For the first time ever, the gathering will screen dozens of titles in its selection online. It would be hard to find a festival more severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic than the Sofia International Film Festival, the 24th edition of which was cancelled just three days before it was supposed to start in March. But the gathering is now back on track, favouring as many as three different strands in order to make the world's newest films available to its audience. The festival is splitting into two physical editions, Siff Summer and Siff Autumn. The first will start on 25 June with the Bulgarian premiere of Bong Joon-hoo's Parasite and will end on 6 July with a screening of Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens' The Barefoot Emperor, a Bulgarian minority co-production. Siff Autumn will take place in September and October, with dates to be announced soon. For the first...
The erstwhile King of Belgium — erstwhile only because his country no longer exists — unexpectedly becomes the title character of the political dramedy The Barefoot Emperor. What's more, he is asked to rule over all of Europe, which has become a patchwork of nationalistic nation states. Why the states have decimated European Parliament only to then prop up a single leader and crown him Emperor, of all possible titles, is but one of the mysteries of this coolly elegant feature, which is a direct sequel to the mockumentary road trip and festival hit King of the Belgians.
Less unruly ...
Less unruly ...
- 9/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The erstwhile King of Belgium — erstwhile only because his country no longer exists — unexpectedly becomes the title character of the political dramedy The Barefoot Emperor. What's more, he is asked to rule over all of Europe, which has become a patchwork of nationalistic nation states. Why the states have decimated European Parliament only to then prop up a single leader and crown him Emperor, of all possible titles, is but one of the mysteries of this coolly elegant feature, which is a direct sequel to the mockumentary road trip and festival hit King of the Belgians.
Less unruly ...
Less unruly ...
- 9/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Conference speakers to include Rikke Ennis, Philip Knatchbull and Walter Iuzzolino.
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Barefoot and Stagnant: Woodworth & Brosens Continue Their Belgian Political Satire
While one doesn’t necessarily have to be readily familiar with the 2016 film King of the Belgians from directing duo Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens, a recent viewing might assist with enjoying the flavor, intention and orientation of their fifth feature, The Barefoot Emperor, which is for all intents and purposes, a sequel (or perhaps continuation is a better word). The former film featured the fictional king of Belgium, Nicholas III, or rather disparagingly referred to as “Nicholas the Silent,” a somewhat estranged and ineffectual ruler who gets stuck leaving Istanbul during a detrimental passage back home to address the rebellion of the Wallonia faction in his empire—instead he’s grounded by a cosmic storm and forced to endure a comical road trip through the Balkans.…...
While one doesn’t necessarily have to be readily familiar with the 2016 film King of the Belgians from directing duo Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens, a recent viewing might assist with enjoying the flavor, intention and orientation of their fifth feature, The Barefoot Emperor, which is for all intents and purposes, a sequel (or perhaps continuation is a better word). The former film featured the fictional king of Belgium, Nicholas III, or rather disparagingly referred to as “Nicholas the Silent,” a somewhat estranged and ineffectual ruler who gets stuck leaving Istanbul during a detrimental passage back home to address the rebellion of the Wallonia faction in his empire—instead he’s grounded by a cosmic storm and forced to endure a comical road trip through the Balkans.…...
- 9/5/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The festival also adds more Gala and Special Presentations to its line-up, and announced its Masters and Wavelengths sections. The 44th Toronto International Film Festival (5-15 September) has announced the selection of its Contemporary World Cinema section, this year hailing from 48 countries. The section will open with Atiq Rahimi’s third feature Our Lady of the Nile and will also include the world premieres of The Barefoot Emperor by Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens (King of the Belgians), Maria’s Paradise by Zaida Bergroth (Miami), Nobadi by Karl Markovics (Superworld), and Resin by Daniel Joseph Borgman. Furthermore, two more titles were added to the Gala selection and 16 to Special Presentations, including the world premieres of Jason Lei Howden‘s Guns Akimbo and Gregor Jordan‘s Dirt Music, rounding up the programmes for a total of 20 and 55 films respectively. On the other hand, eleven films by acclaimed and established auteurs were.
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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