Iffi to screen festival favorites Blue is the Warmest Colour, Ilo Ilo, The Past among others
A still from The Coffin Maker
Two Indian Films; Apu’s Song by Kaushik Ganguly and The Coffin Maker by Veena Bakshi have been selected in the International Competition section at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) to be held in Goa from November 20-30, 2013.
Apu’s Song is a real-life story inspired by Subir Banerjee, the child actor who played the iconic role of Apu in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. The film released theatrically in August 1955 and it has been 58 long years hence. But ironically Subir never became a part of any film again in his entire life. On his way to receive an award in a film festival in Germany, he reminisces about his life.
The Coffin Maker by Veena Bakshi (India) is set in a small village in Goa.
A still from The Coffin Maker
Two Indian Films; Apu’s Song by Kaushik Ganguly and The Coffin Maker by Veena Bakshi have been selected in the International Competition section at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) to be held in Goa from November 20-30, 2013.
Apu’s Song is a real-life story inspired by Subir Banerjee, the child actor who played the iconic role of Apu in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. The film released theatrically in August 1955 and it has been 58 long years hence. But ironically Subir never became a part of any film again in his entire life. On his way to receive an award in a film festival in Germany, he reminisces about his life.
The Coffin Maker by Veena Bakshi (India) is set in a small village in Goa.
- 11/13/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Russian distributor Luxor has picked up the upcoming film from actor/producer Alexander Nevsky, Black Rose, shooting in Moscow until July 7.
The production by Nevsky’s own La-based company Hollywood Storm has a cast including Kristanna Loken, Adrian Paul, Robert Davi, Matthias Hues, and world champion ballroom dancer and fitness model Oksana Sidorenko.
The screenplay by Brent Huff and George Saunders centres on a Moscow police major (played by Nevsky) who travels to Los Angeles to help the local police there investigate a series of murders in the Russian immigrant community.
After the Moscow shoot, the film will move to Los Angeles, and theatrical release is planned for December 2013.
Depardieu to play Caucasian hermit
Russian citizen Gérard Depardieu is to follow his title role in Irakli Kvirikadze’s Rasputin, which will close the Moscow International Film Festival on Saturday (June 29), with a part as a Caucasian hermit in Polish film-maker Jan Jakub Kolski’s next feature, My Mother...
The production by Nevsky’s own La-based company Hollywood Storm has a cast including Kristanna Loken, Adrian Paul, Robert Davi, Matthias Hues, and world champion ballroom dancer and fitness model Oksana Sidorenko.
The screenplay by Brent Huff and George Saunders centres on a Moscow police major (played by Nevsky) who travels to Los Angeles to help the local police there investigate a series of murders in the Russian immigrant community.
After the Moscow shoot, the film will move to Los Angeles, and theatrical release is planned for December 2013.
Depardieu to play Caucasian hermit
Russian citizen Gérard Depardieu is to follow his title role in Irakli Kvirikadze’s Rasputin, which will close the Moscow International Film Festival on Saturday (June 29), with a part as a Caucasian hermit in Polish film-maker Jan Jakub Kolski’s next feature, My Mother...
- 6/25/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Jan Kidawa-Blonski's "Little Rose" was the big winner at this year's Tiburon International Film Festival, snagging Best Film at the event which wrapped on April 15 in Tiburon, California. Below find the full list of winners: Best Film: "Little Rose" by Jan Kidawa-Blonski [Poland] Best Director: Jan Kidawa-Blonski for "Little Rose" [Poland] Best Actor: Miroslav Donutil for "Novel for Men" [Czech Republic] Best Actress: Magdalena Boczarska for "Little Rose" [Poland] ...
- 4/18/2011
- Indiewire
Understanding Trafficking, a documentary by Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti won the Humanitarian Award at the Tiburon International Film Festival 2011 which concluded recently.
“Understanding Trafficking stresses the difference between women who migrate and join the sex trade and women who are trafficked into the sex trade”, as stated on the official website of the festival, “…it is wrong to classify all women who make it to the world’s oldest profession as victims of trafficking. That’s what filmmaker Ananya Chatterjee-Chakraborti’s film Understanding Trafficking seeks to convey.”
Ananya Chatterjee-Chakraborti is a filmmaker and television journalist. She heads the Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and has made several documentaries on women’s issues before like Dwitiya Paksha, Gandhari and Half Way Home.
