The French gathering is focusing on the Baltic country and features Estonian short films in the Official Competition, projects in the Coproduction Village and a batch of well-known films. For the first time ever, the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival is focusing on four countries (see the news), and Estonia will be one of the nations under the spotlight at the leading French gathering from 14-21 December. The country will be represented by two short films in the Official Competition, two projects in the Coproduction Village, as well as two features and five shorts that will be screened under the umbrella of the special spotlight. Audiences will be able to enjoy a double Estonian presentation in the Short Films Competition, which will be screened in the Igloo, a screening room made of snow and perched at an altitude of 2,200 metres. Estonian animation director Chintis Lundgren, who currently resides in...
- 12/12/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Estonia is marching on as one of Europe’s leading creative forces within the industry, Tiffany Pritchard reports.
Estonia’s long history of animation dates back to the early 1930s with a more experimental approach that is still practiced today.
With current studios including A Film Estonia, Joonisfilm, and Nukufilm as well as the Black Nights Film Festival’s sub strand Animation Dreams - Estonia is marching on as one of Europe’s leading creative forces within the industry.
Animation Dreams
The independently run festival operates as a sub-strand under the Black Nights Film Festival from Nov 18-22.
International works are presented in the Main competition, Student competition and the Panorama section which will feature the World Premiere of Jurgis Krason’s The Face (Latvia).
Estonian artists are highlighted in the New Estonian section that features nine shorts including Chintis Lundgren’s award-winning Life with Herman H Rott and Ulo Pikkov’s Zebra and All The Curtains...
Estonia’s long history of animation dates back to the early 1930s with a more experimental approach that is still practiced today.
With current studios including A Film Estonia, Joonisfilm, and Nukufilm as well as the Black Nights Film Festival’s sub strand Animation Dreams - Estonia is marching on as one of Europe’s leading creative forces within the industry.
Animation Dreams
The independently run festival operates as a sub-strand under the Black Nights Film Festival from Nov 18-22.
International works are presented in the Main competition, Student competition and the Panorama section which will feature the World Premiere of Jurgis Krason’s The Face (Latvia).
Estonian artists are highlighted in the New Estonian section that features nine shorts including Chintis Lundgren’s award-winning Life with Herman H Rott and Ulo Pikkov’s Zebra and All The Curtains...
- 11/20/2015
- ScreenDaily
Iceland’s Gunnar Jonsson gets a special mention; Jerzy Skolimowski [pictured] is honoured as Motovun Maverick.
The 18thedition of Croatia’s Motovun Film Festival ended on July 29 with the main award, Propeller of Motovun, going to the French-Belgian film The Wakhan Front directed by Clément Cogitore.
The psychological thriller, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, is about a French captain assigned on a control and surveillance mission in a remote valley on the Afghan-Pakistan border, whose troops start mysteriously disappearing.
The jury said it was “a war film that avoids all stereotypes about war. Instead, it speaks with magical and original cinematic language, telling a story of the soldiers of a French unit in Afghanistan, far from their families. A film about faith, beliefs and searching for truth while questioning what is right and what is wrong.”
A special mention went to Icelandic actor Gunnar Jónsson for his role in Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain, with the jury...
The 18thedition of Croatia’s Motovun Film Festival ended on July 29 with the main award, Propeller of Motovun, going to the French-Belgian film The Wakhan Front directed by Clément Cogitore.
The psychological thriller, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, is about a French captain assigned on a control and surveillance mission in a remote valley on the Afghan-Pakistan border, whose troops start mysteriously disappearing.
The jury said it was “a war film that avoids all stereotypes about war. Instead, it speaks with magical and original cinematic language, telling a story of the soldiers of a French unit in Afghanistan, far from their families. A film about faith, beliefs and searching for truth while questioning what is right and what is wrong.”
A special mention went to Icelandic actor Gunnar Jónsson for his role in Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain, with the jury...
- 8/3/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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