bonding which was such an important part of his earlier movies Our Father (2002), Dry Season (2006) and A Screaming Man (2010). But now he progresses away from this template — in the same meandering way that characterises his storytelling — to a closer identification with women. It is a typically calm, lucid drama, presented in the director's unforced, cinematic vernacular and attractively and sympathetically acted. There is also some great music from the Senegalese composer Wasis Diop, brother of the director Djibril Diop Mambety. However, I couldn't help feeling that this was a slight and contrived piece, compared to his earlier work.
Saleh-Haroun's lead is non-professional Souleymane Deme, who plays Grigris, a brilliant dancer despite a leg disability. He earns spare...
- 5/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
As you’re probably aware if you were anywhere near this site earlier in 2010, Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s Un Homme Qui Crie (A Screaming Man) won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival that year. The third in what could be said to be a trilogy of father-son themed films following Abouna (2002) and Daratt (2006), A Screaming Man is once again set in modern day Chad and, like Daratt, is set against the backdrop of war. However, as is usual with Haroun’s films, loud, physical and external conflict is absent from the screen and attention placed, instead, on the quiet, internal conflict of man – in this instant, one man, Adam (aka Champ)...
- 4/10/2013
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
After winning the jury prize at Cannes in 2010, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, has led the renaissance of cinema in his home country
When Mahamat Saleh Haroun left Chad as a young man in the 1980s the country was being torn apart by a brutal and seemingly endless civil war. Dictator Hissene Habre was accused of mass political killings, while the rule of military commander Idriss Deby, who took control in 1990, had been interspersed with violent and bloody sectarian skirmishes with rebel groups and Arab Janjaweed militia from Darfur.
Little wonder then that when growing up, Haroun's first love – film – was seen as an irrelevance.
But three decades later, after presidential elections boycotted by the opposition in 2011 saw Deby elected for a fourth term and a peace deal with Sudan ushered in a period of relative stability, the country is experiencing a modest cultural reawakening.
A cinema has reopened in the capital...
When Mahamat Saleh Haroun left Chad as a young man in the 1980s the country was being torn apart by a brutal and seemingly endless civil war. Dictator Hissene Habre was accused of mass political killings, while the rule of military commander Idriss Deby, who took control in 1990, had been interspersed with violent and bloody sectarian skirmishes with rebel groups and Arab Janjaweed militia from Darfur.
Little wonder then that when growing up, Haroun's first love – film – was seen as an irrelevance.
But three decades later, after presidential elections boycotted by the opposition in 2011 saw Deby elected for a fourth term and a peace deal with Sudan ushered in a period of relative stability, the country is experiencing a modest cultural reawakening.
A cinema has reopened in the capital...
- 2/26/2013
- by Alexandra Topping
- The Guardian - Film News
Starting today, Fri, July 27, throughout the rest of the weekend, the African Diaspora International Film Festival Tc Series will celebrate 20 years of African films, featuring film screenings and speakers from countries within the continent. From the pres release: The team behind the African Diaspora International Film Festival wants to showcase a modest selection of African films by filmmakers whose work still resonate. Daratt/Dry Season by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a film that deals with issues of fatherhood, forgiveness and nation building. The hilarious Uncommon Woman is about a woman who decides to take a second husband as she can no longer put up with her husband's...
- 7/27/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
An ex-swimming star struggles to stay afloat in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's quiet, deeply humane study of family life in Chad
When the name of the landlocked African republic of Chad comes up, most cinephiles will think of the opening of Antonioni's The Passenger. In that masterly 1975 film, playing a reporter at the end of his tether while covering a hopeless civil war, Jack Nicholson swaps his identity with a dead man he finds in a remote Saharan hotel. It seems to sum up the sense of desperation and extreme experience that, rightly or wrongly, Chad incites.
However, as in other troubled, desperately poor African countries, there are a handful of gifted artists of world stature, mostly musicians but also painters and film-makers, and A Screaming Man, the fourth feature film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad's only prominent film-maker, won the jury prize at last year's Cannes film festival. This year Haroun...
When the name of the landlocked African republic of Chad comes up, most cinephiles will think of the opening of Antonioni's The Passenger. In that masterly 1975 film, playing a reporter at the end of his tether while covering a hopeless civil war, Jack Nicholson swaps his identity with a dead man he finds in a remote Saharan hotel. It seems to sum up the sense of desperation and extreme experience that, rightly or wrongly, Chad incites.
However, as in other troubled, desperately poor African countries, there are a handful of gifted artists of world stature, mostly musicians but also painters and film-makers, and A Screaming Man, the fourth feature film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad's only prominent film-maker, won the jury prize at last year's Cannes film festival. This year Haroun...
