The selection also includes projects from Kirill Serebrennikov and Agnieszka Holland
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is among 32 projects to receive a share of €8.3m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
Cronenberg’s new feature, a co-production between Canada and France, received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. Vincent Cassel plays a widower who creates a device that allows you to connect with the dead. Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce also star in the thriller.
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The only other project to also receive €500,000 was Adrià Garcia’s animation The Treasure Of Barracuda,...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is among 32 projects to receive a share of €8.3m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
Cronenberg’s new feature, a co-production between Canada and France, received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. Vincent Cassel plays a widower who creates a device that allows you to connect with the dead. Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce also star in the thriller.
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The only other project to also receive €500,000 was Adrià Garcia’s animation The Treasure Of Barracuda,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported films we have some veteran filmmakers in David Cronenberg (The Shrouds), Agnieszka Holland (The Green Border) and Kirill Serebrennikov (Disappearance aka La disparition) landing some significant coin amounts. Also grabbing some noteworthy sums of euros are filmmakers Burhan Qurbani (No Beast So Fierce), Jonathan Millet (Lives of Hamid), Nóra Lakos (I Accidentally Wrote a Book) and Scandi helmers Jeanette Nordahl (Connections) and Fanny Ovesen (Laura). Here is the entire list which includes docus and animated films:
A Light at Midday – Elena Manrique (Spain) – €300 000
Aïcha – Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia) – €150 000
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries – Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi (Italy) – €80 000 Documentary
Blood and Mud – Jean-Gabriel Leynaud (France) – €140 000 Documentary
Catane – Ioana Mischie (Romania) – €150 000
Connections – Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark) – €302 000
Disappearance – Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) – €350 000
DJ Ahmet – Georgi Unkovski (North Macedonia) – €160 000
Dreaming of Lions – Paolo Marinou-Blanco (Portugal) – €150 000
Filipinas – Leonor Noivo (Portugal) – €74 500 Documentary
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia...
A Light at Midday – Elena Manrique (Spain) – €300 000
Aïcha – Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia) – €150 000
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries – Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi (Italy) – €80 000 Documentary
Blood and Mud – Jean-Gabriel Leynaud (France) – €140 000 Documentary
Catane – Ioana Mischie (Romania) – €150 000
Connections – Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark) – €302 000
Disappearance – Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) – €350 000
DJ Ahmet – Georgi Unkovski (North Macedonia) – €160 000
Dreaming of Lions – Paolo Marinou-Blanco (Portugal) – €150 000
Filipinas – Leonor Noivo (Portugal) – €74 500 Documentary
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia...
- 4/3/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Austrian outfit will be in charge of the IDFA First Appearance Competition winner’s world sales. After winning IDFA’s First Appearance Competition recently (see the news), Alina Gorlova’s groundbreaking documentary This Rain Will Never Stop, a Ukrainian-Latvian-German-Qatari co-production, will be sold worldwide by Austrian-based firm Square Eyes, founded by veteran programmer Wouter Jansen. In detail, the story of This Rain Will Never Stop, penned by Gorlova and Maksym Nakonchnyi, follows a 20-year-old boy called Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death. The technical crew included sound designer Vasyl Yavtushenko, composers Goran Gora and Serge Synthkey, and DoP Vyacheslav Tsvetkov. Other films currently repped by the agency are Karolis Kaupinis’s Nova Lituania (Lithuania’s bid for the 2021 Academy.
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Karolis Kaupini's Nova Lituania is exclusively showing November 9 - December 8, 2020 on Mubi in the Debuts series.It starts as an idea, grows into a theory, and dies as a dream. It’s the late 1930s, and Lithuania is cornered by warring neighbors. Vilnius, the country’s capital, has long been gobbled up by Poland, and the growing tension between Hitler’s Reich and Stalin’s Russia will soon leave the tiny Baltic state in the middle of a crossfire. Pacing nervously in a semi-deserted lecture hall, geography professor Feliksas Gruodis points at a map of Lithuania, and one of Africa: “just like vast underpopulated areas of Africa once drew white colonists, so we are in the same position.” The solution? To build another state - better yet, to ship the existing one overseas, and found a colony where people...
