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Naomi Kawase in Hanezu, l'esprit des montagnes (2011)

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Adabana (2024)
Film Review: Adabana (2024) by Kai Sayaka
Adabana (2024)
Premiering at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival and later selected for D’A Festival Cinema Barcelona, “Adabana” marks the return of director Sayaka Kai, five years after her critically acclaimed debut “Red Snow.” Originally conceptualized in the late 1990s, the story was deemed too speculative for its time and shelved. The global Covid-19 pandemic, however, brought renewed relevance to its themes of medical ethics, isolation, and mortality, prompting Kai to revisit the project. Reuniting with longtime collaborators, including composer Kazuya Nagaya and cinematographer Koichi Furuya, she crafted a slow-burning, philosophical science fiction drama that explores identity, class, and the commodification of life. Echoes of Naomi Kawase‘s stylistic sensibility and the societal critique found in “Plan 75” (less) resonate throughout.

Set in a near future where a virus has drastically reduced the population, only the elite are entitled to possess a cloned version of themselves, known as “the Unit.” Shinji,...
See full article at AsianMoviePulse
  • 6/23/2025
  • by Panos Kotzathanasis
  • AsianMoviePulse
The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: An Ambitious and Impeccably Shot Dystopian Fairy Tale that Struggles to Deepen its Allegory
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David Verbeek’s latest film, “The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard” (2025), is essentially about human survival in today’s world riddled with ecological crises. The climate is rapidly changing its patterns, leading to unprecedented dangers. Yet, the oligarchs are busy taking over the world, and artificial intelligence is threatening humanity’s future. At a time when everything seems dire, it’s natural to look for someone as humanity’s last hope. What if this ‘last hope’ is not a human at all? How would they interpret human nature? And will adapting to the ways of our world secure their future? “The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard” asks these questions through the eyes of a feral girl (Jessica Reynolds) who returns to the human world by accident.

The girl lives in the wild with a pack of wolves. She walks on her four limbs and acts like them. It...
See full article at High on Films
  • 6/9/2025
  • by Akash Deshpande
  • High on Films
The 27th edition of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia finally opened!
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The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025 (Ssff & Asia), one of the largest international short film festivals in Asia and officially recognized by the U.S. Academy Awards®, celebrated the opening of this year’s event with a Red Carpet and Opening Ceremony on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at Takanawa Gateway City, which just opened to the public this March. Marking its 27th edition, this year’s festival theme is “creative active generative.” Gathering “creative” talent from filmmakers around the world, the festival aims to actively create a space where films meet audiences and creators connect with companies—fostering new and exciting collaborations. The theme also reflects the festival’s vision for the future, embracing emerging technologies such as generative AI to inspire a new era of creativity. This year, the festival received 4,592 submissions from 108 countries and regions, with approximately 250 carefully selected films to be screened both at physical venues and through the online Grand Theatre platform.
See full article at AsianMoviePulse
  • 6/1/2025
  • by Adriana Rosati
  • AsianMoviePulse
Tribeca 2025 highlights by Anne-Katrin Titze
David Verbeek on the set of "R U THERE"
Tribeca Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze on David Verbeek’s The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard and Naomi Kawase, in the Spotlight program Matt Tyrnauer’s Nobu on chef Nobu Matsuhisa, and in Spotlight Documentary Ebs Burnough's Kerouac's Road: The Beat Of A Nation. Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin’s two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes is the Opening Night Gala selection.

Aviad (Yehezkel Lazarov) and Aya (Sarah Adler) dancing to Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence (imported by Ed Bahlman for the US) in Dead Language

The British bands Culture Club and Depeche Mode (first heard in the United States at music producer and 99 Records...
See full article at eyeforfilm.co.uk
  • 5/17/2025
  • by Anne-Katrin Titze
  • eyeforfilm.co.uk
Todd Haynes To Be Honored By Cannes Directors’ Fortnight With Golden Carriage Award
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The French Directors’ Guild (Srf) will fete U.S. director Todd Haynes with its honorary Carrosse d’Or (Golden Carriage) award at the upcoming edition of its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Haynes will receive the prize at the opening ceremony of the parallel section, running alongside the main Cannes Film Festival from May 14 to 22.

The honor follows Haynes’ recent stint as president of the jury at the Berlinale in February.

The Srf highlighted Haynes place heart at the American counterculture and his legacy of challenging social, sexual or artistic norms.

“From Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story to Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Carol and May December, your films have been inhabited by a great faith in cinema’s experimental and narrative possibilities,” the Srf board wrote in a letter explaining their motivation for the award.

“Your genius is to move and mesmerize us in a single move, combining Formal virtuoso with infinite empathy and tenderness.
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 4/1/2025
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Souleymane Cissé Dies: Trailblazing Malian Director Was 84
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Celebrated Malian director Souleymane Cissé, who was the first sub-Saharan African director to win a major award at Cannes with 1987 Jury Prize winner Yeelen (Brightness), died Wednesday at the age of 84.

Active right up until his death, Cissé had recently attended a press conference to present two trophies at a pre-event for the 29th edition of Fespaco, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou.

“Papa died today in Bamako. We are all in shock. He dedicated all his life to his country, to cinema and to art,” his daughter Mariam Cissé said in a statement.

Cissé was due to preside over the jury of the biannual Fespaco festival, which opens in the capital of Burkina Faso from this Saturday.

