Exclusive: Against the odds, Lebanon has submitted Mira Shaib’s social dramedy Arzé as its candidate for the Best International Feature category at the 97th Academy Awards.
The drama – produced by L.A. and Cairo-based production company Ambient Light – stars Lebanese actress Diamand Abou Abboud as the titular Arzé, a single mother whose home-cooked pizza delivery business is jeopardized when her scooter is stolen.
Determined to retrieve their main source of income, she takes her teenage son on a journey across sectarian Beirut.
The drama is billed as both a gripping family tale and a tribute to Beirut, as a “a kaleidoscopic portrait of the city, rich in complexity and resilience”.
Shaib as well as writers/producers Faissal Sam Shaib and Louay Khraish describe the feature – filmed in more than 20 locations across Beirut – as an ode and love letter to the city.
The selection of the picture...
The drama – produced by L.A. and Cairo-based production company Ambient Light – stars Lebanese actress Diamand Abou Abboud as the titular Arzé, a single mother whose home-cooked pizza delivery business is jeopardized when her scooter is stolen.
Determined to retrieve their main source of income, she takes her teenage son on a journey across sectarian Beirut.
The drama is billed as both a gripping family tale and a tribute to Beirut, as a “a kaleidoscopic portrait of the city, rich in complexity and resilience”.
Shaib as well as writers/producers Faissal Sam Shaib and Louay Khraish describe the feature – filmed in more than 20 locations across Beirut – as an ode and love letter to the city.
The selection of the picture...
- 25/10/2024
- par Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s topical third feature, “The Good Teacher,” co-written by “Happening” filmmaker Audrey Diwan.
François Civil, the French star of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Wolf’s Call,” stars as a young teacher wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control: Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
“The Good Teacher” marks the second collaboration between Indie Sales and Lussi-Modeste following “The Price of Success” which screened at Toronto and San Sebastián New Directors’ competition. “The Price of Success was picked up by Netflix for a multi-territory deal including the US.
Indie Sales will be introducing “The Good Teacher” to buyers at the Cannes Film Market with an exclusive promo-reel.
François Civil, the French star of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Wolf’s Call,” stars as a young teacher wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control: Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
“The Good Teacher” marks the second collaboration between Indie Sales and Lussi-Modeste following “The Price of Success” which screened at Toronto and San Sebastián New Directors’ competition. “The Price of Success was picked up by Netflix for a multi-territory deal including the US.
Indie Sales will be introducing “The Good Teacher” to buyers at the Cannes Film Market with an exclusive promo-reel.
- 09/05/2023
- par Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Swedish helmer Johannes Nyholm, best known for 2019 Sundance pic “Koko-di Koko-da,” is re-teaming with producer Maria Møller Christoffersen of Copenhagen-based Beofilm on the surrealistic comedy “Firehawks,” which is set to start production this summer in Sweden.
It’s one of a number of films Møller Christoffersen has in the works at Beofilm, where she’s also co-producing “The Wall,” Philippe Van Leeuw’s drama about a U.S. border patrol agent working along the Arizona-Mexican border, who tries to cover up an irrevocable crime. Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread”) is set to star in the film, which is scheduled to shoot in November with Brussels-based Altitude 100 majority producing.
Møller Christoffersen says the film is “about putting up national and mental borders, and of course it’s an indirect comment on the wall that Trump wanted to put up towards Mexico. It’s a film about being afraid of what...
It’s one of a number of films Møller Christoffersen has in the works at Beofilm, where she’s also co-producing “The Wall,” Philippe Van Leeuw’s drama about a U.S. border patrol agent working along the Arizona-Mexican border, who tries to cover up an irrevocable crime. Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread”) is set to star in the film, which is scheduled to shoot in November with Brussels-based Altitude 100 majority producing.
Møller Christoffersen says the film is “about putting up national and mental borders, and of course it’s an indirect comment on the wall that Trump wanted to put up towards Mexico. It’s a film about being afraid of what...
- 12/01/2021
- par Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Showcasing the Best in Independent and World Cinema
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
- 05/09/2017
- par Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Deal comes as Film Movement aims to expand footprint in documentary arena.
New York-based distributor Film Movement and documentary specialist Bond/360 have struck an alliance to broaden their reach into festivals and the educational sales arena.
Through Film Movement, Bond/360 will enhance the reach of their titles into festivals, community screenings, home entertainment and digital platforms, airlines, and hotels.
Bond/360 will assist in expanding the representation of Film Movement’s catalogue of documentaries and narrative films to educational institutions.
