Sean Baker among executive producers. Comedy premieres on May 19.
On the eve of Cannes Paris-based Loco Films has acquired international sales rights to Joanna Arnow’s Directors’ Fortnight selection The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed.
Arnow stars in the comedy as Ann, a morose New Yorker in her 30s who feels the years have passed by quickly in her long-term casual Bdsm relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
As Ann begins to feel increasingly alienated, she wrestles with herself and her relationships. Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls), Babak Tafti, and Alysia Reiner round out the key cast.
On the eve of Cannes Paris-based Loco Films has acquired international sales rights to Joanna Arnow’s Directors’ Fortnight selection The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed.
Arnow stars in the comedy as Ann, a morose New Yorker in her 30s who feels the years have passed by quickly in her long-term casual Bdsm relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
As Ann begins to feel increasingly alienated, she wrestles with herself and her relationships. Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls), Babak Tafti, and Alysia Reiner round out the key cast.
- 5/14/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Luana Bajrami has won best director and the Discovery Award for best debut feature for “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar” at the 29th Raindance Film Festival (Oct. 27 – Nov. 6).
The film was nominated for the Golden Camera and Queer Palm at Cannes, and has also won awards at the Sarajevo and Warsaw festivals.
The debut feature by YouTuber and short filmmaker Luke Cutforth, “The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton” won best U.K. feature, while Anita Rocha da Silveira’s San Sebastián and Sitges winner “Medusa” won best international feature.
Daniel Lombroso’s “White Noise” was named best documentary feature, while Matthew Walker’s “I’m Wanita” won best music documentary.
Portuguese actor Lucia Moniz won best performance for her lead role in Ana Rocha’s “Listen,” for which she has won several awards previously.
Known for his work on “Frances Ha” and Lady Bird,” DoP Sam Levy won best cinematography for Karen Cinorre’s “Mayday.
The film was nominated for the Golden Camera and Queer Palm at Cannes, and has also won awards at the Sarajevo and Warsaw festivals.
The debut feature by YouTuber and short filmmaker Luke Cutforth, “The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton” won best U.K. feature, while Anita Rocha da Silveira’s San Sebastián and Sitges winner “Medusa” won best international feature.
Daniel Lombroso’s “White Noise” was named best documentary feature, while Matthew Walker’s “I’m Wanita” won best music documentary.
Portuguese actor Lucia Moniz won best performance for her lead role in Ana Rocha’s “Listen,” for which she has won several awards previously.
Known for his work on “Frances Ha” and Lady Bird,” DoP Sam Levy won best cinematography for Karen Cinorre’s “Mayday.
- 11/5/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The feature is adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux 2019 on her illegal abortion in 1964.
French novelist, screenwriter and director Audrey Diwan broke into cinema as the co-writer of a series of thrillers including Paris Under Watch, The Connection and recent Cannes selection and box office hit Bac Nord with her former partner Cédric Jimenez.
She arrives in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year with her second solo feature Happening. Adapted from the 2019 work of respected French writer Annie Ernaux, it recounts the author’s struggle to get an abortion as a student in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised...
French novelist, screenwriter and director Audrey Diwan broke into cinema as the co-writer of a series of thrillers including Paris Under Watch, The Connection and recent Cannes selection and box office hit Bac Nord with her former partner Cédric Jimenez.
She arrives in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year with her second solo feature Happening. Adapted from the 2019 work of respected French writer Annie Ernaux, it recounts the author’s struggle to get an abortion as a student in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised...
- 9/6/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Amidst all the horrors of a war-torn decade that she would largely like to forget, one memory stands out for Kosovar filmmaker Kaltrina Krasniqi: the day her mother surprised the family with a VHS player. “We were so, so excited,” she tells Variety. “We really didn’t believe until she opened it that it was true.”
Beginning with the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in 1991 and ending with the conclusion of the bloody Kosovo War in 1999, Krasniqi and her family spent much of the ‘90s holed up in their apartment, occasionally venturing out to the 007 video club across the street to rent movies. “It wasn’t really safe to be out,” she says. “We spent the entire decade using that VHS player to watch films.”
It was the start of the director’s love affair with cinema, and the first step on a journey that this week takes her...
Beginning with the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in 1991 and ending with the conclusion of the bloody Kosovo War in 1999, Krasniqi and her family spent much of the ‘90s holed up in their apartment, occasionally venturing out to the 007 video club across the street to rent movies. “It wasn’t really safe to be out,” she says. “We spent the entire decade using that VHS player to watch films.”
It was the start of the director’s love affair with cinema, and the first step on a journey that this week takes her...