Born in Malian capital of Bamako in 1940, Cissé was passionate about cinema from a young age.

After high school studies in neighboring Senegal, he lived briefly in post-independence Mali before...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 2/20/2025
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Juliette Binoche Named 2025 Cannes Film Festival President Of The Jury
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French actress Juliette Binoche has been named President of the Jury for the 2025 edition of the Cannes Film Festival in May.

The honor, which was announced on Tuesday morning Paris time, will fall exactly 40 years after the Oscar-winning The English Patient star first touched down at the festival with André Téchiné’s Palme d’Or contender Rendez-vous in 1985.

Binoche follows in the footsteps of U.S. director Greta Gerwig whose jury feted Sean Baker’s Anora with the Palme d’Or last year.

“I’m looking forward to sharing these life experiences with the members of the Jury and the public. In 1985, I walked up the steps for the first time with the enthusiasm and uncertainty of a young actress; I never imagined I’d return 40 years later in the honorary role of President of the Jury. I appreciate the privilege, the responsibility and the absolute need for humility,” said Binoche.
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  • 2/4/2025
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Film Review: Beyond the Fog (2023) by Daichi Murase
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Produced by Naomi Kawase with the help of Nara International Film Festival, “Beyond the Fog” is the second feature by Daichi Murase, and has already had a successful festival run, premiering in San Sebastian and now finding its place at Busan.

Beyond the Fog is screening at Five Flavours

The slow-burn, almost tiptoeing-around-its-characters story takes place in a remote mountain village, in Japan. The village was once popular, but as tourism declined so did the area and the inn that the story revolves around. Currently, it is run by Shige and Saki, his daughter-in-law, since her husband has moved away from the area, as much as from her and their 12-year-old daughter, Ihika. Ihika is quite close to her grandfather, which makes her life even more difficult when the signs of senility become more intense. One day, Shige disappears, and the family, and particularly Saki, are forced to make a...
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  • 11/18/2024
  • by Panos Kotzathanasis
  • AsianMoviePulse
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Venice, Berlin, Sundance award-winning Japanese directors selected for festival support
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Four filmmakers have been selected for the initial round of Japan’s Film Frontier Global Networking Program, aimed at supporting young filmmakers aiming for overseas festivals.

The initiative, which is sponsored by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, will help creators refine their pitches, learn how to give presentations at overseas film markets and provide opportunities for networking.

The filmmakers and their projects were selected for their viability as well as their potential appeal to co-producers from outside Japan.

The four selected filmmakers are Shingo Ota, whose documentary feature The End Of The Special Time We Were Allowed was selected...
See full article at ScreenDaily
  • 11/1/2024
  • ScreenDaily
Thomas Vinterberg Named As Marrakech Jury President
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Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been announced as president of the jury at the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, running from November 29 to December 7.

The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second films in the international competition, recent winners of which have included Asmae El Moudir’s Mother of all the Lies (2023) and Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi’s A Tale Of Shemroon (2022),

“In this rapidly changing and increasingly divided world, festivals such as Marrakech provide a much-needed window into a wide variety of cultures,” said Vinterberg. “Films can describe what cannot be explained. Make us understand the unacceptable. And there is indeed a lot to understand right now.”

Marrakech has strong connections with the Danish cinema world. Last year it celebrated longtime Vinterberg collaborator Mads Mikkelsen with an honorary career achievement award. He spoke fondly of his connection with the director in his masterclass.

Vinterberg...
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  • 10/8/2024
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Busan Asian Filmmaker Of The Year Kiyoshi Kurosawa On Why He Remade ‘Serpent’s Path’, Casting Masaki Suda in ‘Cloud’ & Japan’s New Talent Wave
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Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this year’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year at Busan International Film Festival, talked about the two films he has playing here, as well as the recent wave of young talent emerging in Japan, during a press event on the second day of the festival.

Mentioning that he turns 69 years old this year, Kurosawa said he decided to churn out two films in a short space of time – Cloud, starring Masaki Suda as a factory worker with a dubious online side hustle, and Serpent’s Path 2024, a French-language remake of his 1998 Japanese film of the same name. Both films are screening as Galas in Busan after Cloud premiered at Venice film festival and Serpent’s Path in San Sebastian.

“It wasn’t my intention, but when I received an invitation from a French producer to remake one of my films in France, I chose Serpent’s Path without hesitation,...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 10/3/2024
  • by Liz Shackleton
  • Deadline Film + TV
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Tokyo film festival to open with period thriller ’11 Rebels’, close with ‘Marcello Mio’
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Kazuya Shiraishi’s 11 Rebels is set to world premiere as the opening film of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, which has also set Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio as its closing feature.

Based on a previously-unproduced script by late screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara, 11 Rebels is a thriller set in the 19th century and centres on 11 prisoners who are ordered to defend a fortress from the government’s army so their past crimes will be forgiven.

Starring Takayuki Yamada and Taiga Nakano , the screenplay was written by Junya Ikegami based on an original story by Kasahara, known for writing 1970s yakuza...
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  • 9/12/2024
  • ScreenDaily
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Period thriller ’11 Rebels’ to open Tokyo film festival 2024
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Kazuya Shiraichi’s 11 Rebels is set to world premiere as the opening film of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, which has also set Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio as its closing feature.

Based on a previously-unproduced script by late screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara, 11 Rebels is a thriller set in the 19th century and centres on 11 prisoners who are ordered to defend a fortress from the government’s army so their past crimes will be forgiven.

