Les Arcs 2014
Les personnalités qui participeront au Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs 2014.
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Cédric Kahn was born on 17 June 1966 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for The Goldman Case (2023), Too Much Happiness (1994) and The Prayer (2018).- Actor
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Jack Reynor is an award-winning American actor who co-starred opposite Florence Pugh in A24's breakout summer 2019 hit, MIDSOMMAR, directed by Ari Aster. Most recently, he was seen in Anthony and Joe Russo's American crime drama film, CHERRY, opposite Tom Holland.
The multi-hyphenate talent wrote and directed a short film, BAINNE, starring Will Poulter, which won the Best First Short Drama Award at the Galway Film Festival. Reynor starred opposite Felicity Jones in Mimi Leder's, ON THE BASIS OF SEX, which chronicles the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her struggles for equal rights prior to her succession to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in CBS All Access series, STRANGE ANGEL, co-produced by Sailor Bear and Ridley Scott under his Scott Free banner.
Reynor has steadily been building his credits with critically-acclaimed performances in auteur director projects such as Lenny Abrahamson's WHAT RICHARD DID; John Carney's SING STREET, Ben Wheatley's FREE FIRE and Kathryn Bigelow's DETROIT. Additionally, he gained global recognition as the star of Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION which grossed over $1B worldwide.
In 2015 Reynor won the Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting for his performance in Gerard Barrett's film GLASSLAND. Other awards include two IFTA Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in SING STREET and the IFTA Award for Best Actor for his role in WHAT RICHARD DID.
He currently resides in Ireland.- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Virginie Ledoyen was born Virginie Fernandez on 15 November 1976 in Aubervilliers, near Paris. At the age of 2, she was already shooting advertisements for television. At 9, she started going to the École des Enfants du Spectacle, and made her film debut at 10 in What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986). She was then nominated for the César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for most promising actress in 1993, 1994 and 1995.
Her international breakthrough was in 1999, when she became ambassador for the cosmetics L'Oréal; this led to her casting in The Beach (2000), with Leonardo DiCaprio.- Actor
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Gaspard Proust is known for The Ideal (2016), Gaspard Proust: Dernier Spectacle (2021) and Love Lasts Three Years (2011).- Cinematographer
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Agnès Godard was born on 29 May 1951 in Dun-sur-Auron, Cher, France. She is a cinematographer and production manager, known for Beau Travail (1999), Home (2008) and Wings of Desire (1987).- Actress
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Pham was born in 1974 in Saigon, but moved to France with her parents a year later.
Her big break came in 1992 when she starred in the Oscar-winning film Indochine (1992) playing the adopted child of a French woman in French-ruled Vietnam.
Pham studied commerce in university and worked as a senior marketing manager after graduation. She has worked in New York, Singapore and Vietnam and now resides in London.
She has also taken an acting course at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.- Composer
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Stephen Warbeck began studying piano and composing at the age of four. His parents were keen amateur musicians who encouraged Stephen to pursue his musical talents. By his mid-teens, Stephen developed an affinity for rock 'n' roll as well as for theatre. He studied Drama and French at Bristol University, and began his career at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, as a musician and actor. After eight years of working as a composer and performer for the stage, Stephen began writing music for film and television. Since the early 1980s, Stephen has built up a considerable filmography. As well as writing music for more than forty television projects, (for which he has received five BAFTA nominations, including one for the highly successful series Prime Suspect), he has scored many feature films including The Other Man (2008), Proof (2005), Two Brothers (2004), Mrs. Brown (1997), Mystery Men (1999), Quills (2000), Billy Elliot (2000), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), Birthday Girl (2002), and Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which he won an Academy Award. Some of Stephen's notable stage productions include the National Theatre's An Inspector Calls, John Madden's production of Proof , Sam Mendes' production of To The Green Fields Beyond, both at the Donmar, and The White Devil for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has written for several shows at the Almeida, including The Triumph Of Love, Parlour Song and When The Rain Stops Falling. Stephen most recently collaborated with Ian Rickson on Jerusalem at the Royal Court. In addition to composing for film and television, Stephen has written music for numerous radio plays, and is a founder member of the anarchic pub band The hKippers, for whom he composes and performs. He has his own ensemble and another small band called The Metropolitan Water Board. Stephen has written several concert pieces, "Peter Pan" is his first ballet score.- Director
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Bertrand Tavernier was the son of Geneviève (Dumond) and René Tavernier, who was a publicist, writer, and president of the French PEN club. He was a law student that preferred write film criticisms. He also wrote a few books about American movies. Then his first film won a few awards in France and abroad and established his reputation.- Actor
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Kad Merad was born on 27 March 1964 in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria. He is an actor and writer, known for Welcome to the Sticks (2008), The Chorus (2004) and Baron noir (2016).- Lola Créton is a French actress. Her first debut was in a short film, Imago. Her first major role was in Barbe-Bleu, directed by Catherine Breillat. She plays Camille in Goodbye First Love, a film by Mia Hansen Løve. The film was an official selection at Locarno and New York Film Festival.
