Ten projects have been selected for the second edition of Seriesmakers, Series Mania’s development lab for feature film directors sidestepping into series production.
The lab is run in collaboration with Beta, and this year features projects helmed by directors including Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters, and Kevin Macdonald, best known for The Mauritanian.
Ben Hania’s project is titled Freedom Academy and is produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha. The synopsis reads: In the competitive world of television, a cunning producer and his optimistic wife battle for control of a daring reality TV show set in a high-security prison, hoping to capture the intense competition among incarcerated radicals all while the jury grapples with their divergent opinions on prisoners’ rehabilitation.
Macdonald’s series is titled George Blake and is produced by Femke Wolting. Synopsis reads: What makes a person turn against everything they ever stood for?...
The lab is run in collaboration with Beta, and this year features projects helmed by directors including Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters, and Kevin Macdonald, best known for The Mauritanian.
Ben Hania’s project is titled Freedom Academy and is produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha. The synopsis reads: In the competitive world of television, a cunning producer and his optimistic wife battle for control of a daring reality TV show set in a high-security prison, hoping to capture the intense competition among incarcerated radicals all while the jury grapples with their divergent opinions on prisoners’ rehabilitation.
Macdonald’s series is titled George Blake and is produced by Femke Wolting. Synopsis reads: What makes a person turn against everything they ever stood for?...
- 3/4/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Seriesmakers, a joint initiative of Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV festival, and European film-tv powerhouse Beta Group, has revealed the 10 top-notch project lineup of the second edition of its novel and high-powered mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut.
This year’s Seriesmakers features in development drama series from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (“George Blake”), behind “The Last King Of Scotland,” and from Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who burst onto the scene co-writing with Juho Kuosmanen the latter’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Makki,” a 2016 Cannes Un Certain Regard winner.
Also in the mix is the highly courted Kaouther Ben Hania, a double Oscar nominee for the “compelling, ambitious hybrid” “Four Daughters,” said Variety, in the doc category and the “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (2020), Tunisia’s entry in international feature.
In all, however, nine of the ten directors winning berths this...
This year’s Seriesmakers features in development drama series from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (“George Blake”), behind “The Last King Of Scotland,” and from Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who burst onto the scene co-writing with Juho Kuosmanen the latter’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Makki,” a 2016 Cannes Un Certain Regard winner.
Also in the mix is the highly courted Kaouther Ben Hania, a double Oscar nominee for the “compelling, ambitious hybrid” “Four Daughters,” said Variety, in the doc category and the “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (2020), Tunisia’s entry in international feature.
In all, however, nine of the ten directors winning berths this...
- 3/4/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to Kino Laika: Aki Kaurismäki and Mika Lätti’s cinema in Karkkila, an hour away from Helsinki. A place where love for movies – and dogs – meets ghosts of cinema’s past.
“One time, I had a 35mm copy of the Lumière brothers’ film ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.’ I lent it to some cinema and it never came back. And now, I have forgotten which cinema it was,” recalls Kaurismäki, who, like Lätti, has been a resident of Karkkila, a modest town of 9,000, for decades now.
“I have lived here for 38 years and I like it a lot, but we never had a cinema here before. To see movies, local people had to travel to the next town or even Helsinki. Not anymore. It’s wonderful to offer them this chance,” he adds.
“Karkkila has been a good place for us both and we wanted to give something back to this town.
“One time, I had a 35mm copy of the Lumière brothers’ film ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.’ I lent it to some cinema and it never came back. And now, I have forgotten which cinema it was,” recalls Kaurismäki, who, like Lätti, has been a resident of Karkkila, a modest town of 9,000, for decades now.
“I have lived here for 38 years and I like it a lot, but we never had a cinema here before. To see movies, local people had to travel to the next town or even Helsinki. Not anymore. It’s wonderful to offer them this chance,” he adds.
“Karkkila has been a good place for us both and we wanted to give something back to this town.
- 9/20/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty emerging producers from across Europe have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion’s promotion and networking platform Producers on the Move before and during the Cannes Film Festival.
The producers who were selected for the program from nominations submitted by Efp’s member organizations are Gentian Koçi (Albania), David Bohun (Austria), Julie Esparbes (Belgium), Vanya Rainova (Bulgaria), Miljenka Čogelja (Croatia), Stelana Kliris (Cyprus), Alice Tabery (Czech Republic), Emile Hertling Péronard (Denmark), Emilia Haukka (Finland), Silvana Santamaria (Germany), Vicky Miha (Greece), Júlia Berkes (Hungary), Kathryn Kennedy (Ireland), Valon Bajgora (Kosovo), Dominiks Jarmakovičs (Latvia), Erik Glijnis (The Netherlands), Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Norway), Radu Stancu (Romania), Juraj Krasnohorský (Slovak Republic), and Julia Gebauer (Sweden).
They will take part in a tailor-made program to foster international co-productions, increase the exchange of experiences, and help create new professional networks. The pre-festival online program, which started yesterday and runs until May 4, includes 1:1 speed meetings,...
The producers who were selected for the program from nominations submitted by Efp’s member organizations are Gentian Koçi (Albania), David Bohun (Austria), Julie Esparbes (Belgium), Vanya Rainova (Bulgaria), Miljenka Čogelja (Croatia), Stelana Kliris (Cyprus), Alice Tabery (Czech Republic), Emile Hertling Péronard (Denmark), Emilia Haukka (Finland), Silvana Santamaria (Germany), Vicky Miha (Greece), Júlia Berkes (Hungary), Kathryn Kennedy (Ireland), Valon Bajgora (Kosovo), Dominiks Jarmakovičs (Latvia), Erik Glijnis (The Netherlands), Elisa Fernanda Pirir (Norway), Radu Stancu (Romania), Juraj Krasnohorský (Slovak Republic), and Julia Gebauer (Sweden).
They will take part in a tailor-made program to foster international co-productions, increase the exchange of experiences, and help create new professional networks. The pre-festival online program, which started yesterday and runs until May 4, includes 1:1 speed meetings,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Finland’s Aamu Film Company will invest in Jenni Jauri’s new production company Silmu Films, Variety has found out exclusively.
Aamu, founded in 2001 and co-owned by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka, has become a local arthouse powerhouse thanks to its festival-friendly slate, especially Juho Kuosmanen’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” and Golden Globe-nominated “Compartment No. 6,” awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes.
“We had a good film with decent sales and we started to think about what we should do next,” Rantamäki said. “Aamu’s brand is simple and clear: we only work with a select few directors. We don’t want to change that; we don’t want to turn into a factory where you don’t know what is happening and with whom. So first we decided not to grow, and then realized we could invest in a new company instead.”
Apart from Kuosmanen,...
Aamu, founded in 2001 and co-owned by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka, has become a local arthouse powerhouse thanks to its festival-friendly slate, especially Juho Kuosmanen’s “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” and Golden Globe-nominated “Compartment No. 6,” awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes.
“We had a good film with decent sales and we started to think about what we should do next,” Rantamäki said. “Aamu’s brand is simple and clear: we only work with a select few directors. We don’t want to change that; we don’t want to turn into a factory where you don’t know what is happening and with whom. So first we decided not to grow, and then realized we could invest in a new company instead.”
Apart from Kuosmanen,...
- 2/23/2023
- by John Hopewell and Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The awards aim to promote European films to Arab audiences.
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo and Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story are among the nominees for the 4th Arab Critics’ Awards for European Film.
The 23-strong list, which will be shortlisted to three and an eventual winner, includes 11 entries for best international feature at the Oscars.
Alongside Eo, which follows a donkey travelling from the Polish circus to an Italian slaughterhouse, other Oscar hopefuls on the list include Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Beautiful Beings from Iceland and Juraj Lerotic’s Locarno winner Safe Place from Croatia.
A joint venture between...
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo and Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story are among the nominees for the 4th Arab Critics’ Awards for European Film.
The 23-strong list, which will be shortlisted to three and an eventual winner, includes 11 entries for best international feature at the Oscars.
Alongside Eo, which follows a donkey travelling from the Polish circus to an Italian slaughterhouse, other Oscar hopefuls on the list include Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s Beautiful Beings from Iceland and Juraj Lerotic’s Locarno winner Safe Place from Croatia.
A joint venture between...
- 11/2/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The enormity of the snowy, picture-postcard vista in any Scandinavian film can never be underestimated, signifying both a fairy tale and a foreboding setting. This fascinating dichotomy is ever present in Finnish writer-director Mikko Myllylahti’s new tale, The Woodcutter Story – the title of which sounds much like folklore in itself.
This oddball, pitch-black dramedy begins with an unexplained meeting at the top of a snowy mountain between a suited corporate type and an impatient woman – quite what is going on and who these individuals are is open to interpretation, but the pair is clearly discussing the fate of the residents below of a remote, unnamed Finnish town where the story is set.
Enter Pepe the woodcutter, his family and friends who live a simple yet uneventful life – unless there is a birthday down in the only pub. What appears to be an idyllic existence is under constant threat from disruption.
This oddball, pitch-black dramedy begins with an unexplained meeting at the top of a snowy mountain between a suited corporate type and an impatient woman – quite what is going on and who these individuals are is open to interpretation, but the pair is clearly discussing the fate of the residents below of a remote, unnamed Finnish town where the story is set.
Enter Pepe the woodcutter, his family and friends who live a simple yet uneventful life – unless there is a birthday down in the only pub. What appears to be an idyllic existence is under constant threat from disruption.
- 10/24/2022
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
After talking about the compelling array of short films available to watch at London Film Festival last week, I now find myself in the same position talking about the impressive selection of feature films that were on display this year. The features on show at Lff ran across a huge variety of strands and programmes from the genre-specific fare of the ‘Cult’ strand to the Headline Galas which attracted some of the world’s biggest stars to the red carpet in London. Here at Dn, however, we’re interested in those hidden gems, the films that won’t be arriving on Netflix in a month’s time that push the artistic boundaries of the form and deserve to be championed. So, with that in mind, we offer below a recommended selection of ten features to add to your watch list from a collection of international auteurs and innovative debut filmmakers.
- 10/17/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Festival runs November 9-20.
The Stockholm International Film Festival will present 130 films from 50 countries, opening on November 9 with Sweden’s international Oscar submission, Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh.
Political thriller Boy From Heaven premiered in competition at Cannes where it was awarded best screenplay.
Actor Fares Fares will receive the Stockholm Achievement Award on opening night. His credits include Easy Money, Safe House, Westworld and Chernobyl.
