VENICE: Poland’s Jerzy Skolimowski has scored a slot in the competition line-up of the The 72nd Venice Biennale Film Festival (2-12 September 2015) with the Polish Irish coproduction 11 Minutes.
KARLOVY VARY: The jury of the jubilee 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) which took place 3-11 July 2015 awarded its top prize, the Crystal Globe, to US director Diego Ongaro’s Bob and the Trees a vérite-style drama about Bob Tarasuk who plays himself in the film about a Massachusetts logger and farmer. The film also won the Ecumenical Jury award.
FNE at KVIFF 2015: Advertising and Foreign Commissions Drive Increase in Revenues for Czech Producers
Czech Republic 07-07-2015KARLOVY VARY: Revenues for Czech producers grew by 18% in 2014 compared to 2013 driven by advertising production and commissions from abroad according to a report by APA the Czech Audiovisual Producers Association.
MOSCOW: Bulgarian director Ivaylo Hristov took home the top prize of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) for his film Losers.
KARLOVY VARY: The 50th edition of the Karlovy International Film Festival (KVIFF) has announced its programme line-up. The festival runs from 3-11 July 2015.
CANNES:Hungarian director László Nemes makes a powerful directorial feature film debut with his Holocaust drama Son of Saul set in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in the final days of World War II.
CANNES: Director Gus Van Sant’s latest Cannes competitor The Sea of Trees is unfortunately one of his weaker films in recent years although it has some striking images and ideas that testify as to why Cannes selectors decided it was worthy of a place in this year’s Cannes line-up.
CANNES: With boatloads of desperate immigrants bound for Europe in the news daily throughout Cannes French director Jacques Audiard’s drama about a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl who pose as a family to escape the war in Sri Lanka and claim asylum in France could not be more timely.
CANNES: Director Todd Haynes has transformed Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 lesbian love story The Price of Salt, also sometimes published under the title Carol, into a film adaptation that both captures the intensity and the atmosphere novel. While not a thriller in the vein of Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels there is still an element of suspense that draws you into the story and an air of moral ambivalence that runs through Highsmith’s novels.
CANNES: Chinese art film director art Hou Hsiao-Hsien successfully combines a beautifully shot historical film of 9th century China with a martial arts genre film in his Cannes competition entry The Assassin with the 15m USD budget showing to advantage in the high production values, and detailed historical costumes and sets.
