[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 1, Episode 6, “Kin.”]
Across its first season, “The Last of Us” has told the story of people figuring out how to continue life after the unthinkable. Some of the HBO series’ core characters have devoted their lives to making sure that a massive global tragedy is less of an end than a new beginning. The context is different, but the newest episode “Kin” runs parallel to the last entry in director Jasmila Žbanić’s filmography, “Quo Vadis, Aida?”
That film details the events surrounding the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, which claimed the lives of 8,000 men and boys who lived in the town in what is now present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. The legacy of war, particularly the one that decimated her hometown of Sarajevo for much of the early half of the 1990s, is a subject that runs through much of Žbanić’s work. Ranging from films like “Quo Vadis, Aida?...
Across its first season, “The Last of Us” has told the story of people figuring out how to continue life after the unthinkable. Some of the HBO series’ core characters have devoted their lives to making sure that a massive global tragedy is less of an end than a new beginning. The context is different, but the newest episode “Kin” runs parallel to the last entry in director Jasmila Žbanić’s filmography, “Quo Vadis, Aida?”
That film details the events surrounding the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, which claimed the lives of 8,000 men and boys who lived in the town in what is now present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. The legacy of war, particularly the one that decimated her hometown of Sarajevo for much of the early half of the 1990s, is a subject that runs through much of Žbanić’s work. Ranging from films like “Quo Vadis, Aida?...
- 2/21/2023
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Mirjana Karanović, an actor best known for her starring role in Emir Kusturica’s “When Father Was Away on Business” and Jasmila Žbanić’s Golden Bear winner “Grbavica,” is preparing to direct her second feature, “Mother Mara.” This follows her directorial debut, “A Good Wife,” which competed in Sundance’s World Cinema – Dramatic section in 2016, and screened at more than 40 festivals.
Producer Snezana van Houwelingen pitched the new project at Venice Gap-Financing Market last week. Karanović will also star in “Mother Mara,” alongside Vucic Perovic.
The success of “A Good Wife” was “very beneficial” for Karanović, she says. Meeting with the audience gave her directorial self a confidence boost, allowing to believe she can direct again. It also made pitching and finding partners for “Mother Mara” easier, van Houwelingen says.
“Mother Mara” follows a successful businesswoman and single mother who suddenly loses her 18-year-old son Nemanja to a heart attack.
Producer Snezana van Houwelingen pitched the new project at Venice Gap-Financing Market last week. Karanović will also star in “Mother Mara,” alongside Vucic Perovic.
The success of “A Good Wife” was “very beneficial” for Karanović, she says. Meeting with the audience gave her directorial self a confidence boost, allowing to believe she can direct again. It also made pitching and finding partners for “Mother Mara” easier, van Houwelingen says.
“Mother Mara” follows a successful businesswoman and single mother who suddenly loses her 18-year-old son Nemanja to a heart attack.
- 9/12/2021
- by Anna Tatarska
- Variety Film + TV
If you haven’t heard of The Match Factory, you probably don’t work in the international arthouse film arena. The German sales and production outfit is one of the world’s leading champions of auteur cinema and has consistently been involved in a raft of festival-winning titles since its inception in 2006. From Cannes Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives to Berlin Golden Bear winners Grbavica and Honey to Oscar-nominated titles Waltz With Bashir, Ajami, The Milk Of Sorrow, The Broken Circle Breakdown and Omar, the Cologne-based company is unwavering in its effort to bring distinct and striking titles to an international audience.
Michael Weber, managing director and mastermind behind the European outfit, and the company’s well-respected head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou, are in Cannes this week with their biggest and most eclectic festival slate to date. They’re representing 14 titles including Competition titles Memoria,...
Michael Weber, managing director and mastermind behind the European outfit, and the company’s well-respected head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou, are in Cannes this week with their biggest and most eclectic festival slate to date. They’re representing 14 titles including Competition titles Memoria,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about “Quo Vadis, Aida?” was drawn from an interview conducted for the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Director Jasmila Žbanić spent years hoping that somebody else would make a movie about the Srebrenica massacre, an act of genocide in which more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed by the Bosnian Serb Army in 1995. But she finally did it herself with “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which landed the first Academy Award nomination for Bosnia and Herzegovina since “No Man’s Land” won the Oscar in 2002.
Žbanić, whose 2006 film “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” represented her country in the international Oscar race that year, made the film from the perspective of a translator working for the United Nations, which declared the city a “safe area” but then failed to protect its residents from the Serb Army. Her interest in film had been nourished growing up in Sarajevo,...
Director Jasmila Žbanić spent years hoping that somebody else would make a movie about the Srebrenica massacre, an act of genocide in which more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed by the Bosnian Serb Army in 1995. But she finally did it herself with “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which landed the first Academy Award nomination for Bosnia and Herzegovina since “No Man’s Land” won the Oscar in 2002.
Žbanić, whose 2006 film “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” represented her country in the international Oscar race that year, made the film from the perspective of a translator working for the United Nations, which declared the city a “safe area” but then failed to protect its residents from the Serb Army. Her interest in film had been nourished growing up in Sarajevo,...
- 4/16/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Academy voters must turn in their nomination ballots by today at 5 p.m. Pt. When they do, they will be participating in a process for the nomination of Best International Feature Film. For the first time in history, anyone from any branch, anywhere, can vote in that category — if they’ve watched all 15 shortlisted international feature films.
They have the unenviable task of picking their top five films out of one of the most extraordinary selections in recent memory. In this pandemic year, the small and often feted Los Angeles committee did not hold sway, although those regulars still form the core of the expanded voting pool.
All 15 films have their fans and detractors. While it’s tough to gauge reactions from across potential voters around the world, here’s a stab at the 10 most robust contenders, ranked in order of their likelihood to land a nomination on March 15.
1. “Quo Vadis,...
They have the unenviable task of picking their top five films out of one of the most extraordinary selections in recent memory. In this pandemic year, the small and often feted Los Angeles committee did not hold sway, although those regulars still form the core of the expanded voting pool.
All 15 films have their fans and detractors. While it’s tough to gauge reactions from across potential voters around the world, here’s a stab at the 10 most robust contenders, ranked in order of their likelihood to land a nomination on March 15.
1. “Quo Vadis,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Academy voters must turn in their nomination ballots by today at 5 p.m. Pt. When they do, they will be participating in a process for the nomination of Best International Feature Film. For the first time in history, anyone from any branch, anywhere, can vote in that category — if they’ve watched all 15 shortlisted international feature films.
They have the unenviable task of picking their top five films out of one of the most extraordinary selections in recent memory. In this pandemic year, the small and often feted Los Angeles committee did not hold sway, although those regulars still form the core of the expanded voting pool.
All 15 films have their fans and detractors. While it’s tough to gauge reactions from across potential voters around the world, here’s a stab at the 10 most robust contenders, ranked in order of their likelihood to land a nomination on March 15.
1. “Quo Vadis,...
They have the unenviable task of picking their top five films out of one of the most extraordinary selections in recent memory. In this pandemic year, the small and often feted Los Angeles committee did not hold sway, although those regulars still form the core of the expanded voting pool.