The Stockholm Visionary Award will go to Sam Mendes who will present the Nordic premiere of Empire Of Light.
Other notable selections include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King...
The Stockholm International Film Festival will present 130 films from 50 countries, opening on November 9 with Sweden’s international Oscar submission, Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh.
Political thriller Boy From Heaven premiered in competition at Cannes where it was awarded best screenplay.
Actor Fares Fares will receive the Stockholm Achievement Award on opening night. His credits include Easy Money, Safe House, Westworld and Chernobyl.
The Stockholm Visionary Award will go to Sam Mendes who will present the Nordic premiere of Empire Of Light.
Other notable selections include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King...
- 10/13/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Festival hosts three initiatives to promote links between young filmmakers.
Filmfest Hamburg is hosting three new initiatives to promote closer links between young European filmmakers at the beginning of their careers.
The first initiative sees the festival join forces with Cannes’ Critics’ Week, the Institut Francais and the Association of German Film School Students to launch the #Atelier22 initiative.
16 film students - two each from eight German film schools such as Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Munich’s University for Television and Film (Hff), Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy and Hamburg Media School - will be in Hamburg from...
Filmfest Hamburg is hosting three new initiatives to promote closer links between young European filmmakers at the beginning of their careers.
The first initiative sees the festival join forces with Cannes’ Critics’ Week, the Institut Francais and the Association of German Film School Students to launch the #Atelier22 initiative.
16 film students - two each from eight German film schools such as Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Munich’s University for Television and Film (Hff), Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy and Hamburg Media School - will be in Hamburg from...
- 10/4/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
“The Woodcutter Story,” a Finnish drama with a surreal touch, has been sold to Australia (Palace Films), Baltics (Estinfilm), Sweden (Njuta), Germany (Eksystent) and France (Urban), Paris-based Totem Films shared exclusively with Variety.
Directed by Mikko Myllylahti, it sees a good man who runs into bad luck: he loses his job and his wife leaves, but Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is trying to keep his head high. Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village.
The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week, screens Wednesday at the Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy. It will have its North American premiere at Chicago Film Festival and its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival.
“It’s a very strange film,” said Myllylahti back in May. Also opening up about a real-life encounter – and real-life woodcutter – that inspired him.
“There was something very Finnish about the way he was dealing with his ordeals: sometimes,...
Directed by Mikko Myllylahti, it sees a good man who runs into bad luck: he loses his job and his wife leaves, but Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is trying to keep his head high. Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village.
The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week, screens Wednesday at the Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy. It will have its North American premiere at Chicago Film Festival and its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival.
“It’s a very strange film,” said Myllylahti back in May. Also opening up about a real-life encounter – and real-life woodcutter – that inspired him.
“There was something very Finnish about the way he was dealing with his ordeals: sometimes,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Festival runs October 12-23.
Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction are among the international competitions line-up at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival next month.
This year’s competitions include 10 films receiving their North American premiere and 17 getting their US premiere as the entries vie for the festival’s Gold Hugo award in the categories of international feature, international documentary, and new directors.
The festival runs October 12-23. The full international competition line-ups are below.
Playing in International Feature Competition are: The Beasts (Sp-Fr), Rodrigo Sorogoyen, US premiere; Before,...
Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction are among the international competitions line-up at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival next month.
This year’s competitions include 10 films receiving their North American premiere and 17 getting their US premiere as the entries vie for the festival’s Gold Hugo award in the categories of international feature, international documentary, and new directors.
The festival runs October 12-23. The full international competition line-ups are below.
Playing in International Feature Competition are: The Beasts (Sp-Fr), Rodrigo Sorogoyen, US premiere; Before,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Finland’s leading film festival Love & Anarchy is ready to celebrate its 35th edition, free of Covid restrictions and finally able to focus on the films and the audience, says executive director Anna Möttölä in Helsinki. But it has been a bittersweet time, marked by the loss of Jean-Luc Godard and Lina Wertmüller back in December, whose 1973 film gave the event its name.
While Wertmüller will be celebrated with a screening of “Seven Beauties,” another tragedy is on the team’s mind: the sudden death of Charlbi Dean, the star of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner – and the festival’s opening film – “Triangle of Sadness.”
“It will be a memorial screening,” says artistic director Pekka Lanerva. Dean’s co-star, Zlatko Burić, is expected to attend.
Anna Möttölä, Pekka Lanerva
“All our thoughts go to her family and to the cast and crew. To have such a promising career,...
While Wertmüller will be celebrated with a screening of “Seven Beauties,” another tragedy is on the team’s mind: the sudden death of Charlbi Dean, the star of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner – and the festival’s opening film – “Triangle of Sadness.”
“It will be a memorial screening,” says artistic director Pekka Lanerva. Dean’s co-star, Zlatko Burić, is expected to attend.
Anna Möttölä, Pekka Lanerva
“All our thoughts go to her family and to the cast and crew. To have such a promising career,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition runs September 21-23.
The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition (September 21-23) will showcase around 30 Nordic films in development or production and four Finnish TV series projects in early development.
Some of the projects being presented are Selma Vilhunen’s Four Little Adults, a polyamory drama now in post; Katja Gauriloff’s second fiction feature Je’vida, the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language; Teemu Nikki’s fantasy comedy for all ages Snot And Splash; the third instalment in the Niko animations, Niko - Beyond The Northern Lights, by Kari Juusonen...
The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition (September 21-23) will showcase around 30 Nordic films in development or production and four Finnish TV series projects in early development.
Some of the projects being presented are Selma Vilhunen’s Four Little Adults, a polyamory drama now in post; Katja Gauriloff’s second fiction feature Je’vida, the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language; Teemu Nikki’s fantasy comedy for all ages Snot And Splash; the third instalment in the Niko animations, Niko - Beyond The Northern Lights, by Kari Juusonen...
- 9/2/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
it’s time for cannes!Rays of promotional sunshine will highlight 46 European finished and unfinished films at this year’s Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival (17–28 May 2022).‘Triangle of Sadness’ by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/ Coproduction Office)
21 international sales agents are drawing on Film Sales Support (Fss) - totalling €78,000 - to bolster and innovate promotion and marketing campaigns of brand-new films to trigger sales to countries outside of Europe at one of the most prestigious markets of the year. Overseas buyers on-site and off-site will have the fortune to catch sight of a number of new films from Europe premiering at the Croisette.
Amongst the many to be discovered at the Marché are Competition titles, Pacifiction by Albert Serra (Spain, Portugal, Germany/Films Boutique,France), Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/Coproduction Office), Boy from Heaven by Tarik Saleh (Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark/Memento International), Un Certain Regard titles, Metronom by Alexandru Belc (Romania, France/Pyramide International) and Rodeo by Lola Quivoron (France/Les Films du Losange) as well as films in Directors’ Fortnight, Will-o'-the-wispby Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal, France/ Films Boutique,Germany) and The Super 8 Years by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot (France/Totem Films).
For the first time, Fss will also be awarded to a Ukrainian film in solidarity with the country. Indie Sales is the happy recpient for its film Pamfir by Ukrainian director, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, a multi-coproduction between the Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg. By a lucky twist, 3 of Efp’s Producers on the Move and their films will benefit from the support indirectly: Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli (producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar from Norway/Memento International), The Woodcutter Story by Mikko Myllylahti (producer Derk-Jan Warrink from the Netherlands) and Tel Aviv Beirut by Michale Boganim (producer Janine Teerling from Cyprus/Wt Films).
13 European films in the companies’ line-ups are yet unfinished but ready to be announced and promoted.
**Click here for the full list**
Thanks to Swiss Films, 4 films from Switzerland will similarly receive Fss for the promotion in Cannes: Men Caves by Céline Pernet (Lightdox), Continental Drift by Lionel Baier (Switzerland, France/ Les Films du Losange), 99 Moons by Jan Gassmann (m-appeal world sales) and The Black Spider by Markus Fischer (Switzerland, Hungary/The Playmaker Munich).
Fss is supported by Creative Europe Media and part of Efp’s (European Film Promotion) many activities for the promotion of European films and talent around the world.
21 international sales agents are drawing on Film Sales Support (Fss) - totalling €78,000 - to bolster and innovate promotion and marketing campaigns of brand-new films to trigger sales to countries outside of Europe at one of the most prestigious markets of the year. Overseas buyers on-site and off-site will have the fortune to catch sight of a number of new films from Europe premiering at the Croisette.
Amongst the many to be discovered at the Marché are Competition titles, Pacifiction by Albert Serra (Spain, Portugal, Germany/Films Boutique,France), Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/Coproduction Office), Boy from Heaven by Tarik Saleh (Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark/Memento International), Un Certain Regard titles, Metronom by Alexandru Belc (Romania, France/Pyramide International) and Rodeo by Lola Quivoron (France/Les Films du Losange) as well as films in Directors’ Fortnight, Will-o'-the-wispby Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal, France/ Films Boutique,Germany) and The Super 8 Years by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot (France/Totem Films).
For the first time, Fss will also be awarded to a Ukrainian film in solidarity with the country. Indie Sales is the happy recpient for its film Pamfir by Ukrainian director, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, a multi-coproduction between the Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg. By a lucky twist, 3 of Efp’s Producers on the Move and their films will benefit from the support indirectly: Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli (producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar from Norway/Memento International), The Woodcutter Story by Mikko Myllylahti (producer Derk-Jan Warrink from the Netherlands) and Tel Aviv Beirut by Michale Boganim (producer Janine Teerling from Cyprus/Wt Films).
13 European films in the companies’ line-ups are yet unfinished but ready to be announced and promoted.
**Click here for the full list**
Thanks to Swiss Films, 4 films from Switzerland will similarly receive Fss for the promotion in Cannes: Men Caves by Céline Pernet (Lightdox), Continental Drift by Lionel Baier (Switzerland, France/ Les Films du Losange), 99 Moons by Jan Gassmann (m-appeal world sales) and The Black Spider by Markus Fischer (Switzerland, Hungary/The Playmaker Munich).
Fss is supported by Creative Europe Media and part of Efp’s (European Film Promotion) many activities for the promotion of European films and talent around the world.
- 6/22/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
The industry section of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy takes place from September 21-23.
The Finnish Film Affair – a showcase for new film projects from Finland and the Nordics – is to branch out into TV dramas for its upcoming edition.
The 11th Finnish Film Affair will take place from September 21-23 during the 35th Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Hiff), and will open with the Finnish premiere of Cannes Critics’ Week title Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story.
