The Senegalese director’s new endeavour is being produced by Luxembourg’s a_BAHN and Senegal’s Les Films du Crocodile. In the community of Saint Louis in Senegal, the installation of a Chinese merchant is causing a stir. Souleymane, a young Senegalese employed in the store, tries to quiet the situation, which is becoming increasingly explosive as red dust invades the neighbourhood, exacerbating resentments and unspoken accusations. This is the story of Moussa Touré’s new film, a dramedy entitled Red Dust, penned in collaboration with Stéphan Roelants, producer and founder of animation studio Mélusine Productions. Touré directed his debut feature back in 1991, Toubab Bi, and is best known for his drama The Pirogue (2012), which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival. Speaking about his new endeavour, the Senegalese filmmaker said: “Red Dust is the result of two years of meetings, reflections and research. My first encounter.
‘You Will Die at Twenty’, ‘Talking About Trees’ and ‘Exam’ Win Golden Stars, and ‘Cinema for Humanity’ Award Goes to Ladj Ly’s Les MisérablesEl Gouna Film Festival concluded its third edition with a closing ceremony where the award-winning films were announced, with total award value at Us$224,000.
The winners were as follows.
Watch the Awards on Euronews here.
Feature Narrative Competition
El Gouna Golden Star for Narrative Film: You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala. See my review.
El Gouna Silver Star for Narrative Film: Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa
El Gouna Bronze Star for Narrative Film: Adam by Maryam Touzani. See my review.
El Gouna Star for the Best Arab Narrative Film: Papicha by Mounia Meddour
El Gouna Star for the Best Actor: Bartosz Bielenia, Corpus Christi
El Gouna Star for the Best Actress: Hend Sabry, Noura’s Dream
The gritty, Tunisian film tells the story...
The winners were as follows.
Watch the Awards on Euronews here.
Feature Narrative Competition
El Gouna Golden Star for Narrative Film: You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala. See my review.
El Gouna Silver Star for Narrative Film: Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa
El Gouna Bronze Star for Narrative Film: Adam by Maryam Touzani. See my review.
El Gouna Star for the Best Arab Narrative Film: Papicha by Mounia Meddour
El Gouna Star for the Best Actor: Bartosz Bielenia, Corpus Christi
El Gouna Star for the Best Actress: Hend Sabry, Noura’s Dream
The gritty, Tunisian film tells the story...
- 10/5/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The country’s film agency will back 20 new audiovisual projects, giving out a total of €8,096,109 in production and development grants. Following the selection committee’s decision-making session held from 20-24 July, Film Fund Luxembourg has announced the recipients of its latest slate of funding, who will be given a total of €8,096,109 in production and development grants. On this occasion, the committee evaluated 34 applications in total, with the requested amount of assistance totalling over €18.1 million. The agency has granted development support to ten new projects – specifically, six fiction films, one documentary, two animated series and one animated feature. In detail, the six feature-length fiction projects awarded are Stéphan Roelants and Moussa Touré’s Poussière rouge, Félix Koch’s Vakanz Doheem, Adolf El Assal’s Hooped, Laura Schroeder’s Maret,...
Eric Névé, a prominent French producer whose credits include Ziad Doueiri’s Oscar-nominated “The Insult,” has died. Névé, 57, was the founder of the Paris-based production banner La Chauve-Souris and co-founder of the international sales company Indie Sales and its sister outfit Indie Prod. He died Sunday.
Through La Chauve-Souris, which he launched in 1995, Névé produced several popular and daring films from a mix of established and emerging directors, notably Jan Kounen’s “Doberman,” Jean-Paul Salomé’s “Les femmes de l’ombre,” Romain Gavras’ “Notre jour viendra,” Moussa Touré’s “La Pirogue” and Daouda Coulibaly’s “Wùlu.”
Névé was well-known for his contribution to the flourishing of new talents in West Africa, in particular Senegal, through his other production company, Astou Films.