All 15 films have their fans and detractors. While it’s tough to gauge reactions from across potential voters around the world, here’s a stab at the 10 most robust contenders, ranked in order of their likelihood to land a nomination on March 15.
1. “Quo Vadis,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The nightmarish cruelty of the Bosnian Serbs’ genocidal assault on the Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica in July, 1995 is vividly and nightmarishly rendered in the curiously titled Quo Vadis, Aida? Ferocious and lucid, director Jasmila Zbanic’s film relentlessly pushes to the heart of the matter while accompanying a local Un translator who does everything she can to help while also trying to arrange for the safety of her husband and two sons. It’s a despairing, nay, devastating piece of work that leaves one drained, exhausted, appalled and admiring, which is the desired and only plausible reaction to Bosnia’s International Feature Oscar hopeful. It debuted last fall at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. Zbannic’s previous feature, Grbavica: The Land Of My Dreams, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006.
A quarter century on, most people who even recall the events at all would...
A quarter century on, most people who even recall the events at all would...
- 3/8/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
The winners for the virtual 2021 Berlin International Film Festival have been revealed, and Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s satire “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” received the Golden Bear for best film. The competition jury celebrated the film as “a rare and essential quality of a lasting art work,” adding in a statement, “It captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time. Of this very moment of human existence.”
This year’s Berlinale competition jury was made up of six former winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear: “There is No Evil” director Mohammad Rasoulof, “Synonyms” filmmaker Nadav Lapid, “Touch Me Not” helmer Adina Pintilie, “On Body and Soul” director Ildiko Enyedi, “Fire at Sea” filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, and “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” director Jasmila Zbanic.
The Silver Bear...
This year’s Berlinale competition jury was made up of six former winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear: “There is No Evil” director Mohammad Rasoulof, “Synonyms” filmmaker Nadav Lapid, “Touch Me Not” helmer Adina Pintilie, “On Body and Soul” director Ildiko Enyedi, “Fire at Sea” filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, and “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams” director Jasmila Zbanic.
The Silver Bear...
- 3/5/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
25 years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian director Jamila Zbanic (Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams) returns to tell the story of the greatest atrocity of the Yugoslav War.
In her film, the story of the killings — when under the eyes of U.N. Peacekeepers nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and shot dead by troops of Bosnian Serbs — is told from the perspective of Aida (Jasna Djuricic), a Bosnian translator working for the U.N. forces who races against time to try and save her husband and two sons from the coming ...
In her film, the story of the killings — when under the eyes of U.N. Peacekeepers nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and shot dead by troops of Bosnian Serbs — is told from the perspective of Aida (Jasna Djuricic), a Bosnian translator working for the U.N. forces who races against time to try and save her husband and two sons from the coming ...
- 2/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
25 years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian director Jamila Zbanic (Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams) returns to tell the story of the greatest atrocity of the Yugoslav War.
In her film, the story of the killings — when under the eyes of U.N. Peacekeepers nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and shot dead by troops of Bosnian Serbs — is told from the perspective of Aida (Jasna Djuricic), a Bosnian translator working for the U.N. forces who races against time to try and save her husband and two sons from the coming ...
In her film, the story of the killings — when under the eyes of U.N. Peacekeepers nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and shot dead by troops of Bosnian Serbs — is told from the perspective of Aida (Jasna Djuricic), a Bosnian translator working for the U.N. forces who races against time to try and save her husband and two sons from the coming ...
- 2/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Super Ltd, Neon’s boutique label, has acquired the North American rights to “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission into the Oscar race.
The film made the shortlist for Best International Feature and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Jasmila Zbanic directed “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which first premiered at Venice and won three prizes out of the festival before next playing at Toronto.
The movie is based on real events and is set in the Bosnian summer of 1995 during the Serbian occupation of Srebrenica, declared to be safe zone by the United Nations. Aida works as a translator for the Un peacekeeping task force in charge of a camp where her husband and two sons are being held along with thousands of other Bosnian citizens. Aida quickly gains access to crucial information she needs to translate, while the Serbian army gets closer to overtaking the camp.
The film made the shortlist for Best International Feature and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Jasmila Zbanic directed “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” which first premiered at Venice and won three prizes out of the festival before next playing at Toronto.
The movie is based on real events and is set in the Bosnian summer of 1995 during the Serbian occupation of Srebrenica, declared to be safe zone by the United Nations. Aida works as a translator for the Un peacekeeping task force in charge of a camp where her husband and two sons are being held along with thousands of other Bosnian citizens. Aida quickly gains access to crucial information she needs to translate, while the Serbian army gets closer to overtaking the camp.
- 2/19/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Neon’s Super Ltd boutique label has picked up the North American rights to Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival.
The film about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica as seen through the eyes of a courageous Un interpreter, Aida, is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry for the Academy Awards and was recently shortlisted.
Quo Vadis, Aida? also screened in Toronto and and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best international feature.
Žbanić won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2006 for her debut feature Grbavica, and her second feature On The Path also competed in Berlin in 2010. She ...
The film about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica as seen through the eyes of a courageous Un interpreter, Aida, is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry for the Academy Awards and was recently shortlisted.
Quo Vadis, Aida? also screened in Toronto and and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best international feature.
Žbanić won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2006 for her debut feature Grbavica, and her second feature On The Path also competed in Berlin in 2010. She ...
- 2/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Neon’s Super Ltd boutique label has picked up the North American rights to Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival.
The film about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica as seen through the eyes of a courageous Un interpreter, Aida, is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry for the Academy Awards and was recently shortlisted.
Quo Vadis, Aida? also screened in Toronto and and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best international feature.
Žbanić won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2006 for her debut feature Grbavica, and her second feature On The Path also competed in Berlin in 2010. She ...
The film about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica as seen through the eyes of a courageous Un interpreter, Aida, is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry for the Academy Awards and was recently shortlisted.
Quo Vadis, Aida? also screened in Toronto and and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best international feature.
Žbanić won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2006 for her debut feature Grbavica, and her second feature On The Path also competed in Berlin in 2010. She ...
- 2/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled an unusual jury format for this year’s unusual edition, with six former Golden Bear winners (the festival’s top prize) set to convene during the March event to decide on its awards.
As previously announced, the fest is taking place in two stages, an ‘Industry Event’ March 1-5 which will include the European Film Market as well as the presentation of the event’s festival program to industry delegates. This will be followed by an audience-focused festival from June 9-20.
The jury will convene in Berlin during the first event in March and will watch the film’s in the Competition program on the big screen, with the awards announced that week. The plan is for a physical ceremony to follow in June where the winners can be honored.
The six members of the jury are below. No president has been appointed this year.
As previously announced, the fest is taking place in two stages, an ‘Industry Event’ March 1-5 which will include the European Film Market as well as the presentation of the event’s festival program to industry delegates. This will be followed by an audience-focused festival from June 9-20.
The jury will convene in Berlin during the first event in March and will watch the film’s in the Competition program on the big screen, with the awards announced that week. The plan is for a physical ceremony to follow in June where the winners can be honored.
The six members of the jury are below. No president has been appointed this year.
- 2/1/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the International Jury for its 71st edition. All the jury members are winners of Berlin’s Golden Bear for best film.