This year the event’s showcase day will present a curated selection of four TV drama series from Finland.
The Finnish Film Affair – a showcase for new film projects from Finland and the Nordics – is to branch out into TV dramas for its upcoming edition.
The 11th Finnish Film Affair will take place from September 21-23 during the 35th Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Hiff), and will open with the Finnish premiere of Cannes Critics’ Week title Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story.
This year the event’s showcase day will present a curated selection of four TV drama series from Finland.
- 6/22/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The industry section of the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy takes place from September 21-23.
The Finnish Film Affair – a showcase for new film projects from Finland and the Nordics – is to branch out into TV dramas for its upcoming edition.
The 11th Finnish Film Affair will take place from September 21-23 during the 35th Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Hiff), and will open with the Finnish premiere of Cannes Critics’ Week title Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story.
This year the event’s showcase day will present a curated selection of four TV drama series from Finland.
The Finnish Film Affair – a showcase for new film projects from Finland and the Nordics – is to branch out into TV dramas for its upcoming edition.
The 11th Finnish Film Affair will take place from September 21-23 during the 35th Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Hiff), and will open with the Finnish premiere of Cannes Critics’ Week title Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story.
This year the event’s showcase day will present a curated selection of four TV drama series from Finland.
- 6/22/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells
Alma viva – Cristèle Alves Meira [Review]
Imagine – Ali Behrad
La jauría – Andrés Ramírez Pulido [Review]
Love According to Dalva – Emmanuelle Nicot
Nos cérémonies – Simon Rieth [Review]
The Woodcutter Story – Mikko Myllylahti [Review]
Special Screenings
Tout le monde aime Jeanne – Céline Devaux [Review]
Next Sohee – July Jung
Sons of Ramses – Clément Cogitore [Review]
When You Finish Saving the World – Jesse Eisenberg [Sundance Review]…...
Alma viva – Cristèle Alves Meira [Review]
Imagine – Ali Behrad
La jauría – Andrés Ramírez Pulido [Review]
Love According to Dalva – Emmanuelle Nicot
Nos cérémonies – Simon Rieth [Review]
The Woodcutter Story – Mikko Myllylahti [Review]
Special Screenings
Tout le monde aime Jeanne – Céline Devaux [Review]
Next Sohee – July Jung
Sons of Ramses – Clément Cogitore [Review]
When You Finish Saving the World – Jesse Eisenberg [Sundance Review]…...
- 6/13/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Triangle of SadnessCOMPETITIONPalme d’Or: Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) (Read our review)Grand Prix ex aequo: Close (Lukas Dhont)Grand Prix ex aequo: Stars at Noon (Claire Denis) (Read our review)Jury Prize ex aequo: The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen)Jury Prize ex aequo: Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski) (Read our review)75th Anniversary Prize: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Tori and Lokita) (Read our review)Best Director: Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave) (Read our review)Best Actor: Song Kang-ho (Broker)Best Actress: Zahra Amir-Ebrahimi (Holy Spider)Best Screenplay: Tarik Saleh (Boy From Heaven)The Worst OnesUN Certain REGARDGrand Prize: The Worst Ones (Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret)Ensemble Prize: Jury Prize: Joyland (Saim Sadiq)Jury Special Mention: Best Director: Alexandru Belc (Metronome)Best Performance: Vicky Krieps (Corsage) and Adam Bessa (Harka) (Read our review)Screenplay: Mediterranean Fever (Maha Haj)Coup de Coeur Award: Rodeo (Lola Quivoron)The MountainDIRECTORS' FORTNIGHTEuropa...
- 5/29/2022
- MUBI
Andres Ramirez Pulido’s “La Jauria” won the Grand Prize at Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival’s sidebar dedicated to first and second features. The Colombian film also won the Sacd prize.
The feature debut follows Eliú, a country boy who is wrongly accused of a crime and incarcerated in an experimental rehabilitation center for tough boys in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest.
Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” which stars “Normal People” actor Paul Mescal, won the French Touch Prize of the Jury. The bittersweet drama revolves around a father and daughter who spend a summer holiday in a Turkish resort.
Emmanuelle Nicot’s “Love According To Dalva,” meanwhile, won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for Zelda Samson. “Love According to Dalva” is a poignant drama about a 12-year-old girl growing up in foster care, alongside social workers and other children.
The Gan Foundation Award for Distribution went to Urban Distribution,...
The feature debut follows Eliú, a country boy who is wrongly accused of a crime and incarcerated in an experimental rehabilitation center for tough boys in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest.
Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” which stars “Normal People” actor Paul Mescal, won the French Touch Prize of the Jury. The bittersweet drama revolves around a father and daughter who spend a summer holiday in a Turkish resort.
Emmanuelle Nicot’s “Love According To Dalva,” meanwhile, won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for Zelda Samson. “Love According to Dalva” is a poignant drama about a 12-year-old girl growing up in foster care, alongside social workers and other children.
The Gan Foundation Award for Distribution went to Urban Distribution,...
- 5/25/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
UK director Charlotte Well’s buzzed-about debut Aftersun also features among the prize-winners.
Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
- 5/25/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
UK director Charlotte Well’s buzzed-about debut Aftersun also features among the prize-winners.
Columbian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
Columbian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
- 5/25/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
As the Cannes Film Festival rolls towards its conclusion on Saturday night, sidebar Critics’ Week doled out its awards this evening with the Grand Prize going to Andres Ramirez Pulido’s La Jauria. Critics’ Week is devoted to first and second features, and this is Pulido’s debut meaning the film is also eligible for the Camera d’Or which will be announced on Saturday during the fest’s main closing ceremony.
La Jauria took two gongs tonight in Critics’ Week, also scoring the Sacd Prize. The story centers on Eliú, a country boy, who is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors’ center in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labor and intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same center and brings with him a past that Eliú is trying to escape.
La Jauria took two gongs tonight in Critics’ Week, also scoring the Sacd Prize. The story centers on Eliú, a country boy, who is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors’ center in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labor and intense group therapy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the same center and brings with him a past that Eliú is trying to escape.
- 5/25/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The prize is connected to the parallel section’s Next Step programme helping directors move from shorts to features.
Lithuanian director Vytautas Katkus has won the fourth Cannes Critics’ Week €5,000 Next Step prize for upcoming feature The Visitor.
It follows a young man as he tries to make a new life for himself in a foreign land where he does not speak the language or know anyone.
The prize was launched in 2019 as an extension of Critics’ Week’s Next Step initiative.
The programme, which is in its eighth edition, is aimed at supporting filmmakers who have debuted shorts in...
Lithuanian director Vytautas Katkus has won the fourth Cannes Critics’ Week €5,000 Next Step prize for upcoming feature The Visitor.
It follows a young man as he tries to make a new life for himself in a foreign land where he does not speak the language or know anyone.
The prize was launched in 2019 as an extension of Critics’ Week’s Next Step initiative.
The programme, which is in its eighth edition, is aimed at supporting filmmakers who have debuted shorts in...
- 5/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
There is a sort of checklist for Finnish films — and I say this with love — that includes snowy exteriors, bleakly austere interiors, ice fishing and someone getting murdered with an axe. The Woodcutter Story ticks every box, plus a few more. Characters who barely speak, for example — and who may, indeed, have nothing to say. When they do, there is a jolting humor that may not be humor at all: their deadpan delivery gives nothing away. This is the Finnish way.
Director/writer Mikko Myllylahti — a poet who also penned the script for Juho Kuosmanen’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, which won a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 — sets his Cannes Critics’ Week title in an unnamed village in the far north of Finland clustered around a timber mill. Myllylahti’s hero Pepe is a timber worker, played by the same actor...
Director/writer Mikko Myllylahti — a poet who also penned the script for Juho Kuosmanen’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, which won a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 — sets his Cannes Critics’ Week title in an unnamed village in the far north of Finland clustered around a timber mill. Myllylahti’s hero Pepe is a timber worker, played by the same actor...
- 5/19/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Finland’s Mikko Myllylahti returns to Cannes’ Critics Week with his feature debut as a director “The Woodcutter Story.” His short “Tiger” premiered in the same section in 2018, while “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,” which he co-wrote with Juho Kuosmanen, won Un Certain Regard back in 2016.
“It’s a very strange film,” he tells Variety about his dark fairytale about the ever-optimistic Pepe, whose world – confined to a small, snowbound town – is slowly crumbling around him. Admitting that after “Olli Mäki,” based on a true story of a boxer preparing for his big break in the 1960s, he needed to “get away from reality.”
“I was fascinated by old tales and in Finland, they can be quite cruel,” he says. But the film was also inspired by a real-life encounter with a woodcutter from the north, not far away from his hometown of Tornio, whose calm...
“It’s a very strange film,” he tells Variety about his dark fairytale about the ever-optimistic Pepe, whose world – confined to a small, snowbound town – is slowly crumbling around him. Admitting that after “Olli Mäki,” based on a true story of a boxer preparing for his big break in the 1960s, he needed to “get away from reality.”
“I was fascinated by old tales and in Finland, they can be quite cruel,” he says. But the film was also inspired by a real-life encounter with a woodcutter from the north, not far away from his hometown of Tornio, whose calm...
- 5/18/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Rays of promotional sunshine will highlight 46 European finished and unfinished films at this year’s Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival (17–28 May 2022).
‘Triangle of Sadness’ by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/ Coproduction Office)
21 international sales agents are drawing on Film Sales Support (Fss) - totalling €78,000 - to bolster and innovate promotion and marketing campaigns of brand-new films to trigger sales to countries outside of Europe at one of the most prestigious markets of the year. Overseas buyers on-site and off-site will have the fortune to catch sight of a number of new films from Europe premiering at the Croisette.
Amongst the many to be discovered at the Marché are Competition titles, Pacifiction by Albert Serra (Spain, Portugal, Germany/Films Boutique,France), Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/Coproduction Office), Boy from Heaven by Tarik Saleh (Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark/Memento International), Un Certain Regard titles, Metronom by Alexandru Belc (Romania, France/Pyramide International) and Rodeo by Lola Quivoron (France/Les Films du Losange) as well as films in Directors’ Fortnight, Will-o'-the-wisp by Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal, France/ Films Boutique,Germany) and The Super 8 Years by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot (France/Totem Films).
