The Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has backed seven feature projects including films from Locarno-winning Indonesian auteur Edwin and Argentinan filmmaker Ivan Fund.
Wcf’s 41st funding round has awarded €260,000 in production grants to projects from Argentina, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Indonesia and Rwanda.
They include Sleep No More, the latest project from Indonesian auteur Edwin, whose 2021 feature Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash won the Locarno Golden Leopard award. Edwin’s 2012 film Postcards From The Zoo was also the first Indonesian film to be selected for Berlin Competition.
Sleep No More follows a Taiwanese girl...
Wcf’s 41st funding round has awarded €260,000 in production grants to projects from Argentina, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Indonesia and Rwanda.
They include Sleep No More, the latest project from Indonesian auteur Edwin, whose 2021 feature Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash won the Locarno Golden Leopard award. Edwin’s 2012 film Postcards From The Zoo was also the first Indonesian film to be selected for Berlin Competition.
Sleep No More follows a Taiwanese girl...
- 12/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Films Boutique has picked up international rights to Albert Serra’s documentary “Afternoons of Solitude” (Tardes de Soledad) ahead of its world premiere in the competition section of the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The film marks the third collaboration between Serra and Berlin-based Films Boutique after “Liberté,” winner of the Special Jury Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019, and “Pacifiction,” which premiered in Cannes competition in 2022 and went on to earn nine nominations and two wins at France’s Cesar.
Further awards for “Pacifiction” included best director and cinematography at France’s Lumiere Awards, as well as 11 nominations at the Gaudi awards with wins for cinematography, production design and non-Catalan language film. The film also received a best film nod from the Guardian and was also elected best film of the year by the Cahiers du Cinéma.
“Afternoons of Solitude” is a portrait of bullfighting star Andrés Roca Rey,...
The film marks the third collaboration between Serra and Berlin-based Films Boutique after “Liberté,” winner of the Special Jury Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019, and “Pacifiction,” which premiered in Cannes competition in 2022 and went on to earn nine nominations and two wins at France’s Cesar.
Further awards for “Pacifiction” included best director and cinematography at France’s Lumiere Awards, as well as 11 nominations at the Gaudi awards with wins for cinematography, production design and non-Catalan language film. The film also received a best film nod from the Guardian and was also elected best film of the year by the Cahiers du Cinéma.
“Afternoons of Solitude” is a portrait of bullfighting star Andrés Roca Rey,...
- 9/20/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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