The European Film Awards, Europe’s biggest awards celebration, revealed its major winners during a mostly virtual ceremony on Saturday, December 11. The night was originally slated for an in-person event, but concerns about the Omicron variant moved festivities online. The powerful Bosnian wartime drama “Quo Vadis, Aida?” took home the top prize for Best Film, with its director Jasmila Žbanić and lead actress Jasna Đuričić also winning Best Director and Actress respectively. “Flee,” from Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen, also won in two categories — Documentary and Animated Feature.
The awards ceremony was hosted by German actor Annabelle Mandeng. The hybrid event saw nominees, presenters, and winners participating in a mixture of live, virtual, and pre-recorded formats.
“Quo Vadis, Aida” tells the story of the Srebrenica genocide, during which Serbian troops sent 8,372 Bosniak men and boys to their deaths in July 1995. The powerful story is told through the eyes of Aida,...
The awards ceremony was hosted by German actor Annabelle Mandeng. The hybrid event saw nominees, presenters, and winners participating in a mixture of live, virtual, and pre-recorded formats.
“Quo Vadis, Aida” tells the story of the Srebrenica genocide, during which Serbian troops sent 8,372 Bosniak men and boys to their deaths in July 1995. The powerful story is told through the eyes of Aida,...
- 12/11/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Bosnian war drama also wins best director and best actress.
Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? won three prizes including best film at this year’s European Film Awards, which went ahead as a hybrid event in Berlin tonight (Dec 11).
Žbanić was also named best director by the European Film Academy’s (Efa) 4,200-strong membership, whilst the film’s star Jasna Đuričić won best actress.
In her acceptance speech, Žbanić dedicated her award to “the women of Srebrenica and mothers who taught us how to turn destruction into love. I hope it will encourage more female solidarity, female stories, female perspective in film,...
Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? won three prizes including best film at this year’s European Film Awards, which went ahead as a hybrid event in Berlin tonight (Dec 11).
Žbanić was also named best director by the European Film Academy’s (Efa) 4,200-strong membership, whilst the film’s star Jasna Đuričić won best actress.
In her acceptance speech, Žbanić dedicated her award to “the women of Srebrenica and mothers who taught us how to turn destruction into love. I hope it will encourage more female solidarity, female stories, female perspective in film,...
- 12/11/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The film will receive the awards for best cinematography and best original score at the ceremony in December.
Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom has won two prizes at the European Film Awards, among the eight winners that have been unveiled ahead of the ceremony on December 11.
An eight-member jury met in Berlin to choose the winners in the categories of cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up and hair, original score, sound and visual effects. All were chosen from the feature film selection of 53 films.
The winners will be honoured at the ceremony in Berlin on December 11.
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Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom has won two prizes at the European Film Awards, among the eight winners that have been unveiled ahead of the ceremony on December 11.
An eight-member jury met in Berlin to choose the winners in the categories of cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up and hair, original score, sound and visual effects. All were chosen from the feature film selection of 53 films.
The winners will be honoured at the ceremony in Berlin on December 11.
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- 11/17/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason star in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s A24 drama “Lamb” as a couple, Maria and Ingvar, who live on a remote farm in Iceland and discover that one of their sheep has given birth to a lamb that is half human. The two decide to raise the half-lamb half-human creature as their own child. Their life is disrupted when Ingvar’s brother Pétur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) unexpectedly shows up at their door.
I caught up with Rapace for this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast.
When people say to you, “What is ‘Lamb’ about?” what do you tell them?
It’s a love story. It’s the story about motherhood, grief, and how far you’ll go to heal and to protect your child, sort of. And what I love about the film is it has so many layers. People see different stories in it. And for me,...
I caught up with Rapace for this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast.
When people say to you, “What is ‘Lamb’ about?” what do you tell them?
It’s a love story. It’s the story about motherhood, grief, and how far you’ll go to heal and to protect your child, sort of. And what I love about the film is it has so many layers. People see different stories in it. And for me,...
- 10/15/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales company has boarded Finnish-Iranian Hamy Ramezan’s debut feature “Any Day Now,” to be shown as a work in progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market, Which Runs Jan 30.-Feb 2.
Ramezan’s drama, produced by Aamu Film Company (“The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki”), already enjoys a strong buzz from earlier industry pitch events such as Helsinki’s Finnish Film Affair where the film was handed the Best Project Award.
The realistic drama is inspired by the director’s own experience as a refugee who fled the Iran-Iraq conflict with his family and landed in Finland in 1990.