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Gilles Lellouche was born on 5 July 1972 in Savigny-sur-Orge, Essonne, France. He is an actor and director, known for Tell No One (2006), Sink or Swim (2018) and Beating Hearts (2024).- Actor
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Irish actor Liam Cunningham was an electrician in the mid-'80s. He saw an ad for an acting school and he decided to give it a try. His first film role was as a policeman in "Into the West." Since then, he has been involved in many films and theater productions on both sides of the Atlantic.- Asa Butterfield was born in Islington, London, England, to Jacqueline Farr and Sam Butterfield. He began acting at the age of 8, after a talent spotting casting director saw him at his local after school drama club, The Young Actors Theatre in Islington. Following on from a couple of small roles in films, he was cast, at 10 as Bruno in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008). Since then, he has been acclaimed for his titular roles in Hugo (2011) and Ender's Game (2013), as well as other major roles as Nathan in A Brilliant Young Mind (2014), Jude in Ten Thousand Saints (2015), Jake in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Gardner Elliot in The Space Between Us (2017), Norman in Nanny McPhee Returns (2010), and Mordred in the BBC's Merlin (2008).
Asa was born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield, but now uses the middle name "Bopp" on his passport instead (after Comet Hale-Bopp), and is known as Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield. - Director
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Cinema came into Mia Hansen-Løve's life when she was seventeen, as Olivier Assayas made her start as an actress in Late August, Early September (1998). Two years later, he gave her the part of "Aline" in his Les Destinées (2000). Their artistic collaboration was coupled by a union in real life, Mia and Olivier becoming life companions. In 2001, Mia Hansen-Løve began studying at the municipal Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris' 10th district but she dropped our after two years to contribute instead to the famous film magazine "Les Cahiers du Cinéma", where Olivier Assayas also wrote. In 2001, she tried her hand at directing and, as of the first day of shooting, discovered that this WAS what she wanted to do. The result was Après mûre réflexion (2004). Since then, although aged only twenty-eight, she has already made two more films, All Is Forgiven (2007) and Father of My Children (2009), both acclaimed by the critics, both showing consistent thematic and stylistic unity.- Actress
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Aure Atika was born on 12 July 1970 in Monte Estoril, Portugal. She is an actress and director, known for The Night Manager (2016), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006).- Director
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Eric Guirado was born on 16 September 1968 in Lyon, Rhône, France. He is a director and writer, known for Un petit air de fête (1999), Quand tu descendras du ciel (2003) and Je suis un super héros (2000).- Maxime Musqua is known for Mission 404: Internet doit rester vivant (2013), Les vedettes (2022) and La Folle Histoire du Palmashow (2010).
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Marie Gillain was born on 18 June 1975 in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. She is an actress and director, known for Coco Before Chanel (2009), Elective Affinities (1996) and Mon père, ce héros. (1991).- Actress
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Anaïs Demoustier was born on 29 September 1987 in Lille, Nord, France. She is an actress, known for Sweet Evil (2010), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011) and Alice and the Mayor (2019).- Odile Vuillemin was born on 8 July 1976 in Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France. She is an actress, known for Profilage (2009), Eyewitness (2018) and À Tout de Suite (2004).
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Neil Jordan was born on 25 February 1950 in Sligo, Ireland. He is a writer and producer, known for The Crying Game (1992), Greta (2018) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). He has been married to Brenda Rawn since 30 June 2004. They have two children. He was previously married to Vivienne Shields.- Actor
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Andrew Scott is an Irish actor who started his career at a very young age. He made his first appearance on television in an advertisement for a brand of porridge at the age of 6.