- 9/3/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom,” a prison drama about a gay man repeatedly incarcerated under a draconian law outlawing homosexuality in West Germany, won the award for best feature film at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Austrian director took home the Heart of Sarajevo at Thursday night’s ceremony, while leading man Georg Friedrich won the award for best actor for a film that won the runner-up prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar. The prizes were handed out by a jury led by Serbian actress Jasna Đuričić and including American writer-director Mike Cahill, Hungarian director Lili Horvát, Vienna Film Festival artistic director Eva Sangiorgi, and Austrian Film Commission executive director Martin Schweighofer.
Serbia’s Milica Tomović was named best director for “Celts,” which follows three generations who converge at a child’s birthday party against the backdrop of the former Yugoslavia’s painful breakup. The trio of Flaka Latifi,...
The Austrian director took home the Heart of Sarajevo at Thursday night’s ceremony, while leading man Georg Friedrich won the award for best actor for a film that won the runner-up prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar. The prizes were handed out by a jury led by Serbian actress Jasna Đuričić and including American writer-director Mike Cahill, Hungarian director Lili Horvát, Vienna Film Festival artistic director Eva Sangiorgi, and Austrian Film Commission executive director Martin Schweighofer.
Serbia’s Milica Tomović was named best director for “Celts,” which follows three generations who converge at a child’s birthday party against the backdrop of the former Yugoslavia’s painful breakup. The trio of Flaka Latifi,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners included the three lead actresses of ’The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’.
Sebastian Miese’s Austrian-German drama Great Freedom has won the Sarajevo Film Festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film.
The 2021 winners were announced at an awards ceremony last night (August 20). The film received its world premiere at Cannes last month, where it played in Un Certain Regard and won the jury prize.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The love story tracks the persecution of homosexuality in Germany over the decades following the Second World War. It is the Austrian director...
Sebastian Miese’s Austrian-German drama Great Freedom has won the Sarajevo Film Festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film.
The 2021 winners were announced at an awards ceremony last night (August 20). The film received its world premiere at Cannes last month, where it played in Un Certain Regard and won the jury prize.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The love story tracks the persecution of homosexuality in Germany over the decades following the Second World War. It is the Austrian director...
- 8/20/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Australian city’s sixth lockdown has been extended until at least August 19.
The Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has cancelled its in-person screenings, following the extension of the Australian city’s lockdown until at least August 19, amid growing numbers of Covid-19 cases.
The announcement comes following Sydney Film Festival’s decision to delay its festival from August to November 3-14, due to Sydney’s lockdown extension.
Miff’s in-cinema component was planned to run from August 12-22.
The festival will remain online, with streaming platform Miff Play available to audiences across Australia – alongside the extended reality programme, which will be available to audiences,...
The Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has cancelled its in-person screenings, following the extension of the Australian city’s lockdown until at least August 19, amid growing numbers of Covid-19 cases.
The announcement comes following Sydney Film Festival’s decision to delay its festival from August to November 3-14, due to Sydney’s lockdown extension.
Miff’s in-cinema component was planned to run from August 12-22.
The festival will remain online, with streaming platform Miff Play available to audiences across Australia – alongside the extended reality programme, which will be available to audiences,...
- 8/11/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia has canceled its in-person screening component, due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the city.
After a fully online edition in 2020, the 2021 festival was scheduled to run Aug. 12-22 as a hybrid combining online and real-world elements. But on Wednesday, the premier of Victoria state Daniel Andrews announced that Melbourne will spend a further week in lockdown. The current restrictions were scheduled to end on Thursday evening, but are now extended until at least Aug. 19, 2021.
Following the cancelation of the in-person screenings Miff will operate its online streaming platform – which has been operational since last week and is available to viewers across Australia since last week, and its Extended Reality program, which is available to audiences, free, globally. Some in-person screenings that made up Miff’s regional cinema season will continue.
On Tuesday, Victoria recorded 20 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases out...
After a fully online edition in 2020, the 2021 festival was scheduled to run Aug. 12-22 as a hybrid combining online and real-world elements. But on Wednesday, the premier of Victoria state Daniel Andrews announced that Melbourne will spend a further week in lockdown. The current restrictions were scheduled to end on Thursday evening, but are now extended until at least Aug. 19, 2021.
Following the cancelation of the in-person screenings Miff will operate its online streaming platform – which has been operational since last week and is available to viewers across Australia since last week, and its Extended Reality program, which is available to audiences, free, globally. Some in-person screenings that made up Miff’s regional cinema season will continue.
On Tuesday, Victoria recorded 20 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases out...
- 8/11/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In a sad blow, the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has announced it will cancel its in-cinema screenings given the current Covid situation in the city.