Film Movement has recently moved more aggressively into the documentary space, acquiring more than two dozen features in the last two years, including such titles as My Love, Don’t Cross That River, Randall White’s Hockney, Jack Riccobono’s The Seventh Fire, and Tanja Cumming’s Lodz ghetto film Line 41.
Bond/360 has more than 40 documentary features that will join Film Movement’s library of more than 300 features and 150 short films.
“We are pleased...
New York-based distributor Film Movement and documentary specialist Bond/360 have struck an alliance to broaden their reach into festivals and the educational sales arena.
Through Film Movement, Bond/360 will enhance the reach of their titles into festivals, community screenings, home entertainment and digital platforms, airlines, and hotels.
Bond/360 will assist in expanding the representation of Film Movement’s catalogue of documentaries and narrative films to educational institutions.
Film Movement has recently moved more aggressively into the documentary space, acquiring more than two dozen features in the last two years, including such titles as My Love, Don’t Cross That River, Randall White’s Hockney, Jack Riccobono’s The Seventh Fire, and Tanja Cumming’s Lodz ghetto film Line 41.
Bond/360 has more than 40 documentary features that will join Film Movement’s library of more than 300 features and 150 short films.
“We are pleased...
- 26/06/2017
- ScreenDaily
Two new film festivals in the Arab world — and not in the Gulf States region where Kuwait had its first festival last month — have announced their first editions. Jordan and Egypt, along with the first ever Arab Critics Awards casts a new light onto just what Arab cinema is.
What began several years ago in the recently oil-rich Gulf nations of Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Qatar who first brought the notion of Arab cinema to the western world with expensive receptions (including a camel one year at the Toronto Film Festival) and ultra fancy festivals (Abu Dhabi has since bowed out of its Tribeca Ff partnership and pulled back on all but its film fund) has now come to a more balanced sharing of Arabic cinema as a multi-culturally wealthy medium.
With the growth of Cairo-based Mad Solutions which started as a public relations agency for Arab-content cinema and expanded into...
What began several years ago in the recently oil-rich Gulf nations of Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Qatar who first brought the notion of Arab cinema to the western world with expensive receptions (including a camel one year at the Toronto Film Festival) and ultra fancy festivals (Abu Dhabi has since bowed out of its Tribeca Ff partnership and pulled back on all but its film fund) has now come to a more balanced sharing of Arabic cinema as a multi-culturally wealthy medium.
With the growth of Cairo-based Mad Solutions which started as a public relations agency for Arab-content cinema and expanded into...
- 04/06/2017
- par Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Hiam Abbass leads Berlin Panorama winner.
New York distributor Film Movement has acquired Us rights to Belgian director Philippe Van Leeuw’s Berlin Panorama Audience Award-winner In Syria.
Films Boutique represents international rights to the film formerly known as Insyriated and screens it in Cannes tomorrow (May 18) and on Monday (May 22).
Israeli-Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass plays a mother of three who turns her home into a safe house for family and neighbours as Syria’s civil war rages outside.
As bombs fall in the street, snipers turn nearby courtyards into death traps and burglars loot hard-won belongings, maintaining a routine indoors becomes a matter of life and death over the course of one day.
The cast includes Diamand Bou Abboud and Juliette Navis.
Film Movement celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and president Michael E. Rosenberg is in Cannes to scout for acquisitions. The company plans a theatrical release this winter.
“In Syria is a powerful...
New York distributor Film Movement has acquired Us rights to Belgian director Philippe Van Leeuw’s Berlin Panorama Audience Award-winner In Syria.
Films Boutique represents international rights to the film formerly known as Insyriated and screens it in Cannes tomorrow (May 18) and on Monday (May 22).
Israeli-Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass plays a mother of three who turns her home into a safe house for family and neighbours as Syria’s civil war rages outside.
As bombs fall in the street, snipers turn nearby courtyards into death traps and burglars loot hard-won belongings, maintaining a routine indoors becomes a matter of life and death over the course of one day.
The cast includes Diamand Bou Abboud and Juliette Navis.
Film Movement celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and president Michael E. Rosenberg is in Cannes to scout for acquisitions. The company plans a theatrical release this winter.
“In Syria is a powerful...
- 17/05/2017
- par jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Pre-buys include Abdellatif Kechiche’s next film after Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights a trio of high-profile art-house titles in the shape of Yorgos Lanthimos’s anticipated drama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow up to Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Mektoub is Mektoub, and Berlin winner Insyriated.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer reunites director Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy.
