Mamoru Oshii was jury president of the new prestigious animation event.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman has scooped the grand prize at the inaugural edition of Niigata International Animation Film Festival (Niaff), which ran in the Japanese port city of Niigata from March 17-23.
The animated feature is the directorial debut of US-born French composer Pierre Földes, who also wrote the screenplay and score, and is based on a collection of short stories by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It ollows the lives of multiple characters as they navigate existence after the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Sold by The Match Factory, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman has scooped the grand prize at the inaugural edition of Niigata International Animation Film Festival (Niaff), which ran in the Japanese port city of Niigata from March 17-23.
The animated feature is the directorial debut of US-born French composer Pierre Földes, who also wrote the screenplay and score, and is based on a collection of short stories by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It ollows the lives of multiple characters as they navigate existence after the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Sold by The Match Factory, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman...
- 3/27/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Algeria’s first animation feature “Khamsa – The Well of Oblivion” by Khaled Chiheb (Aka Vynom), the tale of an amnesiac boy navigating in a strange land, will have its Middle East premiere at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival as part of the fest’s newly introduced New Vision section.
Produced by Algeria’s D-Click Production, the story opens a window on Algerian culture. It follows an amnesiac boy called Adi who wakes up and finds himself down a dark well. After stumbling upon a gigantic underground temple and finding two strange creatures, he tries to regain his memory. To do this he is forced to cross the Door of Oblivion.
Other standouts from the region in this section dedicated to fresh eye-opening pics, most of which are docs, comprise Moroccan director Adnane Baraka’s long-gestating doc “Fragments from Heaven,” about two men – one is a nomad, the other...
Produced by Algeria’s D-Click Production, the story opens a window on Algerian culture. It follows an amnesiac boy called Adi who wakes up and finds himself down a dark well. After stumbling upon a gigantic underground temple and finding two strange creatures, he tries to regain his memory. To do this he is forced to cross the Door of Oblivion.
Other standouts from the region in this section dedicated to fresh eye-opening pics, most of which are docs, comprise Moroccan director Adnane Baraka’s long-gestating doc “Fragments from Heaven,” about two men – one is a nomad, the other...
- 11/16/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The new section aims to programme films “addressing unique topics with a lens that will challenge and delight.”
Mark Jenkin’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Enys Men and Jacquelyn Mills’ Berlinale Forum documentary Geographies Of Solitude are among eight features programmed in Red Sea: New Vision, a new programme strand in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff).
The section has no geographical boundaries, and is aiming to “celebrate films that stand out, addressing unique topics with a lens that will challenge and delight” according to the festival.
Scroll down for the New Vision titles
The selection includes...
Mark Jenkin’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Enys Men and Jacquelyn Mills’ Berlinale Forum documentary Geographies Of Solitude are among eight features programmed in Red Sea: New Vision, a new programme strand in Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff).
The section has no geographical boundaries, and is aiming to “celebrate films that stand out, addressing unique topics with a lens that will challenge and delight” according to the festival.
Scroll down for the New Vision titles
The selection includes...
- 11/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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