Abbas Kiarostami is to head the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The Iranian director and screenwriter has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times and won in 1997 with Taste of Cherry.
The 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will also include directors Noémie Lvovsky (France), Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad), and Joachim Trier (Norway).
They will be tasked with awarding three prizes to films submitted by students from film schools around the world, which will be presented in the Cinéfondation Selection, to be announced at a later date.
The Cinéfondation Prizes will be announced by the Jury on May 22, at a ceremony to be followed by a screening of the winning films.
The Jury will also decide the Short Film Palme d’or to be awarded at the prize-giving ceremony on May 24.
Kiarostami rose to international fame with Where is the Friend’s Home (1987) and went on to present...
The Iranian director and screenwriter has been nominated for the Palme d’Or five times and won in 1997 with Taste of Cherry.
The 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will also include directors Noémie Lvovsky (France), Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad), and Joachim Trier (Norway).
They will be tasked with awarding three prizes to films submitted by students from film schools around the world, which will be presented in the Cinéfondation Selection, to be announced at a later date.
The Cinéfondation Prizes will be announced by the Jury on May 22, at a ceremony to be followed by a screening of the winning films.
The Jury will also decide the Short Film Palme d’or to be awarded at the prize-giving ceremony on May 24.
Kiarostami rose to international fame with Where is the Friend’s Home (1987) and went on to present...
- 3/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
As you’re probably aware if you were anywhere near this site earlier in 2010, Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s Un Homme Qui Crie (A Screaming Man) won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival that year. The third in what could be said to be a trilogy of father-son themed films following Abouna (2002) and Daratt (2006), A Screaming Man is once again set in modern day Chad and, like Daratt, is set against the backdrop of war. However, as is usual with Haroun’s films, loud, physical and external conflict is absent from the screen and attention placed, instead, on the quiet, internal conflict of man – in this instant, one man, Adam (aka Champ)...
- 4/10/2013
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
One of my favourite African films is Abouna (Our Father), by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, which I first saw about 5 years ago on TV. It came on about an hour before I was due to go out to meet up with a friend... I was about 40 minutes late - having started, I just had to watch the film till the end. Set in the director's home country of Chad, the film has won several awards, including one for its cinematography. From a Western perspective, it's not often that we get to see images of African children that aren't starving, in some form of bondage, or forced into fighting wars; it would be easy to forget, therefore, that African children, just like other children all over the world, have...
- 3/7/2013
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
An ex-swimming star struggles to stay afloat in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's quiet, deeply humane study of family life in Chad
When the name of the landlocked African republic of Chad comes up, most cinephiles will think of the opening of Antonioni's The Passenger. In that masterly 1975 film, playing a reporter at the end of his tether while covering a hopeless civil war, Jack Nicholson swaps his identity with a dead man he finds in a remote Saharan hotel. It seems to sum up the sense of desperation and extreme experience that, rightly or wrongly, Chad incites.
However, as in other troubled, desperately poor African countries, there are a handful of gifted artists of world stature, mostly musicians but also painters and film-makers, and A Screaming Man, the fourth feature film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad's only prominent film-maker, won the jury prize at last year's Cannes film festival. This year Haroun...
When the name of the landlocked African republic of Chad comes up, most cinephiles will think of the opening of Antonioni's The Passenger. In that masterly 1975 film, playing a reporter at the end of his tether while covering a hopeless civil war, Jack Nicholson swaps his identity with a dead man he finds in a remote Saharan hotel. It seems to sum up the sense of desperation and extreme experience that, rightly or wrongly, Chad incites.
However, as in other troubled, desperately poor African countries, there are a handful of gifted artists of world stature, mostly musicians but also painters and film-makers, and A Screaming Man, the fourth feature film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad's only prominent film-maker, won the jury prize at last year's Cannes film festival. This year Haroun...
- 5/14/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Selected, Nationwide
If you thought the Jarman Award was where you'd find the next big thing in British film art, you're one step behind. This touring initiative gets the four film-makers shortlisted for last year's Jarman – Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill – to select moving-image artists they think we should be watching. The 10 names on the programme might not mean anything to the public yet as they're mostly up-and-coming, recently graduated art students (some of whom appear at screenings), but where else might you find a film that tries to invent a new colour or create a new manifesto based on capturing extragalactic rhythms?
Various venues, Tue to 30 Jun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London
The poor, war-torn, landlocked republic of Chad is virtually unknown on the geographical map, let alone the film-making one, but Haroun is doing something about that. Influenced by calm, observational film-makers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
If you thought the Jarman Award was where you'd find the next big thing in British film art, you're one step behind. This touring initiative gets the four film-makers shortlisted for last year's Jarman – Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill – to select moving-image artists they think we should be watching. The 10 names on the programme might not mean anything to the public yet as they're mostly up-and-coming, recently graduated art students (some of whom appear at screenings), but where else might you find a film that tries to invent a new colour or create a new manifesto based on capturing extragalactic rhythms?
Various venues, Tue to 30 Jun
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London
The poor, war-torn, landlocked republic of Chad is virtually unknown on the geographical map, let alone the film-making one, but Haroun is doing something about that. Influenced by calm, observational film-makers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
- 5/13/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
On the surface it seems to contrast Chadian auteur Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s other recent films – notably his father/son/war trilogy, Abouna, Daratt & Un Homme Qui Crie; and as I have yet to see Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, I can’t offer much more of an analysis than that.
However, I will see it next week Saturday, May 29th, when it screens as one of a few film selections at this year’s Dance African festival in Brooklyn, NY (see my post below this one on the event). Made in 2008, between Daratt (2006) and Un Homme Qui Crie 2010), Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, or Gumbo And Salted Butter, as I’ve read others title it (in French, Sexe, Gombo et Beurre Salé), is a comedy of errors that tells the story of a recently emigrated Malian family, reeling from a number of setbacks, including the sudden departure of the mother...
However, I will see it next week Saturday, May 29th, when it screens as one of a few film selections at this year’s Dance African festival in Brooklyn, NY (see my post below this one on the event). Made in 2008, between Daratt (2006) and Un Homme Qui Crie 2010), Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, or Gumbo And Salted Butter, as I’ve read others title it (in French, Sexe, Gombo et Beurre Salé), is a comedy of errors that tells the story of a recently emigrated Malian family, reeling from a number of setbacks, including the sudden departure of the mother...
- 5/23/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Last week Tambay got all excited at the prospect of there being an African-American film in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Turns out it was an an African, not African-American film, so Tyler Perry won’t be parambulating the Croisette just yet…
A few days later he posted this year’s line-up for the world renown festival, highlighting the African film in question, “Un homme qui crie” (A Screaming Man), by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Belgium, Chad), helmer of one of my favourite African films, Abouna, as well as Daratt, among others.
But it was only while browsing the web yesterday that it came to light that there are, in fact, Two African films in competition at Cannes this year! French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb has been mentioned a few times on this site, with films like London River and Little Senegal, and his film “Hors-la-loi” (Outside the Law...
A few days later he posted this year’s line-up for the world renown festival, highlighting the African film in question, “Un homme qui crie” (A Screaming Man), by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Belgium, Chad), helmer of one of my favourite African films, Abouna, as well as Daratt, among others.
But it was only while browsing the web yesterday that it came to light that there are, in fact, Two African films in competition at Cannes this year! French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb has been mentioned a few times on this site, with films like London River and Little Senegal, and his film “Hors-la-loi” (Outside the Law...
- 4/23/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
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