In 2013, Névé launched the banner Indie Sales with former TF1 International executive Nicolas Eschbach. The sales and co-production company boasts a library of about 60 movies, among which are Jean-Pierre Améris’s “Marie Heurtin,...
Through La Chauve-Souris, which he launched in 1995, Névé produced several popular and daring films from a mix of established and emerging directors, notably Jan Kounen’s “Doberman,” Jean-Paul Salomé’s “Les femmes de l’ombre,” Romain Gavras’ “Notre jour viendra,” Moussa Touré’s “La Pirogue” and Daouda Coulibaly’s “Wùlu.”
Névé was well-known for his contribution to the flourishing of new talents in West Africa, in particular Senegal, through his other production company, Astou Films.
In 2013, Névé launched the banner Indie Sales with former TF1 International executive Nicolas Eschbach. The sales and co-production company boasts a library of about 60 movies, among which are Jean-Pierre Améris’s “Marie Heurtin,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Producer credits included Dobermann, La Pirogue, Fast Convoy, and Suburra.
French producer Eric Névé, whose varied credits included Jan Kounen’s Dobermann, Cannes Un Certain Regard title La Pirogue, and Italian organised crime thriller Suburra, has died at the age of 57.
Paris-based international sales company Indie Sales, which Névé co-founded with Nicolas Eschbach in 2013, put out a statement on Tuesday (23) announcing the producer’s sudden and unexpected death on July 21.
Having graduated in business finance from France’s Sciences Po and Paris-Dauphine universities, Névé got into cinema working for historic film company Ugc, state broadcaster film arm France 3 Cinéma,...
French producer Eric Névé, whose varied credits included Jan Kounen’s Dobermann, Cannes Un Certain Regard title La Pirogue, and Italian organised crime thriller Suburra, has died at the age of 57.
Paris-based international sales company Indie Sales, which Névé co-founded with Nicolas Eschbach in 2013, put out a statement on Tuesday (23) announcing the producer’s sudden and unexpected death on July 21.
Having graduated in business finance from France’s Sciences Po and Paris-Dauphine universities, Névé got into cinema working for historic film company Ugc, state broadcaster film arm France 3 Cinéma,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Somewhere along the stretch of Senegalese coastline where Mati Diop’s feature-length directorial debut Atlantics takes place, a futuristic tower stands tall and spectral above the ocean–a sinister crossbreed between a stalagmite and a lighthouse, its lights thrusting red and warm blobs into the night. It’s a fictional place in a story of magical, mysterious elements–a love story that crisscrosses between social commentaries and ghastly apparitions, addressing the global migrant crisis through a language of disquieting and stunning reveries.
A few hundred meters below the skyscraper’s summit, hordes of the Senegalese laborers who’ve helped to build it fight for three months of overdue salary. One of them is Suleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet under the blistering sun. But Atlantics is not about him, and just when Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner seems to embark on a tale of...
A few hundred meters below the skyscraper’s summit, hordes of the Senegalese laborers who’ve helped to build it fight for three months of overdue salary. One of them is Suleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet under the blistering sun. But Atlantics is not about him, and just when Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner seems to embark on a tale of...
- 6/11/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The capricious ocean is a recurrent, mesmerizing image in Mati Diop’s feature debut “Atlantics,” but given its perfidious connotations for the people of Senegal, who’ve lost so many souls to its depths, the director ensures the rolling waves remain hypnotic rather than beautiful. It’s the right decision for this romantic and melancholy film, more apt than some of the flawed narrative choices that frustrate though don’t compromise the atmosphere of loss and female solidarity in the story of a young woman whose love has died at sea. Part social commentary, part ghost tale, “Atlantics” will get a major boost from its Cannes competition slot and could see strong international sales.
While better known as an actress, Diop’s been steadily making a mark for herself as a director with shorts and the poetic medium-length “A Thousand Suns,” most of which deal with the complex relationship Senegalese...
While better known as an actress, Diop’s been steadily making a mark for herself as a director with shorts and the poetic medium-length “A Thousand Suns,” most of which deal with the complex relationship Senegalese...