Co-written by Ramezan and Antti Rautava, the story follows 13-year-old Ramin Mehdipour, of Iranian origin, who is enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. A few weeks before the new school year, his family gets the news that the Finnish Immigration Service has...
Ramezan’s drama, produced by Aamu Film Company (“The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki”), already enjoys a strong buzz from earlier industry pitch events such as Helsinki’s Finnish Film Affair where the film was handed the Best Project Award.
The realistic drama is inspired by the director’s own experience as a refugee who fled the Iran-Iraq conflict with his family and landed in Finland in 1990.
Co-written by Ramezan and Antti Rautava, the story follows 13-year-old Ramin Mehdipour, of Iranian origin, who is enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. A few weeks before the new school year, his family gets the news that the Finnish Immigration Service has...
- 1/17/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
A third works in progress category, a new masterclass strand and an increased focus on TV among additions.
The industry activities of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival have been steadily expanding in recent years with more sessions and an increase in international guests headed to the Estonian capital for the 2019 edition which starts today, November 25.
Remaining relatively small has proven one of Tallinn’s greatest advantages, according to Marge Liiske, managing director of Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event.
“Even French producers say it’s easier for them to approach French sales agents here than it is in Cannes,” she says.
The industry activities of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival have been steadily expanding in recent years with more sessions and an increase in international guests headed to the Estonian capital for the 2019 edition which starts today, November 25.
Remaining relatively small has proven one of Tallinn’s greatest advantages, according to Marge Liiske, managing director of Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event.
“Even French producers say it’s easier for them to approach French sales agents here than it is in Cannes,” she says.
- 11/25/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Noomi Rapace has boarded Valdimar Jóhannsson’s supernatural drama “Lamb,” which New Europe Film Sales is selling at Berlin’s European Film Market.
The pic marks Rapace’s return to Scandinavian moviemaking following Hollywood movies like Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus,” with Michael Fassbender, and David Ayer’s “Bright,” alongside Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.
“Lamb” is the story of a childless couple, María (Rapace) and Ingvar, who are sheep farmers in Iceland. On Christmas Eve they find a newborn who is half human, half sheep. Longing for a child of their own they decide to keep the lamb-child and raise it as their own regardless of the consequences.
Rapace said: “A script like this is rare and I directly felt that I had to do it. I’ve never done anything like this before...
The pic marks Rapace’s return to Scandinavian moviemaking following Hollywood movies like Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus,” with Michael Fassbender, and David Ayer’s “Bright,” alongside Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.
“Lamb” is the story of a childless couple, María (Rapace) and Ingvar, who are sheep farmers in Iceland. On Christmas Eve they find a newborn who is half human, half sheep. Longing for a child of their own they decide to keep the lamb-child and raise it as their own regardless of the consequences.
Rapace said: “A script like this is rare and I directly felt that I had to do it. I’ve never done anything like this before...
- 2/9/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners include Goliath and Reconstructing Utøya.
Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns) was the big winner at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards, which were announced last night (Jan 29) in Stockholm.
The film, which also won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes last year, scooped six awards in total, including best film and best actress for Eva Melander.
Peter Grönlund’s Goliath won four awards including best actor for Joakim Sällquist and best screenplay.
Reconstructing Utøya won best director for Carl Javér and best Documentary.
Full list of winners
Best Film
Border (Gräns)
Best Director
Carl Javér...
Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns) was the big winner at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards, which were announced last night (Jan 29) in Stockholm.
The film, which also won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes last year, scooped six awards in total, including best film and best actress for Eva Melander.
Peter Grönlund’s Goliath won four awards including best actor for Joakim Sällquist and best screenplay.
Reconstructing Utøya won best director for Carl Javér and best Documentary.
Full list of winners
Best Film
Border (Gräns)
Best Director
Carl Javér...
- 1/29/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” has been named the best European film of 2018 at the European Film Awards, which were handed out on Saturday in Seville, Spain.
The decade-spanning drama, which was inspired by the stormy relationship between Pawlikowski’s parents, also won awards for its director, screenplay, lead actress (Joanna Kulig) and editor.
Marcello Fonte won the best-actor award for “Dogman,” which also took awards for its costume design and hair and makeup.
Also Read: 'Cold War' Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” was named the best European comedy, while “Bergman – A Year in a Life” won for documentary, and “Another Day of Life” won for animated film.
Four of the Best European Film Award nominees — “Border,” “Cold War,” “Dogman” and “Girl” — are the foreign-language Oscar entries from Sweden, Poland, Italy and Belgium, respectively. The fifth,...
The decade-spanning drama, which was inspired by the stormy relationship between Pawlikowski’s parents, also won awards for its director, screenplay, lead actress (Joanna Kulig) and editor.
