Summer is here, and it’s time to get out and enjoy the sunshine. If you enjoy pottering around in the garden but need something to relax with as the day turns towards evening, we’ve got seven great gardening-themed films for you to enjoy, all easy for UK readers to watch from the comfort of home.
Taming The Garden Photo: Dogwoof
Taming The Garden - Apple+ TV
Amber Wilkinson writes: The ‘garden’ at the heart of Salomé Jashi's documentary is certainly far from average. It belongs to Georgia’s billionaire former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, who has created a dendrological park from ancient trees uprooted and transported from elsewhere. Her film - which is filled with surreal moments, including the site of a tree being carted across an expanse of water - focuses on the human impact of this transplantation, as many Georgians find they're paying a higher...
Taming The Garden Photo: Dogwoof
Taming The Garden - Apple+ TV
Amber Wilkinson writes: The ‘garden’ at the heart of Salomé Jashi's documentary is certainly far from average. It belongs to Georgia’s billionaire former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, who has created a dendrological park from ancient trees uprooted and transported from elsewhere. Her film - which is filled with surreal moments, including the site of a tree being carted across an expanse of water - focuses on the human impact of this transplantation, as many Georgians find they're paying a higher...
- 6/2/2024
- by Jennie Kermode and Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Directors and producers are putting trust instead in independent organisation The Georgian Film Institute
Leading Georgian filmmakers and industry professionals are banding together to protest about government interference, censorship and intimidation - and will be at the Berlinale in February to state their case.
They have turned their back on state body, The Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc), and are putting their trust instead in independent organisation, The Georgian Film Institute (Gfi), which will have its first major introduction to the global film industry at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The Institute was set up in 2019 in reaction to...
Leading Georgian filmmakers and industry professionals are banding together to protest about government interference, censorship and intimidation - and will be at the Berlinale in February to state their case.
They have turned their back on state body, The Georgian National Film Centre (Gnfc), and are putting their trust instead in independent organisation, The Georgian Film Institute (Gfi), which will have its first major introduction to the global film industry at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The Institute was set up in 2019 in reaction to...
- 1/5/2024
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
On Tuesday, Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing” opened the 2nd Evia Film Project, in the presence of the two-time Oscar-winning director.
The green initiative was launched by the Thessaloniki Film Festival last year to offer support to Northern Evia following the devastating 2021 wildfires. The event runs to June 24 with an enhanced program.
The films of this year’s edition are a mix of both classics and recent hits, feature films and documentaries. They have been selected to raise awareness, inform, incite to action, bring to light the repercussions of human-driven activities and mankind’s relation to the environment and, last but not least, praise nature’s magic.
Ten films play at this year’s Evia Film Project, which are as follows:
The previously mentioned “Downsizing”; “We Come as Friends” by Hubert Sauper; Dimitris Trompoukis’ “Roots”; “White Plastic Sky” by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó; Juliana Penaranda-Loftus, Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley...
The green initiative was launched by the Thessaloniki Film Festival last year to offer support to Northern Evia following the devastating 2021 wildfires. The event runs to June 24 with an enhanced program.
The films of this year’s edition are a mix of both classics and recent hits, feature films and documentaries. They have been selected to raise awareness, inform, incite to action, bring to light the repercussions of human-driven activities and mankind’s relation to the environment and, last but not least, praise nature’s magic.
Ten films play at this year’s Evia Film Project, which are as follows:
The previously mentioned “Downsizing”; “We Come as Friends” by Hubert Sauper; Dimitris Trompoukis’ “Roots”; “White Plastic Sky” by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó; Juliana Penaranda-Loftus, Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley...
- 6/21/2023
- by Tara Karajica
- Variety Film + TV
The Circle Women Doc Accelerator today announced the projects that will take part in the sixth edition of the prestigious training program for women-identifying nonfiction filmmakers.
The 10 selected projects hail from Eastern and Western Europe, Iran, Georgia, the U.S., and the Philippines [see below for details on each of them]. The filmmakers behind the projects will participate in three separate “modules,” working with “renowned directors, writers, and producers on in-depth analysis of their films, covering multiple aspects of project development,” according to a release. “This includes fine-tuning their scripts and narrative structures, creating captivating trailers, and preparing production strategies for international audiences and markets.”
The first module is set for Evia Island in Greece from June 19-24; the second is happening in September in Serbia, while the final module takes place during Trieste’s When East Meets West event in Italy in January 2024.
“Returning as lead mentors for Circle Women Doc Accelerator 2023 are Diana El Jeiroudi, a renowned Syrian writer,...
The 10 selected projects hail from Eastern and Western Europe, Iran, Georgia, the U.S., and the Philippines [see below for details on each of them]. The filmmakers behind the projects will participate in three separate “modules,” working with “renowned directors, writers, and producers on in-depth analysis of their films, covering multiple aspects of project development,” according to a release. “This includes fine-tuning their scripts and narrative structures, creating captivating trailers, and preparing production strategies for international audiences and markets.”
The first module is set for Evia Island in Greece from June 19-24; the second is happening in September in Serbia, while the final module takes place during Trieste’s When East Meets West event in Italy in January 2024.
“Returning as lead mentors for Circle Women Doc Accelerator 2023 are Diana El Jeiroudi, a renowned Syrian writer,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Motherland, a “dark and monumental” film about neo-nationalism in Belarus, earned the top prize tonight at the prestigious Cph:dox festival in Copenhagen.
Belorussian directors Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka accepted the Dox:Award honor at a ceremony at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in the Danish capital. Jurors praised Motherland as “a cinematic and meaningful film that took its time unfolding the complexity of living within an oppressive and unjust system. It poses questions about the idea of an individual choice within a cornered society. The title of the film is a way to give back the power to the women who are at the forefront of this fight.” [See the full list of Cph:dox winners below].
