Turkish drama also picks up Stockholm Film Festival audience award.
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang been named the 2015 European Parliament Lux Prize for cinema at a ceremony in Strasbourg this morning. The winner is decided by a ballot of MEPs.
Mustang tells the story of five sisters who have been promised to husbands through forced marriages but who, determined to live their own lives, break the yoke of tradition.
It beat competition from Jonas Carpignano’s Italian immigration drama Mediterranea and Bulgaria-Greek co-pro The Lesson (Urok) by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, said of the finalists: “These very different films raise fundamental questions.
How must our continent of emigration change in order to evolve into a continent of immigration? What is the role of women in societies on our doorstep? How is the economic crisis undermining our lives together?
“These European films deserve our support and I am proud that the...
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang been named the 2015 European Parliament Lux Prize for cinema at a ceremony in Strasbourg this morning. The winner is decided by a ballot of MEPs.
Mustang tells the story of five sisters who have been promised to husbands through forced marriages but who, determined to live their own lives, break the yoke of tradition.
It beat competition from Jonas Carpignano’s Italian immigration drama Mediterranea and Bulgaria-Greek co-pro The Lesson (Urok) by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, said of the finalists: “These very different films raise fundamental questions.
How must our continent of emigration change in order to evolve into a continent of immigration? What is the role of women in societies on our doorstep? How is the economic crisis undermining our lives together?
“These European films deserve our support and I am proud that the...
- 11/24/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Enhancing cross-border portability of content throughout Europe will be included in a ¨Communication on the modernisation of the EU copyright rules¨ as part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market (Dsm) strategy to be unveiled on December 9.
According to a so-called ‘roadmap’, the EC is planning a two-step approach which will, initially, involve a set of legislative measures ¨in December/early 2016¨ proposing a Regulation on cross-border portability and an instrument on the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty for the benefit of print-disabled persons.
A second set of measures in spring 2016 may then address such issues as:
Aspects of cross-border access to copyright protected services including those which may follow from the review of the Cable and Satellite Directive;
Further harmonisation of exceptions to copyright which are key for the functioning of the digital single market;
Clarification on the role of internet intermediaries when they distribute copyright protected content;
The enforcement of intellectual property rights.
The Commission...
According to a so-called ‘roadmap’, the EC is planning a two-step approach which will, initially, involve a set of legislative measures ¨in December/early 2016¨ proposing a Regulation on cross-border portability and an instrument on the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty for the benefit of print-disabled persons.
A second set of measures in spring 2016 may then address such issues as:
Aspects of cross-border access to copyright protected services including those which may follow from the review of the Cable and Satellite Directive;
Further harmonisation of exceptions to copyright which are key for the functioning of the digital single market;
Clarification on the role of internet intermediaries when they distribute copyright protected content;
The enforcement of intellectual property rights.
The Commission...
- 11/10/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ida has continued its winning streak by being voted as the winner of the eighth Lux Film Prize by members of the European Parliament.
The Polish-Danish co-production was announced as the winner against 2014’s other two finalists — Rok Bicek’s Class Enemy and Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood — during the parliamentary plenary session in Strasbourg today (Dec 17).
Speaking after accepting the award from the hands of European Parliament president Martin Schulz, Ida’s director Pawel Pawlikowski said the award came just three days after receiving the European Film 2014 statuette in Riga, “which, I suppose, makes it officially the most Europeanist of European films this year.”
He suggested that this was not so surprising given his personal biography and the fact that he had “somehow contrived to live and work in five different European countries in one lifetime.”
“Ida – a small black-and-white film, with unknown actors, with no musical score and a camera that doesn’t move – it actually...
The Polish-Danish co-production was announced as the winner against 2014’s other two finalists — Rok Bicek’s Class Enemy and Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood — during the parliamentary plenary session in Strasbourg today (Dec 17).
Speaking after accepting the award from the hands of European Parliament president Martin Schulz, Ida’s director Pawel Pawlikowski said the award came just three days after receiving the European Film 2014 statuette in Riga, “which, I suppose, makes it officially the most Europeanist of European films this year.”
He suggested that this was not so surprising given his personal biography and the fact that he had “somehow contrived to live and work in five different European countries in one lifetime.”
“Ida – a small black-and-white film, with unknown actors, with no musical score and a camera that doesn’t move – it actually...
- 12/17/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Film-makers Stephen Frears, Béla Tarr, Costa-Gavras, and veteran theatre director Peter Brook are among 50 leading figures of the European creative community to sign a declaration “For a New Deal for Culture in Europe.”
Less than two months before the elections for the new European Parliament on May 25 and the appointment of a new European Commission, the declaration’s authors said they were “convinced that the digital revolution is an opportunity for culture. Just as culture is an opportunity for the digital economy, ‘fueled’ as it is by the ‘works of the mind’.”