He was born into an Irish family where his father, Jim, worked in a recruitment agency and his mother, Nora, taught art. He has an older sister, Sarah, and a younger sister, Hannah.
He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in an Affiliated Theater for the play A Girl in a Car with a Man at Jerwood Theater Upstairs and the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor for the film Dead Bodies.
He is known for his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the 2010 BBC drama Lennon Naked and for his portrayal of villain Jim Moriarty in the modern adaptation Sherlock, also produced in 2010 by the BBC and for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012.
In November 2013, he revealed his homosexuality during an interview for the British daily The Independent, while indicating that he did not play it in the interpretation of his roles: "Fortunately, nowadays, people don't perceive homosexuality as a defect. But it's also not a quality, like kindness. Or a talent, like knowing how to play the banjo. It's simply a fact. Of course, that's part of what I'm sending back, but I don't want to play with it. I'm not advertising it; I think it's important when you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. All I really want to do is continue doing my job, which is pretending to be a bunch of different people. It's as simple as that. »
In 2014, he took on the role of a priest in Ken Loach's film: Jimmy's Hall.
In 2015, he appeared in the new James Bond: 007 Spectre, as Max Denbigh aka "C", a member of the British government whose goal is to shut down the Double-0 spy branch.
In 2017, he returned to the role of Hamlet in the theater, under the direction of Robert Icke, for nearly 150 performances. The piece lasts almost 4 hours. His performance was unanimously praised by critics.
In 2019, he played "the priest" in the second season of the multi-award winning British series: Fleabag. A role which will notably earn him a nomination for the Golden Globes in 2020, as best supporting role in a TV series. Fans of the series will nickname "the hot priest", this Catholic priest with whom Fleabag will fall in love. He will reprise the role of the priest in 2020, in a "special" episode of the Irish series Normal people.
The same year, he reunited with Sam Mendes, with whom he had already collaborated several times in the past, in the film 1917.
Then he participated in an episode of the successful British series: Black Mirror for episode 2 of season 5 entitled Smithereens.
In 2020, Andrew Scott landed the lead role in the series Tom Ripley, adapted from the novels by Patricia Highsmith. The same year, the actor read the poem Everything is Going to be All Right by Irish poet Derek Mahon, in a video posted on Instagram by actress Emilia Clarke. This reading is dedicated to Irish men with cancer.
Andrew Scott will be part of the jury for the 2021 GQ Grooming Awards, a ceremony created by GQ magazine and which celebrates men's cosmetic products.
Andrew Scott is filming in November 2020 alongside Ruth Wilson in the television adaptation for HBO of the play Oslo by J.T. Rogers. With Steven Spielberg as executive producer.
In March 2021, Andrew Scott will begin filming Lena Dunham's new film: Catherine, Called Birdy, the adaptation of the book of the same name, alongside Billie Piper.- Writer
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Pascal Thomas was born on 2 April 1944 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Les zozos (1973), La dilettante (1999) and Mercredi, folle journée! (2001).- Actor
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing was born on 25 December 1963 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for In a Rush (2012), Caché (2005) and The Holy Family (2019).- Actress
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Marilou Berry was born on 1 February 1983 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Look at Me (2004), Ugly Melanie (2008) and The New Adventures of Cinderella (2017).- Actor
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François Morel was born on 10 June 1959 in Flers, Orne, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Les pieds sous la table (1994), Footnotes (2016) and Les vivants et les morts (2010).- Alice Isaaz was born on 26 July 1991 in Bordeaux, France. She is an actress, known for The Gilded Cage (2013), Elle (2016) and Smart Ass (2014).
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Joséphine de Meaux was born on 23 January 1977 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Intouchables (2011), Nos jours heureux (2006) and Snowlidays (2019).- Actress
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Camille Chamoux was born on 22 September 1977 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Les gazelles (2014), Love Is Dead (2016) and The Peace and Love Process (2022).- Director
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Sophie Letourneur is known for Le marin masqué (2011), La vie au ranch (2009) and Voyages en Italie (2023).- Lolita Chammah was born on 1 October 1983 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for At Eternity's Gate (2018), Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015) and Malina (1991).