Marcello Fonte won the best-actor award for “Dogman,” which also took awards for its costume design and hair and makeup.
Also Read: 'Cold War' Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” was named the best European comedy, while “Bergman – A Year in a Life” won for documentary, and “Another Day of Life” won for animated film.
Four of the Best European Film Award nominees — “Border,” “Cold War,” “Dogman” and “Girl” — are the foreign-language Oscar entries from Sweden, Poland, Italy and Belgium, respectively. The fifth,...
- 12/15/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Winners chosen by an eight-member jury in Berlin.
The European Film Academy has announced the winners of eight craft prizes for this year’s European Film Awards, with Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and Matteo Garrone’s Dogman among the represented films.
An eight-member jury met in Berlin to decide the winners in the following categories: cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, hair and make-up, composer, sound design and visual effects.
Jarosław Kamiński receives the editing prize for Cold War, with the jury noting, “this poetic way of editing supports and enhances the sensuality of the story.”
For Dogman, Massimo Cantini Parrini...
The European Film Academy has announced the winners of eight craft prizes for this year’s European Film Awards, with Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and Matteo Garrone’s Dogman among the represented films.
An eight-member jury met in Berlin to decide the winners in the following categories: cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, hair and make-up, composer, sound design and visual effects.
Jarosław Kamiński receives the editing prize for Cold War, with the jury noting, “this poetic way of editing supports and enhances the sensuality of the story.”
For Dogman, Massimo Cantini Parrini...
- 11/15/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy has revealed eight prize winners ahead of the 31st European Film Awards (December 15) in Seville, including Cold War, U – July 22 and Dogman. Scroll down for the list of winners.
An eight-member jury convened in Berlin to decide on the winners in the categories for cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, hair & make-up, composer, sound design and, for the first time, visual effects. The members of the jury were: Luca Bigazzi, cinematographer, Italy; Dasha Danilova, editor, Russia; Dadi Einarsson, visual effects supervisor, Iceland; Mattias Eklund, sound designer, Sweden; Marcelle Genovese, hair & make-up artist, Malta; Malina Ionescu, costume designer, Romania; Monica Rottmeyer, production designer, Switzerland; and Christopher Slaski, composer, UK.
The eight winners are:
European Cinematographer 2018 – Prix Carlo Di Palma:
Martin Otterbeck for U – July 22 (UTØYA 22. Juli)
European Editor 2018:
Jarosław Kamiński for Cold War (Zimna Wojna)
European Production Designer 2018:
Andrey Ponkratov for The Summer (Leto)
European...
An eight-member jury convened in Berlin to decide on the winners in the categories for cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, hair & make-up, composer, sound design and, for the first time, visual effects. The members of the jury were: Luca Bigazzi, cinematographer, Italy; Dasha Danilova, editor, Russia; Dadi Einarsson, visual effects supervisor, Iceland; Mattias Eklund, sound designer, Sweden; Marcelle Genovese, hair & make-up artist, Malta; Malina Ionescu, costume designer, Romania; Monica Rottmeyer, production designer, Switzerland; and Christopher Slaski, composer, UK.
The eight winners are:
European Cinematographer 2018 – Prix Carlo Di Palma:
Martin Otterbeck for U – July 22 (UTØYA 22. Juli)
European Editor 2018:
Jarosław Kamiński for Cold War (Zimna Wojna)
European Production Designer 2018:
Andrey Ponkratov for The Summer (Leto)
European...
- 11/15/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Other winners included Parents; The Commune; In The Blood and The Neon Demon.Scroll down for full list of winners
The winners of the Danish film academy’s 2017 Robert awards were announced on Sunday (5 February).
Jesper W. Nielsen’s orphanage drama The Day Will Come triumphed on the night, picking up six prizes including best film, best original screenplay for Søren Sveistrup and best supporting actor and actress for Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl.
Christian Tafdrup won best director for his debut film Parents with star Søren Malling also picking up best actor.
Best actress went to Trine Dyrholm, who won her ninth Robert for The Commune. Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm also won best adapted screenplay for the film.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon dominated the technical categories, winning 5 Roberts including best cinematography, sound editing and score.
The Revenant won best American film, with Son Of Saul winning best foreign film.
The annual...
The winners of the Danish film academy’s 2017 Robert awards were announced on Sunday (5 February).
Jesper W. Nielsen’s orphanage drama The Day Will Come triumphed on the night, picking up six prizes including best film, best original screenplay for Søren Sveistrup and best supporting actor and actress for Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl.
