Festival unveils competition titles for 2021 edition.
FIDMarseille has unveiled the full line-up for its 2021 edition (July 19-25), which includes a retrospective and honorary award for Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The acclaimed writer/director, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2010 with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, will attend the festival in France to accept the Grand Prix d’Honneur, introduce several screenings from throughout his career and present a masterclass.
Weerasethakul’s latest feature, Memoria starring Tilda Swinton, is set to play in Competition at Cannes Film Festival and his visit to Marseille will come after that premiere.
FIDMarseille has unveiled the full line-up for its 2021 edition (July 19-25), which includes a retrospective and honorary award for Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The acclaimed writer/director, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2010 with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, will attend the festival in France to accept the Grand Prix d’Honneur, introduce several screenings from throughout his career and present a masterclass.
Weerasethakul’s latest feature, Memoria starring Tilda Swinton, is set to play in Competition at Cannes Film Festival and his visit to Marseille will come after that premiere.
- 6/24/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Project development platform to take place virtually, ahead of physical FIDMarseille
French festival FIDMarseille has revealed the projects set to be presented at project development event FIDLab, including upcoming features from the UK’s Ben Rivers and last year’s grand prix winner Carolina Moscoso.
The 13th edition of the incubator event, known for its focus on experimental films spanning both documentary and fiction, will take place online – as it did for the first time last year – from June 14-18. The main FIDMarseille festival is planned to go ahead in-person from July 19-25.
FIDLab will include 16 projects, selected from 502 submissions,...
French festival FIDMarseille has revealed the projects set to be presented at project development event FIDLab, including upcoming features from the UK’s Ben Rivers and last year’s grand prix winner Carolina Moscoso.
The 13th edition of the incubator event, known for its focus on experimental films spanning both documentary and fiction, will take place online – as it did for the first time last year – from June 14-18. The main FIDMarseille festival is planned to go ahead in-person from July 19-25.
FIDLab will include 16 projects, selected from 502 submissions,...
- 5/10/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale continues to unveil its lineup, today announcing films selected for its Forum category: an independent section of the festival, organized by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, celebrating its 50th anniversary.
This intermeshing of old and new runs throughout the selection. The category offers challenging and thought-provoking films that bring together cinema with the visual arts, theatre and literature. Many of the 35 films in this year’s program — 28 of which are world premieres — are distinguished by how they navigate between past and present.
Included in the selection is late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmientos’ “The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror,” which opens this year’s Forum. Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot the material in Chile in 1967, but was unable to complete it before going into exile in 1973. His widow Sarmiento has now transformed the footage into a finished film.
The...
This intermeshing of old and new runs throughout the selection. The category offers challenging and thought-provoking films that bring together cinema with the visual arts, theatre and literature. Many of the 35 films in this year’s program — 28 of which are world premieres — are distinguished by how they navigate between past and present.
Included in the selection is late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmientos’ “The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror,” which opens this year’s Forum. Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot the material in Chile in 1967, but was unable to complete it before going into exile in 1973. His widow Sarmiento has now transformed the footage into a finished film.
The...
- 1/21/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
The strand’s 50th anniversary to open with a previously unfinished film by late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
- 1/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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