Starring Yamada Takayuki and Nakano Taiga, the screenplay was written by Ikegami Junya based on an original story by Kasahara, known for writing 1970s yakuza...
See full article at ScreenDaily
  • 9/12/2024
  • ScreenDaily
Nara International Film Festival Unveils Diverse 2024 Lineup
Naomi Kawase in Hanezu, l'esprit des montagnes (2011)
The Nara International Film Festival (Niff) has selected six films from around the world to compete in its main competition this year. Organized by renowned Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, the biennial festival will take place from September 20-23 in the historic city of Nara, Japan.

The competition lineup showcases emerging talents alongside established directors. It features films from the United Kingdom, China, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Spain, and France. These movies have screened at prestigious festivals worldwide and tackle diverse themes.

British director Joshua Trigg’s “Satu – Year of the Rabbit” makes its Asian premiere. The film debuted at the Raindance Film Festival. Chinese director Choy Ji’s directorial debut “Borrowed Time” first showed at last year’s Busan International Film Festival. Swedish director Ernst De Geer’s “The Hypnosis,” which won three awards at the 2023 Karlovy Vary Festival, also competes.

The other competition films are Malika Musaeva’s “The Cage Is...
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  • 9/11/2024
  • by Naser Nahandian
  • Gazettely
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Naomi Kawase’s Nara film festival sets 2024 competition line-up
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Nara International Film Festival, the biennial event founded by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, has revealed the international competition line-up for its 2024 edition.

Titles include Satu - Year of the Rabbit by UK filmmaker Joshua Trigg, which premiered at Raindance in June; Chinese director Choy Ji’s feature debut Borrowed Time, first seen at last year’s Busan; and The Hypnosis by Sweden’s Ernst De Geer, which picked up three prizes at Karlovy Vary in 2023.

Further features are Malika Musaeva’s The Cage Is Looking For A Bird, Laura Ferres’ The Permanent Picture and Heartless by Nara Normande and Tiao,...
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  • 9/11/2024
  • ScreenDaily
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Lemming Film restructures as production slate ramps up (exclusive)
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Leading Dutch independent production company Lemming Film has restructured, promoting producers Erik Glijnis and Tom van Blommestein to the new positions of head of film and head of TV series respectively.

The restructure comes as Lemming manages a busy development and production slate (see below for more details).

Glijnis has worked at Lemming since 2016 and has producing credits including Sweet Dreams, which premiered in Locarno in 2023 and was the Dutch Oscar candidate, Do Not Hesitate, Milk and Dead And Beautiful.

Van Blommestein joined Lemming in 2020 having formerly worked at Nl Film and Endemol Shine. His credits include Zenith season 2, Floor Rules,...
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  • 9/11/2024
  • ScreenDaily
‘A Human Position’s’ Anders Emblem Reunites with Amalie Ibsen Jensen for Haugesund-Bound  ‘Also a Life’ (Exclusive)
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Rising Norwegian writer-director Anders Emblem whose “A Human Position” bowed at the Tromsø, Rotterdam and San Sebastian festivals in 2022 before landing a global deal with Mubi, has teamed up again with up-and-coming actor Amalie Ibsen Jensen for his third pic, “Also a Life.”

The Norwegian feature in development to be pitched at the Nordic Co-Production Market Aug. 21, in Haugesund, Norway, is being produced by the talent-driven Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Stær Film), associated to award-winning international helmers including Luis Alejandro Yero (“Calls from Moscow”), Laura Mora (“The Kings of the World”), Nabil Ayouch (“Everybody Loves Touda”), and Ernst de Geer (“The Hypnosis”).

The Guatemala-born Norwegian producer said she first set eyes on Emblem’s work when his sophomore pic “A Human Position” opened the Tromsø International Film Festival 2022.

Pirir said: “I was amazed by such a refreshing new Nordic voice; “A Human Position” was both moving, funny and cleverly constructed. Since...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 8/19/2024
  • by Annika Pham
  • Variety Film + TV
Stirring Thai Film ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ Has Won Over Both The Southeast Asian Box Office & The TikTok Generation
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Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track. So we’re going to do the hard work for you.

This week, we head to Thailand and take a peak at a stirring, emotional film. How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has broken box office records around Southeast Asia, with audiences lapping up the soulful tear-jerker and TikTok playing quite the role.

Name: How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

Country: Thailand

Producer: Gdh

International sales: WME Independent

Distribution: Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Anz

For fans of: The Farewell, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films