Christian Tafdrup won best director for his debut film Parents with star Søren Malling also picking up best actor.
Best actress went to Trine Dyrholm, who won her ninth Robert for The Commune. Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm also won best adapted screenplay for the film.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon dominated the technical categories, winning 5 Roberts including best cinematography, sound editing and score.
The Revenant won best American film, with Son Of Saul winning best foreign film.
The annual...
- 2/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
The Copenhagen Film Fund is in talks for another project with Working Title, after they recently collaborated on The Danish Girl by Tom Hooper.
“It was a working and learning experience,” says Copenhagen Film Fund CEO Thomas Gammeltoft of The Danish Girl with Working TItle and Universal. “We want to collaborate in a way that the money ends up on screen. We are learning how we can make this perfect experience for all of us.”
The Danish Girl, set for release in November, stars Eddie Redmayne in his first role after his Oscar win, playing pioneering transgender artist Einar Wegener.
The Fund is currently doing a “benchmark analysis” of costs and plans for productions across the Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany and the Czech Republic and will publish the results of the study in August.
From 2016 to 2018, the Fund’s coffers could double from Euros 5m every two years to Euros 5m every year. The Fund covers...
“It was a working and learning experience,” says Copenhagen Film Fund CEO Thomas Gammeltoft of The Danish Girl with Working TItle and Universal. “We want to collaborate in a way that the money ends up on screen. We are learning how we can make this perfect experience for all of us.”
The Danish Girl, set for release in November, stars Eddie Redmayne in his first role after his Oscar win, playing pioneering transgender artist Einar Wegener.
The Fund is currently doing a “benchmark analysis” of costs and plans for productions across the Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany and the Czech Republic and will publish the results of the study in August.
From 2016 to 2018, the Fund’s coffers could double from Euros 5m every two years to Euros 5m every year. The Fund covers...
- 5/20/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Controversial director makes rare appearance and speeches at Danish film awards.
Lars von Trier has once more broken his “vow of silence” to accept an armful of prizes at Denmark’s Robert awards.
The controversial Danish filmmaker’s Nymphomaniac: Director’s Cut scooped eight trophies including best feature and best director at the Danish Film Academy’s awards last night (Feb 1) – and von Trier was in attendance at the ceremony for the first time.
Accepting the Robert for best feature, von Trier said: “From Peter Aalbæk Jensen (his producing partner at Zentropa Entertainments), I know that some of the Robert awards are won by five votes, so I would like to thank those five persons in the auditorium. Thank you very much.”
The director of Antichrist and Dancer in the Dark has rarely spoken in public after being expelled from the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, where he brought Melancholia, after publicly joking that he was a Nazi...
Lars von Trier has once more broken his “vow of silence” to accept an armful of prizes at Denmark’s Robert awards.
The controversial Danish filmmaker’s Nymphomaniac: Director’s Cut scooped eight trophies including best feature and best director at the Danish Film Academy’s awards last night (Feb 1) – and von Trier was in attendance at the ceremony for the first time.
Accepting the Robert for best feature, von Trier said: “From Peter Aalbæk Jensen (his producing partner at Zentropa Entertainments), I know that some of the Robert awards are won by five votes, so I would like to thank those five persons in the auditorium. Thank you very much.”
The director of Antichrist and Dancer in the Dark has rarely spoken in public after being expelled from the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, where he brought Melancholia, after publicly joking that he was a Nazi...
- 2/2/2015
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen) michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – One of the most reliable scenarios in the horror movie playbook is the satanic possession of a human character. “Antichrist” is about a woman who isn’t possessed, but is nevertheless absolutely convinced that she is an instrument of the devil. This is a much scarier premise, since the greatest horrors externalized in the film are spawned entirely from the woman’s unstable psyche, deranged by guilt.
It’s a sad day in film criticism when a daring and exhilarating work of art like Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” is widely labeled as a “joke” directed by a “fraud.” Say what you will about von Trier, but he is nothing if not sincere. Using this latest effort as a catalyst to free him from paralyzing depression, von Trier delved into his own lifelong struggles with anxiety, exorcising his psychological demons onscreen. While the film is certainly not devoid of von Trier’s irony-laced humor,...
It’s a sad day in film criticism when a daring and exhilarating work of art like Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” is widely labeled as a “joke” directed by a “fraud.” Say what you will about von Trier, but he is nothing if not sincere. Using this latest effort as a catalyst to free him from paralyzing depression, von Trier delved into his own lifelong struggles with anxiety, exorcising his psychological demons onscreen. While the film is certainly not devoid of von Trier’s irony-laced humor,...
- 11/10/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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