- 11/19/2020
- MUBI
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Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
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The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
- 11/18/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
- 11/18/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
- 11/18/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
This rewarding period drama, set during the interwar years, suggests the creation of an alternative Lithuania to counter invasion
Although aggressively retro both in terms of its subject – the annexation of Lithuania during the second world war – and visually, given that it’s shot in a boxy aspect ratio and in silvery black and white, this droll period drama from the Baltic is imbued with a very 21st-century arthouse approach to storytelling. Wilfully stingy with its explication, and seemingly made on the assumption that viewers will know at least something about recent Lithuanian history, it’s a fairly rarefied work, but rewarding for those up for a challenge.
Playfully padding out a rickety skeleton of historical fact with fleshy fiction, first-time writer-director Karolis Kaupinis creates a counterfactual drama set just before the start of the second world war in Kaunas, which was then the tiny nation’s capital as the Polish army had occupied Vilnius,...
Although aggressively retro both in terms of its subject – the annexation of Lithuania during the second world war – and visually, given that it’s shot in a boxy aspect ratio and in silvery black and white, this droll period drama from the Baltic is imbued with a very 21st-century arthouse approach to storytelling. Wilfully stingy with its explication, and seemingly made on the assumption that viewers will know at least something about recent Lithuanian history, it’s a fairly rarefied work, but rewarding for those up for a challenge.
Playfully padding out a rickety skeleton of historical fact with fleshy fiction, first-time writer-director Karolis Kaupinis creates a counterfactual drama set just before the start of the second world war in Kaunas, which was then the tiny nation’s capital as the Polish army had occupied Vilnius,...
- 11/11/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Mubi has revealed its picks for November with a slate packed with recent festival hits and rediscovered classics. Nimic, the latest work by award-winning director Yorgos Lanthimos, premieres exclusively on Mubi November 27. Starring Oscar nominee Matt Dillon and written by Lanthimos with frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou, Nimic is a compact thriller about identity, perception, relationships, and circularity.
November will kick off with the exclusive online premiere of Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But…,an enigmatic story of family and loss that confirms the German auteur’s status as a modern master. To coincide with the US election on November 3rd, Mubi is proud to exclusively present a new restoration of Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind. Making its way through 400 years of American history, this thought-provoking documentary by John Gianvito visits the resting places of such famed figures as Malcolm X, Mother Jones, Frederick Douglass, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony and Crazy Horse,...
November will kick off with the exclusive online premiere of Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But…,an enigmatic story of family and loss that confirms the German auteur’s status as a modern master. To coincide with the US election on November 3rd, Mubi is proud to exclusively present a new restoration of Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind. Making its way through 400 years of American history, this thought-provoking documentary by John Gianvito visits the resting places of such famed figures as Malcolm X, Mother Jones, Frederick Douglass, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony and Crazy Horse,...
- 11/1/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Stephan Komandarev’s drama has received the top prize, while Lithuanian filmmaker Karolis Kaupinis was crowned Best Director for his debut, Nova Lituania. The 20th edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which ran a hybrid edition from 5-11 May (see the news) due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, announced its winners yesterday during an online awards ceremony. It should be noted that the total amount of the original prize money was divided among all of the competing films in an act of solidarity and support. Also, the 16 competition titles will all be screened in November at the Caligari FilmBühne cinema during the next exground filmfest, where the winner of the Audience Award will also be announced. The festival’s main award, the Golden Lily, went to Rounds by Bulgaria’s Stephan Komandarev, which celebrated its world premiere at Sarajevo last year. Chaired by Christoph Terhechte, the five-member.
Alpine festival running Dec 14-21 reveals details of all industry events.
Jonas Alexander Arnby, Ágnes Kocsis and Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczyńska will be among the directors presenting new projects at Les Arc Film Festival’s Co-production Village, running Dec 15 to 17.
Hungarian filmmaker Kocsis will attend with romantic drama Iron Song, about the real-life love story between Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš and Us writer Kelly Cherry in the 1960s.
Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska will present her first English-language project Silent Twins, about siblings who communicate using a private language of their own creation after spending 14 years in Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital.
Jonas Alexander Arnby, Ágnes Kocsis and Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczyńska will be among the directors presenting new projects at Les Arc Film Festival’s Co-production Village, running Dec 15 to 17.
Hungarian filmmaker Kocsis will attend with romantic drama Iron Song, about the real-life love story between Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš and Us writer Kelly Cherry in the 1960s.
Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska will present her first English-language project Silent Twins, about siblings who communicate using a private language of their own creation after spending 14 years in Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital.