When Thai filmmaker Pat Boonnitipat...
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 6/19/2024
  • by Sara Merican
  • Deadline Film + TV
Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, and Yorick van Wageningen in The Way - La route ensemble (2010)
Cannes Sees Taiwan Co-Productions Bear Fruit
Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, and Yorick van Wageningen in The Way - La route ensemble (2010)
As the Cannes Film Festival and the Marché du Film are both set to open on the 14th of May, Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca) is making a big splash with films and projects it has supported selected in multiple sections. It will also be making its presence felt with several projects pitching at the market. Six films supported by Taicca co-production initiatives or investment will premiere at the festival. These are Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot in Cannes Premiere, The Shameless in Un Certain Regard, Locust in Critics Week, Mongrel in Directors' Fortnight, Colored in the Immersive Competition, and Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase in the Immersive Selection. Further Taiwanese talent will be on show as Traversing the Mist by Tung-Yen Chou is also selected for the Immersive Competition; actor Eddie Peng is headlining Black Dog in Un Certain Regard; and actors Lee Kang-Sheng and Wu Ke-Xi feature in Blue Sun...
See full article at AsianMoviePulse
  • 5/19/2024
  • by Rhythm Zaveri
  • AsianMoviePulse
Cate Blanchett, Millie Bobby Brown & Colin Farrell Among Cannes Immersive Film Lineup
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The Cannes Film Festival has revealed the lineup for its new strand dedicated to immersive works. Among the eight projects in competition are the French premiere of Evolver, which will feature Cate Blanchett in voiceover, and the European premiere of Maya: The Birth of a Superhero with Indira Varma and Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran as English voices. Meanwhile, the non-competitive works boast a stellar cast including Colin Farrell as the English voice in Gloomy Eyes, Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, and Patti Smith in Spheres.

Earlier this month, the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film had announced the launch of a new competition dedicated to immersive works. The statement revealed that the competition will feature immersive, collective, and interactive works that utilize virtual reality, augmented reality, and other cutting-edge technologies to transcend conventional storytelling and transport audiences to other worlds, and narratives.

Other projects in competition include En Amour,...
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  • 4/23/2024
  • by Hannah Abraham
  • Deadline Film + TV
Cannes Festival Immersive Lineup Includes Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, and Colin Farrell
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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival lineup is expanding thanks to the newly unveiled Immersive competition.

The inaugural offering includes location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, projection mapping, and holographic works. Actors such as Colin Farrell (“Gloomy Eyes”), Olivia Cooke (“Emperor”), Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, and Patti Smith (“Spheres”) lend their respective voices to the projects created with cutting-edge technology.

The festival will host eight projects as part of the Immersive Competition, ushering in a new era of storytelling while “challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and above all celebrating new artists as well as old,” per the official press statement.

Outside of the competition, six non-competitive works will be featured at the exhibition exploring the evolution of the medium and drawing parallels between virtual reality, virtual production, cinema, and collective storytelling.

The Best Immersive Work Award will be presented by the President of the Jury at the Closing Ceremony on...
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  • 4/23/2024
  • by Samantha Bergeson
  • Indiewire
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Projects featuring Cate Blanchett, Millie Bobby Brown and Patti Smith in Cannes immersive line-up
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Cannes Film Festival (May 15-24) has unveiled the eight titles for its inaugural immersive competition, including projects featuring Cate Blanchett, Millie Bobby Brown, Patti Smith, Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain.

The competition includes location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, as well as projection mapping and holographic works.

Evolver is voiced by Blanchett, and has previously played at Tribeca and Geneva International Film Festiva. It is helmed by Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin and Robin McNicholas of London-based art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. Dirty Films is also a production company, and Coco Francini, Blanchett, and Andrew Upton are executive producers on the virtual reality project,...
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  • 4/23/2024
  • ScreenDaily
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Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Millie Bobby Brown in Cannes Immersive Lineup
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The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the inaugural lineup for its Immersive Competition section, the first-ever selection of augmented and virtual reality works to screen at the austere French film fest.

The 8 competition titles and 6 out-of-competition screenings include works featuring such talents as Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Millie Bobby Brown, and Tahar Rahim. The lineup highlights cutting-edge VR and Ar techniques and includes location-based virtual reality, mixed reality experiences, projection mapping, and holographic works.

Introducing the new immersive section, Cannes said it hoped to “spotlight the next generation of international artists who are redefining storytelling and inventing new narrative-driven experiences that move beyond the traditional two-dimensional cinema screen.” The section is being organized with support from the French national film board, the Cnc. The immersive works will be presented at an exhibition space in the Cannes Cineum complex on the outskirts of the city and at the campus of Cannes’s Georges Méliès film school.
See full article at The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
  • 4/23/2024
  • by Scott Roxborough
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Jessica Chastain Voice Projects in Cannes Film Festival Immersive Lineup
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The Cannes Film Festival has announced the selections for its Immersive lineup, including projects voiced by stars like Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain.

According to a press release, the Immersive competition includes “collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works. These carefully selected immersive works showcase the cutting edge of this new era in storytelling, challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and above all celebrating new artists as well as old.”

The eight projects in competition include the French premiere of “Evolver,” voiced by Blanchett, and the European premiere of “Maya: The Birth of a Superhero,” which counts “Bridgerton” star Charithra Chandran among its voice cast.

The out-of-competition lineup comprises six projects, including “Emperor” with “House of the Dragon” star Olivia Cooke; “Gloomy Eyes,” the English version of which is voiced by Farrell; and Eliza McNitt’s “Spheres” with Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown and Patti Smith.
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  • 4/23/2024
  • by Ellise Shafer
  • Variety Film + TV
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Cannes: Baloji, Emmanuelle Béart to Lead Golden Camera Jury
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Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart will oversee this year’s Golden Camera jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Tuesday.

Organizers said French actress Béart and director and songwriter Baloji will serve as president of the jury that selects the best first film from across the official selections of the film festival.

“Being a self-taught filmmaker and a filmmaker from the Congolese diaspora, it’s a great honor to be able to witness the vitality of first-time directors, to discover their strong singularities and their inaugural work, which will have a lasting impact on the identity of their filmography,” Baloji said in a statement.

