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
While we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that might bring to light some emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp, and we’re highlighting the handful of 2019 debuts that most impressed us.
Below, one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres and many are available to stream here. In years to come, take note as these helmers (hopefully) ascend.
Aniara (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja)
The title shares its name with a city-size spacecraft ferrying humans from Earth to Mars in barely three weeks. It’s a routine trip that’s never run into problems with many passengers already having family on the red planet to greet them upon arrival.
Below, one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres and many are available to stream here. In years to come, take note as these helmers (hopefully) ascend.
Aniara (Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja)
The title shares its name with a city-size spacecraft ferrying humans from Earth to Mars in barely three weeks. It’s a routine trip that’s never run into problems with many passengers already having family on the red planet to greet them upon arrival.
- 12/10/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
Ad Astra (James Gray)
With Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and The Irishman, it’s been a strong year for big-budget, auteur-driven cinema, but my pick for the best of the bunch in that regard is James Gray’s Brad Pitt-led adventure Ad Astra. A space epic of immense scale that still contains a personal, beating heart, if you didn’t get a chance to experience this on the biggest screen possible, it’s now available to stream. For more, listen to our podcast discussion.
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
Ad Astra (James Gray)
With Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and The Irishman, it’s been a strong year for big-budget, auteur-driven cinema, but my pick for the best of the bunch in that regard is James Gray’s Brad Pitt-led adventure Ad Astra. A space epic of immense scale that still contains a personal, beating heart, if you didn’t get a chance to experience this on the biggest screen possible, it’s now available to stream. For more, listen to our podcast discussion.
- 12/6/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Guillaume Nicloux, the French director of “Valley of Love,” is set to preside over the jury of the Arcs Film Festival, while the iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) will be the patron of the second edition of the Talent Village.
Created last year, the Talent Village is a development workshop and platform for emerging talents aimed at helping them make their feature debut. Huppert will succeed to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”) who was the patron of the inaugural edition.
The festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, will also launch the Cinema Green Lab. Along the lines of its workshop program and award for women filmmakers, the Arcs festival will be hosting screenings of environment-themed movies, workshops discussing eco-friendly initiatives in the film industry, as well as panel discussions about ways to tackle these topics in fiction.
The Arcs fest will also hand out an award...
Created last year, the Talent Village is a development workshop and platform for emerging talents aimed at helping them make their feature debut. Huppert will succeed to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”) who was the patron of the inaugural edition.
The festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, will also launch the Cinema Green Lab. Along the lines of its workshop program and award for women filmmakers, the Arcs festival will be hosting screenings of environment-themed movies, workshops discussing eco-friendly initiatives in the film industry, as well as panel discussions about ways to tackle these topics in fiction.
The Arcs fest will also hand out an award...
- 10/22/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Slovakian film festival will honour Portugal’s João Pedro Rodrigues with its Respect Award when it unspools from 10-15 September. One of the younger Slovakian international film festivals, Cinematik, will soon unspool for the 14th time in the spa town of Piešťany. The line-up traditionally includes the Meeting Point Europe section, which rounds up intriguing European productions from the 2018-2019 season, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ much-celebrated royal affair The Favourite, François Ozon’s latest drama By the Grace of God, the disarmingly absurd comedy Diamantino by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, Bertrant Bonello’s Cannes-premiered Zombi Child and Julian Schnabel’s van Gogh drama starring Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate. Cinematik regularly hosts a competition for Slovakian documentaries in the Cinematik.doc section. The titles that will vie for the award this year are Tomáš Krupa’s award-winning intimate doc examining the taboo topic of death and assisted suicide,...
A soccer star weaving through giant puppies on a stadium pitch clouded by cosmic cotton candy is the wildest and most memorable image from Gabriel Abrantes’s and Daniel Schmidt’s screwball satire, Diamantino, which opens its theatrical run in La today. Debuting at Cannes in 2018, where it won both the Critics’ Week Grand Prize and the Palm Dog Jury Prize for best canine performance, the roving comedy weaves together a wacky plot with hyper-topical subjects like rising neo-facism, genetic modification and the refugee crisis. Named for its protagonist soccer stud loosely inspired by Christian Ronaldo, Diamantino begins with a fall […]...
- 6/28/2019
- by Whitney Mallett
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A soccer star weaving through giant puppies on a stadium pitch clouded by cosmic cotton candy is the wildest and most memorable image from Gabriel Abrantes’s and Daniel Schmidt’s screwball satire, Diamantino, which opens its theatrical run in La today. Debuting at Cannes in 2018, where it won both the Critics’ Week Grand Prize and the Palm Dog Jury Prize for best canine performance, the roving comedy weaves together a wacky plot with hyper-topical subjects like rising neo-facism, genetic modification and the refugee crisis. Named for its protagonist soccer stud loosely inspired by Christian Ronaldo, Diamantino begins with a fall […]...
- 6/28/2019
- by Whitney Mallett
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
From “Avengers: Endgame” to “Game of Thrones” and the Mueller report, much about 2019 has been about endings — and debates about new beginnings. Major tentpole events have consumed the public sphere with the expectation of dramatic conclusions and the intrigue of mysterious next chapters.
The best movies, however, don’t need to cling to some larger timeline to prove their worth: They deliver memorable experiences on their own terms, illustrating why the feature-length format remains an essential vessel for creativity. While entertainment pundits continue to muse on whether “film is dead,” the movies keep proving that they most definitely are not.
Here are the very best of them that 2019 has delivered so far.
“Diane”
An intimate story about a woman staring death in the face and struggling to see its reflection in her own life, “Diane” is as depressing as it sounds. On the other hand, Kent Jones’ Tribeca-winning narrative debut...
The best movies, however, don’t need to cling to some larger timeline to prove their worth: They deliver memorable experiences on their own terms, illustrating why the feature-length format remains an essential vessel for creativity. While entertainment pundits continue to muse on whether “film is dead,” the movies keep proving that they most definitely are not.
Here are the very best of them that 2019 has delivered so far.
“Diane”
An intimate story about a woman staring death in the face and struggling to see its reflection in her own life, “Diane” is as depressing as it sounds. On the other hand, Kent Jones’ Tribeca-winning narrative debut...