The jury will comprise Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, Israeli director Nadav Lapid, Romania director Adina Pintilie, Hungary director Ildikó Enyedi, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić. There will be no jury president this year. The jury will view the competition films in a movie theater in Berlin.
Rasoulof won the Golden Bear for “There Is No Evil” in 2020; Lapid for “Synonyms” in 2019; Pintilie for “Touch Me Not” in 2018; Enyedi for “On Body and Soul” in 2017; Rosi for “Fire at Sea” in 2016; and Žbanić for “Grbavica” in 2006.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian said: “I’m happy and honored that six filmmakers I admire a great deal have enthusiastically accepted our invitation to take part in this unique edition. They express not only...
The jury will comprise Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, Israeli director Nadav Lapid, Romania director Adina Pintilie, Hungary director Ildikó Enyedi, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić. There will be no jury president this year. The jury will view the competition films in a movie theater in Berlin.
Rasoulof won the Golden Bear for “There Is No Evil” in 2020; Lapid for “Synonyms” in 2019; Pintilie for “Touch Me Not” in 2018; Enyedi for “On Body and Soul” in 2017; Rosi for “Fire at Sea” in 2016; and Žbanić for “Grbavica” in 2006.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian said: “I’m happy and honored that six filmmakers I admire a great deal have enthusiastically accepted our invitation to take part in this unique edition. They express not only...
- 2/1/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Seen through the eyes of a Un interpreter, this slowly unfolding drama is perfectly pitched to both engage and horrify
The submission by Bosnia-Herzogovina for this year’s international feature Oscar is a slow-burn drama with a palpable sense of growing dread, set during the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered by units under the command of General Ratko Mladić, now facing a life sentence having been convicted of crimes against humanity. Yet if that makes Quo Vadis, Aida? sound like an unbearably tough prospect, be reassured that in the hands of writer-director Jasmila Žbanić, who won a Berlin Golden Bear for her 2006 debut feature, Grbavica, this horrifying tale is lent a profoundly human heart, ensuring that we keep on watching, a notable achievement for a movie that is centrally concerned with the spectre of looking away.
Jasna Đuričić, feted for her role in 2010’s White, White World,...
The submission by Bosnia-Herzogovina for this year’s international feature Oscar is a slow-burn drama with a palpable sense of growing dread, set during the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered by units under the command of General Ratko Mladić, now facing a life sentence having been convicted of crimes against humanity. Yet if that makes Quo Vadis, Aida? sound like an unbearably tough prospect, be reassured that in the hands of writer-director Jasmila Žbanić, who won a Berlin Golden Bear for her 2006 debut feature, Grbavica, this horrifying tale is lent a profoundly human heart, ensuring that we keep on watching, a notable achievement for a movie that is centrally concerned with the spectre of looking away.
Jasna Đuričić, feted for her role in 2010’s White, White World,...
- 1/24/2021
- by Mark Kermode Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Jasmila Zbanic’s historical drama is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry to the Academy Awards.
Curzon has snapped up UK and Ireland rights to Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida? from Paris-based Indie Sales. The film is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s submission for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Oscars.
The historical drama will be released theatrically and on digital platform Curzon Home Cinema on January 22, 2021.
Set in the Bosnian summer of 1995, the film follows a United Nations translator, played by Jasna Duricic, who tries to save her husband and two sons after the Serbian army takes over...
Curzon has snapped up UK and Ireland rights to Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida? from Paris-based Indie Sales. The film is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s submission for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Oscars.
The historical drama will be released theatrically and on digital platform Curzon Home Cinema on January 22, 2021.
Set in the Bosnian summer of 1995, the film follows a United Nations translator, played by Jasna Duricic, who tries to save her husband and two sons after the Serbian army takes over...
- 11/30/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Films set among genocide can border on “trauma porn,” while a few like “Life Is Beautiful” and “The Pianist” reach divine heights by setting deeply human stories amongst unimaginable horrors. “Quo Vadis, Aida?”, the latest film from celebrated Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanic, is one such transcendent entry into the genre.
The film dramatizes the horrific events of the Srebrenica massacre, otherwise known as the Srebrenica genocide, during which Serbian troops sent 8,372 Bosniak men and boys to their deaths in July 1995. Named for its fearless protagonist, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” exposes the events through the eyes of a mother named Aida (Jasna Ðuričić), a schoolteacher who works with the United Nations as a translator. After three and a half years under siege, the town of Srebrenica, close to the northeastern Serbian border, was declared a Un “safety zone” in 1993 and put under the protection of a Dutch battalion working for the Un.
The film dramatizes the horrific events of the Srebrenica massacre, otherwise known as the Srebrenica genocide, during which Serbian troops sent 8,372 Bosniak men and boys to their deaths in July 1995. Named for its fearless protagonist, “Quo Vadis, Aida?” exposes the events through the eyes of a mother named Aida (Jasna Ðuričić), a schoolteacher who works with the United Nations as a translator. After three and a half years under siege, the town of Srebrenica, close to the northeastern Serbian border, was declared a Un “safety zone” in 1993 and put under the protection of a Dutch battalion working for the Un.
- 9/15/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Paris-based company Indie Sales has sealed a flurry of deals on Jasmila Žbanić’s drama “Quo Vadis, Aida?” which world premiered in competition at Venice and is part of Toronto’s official selection.
The film is based on real events and is set in the Bosnian summer of 1995 during the Serbian occupation of Srebrenica, declared to be safe zone by the United Nations. Aida works as a translator for the Un peacekeeping task force in charge of a camp where her husband and two sons are being held along with thousands of other Bosnian citizens. Aida quickly gains access to crucial information she needs to translate, while the Serbian army gets closer to overtaking the camp.
The film has been sold to France (Condor Distribution), Italy (Academy Two-Lucky Red), Switzerland (Cineworx), Greece (One from the Heart), Denmark (Angel Films), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Aerofilms), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Germany (Farbfilm...
The film is based on real events and is set in the Bosnian summer of 1995 during the Serbian occupation of Srebrenica, declared to be safe zone by the United Nations. Aida works as a translator for the Un peacekeeping task force in charge of a camp where her husband and two sons are being held along with thousands of other Bosnian citizens. Aida quickly gains access to crucial information she needs to translate, while the Serbian army gets closer to overtaking the camp.
The film has been sold to France (Condor Distribution), Italy (Academy Two-Lucky Red), Switzerland (Cineworx), Greece (One from the Heart), Denmark (Angel Films), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Aerofilms), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Germany (Farbfilm...
- 9/14/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival wraps today after putting on a show against the odds. Despite lacking in studio fare, there was no shortage of well-received movies. Was there a Sundance-style bounce, with critics giddy just to be on the Lido after months of lockdown? Perhaps. But this was also a solid roster of independent movies. While there was no Joker juggernaut, there was at least one Roma rave. We’ve done a wide sweep of the English-language reviews and here’s our run-down of the best-received world premieres.
Standing out in the pack for its touted Academy Awards potential was Chloe Zhao’s anticipated drama Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand as a woman who embarks on a journey through the American West. The Searchlight Pictures movie, which debuted last night, was expected to be impress given its simultaneous berths in Venice and Toronto, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s just...