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Élodie Frégé was born on 15 February 1982 in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France. She is an actress, known for Potiche (2010), The Easy Way Out (2014) and Hénaut président (2012).- Composer
- Music Department
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Bruno Coulais was born on 13 January 1954 in Paris, France. He is a composer and actor, known for The Chorus (2004), Wolfwalkers (2020) and Winged Migration (2001).- Composer
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Composer Eric Neveux was 25 when he met director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women) and composed the score for his first long-form film, See the Sea. Ozon then asked him to score his first feature film, Sitcom. Shortly thereafter, Neveux began a long-term collaboration with Patrice Chéreau, scoring his film Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, 1997), followed by Intimacy (Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear award-winner, 2001), and Persecution, (Venice Film Festival, 2009).
Eric Neveux has composed original music for 60 feature films, as well as a variety of scores for TV movies and series. Recent score highlights include two installments of director Rachid Bouchareb's American Trilogy; Just Like a Woman (starring Sienna Miller and Golshifteh Farahani), and Two Men in Town(2014), with Forest Whitaker and Harvey Keitel; and later, Bouchareb's film Road to Istanbul in 2016 (the last two being official selections of the Berlin Film Festival). Eric's passion for independent film is further illustrated by his work on titles such as La Vie Domestique by Isabelle Czajka, Standing Tall (La Tête Haute) by Emmanuelle Bercot, the Cannes Film Festival's opening film in 2015, The Attack (2013), and The Insult (2017), by Ziad Doueiri which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
Under the moniker Mr. Neveux, Eric made important contributions to the 90s Downtempo music scene, most notably with the release of his album, TUBA (Cup of Tea Records). Later he co-founded Microbe Records, a respected home for indie artists in France and the United Kingdom.
Eric and his family divide their time between Los Angeles and Paris.- Composer
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Atli Örvarsson (b. 1970) is an acclaimed Icelandic film and TV composer, conductor, and musician. His body of work spans over 40 major studio film productions, countless TV shows, collaborations with a range of artists including RZA, Khalid, Talos, and orchestral conducting, and ambitious solo work.
Atli was born and raised in the town of Akureyri in North Iceland. He lived and worked in Los Angeles for many years, feeling a call to return to his homeland in 2016. The move brought him full circle, and heralded a renewed sense of creative freedom, and an exciting new chapter in his storied career.
Since his return, Atli has worked with the Sinfonia Nord orchestra to put Akureyri on the map as an international destination for recording film scores. He founded the thriving INNI label / studios to help bring talented Icelandic artists to a wider audience, and continued his creative evolution with the release of his expansive 2020 solo debut, 'You Are Here'.
Atli's journey in music began early. At age five, his musical aptitude was noticed by a relative who gave an open invitation for a music lesson, for which he showed up bright and early at 10am the next morning. In his teens, he played in a professional theatre ensemble, and earned several gold and platinum discs with the band Sálin hans Jóns míns.
Setting out to broaden his horizons, Atli undertook a degree at Boston's Berklee College of Music, and felt his calling as a film composer. He explored the synergies and subtleties of composing for the screen, going further during his Masters at the University of North Carolina. A move to Los Angeles was the natural next step. Atli quickly found good company, honing his craft alongside prolific TV composer Mike Post, and Hollywood legend Hans Zimmer.
Since then, Atli has become one of Iceland's foremost screen composers, winning the HARPA Nordic Film Composer Award for his acclaimed score to 'Rams', and several ASCAP and BMI Film and TV Music Awards. In 2009, he was nominated as the Breakthrough of the Year at the IFMCA Awards, and Discovery of the Year by the World Soundtrack Academy. In 2019, his score for 'Ploey: You Never Fly Alone' was nominated for a Public Choice Award.