- 6/3/2019
- by Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich and Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
by Murtada Elfadl
The balancing of many different tones differentiates Diamantino, which just opened in theaters after a hit run at Cannes last year. It's a satire, an allegory, a rom-com and a fantasy -- all of those things in one yet it all jells. Co-directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt kept all these different balls in the air. The story is absolutely bonkers. Let’s see if we can get it straight with the help of the official synopsis:
Portuguese soccer hunk Diamantino blows it in the World Cup finals, he goes from superstar to laughing stock overnight. His sheltered worldview is further shattered after learning about the European refugee crisis and he resolves to make amends by adopting an African refugee – only to find that his new “son” is actually an undercover lesbian tax auditor investigating him on the suspicion of corruption. From there, Diamantino gets swept up...
The balancing of many different tones differentiates Diamantino, which just opened in theaters after a hit run at Cannes last year. It's a satire, an allegory, a rom-com and a fantasy -- all of those things in one yet it all jells. Co-directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt kept all these different balls in the air. The story is absolutely bonkers. Let’s see if we can get it straight with the help of the official synopsis:
Portuguese soccer hunk Diamantino blows it in the World Cup finals, he goes from superstar to laughing stock overnight. His sheltered worldview is further shattered after learning about the European refugee crisis and he resolves to make amends by adopting an African refugee – only to find that his new “son” is actually an undercover lesbian tax auditor investigating him on the suspicion of corruption. From there, Diamantino gets swept up...
- 5/31/2019
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
Politicizing Camp: Abrantes & Schmidt Post a Win with Imaginative Soccer Satire
After a decade decade working in the short experimental form, festival faves Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt provide a love story that would outrage admirers of all things classic. Diamantino is stuck between science fiction and a politically self-aware comedy, this is a fine contemporary piece of camp cinema. Borrowing from pop culture and its ready-made clichés, this is a satirical reinterpretation of soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, the incredibly naive and ignorant world-class player and Portugal’s darling.
During a reenacted 2018 FIFA World Cup, Diamantino misses a penalty which means disgrace to his country, and a career-threatening blow for himself.…...
After a decade decade working in the short experimental form, festival faves Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt provide a love story that would outrage admirers of all things classic. Diamantino is stuck between science fiction and a politically self-aware comedy, this is a fine contemporary piece of camp cinema. Borrowing from pop culture and its ready-made clichés, this is a satirical reinterpretation of soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, the incredibly naive and ignorant world-class player and Portugal’s darling.
During a reenacted 2018 FIFA World Cup, Diamantino misses a penalty which means disgrace to his country, and a career-threatening blow for himself.…...
- 5/29/2019
- by Călin Boto
- IONCINEMA.com
If co-directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt have done their job correctly, audiences will walk out of their new film Diamantino feeling they were impregnated (to use Iñárritu’s lexicon) with “candy that doesn’t make you sick.”
Diamantino (played by Carloto Cotta) has Cristiano Ronaldo-like fame, but makes a fatal error on the soccer field and loses his superstar status. Left with nothing but his good looks, Diamantino is revealed to be a bewildered and wide-eyed Forrest Gump for the 21st century; a century plagued with right-wing machinations for which the former athlete is duped into lending his image.
We sat down with Abrantes and Schmidt at the 56th New York Film Festival to discuss the political power of mass entertainment, how Diamantino defies categories by playing in Midnight and Avant-garde sections of film festivals, and how the comedy of Lubitsch and crude special effects of Cocteau shaped their modern fairytale.
Diamantino (played by Carloto Cotta) has Cristiano Ronaldo-like fame, but makes a fatal error on the soccer field and loses his superstar status. Left with nothing but his good looks, Diamantino is revealed to be a bewildered and wide-eyed Forrest Gump for the 21st century; a century plagued with right-wing machinations for which the former athlete is duped into lending his image.
We sat down with Abrantes and Schmidt at the 56th New York Film Festival to discuss the political power of mass entertainment, how Diamantino defies categories by playing in Midnight and Avant-garde sections of film festivals, and how the comedy of Lubitsch and crude special effects of Cocteau shaped their modern fairytale.
- 5/23/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Gabriel Abrantes returned to the Croisette this year to attend the screening of his 20-minute fantasy short, Directors’ Fortnight “The Marvelous Misadventures of The Stone Lady.” about a female statue that escapes from the Louvre and ventures into the streets of Paris.
The U.S.-born Portuguese director wowed audiences at Cannes last year with his wacky soccer-themed feature, “Diamantino,” co-directed with Daniel Schmidt.
“Diamantino’”s deranged mixture of queer sci-fi, romantic reverie, fairytale pastiche and CGI spectacle won the duo the Grand Prix in Cannes Critics Week, followed by major success on the festival circuit, and sales to over a dozen territories.
“Stone Lady” was earmarked by several critics as a key title to watch at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and received strong applause at its screening on Sunday.
In an interview with Variety, Abrantes explains how he came to choose this follow-up project to “Diamantino” and...
The U.S.-born Portuguese director wowed audiences at Cannes last year with his wacky soccer-themed feature, “Diamantino,” co-directed with Daniel Schmidt.
“Diamantino’”s deranged mixture of queer sci-fi, romantic reverie, fairytale pastiche and CGI spectacle won the duo the Grand Prix in Cannes Critics Week, followed by major success on the festival circuit, and sales to over a dozen territories.
“Stone Lady” was earmarked by several critics as a key title to watch at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and received strong applause at its screening on Sunday.
In an interview with Variety, Abrantes explains how he came to choose this follow-up project to “Diamantino” and...
- 5/23/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Points for originality should go to “Diamantino,” an amusing but scattershot comedy that revolves around a world-famous Portuguese soccer star patterned in part on Cristiano Ronaldo. Co-directed and written by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, this is a film that takes a lot of chances with its tone as it moves from farcical moments to scenes with earnest political messages.
Diamantino (Carloto Cotta) is a national idol on the soccer field, and whenever he scores a goal he sees enormous fluffy puppies surrounding him. This imagery of the giant puppies is funny because they’re so obviously meant to be small and harmless pets, and here they’re seen stomping around like dinosaurs. These giant fluffy puppies are an apt symbol of Diamantino himself, a sports God who is so absurdly innocent that he can be used by anyone around him for either good or bad purposes.
Diamantino is inspired...
Diamantino (Carloto Cotta) is a national idol on the soccer field, and whenever he scores a goal he sees enormous fluffy puppies surrounding him. This imagery of the giant puppies is funny because they’re so obviously meant to be small and harmless pets, and here they’re seen stomping around like dinosaurs. These giant fluffy puppies are an apt symbol of Diamantino himself, a sports God who is so absurdly innocent that he can be used by anyone around him for either good or bad purposes.
Diamantino is inspired...