Standing out in the pack for its touted Academy Awards potential was Chloe Zhao’s anticipated drama Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand as a woman who embarks on a journey through the American West. The Searchlight Pictures movie, which debuted last night, was expected to be impress given its simultaneous berths in Venice and Toronto, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s just...
- 9/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Bosnia and Herzegovina has picked Alen Drljevic's Men Don't Cry, a drama about the physiological scars still remaining from the Yugoslav War, as its foreign-language film submission for the 2018 Oscars.
Drljevic's debut feature premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this year, where it won a special jury prize and the Europa Cinemas Label award. Men Don't Cry also picked up the audience award at the recent Sarajevo Film Festival.
Drljevic earned his stripes as an assistant director on the films of Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, On the Path), and Men Don't Cry plays as a more...
Drljevic's debut feature premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this year, where it won a special jury prize and the Europa Cinemas Label award. Men Don't Cry also picked up the audience award at the recent Sarajevo Film Festival.
Drljevic earned his stripes as an assistant director on the films of Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, On the Path), and Men Don't Cry plays as a more...
- 8/21/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A group of middle-aged Yugoslav War veterans from different backgrounds get together for an extended group-therapy session in Men Don’t Cry (Muskarci koji ne placu), the fiction feature debut from Alen Drljevic. The rookie cut his filmmaking teeth as an assistant director on the films of Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, On the Path), and she’s a producer here, but there’s also a sense that their partnership goes deeper than that, with Men Don’t Cry almost functioning as a testosterone-addled pendant to the female-focused stories of Zbanic. Both bring a keen eye for detail and nuance to stories that...
- 7/12/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: German seller lands Special Jury Award winner produced by Jasmila Zbanic.
German sales outfit Picture Tree International has boarded international rights to Yugoslav wars drama Men Don’t Cry, which this weekend scored the Special Jury Award and Europa Cinema Award in Karlovy Vary.
Picture Tree acquired the film from producers Damir Ibrahimovic, Jasmila Zbanic and Rebekka Garrido.
Director Alen Drljevic’s debut feature (Drljevic was a first Ad on a trio of Zbanic’s films) features an all-star Balkan male acting team including Leon Lucev, Boris Isakovic and Emir Hadzihafizbegovic.
The film, set two decades after the war ended in Yugoslavia, follows a diverse group of veterans who gather at a remote mountain hotel to undergo group therapy.
Watch the trailer below or on mobile Here.
Emotions are highly charged as old enmities and hostilities emerge, but the participants gradually learn to overcome their deep divisions.
The well-received film is now gearing up for at...
German sales outfit Picture Tree International has boarded international rights to Yugoslav wars drama Men Don’t Cry, which this weekend scored the Special Jury Award and Europa Cinema Award in Karlovy Vary.
Picture Tree acquired the film from producers Damir Ibrahimovic, Jasmila Zbanic and Rebekka Garrido.
Director Alen Drljevic’s debut feature (Drljevic was a first Ad on a trio of Zbanic’s films) features an all-star Balkan male acting team including Leon Lucev, Boris Isakovic and Emir Hadzihafizbegovic.
The film, set two decades after the war ended in Yugoslavia, follows a diverse group of veterans who gather at a remote mountain hotel to undergo group therapy.
Watch the trailer below or on mobile Here.
Emotions are highly charged as old enmities and hostilities emerge, but the participants gradually learn to overcome their deep divisions.
The well-received film is now gearing up for at...
- 7/11/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Update With Key Speeches: Hungarian title On Body And Soul takes best film; Aki Kaurismaki, Sebastian Lelio among winners; Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro scoop Panorama audience awards; 2018 festival dates revealed.
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival took place this evening (18 Feb) with winners including Ildiko Enyedi, Alain Gomis, Agnieszka Holland and Sebastian Lelio.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Ildikò Enyedi’s Hungarian feature On Body and Soul - the unusual love story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in a harsh world - was the big winner on the night taking home the Golden Bear for best film in the Competition as well as the Ecumenical and Fipresci juries’ prizes for best film in the Official Competition and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award.
Enyedi’s film - which is handled internationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique and had been hotly tipped for the Golden Bear - is...
The awards ceremony for the 67th Berlin Film Festival took place this evening (18 Feb) with winners including Ildiko Enyedi, Alain Gomis, Agnieszka Holland and Sebastian Lelio.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Ildikò Enyedi’s Hungarian feature On Body and Soul - the unusual love story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in a harsh world - was the big winner on the night taking home the Golden Bear for best film in the Competition as well as the Ecumenical and Fipresci juries’ prizes for best film in the Official Competition and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award.
Enyedi’s film - which is handled internationally by Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique and had been hotly tipped for the Golden Bear - is...
- 2/18/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Bosnian director and winner of Berlinale’s Golden Bear plans to shoot her film about the wartime massacre next autumn.
Jasmila Zbanic has revealed further details of her planned drama about the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks were killed by Serbian forces in July 1995 during the Bosnian War.
The Sarajevo-born director, who won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear in 2006 with post-war drama Grbavica, has written a script after securing financial support from Creative Europe and hopes to shoot the $5m (€4.5m) film in autumn 2016.
“At the end of this year, I will have it packaged to present to producers,” said Zbanic from the Sarajevo Film Festival, where her documentary One Day In Sarajevo received its world premiere in competition and won the Human Rights award.
“Because it’s a very heavy subject, I had to find a way of making it a human story and even people who have no connection with war...
Jasmila Zbanic has revealed further details of her planned drama about the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks were killed by Serbian forces in July 1995 during the Bosnian War.
The Sarajevo-born director, who won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear in 2006 with post-war drama Grbavica, has written a script after securing financial support from Creative Europe and hopes to shoot the $5m (€4.5m) film in autumn 2016.
“At the end of this year, I will have it packaged to present to producers,” said Zbanic from the Sarajevo Film Festival, where her documentary One Day In Sarajevo received its world premiere in competition and won the Human Rights award.
“Because it’s a very heavy subject, I had to find a way of making it a human story and even people who have no connection with war...
- 8/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic hopes to see tax breaks introduced to encourage film production in the country.
At the Sarajevo Film Festival today (Aug 21), the Directors Guild of Bosnia and Herzegovina is to showcase more than a dozen projects in development and discuss the future of the region’s film industry with politicians.
The projects include new features from Oscar-winner Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land), Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica (Underground) and Berlinale Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica).
Sarajevo-born Zbanic will host today’s event with Tanovic and told ScreenDaily they hope to hear plans for the introduction of tax breaks for filmmaking in Bosnia.
“We are trying to persuade the government to return tax to people who are shooting here [in Bosnia] and invest in film,” she said.
“It is something Croatia a few years ago, generating incredible income, and something that Serbia did a few days ago.
“We are hoping...
At the Sarajevo Film Festival today (Aug 21), the Directors Guild of Bosnia and Herzegovina is to showcase more than a dozen projects in development and discuss the future of the region’s film industry with politicians.
The projects include new features from Oscar-winner Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land), Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica (Underground) and Berlinale Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica).
Sarajevo-born Zbanic will host today’s event with Tanovic and told ScreenDaily they hope to hear plans for the introduction of tax breaks for filmmaking in Bosnia.
“We are trying to persuade the government to return tax to people who are shooting here [in Bosnia] and invest in film,” she said.
