Vienna-based sales agent Square Eyes has acquired international rights to Theo Montoya’s debut feature “Anhell69,” ahead of its world premiere in Venice Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week. The producers include Bianca Oana, who also produced Alexander Nanau’s Oscar-nominated doc “Collective,” and Berlinale winner “Touch Me Not” by Adina Pintilie.
A haunting, cinematic portrait of the young queer scene in Medellín, “Anhell69” follows Montoya’s short film on the same subject, “Son on Sodom,” which premiered in Cannes 2020.
In “Anhell69,” a funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín forms the cast for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, like many friends of the director. “Anhell69” explores the dreams,...
A haunting, cinematic portrait of the young queer scene in Medellín, “Anhell69” follows Montoya’s short film on the same subject, “Son on Sodom,” which premiered in Cannes 2020.
In “Anhell69,” a funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín forms the cast for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, like many friends of the director. “Anhell69” explores the dreams,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Documentary explores the fight for female emancipation in the Middle East.
Prague-based sales agent Filmotor has boarded Samaher Alqadi’s feature documentary debut As I Want, which is set to play in competition at Cph:dox next week.
The film premiered in the Encounters section of the Berlinale last month and will receive its international debut in the F:act Competition of Copenhagen’s Cph:dox on April 22.
The documentary begins in 2013, during the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. Palestinian filmmaker Alqadi picked up her camera as a weapon against the explosion of sexual violence that was occurring on Cairo’s Tahrir...
Prague-based sales agent Filmotor has boarded Samaher Alqadi’s feature documentary debut As I Want, which is set to play in competition at Cph:dox next week.
The film premiered in the Encounters section of the Berlinale last month and will receive its international debut in the F:act Competition of Copenhagen’s Cph:dox on April 22.
The documentary begins in 2013, during the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. Palestinian filmmaker Alqadi picked up her camera as a weapon against the explosion of sexual violence that was occurring on Cairo’s Tahrir...
- 4/16/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
UK festival also announces best feature and emerging filmmaker winners.
Chilean director Gabriela Pena has scooped £10,000 in development funding for upcoming feature Here, The Silence Is Heard at the UK’s Open City Documentary Festival.
It marks the second time the grant has been awarded through the festival’s Assembly documentary development lab and was one of six projects that took part in the programme, which ran online from September 3-8.
The autobiographical documentary follows Pena’s return to her family home in Chile, which her parents had to abandon during the Pinochet dictatorship. Helping her grandparents write their memoirs...
Chilean director Gabriela Pena has scooped £10,000 in development funding for upcoming feature Here, The Silence Is Heard at the UK’s Open City Documentary Festival.
It marks the second time the grant has been awarded through the festival’s Assembly documentary development lab and was one of six projects that took part in the programme, which ran online from September 3-8.
The autobiographical documentary follows Pena’s return to her family home in Chile, which her parents had to abandon during the Pinochet dictatorship. Helping her grandparents write their memoirs...
- 9/15/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Isabelle Tollenaere's The Remembered Film (2018) is exclusively playing on Mubi from March 5 - April 4, 2020 in Mubi's Brief Encounters series. There are a few elements that led to the making of this short film. It was foremost remembering the very young British war reenactors I had once seen at a reenactment festival in England when working on my previous film Battles. How I was taken aback and moved by them, because they so clearly reminded me of all these young people that have been sent and are still send off to war today, while the boys I saw were merely playing war.Then there were two books. Paul Virilio's War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, in which he writes about the many connections between the two, one of them being the element of spectacle. How "war can never break free from the magical spectacle because its very purpose is to produce that spectacle.
- 3/12/2020
- MUBI
Tracking down the work of female directors to stream can require dedication. We’re here to help…
It’s International Women’s Day this weekend, which you’d think presents an easy enough opportunity for streaming sites to promote a timely season or two: a selection of feminist films, or key works by female film-makers, and so on. Yet there doesn’t appear to be much out there. Perhaps marketing films by and about 50% of the world’s population for a single day strikes the big guns as unnecessary; perhaps it doesn’t occur to them at all. Yet at a time when, on balance, even major female directors’ films tend to be harder to track down online than those by their male counterparts, it seems worth doing some curating on one’s own.
Mubi is the one site marking the occasion, streaming Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s elegant, empowering coming-of-age...