- 5/21/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
There will be no film precisely like Diamantino this year, a dazzlingly imaginative experience involving shaggy puppy-filled soccer game dreams, nefarious twins, the refugee crisis, and gender fluidity. Directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, following a healthy festival run–which included Cannes (where it picked up the top Critics’ Week prize), Tiff, and Nyff–it’ll now arrive this month via Kino Lorber and the trailer and poster have landed.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “In their first full feature as co-directors, Abrantes and Schmidt are nothing if not ambitious and have jam-packed this screenplay with enough conspiracy, femme fatales, and bio-domes to suggest Ian Fleming was on board as script supervisor. Unlike the real-life Ronaldo (fair is fair), Diamantino is not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer and, regardless of whatever debt it may owe to Derek Zoolander, Cotta’s perfectly dim performance will provide...
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “In their first full feature as co-directors, Abrantes and Schmidt are nothing if not ambitious and have jam-packed this screenplay with enough conspiracy, femme fatales, and bio-domes to suggest Ian Fleming was on board as script supervisor. Unlike the real-life Ronaldo (fair is fair), Diamantino is not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer and, regardless of whatever debt it may owe to Derek Zoolander, Cotta’s perfectly dim performance will provide...
- 5/8/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Something magical happened when I played." Kino Lorber has debuted an official Us trailer for the wacky, brilliant, one-of-a-kind "high camp" indie comedy Diamantino, from directors Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt. This Portuguese film premiered in the Critics' Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and stopped by a bunch of major film festivals throughout the film. "Tabu's Carloto Cotta gives the finest comic performance in recent memory as the dimwitted Portuguese soccer superstar of the title, a burlesqued version of Cristiano Ronaldo, swept up in a complicated comic conundrum involving the refugee crisis, Secret Service skullduggery, mad science genetic modification, and a right-wing anti-EU conspiracy." This is easily one of the most creative, original, and hilarious films I saw last year and I definitely recommend it - a "high-camp" international discovery that will be a cult classic very soon. Also stars Cleo Tavares, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira,...
- 5/6/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Diamantino” is nothing less (and so much more) than the movie the world needs right now. A hit from the moment it premiered at Cannes last year, this winningly demented 21st century fairy tale centers on a beautiful, child-like soccer phenom named Diamantino, who reacts to a devastating World Cup loss by adopting a Mozambican refugee. The refugee claims to be a teen boy, but is actually an adult lesbian on an undercover mission from the Portuguese government to investigate a money-laundering operation run by the athlete’s evil twin sisters. Also, there’s a mad scientist who’s trying to clone Diamantino in order to create an invincible super team capable of stoking national pride and “Making Portugal Great Again.” Also, there are giant puppies. A lot of them. A litter of Pekingese the size of double-decker buses. And that’s just the basic set-up.
Co-directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt,...
Co-directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt,...
- 5/6/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
For those that have gone through our massive summer preview, our monthly breakdowns may not bring a great deal of new surprises, but as we take a more granular look at the offerings, there’s certainly more to spotlight. Of course, much of the month will be dedicated to our Cannes coverage, but there’s also a wealth of excellent films coming to theaters and streaming, so check out our picks below.
Matinees to See: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (May 3), Long Shot (May 3), The Wandering Earth (May 5), The Silence of Others (May 8), Detective Pikachu (May 10), Charlie Says (May 10), Perfect (May 17), Photograph (May 17), Echo in the Canyon (May 24), Joy (May 24), The Perfection (May 24), The Fall of the American Empire (May 31), The Image You Missed (May 31), and Leto (May 31)
15. Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears; May 1)
Winner of the top festival favorite prize at Sundance Film Festival, Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House...
Matinees to See: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (May 3), Long Shot (May 3), The Wandering Earth (May 5), The Silence of Others (May 8), Detective Pikachu (May 10), Charlie Says (May 10), Perfect (May 17), Photograph (May 17), Echo in the Canyon (May 24), Joy (May 24), The Perfection (May 24), The Fall of the American Empire (May 31), The Image You Missed (May 31), and Leto (May 31)
15. Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears; May 1)
Winner of the top festival favorite prize at Sundance Film Festival, Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House...
- 5/1/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
New films by Robert Eggers, Takashi Miike, Luca Guadagnino and Rebecca Zlotowski to premiere.
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the line-up for its 51st edition, running May 15-25, overseen for the first time by artistic director Paolo Moretti.
Scroll down for full line-up
For his debut edition, Moretti and his programming team have pulled together an auteur-driven selection, mixing established and emerging filmmakers, genre fare and a dash of star power.
“Directors’ Fortnight was born out of a collective and this collective spirit is still alive. The support of the team that I found in place has really touched me,...
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the line-up for its 51st edition, running May 15-25, overseen for the first time by artistic director Paolo Moretti.
Scroll down for full line-up
For his debut edition, Moretti and his programming team have pulled together an auteur-driven selection, mixing established and emerging filmmakers, genre fare and a dash of star power.
“Directors’ Fortnight was born out of a collective and this collective spirit is still alive. The support of the team that I found in place has really touched me,...
- 4/23/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
In 2018 we've published 70 interviews whose subjects have ranged from old masters to emerging new voices, and including some unexpected conversations, including those with curators (Dave Kehr of the Museum of Modern Art), as well as archival finds (a 1971 talk with Jerry Lewis).Below you will find an index of our conversations throughout the year, listed in order of publication date.Blake Williams (Prototype)Samira Elagoz (Craigslist Allstars)F.J. Ossang (9 Fingers)Jerry LewisAndré Gil Mata (The Tree)Christian Petzold (Transit)Raoul Peck (Young Karl Marx)Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf)Penelope SpheerisTed Fendt (Classical Period)Dominik Graf (The Red Shadow)Blake Williams ("Stereo Visions")Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael's Ghosts)Ruth Beckermann (The Waldheim Waltz)Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (Cocote)Esther GarrelPhilippe Garrel (Lover for a Day)Jonas MekasJohann Lurf (★)Karim Aïnouz (Central Airport Thf)Juliana Antunes (Baronesa)Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage)Wang Bing (Dead Souls)Donal Foreman...
- 12/27/2018
- MUBI
“Cold War” was the big winner at the European Film Awards, picking up the prizes for Best European Film, Actress (Joanna Kulig), Director, and Screenwriter (both Paweł Pawlikowski). Best actor went to Marcello Fonte of “Dogman,” while Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” was named Best European Comedy.
“Cold War” also led all films with five nominations, continuing a strong year for the black-and-white drama — Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won the Foreign-Language Oscar, also took home Best Director laurels from Cannes.