“It is something Croatia a few years ago, generating incredible income, and something that Serbia did a few days ago.
“We are hoping...
- 8/21/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Denmark’s Katja Adomeit and Germany’s Ingmar Trost among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.Scroll down for full list
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
Lithuania will be...
European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 20 emerging young European producers for the 16th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 15-18.
The 2014 selection includes Danish producer Katja Adomeit, who produced and co-directed the hybrid film Not At Home with the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat as well as co-producing Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure as a freelancer for the Copenhagen office of Philippe Bober’s The Coproduction Office.
Cologne-based Ingmar Trost of Sutor Kolonko has also been selected. His credits include Ilian Metev’s award-winniıng documentary Sofıa’s Last Ambulance, Latvian director Juris Kursietis’ Modrıs and Ingo Haeb’s The Chambermaid Lynn, and he has just completed production of his third feature, Isabelle Stever’s The Weather Inside.
Lithuania will be...
- 4/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
- 8/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
- 8/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Wroclaw New Horizons roundup: works in progress include Close Ups and I, Olga Hepnarova.
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
Wide Management has begun presales on the Polish-German co-production Summer Solstice by Michal Rogalski which was one of 10 Polish films featuring in this year’s works in progress showcase at the Polish Days during Wroclaw’s New Horizons International Film Festival.
Producer Maria Golos of Prasa Film said that German theatrical distribution for the €2.5m film, which is set in Poland after the Nazi defeat during the Second World War, will be handled by Farbfilm.
Separately, Leszek Budzak of the young production company Aurum Film revealed that Jacek Lusinski’s second feature Carte Blanche will be released early next year by Kino Swiat in Poland.
Based on the true story of a history teacher who is losing his sight, the lead part of the teacher is cast with the ubiquitous Polish actor Andrzej Chyra.
Magdalena Piekorz’s third feature psychological drama Close Ups was...
- 8/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Michael Winterbottom, Mike Leigh and Michel Hazanavicius among those to attend the festival.
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has unveiled the guest list for its 20th edition.
Mexican actor Gael García Bernal will be the first guest to meet this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival audience, stepping in front of 3,000 cinemagoers at the Open Air Cinema before a screening of Alejandro González Inárritu’s Amores Perros.
Bernal will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo on the opening night, as will designer and director Agnes B. who will screen her feature debut Je M’appelle Hmmm…
That same night, directors Cristi Puiu, Vladimir Perišić, Aida Begić, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec and Isild Le Besco will present their short films, compiled as the omnibus feature Bridges of Sarajevo.
The festival will host three Oscar winners. Director Michel Hazanavicius, winner of an Academy Award for The Artist, will visit Sarajevo with his Cannes film The Search, accompanied by his...
The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has unveiled the guest list for its 20th edition.
Mexican actor Gael García Bernal will be the first guest to meet this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival audience, stepping in front of 3,000 cinemagoers at the Open Air Cinema before a screening of Alejandro González Inárritu’s Amores Perros.
Bernal will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo on the opening night, as will designer and director Agnes B. who will screen her feature debut Je M’appelle Hmmm…
That same night, directors Cristi Puiu, Vladimir Perišić, Aida Begić, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec and Isild Le Besco will present their short films, compiled as the omnibus feature Bridges of Sarajevo.
The festival will host three Oscar winners. Director Michel Hazanavicius, winner of an Academy Award for The Artist, will visit Sarajevo with his Cannes film The Search, accompanied by his...
- 7/30/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish nun drama adds to a growing haul of prizes. Other winners include Starred Up and Of Horses and Men
Ida picked up the Crystal Arrow at the 5th Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21) in the French Alps last night.
The Best Actress Prize was jointly awarded to Ida’s Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza. Trzebuchowska, who plays the titular role, collected the trophy at the awards ceremony
They are the latest in a string of top awards for the film, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, which tells the story of a novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the Nazi occupation.
It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love.
The film has picked up prizes at festivals around the world...
Ida picked up the Crystal Arrow at the 5th Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21) in the French Alps last night.
The Best Actress Prize was jointly awarded to Ida’s Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza. Trzebuchowska, who plays the titular role, collected the trophy at the awards ceremony
They are the latest in a string of top awards for the film, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, which tells the story of a novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the Nazi occupation.
It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love.
The film has picked up prizes at festivals around the world...
- 12/21/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning directors Danis Tanovic, Jasmila Zbanic and Srdan Golubovic have revealed stories of “corruption” and “sickness” in their local film industries.
Speaking on a panel, chaired by Screen, about filmmaking in the former Yugoslavia at the Les Arc European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), the three directors engaged in a heated discussion about the struggles they face in their countries.
Tanovic, the Oscar-winning Bosnian director of No Man’s Land, said: “Unfortunately, we live where we live. Everything is falling apart. I believe our government, the people who are ruling Bosnia, do not understand the importance of culture - but do understand they have to shut it down.
“It’s because we’re free thinkers. We put their noses into their own poo. We speak about society. It’s not easy for them. We are the only people who stand up and say ‘This is not okay’.”
“Corruption”
Zbanic, who won the Golden Bear in Berlin with Grbavica...
Speaking on a panel, chaired by Screen, about filmmaking in the former Yugoslavia at the Les Arc European Film Festival (Dec 14-21), the three directors engaged in a heated discussion about the struggles they face in their countries.
Tanovic, the Oscar-winning Bosnian director of No Man’s Land, said: “Unfortunately, we live where we live. Everything is falling apart. I believe our government, the people who are ruling Bosnia, do not understand the importance of culture - but do understand they have to shut it down.
“It’s because we’re free thinkers. We put their noses into their own poo. We speak about society. It’s not easy for them. We are the only people who stand up and say ‘This is not okay’.”
“Corruption”
Zbanic, who won the Golden Bear in Berlin with Grbavica...
- 12/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning director Jasmila Zbanic has echoed Jane Campion’s call to mandate that 50% of all films should be made by women.
Zbanic, the Bosnian director of Berlinale winner Grbavica and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, has received the inaugural Femme du Cinema award at the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21).
The honorary award recognises a female director, producer or actress deemed to be “particularly emblematic of European cinema”.
Accepting the honour, Zbanic thanked Les Arcs for creating an award that “raises awareness of the unjust treatment of women in cinema”.
In her speech, the director slammed the “fascistic” portrayal of women on screen and repeated a call by Jane Campion, the New Zealand director of The Piano and Top of the Lake, to impose quotas on production.
“When I go to the cinema, I don’t care if the film is made by a man or woman as long as it tells me stories...
Zbanic, the Bosnian director of Berlinale winner Grbavica and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, has received the inaugural Femme du Cinema award at the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 14-21).
The honorary award recognises a female director, producer or actress deemed to be “particularly emblematic of European cinema”.
Accepting the honour, Zbanic thanked Les Arcs for creating an award that “raises awareness of the unjust treatment of women in cinema”.
In her speech, the director slammed the “fascistic” portrayal of women on screen and repeated a call by Jane Campion, the New Zealand director of The Piano and Top of the Lake, to impose quotas on production.
“When I go to the cinema, I don’t care if the film is made by a man or woman as long as it tells me stories...
- 12/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Films from Russia, Kosovo and Serbia were the main winners at this year’s FilmFestival Cottbus and its parallel East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus.