- 11/5/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The sixth edition of the Latvian festival saw the triumph of Karolis Kaupinis’ Nova Lituania. It’s a wrap for the 6th edition of Riga International Film Festival (Riga Iff), which took place from 17-27 October this year. Karolis Kaupinis’ Nova Lituania snagged the most important prize, the Riga Iff Award. The Lithuanian helmer’s feature revolves around an eccentric geography professor (played by Aleksas Kazanavičius) who, sensing the upcoming political turmoil of World War II, has the wild idea of creating a “backup” homeland on a distant island. Meanwhile, the Fipresci Jury Award went to Estonian-French-Belgian co-production Scandinavian Silence by Martti Helde, also recipient of the People’s Choice Award. Finally, the Latvian strand of Russian festival Artdocfest awarded Ksenia Okhapkina’s Immortal. The Estonian-Latvian documentary had a very successful festival run since it won the Grand Prix for Best Documentary Film at Karlovy Vary in July. The prestigious Baltic film event featured.
- 10/28/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The Latvian film by Juris Kursietis has won out over six other Central and Eastern European movies. At the awards ceremony of the 12th edition of CinÉast, held at the Cinémathèque Luxembourg on Saturday 20 October, the international jury presided over by renowned French director-scriptwriter Jacques Doillon awarded the Grand Prix to Oleg by Juris Kursietis (Latvia/Belgium/Lithuania/France) and the Special Jury Prize to Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa (Poland/France). The rest of the jury was composed of Venice Days programmer Renata Santoro, Romanian filmmaker Marius Olteanu, Luxembourgish director-producer Adolf El Assal and Luxembourgish actress Sophie Mousel. The wins for Oleg and Corpus Christi come after a successful run on the festival circuit for both films. In the CinÉast selection, they locked horns with a strong group of movies that also included Cat in the Wall by Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, Nova Lituania by Karolis Kaupinis, Scandinavian Silence by Martti.
- 10/21/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The Greek festival celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Lithuanian director Karolis Kaupinis’ debut feature Nova Lituania won the Golden Athena for the best film at the 25th-anniversary edition of the Athens International Fim Festival on September 29.
The award came with a cash prize of €2,000.
Produced by Vilnius-based M-Films, Nova Litunaia is a satire about the real-life attempts to establish a Lithuanian colony abroad as a devastating world war loomed in the 1930s. The film premiered in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier this year. Dutch outfit Some Shorts is handling international rights.
The...
Lithuanian director Karolis Kaupinis’ debut feature Nova Lituania won the Golden Athena for the best film at the 25th-anniversary edition of the Athens International Fim Festival on September 29.
The award came with a cash prize of €2,000.
Produced by Vilnius-based M-Films, Nova Litunaia is a satire about the real-life attempts to establish a Lithuanian colony abroad as a devastating world war loomed in the 1930s. The film premiered in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier this year. Dutch outfit Some Shorts is handling international rights.
The...
- 9/30/2019
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
In the late 1930s, prior to emigrating to the United States, Lithuanian geographer Kazys Pakstas proposed a radical solution to what he saw as the inevitable eradication of the nation through its assimilation into the German and Russian spheres of influence: The purchase and annexation of a large tract of land on the African or American continent, and the creation there of a “backup Lithuania.” Eighty years later, filmmaker Karolis Kaupinis has taken this eccentric idea as the kernel of truth from which his beautifully poker-faced feature debut can sprout into an elegant, offbeat fiction that is both steeped in pre-war Lithuanian history and starkly relevant to our current moment — wherever nationalism is being invoked for political capital by powerful cowards. Which is to say: almost everywhere.
In appropriate 4:3 ratio (boxed in on either side like the beleaguered nation it examines), and in crisp black-and-white, ‘Nova Lituania’ opens with little context or hand-holding.
In appropriate 4:3 ratio (boxed in on either side like the beleaguered nation it examines), and in crisp black-and-white, ‘Nova Lituania’ opens with little context or hand-holding.
- 7/2/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the first titled in its 2019 lineup, featuring 10 world premieres in its competition section including the Hong Khaou’s drama Monsoon starring Crazy Rich Asians‘ Henry Golding and the lone U.S. feature, Martha Stephens’ black-and-white drama To the Stars starring Kara Hayward.