- 5/16/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Mati Diop, niece of the late, great Senegalese cinema pioneer Djibril Diop Mambéty — director of African cinema classics “Touki Bouki” and “Hyènes” — makes her feature film directorial debut with “Atlantiques,” which will world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. She is the first black woman with a film in the 72-year-old festival’s Competition section, and stands to be one of the biggest breakouts at Cannes this year.
Previously titled “Fire Next Time” (although not based on James Baldwin’s famous essay collection of the same name), the film is in rare company. Currently, Diop and Malian filmmaker Ladj Ly are the only filmmakers of African descent represented in competition at Cannes this year.
Diop is the daughter of Senegalese jazz musician Wasis Diop, but cinephiles will likely be more familiar with her filmmaker uncle. She first received attention from international critics and cinema enthusiasts for her work as an...
Previously titled “Fire Next Time” (although not based on James Baldwin’s famous essay collection of the same name), the film is in rare company. Currently, Diop and Malian filmmaker Ladj Ly are the only filmmakers of African descent represented in competition at Cannes this year.
Diop is the daughter of Senegalese jazz musician Wasis Diop, but cinephiles will likely be more familiar with her filmmaker uncle. She first received attention from international critics and cinema enthusiasts for her work as an...
- 4/18/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
In today's roundup: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver at 40, a personal history of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket, an appreciation of Miguel Gomes's Arabian Nights, another on Moussa Touré's The Pirogue, revisiting Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat, Alex Ross Perry on Dennis Hopper in Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's The American Dreamer, Nicole Brenez on Jocelyne Saab, J. Hoberman on Richard Lester, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, Daniel Kasman on Michael Bay, Stuart Klawans on Amos Gitai’s Rabin, the Last Day and Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky's Colliding Dreams, Soraya Roberts on Winona Ryder, Matt Thrift on Robert De Niro—and much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 2/9/2016
- Keyframe
In today's roundup: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver at 40, a personal history of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket, an appreciation of Miguel Gomes's Arabian Nights, another on Moussa Touré's The Pirogue, revisiting Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat, Alex Ross Perry on Dennis Hopper in Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's The American Dreamer, Nicole Brenez on Jocelyne Saab, J. Hoberman on Richard Lester, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, Daniel Kasman on Michael Bay, Stuart Klawans on Amos Gitai’s Rabin, the Last Day and Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky's Colliding Dreams, Soraya Roberts on Winona Ryder, Matt Thrift on Robert De Niro—and much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 2/9/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
A real-life narrative that's provided many-a-filmmaker with inspiration, many we've covered on this blog; most recently, Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Touré’s "La Pirogue" ("The Pirogue"): the potentially deadly journey by sea that countless refugees make to enter Europe, illegally by boats that can be small, light, flat-bottomed and only hold a few people at a time, and are certainly not meant for long distance travel. These men (typically) often have to save up money to pay for the ride, which can be pricey, all in an effort to seek better lives for themselves. Some don't make it all the way to their...
- 11/18/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Moussa Touré's 'La Pirogue' is Now Available on VOD Courtesy of ArtMattan Films & ReelHouse. See It!
ArtMattan Films has announced that, following a successful North American theatrical run in over 30 different markets in the USA and Canada, Moussa Touré's epic tale of survival at any cost, "La Pirogue," is now available on VOD via the new online streaming platform www.reelhouse.org. The film, which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last year (in the Un Certain Regard section), is a moving story of a group of Senegalese men who set off for Europe on a simple fishing boat, hoping for a better life. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue who dreams of earning a better living for his family. When he...
- 7/9/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Kornél Mundruczó’s White God has won the top prize in Un Certain Regard at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his film White God (Feher Isten).
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a 12-year-old girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.
It marks a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.
It has been a good week for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine to be invited on stage with Thierry Fremaux at the film’s Un Certain Regard screening and earlier today won the coveted Palm Dog.
The Jury Prize...
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo has won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his film White God (Feher Isten).
The Hungary-Germany-Sweden co-production centres on a 12-year-old girl who runs away from home to search for her dog. Sales are handled by The Match Factory.
