The 19th Annual Fantasia Film Festival is only a week away, beginning July 14 and running through August 4. And as promised for today, they’ve revealed their full line-up of films screening at 2015’s festival in Montreal.
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
- 7/7/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will head committee to choose country's first flagbearer in 50 years
Pakistan is planning to submit a film for the best foreign-language Oscar for the first time in 50 years, reports Variety.
The committee responsible for picking the entry has reportedly received tacit support from the Pakistan authorities, despite professing independence. Pakistan has only previously sent two movies to the Academy Awards since the foreign-language category was created in 1965: Akhtar J Kardar's Jago Hua Savera in 1959 and Khawaja Khurshid Anwar's Ghunghat in 1963.
British-Pakistani director Hammad Khan told Variety: "Pakistan has not officially submitted any films for the Academy Awards consideration in 50 years because the state has never taken film seriously, neither as a cultural art form nor as a valuable communal experience." The film-maker, whose 2011 debut feature Slackistan was refused a release in Pakistan unless cuts (which he refused to make) were carried out, added: "In all those years,...
Pakistan is planning to submit a film for the best foreign-language Oscar for the first time in 50 years, reports Variety.
The committee responsible for picking the entry has reportedly received tacit support from the Pakistan authorities, despite professing independence. Pakistan has only previously sent two movies to the Academy Awards since the foreign-language category was created in 1965: Akhtar J Kardar's Jago Hua Savera in 1959 and Khawaja Khurshid Anwar's Ghunghat in 1963.
British-Pakistani director Hammad Khan told Variety: "Pakistan has not officially submitted any films for the Academy Awards consideration in 50 years because the state has never taken film seriously, neither as a cultural art form nor as a valuable communal experience." The film-maker, whose 2011 debut feature Slackistan was refused a release in Pakistan unless cuts (which he refused to make) were carried out, added: "In all those years,...
- 8/2/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Slackistan didn’t get a release in Pakistan as the local censor body refused it distribution license
The digital film did raise considerable attention amongst knowing circles, courtesy of an unimpressive trailer online and a much publicized claim that Slackistan has been refused a public exhibition by the Censor Board of Film Censors (Cbfc) on grounds of scenes involving objectionable language and consumption of alcohol.
Slacker: i: a person who shuns or avoids work or other obligations;
ii: a person who avoids military service;
iii: or an educated person who is antimaterialistic, purposeless, apathetic and usually works in a dead-end job.
The beginning of Richard Linklater’s seminal feature debut Slacker offered a clear denotation of its title. The film showcased all the variants on the meaning of the word inherently attached with the spirit (or therefore lack of) of Generation X and subsequently launched a luminous career for Linklater.
The digital film did raise considerable attention amongst knowing circles, courtesy of an unimpressive trailer online and a much publicized claim that Slackistan has been refused a public exhibition by the Censor Board of Film Censors (Cbfc) on grounds of scenes involving objectionable language and consumption of alcohol.
Slacker: i: a person who shuns or avoids work or other obligations;
ii: a person who avoids military service;
iii: or an educated person who is antimaterialistic, purposeless, apathetic and usually works in a dead-end job.
The beginning of Richard Linklater’s seminal feature debut Slacker offered a clear denotation of its title. The film showcased all the variants on the meaning of the word inherently attached with the spirit (or therefore lack of) of Generation X and subsequently launched a luminous career for Linklater.
- 9/9/2011
- by Zia Ahmad
- DearCinema.com
Unfortunate rhyming headlines aside, the trailer for Slackistan makes it look like the Reality Bites of Islamabad. The movie from newcomer Hammad Khan features the restlessness of 20-somethings in Pakistan’s capital city as they go from being talented students to being unemployed and without direction. Pakistan has effectively banned the movie’s release (even as it rocks its way around UK theaters and international festivals) by not allowing it passage through the hallowed Central Board of Film Censors (the only body that could make us appreciate the MPAA). Check out the trailer for yourself and the list of sins perpetrated by this banned movie: It’s definitely got a mid-90s Us indie vibe to it. A lot to do in the city but not much will to do it, a world of lazy repetition, the difficulty of finding a job with meaning, the sitting around wondering if girls are looking at you. The...