The fest, which runs June 28-July 6, also unveiled films set for its East of the West, Documentary and Out of Competition sections. The latter lineup includes the world premiere of Martin Krejčí’s The True Adventures of Wolfboy, a U.S. film starring starring Jaeden Martel, Eve Hewson and John Turturro, and the European premiere of Mystify: Michael Hutchence, a documentary about the life of the lead singer of Aussie rock band INXS.
The Documentary section includes the European premiere of Apollo 11, the Todd Douglas Miller
feature-length pic that launched in March in the U.S. tied to...
The fest, which runs June 28-July 6, also unveiled films set for its East of the West, Documentary and Out of Competition sections. The latter lineup includes the world premiere of Martin Krejčí’s The True Adventures of Wolfboy, a U.S. film starring starring Jaeden Martel, Eve Hewson and John Turturro, and the European premiere of Mystify: Michael Hutchence, a documentary about the life of the lead singer of Aussie rock band INXS.
The Documentary section includes the European premiere of Apollo 11, the Todd Douglas Miller
feature-length pic that launched in March in the U.S. tied to...
- 5/28/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Selection includes Hong Khaou’s Monsoon, Jan-Ole Gerster’s Lara and Damjan Kozole’s Half-Sister.
The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28 - July 6) has unveiled the first competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West and Documentary sections.
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The 12-strong main competition will include 10 world premieres and two international premieres.
UK director Hong Khaou’s Monsoon, his follow up to his 2014 Sundance debut Lilting, is among the world premieres. Backed by BBC Films, Monsoon stars Henry Golding, best known for Crazy Rich Asians, as a man struggling with his return to...
The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28 - July 6) has unveiled the first competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West and Documentary sections.
Scroll down for full line-ups
The 12-strong main competition will include 10 world premieres and two international premieres.
UK director Hong Khaou’s Monsoon, his follow up to his 2014 Sundance debut Lilting, is among the world premieres. Backed by BBC Films, Monsoon stars Henry Golding, best known for Crazy Rich Asians, as a man struggling with his return to...
- 5/28/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Lithuanian festival also lauded Zsófia Szilágyi’s debut ‘One Day’.
UK filmmaker Richard Billingham’s autobiographical feature Ray & Liz was named best film of the European Debut Competition at the 24th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania on April 7.
Billingham’s feature debut - which is being handled internationally by Luxbox - had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and has since picked up top awards at festivals ranging from Thessaloniki and Seville to Luxembourg and Batumi.
The best director award was presented to Hungary’s Zsófia Szilágyi for her debut...
UK filmmaker Richard Billingham’s autobiographical feature Ray & Liz was named best film of the European Debut Competition at the 24th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania on April 7.
Billingham’s feature debut - which is being handled internationally by Luxbox - had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and has since picked up top awards at festivals ranging from Thessaloniki and Seville to Luxembourg and Batumi.
The best director award was presented to Hungary’s Zsófia Szilágyi for her debut...
- 4/8/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
A total fo 16 film teams have been selected for this year’s lab.
Less Is More, the European development lab backed by Creative Europe’s Media Programme, has named the 16 film projects and 12 ‘development angels’, the mentors who will nurture the projects, taking part this year.
This year’s selected projects are: Raed Andoni, Exiled From Paradise (Palestine); Harry Ayiotis, Salt On Wound (Cyprus); Michal Bielawski, Accidents (Poland); Andreea Bortun, Blue Banks (Romania); Tudor Botezatu, The Mind Patrol (Romania); Kim Hiorthoy, U.P. 2019
(Norway); Nelicia Low, God Sister (Singapore); Jasna Nanut, Birdie(Croatia); Mark Noonan, When They All Vanish (Ireland), C.
Less Is More, the European development lab backed by Creative Europe’s Media Programme, has named the 16 film projects and 12 ‘development angels’, the mentors who will nurture the projects, taking part this year.
This year’s selected projects are: Raed Andoni, Exiled From Paradise (Palestine); Harry Ayiotis, Salt On Wound (Cyprus); Michal Bielawski, Accidents (Poland); Andreea Bortun, Blue Banks (Romania); Tudor Botezatu, The Mind Patrol (Romania); Kim Hiorthoy, U.P. 2019
(Norway); Nelicia Low, God Sister (Singapore); Jasna Nanut, Birdie(Croatia); Mark Noonan, When They All Vanish (Ireland), C.
- 2/10/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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