The coming-of-age film is the debut of Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai.
Berlin-based Pluto Film has picked up international sales rights to Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai’s debut feature Stop-Zemlia ahead of its world premiere next month in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.
Inspired by Gornostai’s own personal experiences of unrequited love as a teenager, the coming-of-age story is set during the last school year of a young woman.
“The young director demonstrates true talent with her honest attitude and authentic gaze and tells a compelling story,” said Manola Novelli, head of sales at Pluto Film. “We believe this...
Berlin-based Pluto Film has picked up international sales rights to Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai’s debut feature Stop-Zemlia ahead of its world premiere next month in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.
Inspired by Gornostai’s own personal experiences of unrequited love as a teenager, the coming-of-age story is set during the last school year of a young woman.
“The young director demonstrates true talent with her honest attitude and authentic gaze and tells a compelling story,” said Manola Novelli, head of sales at Pluto Film. “We believe this...
- 2/10/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The coming-of-age film is the debut of Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai.
Berlin-based Pluto Film has picked up international sales rights to Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai’s debut feature Stop-Zemlia ahead of its world premiere next month in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.
Inspired by Gornostai’s own personal experiences of unrequited love as a teenager, the coming-of-age story is set during the last school year of a young woman.
“The young director demonstrates true talent with her honest attitude and authentic gaze and tells a compelling story,” said Manola Novelli, head of sales at Pluto Film. “We believe this...
Berlin-based Pluto Film has picked up international sales rights to Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai’s debut feature Stop-Zemlia ahead of its world premiere next month in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar.
Inspired by Gornostai’s own personal experiences of unrequited love as a teenager, the coming-of-age story is set during the last school year of a young woman.
“The young director demonstrates true talent with her honest attitude and authentic gaze and tells a compelling story,” said Manola Novelli, head of sales at Pluto Film. “We believe this...
- 2/10/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
New films from Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes to also world premiere at Window To Europe Film Festival.
New films by Gérard Depardieu, Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes will have their world premieres at the 22nd edition of the Window To Europe Film Festival (Aug 8-15) in the Russian town of Vyborg situated close to the border with Finland.
French director Philippe Martinez’s tale of redemption and revenge Viktor, which stars Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley and Eli Danker, will open a competition section dedicated to films co-produced with Russia.
Viktor, which was shot in Chechnya and Moscow last summer and is being handled internationally by UK-based sales agent Saradan Media, will be released by Paradise in Russian cinemas on September 4.
Co-production competition
Other co-productions selected include Zanussi’s Foreign Body, produced by his own company Studio Filmowe Tor with Italy’s Revolver Film and Russia’s Ineureka and Bella Vostok Ltd; Uzbek director Dilmurod Masaidov’s thriller...
New films by Gérard Depardieu, Krzysztof Zanussi and Ralph Fiennes will have their world premieres at the 22nd edition of the Window To Europe Film Festival (Aug 8-15) in the Russian town of Vyborg situated close to the border with Finland.
French director Philippe Martinez’s tale of redemption and revenge Viktor, which stars Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley and Eli Danker, will open a competition section dedicated to films co-produced with Russia.
Viktor, which was shot in Chechnya and Moscow last summer and is being handled internationally by UK-based sales agent Saradan Media, will be released by Paradise in Russian cinemas on September 4.
Co-production competition
Other co-productions selected include Zanussi’s Foreign Body, produced by his own company Studio Filmowe Tor with Italy’s Revolver Film and Russia’s Ineureka and Bella Vostok Ltd; Uzbek director Dilmurod Masaidov’s thriller...
- 8/5/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
UK director Stephen Frears has been awarded the Golden Duke Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff, July 11-19).
The festival is dedicating an homage to British director Frears, who gave a master class at the parallel Summer School and attended an open-air screening of his latest film Philomena on the city’s Lanzheron Descent steps
Speaking at a press conference at the weekend, Frears said that when he received the invitation to come to Odessa, he recalled a piece by writer Isaac Babel describing the Black Sea port as ¨a gangster town¨. “And then I wanted to come!¨
¨I’ve never been to a city so beautiful,¨ Frears said about his first impressions of Odessa.
Remembering Sentsov
During the opening event at Odessa’s Musical Comedy Theatre, the audience was asked to remember the Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov who is currently in detention in Russia...
The festival is dedicating an homage to British director Frears, who gave a master class at the parallel Summer School and attended an open-air screening of his latest film Philomena on the city’s Lanzheron Descent steps
Speaking at a press conference at the weekend, Frears said that when he received the invitation to come to Odessa, he recalled a piece by writer Isaac Babel describing the Black Sea port as ¨a gangster town¨. “And then I wanted to come!¨
¨I’ve never been to a city so beautiful,¨ Frears said about his first impressions of Odessa.
Remembering Sentsov
During the opening event at Odessa’s Musical Comedy Theatre, the audience was asked to remember the Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov who is currently in detention in Russia...
- 7/14/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ukrainian feature wins Grand Prix at ‘Zerkalo’ Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival.
Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitzky’s The Tribe (Plemya) was the winner of this year’s ¨Zerkalo¨ Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival (June 10-15).
The film, which follows a deaf mute boy’s attempts to fit into the boarding school system, won three prizes at the Critics’ Week in Cannes when it premiered there last month.
Named after Tarkovsky’s 1975 film Mirror (Zerkalo), the festival is programmed by the Russian film critic Andrey Plakhov in Tarkovsky’s birthplace of Ivanovo.
This year’s eighth edition had ‘women in cinema’ as its all-embracing theme.
Thus, the feature film jury consisted only of women, including Kinotavr’s programme director Sitora Alieva, veteran Portuguese actress Isabella Ruth, Us actress-producer Heidi Jo Markel, and Slovak film-maker Mira Fornay whose My Dog Killer screened in Ivanovo last year.
Apart from the Grand Prix, they gave the award for best director to Berlin-based...
Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitzky’s The Tribe (Plemya) was the winner of this year’s ¨Zerkalo¨ Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival (June 10-15).
The film, which follows a deaf mute boy’s attempts to fit into the boarding school system, won three prizes at the Critics’ Week in Cannes when it premiered there last month.
Named after Tarkovsky’s 1975 film Mirror (Zerkalo), the festival is programmed by the Russian film critic Andrey Plakhov in Tarkovsky’s birthplace of Ivanovo.
This year’s eighth edition had ‘women in cinema’ as its all-embracing theme.
Thus, the feature film jury consisted only of women, including Kinotavr’s programme director Sitora Alieva, veteran Portuguese actress Isabella Ruth, Us actress-producer Heidi Jo Markel, and Slovak film-maker Mira Fornay whose My Dog Killer screened in Ivanovo last year.
Apart from the Grand Prix, they gave the award for best director to Berlin-based...
- 6/17/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Slate includes Garry Bardin’s animation trilogy Three Strains - Rondo, Exodus, Elegia and Anna Melikyan’s The Star.
New films by animator Garry Bardin and Anna Melikyan are among the titles added by fledgling Russian sales agent Ant!pode Sales & Distribution to its Efm lineup.
Anton Mazurov and his sales team will be taking presales on Bardin’s animation trilogy Three Strains Rondo, Exodus, Elegia, which is currently in postproduction and will be premiered at international festivals later in the year; Melikyan’s third feature The Star coming after her award-winning Mermaid (Rusalka) which was the Panorama opening film in 2008; and Alexey Fedorchenko’s The Angels of the Revolution, a romantic drama set in the Russian avant-garde period.
In addition, international distribution is being handled on venerated documentary film-maker Maria Razbezhkina’s latest project The Optical Axis (Opticheskaya Os), which had its world premiere at Dok Leipzig last October, and six feature...
New films by animator Garry Bardin and Anna Melikyan are among the titles added by fledgling Russian sales agent Ant!pode Sales & Distribution to its Efm lineup.
Anton Mazurov and his sales team will be taking presales on Bardin’s animation trilogy Three Strains Rondo, Exodus, Elegia, which is currently in postproduction and will be premiered at international festivals later in the year; Melikyan’s third feature The Star coming after her award-winning Mermaid (Rusalka) which was the Panorama opening film in 2008; and Alexey Fedorchenko’s The Angels of the Revolution, a romantic drama set in the Russian avant-garde period.
In addition, international distribution is being handled on venerated documentary film-maker Maria Razbezhkina’s latest project The Optical Axis (Opticheskaya Os), which had its world premiere at Dok Leipzig last October, and six feature...
- 2/6/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida scored a second top festival prize in one night, after success in London.
The international jury of the Warsaw Film Festival has awarded the City of Warsaw Grand Prix to Pawal Pawlikowski’s Ida, which won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival on the same night.
The black-and-white film set in the 1960s, which the international jury praised for “the superb combination of script, directing, cinematography, acting and music”, also received the prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Warsaw.
Speaking to ScreenDaily after the awards ceremony, producer Ewa Puszczynska of Lodz-based Opus Film said the film will be released on 90 screens in Poland this Friday (Oct 25) by distributor Solopan Spólka.
Fandango Portobello Sales is handling international distribution, and Music Box Films are planning the North American release for the second quarter of 2014. It debuted at Toronto last month.
Puszczynska was joined on stage to receive the Grand Prix by the non-professional...
The international jury of the Warsaw Film Festival has awarded the City of Warsaw Grand Prix to Pawal Pawlikowski’s Ida, which won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival on the same night.
The black-and-white film set in the 1960s, which the international jury praised for “the superb combination of script, directing, cinematography, acting and music”, also received the prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Warsaw.
Speaking to ScreenDaily after the awards ceremony, producer Ewa Puszczynska of Lodz-based Opus Film said the film will be released on 90 screens in Poland this Friday (Oct 25) by distributor Solopan Spólka.
Fandango Portobello Sales is handling international distribution, and Music Box Films are planning the North American release for the second quarter of 2014. It debuted at Toronto last month.
Puszczynska was joined on stage to receive the Grand Prix by the non-professional...
- 10/21/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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