- 1/27/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The country's liberal youth are up in arms, and no wonder: their film board has just delivered what looks like a big blow to free speech
Hammad Khan, director of Slackistan – the coming-of-age film about a bunch of bored, rich young Pakistanis cruising around Islamabad with nothing to do – could have probably seen it coming.
After two and a half months of deliberating, Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors (Cbfc) announced yesterday that it has officially banned the movie from cinema release, unless it makes extensive cuts which would which Khan says would undermine the film in its totality.
Even with the cuts, the film would still only be classified with an 18+ certificate, meaning the teenage audience, to whom the film is geared to as much to its 20 and 30-something viewers, won't be able to see it.
Why? Because Slackistan contains the word "Taliban", the word "lesbian", swear words in English and Urdu,...
Hammad Khan, director of Slackistan – the coming-of-age film about a bunch of bored, rich young Pakistanis cruising around Islamabad with nothing to do – could have probably seen it coming.
After two and a half months of deliberating, Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors (Cbfc) announced yesterday that it has officially banned the movie from cinema release, unless it makes extensive cuts which would which Khan says would undermine the film in its totality.
Even with the cuts, the film would still only be classified with an 18+ certificate, meaning the teenage audience, to whom the film is geared to as much to its 20 and 30-something viewers, won't be able to see it.
Why? Because Slackistan contains the word "Taliban", the word "lesbian", swear words in English and Urdu,...
- 1/27/2011
- by Huma Qureshi
- The Guardian - Film News
Unstoppable (12A)
(Tony Scott, 2010, Us) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn. 98 mins
This literally one-track action thriller is the perfect fit for Scott, Hollywood's master of manliness and heavy machinery. It's based on a true story that just happens to have a plot like a disaster movie: a massive, unmanned train carrying hazardous chemicals is hurtling towards populated areas; might the prickly railroad veteran and his rookie partner just be able to stop it? Everyone knows where it's going but it's got enough momentum to smash through to the finish, and the purity of the premise is a good fit with Scott's visual excess.
The American (15)
(Anton Corbijn, 2010, Us) George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli. 105 mins
Corbijn follows up Control with a sparse, existential hitman thriller in the Le Samourai/Day Of The Jackal mould, with Clooney in picturesque Italy. Apart from the classy visuals, it...
(Tony Scott, 2010, Us) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn. 98 mins
This literally one-track action thriller is the perfect fit for Scott, Hollywood's master of manliness and heavy machinery. It's based on a true story that just happens to have a plot like a disaster movie: a massive, unmanned train carrying hazardous chemicals is hurtling towards populated areas; might the prickly railroad veteran and his rookie partner just be able to stop it? Everyone knows where it's going but it's got enough momentum to smash through to the finish, and the purity of the premise is a good fit with Scott's visual excess.
The American (15)
(Anton Corbijn, 2010, Us) George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli. 105 mins
Corbijn follows up Control with a sparse, existential hitman thriller in the Le Samourai/Day Of The Jackal mould, with Clooney in picturesque Italy. Apart from the classy visuals, it...
- 11/27/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
The fear of a terrorist attack versus the struggle to get hold of a Scorsese film: two contrasting films show different facets of life in the Pakistani capital
It's one of the great cliches of travel writing: flick through any city guide and you'll most likely find your destination branded a "city of contradictions". In most cases, of course, it does actually happen to be true, as two films about the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, show this week.
The first, City of Fear (Channel 4, tonight, 8pm), is a harrowing documentary that follows the police and people of Islamabad as the city faces an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks: more than 3,500 people have been killed in suicide blasts in the past three years.
The second, Slackistan (out on 28 November), is very different. Billed as "Pakistan's first slacker movie", with a strapline, "Think you know Pakistan, think again", the posse of wealthy,...
It's one of the great cliches of travel writing: flick through any city guide and you'll most likely find your destination branded a "city of contradictions". In most cases, of course, it does actually happen to be true, as two films about the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, show this week.