It marks a triumphant return to Cannes for Mundruczo, who was previously in Competition in 2008 with Delta, which won the Fipresci prize, and in 2010 with Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. His feature Johanna played in Un Certain Regard in 2005.
It has been a good week for Body, the dog who played Hagen in White God, who became the first canine to be invited on stage with Thierry Fremaux at the film’s Un Certain Regard screening and earlier today won the coveted Palm Dog.
The Jury Prize...
- 5/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Argentine director Pablo Trapero to preside over Un Certain Regard; actress-director Nicole Garcia to head Camera d’Or jury.
Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.
As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:
Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)
Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)
Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)
Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)
Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.
Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)
The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...
Just days before the launch of the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), two more juries have been revealed.
As previously announced, Argentine director Pablo Trapero will preside over the five-member jury, which will also include:
Peter Becker, President of The Criterion Collection (Us)
Maria Bonnevie, actress (Norway / Sweden)
Géraldine Pailhas, actress (France)
Moussa Touré, director, scriptwriter, producer (Sénégal)
Bonnevie is best known for her roles in I Am Dina (2002) and The 13th Warrior (1999), and will next be seen in Susanne Bier’s En Chance Til.
Pailhas is best known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013) and The Returned (2004)
The 20 films taking part in Un Certain Regard will be screened in the Debussy Theatre from May 15-23. The opening film will be Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Théis, a debut movie...
- 5/11/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Directors Pablo Trapero and Nicole Garcia will lead two juries composed of six men and six women in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard and Camera d'Or competitions, festival organizers announced on Sunday. The Un Certain Regard jury, which will judge the 20 films in competition in that section, is headed by Argentinian director Pablo Trapero (“White Elephant,” “Carancho”) and also includes Criterion Collection president Peter Becker, actresses Maria Bonnevie (“I Am Dina”) and Géraldine Pailhas (“Don Juan DeMarco”) and Senegalese writer-director Moussa Touré (“La Pirogue”). The films they will consider include Ryan Gosling's “Lost River,” “Ned Benson's “The Disappearance.
- 5/11/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
At this year’s New York African Film Festival, a screening of director Moussa Touré’s 1998 sophomore film, Tgv, sheds new light on the Senegalese filmmaker’s more recent work. Tgv tells the story of Rambo (Makena Diop), a bus driver who runs an intercity line between Dakar and Conakry, Guinea. He decides to embark on the risky trip between the two countries with a quirky group of passengers, despite warnings from the military that rebels have taken over the border and pose a huge threat to the determined band of travelers. The motives for each passenger’s migration from Senegal gradually emerge as the colorful, rickety bus drives through an often barren but beautifully shot landscape....
- 4/12/2013
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Despite grainy projections and distorted sound, Ouagadougou's cinemas are packed as 20 of over 100 films being screened compete for the Etalon d'Or
• Watch clips from our pick of the films below
Ouagadougou isn't the first place that comes to mind when one considers the glitzy world of movies, yet Burkina Faso's capital has hosted the pan-African film festival Fespaco for more than 40 years and showcases some of the best talent on the continent. Every two years, the streets of Ouaga, as the city is known, liven up to the beat of djembe drums as thousands of film fans fill the city's maquis (open air barbecues) and exchange silver-screen banter with the Ouagadoulais.
The film projections are often grainy and the sound distorted, yet the cinemas are packed. And this year, Fespaco, which runs until 2 March, is something different – a film festival with a conscience. The theme is African cinema and public policy,...
• Watch clips from our pick of the films below
Ouagadougou isn't the first place that comes to mind when one considers the glitzy world of movies, yet Burkina Faso's capital has hosted the pan-African film festival Fespaco for more than 40 years and showcases some of the best talent on the continent. Every two years, the streets of Ouaga, as the city is known, liven up to the beat of djembe drums as thousands of film fans fill the city's maquis (open air barbecues) and exchange silver-screen banter with the Ouagadoulais.