It’s International Women’s Day this weekend, which you’d think presents an easy enough opportunity for streaming sites to promote a timely season or two: a selection of feminist films, or key works by female film-makers, and so on. Yet there doesn’t appear to be much out there. Perhaps marketing films by and about 50% of the world’s population for a single day strikes the big guns as unnecessary; perhaps it doesn’t occur to them at all. Yet at a time when, on balance, even major female directors’ films tend to be harder to track down online than those by their male counterparts, it seems worth doing some curating on one’s own.
Mubi is the one site marking the occasion, streaming Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s elegant, empowering coming-of-age...
- 3/7/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
We present the brand-new trailer for the Forum entry Victoria, directed by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere. Belgian filmmakers Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere have world-premiered their docu-fiction hybrid Victoria in the 70th Berlinale's Forum section, and now the film's production company, Caviar, and international sales agent, Czech firm Filmotor, have readied a new trailer for the film. In the Mojave Desert, not far from Los Angeles, lies the unfinished city of California City. Lashay T Warren (25) left behind his turbulent past in La to build a new life within this grid of thousands of crumbled streets. “It started with an anecdote, a story we picked up somewhere, about a city in a desert, California City, which hadn’t (yet) fulfilled its promise to become the third-largest city in California. Driven by curiosity to this unfinished place, we ended up there together and found.
The strand’s 50th anniversary to open with a previously unfinished film by late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.
Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...
- 1/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe great French actor Stéphane Audran has died at the age of 85. David Hudson provides a thoughtful remembrance and career overview for The Daily.Following their producer-director collaboration on Amazon's underrated Red Oaks series, 90s contemporaries Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh are re-teaming for a most promising new Starz series entitled Now Apocalypse. Recommended VIEWINGFilm critic and Museum of Modern Art curator Dave Kehr investigates the many aspects that compose a western, and more largely, the genre's influence, origins, legacy, and future, in this wonderful video essay:The first trailer for Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell's long anticipated (and Thomas Pynchon inspired?) follow up to It Follows:Kino Lorber is re-releasing Personal Problems, a forgotten masterwork by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) and an early and essential experiment in video filmmaking. Here's...
- 3/28/2018
- MUBI
Isabelle Tollenaere's Battles (2015) is exclusively playing on Mubi from March 28 - April 27, 2018 in most countries around the world. More than anything, I love walking into a cinema uninhibited. A fragment from a synopsis, an image from the film, or the recollection of the filmmaker’s previous work, are what draw me to the cinema. I don’t want to know or see anything more beforehand, I’d rather it’d be even less. Cinema as an unannounced world which unfolds itself, a window that lights up as soon as the lights of the cinema go down. Whenever I have to introduce Battles to an audience, I don’t reveal too much in advance. I want the spectator to dive into the darkness of the cinema equally unaware, and wake up to the universe of Battles. So that we only search for the words to express what we witnessed afterwards.
- 3/28/2018
- MUBI
The Points North Institute has unveiled unveiled the lineup for its eighth annual Points North Forum. The three-day documentary-focused conference program runs concurrently with the Camden International Film Festival (Ciff) from September 16 – 18 at the historic Camden Opera House and Rockport Opera House in Camden and Rockport, Maine.
This year’s program will include four masterclasses focused on directing, editing, producing and interactive media, panel discussions, case studies, networking events and the seventh annual Points North Pitch, part of the yearlong Points North Fellowship for six filmmakers with feature documentaries in development. Those masterclasses will be taught by director Ezra Edelman, director and cinematographer Kirsten Johnson, producer Julie Goldman, veteran editor Joe Bini and interactive media pioneer Hugues Sweeney of the National Film Board of Canada.
A full conference schedule and list of industry delegates can be found online, right here. For filmmakers looking to crack various aspects of...
This year’s program will include four masterclasses focused on directing, editing, producing and interactive media, panel discussions, case studies, networking events and the seventh annual Points North Pitch, part of the yearlong Points North Fellowship for six filmmakers with feature documentaries in development. Those masterclasses will be taught by director Ezra Edelman, director and cinematographer Kirsten Johnson, producer Julie Goldman, veteran editor Joe Bini and interactive media pioneer Hugues Sweeney of the National Film Board of Canada.
A full conference schedule and list of industry delegates can be found online, right here. For filmmakers looking to crack various aspects of...
