VENICE: Sometime Hollywood action hero Nicholas Cage reminds us that he started out as a very fine actor in this outing directed by David Gordon Green.
GDYNIA: The biggest surprise of the 38 Gdynia Film Festival (9-14 September 2013) was undoubtedly the appearance of Polish director Roman Polanski at the closing ceremony to hand out the award to Pawel Pawlikowski for his Grand Prix winner Ida. Polanski had arrived at the festival earlier to present his film Venus in Furs at a special screening.
VENICE: A jury headed by Bernardo Bertolucci awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 70 Venice Film Festival to the Italian documentary Sacro Gra directed by Gianfranco Rosi. Rosi spent two years in a minivan filming on and around the GRA, Rome’s giant ring road, and the result is an extraordinary contemporary portrait of Roman life and its fringes.
VENICE: Lech Wałęsa attented world premiere of Andrzej Wajda's "Wałęsa. Man of Hope" world premiere in Venice, where the film received a standing ovation.
VENICE: FNE spoke to Loic Magneron president of international film sales company Wide Management and founder of the unique project Eye on Films about his strategy to bring more films to more audiences.
ZADAR: Avvantura Film-Forum in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar is one of Europe’s newest film festivals but it is rapidly becoming one of the most important for the regional film industry with its unique focus on European Coproductions and European networking.
VENICE: Veteran Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda will receive the 2013 Persol Award at a special gala award ceremony at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice on 5 September.
CANNES: Director François Ozon’s newest film, Young and Beautiful, introduces the public to 23 year old French actress Marine Vacth in a starring role that already has some critics comparing her to a young Catherine Deneuve.
CANNES: Polish born director Roman Polanski must have enjoyed his last venture into filming an adaptation of a hit stage play with his film of Carnage because he has followed it with another stage adaptation, Venus in Fur, from David Ives’s hit play of the same name.
CANNES: Directors Ethan and Joel Coen return to Cannes with a strong, if not their strongest film, with Inside Llewyn Davis. The film follows a week in the life of a young folk singer who is trying to make it in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of 1961.