The film projections are often grainy and the sound distorted, yet the cinemas are packed. And this year, Fespaco, which runs until 2 March, is something different – a film festival with a conscience. The theme is African cinema and public policy,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Misha Hussain
- The Guardian - Film News
While catching up on my Fespaco 2013 clippings from around the web, I found this on Senegalese news website Leral.net (I'm translating using Google, so it's probably a few words off): After the screening of "La Pirogue", Moussa Touré announced his new film "Le Joola." "I'm putting together a new film about Le Joola; this 9-year old tragedy has affected all Senegalese people. This is what I'm working on. But also, I have a film project "The summit of the mountain" and will be shot in Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso and probably Cape Verde. This is a love story between two people," said Moussa Touré. This is...
- 2/27/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A recurring visual motif in Moussa Touré's affecting and often harrowing sea drama The Pirogue consists of a simple yet quietly commanding camera move: the scanning of faces. These are the faces of 30 men, and one woman stowaway, who have set out on an extremely dangerous voyage from their native Senegal to look for work and better opportunities in Spain. The title of the film describes the vessel in which they are traveling, a brightly colored boat that resembles an oversized canoe, one that is definitely not intended for traveling such a vast distance with so many people on board. The story Touré tells here is undeniably a very familiar one, and one that certainly is not peculiar to Africa. But the power of...
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- 1/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A vast expanse of ocean. A small boat, bobbing with uncertainty amongst looming waves. It’s an image that’s been created many times in many iterations across the cinema landscape - in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, in The Perfect Storm, more recently in Ang Lee’s opus Life of Pi. And now, also, in Senegalese director Moussa Touré’s latest film, La Pirogue. One of the two gala screenings at the 20th edition of the African Diaspora International Film Festival (Adiff), its Us premiere last fall, La Pirogue is Touré’s third film in twenty years and, much like his sophomore effort Tgv (1998), it is a film about survival, a distinct sort of...
- 1/23/2013
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
A reminder for our readers in New York... After making its USA premiere at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in November, it was acquired by ArtMattan Productions soon thereafter, and will now begin its USA theatrical run, right here in New York City at the Film Forum. Moussa Touré's La Pirogue will open tomorrow, Wednesday, January 23, and will run through Tuesday, February 5, at Film Forum - a 2-week run; so plenty of time for you to make an effort to see it. The film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and given how well it was received by critics, and the recent success...
- 1/22/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
More wonderful news for Moussa Touré's La Pirogue - and if you live in New York. After making its USA premiere at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in November, it was acquired by ArtMattan Productions soon thereafter, and will now begin its USA theatrical run, right here in New York City at the Film Forum. It'll run from Wednesday, January 23 to Tuesday, February 5, at Film Forum - so, a 2-week run; plenty of time for you to make an effort to see it. Call me naive, but I fully expected the film to be quickly picked up for USA distribution after its Cannes Film Festival debut last...
- 1/10/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The International Organization of La Francophonie and The African Diaspora International Film Festival present the USA premiere of Moussa Touré's La Pirogue, Tonight, Tuesday, November 27, 7Pm at Teachers College, Cowin Center - the festival's Gala screening. La Pirogue tells the story of a group of Senegalese men who set off for Europe on a simple fishing boat, hoping for a better life. But it's so much more than that, as I've explained numerous times in previous posts about the film, which you can revisit. Here's its synopsis: La Pirogue is the moving story of a group of Senegalese men who set...
- 11/27/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A vast expanse of ocean. A small boat, bobbing with uncertainty amongst looming waves. It’s an image that’s been created many times in many iterations across the cinema landscape - in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, in The Perfect Storm, more recently in Ang Lee’s opus Life of Pi. And now, also, in Senegalese director Moussa Touré’s latest film, La Pirogue. One of the two gala screenings set for the upcoming 20th edition of the African Diaspora International Film Festival (Adiff), La Pirogue is Touré’s third film in twenty years and, much like his sophomore effort Tgv (1998), it is a film about survival, a distinct sort of survival -...