The path ahead will be an exciting one. The view from the top of the world, just miles from the Arctic Circle, has given Atli a new sense of purpose. With the fertile creative ground he has cultivated, a steady flow of film and TV projects in the works, and the rich possibilities of the INNI organisation, the sky seems the limit.- Director
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Thierry Jousse was born on 24 June 1961 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. He is a director and writer, known for Julia et les hommes (2003), Nom de code: Sacha (2001) and Les invisibles (2005).- Actress
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Following a long acting career with a wealth of Awards (Screen stars, Berlinale Shooting Stars, BIFA, IFTA), established Antonia as having 'a flair for experiment and depth'. From the Cannes breakout The Other Side of Sleep, Jane Campions Bright Star, BAFTA wining Kelly&victor in titular role. Widely known portrayed of Natascha Kampusch 3096Days. As Marie-Antoinette - Dangerous Liaisons/ starz. Psychological thriller Cordelia has its US release May2022, Antonia playing title role, co-written with director Adrian Shergold. Cast- Johnny Flynn, Michael Gambon. (pow films, Twickenham Studios, BFI) UK Times, Kevin Maher. "Henry James and Roman Polanski are the touchstones as we spend an eerie, alienating weekend in the London basement flat and dark fractured mind of Cordelia, an aspiring actress and terror-attack survivor, superbly played by the febrile Antonia Campbell-Hughes." 2021 Colum Eastwood's BIFA nominated thriller 'Black Medicine', for which Antonia received glowing reviews for her lead performance as underground medic Jo. Guardian- Phuong Le "..the brilliance of Campbell- Hughes, who gives an amazing performance. Underneath the stoicism, pain is subtly etched into her features and gestures"
Antonia Campbell-Hughes feature debut as writer/director 'It Is In Us All', a complex psychological drama starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang.
'It Is In Us All' World premier at SXSW'22, won Jury Award for 'Extraordinary Cinematic Vision', and unanimous rave reviews naming Antonia as an exciting rare talent to watch (Variety- "As a debuting director, Campbell-Hughes proves she has style to burn," ). Recent BIFA nomination for 'It Is In Us All' with Best Performance. Antonia is the UK recipient of EFP Directors of 2022 Her previous shorts, 'Acre Fall Between' (BFI,Curzon) received top stars by Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw 'a disquietingly hallucinatory, dreamlike event'- Actor
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Moe Dunford was born on 11 December 1987 in County Waterford, Ireland. He is an actor and producer, known for Vikings (2013), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Patrick's Day (2014).- Director
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John Crowley was born on 19 August 1969 in Cork, Ireland. He is a director and producer, known for Brooklyn (2015), Boy A (2007) and Intermission (2003). He is married to Fiona Weir. They have one child.- Director
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John Carney was born in 1972 in Dublin, Ireland. He is a director and producer, known for Sing Street (2016), Once (2007) and Flora and Son (2023).- Casting Department
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Sven Hansen-Løve is an influential French DJ/producer who, with friend and partner, Greg Gauthier, built the Parisian party scene in 1994 with the hugely popular Cheers night. Having played all the major clubs worldwide, Löve has put his life story to paper resulting in Eden, an exhilarating new film from French auteur Mia Hansen-Løve (and Sven's sister) who traces the rise of the French electronic music boom in the nineties.
The shooting took place in New York, Paris and Morocco. (June 2015) The film is released in the USA. It has been selected by the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the San Francico International Film Festival, and Sundance.- Producer
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Félix de Givry was born on 23 December 1991 in Paris, France. He is a producer and actor, known for Journée blanche (2017), L'entretien (2019) and The Wandering Ghost (2023).- Actress
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Marianne Denicourt was born on 14 May 1966 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Up, Down, Fragile (1995), Divertimento (1992) and SK1 (2014).- Actress
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Elisa Lasowski was born on 15 November 1986. She is an actress, known for Somers Town (2008), David Bowie: Blackstar (2015) and Versailles (2015).- Peter Ferdinando is a British character actor, known for his varied, and transformational performances. His collaborations with director and cousin Gerard Johnson, playing the title role in the critically acclaimed Tony London Serial Killer (2010) Johnson's award-winning corrupt cop drama Hyena (2014) and Muscle (2019) And his work with British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, A Field in England (2013), High Rise (2015) Doctor Who Deep Breath (2014) where he played the Half Face Man, and Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) Other film credits include David Mackenzie's powerful prison drama Starred Up, Vita and Virginia as Leonard Woolf, with Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, Blue Iguana with Sam Rockwell. Lost in London directed by and starring Woody Harrelson, Ghost in the Shell with Scarlett Johansson and Juliette Binoche. Guy Ritchie's King Arthur Legend of the Sword with Jude Law, and reuniting again with Ritchie for Operation Fortune : Ruse de guerre (2023) Ferdinando's lead role in Hyena which premiered and opened the Edinburgh Festival in 2014, went on to receive 4 award nominations and 4 wins internationally, including the Les Arcs Film Festival award for Best Actor.
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Bent Hamer was born on December 18, 1956 in Sandefjord, Norway. He is a well-regarded film auteur, director, producer, and writer, known for Eggs (1995), Kitchen Stories (2003), O' Horten (2007) and Factotum (2005).
Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his later feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and documentaries. His first film, Eggs, premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it was shown in the Directors' Fortnight section and was rewarded best newcomer. That same year, it was shown in competition at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film; it also received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival. Eggs are about a father and son suffering from autism living in a remote place, where the son is more than usually concerned about the shape of eggs. Eggs was shot by his friend Erim Poppe, which quite soon later also became a front figure in the New Norwegian Wave, which can be seen as quality reality-based movies with underplayed quirky humor based on good scripts and reasonable budgets, focusing on the good story well acted out.
Hamer followed up with another strong film in Water Easy Reach (1998) about a young sailor stranded at a remote island, trying to fix his beloved golden watch, which saw Hamer really to be a leader of this New Norwegian Wave of quality films, starting the best period in Norwegian films ever. the film was awarded best screenplay amongst four nominations at the Amanda Awards at The Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund. it was also nominated for the Crystal Star in Brussels, and Francisco Rabel won best main actor a Fotogramas de Plata.
His third film, the 2003 film Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra kjøkkenet) screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It received much praise and recognition, and went on to get worldwide distribution, and awarded Best film at Amanda Awards. It also won main prizes in Copenhagen, Lübeck, Sao Paulo, Tromsø and Valladolid as well as in Ghent. The film is based on a true story about a scientific approach to make better kitchens by observing how a kitchen is used. We meet an observer as he agrees to follow an old bachelor's kitchen use.
In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the same name by US poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark (Mystery Train, Cold Fever), who produced the film together with Christine Walker (American Splendor). The film premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, on April 12th 2005. It also received much praise, being nominated to C.I.C.A.E. in Cannes, winning the Golden swan in Copenhagen IFF, as well as winning prizes in San Diego and at Kosmorama in Trondheim.
In December 2007 Hamer returned back to comedy with O'Horten which premiered to great reviews, and the film about a train engineer being pensioned off his life work went on to be the most acclaimed of Hamers career yet, being nominated for seven Amandas, winning two, and winning four out of 10 nominations of the Kanon price in Trondheim IFF. It also won one of two nominations in Cannes, and won Hamer best director in Ghent IFF.
In 2010 Hamer directed a new drama-comedy, a Christmas movie, Home for Christmas. The film looks at those who are desperately trying to connect or reconnect with their families, friends, or anyone who will listen, based upon several shorts written by Levi Henriksen, from his "Bare mjuke pakker under treet". The film won three Amanda nominations and two Kanon nominations, and won the audience award at RiverRun IFF, though being felt like a minor step back in his film making.
The 2014-film 1001 Grams about a Norwegian scientist Marie attending a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, only to find it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Again Hamer won best screenplay at the Amandas and five more nominations. Here his steady companion photographer John Christian Rosenlund also won best cinematography at Chicago IFF.
September 2020 sees premiere of The Middle Man, based upon acclaimed writer Erlend Loe's second part of novel "Sluk" where Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Hamer is the owner and founder of the BulBul Film Association, established in Oslo in 1994, and ha been called the Norwegian film auteur. due to his film language and how he tells his stories. Film historian Peter Cowie has compared Hamers characters with Jacques Tati. there's no doubt Hamer will be standing as one of the most important Filmmakers and a leader of the New Norwegian Wave occurring in the mid-nineties.- Producer
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Peter Aalbæk Jensen was born on 8 April 1956 in Denmark. He is a producer and actor, known for Department Q: The Absent One (2014), Breaking the Waves (1996) and Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013). He has been married to Lise Palm since 17 September 1983.- Actress
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Lucie Borleteau is known for Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey (2014), Les voeux (Histoire de Colbrune et Bjorn) (2008) and La grève des ventres (2012).- Producer
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Giulio Ricciarelli was born on 2 August 1965 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for Labyrinth of Lies (2014), Lights (2009) and Vincent (2004). He was previously married to Lisa Martinek.- Director
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Lisa Barros D'Sa is known for Good Vibrations (2012), Ordinary Love (2019) and The 18th Electricity Plan (2006).- Director
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Glenn Leyburn is known for Ordinary Love (2019), Good Vibrations (2012) and The 18th Electricity Plan (2006).- Director
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Ian Fitzgibbon was born in 1962 in Dublin, Ireland. He is a director and actor, known for Death of a Superhero (2011), A Film with Me in It (2008) and Moone Boy (2012).- Actress
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Ruth Bradley was born on 24 January 1987 in Dublin, Ireland. She is an actress, known for Grabbers (2012), Flyboys (2006) and Pursuit (2015).- Actor
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Winner Directors Guild Finders Series Award, RKO Pictures Screenwriters Award, Grand Jury Prize Woodstock Film Festival, Irish Film And Television Award, Best Film Galway Film Fleadh, Irish Times Film of the Year, Audience Award Cork Film Festival, and The Grand Prix at Moscow Breaking Down Barriers Festival.