For the first time, Fss will also be awarded to a Ukrainian film in solidarity with the country. Indie Sales is the happy recpient for its film Pamfir by Ukrainian director, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, a multi-coproduction between the Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg. By a lucky twist, 3 of Efp’s Producers on the Move and their films will benefit from the support indirectly: Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli (producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar from Norway/Memento International), The Woodcutter Story by Mikko Myllylahti (producer Derk-Jan Warrink from the Netherlands) and Tel Aviv Beirut by Michale Boganim (producer Janine Teerling from Cyprus/Wt Films).
13 European films in the companies’ line-ups are yet unfinished but ready to be announced and promoted.
**Click here for the full list**
Thanks to Swiss Films, 4 films from Switzerland will similarly receive Fss for the promotion in Cannes: Men Caves by Céline Pernet (Lightdox), Continental Drift by Lionel Baier (Switzerland, France/ Les Films du Losange), 99 Moons by Jan Gassmann (m-appeal world sales) and The Black Spider by Markus Fischer (Switzerland, Hungary/The Playmaker Munich).
Fss is supported by Creative Europe Media and part of Efp’s (European Film Promotion) many activities for the promotion of European films and talent around the world.
get in touch with °efp
Efp European Film Promotion
info@efp-online.com
www.efp-online.com
Efp (European Film Promotion) is an international network of film promotion institutes from 37 countries from throughout Europe, each representing their national films and talent abroad. Under the Efp flag, these organisations team up to jointly promote the diversity and spirit of European films and talent at key film festivals and markets, in particular outside of Europe.
‘Triangle of Sadness’ by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/ Coproduction Office)
21 international sales agents are drawing on Film Sales Support (Fss) - totalling €78,000 - to bolster and innovate promotion and marketing campaigns of brand-new films to trigger sales to countries outside of Europe at one of the most prestigious markets of the year. Overseas buyers on-site and off-site will have the fortune to catch sight of a number of new films from Europe premiering at the Croisette.
Amongst the many to be discovered at the Marché are Competition titles, Pacifiction by Albert Serra (Spain, Portugal, Germany/Films Boutique,France), Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, France, Germany, UK/Coproduction Office), Boy from Heaven by Tarik Saleh (Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark/Memento International), Un Certain Regard titles, Metronom by Alexandru Belc (Romania, France/Pyramide International) and Rodeo by Lola Quivoron (France/Les Films du Losange) as well as films in Directors’ Fortnight, Will-o'-the-wisp by Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal, France/ Films Boutique,Germany) and The Super 8 Years by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot (France/Totem Films).
For the first time, Fss will also be awarded to a Ukrainian film in solidarity with the country. Indie Sales is the happy recpient for its film Pamfir by Ukrainian director, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, a multi-coproduction between the Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg. By a lucky twist, 3 of Efp’s Producers on the Move and their films will benefit from the support indirectly: Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli (producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar from Norway/Memento International), The Woodcutter Story by Mikko Myllylahti (producer Derk-Jan Warrink from the Netherlands) and Tel Aviv Beirut by Michale Boganim (producer Janine Teerling from Cyprus/Wt Films).
13 European films in the companies’ line-ups are yet unfinished but ready to be announced and promoted.
**Click here for the full list**
Thanks to Swiss Films, 4 films from Switzerland will similarly receive Fss for the promotion in Cannes: Men Caves by Céline Pernet (Lightdox), Continental Drift by Lionel Baier (Switzerland, France/ Les Films du Losange), 99 Moons by Jan Gassmann (m-appeal world sales) and The Black Spider by Markus Fischer (Switzerland, Hungary/The Playmaker Munich).
Fss is supported by Creative Europe Media and part of Efp’s (European Film Promotion) many activities for the promotion of European films and talent around the world.
get in touch with °efp
Efp European Film Promotion
info@efp-online.com
www.efp-online.com
Efp (European Film Promotion) is an international network of film promotion institutes from 37 countries from throughout Europe, each representing their national films and talent abroad. Under the Efp flag, these organisations team up to jointly promote the diversity and spirit of European films and talent at key film festivals and markets, in particular outside of Europe.
- 5/18/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Competition titles ‘Pacification’, ‘Triangle Of Sadness’, ‘Boy From Heaven’ also backed.
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Ukrainian co-production Pamfir is one of 49 European films at this year’s Marché du Film to receive Film Sales Support (Fss) from the European Film Promotion (Efp) network.
Twenty-one sales companies are receiving a total of €78,000 for promotion and marketing campaigns of the 49 titles. Thirty-three of the films are completed, with a further 13 still in later stages of production.
Pamfir is Ukrainian director Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature, and plays in Directors’ Fortnight at the festival. A co-production between Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg, it...
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Ukrainian co-production Pamfir is one of 49 European films at this year’s Marché du Film to receive Film Sales Support (Fss) from the European Film Promotion (Efp) network.
Twenty-one sales companies are receiving a total of €78,000 for promotion and marketing campaigns of the 49 titles. Thirty-three of the films are completed, with a further 13 still in later stages of production.
Pamfir is Ukrainian director Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature, and plays in Directors’ Fortnight at the festival. A co-production between Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg, it...
- 5/12/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Berlinale Talents Alumni Prepare to Shine in Cannes
It’s slowly edging towards summer here in Berlin and that means one thing: Cannes is close! And as the sun gets ever brighter, many of Berlinale’s former Talents are also preparing to dazzle on the Croisette!
Three alumni are starring in films in Competition; Sherwan Haji in Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven, Sara Fazilat in Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which was produced by Sol Bondy and Jacob Jarek, and finally Nadia Litz joins the glittering cast of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. Also in Competition is Lukas Dhont’s Close, co-written by Angelo Tijssens. Un Certain Regard provides a stage for more Talents to shine, with 17 alumni involved in 9 films, including Ariel Escalante’s Domingo y la niebla, to name one example. The film was edited by Lorenzo Mora Salazar, music composed by Alberto Torres, with Nicolás Wong Díaz acting as both producer & cinematographer. Abinash Bikram Shah’s Lori screens in the Short Films Competition, alongside two films with Zuolong Shan as executive producer, Bi Gan’s A Short Story and Story Chen’s The Water Murmurs.
Critic’s Week features 11 former Talents who have contributed their creativity to 8 films in the selection. The Woodcutter Story was in fact developed at our Script Station by writer and director Mikko Myllylahti, edited by Jussi Rautaniemi and produced by Jussi Rantamäki, the short Cuerdas was shot by Lara Vilanova and there will also be a special screeing of Goutte d’Or, produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond.
Excitingly, the Director’s Fortnight will show the debut feature films of three Talents alumni: Manuela Martelli’s 1976, edited by Camila Mercadal and produced by Dominga Sotomayor, Elena López Riera’s El agua and Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. Included in the selection is Un Varón by Fabian Hernández, which Louise Bellicaud produced.
To see the complete picture of all Berlinale Talents alumni at Cannes, including those selected for the Cinéfondation’s Atelier, Les cinémas du monde’s La Fabrique and the Acid programme, click here.
Reconnect in Cannes — Register now!
Building lasting relationships across all disciplines and editions is a crucial part of what we do. And since Cannes offers plenty of opportunities for long awaited informal encounters over a coffee or rosé, we’d love to build up the group again. If you are a Berlinale Talents alumni please register your attendance at the festival, market (or just on the beach) by clicking here. Who else is in Cannes? Find out here.
Dedicated to Discovery
The 17th edition of Talents Buenos Aires took place from April 19–23. Borrowing from Luis López Carrasco’s film of the same name, this year’s theme was ‘The Year of Discovery’. Drawing inspiration from the film’s exploration of Spain’s political and social crisis in the early 1990s, the programme’s aim was to promote critical and aesthetic thinking regarding recent world events and their influence on the film world. It was an engaging 5 days of events for the 55 Talents from all over South America, from workshops on non-traditional distribution with Maui Alena or on acting with Maria Laura Berch, to a dialogue on cinema as discovery with Darío Aguirre, and plenty of networking sessions. Welcome to the skilled film professionals who are now part of the Talents family, and congratulations to the team of Talents Buenos Aires on another great edition.
The preparations for Talents Guadalajara in June, Talents Durban in July and Talents Sarajevo in August are currently in full swing, and further out on the horizon, the 13th Talents Tokyo will be held from October 31 to November 5 within the Tokyo FILMeX Festival 2022.
Thanks for staying tuned and catching up!
The Berlinale Talents team
Upcoming Dates
May 6, 2022: Application deadline for Talents Guadalajara
May 31, 2022: Application deadline for Talents Sarajevo
May 31, 2022: Application deadline for Talents Tokyo
June 11–15, 2022: Talents Guadalajara takes place
Early July, 2022: Call for entries for Berlinale Talents 2023
July 22–26, 2022: Talents Durban Takes place
August 13–18, 2022: Talents Sarajevo takes place
October 31 — November 5, 2022: Talents Tokyo takes place
Photo credits:
1) Still from Close, co-written by Angelo Tijssens © Lukas Dhont / Diaphana Distribution
2) Talents Buenos Aires key visual 2022Berlinale Talents
Berlin International Film Festival
Potsdamer Platz 11, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 25920–515
www.berlinale-talents.de...
It’s slowly edging towards summer here in Berlin and that means one thing: Cannes is close! And as the sun gets ever brighter, many of Berlinale’s former Talents are also preparing to dazzle on the Croisette!
Three alumni are starring in films in Competition; Sherwan Haji in Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven, Sara Fazilat in Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, which was produced by Sol Bondy and Jacob Jarek, and finally Nadia Litz joins the glittering cast of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. Also in Competition is Lukas Dhont’s Close, co-written by Angelo Tijssens. Un Certain Regard provides a stage for more Talents to shine, with 17 alumni involved in 9 films, including Ariel Escalante’s Domingo y la niebla, to name one example. The film was edited by Lorenzo Mora Salazar, music composed by Alberto Torres, with Nicolás Wong Díaz acting as both producer & cinematographer. Abinash Bikram Shah’s Lori screens in the Short Films Competition, alongside two films with Zuolong Shan as executive producer, Bi Gan’s A Short Story and Story Chen’s The Water Murmurs.
Critic’s Week features 11 former Talents who have contributed their creativity to 8 films in the selection. The Woodcutter Story was in fact developed at our Script Station by writer and director Mikko Myllylahti, edited by Jussi Rautaniemi and produced by Jussi Rantamäki, the short Cuerdas was shot by Lara Vilanova and there will also be a special screeing of Goutte d’Or, produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond.
Excitingly, the Director’s Fortnight will show the debut feature films of three Talents alumni: Manuela Martelli’s 1976, edited by Camila Mercadal and produced by Dominga Sotomayor, Elena López Riera’s El agua and Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. Included in the selection is Un Varón by Fabian Hernández, which Louise Bellicaud produced.