“If we want our cultural policies to be modernized, one of the main issues is that all cultural works providers, in particular the Internet multinationals, be integrated into the economy of creation. It is an important goal to achieve in order to ensure equity between all cultural works providers. And it is a challenge for our future,”
The declaration, whose first signatories...
Less than two months before the elections for the new European Parliament on May 25 and the appointment of a new European Commission, the declaration’s authors said they were “convinced that the digital revolution is an opportunity for culture. Just as culture is an opportunity for the digital economy, ‘fueled’ as it is by the ‘works of the mind’.”
“If we want our cultural policies to be modernized, one of the main issues is that all cultural works providers, in particular the Internet multinationals, be integrated into the economy of creation. It is an important goal to achieve in order to ensure equity between all cultural works providers. And it is a challenge for our future,”
The declaration, whose first signatories...
- 4/7/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
With the conflict between Ukraine and neighbouring Russia escalating over the weekend, the organisers of the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff) have reaffirmed their determination to stage the fifth edition from July 11-19.
“We will do everything possible for it to happen,” the festival declared in a communiqué, explaining that “while grieving for the deceased [on the Maidan Square in Kiev], we must think about the future”.
In response to the events of the past weeks, Oiff’s 2014 line-up will include films about the role of civil society in Ukraine and in the world.
“2014 is going to be a difficult year, so the festival will run without any unnecessary glitz,” the festival observed. “All the efforts will be focused on maintaining the festival’s international level and selecting a top-quality line-up.”
Oiff’s international profile has been given a boost by an Advisory Board consisting of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg’s Kirsten Niehuus, Unifrance’s Joël Chapron, the Israel Film Fund’s Katriel Schory, German...
“We will do everything possible for it to happen,” the festival declared in a communiqué, explaining that “while grieving for the deceased [on the Maidan Square in Kiev], we must think about the future”.
In response to the events of the past weeks, Oiff’s 2014 line-up will include films about the role of civil society in Ukraine and in the world.
“2014 is going to be a difficult year, so the festival will run without any unnecessary glitz,” the festival observed. “All the efforts will be focused on maintaining the festival’s international level and selecting a top-quality line-up.”
Oiff’s international profile has been given a boost by an Advisory Board consisting of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg’s Kirsten Niehuus, Unifrance’s Joël Chapron, the Israel Film Fund’s Katriel Schory, German...
- 3/3/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The European Commission (EC) has finally adopted a new Communication on state aid for films and other audiovisual works.
The new Communication, which comes into effect as soon as it appears in the EU’s Official Journal covers, as today’s text says, “in particular, (…) State aid for a wider scope of activities, highlights the principle of subsidiarity in the area of cultural policy and the respect of internal market principles, introduces a higher maximum aid intensity level for cross-border productions and caters for the protection of and access to film heritage.”
“The Commission believes that these changes are necessary in view of the developments since 2001 and will help European works to be more competitive and pan-European in future.”
In something akin to understatement, the Commission said that the issue of territorial obligations had attracted “particular attention” and noted in its new text that “Paragraph 50 (of the Communication) sets the limits for each mechanism within which the Commission...
The new Communication, which comes into effect as soon as it appears in the EU’s Official Journal covers, as today’s text says, “in particular, (…) State aid for a wider scope of activities, highlights the principle of subsidiarity in the area of cultural policy and the respect of internal market principles, introduces a higher maximum aid intensity level for cross-border productions and caters for the protection of and access to film heritage.”
“The Commission believes that these changes are necessary in view of the developments since 2001 and will help European works to be more competitive and pan-European in future.”
In something akin to understatement, the Commission said that the issue of territorial obligations had attracted “particular attention” and noted in its new text that “Paragraph 50 (of the Communication) sets the limits for each mechanism within which the Commission...
- 11/14/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy chief, voices concern for jailed Iranian lawyer who is on hunger strike in Evin prison
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, expressed her concern for the jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh as she received the European parliament's most prestigious human rights award.
Sotoudeh and an acclaimed Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi, were on Friday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, previously won by the likes of Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. The prize is named after the Soviet physicist and outspoken dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Sotoudeh fell foul of the Iranian authorities for representing political activists and is serving a six-year prison term in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She is on day 10 of a hunger strike in protest at the state's harassment of her family and is reported to have been taken to the prison's medical facility as her health deteriorated.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, expressed her concern for the jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh as she received the European parliament's most prestigious human rights award.
Sotoudeh and an acclaimed Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi, were on Friday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, previously won by the likes of Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. The prize is named after the Soviet physicist and outspoken dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Sotoudeh fell foul of the Iranian authorities for representing political activists and is serving a six-year prison term in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She is on day 10 of a hunger strike in protest at the state's harassment of her family and is reported to have been taken to the prison's medical facility as her health deteriorated.
- 10/27/2012
- by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
- The Guardian - Film News
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