Béart added in her own statement: “A first film is about the impossibility of doing anything other than delving into the depths of one’s being to find out what we can’t keep quiet about. A deeply moving and terribly free birth:...
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  • 4/16/2024
  • by Etan Vlessing
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Charades boards Hiroshi Okuyama’s Un Certain Regard selection ‘My Sunshine’ (exclusive)
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Charades has taken international sales rights to Hiroshi Okuyama’s feature My Sunshine and will kick off sales for the Un Certain Regard 2024-selected feature in Cannes.

Set on a small Japanese island centred on the changing seasons, My Sunshine follows two children who are complete opposites who decide to train together to form a figure-skating duo as their feelings for each other grow throughout the winter.

The film is the director’s follow-up to his debut feature Jesus about a young boy who leaves Tokyo to attend a Christian school in the countryside, which earned Okuyama the new directors...
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  • 4/11/2024
  • ScreenDaily
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight to honour Andrea Arnold with Carrosse d’Or award
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UK filmmaker Andrea Arnold will be honoured with the Directors’ Fortnight’s Carrosse d’Or award at the 56h edition of the Cannes parallel section running May 15-25.

She will receive the prize from French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (Srf) during the opening ceremony.

Launched in 2002, the Carosse d’Or - or “Golden Coach” in French - recognises “innovative” directors for their storied careers behind the camera.

Last year, Souleyman Cissé received the honour that has also previously been given to Frederick Wiseman, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Aki Kaurismaki, Jia Zhangke, Naomi Kawase and Nanni Moretti.
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  • 4/9/2024
  • ScreenDaily
Andrea Arnold To Be Feted By Cannes Directors’ Fortnight With Honorary Golden Carriage
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The French Directors’ Guild (Srf) will fete UK director Andrea Arnold with its honorary Carrosse d’Or (Golden Carriage) award at the upcoming edition of its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Arnold will receive the prize at the opening ceremony of the parallel section, running alongside the main Cannes Film Festival from May 15 to 25.

She is the first UK director to be honored with the award and follows in the wake of the likes of Kelly Reichardt, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Jia Zhangke, Jane Campion, Agnès Varda, Naomi Kawase and Jim Jarmusch.

Arnold has been a regular in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection since her debut feature Red Road, which won the Jury Prize in 2006.

She went on to win the Jury Prize again for Fish Tank in 2009 and American Honey in 2016. Her last film Cow played in the Cannes Premiere section in 2021.

The announcement of the Directors’ Fortnight honor...
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  • 4/9/2024
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
The Cineaste Cinema of Koji Fukada (Part 1)
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The question of who will continue the legacy of the 4Ks and particularly their successes on the international movie scene is one of the most dominant in the discussions among critics and scholars of Japanese cinema. Following the 2016 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize for “Harmonium”, one of the names that provides an answer to the aforementioned question is that of Koji Fukada. In the following text, we will take a closer and more thorough look at all the elements that make the 1980 born filmmaker a worthy successor of the aforementioned masters, starting from the very beginning of his life.

Born in Tokyo in Tokyo on January 5, 1980, Koji Fukada had a father who was a film buff, which resulted in him growing up in an environment surrounded with hundreds of VHS tapes, and subsequently, to become a cineaste, just like his old man. He watched the movies that inspired him to...
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  • 3/30/2024
  • by Panos Kotzathanasis
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Mexican drama ‘Sujo’ wins top prize at Sofia
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Mexican directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s Sujo won the Grand Prix at this year’s Sofia International Film Festival (March 13-24).

The Mexican-French-us co-production about a boy who must fight against the temptation of local gangs premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and is being handled internationally by Alpha Violet.

The festival’s top prize has gone to a film from Mexico for the second year running after Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser’s Red Shoes won last year.

The international jury, presided over by Hungarian actor-writer-director Szabolcs Hadju and including outgoing EFM director Dennis Ruh,...
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  • 3/26/2024
  • ScreenDaily
Toni Collette Signs Up To Mentor Emerging Middle East Talent As Master At Doha Film Institute’s 10th Qumra Meeting + Full Line-Up Of Participating Projects
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Australian Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Toni Collette (Knives Out) has been announced as a Master at the 10th edition of the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator, running from March 1 to 6.

She joins Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Martín Hernández, and Jim Sheridan who were previously announced as Masters for the 2024 edition of the meeting dedicated to supporting new voices from Arab and world cinema.

They join a long list of top professionals to have participated in Qumra since its launch in 2014, which has included James Schamus, Naomi Kawase, Asghar Farhadi, Gael Garcia Bernal and Tilda Swinton.

Additionally, the Dfi has also announced the 40 projects by emerging filmmakers from more than 20 countries, that will participate in the event. (scroll down for full details).

Under the Qumra format, the Masters give a masterclass and provide one-on-one mentorship the talents attached to the projects, alongside a...
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  • 2/17/2024
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Cannes Marché Unveils Selection Committee For 2024 Investors Circle Connecting High Finance With Feature Film Projects
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Exclusive: Cannes Marché du Film has unveiled the four film industry professionals who will select the projects for the second edition of its Investors Circle initiative.

The one-day event – taking place within the framework of this year’s market, running from May 14 to 22 – is aimed at connecting elevated, international feature film projects with film financiers and high-net worth individuals with a desire to invest in cinema.

