Winners include Dusan Milic’s latest feature Darkling and Hans Lukas Hansen’s ‘docu-fantasy’ The Quest For Tonewood.
Source: Facebook/Katja Goljat, Matjaz Rust
When East Meets West 2018 prize presentation
Projects from Serbia, Norway and the Czech Republic were among the winners at the 8th edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum held during this week’s Trieste Film Festival.
The three-day event ended on Tuesday evening with the presentation of Cannes Producers Network Award of free accreditation for Serbian writer-director Dusan Milic’s latest feature Darkling, which he describes as “arthouse with a touch of psychological horror”, and for Norwegian documentary filmmaker Hans Lukas Hansen’s “docu-fantasy” The Quest For Tonewood about the quest for the magical wood to make the finest violins in the world.
In addition, a Hot Docs Industry Pass was awarded to award-winning Serbian documentary filmmaker Srdjan Sarenac for his new project Prison Beauty Contest, which follows the staging...
Source: Facebook/Katja Goljat, Matjaz Rust
When East Meets West 2018 prize presentation
Projects from Serbia, Norway and the Czech Republic were among the winners at the 8th edition of the When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum held during this week’s Trieste Film Festival.
The three-day event ended on Tuesday evening with the presentation of Cannes Producers Network Award of free accreditation for Serbian writer-director Dusan Milic’s latest feature Darkling, which he describes as “arthouse with a touch of psychological horror”, and for Norwegian documentary filmmaker Hans Lukas Hansen’s “docu-fantasy” The Quest For Tonewood about the quest for the magical wood to make the finest violins in the world.
In addition, a Hot Docs Industry Pass was awarded to award-winning Serbian documentary filmmaker Srdjan Sarenac for his new project Prison Beauty Contest, which follows the staging...
- 1/24/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Debut film of Turkey’s Erol Mintas wins best film, best actor. Special Jury Award and best actress go to Brides
The 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) wrapped on Saturday night with Turkish writer-director Erol Mintaş ‘s first film Song of My Mother winning the main award Heart of Sarajevo for the best feature film and €16,000 provided by the Council of Europe.
In addition, the film’s lead Feyyaz Duman won best actor and €2,500.
The co-production between Turkey’s Mintasfilm, France’s Arizona Production and Germany’s mîtosfilm world-premiered at Sarajevo.
A mother-son relationship film set among Kurds in Istanbul, it was finished in June thanks to the 1000 Volt Post-Production Award the project won at the Istanbul Film Festival’s Meetings on the Bridge in April.
The Berlinale Panorama title Brides by Tinatin Kajrishvili won the Special Jury Prize and €10,000 from Agnes B., and first-timer Mari Kitia won the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress and €2,500.
The...
The 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) wrapped on Saturday night with Turkish writer-director Erol Mintaş ‘s first film Song of My Mother winning the main award Heart of Sarajevo for the best feature film and €16,000 provided by the Council of Europe.
In addition, the film’s lead Feyyaz Duman won best actor and €2,500.
The co-production between Turkey’s Mintasfilm, France’s Arizona Production and Germany’s mîtosfilm world-premiered at Sarajevo.
A mother-son relationship film set among Kurds in Istanbul, it was finished in June thanks to the 1000 Volt Post-Production Award the project won at the Istanbul Film Festival’s Meetings on the Bridge in April.
The Berlinale Panorama title Brides by Tinatin Kajrishvili won the Special Jury Prize and €10,000 from Agnes B., and first-timer Mari Kitia won the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress and €2,500.
The...
- 8/25/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Something Must Break
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Tiger Awards Competition
Afscheid van de Maan/Farewell to the Moon by Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, 2014, world premiere)
Visual artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature revolves around 12-year-old Dutch and his family in the hot summer of 1972, when the Americans launch their last mission to the moon. Tuinder contrasts the tragicomic adventures of his protagonists with the lost illusions of that transitional year, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and approaching oil crisis. Iffr showed many of Tuinder’s short films, as well as his first feature Winterland (2009).
Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Akira Ikeda (Japan, 2013, European premiere)
Akira Ikeda's crazy and funny second feature is a dark fairytale revolving around Kogure, a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory, a man without characteristics and a stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife,...
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Tiger Awards Competition
Afscheid van de Maan/Farewell to the Moon by Dick Tuinder (Netherlands, 2014, world premiere)
Visual artist Dick Tuinder’s second feature revolves around 12-year-old Dutch and his family in the hot summer of 1972, when the Americans launch their last mission to the moon. Tuinder contrasts the tragicomic adventures of his protagonists with the lost illusions of that transitional year, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and approaching oil crisis. Iffr showed many of Tuinder’s short films, as well as his first feature Winterland (2009).
Anatomy of a Paper Clip by Akira Ikeda (Japan, 2013, European premiere)
Akira Ikeda's crazy and funny second feature is a dark fairytale revolving around Kogure, a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory, a man without characteristics and a stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
- 12/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has revealed the first five titles selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, which aims to give up-and-coming talent “the opportunity to shine on a global stage. They are:
Concrete Clouds, Lee Chatametikool
(Thailand/Hongkong/China, 2013, European premiere)
New York based-currency trader Mutt returns home to Bangkok after the death of his father amidst the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s. He faces past family and relationship issues in this first feature by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s editor. This project received Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund support for script and project development.
Happily Ever After, Tatjana Bozic
(Croatia, 2013, world premiere)
Filmmaker Tatjana Bozic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War and ended up settling in The Netherlands. Her first feature-length documentary is a tragicomic portrait of her own love life. She revisits her past love affairs in a desperate effort to save...
- 12/10/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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