Russian director Aleksandr Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe Away has continued its successful international festival career by picking up the Main Prize at Germany’s Cottbus festival with a cash award of €20,000.
The International Competition Jury praised Veledinsky’s “exquisite mastery of his craft and great playfulness” in its motivation.
Handled internationally by Moscow-based Ant!pode Sales & Distribution, The Geographer Drank His Globe Away was released theatrically on almost 500 screens in Russia last Thursday (Nov 7) as well as in the Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Forthcoming festival invitations include the Black Nights Festival in Tallinn and festivals in Tromsø and Göteborg.
Winning the festival’s Main Prize also gives Veledinsky and his producers the opportunity to return to Cottbus next year as part of Connecting Cottbus’ Special Pitch Award for them to...
Russian director Aleksandr Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe Away has continued its successful international festival career by picking up the Main Prize at Germany’s Cottbus festival with a cash award of €20,000.
The International Competition Jury praised Veledinsky’s “exquisite mastery of his craft and great playfulness” in its motivation.
Handled internationally by Moscow-based Ant!pode Sales & Distribution, The Geographer Drank His Globe Away was released theatrically on almost 500 screens in Russia last Thursday (Nov 7) as well as in the Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Forthcoming festival invitations include the Black Nights Festival in Tallinn and festivals in Tromsø and Göteborg.
Winning the festival’s Main Prize also gives Veledinsky and his producers the opportunity to return to Cottbus next year as part of Connecting Cottbus’ Special Pitch Award for them to...
- 11/11/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Love is the Perfect Crime and The Notebook among competition titles.Scoll down for competition line-up
France’s end-of-year, alpine Les Arcs European Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its fifth edition (Dec 14-21).
In a joint statement, the event’s Paris-based co-founders Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin and Guillaume Calop, who both hail from Les Arcs, said: “Les Arcs is celebrating its fifth year. It’s been five years of cinephile pleasures, surprises, discoveries, snowflakes, faith, hard work and storms - both figuratively and literally.”
A total of 12 titles selected by artistic director Frédéric Boyer will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Crystal Arrow. The international jury will be announced at a later date.
The contenders include French Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s Love is the Perfect Crime, which also opens the festival, Hungary’s foreign language Oscar submission The Notebook by Janos Szasz, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and Bosnian Jamila Zbanic’s For Those Who Can Tell No Tales about...
France’s end-of-year, alpine Les Arcs European Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its fifth edition (Dec 14-21).
In a joint statement, the event’s Paris-based co-founders Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin and Guillaume Calop, who both hail from Les Arcs, said: “Les Arcs is celebrating its fifth year. It’s been five years of cinephile pleasures, surprises, discoveries, snowflakes, faith, hard work and storms - both figuratively and literally.”
A total of 12 titles selected by artistic director Frédéric Boyer will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Crystal Arrow. The international jury will be announced at a later date.
The contenders include French Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s Love is the Perfect Crime, which also opens the festival, Hungary’s foreign language Oscar submission The Notebook by Janos Szasz, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and Bosnian Jamila Zbanic’s For Those Who Can Tell No Tales about...
- 11/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
Love is the Perfect Crime [pictured] and The Notebook among competition titles.
France’s end-of-year, alpine Les Arcs European Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its fifth edition running Dec 14-21.
“Les Arcs is celebrating its fifth year! It’s been a first five years of cinephile pleasures, surprises, discoveries, snowflakes, faith and hard work, and storms - both figuratively and literally,” said the event’s Paris-based co-founders Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin and Guillaume Calop, who both hail from Les Arcs, said in a joint statement.
A total of 12 titles selected by artistic director Frédéric Boyer will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Crystal Arrow. The international jury will be announced at a later date.
The contenders comprise French Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s Love is the Perfect Crime, which also opens the festival, Hungary’s foreign language Oscar submission The Notebook by Janos Szasz, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and Bosnian Jamila Zbanic’s For Those Who Can Tell No Tales about...
France’s end-of-year, alpine Les Arcs European Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its fifth edition running Dec 14-21.
“Les Arcs is celebrating its fifth year! It’s been a first five years of cinephile pleasures, surprises, discoveries, snowflakes, faith and hard work, and storms - both figuratively and literally,” said the event’s Paris-based co-founders Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin and Guillaume Calop, who both hail from Les Arcs, said in a joint statement.
A total of 12 titles selected by artistic director Frédéric Boyer will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Crystal Arrow. The international jury will be announced at a later date.
The contenders comprise French Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s Love is the Perfect Crime, which also opens the festival, Hungary’s foreign language Oscar submission The Notebook by Janos Szasz, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida and Bosnian Jamila Zbanic’s For Those Who Can Tell No Tales about...
- 11/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jasmila Zbanic, director of Berlin Golden Bear winner Grbavica, is planning a feature about the Srebrenica massace.
The English-language feature will focus on the role of the Un Dutch peacekeepers who failed to prevent the town’s capture by Serbian forces and the subsequent massacre.
She told Screen: “I bought the rights for the book Under the Un Flag by Hasan Nuhanovic who was a translator for Un. His whole family was killed among 8,000 other Bosnians. I will direct the film and likely will co-write it. It would be quite a big production so will need time.”
Due to the size of the production, Zbanic said that she might make another, smaller film in the meantime.
Zbanic’s first English-language feature, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, screens in Toronto. It follows an Australian tourist who discovers the legacy of wartime atrocities when she visits a little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia...
The English-language feature will focus on the role of the Un Dutch peacekeepers who failed to prevent the town’s capture by Serbian forces and the subsequent massacre.
She told Screen: “I bought the rights for the book Under the Un Flag by Hasan Nuhanovic who was a translator for Un. His whole family was killed among 8,000 other Bosnians. I will direct the film and likely will co-write it. It would be quite a big production so will need time.”
Due to the size of the production, Zbanic said that she might make another, smaller film in the meantime.
Zbanic’s first English-language feature, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, screens in Toronto. It follows an Australian tourist who discovers the legacy of wartime atrocities when she visits a little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia...
- 9/7/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
New law will decrease dependence of film production on state budget.
Proposals for a new film law has been presented to representatives of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The working body which designed it - Amer Kapetanovic, president of the management board of Film Fund Sarajevo; Jovan Marjanovic, head of industry at the Fund; Amra Baksic Camo, CEO of production company Pro.ba; and Lejla Kablar from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Initiative - spoke about the bill to 15 members of the Parliament and Minister of Culture Semir Kaplan.
Updating law
The current cinema law of the Federation of Bh dates back to 1990, and requires updating for today’s conditions, in which Bosnia has to rely on co-productions to be able to make films with average budget on par with the neighbouring countries, which is about $1.3m (€1m).
Out of 33 feature films made in the territory over the past five...
Proposals for a new film law has been presented to representatives of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The working body which designed it - Amer Kapetanovic, president of the management board of Film Fund Sarajevo; Jovan Marjanovic, head of industry at the Fund; Amra Baksic Camo, CEO of production company Pro.ba; and Lejla Kablar from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Initiative - spoke about the bill to 15 members of the Parliament and Minister of Culture Semir Kaplan.