Polish film Little Rose was adjudged Best Film while it’s director Jan Kidawa-Blonski was declared Best Director at the festival which was...
“Understanding Trafficking stresses the difference between women who migrate and join the sex trade and women who are trafficked into the sex trade”, as stated on the official website of the festival, “…it is wrong to classify all women who make it to the world’s oldest profession as victims of trafficking. That’s what filmmaker Ananya Chatterjee-Chakraborti’s film Understanding Trafficking seeks to convey.”
Ananya Chatterjee-Chakraborti is a filmmaker and television journalist. She heads the Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and has made several documentaries on women’s issues before like Dwitiya Paksha, Gandhari and Half Way Home.
Polish film Little Rose was adjudged Best Film while it’s director Jan Kidawa-Blonski was declared Best Director at the festival which was...
- 4/17/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The annal Toronto Jewish Film Festival in Toronto kicks off May 7 with 118 films from 21 countries, including 1 world premiere, 1 international premiere, 3 North American premieres, 34 Canadian Premieres, 7 free programmes and 1 World Class Film Festival. The festival runs until the 15 of May and will also feature a tribute to “Three Lennys” – Bernstein, Cohen and Bruce – with special guests Alexander Bernstein and Kitty Bruce; and with Offerings From Eytan Fox, Lou Reed, Claude Lanzmann, Dani Levy, Tony Palmer. Also the festival will screen China’s First Animated Film To Deal With The Holocaust.
Here is the official press release:
One of the largest festivals of its kind in the world, Tjff returns May 7 and runs through May 15, with films from 21 countries that reflect aspects of Jewish identity and diversity with universal themes. This year’s Tjff features 118 films from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia,...
Here is the official press release:
One of the largest festivals of its kind in the world, Tjff returns May 7 and runs through May 15, with films from 21 countries that reflect aspects of Jewish identity and diversity with universal themes. This year’s Tjff features 118 films from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia,...
- 4/6/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Historical retellings need to stay within the confines of fact, so they to follow a bit of a formula. There's nothing wrong with a formula -- there's a reason why bakers follow recipes. Little Rose tells the story of a woman forced to spy on a professor suspected of conspiring against the Communist party in place in post WWII Poland. And it tells it by-the-numbers, from a preassembled kit of spy films and fascist European assembly kits. It's a damn fine film, with solid acting and decent enough story, but it's nothing astonishing or revolutionary. This particular aspect of history -- the communist stranglehold over the intellegencia of the revolutionaries and students -- has been told before, but never to my recollection in 1960's Poland. Again, the risk of basing your tale in solid fact is that it kind of pins you like a collector's butterfly from going really wild with your storytelling and adventuring.
- 1/19/2011
- by Brian Prisco
Moscow -- Director Marcel Rasquin's Venezuelan soccer player drama "Hermano" ("Brother") won the Moscow International Film Festival's top prize, the Golden George, as the fest's 32nd edition came to a close Saturday.
The festival's special prize, the Silver George, went to "Der Albaner" ("The Albanian"), a story of an Albanian immigrant living in Germany. The Albanian-German co-production was directed by Johannes Naber and also earned best actor honors for Nik Xhelilaj.
French director and producer Luc Besson presided over the festival jury.
Poland's Jan Kidawa-Blonski collected the Silver George for best director for "Rozyczka" ("Little Rose"), a drama set in Socialist Poland in the late 1960s. Czech actress Vilma Cibulkova was named best actress for her role in "Zemsky raj to na pohled" ("An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes").
Borys Lankosz's "Rewers" ("Reverse") topped the Perspective competition program as best film.
French director Claude Lelouch, whose "What Love...
The festival's special prize, the Silver George, went to "Der Albaner" ("The Albanian"), a story of an Albanian immigrant living in Germany. The Albanian-German co-production was directed by Johannes Naber and also earned best actor honors for Nik Xhelilaj.
French director and producer Luc Besson presided over the festival jury.
Poland's Jan Kidawa-Blonski collected the Silver George for best director for "Rozyczka" ("Little Rose"), a drama set in Socialist Poland in the late 1960s. Czech actress Vilma Cibulkova was named best actress for her role in "Zemsky raj to na pohled" ("An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes").
Borys Lankosz's "Rewers" ("Reverse") topped the Perspective competition program as best film.
French director Claude Lelouch, whose "What Love...
- 6/26/2010
- by By Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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