Ali Abbasi’s “Border” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro” left the ceremony empty-handed despite picking up four nominations apiece.
The full list of winners:
Best European Film
“Border,” Ali Abbasi
“Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski
“Dogman,” Matteo Garrone
“Girl,” Lukas Dhont
“Happy as Lazzaro,” Alice Rorhwacher
European Comedy
“C’est La Vie,” Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
“Diamantino,” Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
“The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci
European Director
Ali Abbasi,...
“Cold War” also led all films with five nominations, continuing a strong year for the black-and-white drama — Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won the Foreign-Language Oscar, also took home Best Director laurels from Cannes.
Ali Abbasi’s “Border” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro” left the ceremony empty-handed despite picking up four nominations apiece.
The full list of winners:
Best European Film
“Border,” Ali Abbasi
“Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski
“Dogman,” Matteo Garrone
“Girl,” Lukas Dhont
“Happy as Lazzaro,” Alice Rorhwacher
European Comedy
“C’est La Vie,” Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
“Diamantino,” Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
“The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci
European Director
Ali Abbasi,...
- 12/15/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Marylise Dumont’s “Black Dog,” Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen’s “Ashes and Snow” and “Each of Us” are among the 20 projects which will be pitched at the 10th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village.
The Co-Production Village will run alongside the festival which will be presided by Ruben Ostlund, the Swedish helmer of Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated “The Square,” and will open on Dec. 15 with Louis Garrel’s “A Faithful Man.” The movie will compete along with nine films selected by Frederic Boyer, the artistic director of both Les Arcs and Tribeca festivals.
Besides Ostlund, a flurry of high-profile European filmmakers, industry figures and talent are expected to attend the festival, notably Laetitia Casta (“A Faitful Man”), Alex Lutz (“Guy”), Lukas Dhont (“Girl”), Charlotte Le Bon (“The Promise”), Jeremie Renier (“Double Lover”), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Les estivants”), Romain Duris (“Heartbreaker”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!), and Thomas Vinterberg...
The Co-Production Village will run alongside the festival which will be presided by Ruben Ostlund, the Swedish helmer of Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated “The Square,” and will open on Dec. 15 with Louis Garrel’s “A Faithful Man.” The movie will compete along with nine films selected by Frederic Boyer, the artistic director of both Les Arcs and Tribeca festivals.
Besides Ostlund, a flurry of high-profile European filmmakers, industry figures and talent are expected to attend the festival, notably Laetitia Casta (“A Faitful Man”), Alex Lutz (“Guy”), Lukas Dhont (“Girl”), Charlotte Le Bon (“The Promise”), Jeremie Renier (“Double Lover”), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Les estivants”), Romain Duris (“Heartbreaker”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!), and Thomas Vinterberg...
- 12/14/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” leads the pack in this year’s European Film Awards, picking up five nominations after winning Best Director laurels earlier this year at Cannes. The black-and-white romance is followed closely by Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro,” and Ali Abassi’s “Border,” all of which also picked up awards on the Croisette and now find themselves with four nods apiece.
This year’s ceremony takes place on December 15 in Seville, Spain. Here’s the full list of nominations:
European Film 2018
Border, dir: Ali Abbasi
Cold War, dir: Pawel Pawlikowski
Dogman, dir: Matteo Garrone
Girl dir: Lukas Dhont
Happy As Lazzaro, dir: Alice Rohrwacher
European Documentary 2018
A Woman Captured, dir: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Bergman – A Year In A Life, dir: Jane Magnusson
Of Fathers And Sons, dir: Talal Derki
The Distant Barking Of Dogs, dir: Simon Lering Wilmont
The Silence Of Others, dirs:...
This year’s ceremony takes place on December 15 in Seville, Spain. Here’s the full list of nominations:
European Film 2018
Border, dir: Ali Abbasi
Cold War, dir: Pawel Pawlikowski
Dogman, dir: Matteo Garrone
Girl dir: Lukas Dhont
Happy As Lazzaro, dir: Alice Rohrwacher
European Documentary 2018
A Woman Captured, dir: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Bergman – A Year In A Life, dir: Jane Magnusson
Of Fathers And Sons, dir: Talal Derki
The Distant Barking Of Dogs, dir: Simon Lering Wilmont
The Silence Of Others, dirs:...
- 11/10/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Nominations are in for the 31st European Film Awards with previous winner Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War leading the pack. The romance drama won the Best Director prize in Cannes and Pawlikowski is up here for the same nod. Cold War, Poland’s Oscar hopeful this year, is also mentioned in the Best Film, Screenwriting, Actress and Actor categories.
Joining Cold War in the main race are a series of Oscar entries for the Best Foreign Language Film statue. They include Sweden’s wild Border from Ali Abbasi, Italy’s Dogman from Matteo Garrone and Belgium’s Girl by Lukas Dhont. The latter won the Camera d’Or in Cannes for best first film, and also scored the Best Performance nod in the Un Certain Regard section for lead Victor Polster who received a nomination today from the European Film Academy. Netflix acquired Girl for North and Latin America out of the festival.
Joining Cold War in the main race are a series of Oscar entries for the Best Foreign Language Film statue. They include Sweden’s wild Border from Ali Abbasi, Italy’s Dogman from Matteo Garrone and Belgium’s Girl by Lukas Dhont. The latter won the Camera d’Or in Cannes for best first film, and also scored the Best Performance nod in the Un Certain Regard section for lead Victor Polster who received a nomination today from the European Film Academy. Netflix acquired Girl for North and Latin America out of the festival.
- 11/10/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Now that the Los Angeles Film Festival is no more, AFI Fest is more important than ever. It was the premier event of its kind even before its crosstown rival announced its permanent closure late last month, but now that it’s the only game in town, it’s unmissable. This year’s edition of the last major festival of the calendar year comes with a handful world premieres — “On the Basis of Sex,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” and “Bird Box” — and a robust slate of offerings from the likes of Berlin, Cannes, and Venice.
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
- 11/8/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Infinite Fest is a monthly column by festival programmer and film critic Eric Allen Hatch, author of the recent “Why I Am Hopeful” article for Filmmaker Magazine, tackling the state of cinema as expressed by North American film festivals.DiamantinoCinephilia is a subculture, and we need to represent it that way. I’m not asking you to wear tattered garments held together by safety pins, or accessorize clocks as necklaces. We don’t even need to stop trusting anyone over 30. But we do need to more aggressively filter cynical corporate product marketed to us—and more effectively proselytize for the authentic experiences that make film an art form rather than merely an industry. This cultural moment offers an abundance of that authenticity. Returning home from a week at Toronto International Film Festival, an annual pilgrimage for two decades, followed directly by another week in Maine for Camden International Film Festival,...