To see the complete picture of all Berlinale Talents alumni at Cannes, including those selected for the Cinéfondation’s Atelier, Les cinémas du monde’s La Fabrique and the Acid programme, click here.
Reconnect in Cannes — Register now!
Building lasting relationships across all disciplines and editions is a crucial part of what we do. And since Cannes offers plenty of opportunities for long awaited informal encounters over a coffee or rosé, we’d love to build up the group again. If you are a Berlinale Talents alumni please register your attendance at the festival, market (or just on the beach) by clicking here. Who else is in Cannes? Find out here.
Dedicated to Discovery
The 17th edition of Talents Buenos Aires took place from April 19–23. Borrowing from Luis López Carrasco’s film of the same name, this year’s theme was ‘The Year of Discovery’. Drawing inspiration from the film’s exploration of Spain’s political and social crisis in the early 1990s, the programme’s aim was to promote critical and aesthetic thinking regarding recent world events and their influence on the film world. It was an engaging 5 days of events for the 55 Talents from all over South America, from workshops on non-traditional distribution with Maui Alena or on acting with Maria Laura Berch, to a dialogue on cinema as discovery with Darío Aguirre, and plenty of networking sessions. Welcome to the skilled film professionals who are now part of the Talents family, and congratulations to the team of Talents Buenos Aires on another great edition.
The preparations for Talents Guadalajara in June, Talents Durban in July and Talents Sarajevo in August are currently in full swing, and further out on the horizon, the 13th Talents Tokyo will be held from October 31 to November 5 within the Tokyo FILMeX Festival 2022.
Thanks for staying tuned and catching up!
The Berlinale Talents team
Upcoming Dates
May 6, 2022: Application deadline for Talents Guadalajara
May 31, 2022: Application deadline for Talents Sarajevo
May 31, 2022: Application deadline for Talents Tokyo
June 11–15, 2022: Talents Guadalajara takes place
Early July, 2022: Call for entries for Berlinale Talents 2023
July 22–26, 2022: Talents Durban Takes place
August 13–18, 2022: Talents Sarajevo takes place
October 31 — November 5, 2022: Talents Tokyo takes place
Photo credits:
1) Still from Close, co-written by Angelo Tijssens © Lukas Dhont / Diaphana Distribution
2) Talents Buenos Aires key visual 2022Berlinale Talents
Berlin International Film Festival
Potsdamer Platz 11, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 25920–515
www.berlinale-talents.de...
- 5/10/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Cannes Critics’ Week film “The Woodcutter Story” has debuted its trailer. It’s the feature film directorial debut from Mikko Myllylahti, the writer of Cannes Un Certain Regard winner “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Makki.” The film is being sold by French sales outfit Totem Films.
“The Woodcutter Story” centers on Pepe, a woodcutter in an idyllic small town in Finland. In the span of a couple of days, a series of tragic events gradually destroys his quiet and happy life – but Pepe seems to be fine with it all, as if he held a secret to existence that is hard to grasp.
Myllylahti was inspired to write the story following an encounter with a woodcutter who – despite having lost everything – “accepted his ordeals with a smile on his face.”
Myllylahti said: “The more I thought of him and his attitude towards life I started to realize a potential for a story,...
“The Woodcutter Story” centers on Pepe, a woodcutter in an idyllic small town in Finland. In the span of a couple of days, a series of tragic events gradually destroys his quiet and happy life – but Pepe seems to be fine with it all, as if he held a secret to existence that is hard to grasp.
Myllylahti was inspired to write the story following an encounter with a woodcutter who – despite having lost everything – “accepted his ordeals with a smile on his face.”
Myllylahti said: “The more I thought of him and his attitude towards life I started to realize a potential for a story,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The 23rd edition of European Film Promotion's (Efp) long-established Producers on the Move networking program, held during Festival de Cannes is again inviting 20 up-and-coming young producers from all over Europe as participants in 2022. Germany will be represented by Alexander Wadouh (Chromosom Film) who was nominated by Efp member German Films.
Alexander Wadouh has been working in the film industry since 1999. A graduate of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), he worked for the production company Essential Film (Women Without Men, You the Living, Dau) as well as for the French sales company Coproduction Office. In 2006, he founded his Berlin-based company Chromosom Film to develop and produce national and international feature films in the field of fiction and documentary with a political ethos and zeitgeist, and has since expanded into the production of high-end series. He has received numerous awards for his films. Wadouh is a graduate of Ace and Eave as well as being a member of the German Film Academy and European Film Academy. He has also been active as a distributor with Across Nations since 2020.
Alexander Wadouh on his nomination: "I am very happy to be able to be part of this year’s edition of Producers on the Move, the more so because Europe must grow even closer together so as to guarantee peace and freedom in the long term. That also includes being able to say and show everything in the spirit of cultural freedom without facing the danger of state repression. We can really achieve this through constant exchange and collaboration across national borders. I’m pleased that I can become part of a larger network of people who are moved and driven by similar things, who see their surroundings in a critical light and tell stories about the world."
Selected films of Alexander Wadouth include
Time of the Monsters
in financing, 2024
by Florian Hoffmann
Germany, France, Switzerland, Ghana
What YouCall Love
in financing, 2023
by Luzie Loose
Germany, France, Japan
The Wolves Always Come at Night
in financing, 2022
by Gabrielle Brady
Germany, Australia, Mongolia
Borga 2021
by York-Fabian Raabe
Germany, Ghana
trailer
Whispers of War 2021
by Florian Hoffmann
Germany
trailer
A Coffee in Berlin 2012
by Jan-Ole Gerster
Germany
Germany is also represented in the festival with one solo production and seven coproductions:
Cannes Ff Special Screenings will show The Vagabonds (eligible for Camera d’Or)directed by Doroteya Droumeva of Germany.
Berlin based producer Sol Bondy has Cannes Competition title Holy Spider directed by Iranian born Ali Abbasi, a coproductio of France, Germany, Sweden, snd Denmark. In Holy Spider, we follow family man Saeed as he embarks on his own religious quest — to “cleanse” the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of immoral and corrupt street prostitutes. After murdering several women, he grows ever more desperate about the lack of public interest in his divine mission.
Ace producer Janine Jakowski is among the producers of Austria, France, Germany, and Luxembourg responsible Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer which is showing in Un Certain Regard. This story of Sisi (Elizabeth) Empress of Austsria, wife of Franz Joseph who tries to keep her cult of beauty alive after she turns 40 (and old) is being sold by MK2. Already in place as distributors are Austria: Panda Lichtspiele, Germany: Alamode, Hungary: Circo, and Italy: Bim.
More Than Ever/ Plus que jamais directed by German director Emily Atef is a coproduciton of Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Norway. The story is about Hélène and Mathieu who have been happy together for many years. The bond between them is deep. Faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and test the strength of their love. The Match Factory has already placed the film in France with Jour2Fête, Germany with Pandora, and in Norway with Mer.
Directors’ Fortnight film Scarlet/ L’Envol directed by Pietro Marcello is a copro of France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Directors’ Fortnight film A Male/ Un varón directed by Fabian Hernández of Colombia is a copro of France, Germany, Netherlands and Colombia.
Critics’ Week Competition film The Woodcutter Story/ Metsurin tarina directed by Mikko Myllylahti is a coproduction of Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany.
Directors’ Fortnight One Fine Morning/ Un beau matin directed by Mia Hansen-Løve, produced by Razor Film Produktion GmbH, Germany, Arte France Cinéma, Mubi. Internationa sales by Les Films du Losange to Weltkino Filmverleih (Germany), Alambique Filmes (Portugal), Andrews Film (Taiwan), Challan (Korea), Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie (Belgium), Elastica (Spain), Palace Films (Australia and New Zealand) (all media), Weird Wave (Greece).
Directors’ Fortnight The Dam/ السد directed by Ali Cherri of Sudan is a copro of Germany, France, Serbia, and Sudan being sold by Indie Sales. The drama is set against the backdrop of the 2018 Sudanese revolution, near the Merowe Dam in the north of the country and revolves around a man who works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious construction made of mud. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his creation slowly starts to take on a life of its own.Cherri’s short films The Disquiet (2013) and The Digger (2015) played at a number of festivals including Berlinale, Toronto, and Rotterdam. He is also a celebrated artist. He is currently an artist in residence at the UK’s National Gallery in London, where his show If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? is running until June 12. He is also participating in the Venice Biennale this year and his work has been shown at the Guggenheim, British Museum and Centre Pompidou.
To return to Producers on the Move:
This year will again see the Producers on the Move platform offering its participants a tailor-made program to support the exchange among European producers and give them the opportunity to create new networks and thus foster international co-productions. Online 1:1 speed dating as well as roundtables and pitching sessions will be held ahead of the festival until 5 May, 2022. Producers from 20 different countries will then meet in person at the Festival de Cannes from 19 to 23 May, 2022 to take part in an exclusive programme which will include case studies of successful projects, social events, an extensive publicity campaign by the international trade magazines, and various opportunities for transnational discussions. Each year sees the programme resulting in a number of international co-productions between the participants or with partners they have come into contact with during the project.
Producers on the Move is supported by the Creative Europe - Media Programme of the European Union, as well as the Efp member organizations, including German Films.
Please click here for more information about Producers on the Move 2022.
Alexander Wadouh has been working in the film industry since 1999. A graduate of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb), he worked for the production company Essential Film (Women Without Men, You the Living, Dau) as well as for the French sales company Coproduction Office. In 2006, he founded his Berlin-based company Chromosom Film to develop and produce national and international feature films in the field of fiction and documentary with a political ethos and zeitgeist, and has since expanded into the production of high-end series. He has received numerous awards for his films. Wadouh is a graduate of Ace and Eave as well as being a member of the German Film Academy and European Film Academy. He has also been active as a distributor with Across Nations since 2020.
Alexander Wadouh on his nomination: "I am very happy to be able to be part of this year’s edition of Producers on the Move, the more so because Europe must grow even closer together so as to guarantee peace and freedom in the long term. That also includes being able to say and show everything in the spirit of cultural freedom without facing the danger of state repression. We can really achieve this through constant exchange and collaboration across national borders. I’m pleased that I can become part of a larger network of people who are moved and driven by similar things, who see their surroundings in a critical light and tell stories about the world."
