“All This Victory,” a drama set in 2006 in Lebanon during the war between Hezbollah and Israel, has won the Eastern Promises Works in Progress Award at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival. The competition is devoted to projects from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, former Soviet Union countries, and, for the first time this year, the Middle East.
In director Ahmad Ghossein’s film, a coproduction between Lebanon, France and Germany, Marwan goes in search of his father, who has refused to leave his village. He finds no traces of him and when the ceasefire ends suddenly, he is forced to shelter in the home of Najib, his father’s friend, and some of Najib’s friends. As bombs hail down, tensions within the house rise; then a group of Israeli soldiers enter the building.
The jury was comprised of Matthijs Wouter Knol, director of the Berlinale’s European Film Market,...
In director Ahmad Ghossein’s film, a coproduction between Lebanon, France and Germany, Marwan goes in search of his father, who has refused to leave his village. He finds no traces of him and when the ceasefire ends suddenly, he is forced to shelter in the home of Najib, his father’s friend, and some of Najib’s friends. As bombs hail down, tensions within the house rise; then a group of Israeli soldiers enter the building.
The jury was comprised of Matthijs Wouter Knol, director of the Berlinale’s European Film Market,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Jamie Lang and Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Ahmad Ghossein’s Lebanese film wins in first year award is open to films from the Middle East.
The winners of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘Eastern Promises’ - the rebranded name for the event’s industry offerings - were revealed last night at its annual industry party.
The works in progress award, open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, was won the Lebanon/France/Germany co-production All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects pitched during the event.
“The project is based on a true story,...
The winners of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s ‘Eastern Promises’ - the rebranded name for the event’s industry offerings - were revealed last night at its annual industry party.
The works in progress award, open to films from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, was won the Lebanon/France/Germany co-production All This Victory directed by Ahmad Ghossein. The film was one of 11 other projects pitched during the event.
“The project is based on a true story,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Laurence Boyce
- ScreenDaily
The 13th edition of Meetings on the Bridge took place this week.
The 13th edition of Meetings on the Bridge, the industry section of the Istanbul Film Festival, has presented a series of cash prizes to a raft of projects in development and in post-production to features by new and estblished filmmakers from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Syria.
Nearly 100 international industry professionals attended the event’s Film Development Workshop that showcased 17 feature projects and the Works In Progress event that provided a platform for six features in post-production.
They included Film Development Workshop jury members Vincenzo Bugno (Berlinale / World...
The 13th edition of Meetings on the Bridge, the industry section of the Istanbul Film Festival, has presented a series of cash prizes to a raft of projects in development and in post-production to features by new and estblished filmmakers from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Syria.
Nearly 100 international industry professionals attended the event’s Film Development Workshop that showcased 17 feature projects and the Works In Progress event that provided a platform for six features in post-production.
They included Film Development Workshop jury members Vincenzo Bugno (Berlinale / World...
- 4/20/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Karabey, Aydogan, Sakaoglu among award winners at Istanbul Meetings
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
New film projects by Hüseyin Karabey, Zekeriya Aydoğan, and Sinem Sakaoğlu were among the award winners at the 10th edition of Meetings on the Bridge (April 15-16) during the Istanbul Film Festival.
Four awards were given to projects presented as part of this year’s Film Project Development Workshop and were decided by an international jury comprising of such leading industry figures as Meinolf Zurhorst (Zdf), Sergio Garcia De Leaniz (Eurimages), Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau Films), Giovanni Robbiano (Mediterranean Film Institute/Mfi) and Khalil Benkirane (Doha Film Institute).
The $ 10,000 Meetings On The Bridge Award went to German-born director Tarik Aktaş’ Dead Horse Nebula - about a sequence of incidents taking place around a small village -, while the € 10,000 Cnc Award was given to The Death of Father and Son by Zekeriya Aydoğan, a period drama set in the Kurdish society.
Aydoğan’s latest...
- 4/17/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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