- 11/5/2018
- MUBI
Films presented last year include Golden Bear wiunner Touch Me Not and Critics’ Week winner Diamantino.
This year’s Torino Film Lab (Tfl) will once again showcase 10 films developed within its programmes at the upcoming Meeting Event (23-24 November).
The projects, to be presented at the Coming Soon night, are all works in progress in their final stages of completion, half of which are still looking for a sales agent.
2018 has been an important year for many of the films previewed at last year’s Coming Soon event. Adina Pintilie Touch Me Not went on to win the Golden Bear at the Berlinale,...
This year’s Torino Film Lab (Tfl) will once again showcase 10 films developed within its programmes at the upcoming Meeting Event (23-24 November).
The projects, to be presented at the Coming Soon night, are all works in progress in their final stages of completion, half of which are still looking for a sales agent.
2018 has been an important year for many of the films previewed at last year’s Coming Soon event. Adina Pintilie Touch Me Not went on to win the Golden Bear at the Berlinale,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest’s World Cinema section unveiled Tuesday includes seven films that have been officially submitted for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, from Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum and Matteo Garrone’s Dogman to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away and the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Directors in the slate include Jafar Panahi, Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Sang-soo, Olivier Assayas, Carlos Reygadas, László Nemes and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
The lineup includes 28 titles from 27 countries. The fest runs November 8-15 and opens with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex and closes with Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots. In the mix too are a host of gala presentations featuring Bird Box, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Widows, Green Book and Destroyer. The latter pic will be screened as part of a tribute to its star Nicole Kidman.
Here’s the full World...
The lineup includes 28 titles from 27 countries. The fest runs November 8-15 and opens with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex and closes with Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots. In the mix too are a host of gala presentations featuring Bird Box, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Widows, Green Book and Destroyer. The latter pic will be screened as part of a tribute to its star Nicole Kidman.
Here’s the full World...
- 10/16/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Honorees to include Asghar Farhadi, Mary Harron and Gunnell Lindblom.
The Stockholm International Film Festival has revealed its 2018 programme, with the festival kicking off Nov 7 with the anticipated world premiere of Anna Odell’s X&Y, in competition.
Odell, the Swedish artist and filmmaker who last directed 2013’s award-winning The Reunion, returns starring as a fictionalized version of herself, collaborating with the celebrated actor Mikael Persbrandt to deconstruct themselves. The cast also features Trine Dyrholm, Sofie Gråbøl, Vera Vitali, Shanti Roney, Jens Albinus and Thure Lindhardt. New Europe handles sales.
Stockholm will close Nov 18 with The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos, from the Open Zone section.
The Stockholm International Film Festival has revealed its 2018 programme, with the festival kicking off Nov 7 with the anticipated world premiere of Anna Odell’s X&Y, in competition.
Odell, the Swedish artist and filmmaker who last directed 2013’s award-winning The Reunion, returns starring as a fictionalized version of herself, collaborating with the celebrated actor Mikael Persbrandt to deconstruct themselves. The cast also features Trine Dyrholm, Sofie Gråbøl, Vera Vitali, Shanti Roney, Jens Albinus and Thure Lindhardt. New Europe handles sales.
Stockholm will close Nov 18 with The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos, from the Open Zone section.
- 10/16/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Sometimes a film cannot be pinned down to a specific genre. “Diamantino,” which screened during the New York Film Festival this past week, is that perfect example. A hybrid of sci-fi, comedy, fantasy, romance, and surrealism, “Diamantino” defies explanation and follows its own beautifully dark and twisted creative whims.
Read More: New York Film Festival: 15 Must-See Films To Watch
Following Diamantino, a Portuguese football star who is all but disgraced by his own country for missing an vital penalty kick, directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt‘s beautifully dreamy original tackles the refugee crisis, genetic modification, neo-fascism, and yes, even giant fluffy puppies in an ambitiously absurdist tale of a guy who is trying to find some kind of redemption and sense of self.
Continue reading ‘Diamantino’: Soccer, Surrealism & Satire Score Big In This Portuguese Oddity [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.
Read More: New York Film Festival: 15 Must-See Films To Watch
Following Diamantino, a Portuguese football star who is all but disgraced by his own country for missing an vital penalty kick, directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt‘s beautifully dreamy original tackles the refugee crisis, genetic modification, neo-fascism, and yes, even giant fluffy puppies in an ambitiously absurdist tale of a guy who is trying to find some kind of redemption and sense of self.
Continue reading ‘Diamantino’: Soccer, Surrealism & Satire Score Big In This Portuguese Oddity [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.
- 10/13/2018
- by Jordan Ruimy
- The Playlist
The New York Film Festival kicks off later this week, launching the second half of a very busy fall festival season. Each year, the New York gathering loads up on the some of the buzziest titles of an awards season in the making, but it also plays home to never-before-seen narratives and new documentaries that go beyond the usual fare. Alongside all those previously-screened features looking to capitalize on strong word-of-mouth coming out of fellow festivals Venice, Telluride, and Toronto — including “The Favourite,” “Roma,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” — there are a variety of gems worth seeking out at this year’s festival.
Consider this your roadmap to the best of the festival. The 2018 New York Film Festival runs September 28 – October 14, and you check out the main slate right here. Ahead, 10 essential titles — from instant cult classics to highlights from the 2018 circuit and everything in between.
“Asako I & II...
Consider this your roadmap to the best of the festival. The 2018 New York Film Festival runs September 28 – October 14, and you check out the main slate right here. Ahead, 10 essential titles — from instant cult classics to highlights from the 2018 circuit and everything in between.
“Asako I & II...
- 9/25/2018
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Jude Dry and Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
This year’s festival runs from October 11-14.
Miami Film Festival Gems will feature a line-up heavy on foreign-language Oscar submissions bookended by Colombia’s Birds Of Passage from Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra and Spain’s Oscar submission Champions by Javier Fesser.
Miami Dade College top brass announced the roster on Tuesday (18) ahead of this year’s festival, which runs from October 11-14.
The selection includes Nadine Labaki’s Lebanese submission Capernaum, Border by Ali Abbasi, which will fly the flag for Sweden, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish film Cold War, South Korea’s submission Burning by Chang-dong Lee, Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows,...
