Actualités

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Rialto Pictures has announced the return to theaters of Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 masterpiece “The Battle of Algiers,” this year celebrating its 50th anniversary with a stunning new 4K restoration. The restoration has the distinction of being selected for all three major international film festivals this fall: Venice, New York and Toronto. The film originally premiered at Venice in 1966 and was the opening night selection of the 4th New York Film Festival in 1967.

Theatrical runs begin on October 7 at New York’s Film Forum, Landmark’s Nuart in Los Angeles and E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., followed by a major city roll-out through the fall.

– Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Academy Award nominated...

In our last article, we went over the history and exciting things the Brooklyn Film Festival offers its contestants. And now it’s time to meet the films and the winners.

16Mmonster: directed by Jacob Kindlon; a 12 minute short from the Us.

20 Years Of Madness: directed by Jeremy Royce; a 90 minute documentary from the Us.

Abby Singer/Songwriter: Directed by Onur Tukel , a 75 minute film from the Us.

Abigail Deville’S Harlem Stories: Directed by Nick Ravich, a 7 minute American documentary.

After A Dream: Directed by Tobias Schmuecking, a 17 minute short from Germany.

And It Was Good: Directed by Graham Waterston, a 19 minute short from the Us.

Winner of the Short Narrative Spirit Award

Big Bag: Directed by Ricardo Martin Coloma, a 13 minute animation from Spain.

Block And Piled: Directed by Marc Riba & Anna Solanas, a 5 minute animation from Spain.

Blue-eyed Me: Directed by Alexey Marfin, a 7 minute short from England.

Abhay Kumar’s documentary, Placebo, will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa). The film will compete in Idfa First Appearance competition.

The hybrid documentary is about a filmmaker going undercover in one of the toughest grad schools in India to pull off an outrageous social experiment.

DearCinema had earlier reported that Helsinki-Filmi had come on board Placebo as a minority co-producer. The Finnish Film Foundation financed the sound-post of the documentary. The filmmaker had earlier raised funds for the project through crowdfunding in 2013.

Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang and Nilita Vachani’s Eyes of Stone will also be screened at the festival in “The Female Gaze” section, a themed program on the role of women in documentary. The festival invited fifteen leading international female directors, including Nishtha Jain from India, to put together a program of old and new documentaries by themselves and other female directors.