- 11/20/2012
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Starting November 23rd, the 20th Annual New York African Diaspora International Film Festival (Adiff) will showcase 54 films from 30 countries. Look forward to seeing a few films we've covered at length on this site, including gala screenings of Philippe Niang's historical drama Toussaint L'Ouverture and Moussa Touré's drama La Pirogue. Also screening is Doctor Bello, with Isaiah Washington, Vivica Fox, and lauded Nollywood actress Genevieve Nnaji, on opening night. Find more on the films, and the festival, from the press release below: Among the films set...
- 11/7/2012
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 2012 installment of the Afrika Eye Film Festival in Bristol, UK, launches on Friday, November 9th, and will include in its lineup of film screenings, talks, and more, a celebration of 50 years of Jamaican independence. The opening night film will be the sensational new film from Senegalese director Moussa Touré, La Pirogue. Panel highlights include a discussion on how digital can help grow and cultivate audiences for cinema in Africa, which will include panellists Wanuri Kahiu, director of Pumzi, David Tosh Gitonga, director of Nairobi Half Life, John Mwangi, owner of Zenj Multimedia Communications, Bob Nyanja, director of The Rugged Priest, and...
- 11/1/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue (The Pirogue), which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Canne Film Festival this year, and continued to play film festivals all over the world (although none in the USA yet), is set to begin its commercial theatrical run in France, about 2 weeks from today. Paris-based Rezo Films and Studio 37 will release La Pirogue in theaters, in France, on October 17. The fact that the film, like many Senegalese films, is a co-production between France and Senegal, probably was of influence on its opening first is France. Recapping... synopsis on the film,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
A film that's high on my to-see list, assuming it comes my way this year, or soon thereafter; as far as I know, it has yet to appear in any Stateside film festival lineup, so I expect that to change in the fall (at least, I hope so; and I hope that the USA festival that gets it first in one that's based in NYC). Premiering at in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue (The Pirogue), left Cannes without any distribution, which I'm not terribly shocked by. The filmmaker isn't exactly a household name on the international film scene, even though he's...
- 8/3/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced a big line-up of films which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
The announcement:
The 61st Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) will screen its biggest selection of films straight from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Miff is one of the first festivals to screen these films after their world premiere at Cannes, meaning Melbourne audiences will be one of the first in the world to watch them after their debut on the French Riviera.
Over 35 films from Cannes are included in this year’s Festival line-up. Along with Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning Amour, Benh Zeitlin’s Camera d’Or winner Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Wes Anderson’s Moonlight Kingdom, all announced in Miff’s First Glance on 5th June, Miff audiences will be treated to a huge selection of the world’s best filmmakers and films.
“Cannes is...
The announcement:
The 61st Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) will screen its biggest selection of films straight from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Miff is one of the first festivals to screen these films after their world premiere at Cannes, meaning Melbourne audiences will be one of the first in the world to watch them after their debut on the French Riviera.
Over 35 films from Cannes are included in this year’s Festival line-up. Along with Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning Amour, Benh Zeitlin’s Camera d’Or winner Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Wes Anderson’s Moonlight Kingdom, all announced in Miff’s First Glance on 5th June, Miff audiences will be treated to a huge selection of the world’s best filmmakers and films.
“Cannes is...
- 6/20/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A film that's high on my to-see list, assuming it comes my way this year, or soon thereafter; screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue (The Pirogue), left Cannes without any distribution, which I'm not terribly shocked by. The filmmaker isn't exactly a household name on the international film scene, even though he's been making films for over 20 years; and the subject matter and Pov the film takes are likely of little interest to audiences outside of continental Africa. But I certainly hope that the strength of the film (it's been...
- 5/31/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Cannes 2012 is done, and as is usually the case every year, there was very little representation from the African Diaspora, and we've pretty much highlighted the small handful of feature films of note that fall under that category - from Senegalese filmmaker, Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue (The Pirogue), to the the award-winning Beasts Of The Southern Wild. Add to that Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch's Les Chevaux De Dieu (God's Horses). A first-time Official Selection at Cannes, the film is loosely based on the terrorist attacks that took place in Casablanca on May 13, 2003. Ayouch was shocked...