Updating law
The current cinema law of the Federation of Bh dates back to 1990, and requires updating for today’s conditions, in which Bosnia has to rely on co-productions to be able to make films with average budget on par with the neighbouring countries, which is about $1.3m (€1m).
Out of 33 feature films made in the territory over the past five...
- 8/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
A little bit of coin news from Europe’s Eurimages Fund (support of 13 projects) in the same token drops a couple of hints on where we might be at with some of our favorite European auteurs – topping the list and making our mouths water for Cannes 2014 is a listing for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s next feature film entitled Winter Sleep – a Turkish-German-France co-production. Further digging tells us that Ceylan actually began filming in late January in the unique backdrop of Cappadocia, Turkey with actors Haluk Bilginer (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Demet Akbag, Melisa Sözen on board. Swedish auteur Ruben Ostlund (whose Play is mysteriously still without a U.S Distributor) is inches away from filming Tourist – which will be ready for a Croisette 2014 showing as well. Jasmila Zbanic who won big in Berlin back in 2006 with Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, is funding her latest Love Island and feel...
- 3/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The National Film Development Corporation (Ndfc) has started a new initiative titled Ndfc Labs to cater to the needs of creative producers and development professionals. The first programme to be organized under the initiative is a two part Lab for Creative Producers in Mumbai.
Marten Rabarts, the ex artistic director of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab heads the Nfdc Labs. Marten’s induction into Nfdc was announced during Cannes Film Festival this year. Marten had organized a “Think Tank” session with filmmakers in July this year. In an interview to DearCinema.com, Marten had shared the outcome of the Think tank session, “One of the things that the filmmaking community during the Think Tank session identified to be lacking is the role of a creative producer in a film: someone who is there alongside the director and writer. So I am trying to find ways to empower the producers who are there...
Marten Rabarts, the ex artistic director of Amsterdam-based Binger Filmlab heads the Nfdc Labs. Marten’s induction into Nfdc was announced during Cannes Film Festival this year. Marten had organized a “Think Tank” session with filmmakers in July this year. In an interview to DearCinema.com, Marten had shared the outcome of the Think tank session, “One of the things that the filmmaking community during the Think Tank session identified to be lacking is the role of a creative producer in a film: someone who is there alongside the director and writer. So I am trying to find ways to empower the producers who are there...
- 9/18/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Sundance Institute's Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative kicks off February 27 in Tucson and Sells, Arizona. Six films will screen: Ali Samadi Ahadi's "The Green Wave," Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's "On the Ice," Mike Mills' "Beginners," Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica," Linda Goldstein Knowlton's "Somewhere Between" and Benjamin Murray & Alysa Nahmias' "Unfinished Spaces." Three of the films' directors (Ahadi, Maclean, Mills) will attend and participate in Q & A's, workshops, discussions and meet-and-greets. Sundance's Keri Putnam hopes that "this collection of films...
- 2/14/2012
- Thompson on Hollywood
A year after it was banned from filming, a private screening of Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey wins praise from women victims of the 1991-95 Bosnia war for illuminating their plight
"I first vomited, from the sheer force of my suffering," Enisa Salcinovic says of her initial reaction to In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie's directorial debut feature film about the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Her reaction was so visceral, she said, because the film, which she watched in an exclusive preview for survivors of concentration camps, and victims of wartime rape and mass killings, so captured the trauma she experienced. "Angelina touched our souls," she tells me several hours later, still clutching a wad of tissues tightly in her fist. Salcinovic is the president of the Women's Division of Sarajevo's Association of Concentration Camp Survivors. Of the 8,000 or so members,...
"I first vomited, from the sheer force of my suffering," Enisa Salcinovic says of her initial reaction to In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie's directorial debut feature film about the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Her reaction was so visceral, she said, because the film, which she watched in an exclusive preview for survivors of concentration camps, and victims of wartime rape and mass killings, so captured the trauma she experienced. "Angelina touched our souls," she tells me several hours later, still clutching a wad of tissues tightly in her fist. Salcinovic is the president of the Women's Division of Sarajevo's Association of Concentration Camp Survivors. Of the 8,000 or so members,...
- 12/15/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Sundance Institute announced the renewal of its program-Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative which was introduced last year. The program with travel to India apart from China, Morocco, Columbia and France this year.
Film Forward connects contemporary U.S. and international films and filmmakers with diverse global audiences and features documentary and narrative films.
The films selected for the second year of the Film Forward program are: Another Earth, by Mike Cahill; Beginners, by Mike Mills; Bran Nue Dae, by Rachel Perkins; Buck, by Cindy Meehl;Grbavica, by Jasmila Zbanic; The Green Wave, by Ali Samadi Ahadi; On The Ice, by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Senna, by Asif Kapadia; Somewhere Between, by Linda Goldstein Knowlton; and Unfinished Spaces, by Benjamin Murray and Alysa Nahmias.
Film Forward filmmakers will travel with the initiative to present their work and participate in master classes, discussion panels, Q&As and other engagements with audiences.
“Film...
Film Forward connects contemporary U.S. and international films and filmmakers with diverse global audiences and features documentary and narrative films.
The films selected for the second year of the Film Forward program are: Another Earth, by Mike Cahill; Beginners, by Mike Mills; Bran Nue Dae, by Rachel Perkins; Buck, by Cindy Meehl;Grbavica, by Jasmila Zbanic; The Green Wave, by Ali Samadi Ahadi; On The Ice, by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Senna, by Asif Kapadia; Somewhere Between, by Linda Goldstein Knowlton; and Unfinished Spaces, by Benjamin Murray and Alysa Nahmias.
Film Forward filmmakers will travel with the initiative to present their work and participate in master classes, discussion panels, Q&As and other engagements with audiences.
“Film...
- 11/11/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Associated Press) -- Angelina Jolie attended the closing ceremony of the eight-day Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia's capital Saturday and organizers presented her with a special award for bringing attention to refugees from the country's 1992-95 war.
The award, called "The Heart of Sarajevo," was handed to Jolie by festival director, Miro Purivatra, who said it was being given to her not only for her great impact in the movie industry, but also "for persisting in her active engagement in the complexities in the real world we live in."
Jolie visited Bosnia several times last year as Unhcr ambassador and drew attention to the plight of 117,000 people who haven't able to return to their homes even though the Bosnia war ended 16 years ago. Accompanied by Brad Pitt, she visited several refugee camps. The visit resulted in a U.S. government donation that provided housing for the last 15 people...
The award, called "The Heart of Sarajevo," was handed to Jolie by festival director, Miro Purivatra, who said it was being given to her not only for her great impact in the movie industry, but also "for persisting in her active engagement in the complexities in the real world we live in."
Jolie visited Bosnia several times last year as Unhcr ambassador and drew attention to the plight of 117,000 people who haven't able to return to their homes even though the Bosnia war ended 16 years ago. Accompanied by Brad Pitt, she visited several refugee camps. The visit resulted in a U.S. government donation that provided housing for the last 15 people...
- 8/1/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Cologne, Germany -- Strand Releasing has picked up U.S. rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme D'Or winner "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" from sales outfit The Match Factory.
Strand, which has handled the domestic release of several of the director's films, including "Syndromes and a Century" (2006), "Tropical Malady" (2004) and "Blissfully Yours" (2002), plans to bow "Uncle Boonmee" in Spring 2011.