‘Motherland’
The world premiere of Motherland at Cph:dox comes at a particularly timely moment, just over a year after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine with key assistance from the Kremlin-allied Belorussian government. Russian forces trained in Belarus in advance of the war...
Belorussian directors Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka accepted the Dox:Award honor at a ceremony at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in the Danish capital. Jurors praised Motherland as “a cinematic and meaningful film that took its time unfolding the complexity of living within an oppressive and unjust system. It poses questions about the idea of an individual choice within a cornered society. The title of the film is a way to give back the power to the women who are at the forefront of this fight.” [See the full list of Cph:dox winners below].
‘Motherland’
The world premiere of Motherland at Cph:dox comes at a particularly timely moment, just over a year after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine with key assistance from the Kremlin-allied Belorussian government. Russian forces trained in Belarus in advance of the war...
- 3/24/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
European training program School of Film Advancement (Sofa), which aims to strengthen regional film industries across Europe with a focus on Eastern partnership, has launched its ninth edition and 2022-2023 project selection.
The first Sofa workshop, running through Sept. 30, kicked off on Sunday outside the Polish capital of Warsaw.
After two virtual years, the program returns with an expanded edition that comprises a line-up of 16 projects and 20 participants, composed of up-and-coming film industry executives, curators and cultural managers from 17 countries including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Germany.
In the program’s opening session, participants emphasized the need for creative cooperation across borders between the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU, given the fraught political situations in a number of European countries.
Sofa’s 2022-2023 project selection includes business and institutional projects focused on environmental activism,...
The first Sofa workshop, running through Sept. 30, kicked off on Sunday outside the Polish capital of Warsaw.
After two virtual years, the program returns with an expanded edition that comprises a line-up of 16 projects and 20 participants, composed of up-and-coming film industry executives, curators and cultural managers from 17 countries including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Germany.
In the program’s opening session, participants emphasized the need for creative cooperation across borders between the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU, given the fraught political situations in a number of European countries.
Sofa’s 2022-2023 project selection includes business and institutional projects focused on environmental activism,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The Dok Co-Pro Market will run from October 17-18.
New documentaries from Jasmila Zbanic, Ziad Kalthoum and Susanne Kim are among 34 projects from 32 countries selected for this year’s Dok Co-Pro Market (October 17-18) taking place during Dok Leipzig.
Zbanic, whose documentary One Day In Sarajevo was shown at Dok Leipzig in 2015, will be pitching Blum about the Jewish Bosnian businessman and philanthropist Emerik Blum. Syrian filmmaker Kalthoum, whose 2017 film Taste of Cement won the Grand Prix in Nyon among numerous other awards, will be in Leipzig with On The Edge Of My Shadow which already has production partners from Germany,...
New documentaries from Jasmila Zbanic, Ziad Kalthoum and Susanne Kim are among 34 projects from 32 countries selected for this year’s Dok Co-Pro Market (October 17-18) taking place during Dok Leipzig.
Zbanic, whose documentary One Day In Sarajevo was shown at Dok Leipzig in 2015, will be pitching Blum about the Jewish Bosnian businessman and philanthropist Emerik Blum. Syrian filmmaker Kalthoum, whose 2017 film Taste of Cement won the Grand Prix in Nyon among numerous other awards, will be in Leipzig with On The Edge Of My Shadow which already has production partners from Germany,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
First Look At Vladislav Alex Kozlov’s Feature Doc ‘American Superman’
Exclusive: Here’s a first-look at American Superman, a doc about the late Chris Dennis, a well-known homeless man living in LA how was affectionally known as ‘Hollywood Superman.’ Footage from Vladislav Alex Kozlov’s feature will be seen at the LA Shorts Fest on July 22, released as a short film called The Duel in which Dennis meets Italian actor Franco Nero. American Superman, meanwhile, tells the story of Dennis, who cloaked himself in Superman garb and entertained fans and tourists along Hollywood Boulevard for more than 20 years. Kozlov hopes the screening will help his feature-length doc find a distributor and alert awards voters.
Beyond Rights Strikes Pre-Sale Distribution Deals With Four Producers
Beyond Rights has struck a series of pre-sale representation deals that mark first-time agreements with four producers. From Lou Reda Productions comes non-fiction event miniseries Eyewitness WWII: Invasion Italy,...
Exclusive: Here’s a first-look at American Superman, a doc about the late Chris Dennis, a well-known homeless man living in LA how was affectionally known as ‘Hollywood Superman.’ Footage from Vladislav Alex Kozlov’s feature will be seen at the LA Shorts Fest on July 22, released as a short film called The Duel in which Dennis meets Italian actor Franco Nero. American Superman, meanwhile, tells the story of Dennis, who cloaked himself in Superman garb and entertained fans and tourists along Hollywood Boulevard for more than 20 years. Kozlov hopes the screening will help his feature-length doc find a distributor and alert awards voters.
Beyond Rights Strikes Pre-Sale Distribution Deals With Four Producers
Beyond Rights has struck a series of pre-sale representation deals that mark first-time agreements with four producers. From Lou Reda Productions comes non-fiction event miniseries Eyewitness WWII: Invasion Italy,...
- 7/19/2022
- by Jesse Whittock, Melanie Goodfellow and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Big World Pictures has taken distribution rights in U.S. and Canada to Salomé Jashi’s documentary “Taming the Garden,” which competed at the Sundance Film Festival, and also played in the Forum section of the Berlinale. World sales are being handled by Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales.
In her review for Variety, Jessica Kiang described the film as “quietly magnificent and strange,” adding that it is “surreal, serene and maybe just a little bit sacred.”
The opening shot of this environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy man whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting, of trees into his own man-made Eden.
With striking cinematic style, the film tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their locales in the Republic of Georgia.
In her review for Variety, Jessica Kiang described the film as “quietly magnificent and strange,” adding that it is “surreal, serene and maybe just a little bit sacred.”
The opening shot of this environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy man whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting, of trees into his own man-made Eden.