The first, City of Fear (Channel 4, tonight, 8pm), is a harrowing documentary that follows the police and people of Islamabad as the city faces an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks: more than 3,500 people have been killed in suicide blasts in the past three years.
The second, Slackistan (out on 28 November), is very different. Billed as "Pakistan's first slacker movie", with a strapline, "Think you know Pakistan, think again", the posse of wealthy,...
- 11/22/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
"Slackistan" director Hammad Khan is on a mission. Pakistani by birth, Khan doesn't hail from a country known for its thriving film industry. Back in the 1960s and '70s, the biz was alive and well in Pakistan. Today it has all but vanished. Since first premiering at the Raindance Film Festival in London, and playing at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival earlier this month, Khan's first feature "Slackistan" has been ...
- 10/29/2010
- Indiewire
"South Asia" takes in a lot of territory, both literally and culturally/aesthetically, so you've got to hand it to the fest and programmer Galen Rosenthal in particular: the diversity of themes, styles, and genres on display in this year's Saiff is downright stunning. The easier path would have been to pick a brow--low, middle, or high--and stick with it, thus playing it safe by appealing to a certain target audience and stacking the deck accordingly. Instead, this year's Saiff goes after movie-lovers in all shapes and sizes. There are wide-ranging approaches to filmmaking on display, from the boldly experimental to crowd-pleasing popcorn fare, and with both veterans and up-and-comers well-represented. Yet because of that same diversity, fest-goers may welcome some guidance, so with that in mind I offer up the following preview of what's on tap.
Harud ("Autumn")
Managing somehow to be both meditative and seething, Harud represents quite...
Harud ("Autumn")
Managing somehow to be both meditative and seething, Harud represents quite...
- 10/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Reviewed at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
"Slackistan," the first feature from Hammad Khan, belongs to that familiar breed of film about life as someone young, aimless and under- or unemployed, with too much time to fill in the company of funny friends -- think "Reality Bites," or "Swingers" (a film given more than one tip of the hat here), or "Kicking and Screaming," or countless others. What sets "Slackistan" apart from the pack is the fact that it's centered in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan and "the city that always sleeps," according to our hero and sometimes narrator Hasan (Shahbaz Hamid Shigri), a would-be filmmaker who's managed to obtain an Hdv camera but has so far left it sitting in its box.
The post-collegiate twentysomethings in "Slackistan" are wealthy, and there's no question in the movie that their standard issue quarterlife issues about identity, how to get started on...
"Slackistan," the first feature from Hammad Khan, belongs to that familiar breed of film about life as someone young, aimless and under- or unemployed, with too much time to fill in the company of funny friends -- think "Reality Bites," or "Swingers" (a film given more than one tip of the hat here), or "Kicking and Screaming," or countless others. What sets "Slackistan" apart from the pack is the fact that it's centered in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan and "the city that always sleeps," according to our hero and sometimes narrator Hasan (Shahbaz Hamid Shigri), a would-be filmmaker who's managed to obtain an Hdv camera but has so far left it sitting in its box.
The post-collegiate twentysomethings in "Slackistan" are wealthy, and there's no question in the movie that their standard issue quarterlife issues about identity, how to get started on...
- 10/18/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Hammad Khan greets me amiably at the entrance of his modest office in the British Board of Film Classification in the heart of London's Soho Square. To make a living, Khan watches and rates films, an enviable occupation, especially considering there's a film theatre in his office. His real passion, not surprisingly, is film-making, and this year he releases Slackistan, a low-budget, independent feature film set in Islamabad. The film revolves around a group of directionless twenty-somethings, bored of their own privilege and social position. By focusing on the pretty young things of Islamabad, Khan hopes to tell a new story about Pakistan, one that doesn't reiterate the familiar narrative about suicide bombings, corruption, violence, and radical Islam. For a young man who grew up in England, the focus of his film is unexpected - or is it? Khan moved...
- 1/18/2010
- by Nosheen Abbas
- Huffington Post
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