Miami Film Festival Gems will feature a line-up heavy on foreign-language Oscar submissions bookended by Colombia’s Birds Of Passage from Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra and Spain’s Oscar submission Champions by Javier Fesser.
Miami Dade College top brass announced the roster on Tuesday (18) ahead of this year’s festival, which runs from October 11-14.
The selection includes Nadine Labaki’s Lebanese submission Capernaum, Border by Ali Abbasi, which will fly the flag for Sweden, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish film Cold War, South Korea’s submission Burning by Chang-dong Lee, Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows,...
- 9/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK filmmaker Peter Strickland returns to the Toronto Film Festival for a third time with In Fabric, an ominous creeper set amid a winter sale at a department store. The pic from the director behind previous Tiff debuts Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy will have its world premiere in the fest’s Midnight Madness section on September 7.
The movie is at it’s heart a ghost story that revolves around a group of store customers who become cursed by a scarlet dress. The cast includes Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Gwendoline Christie; Jean-Baptiste’s encounter with the eerie sales staffer (Fatma Mohamed) in the exclusive first look above shows off Strickland’s gift of finding the macabre in the mundane. Hayley Squires, Leo Bill, Julian Barrett and Steve Oram also star.
Strickland’s film is part of an especially robust Midnight section at Toronto this year. The sidebar...
The movie is at it’s heart a ghost story that revolves around a group of store customers who become cursed by a scarlet dress. The cast includes Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Gwendoline Christie; Jean-Baptiste’s encounter with the eerie sales staffer (Fatma Mohamed) in the exclusive first look above shows off Strickland’s gift of finding the macabre in the mundane. Hayley Squires, Leo Bill, Julian Barrett and Steve Oram also star.
Strickland’s film is part of an especially robust Midnight section at Toronto this year. The sidebar...
- 8/30/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
May 2019 theatrical launch set for comic fantasy about soul-searching fallen football idol.
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comic fantasy Diamantino, winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Critics Week.
The filmmakers’ directorial debut will receive its North American premiere in Toronto next month as the Midnight Madness closing film. A Us premiere will follow in the New York Film Festival’s Projections programme.
Diamantino stars Carloto Cotta as the world’s top football star who loses his magic touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose,...
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comic fantasy Diamantino, winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Critics Week.
The filmmakers’ directorial debut will receive its North American premiere in Toronto next month as the Midnight Madness closing film. A Us premiere will follow in the New York Film Festival’s Projections programme.
Diamantino stars Carloto Cotta as the world’s top football star who loses his magic touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Cannes Critics’ Week winner “Diamantino,” Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s comic fantasy film.
The Portuguese-American duo’s feature debut will have its North American premiere at Toronto, where it has been selected to close the Midnight Madness genre section. “Diamantino” will go on to have its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, where it will kick off the Projections section.
Sold by French sales company Charades, the Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama follows a disgraced soccer star aspiring to give his life a new purpose, who becomes exploited by many people, including a nationalistic party eager to use him as its mascot. Through his frenzied journey, the reconverted soccer star is confronted with neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, abuse from his evil twin sisters, and a deranged hunt for the source of genius.
Variety‘s Guy Lodge described the...
The Portuguese-American duo’s feature debut will have its North American premiere at Toronto, where it has been selected to close the Midnight Madness genre section. “Diamantino” will go on to have its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, where it will kick off the Projections section.
Sold by French sales company Charades, the Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama follows a disgraced soccer star aspiring to give his life a new purpose, who becomes exploited by many people, including a nationalistic party eager to use him as its mascot. Through his frenzied journey, the reconverted soccer star is confronted with neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, abuse from his evil twin sisters, and a deranged hunt for the source of genius.
Variety‘s Guy Lodge described the...
- 8/22/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Berlin winner ‘Touch Me Not’, ‘Cold War’ and ‘Paddington 2’.
The 49 films recommended for nomination for the 2018 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The list includes Adina Pintilie’s Berlin winner Touch Me Not and Cannes prize winners Cold War, Dogman and Happy As Lazzaro.
Films with UK involvement on the list include Michael Pearce’s Beast and Paddington 2.
The films were selected by the 20 countries with the most Efa members as well as a selection committee consisting of the Efa board and experts.
In the coming weeks, more than...
The 49 films recommended for nomination for the 2018 European Film Awards have been revealed.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The list includes Adina Pintilie’s Berlin winner Touch Me Not and Cannes prize winners Cold War, Dogman and Happy As Lazzaro.
Films with UK involvement on the list include Michael Pearce’s Beast and Paddington 2.
The films were selected by the 20 countries with the most Efa members as well as a selection committee consisting of the Efa board and experts.
In the coming weeks, more than...
- 8/21/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The latest movies from three of Portugal’s most prominent production houses – Ukbar’s “Sunburn,” beActive’s “Gabriel” and O Som e a Furia’s “Breeding Ground” – feature in this year’s Locarno First Look showcase, a pix-in-post strand which marks one of the biggest attractions for sales agents and distributors at Europe’s largest mid-summer film event.
They are joined by three more doc-features, like “Breeding Ground”: Terratreme’s “Campo,” “Blue Breath,” from Bando a Parte, and Entre Imagen’s “Earth.”
A prestige First Look Jury is comprised by SXSW film head Janet Pierson, San Sebastian Festival director José Luis Rebordinos, and new Vienna Film Festival director Eva Sangiorgi.
First Look also serves as an introduction to key producers, talents and trends in a national cinema, and as springboard for broader international reach.
The First Look showcase catches Portuguese cinema at a contradictory time. Abroad, for a country of just 10.2 million inhabitants,...
They are joined by three more doc-features, like “Breeding Ground”: Terratreme’s “Campo,” “Blue Breath,” from Bando a Parte, and Entre Imagen’s “Earth.”
A prestige First Look Jury is comprised by SXSW film head Janet Pierson, San Sebastian Festival director José Luis Rebordinos, and new Vienna Film Festival director Eva Sangiorgi.
First Look also serves as an introduction to key producers, talents and trends in a national cinema, and as springboard for broader international reach.
The First Look showcase catches Portuguese cinema at a contradictory time. Abroad, for a country of just 10.2 million inhabitants,...
- 7/30/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The programme will screen 17 titles from around the world.
Sarajevo Film Festival (August 10-18) has revealed the 17 titles that will play in its Kinoscope programme, with China, Brazil and the Us all represented.
The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.
On the list is a special screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May this year. Screen’s review described it as ‘a masterful ensemble piece about a ‘family’ living on its wits’.
Also appearing after...