The pre-buy was negotiated with Gabrielle Stewart at HanWay and was completed in partnership with Madman Australia, in what is a first collaboration between the two companies. The latter...
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights a trio of high-profile art-house titles in the shape of Yorgos Lanthimos’s anticipated drama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow up to Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Mektoub is Mektoub, and Berlin winner Insyriated.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer reunites director Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy.
The pre-buy was negotiated with Gabrielle Stewart at HanWay and was completed in partnership with Madman Australia, in what is a first collaboration between the two companies. The latter...
- 14/03/2017
- par andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Pre-buys include Abdellatif Kechiche’s next film after Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights a trio of high-profile art-house titles in the shape of Yorgos Lanthimos’s anticipated drama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow up to Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Mektoub is Mektoub, and Berlin winner Insyriated.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer reunites director Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy.
The pre-buy was negotiated with Gabrielle Stewart at HanWay and was completed in partnership with Madman Australia, in what is a first collaboration between the two companies. The latter...
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights a trio of high-profile art-house titles in the shape of Yorgos Lanthimos’s anticipated drama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow up to Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Mektoub is Mektoub, and Berlin winner Insyriated.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer reunites director Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy.
The pre-buy was negotiated with Gabrielle Stewart at HanWay and was completed in partnership with Madman Australia, in what is a first collaboration between the two companies. The latter...
- 14/03/2017
- par andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Pre-buys include Abdellatif Kechiche’s next film after Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights a trio of high-profile art-house titles in the shape of Yorgos Lanthimos’s anticipated drama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow up to Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Mektoub is Mektoub, and Berlin winner Insyriated.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer reunites director Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy.
The pre-buy was negotiated with Gabrielle Stewart at HanWay and was completed in partnership with Madman Australia, in what is a first collaboration between the two companies. The latter...
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights a trio of high-profile art-house titles in the shape of Yorgos Lanthimos’s anticipated drama The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow up to Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Mektoub is Mektoub, and Berlin winner Insyriated.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer reunites director Lanthimos with The Lobster star Colin Farrell who plays Steven, a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart and the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Co-starring are Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and former Screen Stars Of Tomorrow Barry Keoghan and Raffey Cassidy.
The pre-buy was negotiated with Gabrielle Stewart at HanWay and was completed in partnership with Madman Australia, in what is a first collaboration between the two companies. The latter...
- 14/03/2017
- par andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 21/02/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 21/02/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 21/02/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen critics recommend the top films at this year’s Berlinale.
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
Read more:
Berlin Film Festival 2017: winners revealed
A Fantastic Woman
Dir: Sebastián Lelio
Our critic said: “Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism with occasional flickers of fantasy to impressive, and wrenchingly emotional effect.”
International sales: Funny Balloons contact@funny-balloons.com
Read the full review Here
Have A Nice Day
Dir. Liu Jian
Our critic said: “Liu Jian’s stunning animation is both a visceral thriller and astute political statement about China’s place in the modern world.”
International sales: International sales: Memento Films International sales@memento-films.com
Read the full review Here
Summer 1993
Dir. Carla Simón
Our critic said: “Entered in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus sidebar but winner of the festival’s overall best first feature award, Catalan director Carla Simon’s debut is both tender and determined as it relates...
- 21/02/2017
- ScreenDaily
A certain mutant send-off may have gotten the most global attention out of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, but if one retracts their claws, some of the finest in major international cinema comes into focus. Ahead of our picks of the best of the festival, the jury has delivered their awards.
Led by Paul Verhoeven, the jury made up of Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Olafur Eliasson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Jentsch, Diego Luna, and Wang Quan’an gave the Hungarian drama On Body and Soul the top prize of Golden Bear, while Aki Kaurismäki picked up Best Director for The Other Side of Hope and Kim Min-hee earned Best Actress for her latest Hong Sang-soo collaboration On The Beach At Night Alone.
Check out the winners below (with a hat tip to Deadline) along with links to reviews where available. One can also see our full coverage here.
Golden Bear for Best...
Led by Paul Verhoeven, the jury made up of Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Olafur Eliasson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Jentsch, Diego Luna, and Wang Quan’an gave the Hungarian drama On Body and Soul the top prize of Golden Bear, while Aki Kaurismäki picked up Best Director for The Other Side of Hope and Kim Min-hee earned Best Actress for her latest Hong Sang-soo collaboration On The Beach At Night Alone.