- 5/30/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival this month - a project we've been following since I first wrote about in December. Here's your first look at Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Touré’s 3rd feature film in 20 years, La Pirogue (The Pirogue), via several clips. Recapping... its synopsis on the film, which is described briefly as a story about undocumented immigrants: La Pirogue is the moving story of a group of Senegalese men who set off for Europe on a simple fishing boat, hoping for a better life. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue who dreams of earning a better living for his family. When he is...
- 5/19/2012
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
We Laurent Cantet’s Foxfire pegged for Tiff, Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are slotted for Sundance 2013 and Under the Rainbow being an obvious choice for Cannes, one might overlook the fact that this year Emilie Georges’ Memento Films Int. are repping the Critics’ Week selected Los Salvajes and Un Certain Regard chosen The Pirogue. Breaking news for today is that the company will back Asghar Farhadi’s next project to star Marion Cotillard. Filming beings this fall in Paris.
Compliance by Craig Zobel
The Pirogue by Moussa TOURÉ
We Are What We Are by Jim Mickle
Bad Seeds (Comme Un Homme) by Safy Nebbou
For Ellen by So Yong Kim
Foxfire (Foxfire: Confessions D’Un Gang De Filles) by Laurent Cantet
Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Kids Of Today (Des Jeunes Gens MÖDERNES 2.0) by Jérôme De Missolz
Lore by Cate Shortland
Los Salvajes...
Compliance by Craig Zobel
The Pirogue by Moussa TOURÉ
We Are What We Are by Jim Mickle
Bad Seeds (Comme Un Homme) by Safy Nebbou
For Ellen by So Yong Kim
Foxfire (Foxfire: Confessions D’Un Gang De Filles) by Laurent Cantet
Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Kids Of Today (Des Jeunes Gens MÖDERNES 2.0) by Jérôme De Missolz
Lore by Cate Shortland
Los Salvajes...
- 5/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cosmopolis
So we've known for some time now that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be opening the Cannes Film Festival (site) on May 16. Yesterday, the Festival announced that Thérèse Desqueyroux, Claude Miller's final film, will close this year's edition on May 27. Miller's adaptation of François Mauriac's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux features Audrey Tautou in the title role as well as Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
And lineups for the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection were unveiled on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Jury.
Today, the Festival's announced the full lineup for the Official Selection of its 65th anniversary edition. This is a roundup-in-progress, obviously.
Competition
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. The synopsis at the official site: "Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact,...
So we've known for some time now that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be opening the Cannes Film Festival (site) on May 16. Yesterday, the Festival announced that Thérèse Desqueyroux, Claude Miller's final film, will close this year's edition on May 27. Miller's adaptation of François Mauriac's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux features Audrey Tautou in the title role as well as Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
And lineups for the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection were unveiled on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Jury.
Today, the Festival's announced the full lineup for the Official Selection of its 65th anniversary edition. This is a roundup-in-progress, obviously.
Competition
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. The synopsis at the official site: "Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact,...
- 4/19/2012
- MUBI
The 65th Cannes Film Festival has just announced its line-up of 53 films across four categories with some extremely impressive titles on offer including the latest efforts from filmmakers like Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Lee Daniels, Andrew Dominik, John Hillcoat, Walter Salles, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Matteo Garrone, Dario Argento, Xavier Dolan, Carlos Reygadas, Takashi Miike and Jeff Nichols.
More titles will likely be added in the coming weeks before the festival runs from May 16th-27th. Here's the ones we know of so far:
Opening Night Film:
"Moonrise Kingdom" - Dir. Wes Anderson
Closing Night Film:
"Therese Desqueyroux" - Dir. Claude Miller
In Competition:
"After the Battle (Baad el Mawkeaa)" - Dir. Yousry Nasrallah
"The Angels' Share" - Dir. Ken Loach
"Beyond the Hills" - Dir. Cristian Mungiu
"Cosmopolis" - Dir. David Cronenberg
"Holy Motors" - Dir. Leos Carax
"The Hunt (Jagten)" - Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
"In Another Country" - Dir.