Sarajevo Film Festival (August 10-18) has revealed the 17 titles that will play in its Kinoscope programme, with China, Brazil and the Us all represented.
The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.
On the list is a special screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May this year. Screen’s review described it as ‘a masterful ensemble piece about a ‘family’ living on its wits’.
Also appearing after...
- 7/25/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Preview of upcoming events.
Saturday July 7 Robert Pattinson will receive the honorary festival president’s award at the Karlovy Vary closing ceremony. The closing film of the festival is Gilles Lelouche’s Sink Or Swim. The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s thriller Anon, starring Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, will close the 36th Munich Film Festival, followed by the festival’s awards ceremony. Tuesday July 10 A board meeting of the Locarno Film Festival will discuss the progress of the ongoing search to find a successor to artistic director Carlo Chatrian for 2019. Wednesday July 11 At 10.30am, outgoing artistic director Carlo...
Saturday July 7 Robert Pattinson will receive the honorary festival president’s award at the Karlovy Vary closing ceremony. The closing film of the festival is Gilles Lelouche’s Sink Or Swim. The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s thriller Anon, starring Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, will close the 36th Munich Film Festival, followed by the festival’s awards ceremony. Tuesday July 10 A board meeting of the Locarno Film Festival will discuss the progress of the ongoing search to find a successor to artistic director Carlo Chatrian for 2019. Wednesday July 11 At 10.30am, outgoing artistic director Carlo...
- 7/6/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Titles screening at the 18th edition include David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake.
Swiss genre festival Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has announced the programme for its 18th edition, held from July 6-14 this year.
The festival will open with the world premiere of web series Le 5e Cavalier, which won the Fantastic Web Contest at last year’s event. The closing film will be the Swiss premiere of animation Hotel Transylvania 3.
Scroll down for the full line-up
Across nine days the festival will screen over 150 films across 14 sections, consisting of 109 features and 60 shorts.
16 films will compete in the international competition,...
Swiss genre festival Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has announced the programme for its 18th edition, held from July 6-14 this year.
The festival will open with the world premiere of web series Le 5e Cavalier, which won the Fantastic Web Contest at last year’s event. The closing film will be the Swiss premiere of animation Hotel Transylvania 3.
Scroll down for the full line-up
Across nine days the festival will screen over 150 films across 14 sections, consisting of 109 features and 60 shorts.
16 films will compete in the international competition,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, and Critics' Week in 2018, as well as our favorite films.Awardstop 101. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)2. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) & Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)4. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)5. Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)7. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)8. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)9. Climax (Gaspar Noé)10. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)(Contributors: Gustavo Beck, Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Josh Cabrita, Jordan Cronk, Jesse Cumming, Lawrence Garcia, Daniel Kasman, Roger Koza, Richard Porton, Kurt Walker, Blake Williams)Correspondences#1 Daniel Kasman previews the festival | Read#2 Lawrence Garcia on Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Dead Souls (Wang Bing) | Read#3 Daniel Kasman on Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra), Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa) | Read#4 Lawrence Garcia on Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov), Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) | Read#5 Daniel Kasman on The Image Book...
- 5/29/2018
- MUBI
ShopliftersIN COMPETITIONPalme d'Or: Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda (read our review)Special Palme d'Or : The Image Book directed by Jean-Luc Godard (read our review)Grand Prix: BlackKkKlansman directed by Spike Lee (read our review)Jury Prize: Capernaum directed by Nadine LabakiBest Director: Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War (read our review)Best Actor: Marcello Fonte for Dogman (read our review)Best Actress: Samal Yeslyamova for Ayka (read our review)Best Scenario: Alice Rohrwacher for Happy as Lazzaro (read our review) and Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar for 3 Faces (read our review)Un Certain REGARDBorder directed by Ali AbbasiPrix d'interpretation: Victor Polster for Girl (read our review)Prix de la mise en scène: Sergei Loznitsa for Donbass (read our review & watch our interview)Jury Prize: The Dead and the Others directed by João Salaviza and Renée Nader MessoraCAMERA D'ORGirl directed by Lukas Dhont (read our review)CINÉFONDATIONFirst Prize: The Summer of...
- 5/20/2018
- MUBI
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critics Lawrence Garcia and Daniel Kasman.Dear Lawrence,Like you, I also roved further down the seaside Croisette boulevard, past the Majestic hotel, and past the Directors’ Fortnight to the Critics’ Week: This is where I found Diamantino, which just won the top prize there. With festivals and arthouses too often full of the self-serious or those pandering provocation, it is a welcome relief to encounter the work of Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, merry pranksters whose vision of cinema has the audacity to be silly. But not only silly, as their work together is impressively rooted in the prickly, politically piquant modernist cinema of the late 60s like that of Godard and Pier Paolo Pasolini.This dynamic duo’s new film together, Diamantino, impishly both skewers and honors football celebrity culture with its tale of the eponymous Portuguese player,...
- 5/18/2018
- MUBI
Benedikt Erlingsson and Ólafur Egill Egilsson took the writing prize for ‘Woman At War’.
Diamantino has won the Grand Prix at Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival sidebar.
The comedy-drama, about a gormless world-class footballer whose life is sent into crisis by a World Cup final error and the death of his father, was written and directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, and is the first feature for the pair.
The Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star award went to Félix Maritaud (Bpm (Beats Per Minute) for his role in Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage, while the Sacd award was given...
Diamantino has won the Grand Prix at Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival sidebar.
The comedy-drama, about a gormless world-class footballer whose life is sent into crisis by a World Cup final error and the death of his father, was written and directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, and is the first feature for the pair.
The Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star award went to Félix Maritaud (Bpm (Beats Per Minute) for his role in Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage, while the Sacd award was given...
- 5/17/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Net result for Carloto Cotta in Critics’ Week top award-winner Diamantino Photo: La Semaine de la Critique In the first of a plethora of awards due at the Cannes Film Festival before the final Official prizes’ ceremony on Saturday, the Critics’ Week jury, headed by director Joachim Trier, last night announced the Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama Diamantino has taken the top honours.
Directed by first-time filmmakers Gabriel Anbrantes and Daniel Schmidt, the film tells of the fall from grace of a top football player (played by Carloto Cotta with more than a nod to Ronaldo) whose knee injury causes the end of his career.
Trade magazine Variety described it as “deranged satire … sure to remain the freshest blast of gonzo comic energy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival."
The other jury members comprised American actress Chloe Sevigny, Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, new Vienna film festival director Eva Sangiorgi and French cultural journalist Augustin Trapenard.