- 8/25/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2015?Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2015—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2015 to create a unique double feature.All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2015 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/4/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Rotterdam #44 came and went with less fanfare than in the past. The Hivos Tiger Awards, the main competition’s top prizes, were given out to a trio of films Friday night. The winners — Carlos M. Quintela’s German-Cuban-Argentine co-production La Obra Del Siglo, Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s odd and dreamy Thai drama Vanishing Point and Juan Daniel F. Molero’s pomo comedia-tragedia Videophilia (and other Viral Syndromes) — each took home 15,000 euros. All three remain unseen by this critic, as does the Fipresci prize winner Battles, by Isabelle Tollenaere, the Knf Award winner Key House Mirror, by Michael Noer, and the Iffr Audience […]...
- 2/2/2015
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Rotterdam #44 came and went with less fanfare than in the past. The Hivos Tiger Awards, the main competition’s top prizes, were given out to a trio of films Friday night. The winners — Carlos M. Quintela’s German-Cuban-Argentine co-production La Obra Del Siglo, Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s odd and dreamy Thai drama Vanishing Point and Juan Daniel F. Molero’s pomo comedia-tragedia Videophilia (and other Viral Syndromes) — each took home 15,000 euros. All three remain unseen by this critic, as does the Fipresci prize winner Battles, by Isabelle Tollenaere, the Knf Award winner Key House Mirror, by Michael Noer, and the Iffr Audience […]...
- 2/2/2015
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Iffr also reveals other award winners including the audience prize.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) unveiled the three winners of the Hivos Tiger Award Competition at an awards ceremony hosted by outgoing festival director Rutger Wolfson.
The films, which each received a cash prize of €15,000 ($17,000), were La Obra Del Siglo by Carlos M. Quintela (Cuba), Vanishing Point by Jakrawal Nilthamrong (Thailand) and Videophilia (And Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel F. Molero (Peru).
The competition jury was comprised of writer, director and producer Rolf de Heer, producer Ichiyama Shozo, director Maja Miloš, art photographer and director of Spanish Film Archive Jose Maria Prado Garcia and actress Johanna ter Steege.
On making their decision, the jury said: “In dealing with both living and broken dreams, La Obra Del Siglo confronts themes both intimate and epic. With its wonderful performances, with its humour and poignancy and boldness of execution, the film resonates with history.
”Vanishing Point combines...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) unveiled the three winners of the Hivos Tiger Award Competition at an awards ceremony hosted by outgoing festival director Rutger Wolfson.
The films, which each received a cash prize of €15,000 ($17,000), were La Obra Del Siglo by Carlos M. Quintela (Cuba), Vanishing Point by Jakrawal Nilthamrong (Thailand) and Videophilia (And Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel F. Molero (Peru).
The competition jury was comprised of writer, director and producer Rolf de Heer, producer Ichiyama Shozo, director Maja Miloš, art photographer and director of Spanish Film Archive Jose Maria Prado Garcia and actress Johanna ter Steege.
On making their decision, the jury said: “In dealing with both living and broken dreams, La Obra Del Siglo confronts themes both intimate and epic. With its wonderful performances, with its humour and poignancy and boldness of execution, the film resonates with history.
”Vanishing Point combines...
- 2/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Key House Mirror (Michael Noer)
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has come to a close and all the awards have been handed out. The winners are as follows:
Hivos Tiger Awards
La obra del siglo by Carlos M. Quintela
Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel F. Molero
Vanishing Point by Jakrawal Nilthamrong
The Big Screen Award
Second Coming by Debbie Tucker Green
Netpac Award
Poet on a Business Trip by Ju Anqi (China)
Fipresci Award
Battles by Isabelle Tollenaere (Belgium, The Netherlands)
Knf Award
Key House Mirror by Michael Noer...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has come to a close and all the awards have been handed out. The winners are as follows:
Hivos Tiger Awards
La obra del siglo by Carlos M. Quintela
Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel F. Molero
Vanishing Point by Jakrawal Nilthamrong
The Big Screen Award
Second Coming by Debbie Tucker Green
Netpac Award
Poet on a Business Trip by Ju Anqi (China)
Fipresci Award
Battles by Isabelle Tollenaere (Belgium, The Netherlands)
Knf Award
Key House Mirror by Michael Noer...
- 1/31/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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