With striking cinematic style, the film tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their locales in the Republic of Georgia.
- 5/10/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
By Glenn Dunks
Streaming now on Mubi.
The notes for Taming the Garden reference Werner Herzog and it’s not hard to see why. The absurd relationship between man and nature is as pivotal to Georgian filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s quiet and observant documentary as it is to so many of Herzog’s.
But Jashi’s film is nonetheless one all its own, blending modesty and spectacle in ways that may have its audience questioning the crux of its narrative just as much as its subjects do. It is the bizarre story of one (unseen) billionaire's efforts to uproot seemingly half of Georgia for his own pet arboreal project. Full of mesmerising static shots as trees are lumbered through the landscape looking like the Ents from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movies and where the sight of a 30-metre high tree being shipped over the Black Sea...
Streaming now on Mubi.
The notes for Taming the Garden reference Werner Herzog and it’s not hard to see why. The absurd relationship between man and nature is as pivotal to Georgian filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s quiet and observant documentary as it is to so many of Herzog’s.
But Jashi’s film is nonetheless one all its own, blending modesty and spectacle in ways that may have its audience questioning the crux of its narrative just as much as its subjects do. It is the bizarre story of one (unseen) billionaire's efforts to uproot seemingly half of Georgia for his own pet arboreal project. Full of mesmerising static shots as trees are lumbered through the landscape looking like the Ents from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movies and where the sight of a 30-metre high tree being shipped over the Black Sea...
- 2/24/2022
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Taming The Garden Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute In a film that is packed with striking images, the sight of fully grown tree being transport across a vast expanse of water by ship in Salomé Jashi’s Taming The Garden is probably the strangest. A thing of beauty, at once natural and majestic yet there’s also something tragic about it being cut adrift from its natural landscape.
When I catch up with Jashi over Zoom, almost a year after her film premiered at Sundance Film Festival, she says: “This mix of emotions was something that made me want to make this film. It was not just the story, which is a big story by itself, but rather the feeling that this story, this image, this primary image of the tree is evoked inside of me. For me, it was like this glitch, as with an old VHS or mini Dv tapes,...
When I catch up with Jashi over Zoom, almost a year after her film premiered at Sundance Film Festival, she says: “This mix of emotions was something that made me want to make this film. It was not just the story, which is a big story by itself, but rather the feeling that this story, this image, this primary image of the tree is evoked inside of me. For me, it was like this glitch, as with an old VHS or mini Dv tapes,...
- 1/26/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sony’s blockbuster “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has narrowly edged out Universal release “Belfast” in the battle for the U.K. and Ireland box-office.
“Spider-Man” enjoyed a sixth consecutive weekend atop the box office with £2.33 million ($3.1 million), according to numbers released by Comscore. Kenneth Branagh’s awards season favorite “Belfast” was close behind with £2.31 million in its debut weekend.
“Spider-Man” now has a gross of £87.4 million and is within striking distance of “Avengers: Endgame” for the all-time sixth position at the box office.
In its second weekend Paramount’s horror reboot “Scream” scared up £1.2 million in third place and now has a total of £4.7 million. Disney release “Nightmare Alley,” directed by Guillermo del Toro, with an all-star cast featuring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn, debuted in fourth position with £549,560.
Rounding off the top five was eOne...
“Spider-Man” enjoyed a sixth consecutive weekend atop the box office with £2.33 million ($3.1 million), according to numbers released by Comscore. Kenneth Branagh’s awards season favorite “Belfast” was close behind with £2.31 million in its debut weekend.
“Spider-Man” now has a gross of £87.4 million and is within striking distance of “Avengers: Endgame” for the all-time sixth position at the box office.
In its second weekend Paramount’s horror reboot “Scream” scared up £1.2 million in third place and now has a total of £4.7 million. Disney release “Nightmare Alley,” directed by Guillermo del Toro, with an all-star cast featuring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, and David Strathairn, debuted in fourth position with £549,560.
Rounding off the top five was eOne...
- 1/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Salomé Jashi's Taming the Garden is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting January 19, 2022 in the series Viewfinder, as well as in the series New Voices in Georgian Cinema.Taming the Garden recounts only part of the story that happened to us all here in the country of Georgia. The film translates the story into a myth, a fairytale, and deliberately leaves out quite some background information. Filming and editing is the process of exclusion, taking out, thus creating a particular concentration. Then there are certain things while making documentaries that just cannot be filmed. Or are missed. Not just happenings or information, but also momentary thoughts, revelations, and emotions. The actual story, with all its dimensions and elements, is immense, not squeezable into a film format. While we were working on Taming the Garden, there were many stories that stayed “behind the fences”—behind the camera. This was for various reasons,...
- 1/18/2022
- MUBI
Our second ever Best West Asian list is a bit smaller than the previous one, which included 20 films, but at least equal in terms of quality and diversity. In that fashion, and although Iran has the lion’s share, movies from Turkey, Georgia, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh are included in a list that also showcases (experimental) documentaries, dramas, comedies, action and everything between.
Without further ado, here are the best West Asian films of 2021, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2020, but since they mostly circulated in 2021, we decided to include them.
15. Radiograph of A Family
“Radiograph of a Family” is a great documentary that manages to combine artfulness with a very interesting story and a parallel to the history of Iran, through a rather brave approach due to its intimacy. (Panos Kotzathanasis)
14. Hit the Road
Panahi directs his first feature with style and elegance, channeling...
Without further ado, here are the best West Asian films of 2021, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2020, but since they mostly circulated in 2021, we decided to include them.
15. Radiograph of A Family
“Radiograph of a Family” is a great documentary that manages to combine artfulness with a very interesting story and a parallel to the history of Iran, through a rather brave approach due to its intimacy. (Panos Kotzathanasis)
14. Hit the Road
Panahi directs his first feature with style and elegance, channeling...