More titles will likely be added in the coming weeks before the festival runs from May 16th-27th. Here's the ones we know of so far:
Opening Night Film:
"Moonrise Kingdom" - Dir. Wes Anderson
Closing Night Film:
"Therese Desqueyroux" - Dir. Claude Miller
In Competition:
"After the Battle (Baad el Mawkeaa)" - Dir. Yousry Nasrallah
"The Angels' Share" - Dir. Ken Loach
"Beyond the Hills" - Dir. Cristian Mungiu
"Cosmopolis" - Dir. David Cronenberg
"Holy Motors" - Dir. Leos Carax
"The Hunt (Jagten)" - Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
"In Another Country" - Dir.
- 4/19/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Michael Haneke, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant
on the set of Amour
It's been a couple of weeks since the French magazine Premiere posted "Cannes 2012: Le buzzomètre," a list of over 30 films, each of which were assigned a numerical probability of its making the lineup at Cannes this year. Speculation has only grown hotter, of course, with an official announcement slated for April 19; Critics' Week and the Directors' Fortnight will follow on April 23 and 24, respectively. "Paris is rife with rumors about who will make it," reports Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa. "Several films by 'big fish' have not been seen yet, and many who have already shown their film are eagerly awaiting news."
A few days ago, a French blog pulled an April Fools' Day prank that thoroughly ticked off Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux. The blog claimed to have seen the full lineup, "briefly published on the official Cannes Film Festival...
on the set of Amour
It's been a couple of weeks since the French magazine Premiere posted "Cannes 2012: Le buzzomètre," a list of over 30 films, each of which were assigned a numerical probability of its making the lineup at Cannes this year. Speculation has only grown hotter, of course, with an official announcement slated for April 19; Critics' Week and the Directors' Fortnight will follow on April 23 and 24, respectively. "Paris is rife with rumors about who will make it," reports Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa. "Several films by 'big fish' have not been seen yet, and many who have already shown their film are eagerly awaiting news."
A few days ago, a French blog pulled an April Fools' Day prank that thoroughly ticked off Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux. The blog claimed to have seen the full lineup, "briefly published on the official Cannes Film Festival...
- 4/5/2012
- MUBI
The 24th annual Images Festival is once again overstuffed with experimental and avant-garde media goodness. From March 31 to April 9, Toronto will be overrun with film & video screenings, live cinema performances, artist talks, gallery installations, forum discussions and more.
The fest opens with Rivers and My Father — a documentary and fictional narrative blend that explores the family stories of filmmaker Luo Li — and ends with a live hardcore music soundtrack accompanying Todd Brown’s classic silent movie West of Zanzibar.
In between that, there are artist talks with John Gianvito, Paul Clipson, Mario Pfeifer, Beatrice Gibson, James MacSwain, Steve Reinke and others; several programs exploring the state of cinema in Africa; live cinematic performances by Andrew Lampert, Ellie Ga, Lindsay Seers, Icaro Zorbar and more.
Plus, don’t forget the experimental film & video screenings, including John Gianvito’s documentary essay Vapor Trails (Clark); and short works by Jodie Mack, Lewis Klahr,...
The fest opens with Rivers and My Father — a documentary and fictional narrative blend that explores the family stories of filmmaker Luo Li — and ends with a live hardcore music soundtrack accompanying Todd Brown’s classic silent movie West of Zanzibar.
In between that, there are artist talks with John Gianvito, Paul Clipson, Mario Pfeifer, Beatrice Gibson, James MacSwain, Steve Reinke and others; several programs exploring the state of cinema in Africa; live cinematic performances by Andrew Lampert, Ellie Ga, Lindsay Seers, Icaro Zorbar and more.
Plus, don’t forget the experimental film & video screenings, including John Gianvito’s documentary essay Vapor Trails (Clark); and short works by Jodie Mack, Lewis Klahr,...
- 3/31/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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