This year’s selection committee comprises Arte France Cinéma CEO Remi Burah; French film and TV biz entrepreneur Serge Hayat; Georgian cinema professional Tamara Tatishvili, who is currently head of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund, and Korean co-production expert Wonsun Shin.

The projects are gathered through a combination of networking and scouting as well as direct submissions to the Cannes Marché du Film up until February 29. The Selection Committee will meet throughout March to decide the final line-up.

Aleksandra Zakharchenko,...
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  • 2/6/2024
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Martín Hernández & Jim Sheridan Set As 2024 Qumra Masters
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Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (Dfi) has announced that Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Martín Hernández and Jim Sheridan will serve as Qumra Masters at the 10th edition of its respected talent incubator event, running from March 1 to 6.

They join a long list of top professionals to have participated in the Qumra meeting since its launch in 2014, which has included James Schamus, Naomi Kawase, Asghar Farhadi, Gael Garcia Bernal and Tilda Swinton.

Under the Qumra format, a select group of Mena and international filmmakers and producers of projects supported by the Dfi’s grants program attend the six-day talent and project incubator meeting in Doha.

The Qumra Masters give a masterclass and then provide one-on-one mentorship to the partipants alongside a host of other industry professionals in attendance.

French director Carax is currently working on post-production for his personal work It’s Not Me, which follows his award-winning pop-rock melodrama Annette,...
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  • 2/5/2024
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
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Juliette Binoche Continues Her Quest For Spiritual Nourishment With Tran Anh Hùng’s French Foodie Drama ‘The Taste Of Things’: “Regrets? That’s Not In My Vocabulary”
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At first sight, the film the French chose to represent them at the Oscars next year couldn’t be any more French. A chaste romantic drama starring Juliette Binoche as Eugénie, an unsung, genius-level private chef, The Taste of Things takes place in the kitchen at the sprawling rustic home of the famous restauranteur Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel), and features every culinary delight known to mankind. Food is braised, broiled, blanched, poached and sautéed, in carefully curated banquets that can take anything up to a waistline-busting 24 hours. Needless to say, audiences at the Cannes film festival savored every bite.

Binoche says she got the script simply because she knew the producer. But the reason she decided to make it was the director, Trần Anh Hùng, the Vietnamese-born auteur who first made his name with The Scent of Green Papaya in 1993.

“I knew Hùng a little bit because he came on...
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  • 12/7/2023
  • by Damon Wise
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Film Review: Last Shadow at First Light (2023) by Nicole Midori Woodford
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It was kind of an unspoken (probably) agreement among artists from Japan, to not deal extensively with the events of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, for ten years, probably as a sign for respect for the ones lost and the ones who suffered due to the events. Since 2021 though, the local industry has started focusing on the events intently, with a number of movies and dramas being released since then. “Last Shadow at First Light” also moves in the same path, in an international co-production involving people from Singapore, Japan, Slovenia, Philippines and Indonesia, which premiered at the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival in September.

Last Shadow at First Light screened at Qcinema

16-year-old Ami is a girl living with her father in Singapore, after her mother's death when she was little. Both of them miss her intensely, with him having embarked in a kind of solemn silence in...
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  • 11/29/2023
  • by Panos Kotzathanasis
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Tilda Swinton Talks Finding Magic & Experimentation In Big Studio Pictures – Marrakech In Conversation
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Tilda Swinton famously cut her acting teeth on the experimental films of late director Derek Jarman such as Caravaggio and The Garden as well as life-long friend Joanna Hogg’s debut short Caprice and Sally Potter’s Orlando.

Nearly 50 years later, she has continued to work with Hogg as well as in the experimental cinema arena, finding a new Jarman-esque kindred spirit in Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Speaking in an in-conversation event at the Marrakech Film Festival on Monday, the actress revealed how some of the big commercial studio pictures she has worked on across her career have felt personally more experimental to her than her avant-garde work.

“I’ve been really fortunate to have some adventures in worlds of filmmaking that I never thought I would be able to go into,” she said.

“When Derek died [in 1994], I was a bit high and dry… slowly… invitations came...
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  • 11/27/2023
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
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International industry pays tribute to “visionary” Celluloid Dreams founder Hengameh Panahi
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The pioneering French-Iranian producer and sales agent leaves behind a long-lasting legacy

Pioneering producer and celebrated Celluloid Dreams founder Hengameh Panahi died on November 5 following a long illness, sending shockwaves of sadness throughout the international film community and leaving a long-lasting legacy of both championing auteur cinema and shaking up the status quo in her wake.

The revered French-Iranian industry executive was known for finding and following emerging directors and accompanying their films to festival glory and international acclaim. Her career spanned four decades and more than 800 films.

She worked alongside iconic directors from across the globe including Jacques Audiard,...
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  • 11/10/2023
  • by Rebecca Leffler
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Indie Film World Pays Tribute to Hengameh Panahi: ‘She Brought a Lot of Cinema Into the World”
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News of the death of Celluloid Dreams CEO Hengameh Panahi has sparked an outpouring of admiration and tributes from the independent film community.

Panahi, a pivotal figure in the global art house scene, died Nov. 5, aged 67. In her decades in the business — as a producer, co-financier and sales agent — Panahi introduced the world to international auteurs from Iran (Jafar Panahi, Marjane Satrapi), Europe (Jacques Audiard, François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, Marco Bellocchio, Aleksandr Sokurov, the Dardenne brothers) and across Asia (Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase, Jia Zanghke, Hirokazu Kore-eda).

