Ukrainian drama project Screaming Girl has scooped the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The feature won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, worth €20,000, which went to Kyiv-based producers Forefilms.
Director Antonio Lukich is known for comedy-drama Luxembourg, Luxembourg, which screened in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival in 2022. His debut was My Thoughts Are Silent, which won a special jury prize at Karlovy Vary in 2019.
Screaming Girl centres on a girl who, after the invasion of Ukraine, finds herself in Ireland and pursues her dream of becoming an actress. However, she begins to experience strange and fantastical events that disrupt her life,...
The feature won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, worth €20,000, which went to Kyiv-based producers Forefilms.
Director Antonio Lukich is known for comedy-drama Luxembourg, Luxembourg, which screened in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival in 2022. His debut was My Thoughts Are Silent, which won a special jury prize at Karlovy Vary in 2019.
Screaming Girl centres on a girl who, after the invasion of Ukraine, finds herself in Ireland and pursues her dream of becoming an actress. However, she begins to experience strange and fantastical events that disrupt her life,...
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
The journey to the Lido has been longer than most for Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich, whose sophomore feature, “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” has its world premiere Sep. 7 in the Horizons strand at the Venice Film Festival.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Lukich’s life has been upended. Forced to flee Kyiv at the start of the war, the director spoke to Variety from Sweden, where he’s among four Ukrainian filmmakers who were granted a residency with the support of the Göteborg Film Fund.
It is, he acknowledges, a world removed from the one he left behind. “It’s a great opportunity to develop Ukrainian stories when you cannot develop them right now in Ukraine,” he said.
“Luxembourg, Luxembourg” stars real-life rap duo Ramil and Amil Nasirov as twin brothers who grow up in the shadow of their missing father, a small-time crook who vanishes one day without a trace.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Lukich’s life has been upended. Forced to flee Kyiv at the start of the war, the director spoke to Variety from Sweden, where he’s among four Ukrainian filmmakers who were granted a residency with the support of the Göteborg Film Fund.
It is, he acknowledges, a world removed from the one he left behind. “It’s a great opportunity to develop Ukrainian stories when you cannot develop them right now in Ukraine,” he said.
“Luxembourg, Luxembourg” stars real-life rap duo Ramil and Amil Nasirov as twin brothers who grow up in the shadow of their missing father, a small-time crook who vanishes one day without a trace.
- 9/6/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Twin brothers set out on a journey to see their dying father, who left them as children, in Luxembourg once last time.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich’s Luxembourg, Luxembourg which will premiere in the Horizons strand at the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
In this comedy drama, twin brothers, played by Ramil and Amil Nasirov from rap group Kurgan & Agregat, set out on a journey to see their dying father, who left them as children, in Luxembourg once last time.
The title is produced by Ukraine’s ForeFilms with the...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich’s Luxembourg, Luxembourg which will premiere in the Horizons strand at the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).
In this comedy drama, twin brothers, played by Ramil and Amil Nasirov from rap group Kurgan & Agregat, set out on a journey to see their dying father, who left them as children, in Luxembourg once last time.
The title is produced by Ukraine’s ForeFilms with the...
- 8/26/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has boarded Antonio Lukich’s upcoming feature “From Ukraine to Luxembourg,” currently in post-production and aiming to premiere in the fall.
The Ukrainian director debuted in 2019 with “My Thoughts Are Silent,” a dramedy about a sound recordist asked to record animal sounds from Western Ukraine. But here is the catch: his mother decides to join him. The film was awarded a Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary’s East of the West section.
In “From Ukraine to Luxembourg,” starring Ramil Nasirov, Amil Nasirov, Natalia Gnitii and Liumyla Sachenko, two twin brothers have to deal with the disappearance of their father. While one of them decides to follow his path as a small-time crook, the other becomes a cop. One day, they find out their long-lost father is allegedly living in Luxembourg.
“In his first film, Antonio explored his own relationship with his mother. Now, he is focusing...
