There is no doubt the Glasgow Film Festival is a major player on the festival scene and the recent launch of this year’s programme only proves this.
The 15th annual festival kicks off on February 20th and will be the platform for the UK premiere of a number of films including Fighting With My Family, The Vanishing and Emilio Estevez’s The Public.
Those attending the festival include director of Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham, and Sir Michael Palin for the UK premiere of Final Ascent.
There will also be a special live Empire podcast where Palin will discuss his legendary career.
A diverse programme sees this year’s Country Focus shining a light on Belgian cinema including Lukas Dhont’s extraordinary, award-winning Girl. From this strand, Alone at My Wedding is shortlisted to compete in the Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award.
In line with the tradition of special events,...
The 15th annual festival kicks off on February 20th and will be the platform for the UK premiere of a number of films including Fighting With My Family, The Vanishing and Emilio Estevez’s The Public.
Those attending the festival include director of Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham, and Sir Michael Palin for the UK premiere of Final Ascent.
There will also be a special live Empire podcast where Palin will discuss his legendary career.
A diverse programme sees this year’s Country Focus shining a light on Belgian cinema including Lukas Dhont’s extraordinary, award-winning Girl. From this strand, Alone at My Wedding is shortlisted to compete in the Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award.
In line with the tradition of special events,...
- 1/25/2019
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In 2016, a xenomorph got loose at a Glasgow Film Festival event. Could this nightmare happen again? Photo: Stuart Crawford
The Glasgow Film Festival has something of a reputation for thrills and spills, and 2019 looks set to be no exception, with the first big events announced today. Brave film fans will have the opportunity to run around a warehouse with laser guns trying to escape a xenomorph before the survivors settle down with themed cocktails to enjoy the 40th anniversary restoration print of Alien. There will also be a 20th anniversary screening of The Matrix with immersive installations and an exclusive party deep in the caverns of Argyle Street Arches.
Also announced today is a festival strand dedicated to contemporary Belgian cinema, which will include Lucas Dhont's Girl, Marta Bergman's Alone At My Wedding and more. A strand dedicated to the great American cinema of 1969 will feature Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,...
The Glasgow Film Festival has something of a reputation for thrills and spills, and 2019 looks set to be no exception, with the first big events announced today. Brave film fans will have the opportunity to run around a warehouse with laser guns trying to escape a xenomorph before the survivors settle down with themed cocktails to enjoy the 40th anniversary restoration print of Alien. There will also be a 20th anniversary screening of The Matrix with immersive installations and an exclusive party deep in the caverns of Argyle Street Arches.
Also announced today is a festival strand dedicated to contemporary Belgian cinema, which will include Lucas Dhont's Girl, Marta Bergman's Alone At My Wedding and more. A strand dedicated to the great American cinema of 1969 will feature Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,...
- 11/20/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A Lonely Flower Dress: Bergman Delivers Raw, Touching Romani Emancipation Drama
Marta Bergman’s feature debut depicts the struggle of Pamela (Alina Șerban), a young Romani woman from Romania who seeks refuge in a Belgian man’s arms hoping to achieve some financial as well as emotional security. Adopting unpolished feminism as a stance, Alone at My Wedding explores the emotions in the social outskirts of society, namely in the middle of the Roma community.
Pamela has a troublesome background, that of a single mother, orphan, unemployed and uneducated young woman who lives her day-by-day life under pressure. The shattered house she inhabits hosts a matriarchal microcosmos where her grandmother, daughter, plus herself, all act out specific dynamics of tenderness and intimacy – little fights, witty arguments about men, close physical contact, beauty rituals adapted to the social context, nudity, motherhood etc.…...
Marta Bergman’s feature debut depicts the struggle of Pamela (Alina Șerban), a young Romani woman from Romania who seeks refuge in a Belgian man’s arms hoping to achieve some financial as well as emotional security. Adopting unpolished feminism as a stance, Alone at My Wedding explores the emotions in the social outskirts of society, namely in the middle of the Roma community.
Pamela has a troublesome background, that of a single mother, orphan, unemployed and uneducated young woman who lives her day-by-day life under pressure. The shattered house she inhabits hosts a matriarchal microcosmos where her grandmother, daughter, plus herself, all act out specific dynamics of tenderness and intimacy – little fights, witty arguments about men, close physical contact, beauty rituals adapted to the social context, nudity, motherhood etc.…...
- 10/22/2018
- by Călin Boto
- IONCINEMA.com
Rosa Attab
Producer, Why Not Productions
Although she likes to keep a low profile, Attab is a key producer at Parisian outfit Why Not Prods., where she works with top filmmakers such as Cristian Mungiu, Arnaud Desplechin and Jacques Audiard, whose latest film “The Sisters Brothers” played at Venice and will screen next at Toronto. Attab’s first experience as a full-on producer was on Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here,” which world premiered in competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and won prizes for actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and screenplay. Attab is developing an English-language feature with BAFTA-nominated helmer Yann Demange, who recently directed “White Boy Rick,” which unspooled at Telluride, and the feature debut of actor Samir Guesmi (“The Returned”).
Stephanie Bermann (pictured center)
Co-Founder, Domino Films
Bermann founded Domino Films with Alexis Dulguerian six years ago after heading acquisitions at leading independent distribution company Mars Films for eight years.
Producer, Why Not Productions
Although she likes to keep a low profile, Attab is a key producer at Parisian outfit Why Not Prods., where she works with top filmmakers such as Cristian Mungiu, Arnaud Desplechin and Jacques Audiard, whose latest film “The Sisters Brothers” played at Venice and will screen next at Toronto. Attab’s first experience as a full-on producer was on Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here,” which world premiered in competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and won prizes for actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and screenplay. Attab is developing an English-language feature with BAFTA-nominated helmer Yann Demange, who recently directed “White Boy Rick,” which unspooled at Telluride, and the feature debut of actor Samir Guesmi (“The Returned”).
Stephanie Bermann (pictured center)
Co-Founder, Domino Films
Bermann founded Domino Films with Alexis Dulguerian six years ago after heading acquisitions at leading independent distribution company Mars Films for eight years.
- 9/13/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Alina Serban and Rebecca Anghel in Alone At My Wedding. Marta Bergman: 'I wanted to make an emotional film. Emotions were really the driving theme while writing it' Photo: Jonathan Ricquebourg Bucharest-born director Marta Bergman has made a number of documentaries focusing on Romania and, more specifically, on Roma communities. Now, she has made the move to narrative films with her fiction debut Alone At My Wedding (Seule à Mon Marriage), which screened in the Acid sidebar at Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of Pamela (theatre actress Alina Serban making a strong screen debut), a young single mum from the Roma community who hopes an internet love match with Belgian Bruno (Tom Vermeir) will lead to a better life for her and her toddler daughter Baby (Rebecca Anghel).
Bergman says that she doesn’t see a big difference between documentary and feature films.
“I think they are both connected,...
Bergman says that she doesn’t see a big difference between documentary and feature films.
“I think they are both connected,...
- 5/25/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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