Nouvelles Vagues, a new international festival dedicated to films about youth, is set to make a splashy debut Wednesday in Biarritz, a surf haven in southwestern France, with Penélope Cruz as its inaugural guest of honor.
Launching with partners such as Chanel and leading French pay TV banner Canal+, Nouvelles Vagues was founded by fashion veteran Jérôme Pulis, who worked at Christian Dior for 16 years and producer Sandrine Brauer. The pair have enlisted former Locarno artistic director Lili Hinstin as programming chief.
The festival is kicking off Wednesday evening with the screening of Tina Satter’s “Reality,” the Berlinale breakout film starring Sydney Sweeney, followed by a gala dinner hosted by Chanel. “Reality” was acquired by HBO Films for North America on the heels of its critically acclaimed world premiere at Berlin. Metropolitan FilmExport, the French distributor of “Reality,” is holding the local premiere of “Reality” at Nouvelles Vagues ahead...
Launching with partners such as Chanel and leading French pay TV banner Canal+, Nouvelles Vagues was founded by fashion veteran Jérôme Pulis, who worked at Christian Dior for 16 years and producer Sandrine Brauer. The pair have enlisted former Locarno artistic director Lili Hinstin as programming chief.
The festival is kicking off Wednesday evening with the screening of Tina Satter’s “Reality,” the Berlinale breakout film starring Sydney Sweeney, followed by a gala dinner hosted by Chanel. “Reality” was acquired by HBO Films for North America on the heels of its critically acclaimed world premiere at Berlin. Metropolitan FilmExport, the French distributor of “Reality,” is holding the local premiere of “Reality” at Nouvelles Vagues ahead...
- 6/28/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Respected Jerusalem project lab is up and running again after two-year hiatus
Israeli filmmaker Netelie Braun has won the ninth edition of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab for Oxygen, the tale of a mother who takes drastic action when her son volunteers for active duty in Lebanon.
It will be writer and director Braun’s first fiction feature after documentary Hope I’m In The Frame, about pioneering female director Michal Bat-Adam, and a number of short films including The Hangman, about the man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Braun describes the feature as ”a political film,...
Israeli filmmaker Netelie Braun has won the ninth edition of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab for Oxygen, the tale of a mother who takes drastic action when her son volunteers for active duty in Lebanon.
It will be writer and director Braun’s first fiction feature after documentary Hope I’m In The Frame, about pioneering female director Michal Bat-Adam, and a number of short films including The Hangman, about the man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Braun describes the feature as ”a political film,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Prizes go to Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun’s Dead Language and Maya Dreifuss’ Highway 65.
Dead Language by husband-and-wife filmmakers Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun clinched the new $18,000 Jerusalem Foundation Award at the 14th edition of Jerusalem Film Festival’s (Jff) Pitch Point event, established to connect Israeli filmmakers with international partners.
The story follows a 27-year-old woman who, while waiting for her husband at the airport, ends up driving a complete stranger to his hotel after he mistakes her for his assigned driver – a random, short-lived encounter that shakes up her life.
It is Brezis and Binnun’s second...
Dead Language by husband-and-wife filmmakers Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun clinched the new $18,000 Jerusalem Foundation Award at the 14th edition of Jerusalem Film Festival’s (Jff) Pitch Point event, established to connect Israeli filmmakers with international partners.
The story follows a 27-year-old woman who, while waiting for her husband at the airport, ends up driving a complete stranger to his hotel after he mistakes her for his assigned driver – a random, short-lived encounter that shakes up her life.
It is Brezis and Binnun’s second...
- 7/30/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Drama considered one of front runners for Israeli’s foreign-language Oscar submission.
Films Boutique is handling international sales on writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) Discovery world premiere Fig Tree and Screen has obtained the excusive first-look trailer.
The Germany-France-Ethiopia co-production, considered to be one of the front runners to be chosen as Israeli’s foreign-language Oscar submission, takes place at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
It will play first at a P+I screening on September 7 ahead of the first public screening a day later.
Fig Tree follows a Jewish Ethiopian teenage girl as...
Films Boutique is handling international sales on writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) Discovery world premiere Fig Tree and Screen has obtained the excusive first-look trailer.