Check out the winners below (with a hat tip to Deadline) along with links to reviews where available. One can also see our full coverage here.
Golden Bear for Best...
- 19/02/2017
- par Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I Am Not Your Negro As the 67th edition of the Berlin Film Festival starts to wind down, the first award winners have been announced.
The Panorama audience awards were given to Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck's examination of Us race relations through the work of James Baldwin and his three assassinated friends - and Philippe van Leeuw's drama about a family under siege in war-torn Syria Insyriated.
The audience vote runners up in the audience vote were Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi's documentary portrait of singer Chavela Vargas, Chavela and Naoko Ogigami's drama Close Knit.
The independent jury awards were also announced.
Prizes Of The International Short Film Jury
Berlin Short Film Nominee For The European Film Awards
The Artificial Humours (Os Humores Artificiais) by Gabriel Abrantes
Prizes Of The Ecumenical Jury
Competition prize:
On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről...
The Panorama audience awards were given to Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck's examination of Us race relations through the work of James Baldwin and his three assassinated friends - and Philippe van Leeuw's drama about a family under siege in war-torn Syria Insyriated.
The audience vote runners up in the audience vote were Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi's documentary portrait of singer Chavela Vargas, Chavela and Naoko Ogigami's drama Close Knit.
The independent jury awards were also announced.
Prizes Of The International Short Film Jury
Berlin Short Film Nominee For The European Film Awards
The Artificial Humours (Os Humores Artificiais) by Gabriel Abrantes
Prizes Of The Ecumenical Jury
Competition prize:
On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről...
- 18/02/2017
- par Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Two films that feel ripped-from-the-headlines have won the audience awards at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, the largest public fest in the world.
Insyriated, a drama from Belgian director Philippe van Leeuw about a Syrian household under siege during the civil war, took the top prize for fiction voted on by the festival's some 250,000 cinemagoers.
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, an examination of U.S. race relations told through the work of writer James Baldwin, picked up the audience award for best documentary. I Am Not Your Negro is already nominated for an Oscar in the best...
Insyriated, a drama from Belgian director Philippe van Leeuw about a Syrian household under siege during the civil war, took the top prize for fiction voted on by the festival's some 250,000 cinemagoers.
Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, an examination of U.S. race relations told through the work of writer James Baldwin, picked up the audience award for best documentary. I Am Not Your Negro is already nominated for an Oscar in the best...
- 18/02/2017
- par Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French-Belgian produced drama Insyriated, which is set in Syria, has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Berlinale label after being named the Best European Film in the fest's Panorama sidebar. The film, which is directed by Belgian helmer Philippe van Leeuw, will now benefit from promotional support from European group Europa Cinemas, which comprises of 1,039 cinemas from 41 Euro countries, and better exhibition thanks to a financial incentive for network cinemas to include…...
- 17/02/2017
- Deadline
Syria-set drama set to benefit from European exhibition support.
Philippe van Leeuw’s Insyriated has won the Europa Cinemas Label as the best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
The Syria-set drama stars Hiam Abbas as a woman trapped with her family in their Damacus apartment as the city suffers from the conflict raging outside.
Screen’s review described the film as “tense and nerve-shredding”.
Insyriated will now benefit from promotional support from Europa Cinemas, which will offer a financial incentive to encourage cinemas in the network to include the film in their programme schedules.
This is the 13th time the label has been awarded. It was voted on by a jury of four exhibitors from the Europa Cinemas network. They were: Alice Black (Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK); Pierre-Alexandre Moreau (Cinémas Studio, France); Monica Naldi (Cinema Beltrade Italy); an Feliks Wagner (Neues Off Kino, Germany).
The...
Philippe van Leeuw’s Insyriated has won the Europa Cinemas Label as the best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
The Syria-set drama stars Hiam Abbas as a woman trapped with her family in their Damacus apartment as the city suffers from the conflict raging outside.
Screen’s review described the film as “tense and nerve-shredding”.
Insyriated will now benefit from promotional support from Europa Cinemas, which will offer a financial incentive to encourage cinemas in the network to include the film in their programme schedules.
This is the 13th time the label has been awarded. It was voted on by a jury of four exhibitors from the Europa Cinemas network. They were: Alice Black (Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK); Pierre-Alexandre Moreau (Cinémas Studio, France); Monica Naldi (Cinema Beltrade Italy); an Feliks Wagner (Neues Off Kino, Germany).