- 1/6/2022
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Mubi is kicking off the new year with a selection of our 2021 highlights, including some of which haven’t picked up proper distribution yet. Most notably, their own release, Alexandre Koberidze’s dazzling What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, will premiere along with a New Voices in Georgian Cinema series. Also arriving is Salomé Jashi’s Taming the Garden, Ana Katz’s The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu, and Nino Martínez Sosa’s Liborio.
As part of a series of first films, they’ll also feature works from Janicza Bravo, Noah Baumbach, Garrett Bradley, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Terry Gilliam, and more. A double bill of Federico Fellini classics, Nights of Cabiria and The White Sheik, will also come to the platform.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
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As part of a series of first films, they’ll also feature works from Janicza Bravo, Noah Baumbach, Garrett Bradley, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Terry Gilliam, and more. A double bill of Federico Fellini classics, Nights of Cabiria and The White Sheik, will also come to the platform.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
January 1 | Kicking & Screaming | Noah Baumbach | First Films First
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- 12/17/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Jasmila Žbanić’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” and Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” are the five nominees for best film at the upcoming 34th European Film Awards, which see no clear frontrunner this year.
The more than 4,100 academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be honored at a Dec. 11 ceremony in Berlin.
And the nominees are: European Film
“Compartment No. 6,” Juho Kuosmanen
“Quo Vadis Aida?” Jasmila Žbanić
“The Father,” Florian Zeller
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Titane,” Julia Ducournau
European Comedy
“Nijababy,” Yngvild Sve Flikke
“The Morning After,” Méliane Marcaggi
“The People Upstairs,” Cesc Gay
European Documentary
“Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Flee,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen
“Mr Bachman and his Class,” Maria Speth
“Taming The Garden,” Salomé Jashi
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,” Stina Gardell
European Animated Feature Film
“Even Mice Belong in Heaven,...
The more than 4,100 academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be honored at a Dec. 11 ceremony in Berlin.
And the nominees are: European Film
“Compartment No. 6,” Juho Kuosmanen
“Quo Vadis Aida?” Jasmila Žbanić
“The Father,” Florian Zeller
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Titane,” Julia Ducournau
European Comedy
“Nijababy,” Yngvild Sve Flikke
“The Morning After,” Méliane Marcaggi
“The People Upstairs,” Cesc Gay
European Documentary
“Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Flee,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen
“Mr Bachman and his Class,” Maria Speth
“Taming The Garden,” Salomé Jashi
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,” Stina Gardell
European Animated Feature Film
“Even Mice Belong in Heaven,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The European Film Academy has announced nominations for the 34th European Film Awards which will be handed out in Berlin on December 11. Julia Ducournau’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Titane; Florian Zeller’s 2020 drama and double Oscar winner The Father; and Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis Aida?, which was nominated for an Oscar at the 93rd edition, are tied with four mentions each.
Titane is the Oscar submission from France this year and, likewise, several other candidates for the International Feature Academy Award figure at the EFAs. They include Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand Of God and Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6, from Italy and Finland, respectively. Each of those films, alongside the titles above, is nominated in the European Film 2021 category, and both figure in three races.
Ducournau, Zeller, Zbanic and Sorrentino are all up for European Director 2021 while Radu Jude rounds out the field for his Bad...
Titane is the Oscar submission from France this year and, likewise, several other candidates for the International Feature Academy Award figure at the EFAs. They include Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand Of God and Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6, from Italy and Finland, respectively. Each of those films, alongside the titles above, is nominated in the European Film 2021 category, and both figure in three races.
Ducournau, Zeller, Zbanic and Sorrentino are all up for European Director 2021 while Radu Jude rounds out the field for his Bad...
- 11/9/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Eva Orner’s Burning is the winner of Sydney Film Festival’s inaugural Sustainable Future Award.
Selected from eight nominees, the $10,000 cash prize will be presented to the Amazon Australian Original for deepening the knowledge and awareness of the impact of the global climate emergency.
The award, which has been funded by climate activists, is philanthropically motivated.
Burning, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), looks
at the unprecedented and catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.
Produced by Propagate Content, Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Amazon Studios, the film marks Amazon’s first feature-length Australian documentary commission. In addition to directing, Orner produces with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Jonathan Schaerf.
Burning was selected as the winner by a jury of filmmakers and climate advocates: school student and Strike4Climate activist Natasha Abhayawickrama; documentary filmmaker Bettina Dalton...
Selected from eight nominees, the $10,000 cash prize will be presented to the Amazon Australian Original for deepening the knowledge and awareness of the impact of the global climate emergency.
The award, which has been funded by climate activists, is philanthropically motivated.
Burning, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), looks
at the unprecedented and catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.
Produced by Propagate Content, Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Amazon Studios, the film marks Amazon’s first feature-length Australian documentary commission. In addition to directing, Orner produces with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Jonathan Schaerf.
Burning was selected as the winner by a jury of filmmakers and climate advocates: school student and Strike4Climate activist Natasha Abhayawickrama; documentary filmmaker Bettina Dalton...
- 10/10/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) added 65 titles to its lineup Tuesday, unveiling the non-competitive program sections Best of Fests, Masters and Paradocs. The 34th edition of IDFA takes place from Nov. 17-28 in Amsterdam.
Best of Fests honors award winners, critics’ picks and audience favorites from the year’s festivals. The 46 strong selection includes India-set story about estranged lovers “A Night of Knowing Nothing” by Payal Kapadia, documentary award winner at Cannes, wildlife film “The Velvet Queen,” by debut director Marie Amiguet, “Users,” an exploration of humanity’s future by Natalia Almada, and “Taming the Garden,” the slow-cinema feature by Salomé Jashi.
These are joined by buzzy audience films such as Alison Klayman’s Alanis Morissette biopic “Jagged,” and Bing Liu and Joshua Altman’s “All These Sons,” from the filmmaking team behind “Minding the Gap.” The section also pays tribute to the surprise gems from the festival circuit,...