The festival, always designed as a hybrid event, will continue nationally on Miff Play, with the festival securing an additional 30 titles for the platform. These include some direct-from-Cannes titles such as The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, La Civil, Rehana Maryam Noor and Babi Yar, and Australian films Ablaze, Chef Antonio’s Recipes for Revolution, Little Tornadoes and Paper City.
However, some of the festival most anticipated films, including local films such as Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, intended as the Opening Night Gala, and Justin Kurzel’s Nitram are not available on the service.
As regional Victoria is no longer in lockdown, the festival’s regional season will proceed, with required changes to the line-up to be advised through local operators.
The festival, always designed as a hybrid event, will continue nationally on Miff Play, with the festival securing an additional 30 titles for the platform. These include some direct-from-Cannes titles such as The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, La Civil, Rehana Maryam Noor and Babi Yar, and Australian films Ablaze, Chef Antonio’s Recipes for Revolution, Little Tornadoes and Paper City.
However, some of the festival most anticipated films, including local films such as Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, intended as the Opening Night Gala, and Justin Kurzel’s Nitram are not available on the service.
As regional Victoria is no longer in lockdown, the festival’s regional season will proceed, with required changes to the line-up to be advised through local operators.
- 8/10/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Will.i.am, Ashley Banjo, Charlene White to Headline ITV’s Black History Month Shows- Global Bulletin
Programming
Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am, “Britain’s Got Talent” judge Ashley Banjo, presenter Charlene White and actor Jimmy Akingbola (“In the Long Run”) will lead U.K. broadcaster ITV’s programming for Black History Month this October.
The programming includes “Will.i.am: The Blackprint,” a one-hour documentary that follows Will.i.am’s personal exploration of what it means to be Black and British, in the country he calls his second home.
In summer 2020, Banjo was thrust into the centre of the Black Lives Matter movement when the pro equality routine performed by his troupe Diversity became one of the most complained about moments in U.K. media regulator Ofcom’s history. A year on from then, “Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White” (working title), and having won a BAFTA as a recognition of the importance of his routine, Banjo goes on a journey into his own past...
Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am, “Britain’s Got Talent” judge Ashley Banjo, presenter Charlene White and actor Jimmy Akingbola (“In the Long Run”) will lead U.K. broadcaster ITV’s programming for Black History Month this October.
The programming includes “Will.i.am: The Blackprint,” a one-hour documentary that follows Will.i.am’s personal exploration of what it means to be Black and British, in the country he calls his second home.
In summer 2020, Banjo was thrust into the centre of the Black Lives Matter movement when the pro equality routine performed by his troupe Diversity became one of the most complained about moments in U.K. media regulator Ofcom’s history. A year on from then, “Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White” (working title), and having won a BAFTA as a recognition of the importance of his routine, Banjo goes on a journey into his own past...
- 7/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
10 feature world premieres in the selection.
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
- 7/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
10 feature world premieres in the selection.
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
Sarajevo Film Festival has selected 20 features in the competition programme for its 27th edition, which will run in-person from August 13-20.
Nine films have been chosen for the Feature Film section of the programme for fiction titles, including two world premieres – Dušan Kasalica’s Montenegrin-Serbian title The Elegy Of Laurel, and Cristina Grosan’s Hungarian film Things Worth Weeping For.
Other films in the Feature Film section include Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, which won the Camera d’Or for best debut film at Cannes Film Festival last week; and Norika Sefa’s Looking For Venera,...
- 7/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Cannes’ hybrid Marché du Film reported some 10,000 market registrations, divided 50:50 between on-site and online attendance.
Cannes’ hybrid Marché du Film closes its doors on Thursday (July 15) on one of the strangest editions in its 62-year history as it unfolded against the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Executive director Jérôme Paillard reported some 10,000 market registrations, divided 50:50 between on-site and online attendance, compared to 10,000 online participants for 2020’s virtual market and the record-breaking 12,527 physical attendees in 2019, some six months before coronavirus struck.
By territory, France had the biggest physical attendance with around 1,200 registrations against 1,943 in 2019, followed by the US with 550 on-site attendees.
Cannes’ hybrid Marché du Film closes its doors on Thursday (July 15) on one of the strangest editions in its 62-year history as it unfolded against the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Executive director Jérôme Paillard reported some 10,000 market registrations, divided 50:50 between on-site and online attendance, compared to 10,000 online participants for 2020’s virtual market and the record-breaking 12,527 physical attendees in 2019, some six months before coronavirus struck.
By territory, France had the biggest physical attendance with around 1,200 registrations against 1,943 in 2019, followed by the US with 550 on-site attendees.
