Adelaide Film Festival has announced its full program of 142 films, including 23 world premieres and 40 Australian premieres such as Ai Weiwei’s documentary Human Flow and the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties. Under the banner of Vive Le Punk the Adelaide Film Festival will take place over 11 days this year, based at GU Filmhouse, with further events radiating out to Mercury Cinema, Palace East End, Port Adelaide and the Tonsley Innovation Precinct. Following from the festival’s early August program announcement, which included the Martin Freeman-starring Cargo, Sweet Country from Warwick Thornton…
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‘No Date, No Signature’ directed by Vahid Jalilvand has been selected as one of the two Iranian representatives at the Horizons section of the 74th Venice Film Festival, August 30-September 9, No Date, No Signature’ premiered at the 35th Fajr Film Festival in February and won the best director award. It is Jalilvand’s second feature film and tells the story of a forensic doctor who comes across a corpse he knows from the past.Amir Aghaee, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Hediyeh Tehrani and Saeed Dakh play in the 104-minute film. Jalilvand’s debut directorial work ‘Wednesday, May 9’ won the INTERFILM award at the…
A new Bob Dylan concert film is set to premiere at the 2017 New York Film Festival, as Variety notes. Trouble No More, directed by Jennifer Lebeau, features rare concert footage from Dylan’s “born again” era, capturing performances in Toronto and Buffalo from the final leg of the gospel-inflected 1979-80 tour. The film also includes sermons written by writer/critic Luc Sante and delivered by actor Michael Shannon. The “born again” era of Dylan’s career, which spanned three albums, is set to be explored in a new book and Bootleg Series box set, both due this fall. The New York Film…
The Misogynists might be the first (but probably not the last) movie on Donald Trump’s presidential election upset. The film is being unveiled in time for the festivals and the anniversary of that historic night last November. Onur Tukel, who is coming off the Sandra Oh-Anne Heche comedy Catfight, quietly shot the film this summer with Dylan Baker starring in a satirical dark comedy about two Trump supporters celebrating in a hotel room on election night. The film is produced by Gigi Graff and also stars Ivana Milicevic, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Jamie Block and Nana Mensah. The filmmakers are eyeing…
We caught up with Bosnian director Zlatko Pranjić, who participated in Sarajevo Film Festival’s Documentary Competition with his film Guidance Through the Black Hole, co-directed with Aleksandar Nikolić. Source: Cineuropa
Slovenian filmmaker Damjan Kozole won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, worth €20,000, at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink for his new project Half-Sister (see the news), a story of two estranged sisters who are, after 25 years of barely seeing each other, forced by circumstances to share an apartment. Cineuropa spoke to Kozole about his project, the award, how the production landscape in Europe has been changing over the last 20 years, and what kind of trends in filmmaking he sees as being positive. Cineuropa: In your films, you often take family ties or relationships between friends as a starting…
Four Iranian films were honored during the closing ceremony of the 2nd Kargil International Film Festival in the Indian city on August 23. Yusef Jafari received the award for best director for his documentary “Chocolate Story”, while Milad Jarmuz was picked as best director for his short film “Numbness”. “Light Sight” directed by Seyyed Moslem Tabatabai was selected as best animation and Marzieh Kheirkhah received the award for best director for her animation, “In the Crosshairs”. Movies from other countries also received awards at the event. The award for best documentary went to “Moonlight Princess” by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss from…
SHETLAND’S annual film festival is “better than Cannes” with celebrities queuing up to take part, according to the UK’s leading film critic. Mark Kermode has given a glowing five stars to the island festival, Screenplay, which opened on Friday and this year features actor Bill Nighy on the opening weekend of his new film. Previous guests have included Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter, Miranda Richardson and Terence Davies who was inspired by Shetland to begin work on his acclaimed film version of Sunset Song. “Shetland is better than Cannes,” said Kermode, who helps to curate Screenplay…
Here are a few of the much-anticipated highlights of the 74th Venice International Film Festival — a mix of big and small films, beginning with the one that will be shown on opening night. Downsizing Alexander Payne, the director of “Nebraska” and “Sideways,” takes on a science fiction premise about the problem of overpopulation. Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig star as a couple who join a project to miniaturize humans and as a result take up less space on the planet. Mr. Payne’s pedigree promises a dramatic focus on the characters rather than on novelty computer-generated imagery (or C.G.I.) —…
AFTER a successful inaugural edition early this year, the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest) and the Malaysia Golden Global Awards (MGGA) will return once again next year. Supported by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas), Tourism Malaysia and several local film associations, the coming festival will follow the theme of humanity. MIFFest will have a six-day run from Feb 25 to March 2, culminating with the MGGA awards ceremony on March 3. “This year, we had 23 international films that were screened. We’re looking at more than 25 for the next edition. This will be films from all over the…