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- 17/02/2017
- par tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Insyriated, Philippe van Leeuw's drama about a Syrian family caught in its home while its city is under siege, has won the Europa Cinemas Label prize as the best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
“Insyriated could not be more vital and topical, and an entirely appropriate winner of the Label,” the jury said in a statement.
Insyriated is set in a Damascus apartment and shows the members of a household, a microcosm of Syrian society, as they struggle with the horrors of the war raging...
“Insyriated could not be more vital and topical, and an entirely appropriate winner of the Label,” the jury said in a statement.
Insyriated is set in a Damascus apartment and shows the members of a household, a microcosm of Syrian society, as they struggle with the horrors of the war raging...
- 17/02/2017
- par Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Trump will only make American society poorer,” Insyriated actress Hiam Abbass told Screen.
Industry executives at Berlin Film Festival are still on high alert should Us president Donald Trump get his way and impose a new travel ban.
Even though a federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Us president’s original embargo on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, Trump has intimated a revised executive order could be in the offing.
The recent ban, although only in place for days, had a meaningful impact on the film world.
Asghar Farhadi, Iranian director of Oscar nominee The Salesman has already said he will boycott the awards.
According to Screen sources, Iranian-Italian filmmaker Fariborz Kamkari was recently unable to attend the Santa Barbara International Festival with documentary Water And Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, The Colours Of Life due to the previous ban.
Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, who stars in Syrian-set Panorama war-drama Insyriated, was damning...
Industry executives at Berlin Film Festival are still on high alert should Us president Donald Trump get his way and impose a new travel ban.
Even though a federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Us president’s original embargo on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, Trump has intimated a revised executive order could be in the offing.
The recent ban, although only in place for days, had a meaningful impact on the film world.
Asghar Farhadi, Iranian director of Oscar nominee The Salesman has already said he will boycott the awards.
According to Screen sources, Iranian-Italian filmmaker Fariborz Kamkari was recently unable to attend the Santa Barbara International Festival with documentary Water And Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, The Colours Of Life due to the previous ban.
Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, who stars in Syrian-set Panorama war-drama Insyriated, was damning...
- 14/02/2017
- par jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A chilling, fast-moving study of a Syrian household under siege, Insyriated brings the everyday horror home with the kind of realism associated with the most gripping war films. Belgian cinematographer-turned-director Philippe Van Leeuw, who also wrote the screenplay, has the entire story unfold in one day inside a spacious middle-class apartment where falling bombs keep everyone on edge and snipers pick off anyone who ventures out the door. It sounds highly theatrical, but far from being a recipe for boredom, the huis-clos situation created by the claustrophobic space and limited time frame heightens the drama enormously.
Playing the lady of...
Playing the lady of...
- 13/02/2017
- par Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Film premieres in Berlin’s Panorama strand on Sunday (Feb 11).
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Insyriated, a tense drama set during the Syrian civil war.
Watch the trailer below or on mobile click Here.
The film is premiering in the Panorama strand at the 2017 Berlin film festival on Sunday (Feb 11)
It was directed by Philippe Van Leeuw. Films Boutique are handling international sales.
The story revolves around a mother of three (Hiam Abbass) who is trapped inside her flat in war-torn Aleppo. She tries to keep her family and friends safe as her home is threatened by bombs, snipers and burglars.
The cast also includes Diamand Abou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas and Moustapha Al Kar.
Kmbo are distributing in france, with O’Brother Distribution handling Belgium.
Guillaume Malandrin and Serge Zeitoun produced for Altitude100 Production & Liaison Cinématographique, in coproduction with Minds Meet, Versus Production, Voo et Be tv and Né à Beyrouth Films.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Insyriated, a tense drama set during the Syrian civil war.
Watch the trailer below or on mobile click Here.
The film is premiering in the Panorama strand at the 2017 Berlin film festival on Sunday (Feb 11)
It was directed by Philippe Van Leeuw. Films Boutique are handling international sales.
The story revolves around a mother of three (Hiam Abbass) who is trapped inside her flat in war-torn Aleppo. She tries to keep her family and friends safe as her home is threatened by bombs, snipers and burglars.
The cast also includes Diamand Abou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas and Moustapha Al Kar.
Kmbo are distributing in france, with O’Brother Distribution handling Belgium.
Guillaume Malandrin and Serge Zeitoun produced for Altitude100 Production & Liaison Cinématographique, in coproduction with Minds Meet, Versus Production, Voo et Be tv and Né à Beyrouth Films.
- 10/02/2017
- ScreenDaily
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