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- 6/30/2022
- MUBI
Writer-director Jonas Carpignano has scored at Cannes with “A Chiara,” winning the Europa Cinemas Cannes Label nod for best European film at Directors’ Fortnight, the festival’s biggest independent parallel section. Carpignano took the same prize for his previous film, “A Ciambra,” which was exec produced by Martin Scorsese, in 2017.
In the second big Directors’ Fortnight prize announcement, Vincent Maël Cardona’s feature debut “Magnetic Beats (“Les Magnétiques”) won the section’s Sacd Prize, awarded by France’s Writers’ Guild. Cardona’s short, “Anywhere Out of the World,” featured at the 2010’s Cannes Cinefondation student short competition.
“A Chiara” focuses on a family’s 16-year-old daughter and her growing realization that her beloved father may be part of the local criminal organization. Set in what the Variety review describes as the “hardscrabble underside” of the Calabrian city of Gioia Tauro, “A Chiara” delivers “a complex and ultimately realistic picture,” it said.
In the second big Directors’ Fortnight prize announcement, Vincent Maël Cardona’s feature debut “Magnetic Beats (“Les Magnétiques”) won the section’s Sacd Prize, awarded by France’s Writers’ Guild. Cardona’s short, “Anywhere Out of the World,” featured at the 2010’s Cannes Cinefondation student short competition.
“A Chiara” focuses on a family’s 16-year-old daughter and her growing realization that her beloved father may be part of the local criminal organization. Set in what the Variety review describes as the “hardscrabble underside” of the Calabrian city of Gioia Tauro, “A Chiara” delivers “a complex and ultimately realistic picture,” it said.
- 7/15/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Parallel sections were both cancelled alongside main festival in 2020.
Cannes parallel sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week have announced they are planning to run July 7-17 and July 7-15 respectively this year.
They signalled their plans to take place in July on Thursday (January 28) in the wake of the Cannes Film Festival’s announcement that it was shifting its dates to July 6-17, in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Both parallel sections were cancelled last year along with the Cannes Films Festival.
Cannes Critics’ Week, which is focused on first and second features and shorts by emerging filmmakers, will...
Cannes parallel sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week have announced they are planning to run July 7-17 and July 7-15 respectively this year.
They signalled their plans to take place in July on Thursday (January 28) in the wake of the Cannes Film Festival’s announcement that it was shifting its dates to July 6-17, in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Both parallel sections were cancelled last year along with the Cannes Films Festival.
Cannes Critics’ Week, which is focused on first and second features and shorts by emerging filmmakers, will...
- 1/29/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Parallel sections were both cancelled alongside main festival in 2020.
Cannes parallel sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week have announced they are planning to run July 7-17 and July 7-15 respectively this year.
They signalled their plans to take place in July on Thursday (January 28) in the wake of the Cannes Film Festival’s announcement that it was shifting its dates to July 6-17, in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Both parallel sections were cancelled last year along with the Cannes Films Festival.
Cannes Critics’ Week, which is focused on first and second features and shorts by emerging filmmakers, will...
Cannes parallel sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week have announced they are planning to run July 7-17 and July 7-15 respectively this year.
They signalled their plans to take place in July on Thursday (January 28) in the wake of the Cannes Film Festival’s announcement that it was shifting its dates to July 6-17, in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Both parallel sections were cancelled last year along with the Cannes Films Festival.
Cannes Critics’ Week, which is focused on first and second features and shorts by emerging filmmakers, will...
- 1/28/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Online edition reportedly generated 280 one-on-one meetings.
FIDLab, the project development platform of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille, has unveiled the winners of its online edition which took place July 6-10.
The jury was comprised of Fiorella Moretti, founding co-chief of Paris-based sales company LuxBox; Matthijs Wouter Knol, the outgoing director of the European Film Market and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight delegate general Paolo Moretti. They awarded nine different in-kind prizes provided by 11 FIDlab partners to the mostly hybrid projects.
Us artist Sharon Lockhart won the Air France award (of two long-haul flights) for her documentary project Baumettes, capturing the life...
FIDLab, the project development platform of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille, has unveiled the winners of its online edition which took place July 6-10.
The jury was comprised of Fiorella Moretti, founding co-chief of Paris-based sales company LuxBox; Matthijs Wouter Knol, the outgoing director of the European Film Market and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight delegate general Paolo Moretti. They awarded nine different in-kind prizes provided by 11 FIDlab partners to the mostly hybrid projects.