The Ukrainian director debuted in 2019 with “My Thoughts Are Silent,” a dramedy about a sound recordist asked to record animal sounds from Western Ukraine. But here is the catch: his mother decides to join him. The film was awarded a Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary’s East of the West section.
In “From Ukraine to Luxembourg,” starring Ramil Nasirov, Amil Nasirov, Natalia Gnitii and Liumyla Sachenko, two twin brothers have to deal with the disappearance of their father. While one of them decides to follow his path as a small-time crook, the other becomes a cop. One day, they find out their long-lost father is allegedly living in Luxembourg.
“In his first film, Antonio explored his own relationship with his mother. Now, he is focusing...
- 5/11/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Assaf Lapid and Marija Kavtaradze among other filmmakers with projects at the co-production forum.
New features from Emma Dante and Antonio Lukic are among more than 30 projects selected for Trieste’s When East Meets West forum, which will take place online from January 25-28 due to the virus crisis.
The Wemw Co-Production Forum will comprise 11 fiction features and 10 documentaries from 14 countries, having received a record 387 submissions from 56 countries.
The titles, set to be pitched virtually to more than 500 decision-makers and producers, include the third feature from leading Italian playwright Emma Dante, Misericordia. Dante’s adaptation of her own play, The Macaluso Sisters,...
New features from Emma Dante and Antonio Lukic are among more than 30 projects selected for Trieste’s When East Meets West forum, which will take place online from January 25-28 due to the virus crisis.
The Wemw Co-Production Forum will comprise 11 fiction features and 10 documentaries from 14 countries, having received a record 387 submissions from 56 countries.
The titles, set to be pitched virtually to more than 500 decision-makers and producers, include the third feature from leading Italian playwright Emma Dante, Misericordia. Dante’s adaptation of her own play, The Macaluso Sisters,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the top prize.
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
- 11/6/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Set in Sicily, the film is an Italian-Ukraine co-production starring Irma Vitovska and Giovanni Calcagno. Shooting began just a few days ago on Koza Nostra, the feature film debut of Giovanni Dota, the 31-year-old Neapolitan director who previously worked as an assistant director on Gomorrah and authored the multi-award-winning short Fino alla fine. The film is a co-production between Italy and the Ukraine by Pepito Produzioni and Film.UA Group, together with Rai Cinema. Written by Giovanni Dota, Anastasiia Lodkina, Giulia Magda Martinez and Matteo Visconti, the story focuses on an interfering yet caring, mature Ukrainian woman, played by Ukrainian actress Irma Vitovska (My Thoughts Are Silent). When Vlada Koza becomes a grandma for the first time, she drops everything and departs the Carpathian Mountains to go to her daughter in Italy, turning up on her doorstep without a word of warning. Unfortunately, the younger woman doesn’t appreciate her mother’s suffocating.
UK sales outfit also secures sales of crime comedy ‘Schemers’ and comedy-drama ‘My Thoughts Are Silent’.
UK sales outfit Reason8 Films has sold Russian horror thriller Tvar (Stray) to WellGo USA Entertainment, which plans to release the film in North America under the title Evil Boy.
Directed by Olga Gorodetskaya, the film centres on a married couple whose decision to adopt an orphan has terrifying consequences. It stars Elena Lyadova and Vladimir Vdovichenkov, best known for their roles in Cannes and Golden Globe winner Leviathan.
With cinemas closed, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, WellGo is planning a home entertainment release in July.
UK sales outfit Reason8 Films has sold Russian horror thriller Tvar (Stray) to WellGo USA Entertainment, which plans to release the film in North America under the title Evil Boy.
Directed by Olga Gorodetskaya, the film centres on a married couple whose decision to adopt an orphan has terrifying consequences. It stars Elena Lyadova and Vladimir Vdovichenkov, best known for their roles in Cannes and Golden Globe winner Leviathan.
With cinemas closed, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, WellGo is planning a home entertainment release in July.
- 4/16/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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