“She took films that were challenging, that were difficult to make, to sell, to promote, and she fought for them,” says Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor) who knew and worked with Panahi for more than 30 years. “She was a unique part of the film ecosystem. She was really inspirational, with the films that she enabled to be made, and seen.”

Celluloid Dreams,...
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  • 11/10/2023
  • by Scott Roxborough
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Hengameh Panahi, Groundbreaking French-Iranian Producer, Dies at 67
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Hengameh Panahi, the French-Iranian producer and sales agent who founded Celluloid Dreams and was a pivotal figure in bringing works from such auteurs as Jacques Audiard, Jafar Panahi (no relation), François Ozon, Marjane Satrapi and Todd Haynes to the world, has died. She was 67.

Viviana Andriani, a press attaché who had worked with Panahi for many years, confirmed Thursday that Panahi died on November 5 after battling a long illness.

Celluloid Dreams, which Panahi launched in 1985, was a groundbreaking sales and production company that helped build the global market for international arthouse films. Over the course of three decades, Paris-based Celluloid helped package and sell more than 800 films, including the first works from François Ozon (See The Sea), Gaspar Noé (I Stand Alone), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus), among many others.

Alongside many European talents, Panahi, who was born in Iran but moved to Europe aged...
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  • 11/9/2023
  • by Scott Roxborough
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hengameh Panahi, esteemed French-Iranian sales agent, dies aged 67
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Panahi founded international sales company Celluloid Dreams in 1993.

Hengameh Panahi, a leading light of the international film sales industry over the past three decades, has died aged 67.

French-Iranian Panahi died on November 5 after a long illness, according to press agent Viviana Andriani, who handled campaigns for several films sold by Panahi.

Iranian-born executive Panahi attended the Jeanne D’Arc French School in Tehran prior to the 1979 revolution. She moved to Belgium aged 12, where she studied journalism, and founded Celluloid Dealers in 1985.

The company was relaunched as Celluloid Dreams upon Panahi’s move to Paris in 1993. Over the following three decades...
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  • 11/9/2023
  • by Ben Dalton
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Hengameh Panahi Dies: Revered Celluloid Dreams Sales Agent Who Handled Films Of Takeshi Kitano, Jacques Audiard, Jafar Panahi & François Ozon Was 67
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Groundbreaking French-Iranian sales agent and producer Hengameh Panahi, who represented a myriad of renowned Cannes and Venice prize-winning auteur directors, has died at the age of 67.

Paris-based press attaché Viviana Andriani, who handled press campaigns for a number of Panahi’s films, announced the news in a short communiqué.

She said Panahi had died on November 5 after bravely battling a long illness.

Panahi was a force to be reckoned with on the international film industry circuit, who launched dozens of renowned arthouse directors at the beginning of their careers and accompanied them as they won awards and fame.

Born in Iran, Panahi was sent to Belgium to complete her education as teenager.

She got her first big break in the film industry as head of international at Brussels-based animation studio Graphoui.

In an early sign of her flare for scouting promising talent, Panahi connected with John Lasseter and Tim Burton...
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  • 11/9/2023
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
  • Deadline Film + TV
Marrakech film festival to honour Mads Mikkelsen, Faouzi Bensaidi
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The Marrakech International Film Festival runs November 24 – December 2.

The Marrakech International Film Festival (November 24 – December 2) will honour Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan filmmaker Faouzi Bensaïdi with its Etoile d’Or (Golden Star) for their contributions to cinema.

Bensaïdi will also be in town to present a Gala screening of his latest film Deserts, a Casablanca-set friendship drama that premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Mikkelsen stars in Nikolaj Arcel’s historical epic The Promised Land that will get a special screening at the festival after debuting in Venice.

The festival cited Mikkelsen’s “audacity, his magnetism, and his ability to...
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  • 11/7/2023
  • by Rebecca Leffler
  • ScreenDaily
Mads Mikkelsen, Faouzi Bensaïdi to Be Honored by Marrakech Film Festival as Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe Give Talks
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“Casino Royale” Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan actor-director Faouzi Bensaïdi will be celebrated with career achievement awards at the upcoming 20th Marrakech International Film Festival that will run Nov. 24- Dec. 2.

The fest, which is forging ahead despite the Israel-Hamas conflict that has caused cancellations of several other fests in the region, as well as the earthquake that hit the country in September, has also recruited an impressive lineup of international talents to hold onstage conversations, including Tilda Swinton, Viggo Mortensen and Willem Dafoe.

Mikkelsen, who in tandem with his Hollywood career has recently returned to making films in his native Denmark such as Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” and Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land,” which is Denmark’s current Oscar hopeful, said in a statement that he is “proud, honoured and so fortunate, that in a short while I will meet friends and colleagues and some of...
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  • 11/7/2023
  • by Nick Vivarelli
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Tilda Swinton, Simon Baker, Mads Mikkelsen & Naomi Kawase Announced For Marrakech’s ‘In Conversation With’ Program
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The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled the 10 cinema figures who will participate in its In Conversation With program at its 20th edition running from November 24 to December 2.

They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.

Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).

Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
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  • 11/7/2023
  • by Melanie Goodfellow
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Czech Republic’s Ji.hlava Doc Fest Launches Its Mission to Explore ‘What Images Can We Trust?’
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Launching an ambitious program of compelling global and Czech work, the 27th edition of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival opened on Tuesday, kicking off six days of more than 350 film screenings by veteran and new filmmakers.