Us artist Sharon Lockhart won the Air France award (of two long-haul flights) for her documentary project Baumettes, capturing the life...
- 7/13/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week, the two sections running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, have canceled their 2020 editions.
The joint decision comes two days after France’s President Emmanuel Macron said all festivals and events gathering large crowds would be banned in the country until mid-July.
“The Directors’ Fortnight, La Semaine de la Critique and Acid regret to announce the cancellation of their 2020 editions in Cannes.”
“The health crisis we are all presently facing makes it impossible to anticipate the practical course of events,” said the release.
However, “each section, in consultation with the Cannes Film Festival, is looking at the best way to keep on supporting the films submitted to its 2020 edition,” added the release.
The Cannes Film Festival, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that it would not be hosted in late June due to the coronavirus pandemic, and was exploring other options.
For many arthouse movies, the cancellation of...
The joint decision comes two days after France’s President Emmanuel Macron said all festivals and events gathering large crowds would be banned in the country until mid-July.
“The Directors’ Fortnight, La Semaine de la Critique and Acid regret to announce the cancellation of their 2020 editions in Cannes.”
“The health crisis we are all presently facing makes it impossible to anticipate the practical course of events,” said the release.
However, “each section, in consultation with the Cannes Film Festival, is looking at the best way to keep on supporting the films submitted to its 2020 edition,” added the release.
The Cannes Film Festival, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that it would not be hosted in late June due to the coronavirus pandemic, and was exploring other options.
For many arthouse movies, the cancellation of...
- 4/15/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Parallel sections issue joint statement on the decision to abandon 2020 editions due to Covid-19.
Cannes parallel sections Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Acid announced on Wednesday (April 15) that they were cancelling their 2020 editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respected sidebars had originally been due to take place alongside the Cannes Film Festival during its cancelled dates of May 12-23, and had then been holding out to run during a potential end-June, start-July slot, which has now also been abandoned after the French government extended a ban on large gatherings to mid-July.
”Following the French president’s April 13 announcement banning...
Cannes parallel sections Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Acid announced on Wednesday (April 15) that they were cancelling their 2020 editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respected sidebars had originally been due to take place alongside the Cannes Film Festival during its cancelled dates of May 12-23, and had then been holding out to run during a potential end-June, start-July slot, which has now also been abandoned after the French government extended a ban on large gatherings to mid-July.
”Following the French president’s April 13 announcement banning...
- 4/15/2020
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The 10th edition of the festival in Vendée, directed by Paolo Moretti, will take place from 14 to 20 October with a flurry of 30 French premieres. Though nominated General Delegate of the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes (where he passed his baptism of fire last May), Paolo Moretti has remained director of La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, for which he has once more put together a quality programme exploring the diversity of arthouse cinema worldwide for the 10th edition of the event which will unfold in Vendée from 14 to 20 October. In the international competition, the jury (featuring actress Lolita Chammah and directors Lionel Baier and Nicolas Pariser) will be judging eight titles (six having their French premieres at the festival) including four European films: Vitalina Varela from Portuguese director Pedro Costa (winner in Locarno), the documentary Collective...
- 10/10/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Yórgos Lánthimos’s “The Favourite,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria,” Claire Denis’s “High Life” and Ethan Hawke’s “Blaze” are among the many well-received films from Venice and Toronto set to be having their French premiere at La Roche-sur-Yon Festival which is headed by Paolo Moretti, the new topper of Cannes’s Directors Fortnight.
The international competition lineup of this 9th edition is headlined by “The Favourite,” Timur Bekmanbetov’s “Profile,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Maya,” and Berlin’s Golden Bear winner “Touch Me Not” directed by Adina Pintilie.
“Our idea is to shed light on contemporary films that were discovered in other festivals than Cannes in order to give our audiences an alternative image of cinema,” said Moretti.
Among the stars and filmmakers expected to attend La Roche-sur-Yon is Hawke who will be on hand to present his latest directorial outing, “Blaze” (pictured), as well as Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” in which he stars.
The international competition lineup of this 9th edition is headlined by “The Favourite,” Timur Bekmanbetov’s “Profile,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Maya,” and Berlin’s Golden Bear winner “Touch Me Not” directed by Adina Pintilie.
“Our idea is to shed light on contemporary films that were discovered in other festivals than Cannes in order to give our audiences an alternative image of cinema,” said Moretti.
Among the stars and filmmakers expected to attend La Roche-sur-Yon is Hawke who will be on hand to present his latest directorial outing, “Blaze” (pictured), as well as Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” in which he stars.
- 10/10/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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