The Match Factory has now closed deals for "Uncle Boonmee" for more than 40 territories, including Movienet in Germany, Bim for Italy, Pyramide for France, Karma for Spain, New Wave Films in the U.K. and Filmswelike for Canada.
Jon Gerrans of Strand and The Match Factory's Michael Weber negotiated the "Uncle Boonmee" deal. Previous Stand-Match deals include ones for Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven" (2007) and Jasmila Zbanic's Berlin Golden Bear winner "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams" (2006).
"Uncle Boonmee" follows a Thai man dying...
Strand, which has handled the domestic release of several of the director's films, including "Syndromes and a Century" (2006), "Tropical Malady" (2004) and "Blissfully Yours" (2002), plans to bow "Uncle Boonmee" in Spring 2011.
The Match Factory has now closed deals for "Uncle Boonmee" for more than 40 territories, including Movienet in Germany, Bim for Italy, Pyramide for France, Karma for Spain, New Wave Films in the U.K. and Filmswelike for Canada.
Jon Gerrans of Strand and The Match Factory's Michael Weber negotiated the "Uncle Boonmee" deal. Previous Stand-Match deals include ones for Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven" (2007) and Jasmila Zbanic's Berlin Golden Bear winner "Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams" (2006).
"Uncle Boonmee" follows a Thai man dying...
- 7/6/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mirjana Karanovic, David Thornton, Here and There Featuring David Thornton, European Film Award nominee Mirjana Karanovic (for Grbavica in 2006), Cyndi Lauper, Branislav Trifunovic, and Antone Pagan, Darko Lungulov’s Here and There was Serbia’s initial submission for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (The film was disqualified because it contained too much English-language dialogue.) Here and There follows a jaded middle-aged New Yorker who goes to Serbia to make some quick cash by marrying someone in need of U.S. immigration papers. His plan goes awry when the promised cash never arrives. Meanwhile, a young Serbian immigrant struggles to eke out a living in New York, while desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to [...]...
- 5/23/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Berlinale has unleashed the first few titles from its 2010 line-up. The recently announced titles aren’t anything to write home about but I’m sure we’ll be seeing a few more announcements (including some titles we can get excited about) over the next few weeks.
First titles after the break.
Bal (Honey) Turkey / Germany
by Semih Kaplanoglu (Süt/Milk, Yumurta/Egg, Melegin Düsüsü/Angel’s Fall)
with Bora Altas, Erdal Besikcioglu, Tülin Özen, Alev Ucarer, Ayse Altay
World premiere
Der Räuber (The Robber) Austria / Germany
by Benjamin Heisenberg (Sleeper, Max-Ophuels-Preis 2006)
with Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz
World premiere
My Name Is Khan India
by Karan Johar
with Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol
Out of competition
Na Putu (On the Path) Bosnia and Herzegovina / Austria / Germany / Croatia
by Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, Golden Bear 2006)
with Zrinka Cvitesic (Shooting Star 2010), Leon Lucev, Ermin Bravo, Mirjana Karanovic
World premiere
Shekarchi (The Hunter) Germany / Iran
by...
First titles after the break.
Bal (Honey) Turkey / Germany
by Semih Kaplanoglu (Süt/Milk, Yumurta/Egg, Melegin Düsüsü/Angel’s Fall)
with Bora Altas, Erdal Besikcioglu, Tülin Özen, Alev Ucarer, Ayse Altay
World premiere
Der Räuber (The Robber) Austria / Germany
by Benjamin Heisenberg (Sleeper, Max-Ophuels-Preis 2006)
with Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz
World premiere
My Name Is Khan India
by Karan Johar
with Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol
Out of competition
Na Putu (On the Path) Bosnia and Herzegovina / Austria / Germany / Croatia
by Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, Golden Bear 2006)
with Zrinka Cvitesic (Shooting Star 2010), Leon Lucev, Ermin Bravo, Mirjana Karanovic
World premiere
Shekarchi (The Hunter) Germany / Iran
by...
- 12/15/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Berlin -- Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" featuring Ewen McGreggor and Pierce Brosnan will have their world premieres in Berlin.
"Shutter Island" will screen out of competition but Polanski's latest will be in the running for Berlin's Golden Bear.
Berlin unveiled the first festival titles Tuesday and alongside the big names, there are several international arthouse veterans. "Honey" from Turkish auteur Semih Kaplanoglu, the final film in his "Milk," "Egg" and "Honey" trilogy, made the competition cut, as did "The Robber" from German director Benjamin Heisenberg ("Sleeper").
Bosnia helmer Jasmila Zbanic, whose debut "Grbavica" won the Golden Bear in 2006, will return to Berlin with the world premiere of her follow-up: "On the Path."
Iran's Rafi Pitts ("It's Winter") will head to Berlin with his new drama "The Hunter" and Bollywood extravaganza "My Name is Khan," from Karan Johar and...
"Shutter Island" will screen out of competition but Polanski's latest will be in the running for Berlin's Golden Bear.
Berlin unveiled the first festival titles Tuesday and alongside the big names, there are several international arthouse veterans. "Honey" from Turkish auteur Semih Kaplanoglu, the final film in his "Milk," "Egg" and "Honey" trilogy, made the competition cut, as did "The Robber" from German director Benjamin Heisenberg ("Sleeper").
Bosnia helmer Jasmila Zbanic, whose debut "Grbavica" won the Golden Bear in 2006, will return to Berlin with the world premiere of her follow-up: "On the Path."
Iran's Rafi Pitts ("It's Winter") will head to Berlin with his new drama "The Hunter" and Bollywood extravaganza "My Name is Khan," from Karan Johar and...
- 12/15/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- For this first time since its launch in 1997, next year's Shooting Stars event will not include an actor from either Germany, France or Spain.
The Shooting Stars jury on Wednesday announced the 10 young acting talents that will take part in the event, which runs Feb. 13-15 during the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21, 2010).
And, with the exception of British actor Edward Hogg ("White Lightnin") and Italy's Michele Riondino ("The Past is a Foreign Land") all of the talents come from smaller European countries.
Central and Eastern Europe is well represented, with four Shooting Stars including Poland's Agata Buzek ("Within the Whirlwind"), Czech actor Krystof Hadadek ("Three Seasons in Hell"), Romanian actor Dragos Bucur ("The Way Back) and Croatia's Zrinka Cvitesic, who stars in "Nat putu" the new film from Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic ("Esma's Secret -- Grbavica") which is widely expected to compete in Berlin next year.
The Shooting Stars jury on Wednesday announced the 10 young acting talents that will take part in the event, which runs Feb. 13-15 during the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21, 2010).
And, with the exception of British actor Edward Hogg ("White Lightnin") and Italy's Michele Riondino ("The Past is a Foreign Land") all of the talents come from smaller European countries.
Central and Eastern Europe is well represented, with four Shooting Stars including Poland's Agata Buzek ("Within the Whirlwind"), Czech actor Krystof Hadadek ("Three Seasons in Hell"), Romanian actor Dragos Bucur ("The Way Back) and Croatia's Zrinka Cvitesic, who stars in "Nat putu" the new film from Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic ("Esma's Secret -- Grbavica") which is widely expected to compete in Berlin next year.
- 12/2/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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