Selected films of Alexander Wadouth include
Time of the Monsters
in financing, 2024
by Florian Hoffmann
Germany, France, Switzerland, Ghana
What YouCall Love
in financing, 2023
by Luzie Loose
Germany, France, Japan
The Wolves Always Come at Night
in financing, 2022
by Gabrielle Brady
Germany, Australia, Mongolia
Borga 2021
by York-Fabian Raabe
Germany, Ghana
trailer
Whispers of War 2021
by Florian Hoffmann
Germany
trailer
A Coffee in Berlin 2012
by Jan-Ole Gerster
Germany
Germany is also represented in the festival with one solo production and seven coproductions:
Cannes Ff Special Screenings will show The Vagabonds (eligible for Camera d’Or)directed by Doroteya Droumeva of Germany.
Berlin based producer Sol Bondy has Cannes Competition title Holy Spider directed by Iranian born Ali Abbasi, a coproductio of France, Germany, Sweden, snd Denmark. In Holy Spider, we follow family man Saeed as he embarks on his own religious quest — to “cleanse” the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of immoral and corrupt street prostitutes. After murdering several women, he grows ever more desperate about the lack of public interest in his divine mission.
Ace producer Janine Jakowski is among the producers of Austria, France, Germany, and Luxembourg responsible Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer which is showing in Un Certain Regard. This story of Sisi (Elizabeth) Empress of Austsria, wife of Franz Joseph who tries to keep her cult of beauty alive after she turns 40 (and old) is being sold by MK2. Already in place as distributors are Austria: Panda Lichtspiele, Germany: Alamode, Hungary: Circo, and Italy: Bim.
More Than Ever/ Plus que jamais directed by German director Emily Atef is a coproduciton of Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Norway. The story is about Hélène and Mathieu who have been happy together for many years. The bond between them is deep. Faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and test the strength of their love. The Match Factory has already placed the film in France with Jour2Fête, Germany with Pandora, and in Norway with Mer.
Directors’ Fortnight film Scarlet/ L’Envol directed by Pietro Marcello is a copro of France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Directors’ Fortnight film A Male/ Un varón directed by Fabian Hernández of Colombia is a copro of France, Germany, Netherlands and Colombia.
Critics’ Week Competition film The Woodcutter Story/ Metsurin tarina directed by Mikko Myllylahti is a coproduction of Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany.
Directors’ Fortnight One Fine Morning/ Un beau matin directed by Mia Hansen-Løve, produced by Razor Film Produktion GmbH, Germany, Arte France Cinéma, Mubi. Internationa sales by Les Films du Losange to Weltkino Filmverleih (Germany), Alambique Filmes (Portugal), Andrews Film (Taiwan), Challan (Korea), Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie (Belgium), Elastica (Spain), Palace Films (Australia and New Zealand) (all media), Weird Wave (Greece).
Directors’ Fortnight The Dam/ السد directed by Ali Cherri of Sudan is a copro of Germany, France, Serbia, and Sudan being sold by Indie Sales. The drama is set against the backdrop of the 2018 Sudanese revolution, near the Merowe Dam in the north of the country and revolves around a man who works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious construction made of mud. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his creation slowly starts to take on a life of its own.Cherri’s short films The Disquiet (2013) and The Digger (2015) played at a number of festivals including Berlinale, Toronto, and Rotterdam. He is also a celebrated artist. He is currently an artist in residence at the UK’s National Gallery in London, where his show If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? is running until June 12. He is also participating in the Venice Biennale this year and his work has been shown at the Guggenheim, British Museum and Centre Pompidou.
To return to Producers on the Move:
This year will again see the Producers on the Move platform offering its participants a tailor-made program to support the exchange among European producers and give them the opportunity to create new networks and thus foster international co-productions. Online 1:1 speed dating as well as roundtables and pitching sessions will be held ahead of the festival until 5 May, 2022. Producers from 20 different countries will then meet in person at the Festival de Cannes from 19 to 23 May, 2022 to take part in an exclusive programme which will include case studies of successful projects, social events, an extensive publicity campaign by the international trade magazines, and various opportunities for transnational discussions. Each year sees the programme resulting in a number of international co-productions between the participants or with partners they have come into contact with during the project.
Producers on the Move is supported by the Creative Europe - Media Programme of the European Union, as well as the Efp member organizations, including German Films.
Please click here for more information about Producers on the Move 2022.
- 5/8/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Derk-Jan Warrink, co-founder of Keplerfilm, will represent The Netherlands as Producer on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival, May 17–28. The coproduction ‘The Woodcutter Story’**, directed by Mikko Myllylahti is set to premiere in Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique. Keplerfilm will also celebrate the world premiere of Fleur van der Meulen’s debut feature ‘Pink Moon’** at Tribeca next month and Michiel ten Horn’s family film ‘Hotel Sinestra’** is currently in post-production.
Derk-Jan Warrink
www.see-nl.com
Besides Derk-Jan’s place in Cannes this year, Netherlands has secured a place in the Festivl Competition with Close directed by Lukas Dhont, a coproduction of Belgium, Netherlands, France. Internationl sales agent (Isa) The Match Factory is selling this story of Leo and Remi, two thirteen-year-old boys whose close friendship suddenly thrown into disarray as the prospect of adolescence looms. Trying to understand what has gone wrong, Leo seeks comfort and grows closer to Remi’s mother, Sophie, as the boys pursue forgiveness and reconciliation to try and get their friendship back together. Lukas Dhont directs from a screenplay by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens, reteaming after their first feature film Girl.
Directors’ Fortnight is screening A Male/ Un varón directed by Fabian Hernández, a coproduction of Colombia, France, Germany, and Netherlands. Critics’ Week Competition is premiering The Woodcutter Story / Metsurin tarina directed by Mikko Myllylahti, a copro of Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany.
In L’Atelier is Anna 1st directd by Rosanne Pel of Netherlands.
To return to Derk-Jan who founded Keplerfilm together with Koji Nelissen in 2016 after having worked on award-winning films such as The Lobster* (by Yorgos Lanthimos), Bullhead (Michaël R. Roskam), Blind* (Eskil Vogt) and Monos** (Alejandro Landes), Keplerfilm has established itself as a (co-)production company of high-quality independent international feature films such as Semaine de la Critique 2021 Grand Prize winner Feathers* (Omar El Zohairy), Netflix Original Captain Nova** (Maurice Trouwborst) and Buladó** (Eché Janga) which was awarded Best Film at the National Film Awards.
Keplerfilm strongly values building a creative breeding ground on which exceptional and talented writers and directors can grow to their full potential, with an eye for an equal number of female and male directors. They have founded a writer’s residency which offers filmmakers the opportunity to work on a film plan for a month. Keplerfilm focuses on feature film and has the ambition to tell stories about real people, with inescapable struggles and genuine desires, while at the same time always aiming to entertain the audience intellectually.
Derk-Jan Warrink is one of the in total 20 promising, up-and-coming European producers who have been selected for Producers on the Move, European Film Promotion’s high profile hybrid promotion and networking platform. The exclusive group of producers will be put in the spotlight before and during the Cannes Film Festival and take part in a tailor-made hybrid program in order to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. The Pre-Festival online program, which started May 3rd and runs until May 5th, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. Producers will then meet personally during the Festival de Cannes from 19 to 23 May and take part in a five-day on-site program including case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign via the international trade magazines.
Previous Producers on the Move from the Netherlands include Iris Otten of Juliet — Pupkin(2021), Joram Willink of Bind Film (2019), Frank Hoeve of Baldr (2018), Julius Ponten of New Amsterdam Film Company (2017), Janneke Doolaard of Doxy Films (2016), Ellen Havenith of Prpl (2015), Harro van Staverden of Phanta Basta (2014), Marleen Slot of Viking Film (2013) and Trent of Oak Motion Pictures (2012).
*supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
**supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Netherlands Production Incentive
Derk-Jan Warrink, Keplerfilm
Ph: +31 20 737 0608
derkjan@keplerfilm.com
www.keplerfilm.com
European Film Promotion
info@efp-online.com
www.efp-online.com
See Nl, a collaboration between Eye Filmmuseum and the Netherlands Film Fund, is dedicated to the international promotion of Dutch films, film professionals and film culture.
www.see-nl.com / www.eyefilm.nl
www.eyefilm.nl/en/privacy-cookiestatement...
Derk-Jan Warrink
www.see-nl.com
Besides Derk-Jan’s place in Cannes this year, Netherlands has secured a place in the Festivl Competition with Close directed by Lukas Dhont, a coproduction of Belgium, Netherlands, France. Internationl sales agent (Isa) The Match Factory is selling this story of Leo and Remi, two thirteen-year-old boys whose close friendship suddenly thrown into disarray as the prospect of adolescence looms. Trying to understand what has gone wrong, Leo seeks comfort and grows closer to Remi’s mother, Sophie, as the boys pursue forgiveness and reconciliation to try and get their friendship back together. Lukas Dhont directs from a screenplay by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens, reteaming after their first feature film Girl.
Directors’ Fortnight is screening A Male/ Un varón directed by Fabian Hernández, a coproduction of Colombia, France, Germany, and Netherlands. Critics’ Week Competition is premiering The Woodcutter Story / Metsurin tarina directed by Mikko Myllylahti, a copro of Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany.
In L’Atelier is Anna 1st directd by Rosanne Pel of Netherlands.
To return to Derk-Jan who founded Keplerfilm together with Koji Nelissen in 2016 after having worked on award-winning films such as The Lobster* (by Yorgos Lanthimos), Bullhead (Michaël R. Roskam), Blind* (Eskil Vogt) and Monos** (Alejandro Landes), Keplerfilm has established itself as a (co-)production company of high-quality independent international feature films such as Semaine de la Critique 2021 Grand Prize winner Feathers* (Omar El Zohairy), Netflix Original Captain Nova** (Maurice Trouwborst) and Buladó** (Eché Janga) which was awarded Best Film at the National Film Awards.
Keplerfilm strongly values building a creative breeding ground on which exceptional and talented writers and directors can grow to their full potential, with an eye for an equal number of female and male directors. They have founded a writer’s residency which offers filmmakers the opportunity to work on a film plan for a month. Keplerfilm focuses on feature film and has the ambition to tell stories about real people, with inescapable struggles and genuine desires, while at the same time always aiming to entertain the audience intellectually.