Best of Fests honors award winners, critics’ picks and audience favorites from the year’s festivals. The 46 strong selection includes India-set story about estranged lovers “A Night of Knowing Nothing” by Payal Kapadia, documentary award winner at Cannes, wildlife film “The Velvet Queen,” by debut director Marie Amiguet, “Users,” an exploration of humanity’s future by Natalia Almada, and “Taming the Garden,” the slow-cinema feature by Salomé Jashi.
These are joined by buzzy audience films such as Alison Klayman’s Alanis Morissette biopic “Jagged,” and Bing Liu and Joshua Altman’s “All These Sons,” from the filmmaking team behind “Minding the Gap.” The section also pays tribute to the surprise gems from the festival circuit,...
- 10/5/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Films include Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ and Blerta Basholli’s ‘Hive’.
More films than ever before are eligible for this year’s European Film Awards’ feature film and documentary film selection, with 40 feature films and 15 documentary films, and further feature film titles to be revealed in September.
Titles in the feature film selection include Blerta Basholli’s Sundance hit Hive and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman. The latter is eligible despite being listed as a film of US origin. The European Film Academy (Efa) told Screen this was because the film reaches the number of points in...
More films than ever before are eligible for this year’s European Film Awards’ feature film and documentary film selection, with 40 feature films and 15 documentary films, and further feature film titles to be revealed in September.
Titles in the feature film selection include Blerta Basholli’s Sundance hit Hive and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman. The latter is eligible despite being listed as a film of US origin. The European Film Academy (Efa) told Screen this was because the film reaches the number of points in...
- 8/24/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Helmer’s previous film was 2018 silent comedy The Bra.
German director Veit Helmer has returned to the Caucasus for the third time to shoot his latest feature film Gondola (working title) in the Georgian mountains, following his 2008 Azerbaijan-set Absurdistan and 2018 silent comedy The Bra, set in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Principal photography started last week on a 36-day shoot which is set to run until the end of September. The film tells the story of two female cable car operators who fall in love as pass each other in their gondolas travelling between a mountain village and the town in the valley below.
German director Veit Helmer has returned to the Caucasus for the third time to shoot his latest feature film Gondola (working title) in the Georgian mountains, following his 2008 Azerbaijan-set Absurdistan and 2018 silent comedy The Bra, set in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Principal photography started last week on a 36-day shoot which is set to run until the end of September. The film tells the story of two female cable car operators who fall in love as pass each other in their gondolas travelling between a mountain village and the town in the valley below.
- 8/23/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Toronto-based outfit Syndicado Film Sales has picked up Romanian duo Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark’s Venice Days selection “Imaculat.”
The film follows Daria, whose junkie boyfriend ends up in prison, and she is taken by her parents to rehab to quit heroin and become a good daughter again. Inside the clinic, Daria’s unwavering loyalty to her boyfriend makes her exceptional in the eyes of the male junkies and saves her from their sexual pressures. Being desired yet protected by everyone makes Daria feel special for the first time in her teenage life. She relishes her position until a new mysterious patient is committed. His arrival confronts Daria with her own desires, triggering wild competition among the men. Suddenly trapped between everyone’s clashing expectations, Daria must find her own path.
The cast includes Ana Dumitrașcu, Vasile Pavel and Cezar Grumăzescu.
The film is written by Stan and stems from her own experiences.
The film follows Daria, whose junkie boyfriend ends up in prison, and she is taken by her parents to rehab to quit heroin and become a good daughter again. Inside the clinic, Daria’s unwavering loyalty to her boyfriend makes her exceptional in the eyes of the male junkies and saves her from their sexual pressures. Being desired yet protected by everyone makes Daria feel special for the first time in her teenage life. She relishes her position until a new mysterious patient is committed. His arrival confronts Daria with her own desires, triggering wild competition among the men. Suddenly trapped between everyone’s clashing expectations, Daria must find her own path.
The cast includes Ana Dumitrașcu, Vasile Pavel and Cezar Grumăzescu.
The film is written by Stan and stems from her own experiences.
- 8/5/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Macbeth's Birnham wood coming to Dunsinane has nothing on the sight of a majestic mature tree being transported across water - spectacular yet dancing on the edge of the surreal in a way that makes you think Werner Herzog might have conjured it up. It's just one of many that made the trip courtesy of the whim of former prime minister and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili - although you won't here his name mentioned much in the latest documentary from Salomé Jashi, which focuses for the most part, instead, on the thoughts more everyday Georgians have on the subject.
Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace, we see people coming and going about their business. Some have sold their trees to Ivanishvili - who has created a dendrological park with them. One elderly man notes his grandfather planted his, as he sits on the enormous root ball that is now ready for.
Filmed without commentary and with a poetic grace, we see people coming and going about their business. Some have sold their trees to Ivanishvili - who has created a dendrological park with them. One elderly man notes his grandfather planted his, as he sits on the enormous root ball that is now ready for.
- 6/21/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rooftop Films Returns for 25th Anniversary Summer Series in NYC
Rooftop Films, the non-profit organization and film community celebrated as New York’s home for independent films, announced the return of their annual Rooftop Films Summer Series.
Among the films set to screen are Janicza Bravo’s “Zola,” presented by A24 on the lawn in Fort Greene Park, and “Once Upon a Time in Queens,” ESPN’s new series detailing the uniquely wild championship run of the 1986 Mets.
Joshua Rofé’s “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed,” and Sally Aitken’s “Playing with Sharks,” are the documentaries will also screen when the series begins June 17 at Green-Wood Cemetery.
The screenings will follow all CDC and state guidelines which allow for more New Yorkers to gather safely for cultural events. The Rooftop Films Summer Series is presented by SundanceTV.
The Summer Series will run from June 17th through mid-September and...
Rooftop Films, the non-profit organization and film community celebrated as New York’s home for independent films, announced the return of their annual Rooftop Films Summer Series.