The Germany-France-Ethiopia co-production, considered to be one of the front runners to be chosen as Israeli’s foreign-language Oscar submission, takes place at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
It will play first at a P+I screening on September 7 ahead of the first public screening a day later.
Fig Tree follows a Jewish Ethiopian teenage girl as...
- 9/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Drama considered one of front runners for Israeli’s foreign-language Oscar submission.
Films Boutique is handling international sales on writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) Discovery world premiere The Fig Tree and Screen has obtained the excusive first-look trailer.
The Germany-France-Ethiopia co-production, considered to be one of the front runners to be chosen as Israeli’s foreign-language Oscar submission, takes place at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
It will play first at a P+I screening on September 7 ahead of the first public screening a day later.
The Fig Tree follows a Jewish Ethiopian teenage...
Films Boutique is handling international sales on writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) Discovery world premiere The Fig Tree and Screen has obtained the excusive first-look trailer.
The Germany-France-Ethiopia co-production, considered to be one of the front runners to be chosen as Israeli’s foreign-language Oscar submission, takes place at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War.
It will play first at a P+I screening on September 7 ahead of the first public screening a day later.
The Fig Tree follows a Jewish Ethiopian teenage...
- 9/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Red carpet protest highlighted fact only 82 women have been honoured in Official Selection over 71 editions of festival.
Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.
Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018
Other stars joining the protest...
Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda led 82 female industry figures in a silent ascent of the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday protesting the lack of female representation at the event over its 71 editions.
Moving, historic, 82 women from all countries and professions in cinema have just made the red carpet entrance for Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun) by Eva Husson. #Cannes2018 #Competition pic.twitter.com/0YY9SNbRqg
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 12, 2018
Other stars joining the protest...
- 5/12/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Nandita Das’ film to premiere on Sunday.
Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International has boarded international sales on Un Certain Regard selection Manto, which marks the first feature produced by Hp Studios.
Nandita Das’ film will receive its world premiere on Sunday (13) and is based on the life and work of Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the most distinguished short story writers of the 1940s.
Das produced through Nandita Das Initiatives alongside India’s Viacom18 Motion Pictures, and new companies Hp Studios and FilmStoc.
Manto wrote during the time of Indian independence and his writings reflected the turmoil in his...
Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International has boarded international sales on Un Certain Regard selection Manto, which marks the first feature produced by Hp Studios.
Nandita Das’ film will receive its world premiere on Sunday (13) and is based on the life and work of Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the most distinguished short story writers of the 1940s.
Das produced through Nandita Das Initiatives alongside India’s Viacom18 Motion Pictures, and new companies Hp Studios and FilmStoc.
Manto wrote during the time of Indian independence and his writings reflected the turmoil in his...
- 5/8/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Radiant Films International has boarded Nandita Das’ sophomore directorial feature “Manto” for international sales, the company announced Tuesday. The film, which receives its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard on Sunday, will be introduced to buyers at Cannes this week.
Written and directed by Das, “Manto” is based on the life and work of 1940s short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto. It is produced by Das’ Nandita Das Initiatives, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Hp Studios and finance company FilmStoc. Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s production company Magic If Films serves as a co-producer.
Viacom18 will distribute “Manto” in India, while French sales are being handled by co-producers Marie Masmonteil and Sandrine Brauer of En Compagnie des Lamas.
Siddiqui stars in the film as the writer, alongside Rasika Dugal and Tahir Raj Bhasin as his wife Safia and close friend, actor Shyam Chadda, respectively.
Radiant’s Mimi Steinbauer described...
Written and directed by Das, “Manto” is based on the life and work of 1940s short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto. It is produced by Das’ Nandita Das Initiatives, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Hp Studios and finance company FilmStoc. Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s production company Magic If Films serves as a co-producer.
Viacom18 will distribute “Manto” in India, while French sales are being handled by co-producers Marie Masmonteil and Sandrine Brauer of En Compagnie des Lamas.
Siddiqui stars in the film as the writer, alongside Rasika Dugal and Tahir Raj Bhasin as his wife Safia and close friend, actor Shyam Chadda, respectively.
Radiant’s Mimi Steinbauer described...
- 5/8/2018
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Israeli title Fig Tree among selection.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has revealed its line-up of Work in Progress titles set to participate at the event’s industry strand CineLink.