- 7/16/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Two years after Céline Sciamma’s luminous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the lush historical romance has spawned an intriguing legacy: Two of its stars are back on the Croisette, each with her own feature directorial debut. Noémie Merlant and breakout supporting star Luàna Bajrami have made a pair of films that would make a compelling double feature with their similar tones and countryside settings, along with awkward filmmaking tics to spare. But while Bajrami’s “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar” indicates a budding filmmaker eager to explore elements that don’t always pay off, Merlant’s “Mi Iubita, Mon Amour” suffers from the opposite issue: a filmmaker unwilling to grapple with the uncomfortable questions her story asks.
Neatly split into two sections — “Mi Iubita” (Romanian for “my beloved”), and “Mon Amour” — Still, the film is a two-hander from top to bottom: Merlant...
Neatly split into two sections — “Mi Iubita” (Romanian for “my beloved”), and “Mon Amour” — Still, the film is a two-hander from top to bottom: Merlant...
- 7/13/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
There will be very few reviews that do not qualify the fact that filmmaker Luàna Bajrami was only 19 years old when her Cannes debut, “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (Luaneshat E Kodrës),” went into production. Considering how accomplished the drama is on several artistic levels, that badge of youth should be viewed in the context of high praise. Already a veteran actress before she stepped behind the camera (most notably with a role in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”), Bajrami not only demonstrates an impressive cinematic vision but an incredible eye for talent, as evidenced by the performances of the three lead actresses at the center of her new drama.
Continue reading ‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’ & Take Control Of Their Destinies [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’ & Take Control Of Their Destinies [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
- 7/9/2021
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
2019 was a banner year for rising star Luàna Bajrami: the Kosovo-born French actress and filmmaker was lauded for her scene-stealing turn as a young maid in Céline Sciamma’s luminous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” was nominated for Most Promising Actress at the César Awards, and wrapped production on her directorial debut, the intimate coming-of-age drama “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar” — all by the time she was 18. Not too shabby.
Neither is “Lionesses,” which will likely inspire comparisons to everything from Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s “Mustang” to Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides”, all of which Any first-time filmmaking tics are largely forgivable: Bajrami, who also wrote the script, tends to both obscure major events and bolster moments that needed more development. For better and worse, the most pleasurable moments in “Lionesses” are the unexpected ones.
Filmed in Bajrami’s native Kosovo and shot in the Albanian language,...
Neither is “Lionesses,” which will likely inspire comparisons to everything from Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s “Mustang” to Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides”, all of which Any first-time filmmaking tics are largely forgivable: Bajrami, who also wrote the script, tends to both obscure major events and bolster moments that needed more development. For better and worse, the most pleasurable moments in “Lionesses” are the unexpected ones.
Filmed in Bajrami’s native Kosovo and shot in the Albanian language,...
- 7/8/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Fans of 2019 Palme d’Or contender Portrait Of A Lady On Fire will know Luàna Bajrami as the terrific young actress who portrayed the maid, Sophie. Now, the French-Kosovan returns to Cannes as a writer, director and star with Directors’ Fortnight drama The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (Luaneshat E Kodrës). Bajrami is only 20 years old, so unsurprisingly this is her debut, which she made when she was just 19.
The story takes place in Kosovo, where three friends Qe (Flaka Latifi), Li (Era Balaj) and Jeta (Uratë Shabani) live in a remote village. Bored and desperate for escape, they decide to form a gang and rob local businesses, gaining a sense of freedom and independence from their rebellious actions. What begins as a slow-burning drama about female friendship moves into Bling Ring territory, although the film is strongest in its quieter moments, when it explores the bond between girls who...
The story takes place in Kosovo, where three friends Qe (Flaka Latifi), Li (Era Balaj) and Jeta (Uratë Shabani) live in a remote village. Bored and desperate for escape, they decide to form a gang and rob local businesses, gaining a sense of freedom and independence from their rebellious actions. What begins as a slow-burning drama about female friendship moves into Bling Ring territory, although the film is strongest in its quieter moments, when it explores the bond between girls who...
- 7/8/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Past winners of the first feature prize include Jim Jarmusch, Mira Nair, Naomi Kawase, Steve McQueen, Houda Benyamina and Lukas Dhont.
The Cannes Film Festival has named French actress Mélanie Thierry as jury president for the 2021 Caméra d’Or award reserved for all first features premiering across Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
”Nothing is as fragile or as miraculous as a first movie. This testifies to the courage and the faith of all the directors who, after such a long period of seclusion, succeeded in providing us with a window on the outside world,...
The Cannes Film Festival has named French actress Mélanie Thierry as jury president for the 2021 Caméra d’Or award reserved for all first features premiering across Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
”Nothing is as fragile or as miraculous as a first movie. This testifies to the courage and the faith of all the directors who, after such a long period of seclusion, succeeded in providing us with a window on the outside world,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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