Among the films set to screen are Janicza Bravo’s “Zola,” presented by A24 on the lawn in Fort Greene Park, and “Once Upon a Time in Queens,” ESPN’s new series detailing the uniquely wild championship run of the 1986 Mets.
Joshua Rofé’s “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed,” and Sally Aitken’s “Playing with Sharks,” are the documentaries will also screen when the series begins June 17 at Green-Wood Cemetery.
The screenings will follow all CDC and state guidelines which allow for more New Yorkers to gather safely for cultural events. The Rooftop Films Summer Series is presented by SundanceTV.
The Summer Series will run from June 17th through mid-September and...
- 6/7/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center Thursday announces the complete lineup for the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films rolling out April 28 – May 8. The films will screen both virtually and at the Flc theater through May 13, making it the first NYC fest to return to the big screen.
Opening night will feature Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, a portrait of a mother and daughter barely scraping by in Spain’s northwestern seaside town of Gijón. The event will close with All Light, Everywhere, director Theo Anthony’s winner of a Sundance Jury Prize for Experimentation in Nonfiction. Anthony’s follow-up to Rat Film, All Light, Everywhere uses U.S. law enforcement bodycam footage as a treatise on perception, power, and policing.
The fest will showcase 27 films and 11 shorts.
A free virtual retrospective celebrating 50 years of Nd/Nf will be available from April 16-28.
“From intimate,...
Opening night will feature Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, a portrait of a mother and daughter barely scraping by in Spain’s northwestern seaside town of Gijón. The event will close with All Light, Everywhere, director Theo Anthony’s winner of a Sundance Jury Prize for Experimentation in Nonfiction. Anthony’s follow-up to Rat Film, All Light, Everywhere uses U.S. law enforcement bodycam footage as a treatise on perception, power, and policing.
The fest will showcase 27 films and 11 shorts.
A free virtual retrospective celebrating 50 years of Nd/Nf will be available from April 16-28.
“From intimate,...
- 4/1/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center have today announced the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (Nd/Nf), this year available in both virtual and in-theater settings, marking it as the first New York City festival to return to live screenings since the pandemic began. This year’s festival will introduce 27 features and 11 shorts to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and Flc virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center. The festival will open with Amalia Ulman’s “El Planeta” and close with Theo Anthony’s “All Light, Everywhere,” both of which premiered at Sundance in January.
This year’s edition will mark the second time the festival has offered a virtual arm: the festival’s original March 2020 dates were postponed when pandemic shutdowns took hold, with the series eventually opting to go virtual for its 49th edition, rolling out last December.
This year’s edition will mark the second time the festival has offered a virtual arm: the festival’s original March 2020 dates were postponed when pandemic shutdowns took hold, with the series eventually opting to go virtual for its 49th edition, rolling out last December.
- 4/1/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center have announced the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/ New Films.
The annual program will be held virtually on April 28 through May 8, with in-person screening extending through May 14 at Film at Lincoln Center.
This year’s festival is introducing 27 features and 11 short films. Unique to the 2021 edition, there will be a free virtual retrospective to celebrate the past 50 years of New Directors/ New Films running from April 16 through April 28.
“From intimate, personal tales to political, metaphysical, and spiritual inquiries, the films in the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films embody an inexhaustible curiosity and a fearless desire for adventure,” said La Frances Hui, curator of Film at The Museum of Modern Art and 2021 New Directors/New Films co-chair. “They prove that cinema will continue to illuminate and inspire the way we live, and make art.”
Writer and director Amalia Ulman...
The annual program will be held virtually on April 28 through May 8, with in-person screening extending through May 14 at Film at Lincoln Center.
This year’s festival is introducing 27 features and 11 short films. Unique to the 2021 edition, there will be a free virtual retrospective to celebrate the past 50 years of New Directors/ New Films running from April 16 through April 28.
“From intimate, personal tales to political, metaphysical, and spiritual inquiries, the films in the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films embody an inexhaustible curiosity and a fearless desire for adventure,” said La Frances Hui, curator of Film at The Museum of Modern Art and 2021 New Directors/New Films co-chair. “They prove that cinema will continue to illuminate and inspire the way we live, and make art.”
Writer and director Amalia Ulman...
- 4/1/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Dogwoof has taken U.K. rights to the Sundance World Documentary Cinema selection “Taming the Garden,” from Georgian director Salomé Jashi. Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales brokered the deal. The film, which is currently screening online in the Berlinale’s Forum section, was also sold to Film Kino Text for Germany.
The latest feature from the documentary filmmaker and video artist Jashi, “Taming the Garden” follows the incredible true story of Georgia’s billionaire ex-prime minister who decides to populate his vast private garden with fully grown trees culled from the countryside, enlisting his cohorts to strike deals with the locals before transporting the ancient trees to his estate.
“Though this peculiar saga actually happened, Jashi’s film plays more like myth than journalism, as though she is documenting the folklore of the future as it is happening,” Variety’s Jessica Kiang wrote in a glowing review, heralding the film as a “quiet,...
The latest feature from the documentary filmmaker and video artist Jashi, “Taming the Garden” follows the incredible true story of Georgia’s billionaire ex-prime minister who decides to populate his vast private garden with fully grown trees culled from the countryside, enlisting his cohorts to strike deals with the locals before transporting the ancient trees to his estate.
“Though this peculiar saga actually happened, Jashi’s film plays more like myth than journalism, as though she is documenting the folklore of the future as it is happening,” Variety’s Jessica Kiang wrote in a glowing review, heralding the film as a “quiet,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Peter Carey’s 1988 novel “Oscar and Lucinda” contains a section in which a glass church is floated down a river. It’s such a striking image that one imagines it must have been the spur for the whole intricate story, just as the sight of a large tree borne on a barge, cutting a crisp swath through calm blue coastal waters and trailing an arc of questions in its wake, might trigger a documentary as quietly magnificent and strange as Salomé Jashi’s “Taming the Garden.”