Writer-director of 'Patrick's Day' and 'Charlie Casanova' and 'The Prizefighter,' Terry McMahon also plays 'Blaine' in the AMC series 'That Dirty Black Bag.'
Lectured at Trinity College, The National Film School, UCC, DIT, Colaiste Dhulaigh, Bow Street, The Gaiety School of Acting, Pulse College, The Irish Film Academy, Dundalk IT, The John Huston Film School, The Open Minds Conference, The Casa del Cinema in Rome and The Kino-Teatr in Moscow and The Royal College of Psychiatrists.- Director
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After school Barrett attended Tralee IT where he studied Film, TV and Media. Also worked and trained in Radio with Kerry Radio.
Barrett won the IFTA Rising Star Award at the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards in Dublin for his debut feature 'Pilgrim Hill'. Previous winners of the award include Michael Fassbender and Saoirse Ronan.
In 2012 at the age of 24, Barrett's debut feature film 'Pilgrim Hill' premiered at the Galway International Film Festival in Ireland and immediately garnered critical acclaim, with critics calling the film "a masterful debut from a first time filmmaker". He won the Bingham Ray Best New Irish Talent Award at the Festival and the film won the Irish Times Best Film of the Festival. The film was then personally selected by Tom Luddy to have it's World Premiere at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Barrett was also selected as the Great Expectation at the Festival, an honour bestowed to such filmmakers as Alexander Payne.
In January 2014, Barrett shot his second feature film 'Glassland' in Dublin, starring Jack Reynor, Will Poulter and Toni Collette. 'Glassland' had it's Irish premiere in July 2014 at the Galway International Film Festival and won Best Film garnering unanimous critical acclaim.- Actor
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A young dramatic actor of film and TV who has appeared in several dark big-screen dramas, the Irish-born O'Conor (not to be confused with the late American actor Hugh O'Connor) began acting at the age of eight. O'Conor was still a relative unknown pre-teen when he co-starred with Liam Neeson in the British-made feature Lamb (1985), playing the ten-year-old Owen, a lonely epileptic boy who is temporarily rescued from a violent and oppressive children's home by Brother Sebastian (Neeson). It was three years before the actor landed another major film role, that of the youthful version of Martin Sheen's narrator (seen in flashbacks) in the 1988 film adaptation of Hugh Leonard's heartwarming Tony-winning play "Da". His next film was the Daniel Day Lewis tour de force My Left Foot (1989). Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film told the story of the severely handicapped writer Christy Brown. Once again, O'Conor played the lead as a child, but this was a much more demanding and widely-seen performance. Much lighter in tone was the big-budget remake of _The Three Musketeers (1993)_, in which O'Conor played the Boy King Louis, who is protected from assassination by the title characters. O'Conor's first starring role came with Ben Ross' dark British comedy The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995), in which he was an amateur toxicologist unwisely paroled from prison after testing his theories on family and friends, with fatal results. Based on a true story, it was a thoroughly unpleasant bit of work, yet found an appreciative audience. The following year, O'Conor played a teen trying to form a rock band in 1959 Russia in Red Hot (1993).- Director
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Ophélie Koering was born on 17 August 1970 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. She is an actress and director, known for Dans L'Ombre (In the Shadow) (2022), La culbute (2011) and Mékong (2007).- Director
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Pieter Van Hees was born in 1970. He is a director and writer, known for Waste Land (2014), Linkeroever (2008) and Black XXX-Mas (1999).- Director
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Pascale Faure is known for Filles perdues, cheveux gras (2002), Beauty and the Beast (2021) and Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales (2020).- Writer
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Bianca Kronlöf was born on 30 March 1985 in Nynäshamn, Stockholms län, Sweden. She is an actress and writer, known for Underdog (2014), Ammo (2022) and Full patte (2014).