- 5/14/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Selected, Nationwide
If you thought the Jarman Award was where you'd find the next big thing in British film art, you're one step behind. This touring initiative gets the four film-makers shortlisted for last year's Jarman – Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill – to select moving-image artists they think we should be watching. The 10 names on the programme might not mean anything to the public yet as they're mostly up-and-coming, recently graduated art students (some of whom appear at screenings), but where else might you find a film that tries to invent a new colour or create a new manifesto based on capturing extragalactic rhythms?
Various venues, Tue to 30 Jun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London
The poor, war-torn, landlocked republic of Chad is virtually unknown on the geographical map, let alone the film-making one, but Haroun is doing something about that. Influenced by calm, observational film-makers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
If you thought the Jarman Award was where you'd find the next big thing in British film art, you're one step behind. This touring initiative gets the four film-makers shortlisted for last year's Jarman – Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill – to select moving-image artists they think we should be watching. The 10 names on the programme might not mean anything to the public yet as they're mostly up-and-coming, recently graduated art students (some of whom appear at screenings), but where else might you find a film that tries to invent a new colour or create a new manifesto based on capturing extragalactic rhythms?
Various venues, Tue to 30 Jun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London
The poor, war-torn, landlocked republic of Chad is virtually unknown on the geographical map, let alone the film-making one, but Haroun is doing something about that. Influenced by calm, observational film-makers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
- 5/13/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert De Niro
The 64th festival de Cannes announced its Jury on Wednesday. No Indian follows in the footsteps of actress Sharmila Tagore and director Shekhar Kapoor who served on the Cannes Jury in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The Jury of the Competiton presided over by Robert De Niro will comprise Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina), Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China), Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA), Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway), Olivier Assayas (director, France), Jude Law (actor, producer, UK), Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) and Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China).
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury presided by Michel Gondry will comprise Julie Gaynet (Actress and Producer, France), Jessica Hausner (Director and Producer, Austria), Corneliu PorumBoiu (Director, Romania and João Pedro Rodrigues (Director, Portugal).
Brief introduction of the Main Jury as stated on Cannes official website:
Martina Gusman created Matanza Cine, a production company with...
The 64th festival de Cannes announced its Jury on Wednesday. No Indian follows in the footsteps of actress Sharmila Tagore and director Shekhar Kapoor who served on the Cannes Jury in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The Jury of the Competiton presided over by Robert De Niro will comprise Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina), Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China), Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA), Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway), Olivier Assayas (director, France), Jude Law (actor, producer, UK), Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) and Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China).
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury presided by Michel Gondry will comprise Julie Gaynet (Actress and Producer, France), Jessica Hausner (Director and Producer, Austria), Corneliu PorumBoiu (Director, Romania and João Pedro Rodrigues (Director, Portugal).
Brief introduction of the Main Jury as stated on Cannes official website:
Martina Gusman created Matanza Cine, a production company with...
- 4/20/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Written by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
2010, France, Belgium, Chad
A certain school of cinema teaches that holding shots long enough will guarantee critical success and bountiful festival laurels for the poster campaign. Granted, the long take is one of the most electrifying techniques a filmmaker can employ, and this still-thriving stallion is being flogged by those seeking to challenge audiences. Unfortunately for them, they fail to realize that a long take worth its weight in festival gold is anything but a challenge to sit through. Apitchatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul must know this for he crafts shots of mesmerising beauty, none of which are nearly long enough for one to begin speculating on their actual purpose. Mahamat Saleh Haroun, whose A Screaming Man yielded to Joe’s Palme d’Or-winner only to clinch the Jury Prize at Cannes, is some way behind, which...
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Written by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
2010, France, Belgium, Chad
A certain school of cinema teaches that holding shots long enough will guarantee critical success and bountiful festival laurels for the poster campaign. Granted, the long take is one of the most electrifying techniques a filmmaker can employ, and this still-thriving stallion is being flogged by those seeking to challenge audiences. Unfortunately for them, they fail to realize that a long take worth its weight in festival gold is anything but a challenge to sit through. Apitchatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul must know this for he crafts shots of mesmerising beauty, none of which are nearly long enough for one to begin speculating on their actual purpose. Mahamat Saleh Haroun, whose A Screaming Man yielded to Joe’s Palme d’Or-winner only to clinch the Jury Prize at Cannes, is some way behind, which...
- 4/7/2011
- by Tope
- SoundOnSight
Craig here, continuing a look at films showing at the 54th BFI London Film Festival.
I much admired Chad filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt/Dry Season from 2007 (it took the #4 spot in my year-end list for that year), and he’s triumphed again with his fourth feature, A Screaming Man/Un homme qui crie. Made in the same refined and frank vein as Daratt, this new film follows Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a pool cleaner and former swimming champion who works at an exclusive N'Djamena hotel with the assistance of his son, Abdel (Diouc Koma). After a job reshuffle Adam loses his job to Abdel; he sinks into depression fuelled by anger and humiliation, and so takes unexpected action. His situation worsens, just as civil war engulfs the country and rebel armies infiltrate the area.