The 10 titles include Balkan projects, as well as several from further afield, such as Alamork Davidian’s Fig Tree, which recently won an award at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point competition, and Reem Saleh’s Lebanon-Egypt doc What Comes Around.
The projects will be presented to around 40 industry delegates, and a jury consisting of Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival), Paz Lazaro (Berlin International Film Festival), Hedi Zardi (LuxBox), Petra Gobel (The Post Republic) and Serkan Yildirim (Trt) will award three prizes: the Post Republic Award (€50,000 in kind), the CineLink Restart Award (€20,000 in kind), and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (€30,000 in cash).
Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic commented: “The CineLink Work in Progress strand has proved to be incredibly effective for both the...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has revealed its line-up of Work in Progress titles set to participate at the event’s industry strand CineLink.
The 10 titles include Balkan projects, as well as several from further afield, such as Alamork Davidian’s Fig Tree, which recently won an award at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point competition, and Reem Saleh’s Lebanon-Egypt doc What Comes Around.
The projects will be presented to around 40 industry delegates, and a jury consisting of Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival), Paz Lazaro (Berlin International Film Festival), Hedi Zardi (LuxBox), Petra Gobel (The Post Republic) and Serkan Yildirim (Trt) will award three prizes: the Post Republic Award (€50,000 in kind), the CineLink Restart Award (€20,000 in kind), and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (€30,000 in cash).
Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic commented: “The CineLink Work in Progress strand has proved to be incredibly effective for both the...
- 7/26/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film captures lives of young Palestinians living in Tel Aviv.
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature In Between (Bar Bahar) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature In Between (Bar Bahar) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
- 9/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film captures lives of young Palestinians living in Tel Aviv.
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature Bar Bahar (In Between) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
Paris-based Alma Cinema has picked up sales on Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature Bar Bahar (In Between) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) on Sept 11.
The film follows a group of young Palestinians, hailing from Arab towns and villages lying within Israeli borders, living in Tel Aviv.
At the heart of the story are party animals Leila and Salma whose hedonistic lifestyles are disrupted by the arrival of family friend Noor, a devout Muslim girl from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
Alma head of sales and acquisitions Sara May described the work as an unprecedented portrait of the challenges and contradictions facing young Palestinian women born and living in Israel.
“Maysaloun deals with the subject in a very subtle, entertaining way. It’s fun. I think it could be a real crowd-pleaser,” said May.[p...
- 9/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Trial
Director: Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz
Writers: Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz
Producers: Elzevir & Cie’s Sandrine Brauer, Marie Masmonteil, Denis Carot, Riva film’s Michael Eckelt & Dbg Films’ Schlomi Elkabetz
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Cast: Simon Abkarian, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai
Brother and sister duo Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz complete the film trilogy they began back in 2004 with To Take a Wife, followed by 2008′s 7 Days, where we follow the relationship of Viviane and Eliahou. The third installment’s borrowing of Kafka’s most famed novel appears to be on purpose. If you’re unfamiliar with the previous titles, Ronit Elkabetz is one of Israel’s most famed actresses and many know her for an award winning turn in 2004′s Or, which won the Critics Week Grand Prize and Golden Camera at Cannes (but it’s a good time to catch up on the first two if you haven’t seen them).
Gist: In Israel,...
Director: Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz
Writers: Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz
Producers: Elzevir & Cie’s Sandrine Brauer, Marie Masmonteil, Denis Carot, Riva film’s Michael Eckelt & Dbg Films’ Schlomi Elkabetz
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Cast: Simon Abkarian, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai
Brother and sister duo Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz complete the film trilogy they began back in 2004 with To Take a Wife, followed by 2008′s 7 Days, where we follow the relationship of Viviane and Eliahou. The third installment’s borrowing of Kafka’s most famed novel appears to be on purpose. If you’re unfamiliar with the previous titles, Ronit Elkabetz is one of Israel’s most famed actresses and many know her for an award winning turn in 2004′s Or, which won the Critics Week Grand Prize and Golden Camera at Cannes (but it’s a good time to catch up on the first two if you haven’t seen them).
Gist: In Israel,...
- 2/4/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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