Anissa Bonnefont, whose latest film “Wonder Boy” won a Special Jury prize at Tribeca in 2020, has recently completed “Nadia,” a timely documentary feature about Nadia Nadim, the Afghan-born Danish soccer star.
Federation Entertainment produced the film with Echo Studio, in association with France’s Canal Plus, which commissioned it.
Penned by Bonnefont and Edith Chapin, the cinematic documentary tells the extraordinary life journey of Nadim, who was born and raised in Afghanistan. After the Taliban executed her father in 2000, when she was only eight years old, Nadia, along with her four sisters and mother, escaped Kabul by foot. The family sought asylum in Denmark where Nadia eventually became a champion on the national soccer team. She then joined the Paris-Saint-Germain women’s professional team and she’s currently planning at the Racing Louisville Football Club.
Bonnefont followed Nadim for 18 months in 2020 and 2021 in France, where the athlete was playing for the Paris team,...
Federation Entertainment produced the film with Echo Studio, in association with France’s Canal Plus, which commissioned it.
Penned by Bonnefont and Edith Chapin, the cinematic documentary tells the extraordinary life journey of Nadim, who was born and raised in Afghanistan. After the Taliban executed her father in 2000, when she was only eight years old, Nadia, along with her four sisters and mother, escaped Kabul by foot. The family sought asylum in Denmark where Nadia eventually became a champion on the national soccer team. She then joined the Paris-Saint-Germain women’s professional team and she’s currently planning at the Racing Louisville Football Club.
Bonnefont followed Nadim for 18 months in 2020 and 2021 in France, where the athlete was playing for the Paris team,...
- 9/5/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
One’s awareness of modern avant-garde flamenco will get a boost from this exciting, impressive documentary about the progressive Spanish bailarina Rocío Molina, a fireball of a dancer whose powerful improvisations get our hearts beating faster. All the earmarks of traditional flamenco are there — grace, style and a fierce independent attitude — in a woman who loves what she does, and is not trying to push an art form to its next level. It’s pretty inspiring, even for an amateur fan like myself. Dance experts note, this is a film review.
Impulso
DVD
KimStim
2017 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date March 19, 2019 / 29.95
Starring: Rocío Molina, Antonio Santiago Amador.
Cinematography: Dorian Blanc, Thomas Brémond
Produced by Sophie de Hijes, Nicolas Lesoiult
Directed by Emilio Belmonte
Flamenco dancing on film is sort of a hit-and-miss thing. I’ve seen two or three flamenco-related films by Carlos Saura that are terrific, starring Antonio Gades,...
Impulso
DVD
KimStim
2017 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date March 19, 2019 / 29.95
Starring: Rocío Molina, Antonio Santiago Amador.
Cinematography: Dorian Blanc, Thomas Brémond
Produced by Sophie de Hijes, Nicolas Lesoiult
Directed by Emilio Belmonte
Flamenco dancing on film is sort of a hit-and-miss thing. I’ve seen two or three flamenco-related films by Carlos Saura that are terrific, starring Antonio Gades,...
- 3/30/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Christophe Offenstein’s Turning Tide took the Colcoa Audience Award as the week-long French cinema showcase in Los Angeles came to a conclusion (28).
Cédric Klapisch’s Chinese Puzzle earned the Audience Special Prize as well as the Colcoa Coming Soon Award given in association with Kpcc 89.3 to a film with Us distribution. Cohen Media Group will release on May 16.
Hélier Cisterne’s Vandal won the Colcoa Lafca Critics Award presented the Los Angeles Film Critics Association jury.
The Critics Special Prize went to One Of A Kind, written and directed by François Dupeyron.
The Colcoa First Feature Award went to Guillaume Gallienne’s César winner Me, Myself And Mom, while there was an audience special mention for Diane Kurys’ For A Woman and a critics’ special mention for Merzak Allouache’s The Rooftops.
The Colcoa Documentary Prize went to Flore by Jean-Albert Lièvre.
The Run Away, written and directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin, won the Colcoa...
Cédric Klapisch’s Chinese Puzzle earned the Audience Special Prize as well as the Colcoa Coming Soon Award given in association with Kpcc 89.3 to a film with Us distribution. Cohen Media Group will release on May 16.
Hélier Cisterne’s Vandal won the Colcoa Lafca Critics Award presented the Los Angeles Film Critics Association jury.
The Critics Special Prize went to One Of A Kind, written and directed by François Dupeyron.
The Colcoa First Feature Award went to Guillaume Gallienne’s César winner Me, Myself And Mom, while there was an audience special mention for Diane Kurys’ For A Woman and a critics’ special mention for Merzak Allouache’s The Rooftops.
The Colcoa Documentary Prize went to Flore by Jean-Albert Lièvre.
The Run Away, written and directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin, won the Colcoa...
- 4/28/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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