Much of the film’s drama is underplayed. Haroun’s camera focuses on Adam in a curious,...
I much admired Chad filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt/Dry Season from 2007 (it took the #4 spot in my year-end list for that year), and he’s triumphed again with his fourth feature, A Screaming Man/Un homme qui crie. Made in the same refined and frank vein as Daratt, this new film follows Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a pool cleaner and former swimming champion who works at an exclusive N'Djamena hotel with the assistance of his son, Abdel (Diouc Koma). After a job reshuffle Adam loses his job to Abdel; he sinks into depression fuelled by anger and humiliation, and so takes unexpected action. His situation worsens, just as civil war engulfs the country and rebel armies infiltrate the area.
Much of the film’s drama is underplayed. Haroun’s camera focuses on Adam in a curious,...
- 10/20/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
Ok, so Sergio already wrote a reveiw of this film last week but, given that I saw it a few days later and that it screens at this year’s London Film Festival, which starts next week… and that I loved it… Well, I figured it was worth mentioning again this week.
As you’re probably aware if you were anywhere near this site earlier in the year, Mahamet Saleh Haroun’s Un Homme Qui Crie (A Screaming Man) won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in May. The third in what could be said to be a trilogy of father-son themed films following Abouna (2002) and Daratt (2006), A Screaming Man is once again set in modern day Chad and, like Daratt, is set against the backdrop of war.
However, as is usual with Haroun’s films, loud, physical and external conflict is absent from the screen and attention placed,...
As you’re probably aware if you were anywhere near this site earlier in the year, Mahamet Saleh Haroun’s Un Homme Qui Crie (A Screaming Man) won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in May. The third in what could be said to be a trilogy of father-son themed films following Abouna (2002) and Daratt (2006), A Screaming Man is once again set in modern day Chad and, like Daratt, is set against the backdrop of war.
However, as is usual with Haroun’s films, loud, physical and external conflict is absent from the screen and attention placed,...
- 10/9/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
On the surface it seems to contrast Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s other recent films – notably his father/son/war trilogy, Abouna, Daratt & Un Homme Qui Crie; and as I have yet to see Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, I can’t offer much more of an analysis than that.
However, I will see it next week Saturday, May 29th, when it screens as one of a few film selections at this year’s Dance African festival in Brooklyn, NY (see my post below this one on the event). Made in 2008, between Daratt (2006) and Un Homme Qui Crie 2010), Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, or Gumbo And Salted Butter, as I’ve read others title it (in French, Sexe, Gombo et Beurre Salé), is a comedy of errors that tells the story of a recently emigrated Malian family, reeling from a number of setbacks, including the sudden departure of the mother...
However, I will see it next week Saturday, May 29th, when it screens as one of a few film selections at this year’s Dance African festival in Brooklyn, NY (see my post below this one on the event). Made in 2008, between Daratt (2006) and Un Homme Qui Crie 2010), Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, or Gumbo And Salted Butter, as I’ve read others title it (in French, Sexe, Gombo et Beurre Salé), is a comedy of errors that tells the story of a recently emigrated Malian family, reeling from a number of setbacks, including the sudden departure of the mother...
- 5/23/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Poster to the left and a clip below from Un homme qui crie (A Screaming Man) by Chadian filmmaker, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Long-time readers of this blog should recognize his name. He was the mastermind behind a film called Daratt.
The film will play In Competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, which begins shortly.
Synopsis from its Cannes press page: Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the “war effort”, giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution.
The film will play In Competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, which begins shortly.
Synopsis from its Cannes press page: Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the “war effort”, giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution.
- 5/12/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Last week Tambay got all excited at the prospect of there being an African-American film in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Turns out it was an an African, not African-American film, so Tyler Perry won’t be parambulating the Croisette just yet…
A few days later he posted this year’s line-up for the world renown festival, highlighting the African film in question, “Un homme qui crie” (A Screaming Man), by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Belgium, Chad), helmer of one of my favourite African films, Abouna, as well as Daratt, among others.
But it was only while browsing the web yesterday that it came to light that there are, in fact, Two African films in competition at Cannes this year! French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb has been mentioned a few times on this site, with films like London River and Little Senegal, and his film “Hors-la-loi” (Outside the Law...
A few days later he posted this year’s line-up for the world renown festival, highlighting the African film in question, “Un homme qui crie” (A Screaming Man), by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Belgium, Chad), helmer of one of my favourite African films, Abouna, as well as Daratt, among others.