Derk-Jan Warrink is one of the in total 20 promising, up-and-coming European producers who have been selected for Producers on the Move, European Film Promotion’s high profile hybrid promotion and networking platform. The exclusive group of producers will be put in the spotlight before and during the Cannes Film Festival and take part in a tailor-made hybrid program in order to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. The Pre-Festival online program, which started May 3rd and runs until May 5th, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. Producers will then meet personally during the Festival de Cannes from 19 to 23 May and take part in a five-day on-site program including case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign via the international trade magazines.
Previous Producers on the Move from the Netherlands include Iris Otten of Juliet — Pupkin(2021), Joram Willink of Bind Film (2019), Frank Hoeve of Baldr (2018), Julius Ponten of New Amsterdam Film Company (2017), Janneke Doolaard of Doxy Films (2016), Ellen Havenith of Prpl (2015), Harro van Staverden of Phanta Basta (2014), Marleen Slot of Viking Film (2013) and Trent of Oak Motion Pictures (2012).
*supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
**supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Netherlands Production Incentive
Derk-Jan Warrink, Keplerfilm
Ph: +31 20 737 0608
derkjan@keplerfilm.com
www.keplerfilm.com
European Film Promotion
info@efp-online.com
www.efp-online.com
See Nl, a collaboration between Eye Filmmuseum and the Netherlands Film Fund, is dedicated to the international promotion of Dutch films, film professionals and film culture.
www.see-nl.com / www.eyefilm.nl
www.eyefilm.nl/en/privacy-cookiestatement...
- 5/8/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
The 20 producers will take part in a five-day programme on the 19-23 May at the festival
The producers of Cannes competition title Ahed’s Knee and César-nominated animation Even Mice Belong In Heaven are among those selected for European Film Production’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move.
The 20 producers will take part in an in-person five-day programme running May 19-23 at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as an online pre-festival programme of speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions.
Among this year’s selection is Judith Lou Lévy, who produced Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee, which won the jury...
The producers of Cannes competition title Ahed’s Knee and César-nominated animation Even Mice Belong In Heaven are among those selected for European Film Production’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move.
The 20 producers will take part in an in-person five-day programme running May 19-23 at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as an online pre-festival programme of speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions.
Among this year’s selection is Judith Lou Lévy, who produced Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee, which won the jury...
- 5/4/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The directorial debut of veteran French literary star revisits 1970s France through family home videos of the period.
Paris-based company Totem has boarded sales on Directors’ Fortnight documentary The Super 8 Years, the feature directorial debut of veteran French literary star Annie Ernaux with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Ernaux, 81, is one of France’s most respected contemporary writers for her body of work capturing life for women and social change in the country from the 1960s onwards.
A number of her novels have been adapted to the big screen in recent years including Passion Simple by Danielle Arbid in 2020 and Happening by Audrey Diwan,...
Paris-based company Totem has boarded sales on Directors’ Fortnight documentary The Super 8 Years, the feature directorial debut of veteran French literary star Annie Ernaux with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Ernaux, 81, is one of France’s most respected contemporary writers for her body of work capturing life for women and social change in the country from the 1960s onwards.
A number of her novels have been adapted to the big screen in recent years including Passion Simple by Danielle Arbid in 2020 and Happening by Audrey Diwan,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Jesse Eisenberg’s “When You Finish Saving the World” will be the opening-night film at this year’s International Critics Week (Semaine de la Critique), an independent sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival devoted to first and second films from up-and-coming directors.
The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which because of the Covid-19 pandemic was held virtually rather than in person. New Critics Week head Ava Cahen described the booking of Eisenberg’s movie as “an act of solidarity” with that festival to give the film an in-person spotlight.
The seven films in competition include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Mikko Myllylahti’s “The Woodcutter Story,” Simon Roth’s “Summer Scars” and Ali Behrad’s “Imagine.” Three of the seven come from female directors.
International Critics Week, which launched in 1962, is the oldest independent section at the Cannes Film Festival, seven years older than Directors Fortnight. This year...
The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which because of the Covid-19 pandemic was held virtually rather than in person. New Critics Week head Ava Cahen described the booking of Eisenberg’s movie as “an act of solidarity” with that festival to give the film an in-person spotlight.
The seven films in competition include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Mikko Myllylahti’s “The Woodcutter Story,” Simon Roth’s “Summer Scars” and Ali Behrad’s “Imagine.” Three of the seven come from female directors.
International Critics Week, which launched in 1962, is the oldest independent section at the Cannes Film Festival, seven years older than Directors Fortnight. This year...
- 4/20/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Two more sidebars at this year’s Cannes Film Festival have unveiled their lineup. First up, Critics Week (aka La Semaine de la Critique), which brings together first and second features, has announced its 2022 slate, which includes a special screening of Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World, which we reviewed at Sundance. While the festival is primarily geared towards discoveries, it also includes a new short by Yann Gonzalez.
Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) also unveiled its nine features, which notably includes a new film by Damien Manivel, who recently directed the acclaimed Isadora’s Children. Check out both lineups below.
Critics Week (hat tip to Screen Daily)
Special Screenings
When You Finish Saving The World (US) (Opening film)
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
Sons Of Ramses (Fr)
Dir. Clément Cogitore
Everybody Loves Jeanne (Fr)
Dir. Céline Devaux
Next Sohee (S Kor) (Closing film)
Dir. July Jung...
Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) also unveiled its nine features, which notably includes a new film by Damien Manivel, who recently directed the acclaimed Isadora’s Children. Check out both lineups below.
Critics Week (hat tip to Screen Daily)
Special Screenings
When You Finish Saving The World (US) (Opening film)
Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
Sons Of Ramses (Fr)
Dir. Clément Cogitore
Everybody Loves Jeanne (Fr)
Dir. Céline Devaux
Next Sohee (S Kor) (Closing film)
Dir. July Jung...
- 4/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Cannes Film Festival’s parallel sidebar Critics’ Week has unveiled the 11 features and 13 shorts that will comprise its 2022 edition. Scroll down to see the full lineup.
Opening the event will be Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama When You Finish Saving the World, which premiered at Sundance this year and has its international premiere in Cannes. The film stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as mother and son.
Closing the program will be Jung July’s Next Sohee, a detective drama starring Bae Doona.
This is the first selection for new Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, who becomes the second female director in the event’s history.
Cannes Critics’ Week runs May 18-26 this year.
Competition
Feature Films
Aftersun (UK / U.S.)
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Alma Viva (Portugal / France)
Dir. Cristèle Alves Meira
Dalva (Love according to Dalva) (Belgium / France)
Dir. Emmanuelle Nicot
La Jauría (Colombia / France)
Dir. Andrés Ramírez Pulido...
Opening the event will be Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama When You Finish Saving the World, which premiered at Sundance this year and has its international premiere in Cannes. The film stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as mother and son.
Closing the program will be Jung July’s Next Sohee, a detective drama starring Bae Doona.
This is the first selection for new Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, who becomes the second female director in the event’s history.
Cannes Critics’ Week runs May 18-26 this year.
Competition
Feature Films
Aftersun (UK / U.S.)
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Alma Viva (Portugal / France)
Dir. Cristèle Alves Meira
Dalva (Love according to Dalva) (Belgium / France)
Dir. Emmanuelle Nicot
La Jauría (Colombia / France)
Dir. Andrés Ramírez Pulido...
- 4/20/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Critics’ Week, the sidebar dedicated to first and second films running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, will be kicking off with Jesse Eisenberg’s feature debut “When You Finish Saving the World” and showcase four female-directed movies.
Selected out of 1100 submitted movies, the full roster includes 11 feature films, seven of which will compete and four will play as special screenings.
“When You Finish Saving the World,” which is headlined by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, revolves around the relationship between a politically-engaged mother and her fame-obsessed teenage son, who is also a burgeoning musician. The A24 movie is based on Eisenberg’s 2020 audio drama of the same name and was part of the Sundance 2022 selection.
“We already adored Eisenberg as an actor and discovered him as a true auteur with this film that’s both tender and contemporary and exposes a generational gap between a mother and her son,” said Ava Cahen,...
Selected out of 1100 submitted movies, the full roster includes 11 feature films, seven of which will compete and four will play as special screenings.
“When You Finish Saving the World,” which is headlined by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, revolves around the relationship between a politically-engaged mother and her fame-obsessed teenage son, who is also a burgeoning musician. The A24 movie is based on Eisenberg’s 2020 audio drama of the same name and was part of the Sundance 2022 selection.
“We already adored Eisenberg as an actor and discovered him as a true auteur with this film that’s both tender and contemporary and exposes a generational gap between a mother and her son,” said Ava Cahen,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The lineup for the 2022 Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) has been announced. See also the full lineup of the Official Selection and Directors' Fortnight.Next SoheeCOMPETITION — FEATURESAftersun (Charlotte Wells)Alma Viva (Cristèle Alves Meira)Dalva (Emmanuelle Nicot)La Jauría (Andrés Ramírez Pulido)Summer Scars (Simon Rieth)Imagine (Ali Behrad)The Woodcutter Story (Mikko Myllylahti)Competition — SHORTSCanker (Lin Tu)Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol (Diego Cespedes)Chords (Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)Will You Look At Me (Shuli Huang)Ice Merchants (João Gonzalez)It’s Nice In Here (Robert-Jonathan Koeyers)I Didn’t Make It To Love Her (Anna Fernandez De Paco)On Xerxes’ Throne (Evi Kalogiropoulou)Manta Ray (Anton Bialas)Swan In the Center (Iris Chassaigne)Special Screenings — FEATURESWhen You Finish Saving The World (Jesse Eisenberg): Evelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other as Evelyn desperately...
- 4/20/2022
- MUBI
Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut ’When You Finish Saving The World’ will open the section focused on first and second films.
Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel section focused on first and second films, has unveiled the line-up for its 61st edition, running May 18-26.
The section will showcase 11 features, seven of them in competition, and another 13 shorts.
It is the first selection piloted by incoming Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, since taking over the reins from Charles Tesson, who stepped down at the end of last year’s 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
At 36, she is the...
Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel section focused on first and second films, has unveiled the line-up for its 61st edition, running May 18-26.
The section will showcase 11 features, seven of them in competition, and another 13 shorts.
It is the first selection piloted by incoming Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen, since taking over the reins from Charles Tesson, who stepped down at the end of last year’s 60th edition after 10 years at the helm.
At 36, she is the...
- 4/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based company had a high-profile 2021 with titles including ’Compartment No. 6’ and ‘My Sunny Maad’.
Paris-based Totem Films will launch a quartet of first features with 2022 festival hopes at the EFM next week (February 10-17), including directorial debuts by The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki co-writer Mikko Myllylahti and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca.