Across an immaculately slow and beautiful 92 minutes, Jashi’s film sometimes recalls experimental essays like Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s “Leviathan,” with similarly outstanding cinematography from Jashi and co-dp Goga Devdariani. Occasionally, with a shot across treetops in which one patch of greenery moves with bizarre animal grace while all else is stationary, it looks like one of Tolkien’s Ents has decided to take a stroll.
Across an immaculately slow and beautiful 92 minutes, Jashi’s film sometimes recalls experimental essays like Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s “Leviathan,” with similarly outstanding cinematography from Jashi and co-dp Goga Devdariani. Occasionally, with a shot across treetops in which one patch of greenery moves with bizarre animal grace while all else is stationary, it looks like one of Tolkien’s Ents has decided to take a stroll.
- 3/1/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Day 2 of this week’s Berlinale announcements see the selections for its Forum, Forum Expanded and Shorts programs revealed.
The Forum program contains 17 movies, primarily from filmmakers at the beginning of their careers, though with some establish directors included such as Israeli documentarian Avi Mograbi and Berlin directors Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe. In total, 14 are world premieres.
The Forum Expanded selection consists of shorts, medium-length films and features, and will screen 17 films as well as art installations. In the Shorts program, a total of 20 titles will compete for the Berlinale prizes this year. Scroll down for the full line-ups.
Yesterday, the festival unveiled its Generation and Retrospective programs.
As previously reported, buyers will get the chance to view these movies during the virtual EFM, which runs March 1-5. Juries will also be appointed to decide on the festival’s awards during this period. Audiences will hopefully have a chance...
The Forum program contains 17 movies, primarily from filmmakers at the beginning of their careers, though with some establish directors included such as Israeli documentarian Avi Mograbi and Berlin directors Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe. In total, 14 are world premieres.
The Forum Expanded selection consists of shorts, medium-length films and features, and will screen 17 films as well as art installations. In the Shorts program, a total of 20 titles will compete for the Berlinale prizes this year. Scroll down for the full line-ups.
Yesterday, the festival unveiled its Generation and Retrospective programs.
As previously reported, buyers will get the chance to view these movies during the virtual EFM, which runs March 1-5. Juries will also be appointed to decide on the festival’s awards during this period. Audiences will hopefully have a chance...
- 2/9/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The selection is half the size of last year’s line-up.
The Berlin International Film Festival has revealed the 17 features selected for this year’s Forum line-up, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
The 17-title selection, which includes 14 world premieres, is just half of last year’s line-up of 35 titles, as the festival slims down for its first virtual edition.
Physical screenings of the selection are planned to take place during the Berlinale’s first Summer Special event,...
The Berlin International Film Festival has revealed the 17 features selected for this year’s Forum line-up, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.
The 17-title selection, which includes 14 world premieres, is just half of last year’s line-up of 35 titles, as the festival slims down for its first virtual edition.
Physical screenings of the selection are planned to take place during the Berlinale’s first Summer Special event,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Salomé Jashi is not a name I was familiar with before catching her exquisitely crafted Taming the Garden, which made its Sundance debut on January 31 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. That said, the Georgian director (and founder of not one but two production companies), whose 2016 doc The Dazzling Light of Sunset took top honors at Visions du Réel, is certainly a prolific filmmaker I’ll now be keeping an eye out for. With her latest, Taming the Garden, a “cinematic environmental parable,” Jashi weaves together a series of perfectly composed shots, containing the lush magical nature on the […]
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- 2/1/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Salomé Jashi is not a name I was familiar with before catching her exquisitely crafted Taming the Garden, which made its Sundance debut on January 31 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. That said, the Georgian director (and founder of not one but two production companies), whose 2016 doc The Dazzling Light of Sunset took top honors at Visions du Réel, is certainly a prolific filmmaker I’ll now be keeping an eye out for. With her latest, Taming the Garden, a “cinematic environmental parable,” Jashi weaves together a series of perfectly composed shots, containing the lush magical nature on the […]
The post "It Was Such a Jiggle of Consciousness, Such a Beautiful Monstrosity...": Salomé Jashi on Her Sundance-Debuting Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "It Was Such a Jiggle of Consciousness, Such a Beautiful Monstrosity...": Salomé Jashi on Her Sundance-Debuting Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/1/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
If you happen to maintain your own personal garden and feel stressed about the upkeep, look no further than Salomé Jashi’s visually striking observational documentary to put things in perspective. The garden at the center of Taming the Garden, however, isn’t glimpsed until the film’s final moments as this journey through the country of Georgia is almost entirely about the grueling task of transplanting majestic, century-old trees many, many miles by land and sea. Lest you believe this can be done with some simple equipment, the tree at the center of the story weighs as much as a house and requires months upon months of work to find its new home. In capturing this process, Jashi takes a vivid, evergreen look at the effects of gratuitous wealth.
Absent of on-screen title cards, interviews, or virtually any ancillary table-setting or information outside of this insular world of strenuous work,...
Absent of on-screen title cards, interviews, or virtually any ancillary table-setting or information outside of this insular world of strenuous work,...