Directed by first-time filmmakers Gabriel Anbrantes and Daniel Schmidt, the film tells of the fall from grace of a top football player (played by Carloto Cotta with more than a nod to Ronaldo) whose knee injury causes the end of his career.
Trade magazine Variety described it as “deranged satire … sure to remain the freshest blast of gonzo comic energy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival."
The other jury members comprised American actress Chloe Sevigny, Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, new Vienna film festival director Eva Sangiorgi and French cultural journalist Augustin Trapenard.
- 5/17/2018
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Diamantino” by co-directors Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt was announced Wednesday as the winner of the annual Critics Week sidebar at Cannes.
The Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama had emerged as the hot favorite to win the section. Directed by first timers Abrantes and Schmidt, it chronicles the fall from grace of a top football (soccer) player after his knee collapses and ends his career. What follows is a descent into and exploration of numerous dark sides of life.
The prize for the best short film was awarded to “Hector Malot – The Last Day Of The Year” (aka “Ektoras Malo : I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias”) by Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou.
Other prizes awarded at the ceremony included: the Sacd Prize for Icelandic-French-Ukrainian film “Woman at War” by Benedikt Erlingsson; and the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution, to Franco-Indian effort “Sir.” Felix Maritaud won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for his...
The Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama had emerged as the hot favorite to win the section. Directed by first timers Abrantes and Schmidt, it chronicles the fall from grace of a top football (soccer) player after his knee collapses and ends his career. What follows is a descent into and exploration of numerous dark sides of life.
The prize for the best short film was awarded to “Hector Malot – The Last Day Of The Year” (aka “Ektoras Malo : I Teleftea Mera Tis Chronias”) by Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou.
Other prizes awarded at the ceremony included: the Sacd Prize for Icelandic-French-Ukrainian film “Woman at War” by Benedikt Erlingsson; and the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution, to Franco-Indian effort “Sir.” Felix Maritaud won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for his...
- 5/16/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The first major awards of this year’s Cannes Film Festival were handed out Wednesday night, with Diamantino taking the top honor in the Critics' Week sidebar.
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's surrealist film, one of seven features in competition, took the Nespresso Grand Prize.
Chloe Sevigny sat on the jury headed by famed Norwegian director Joachim Trier. They were joined on the panel by Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, new Vienna film fest director Eva Sangiorgi and French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.
The Sacd prize, which recognizes a screenplay from the French writers guild, went to Benedikt Erlingsson's ...
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's surrealist film, one of seven features in competition, took the Nespresso Grand Prize.
Chloe Sevigny sat on the jury headed by famed Norwegian director Joachim Trier. They were joined on the panel by Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, new Vienna film fest director Eva Sangiorgi and French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.
The Sacd prize, which recognizes a screenplay from the French writers guild, went to Benedikt Erlingsson's ...
- 5/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first major awards of this year’s Cannes Film Festival were handed out Wednesday night, with Diamantino taking the top honor in the Critics' Week sidebar.
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's surrealist film, one of seven features in competition, took the Nespresso Grand Prize.
Chloe Sevigny sat on the jury headed by famed Norwegian director Joachim Trier. They were joined on the panel by Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, new Vienna film fest director Eva Sangiorgi and French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.
The Sacd prize, which recognizes a screenplay from the French writers guild, went to Benedikt Erlingsson's ...
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's surrealist film, one of seven features in competition, took the Nespresso Grand Prize.
Chloe Sevigny sat on the jury headed by famed Norwegian director Joachim Trier. They were joined on the panel by Argentinian actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, new Vienna film fest director Eva Sangiorgi and French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.
The Sacd prize, which recognizes a screenplay from the French writers guild, went to Benedikt Erlingsson's ...
- 5/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
On May 14, Acid Trip #2, an initiative of the Association for Independent Film Distribution, is dedicated to Portuguese cinema. It will screen three films selected by the Portuguese Directors’ Association (Apr) – Pedro Cabeleira’s “Damned Summer”, Teresa Villaverde’s “Colo” and Leonor Teles’ “Terra Franca.”
The Apr’s note accompanying the selection stated that Portugal’s cinema is “persistent and resilient, and despite production difficulties, it invents its own conditions to continue to exist and create.”
Portuguese films in at Cannes this year include Un Certain Regard-player “The Dead and the Others” by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, acquired for sales by Paris-based Luxbox; Carlos Diegues’ “The Great Mystical Circus”, sold by Latido Films; soccer-themed “Diamantino”, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, which could be a break out in Critics’ Week; and short film “Amor, Avenidas Novas”, by Duarte Coimbra, again playing in Critics’ Week; and Terry Gilliam’s closing pic,...
The Apr’s note accompanying the selection stated that Portugal’s cinema is “persistent and resilient, and despite production difficulties, it invents its own conditions to continue to exist and create.”
Portuguese films in at Cannes this year include Un Certain Regard-player “The Dead and the Others” by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, acquired for sales by Paris-based Luxbox; Carlos Diegues’ “The Great Mystical Circus”, sold by Latido Films; soccer-themed “Diamantino”, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, which could be a break out in Critics’ Week; and short film “Amor, Avenidas Novas”, by Duarte Coimbra, again playing in Critics’ Week; and Terry Gilliam’s closing pic,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
The pro-European Union lobby just got the silliest, sexiest cinematic endorsement it could hope for in “Diamantino,” and that’s merely one of the surprises nested in Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s deranged satire — sure to remain the freshest blast of gonzo comic energy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Part loopily queer sci-fi thriller, part faux-naive political rallying cry, glued together with candyfloss clouds of romantic reverie, it’s a film best seen with as little forewarning as possible: To go in blind is to be carried along by its irrational tumble of events as blissfully and buoyantly as its empty-headed soccer-star protagonist. The sheer outrageous singularity of “Diamantino” is sure to make it a hot property on the festival circuit, enrapturing and alienating audiences in equal measure; adventurous distributors will want to get in on the ground floor with a potential cult object.
Portuguese-American duo...
Portuguese-American duo...
- 5/12/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
It doesn’t happen that often, even at a festival like Cannes, when you see something that takes you completely by surprise. Diamantino, from the directorial duo of Gabriel Abrantes from Portugal and U.S.-born Daniel Schmidt, is such a movie. Props to the people of the Critics’ Week for programming a film that’ll no doubt elicit walkouts and groans as well as praise, rabid critical adoration and probably a raft of queer-studies theses a few years down the line. Love it or hate it, this title will surely be hotly debated wherever it goes, and that’s just based on the story it...
- 5/11/2018
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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