But it was only while browsing the web yesterday that it came to light that there are, in fact, Two African films in competition at Cannes this year! French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb has been mentioned a few times on this site, with films like London River and Little Senegal, and his film “Hors-la-loi” (Outside the Law...
- 4/23/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
A film from Chad and a film from the Ukraine are probably the only surprises out of the 16 films mentioned early this morning. Now a French resident, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun comes into the comp with A Screaming Man (Un homme qui Crie), he was at Venice a several years back with Daratt, which won the Grand Special Jury Prize. Sergey Loznitsa docu and fiction filmmaker has been on film per year pace for the past decade - he'll show up in the comp with You, My Joy. - A film from Chad and a film from the Ukraine are probably the only surprises out of the 16 films mentioned early this morning. Now a French resident, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun comes into the comp with A Screaming Man (Un homme qui Crie), he was at Venice a several years back with Daratt, which won the Grand Special Jury Prize. Sergey Loznitsa docu and fiction...
- 4/15/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Well… hot off the presses… here’s the list for the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, which will head-juried this year by Tim Burton.
Although, from what I’m hearing, this isn’t definitive, as some films are still yet to be announced. However, here are those that have… I’ll scrub through it later for any films that should be highlighted on this blog. But, I’ll say right now that there’s just 1 black film on this list – Un homme qui crie by Chadian filmmaker, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Long-time readers of this blog should recognize his name. He was the mastermind behind a film called Daratt.
Take a peek (the list will be updated throughout the day, as necessary):
• In Competition (Country of origin in parentheses):
“The Housemaid” by Im Sang-soo (Sk)
“Poetry” by Lee Chan-dong (Fr/Sk)
“Outrage” by Takeshi Kitano (Jp)
“Loong Noonmee Raleuk Chaat by...
Although, from what I’m hearing, this isn’t definitive, as some films are still yet to be announced. However, here are those that have… I’ll scrub through it later for any films that should be highlighted on this blog. But, I’ll say right now that there’s just 1 black film on this list – Un homme qui crie by Chadian filmmaker, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Long-time readers of this blog should recognize his name. He was the mastermind behind a film called Daratt.
Take a peek (the list will be updated throughout the day, as necessary):
• In Competition (Country of origin in parentheses):
“The Housemaid” by Im Sang-soo (Sk)
“Poetry” by Lee Chan-dong (Fr/Sk)
“Outrage” by Takeshi Kitano (Jp)
“Loong Noonmee Raleuk Chaat by...
- 4/15/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced a whole load of films, including many world premiers, to be added as part of their lineups. Some of the more interesting looking ones are Lance Daly's Kisses about two Irish kids who run away from home and deal with the dark underside of Dublin. Another film I'm definitely interested in is Scott McGehee and David Siegel's Uncertainty which stars one of my personal favorites, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It's about a couple in love who find out she's pregnant and they flip a coin from where it apparently follows both possible storylines, but with the same disastrous consequences. Also screening will be Fabrice du Welz's Vinyan (trailer here) which is about a couple who lost their son in a Tsunami and won't give up looking for him. In the Discovery program, the stop-motion animation $9.99 which is about a man seeking the meaning to life.
- 8/14/2008
- QuietEarth.us
- Official Festival Site October 18th to the 28th, 2007Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('October 18, 2006'); Today begins the oldest film festival in Canada, and yet at age 35 the fest shows no signs of aging. Young, hip and avant-garde this yearâ.s selection gathers the more challenging titles from Cannes and Toronto with a pinch of picks from Sundance and Berlin. In a city with an haute reputation for its fests, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is a gathering place for up-and-coming talents. From October 18th to 28th, there are a good chunk of films worth checking out (let us not forget the shorts, tributes, retrospectives, professional gatherings and events), below youâ.ll find the complete listing plus for the sake of sanity we also posted on a seperate page a top 10 suggestion list of films that are worth the price of admission. International Selection: Louve dâ.Or The International Selection includes first,
- 10/18/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
Dame Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck have taken the acting honors at this year's Venice Film Festival in Italy. Mirren was named Best Actress for her performance as British monarch Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, while Affleck was a surprise win as Best Actor for his part as 1950s TV Superman actor George Reeves in Hollywoodland. On collecting her award, Mirren said, "It's an incredible honor to have a film take its first steps here in Venice. (Director) Stephen Frears is the mother of the film. I'm just a bit of the DNA of this film." Chinese movie Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) won the festival's top award, the Golden Lion, beating out competition from favorites The Queen, Bobby and Golden Door. Actress Catherine Deneuve, who headed the jury, praised Still Life as "a very special film. We were very touched and we were very moved." French filmmaker Alain Resnais, 84, won Best Director for Private Fears In Public Places, while Best Screenplay went to Peter Morgan for The Queen. Chad movie Daratt won the Special Jury Prize.
- 9/11/2006
- WENN
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