Fest head and founder Marek Hovorka, who launched the event in his hometown in 1997, introduced what is now Central and Eastern Europe’s main event for docs, defining the fest mission as “a celebration of films, image, sound, gestures and diversity.”

The films selected this year are “all very original,” he told the opening gala audience, and show filmmakers “perceive the world very differently.”

The fest, raising its curtain in the location that remains its home, the communist-era Dko “house of culture,” as the pre-1989 regime dubbed such multi-purpose spaces, attracts for its launch hundreds of guests seated at white-decked tables, sipping local wine.

Opening night moderators embraced an ironic take on AI,...
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  • 10/25/2023
  • by Will Tizard
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Film Review: Beyond the Fog (2023) by Daichi Murase
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Produced by Naomi Kawase with the help of Nara International Film Festival, “Beyond the Fog” is the second feature by Daichi Murase, and has already had a successful festival run, premiering in San Sebastian and now finding its place at Busan.

Beyond the Fog is screening at Busan International Film Festival

The slow-burn, almost tiptoeing-around-its-characters story takes place in a remote mountain village, in Japan. The village was once popular, but as tourism declined so did the area and the inn that the story revolves around. Currently, it is run by Shige and Saki, his daughter-in-law, since her husband has moved away from the area, as much as from her and their 12-year-old daughter, Ihika. Ihika is quite close to her grandfather, which makes her life even more difficult when the signs of senility become more intense. One day, Shige disappears, and the family, and particularly Saki, are forced to...
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  • 10/14/2023
  • by Panos Kotzathanasis
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Bi Gan
Terence Davies on Bringing Poetry to Life, Directing His New Short, and Planning His Next Feature
Bi Gan
Special is the opportunity to speak with one of our great living filmmakers; doubly rare is a chance to do so as their latest project premieres on YouTube. Participating with the murderer’s row Film Fest Gent compiled for their 50th-anniversary series––Paul Schrader, Bi Gan, Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, Helena Wittmann, Naomi Kawase, and João Pedro Rodrigues, to note a handful––Terence Davies has directed Passing Time, a three-minute view of Essex scored by Florencia Di Concilio’s stirring composition and anchored by his reading of a self-penned poem.

Speaking over email, Davies and I had an exchange on the project that, however brief, proves a skeleton-key-of-sorts to his modus operandi: how actors should work, what poetry conveys on-paper and read-aloud, why Essex of all places to capture this music. Therein is also an unfortunate detail about a long-developing project but embers of hope for something new.

Special thanks...
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  • 9/19/2023
  • by Nick Newman
  • The Film Stage
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Film Fest Gent Are Now Streaming New Shorts from Terence Davies, Bi Gan, Jia Zhangke, and More
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Marking perhaps the greatest coup any festival’s managed these last ten years, the Film Fest Gent––recently in our sights for their addition of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new(er) feature Gift––are celebrating their 50th anniversary with 25 new shorts by an absolute murderer’s row of filmmakers, among them: Paul Schrader, Terence Davies, Bi Gan, Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, Helena Wittmann, Naomi Kawase, and João Pedro Rodrigues. Ff Gent’s unusual method was to first hire composers for a short, one- or two-minute piece, then asking this range of filmmakers––”who engage in more “traditional narrative cinema, as well as experimental work and documentary, to ensure diversity––letting sound inspire image. The majority of them (Schrader being a notable exception) are showing completely free.

Find the available films below:

The post Film Fest Gent Are Now Streaming New Shorts from Terence Davies, Bi Gan, Jia Zhangke, and More first appeared on The Film Stage.
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  • 9/15/2023
  • by Nick Newman
  • The Film Stage
Kei Chika-Ura Talks Toronto Title ‘Great Absence’: Japan’s Ageing Society & How A Surprise Phone Call Led Him To Make The Film
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Great Absence, the second feature film from Japanese director Kei Chika-ura, is receiving its world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section.

Inspired by Kei’s real-life experiences, the film tells the story of an actor living in Tokyo who is forced to travel home when the police call to say his father is suffering from dementia and has lost touch with reality. Making matters worse, his father’s second wife appears to be missing.

The actor makes the trip home with his own wife, full of conflicted emotions over a man who left the family when he was still a child, and starts an exploration into the mysteries of his father’s life. Along the way, the film touches on themes including time and memory, familial obligation and the role that women play in male-dominated Japanese society.

Veteran actor Tatsuya Fuji (In The Realm Of The Senses) plays the father,...
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  • 9/8/2023
  • by Liz Shackleton
  • Deadline Film + TV
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival Reviews 2023
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The Japanese selection of Skip City International D-Cinema 2023, despite the fact that the diversity in terms of selection was significant, proved, essentially, the obvious. When Japanese filmmakers try to follow the recipes of the festival-favorite local directors the result is films that are either repetitive, or dull, or both, and most of the times much worse than the works of the aforementioned, with the lack of tension in particular bordering on the rather annoying. However, when they let their imagination free, both in terms of context and cinematic techniques, the result is surprisingly good, definitely in terms of the former, but frequently also of the latter. In that fashion, and considering the fact that I did not manage to watch every film, the ones that stood out where “My Mother's Eyes”, “Alien's Daydream”, and “Don't Go”

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  • 8/1/2023
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