The company’s 2021 slate enjoyed a buzzy festival run, led by Cannes Grand Prix winner Compartment No. 6 as well as Berlinale best documentary winner We, Berlin Competition title Ballad Of A White Cow and My SunnyMaad, which took the jury award at Annecy.
Finnish...
Paris-based Totem Films will launch a quartet of first features with 2022 festival hopes at the EFM next week (February 10-17), including directorial debuts by The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki co-writer Mikko Myllylahti and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca.
The company’s 2021 slate enjoyed a buzzy festival run, led by Cannes Grand Prix winner Compartment No. 6 as well as Berlinale best documentary winner We, Berlin Competition title Ballad Of A White Cow and My SunnyMaad, which took the jury award at Annecy.
Finnish...
- 2/1/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Woodcutter Story
A TorinoFilmLab and Cinéfondation lab selection, and winner of the Critics’ Week’s Next Step Award, there is a lot of forward momentum for Finnish filmmaker Mikko Myllylahti‘s debut film. Filming on The Woodcutter Story (aka Metsurin tarina) might have wrapped up in February of 2021 – but the final touches were completed just this past December. Starring Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Jarkko Lahti (featured in image above), Katja Küttner and Aki Rumbin, Myllylahti tackles the not so rare occurrence of the destructive nature of alcoholism – and in terms of style and tone, we can imagine this might be fitted with some noir Scandi humor.…...
A TorinoFilmLab and Cinéfondation lab selection, and winner of the Critics’ Week’s Next Step Award, there is a lot of forward momentum for Finnish filmmaker Mikko Myllylahti‘s debut film. Filming on The Woodcutter Story (aka Metsurin tarina) might have wrapped up in February of 2021 – but the final touches were completed just this past December. Starring Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Jarkko Lahti (featured in image above), Katja Küttner and Aki Rumbin, Myllylahti tackles the not so rare occurrence of the destructive nature of alcoholism – and in terms of style and tone, we can imagine this might be fitted with some noir Scandi humor.…...
- 1/8/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The prize is an extension of Critics’ Week Next Step programme helping filmmakers progress from shorts to features.
UK director Molly Manning Walker has won the €5,000 Critics’ Weeks Next Step prize for her upcoming first feature How To Have Sex.
In its third edition, the prize is an extension of the Critics’ Week Next Step programme aimed at helping filmmakers whose shorts have previously played in the parallel section to make their debut feature.
The first two winners were Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti with The Woodcutter Story and French director Camille Degeye with Sphinx.
This year’s jury was made up of Carole Baraton,...
UK director Molly Manning Walker has won the €5,000 Critics’ Weeks Next Step prize for her upcoming first feature How To Have Sex.
In its third edition, the prize is an extension of the Critics’ Week Next Step programme aimed at helping filmmakers whose shorts have previously played in the parallel section to make their debut feature.
The first two winners were Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti with The Woodcutter Story and French director Camille Degeye with Sphinx.
This year’s jury was made up of Carole Baraton,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
As The Netherlands, under lockdown, celebrated the first half of 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam’s online, the physical half – set to take place in June with real audiences, panels and talks without Zoom links attached – still feels like a long way off.
Meanwhile, the industry is hopeful that the swift and pragmatic measures taken by its national funding agency, The Netherlands Film Fund, will be enough to see it through until the end of this year.
In January, the fund, headed by former IFFR director Bero Beyer, confirmed €30 million ($36.1 million) in new government support – double the amount that was available last year – to help the industry ride through its third national lockdown and beyond.
According to Beyer, most of last year’s efforts went into maintaining a certain level of production once restrictions were lifted in June: a national protocol for safety on film sets was devised along with...
Meanwhile, the industry is hopeful that the swift and pragmatic measures taken by its national funding agency, The Netherlands Film Fund, will be enough to see it through until the end of this year.
In January, the fund, headed by former IFFR director Bero Beyer, confirmed €30 million ($36.1 million) in new government support – double the amount that was available last year – to help the industry ride through its third national lockdown and beyond.
According to Beyer, most of last year’s efforts went into maintaining a certain level of production once restrictions were lifted in June: a national protocol for safety on film sets was devised along with...
- 2/6/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Camille Degeye’s feature debut “Sphynx” won the Next Step Award as part of the program launched by Cannes’ Critics’ Week to help the directors of the 10 shorts which played during the last edition make their feature debut.
Degeye, who developed the script of “Sphynx” during the sixth session of Next Step in December, received the €5000 cash ($5616) prize from a jury comprising Michèle Halberstadt, co-founder of distribution banner Arp, Bérénice Vincent, co-founder of sales outfit Totem Films and Mathieu Robinet, a French distributor.
Along with receiving the cash prize, Degeve will also be invited to next year’s Cannes festival to promote her project. “Sphynx,” produced by Acéphale, was co-written by the journalist Luc Chessel. It tells the story of Eden, a young medical intern who stars working as a nurse for a trendy Parisian nightclub and falls in love with the Nidhal, a mysterious figure of Paris’s queer and underground world.
Degeye, who developed the script of “Sphynx” during the sixth session of Next Step in December, received the €5000 cash ($5616) prize from a jury comprising Michèle Halberstadt, co-founder of distribution banner Arp, Bérénice Vincent, co-founder of sales outfit Totem Films and Mathieu Robinet, a French distributor.
Along with receiving the cash prize, Degeve will also be invited to next year’s Cannes festival to promote her project. “Sphynx,” produced by Acéphale, was co-written by the journalist Luc Chessel. It tells the story of Eden, a young medical intern who stars working as a nurse for a trendy Parisian nightclub and falls in love with the Nidhal, a mysterious figure of Paris’s queer and underground world.
- 6/4/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Next Step programme helps directors make move from shorts to first feature.
French director Camille Degeye has won the second €5,000 Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize, for her debut feature project Sphinx.
The drama is about a young medical intern who is excluded from the neurosurgery department where she works. She finds a job as a medic for a trendy Paris nightclub, where she embarks on a passionate love affair with an enigmatic figure on the Paris drag queen cabaret scene.
Spearheaded by outgoing Critics’ Week manager Rémi Bonhomme, the Next Step initiative was launched in 2014 to help directors of...
French director Camille Degeye has won the second €5,000 Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize, for her debut feature project Sphinx.
The drama is about a young medical intern who is excluded from the neurosurgery department where she works. She finds a job as a medic for a trendy Paris nightclub, where she embarks on a passionate love affair with an enigmatic figure on the Paris drag queen cabaret scene.
Spearheaded by outgoing Critics’ Week manager Rémi Bonhomme, the Next Step initiative was launched in 2014 to help directors of...
- 6/4/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The Leopards of Tomorrow section marks its 30th anniversary this year.
The Locarno Film Festival will showcase the shorts component of its Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani) programme online as part of the 2020 digital iteration.
The festival was forced to cancel its physical 73rd edition which had been due to take place from August 5-15 in Switzerland due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is instead running a series of initiatives under the banner of ‘Locarno 2020 - For the Future of Films’, aimed at continuing its work and support for the independent cinema industry.
The Leopards of Tomorrow section, which...
The Locarno Film Festival will showcase the shorts component of its Leopards of Tomorrow (Pardi di Domani) programme online as part of the 2020 digital iteration.
The festival was forced to cancel its physical 73rd edition which had been due to take place from August 5-15 in Switzerland due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is instead running a series of initiatives under the banner of ‘Locarno 2020 - For the Future of Films’, aimed at continuing its work and support for the independent cinema industry.
The Leopards of Tomorrow section, which...
- 5/19/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Last week saw 9 young filmmakers take part in this programme organised by Cannes’ Critics’ Week and aimed at supporting young directors make the leap to feature film. For the sixth year running, Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival reiterated its Next Step programme which looks to help young filmmakers (who have previously been selected for Cannes’ parallel competition section) take the leap between short and full-length film. It’s a programme which chiefly consists of a workshop (very recently held between 9 – 13 December), but it also involves a competition, the winner of which will be announced on the Croisette in May 2020, as was the case in May this year for The Woodcutter Story by Finland’s Mikko Myllylahti (read our news).One of the nine lucky candidates selected for this 6th session is France’s Camille Degeye, who is currently developing Sphinx. The story centres around Eden, a young...
- 12/20/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Critics’ Week launched The Next Step initiative in 2014 to help directors of shorts that premiere in its selection to progress to their first feature.
Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who co-wrote Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki, has won the inaugural €5,000 Critics’ Week Step Prize, for his debut feature project The Woodcutter Story.
Produced by Aamu Film Company, the black comedy will explore the power of hope against obscurantism through the tale of a village blighted by the opening of a mine.
Critics’ Week launched The Next Step initiative in 2014 to help directors of...
Finnish director Mikko Myllylahti, who co-wrote Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki, has won the inaugural €5,000 Critics’ Week Step Prize, for his debut feature project The Woodcutter Story.
Produced by Aamu Film Company, the black comedy will explore the power of hope against obscurantism through the tale of a village blighted by the opening of a mine.
Critics’ Week launched The Next Step initiative in 2014 to help directors of...
- 5/19/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Finnish poet-turned-filmmaker Mikko Myllylahti’s feature debut, “The Woodcutter Story,” won Cannes’ Critics’ Week inaugural Next Step award, part of a program aimed at helping the directors of the 10 shorts playing in the sidebar to make their feature debut.
“The Woodcutter Story,” which is being developed by the production banner Aamu Film Company, unfolds in Finland’s Lapland, in a quiet village where a dark force enters and sparks a series of tragic events. The tragedies start dragging down the morale of all but one villager, the local woodcutter whose unflinching optimism becomes suspicious.
Myllylahti said the movie mixed black comedy, surrealism and metaphorical thriller elements. He said the movie would also carry an environmental theme and would be about hope. The filmmaker, who has had four collections of poems published, said the tone of “The Woodcutter Story” was inspired by the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” and the work of Robert Bresson.
“The Woodcutter Story,” which is being developed by the production banner Aamu Film Company, unfolds in Finland’s Lapland, in a quiet village where a dark force enters and sparks a series of tragic events. The tragedies start dragging down the morale of all but one villager, the local woodcutter whose unflinching optimism becomes suspicious.
Myllylahti said the movie mixed black comedy, surrealism and metaphorical thriller elements. He said the movie would also carry an environmental theme and would be about hope. The filmmaker, who has had four collections of poems published, said the tone of “The Woodcutter Story” was inspired by the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” and the work of Robert Bresson.
- 5/18/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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