- 1/31/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? By the start of 2020 we had completed filming and had already started editing. Together with the editor Chris Wright, we were shaping a new world where nothing would be stable, nothing and no one could be trusted, where trees could move. We were half way through editing in Berlin, building this surrealistic world, an unreal world, when the pandemic struck. And suddenly, it was as if we were living in our film or our […]
The post "We Had Found Ourselves in the Fairytale": Director Salomé Jashi | Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "We Had Found Ourselves in the Fairytale": Director Salomé Jashi | Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
How did events of 2020—any of them—change your film, either in the way you approached it, produced it, post-produced it, or are now thinking about it? By the start of 2020 we had completed filming and had already started editing. Together with the editor Chris Wright, we were shaping a new world where nothing would be stable, nothing and no one could be trusted, where trees could move. We were half way through editing in Berlin, building this surrealistic world, an unreal world, when the pandemic struck. And suddenly, it was as if we were living in our film or our […]
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The post "We Had Found Ourselves in the Fairytale": Director Salomé Jashi | Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Trees represent so much in Salomé Jashi’s scintillating documentary Taming the Garden. On the surface its an exploration of a former Georgian prime minister’s obsession with uprooting ancient trees and transporting them to his estate across the Black Sea. Digging deeper, it explores the immense class disparity and infringements of small communities and their local histories. Jashi and her co-cinematographer Goga Devdariani walk us through how they framed trees as the “protagonist” of their film and the multilayered impact of their subjects as images. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the […]
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The post "At Times Calm, at Times Violent": DPs Salomé Jashi and Goga Devdariani on Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Trees represent so much in Salomé Jashi’s scintillating documentary Taming the Garden. On the surface its an exploration of a former Georgian prime minister’s obsession with uprooting ancient trees and transporting them to his estate across the Black Sea. Digging deeper, it explores the immense class disparity and infringements of small communities and their local histories. Jashi and her co-cinematographer Goga Devdariani walk us through how they framed trees as the “protagonist” of their film and the multilayered impact of their subjects as images. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the […]
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The post "At Times Calm, at Times Violent": DPs Salomé Jashi and Goga Devdariani on Taming the Garden first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/31/2021
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Starting today, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival gives us a first glimpse at the year in cinema, and this year it’s available to a wider audience than ever before in virtual form. With many tickets still available, we’re now providing our yearly trailer round-up for those interested in a preview of the lineup.
Ahead of our coverage, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers and clips, kicking off with Taming the Garden, A Glitch in the Matrix, Land, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Life in a Day 2020, and more.
Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be published reviews soon, so follow along here.
Coming Home in the Dark (James Ashcroft)
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher)
In the Same Breath (Nanfu Wang...
Ahead of our coverage, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers and clips, kicking off with Taming the Garden, A Glitch in the Matrix, Land, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Life in a Day 2020, and more.
Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be published reviews soon, so follow along here.
Coming Home in the Dark (James Ashcroft)
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher)
In the Same Breath (Nanfu Wang...
- 1/28/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
European Film Promotion, a network of film agencies and institutes from 37 European countries, and the Sundance Film Festival have kicked off their first ever collaboration. The partners have launched an online showcase, Europe! Hub at Sundance, that puts the spotlight on the European films premiering in competition at the festival (Jan. 28-Feb. 3).
Next year, the partners are planning to host an onsite edition of the venture at the festival, with the target audience being North American distributors.
In a statement, Efp managing director, Sonja Heinen, underscored the importance of the festival, especially during a “challenging” time. She said Efp would work closely with the Sundance team “to raise the awareness and increase the visibility of European films and talent at the festival.” She added that Efp was looking forward to “an on-going and growing relationship” with the festival in order to support European films and talent.
Twelve European feature films...
Next year, the partners are planning to host an onsite edition of the venture at the festival, with the target audience being North American distributors.
In a statement, Efp managing director, Sonja Heinen, underscored the importance of the festival, especially during a “challenging” time. She said Efp would work closely with the Sundance team “to raise the awareness and increase the visibility of European films and talent at the festival.” She added that Efp was looking forward to “an on-going and growing relationship” with the festival in order to support European films and talent.
Twelve European feature films...
- 1/25/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Documentary projects from Georgia, Chile and Serbia were amongst the winners.
Documentary projects from Georgia, Chile and Serbia were amongst the winners at the 16th edition of Visions du Réel Industry programme held at the same time as the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Switzerland’s Nyon on Lake Geneva.
Georgian-born Salomé Jashi’s latest documentary Trees Floating, which was one of 15 projects presented at the two-day Pitching du Réel closed session to invited broadcasters, distributors, sales agents and producers, received the Head - Genève Postproduction Award which will provide all the facilities for colour grading and the creation of files for broadcast.
Documentary projects from Georgia, Chile and Serbia were amongst the winners at the 16th edition of Visions du Réel Industry programme held at the same time as the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Switzerland’s Nyon on Lake Geneva.
Georgian-born Salomé Jashi’s latest documentary Trees Floating, which was one of 15 projects presented at the two-day Pitching du Réel closed session to invited broadcasters, distributors, sales agents and producers, received the Head - Genève Postproduction Award which will provide all the facilities for colour grading and the creation of files for broadcast.
- 4/20/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Mubi is showing Salomé Jashi's The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016) as part of a collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center for their Art of the Real festival. The film is playing April 29 - May 29 in the United States and May 6 - June 5, 2017 in most countries around the world.Manufacturing information has been my subject of interest especially since TV news reporting was one of my first jobs. Then, some years ago, I came across a local newspaper is a small town in England where the front-page story read that Mr. and Mrs. Smiths had closed their pub in the downtown. It struck me what was considered news for a small community while much bigger events were going on around the world. I started to research local television stations around my home country Georgia and discovered some fascinating settings, characters and happenings. Of course, the news these TV...
- 4/28/2017
- MUBI
Art of the Real, a nonfiction filmmaking showcase at Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, celebrates its fourth year with 27 films in the lineup, continuing the exploration of cinematic possibilities of the film/digital medium. This year, the series highlights established figures such as Heinz Emigholz, Robinson Devor, Jem Cohen as well as newcomers Theo Anthony (Rat Film), Salomé Jashi (Dazzling Light of Sunset) and Shengze Zhu (Another Year). It also gives well deserved recognition to the Chilean cinema with two from documentary veteran Ignacio Agüero and two from José Luis Torres Leiva whose film The Sky, the Earth and the Rain made an international splash in 2008. His new film The Wind Knows I'm Coming Back Home, starring Agüero will be shown...
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- 4/19/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announced the fourth edition of Art of the Real, their essential showcase for boundary-pushing nonfiction film, scheduled to take place April 20 – May 2. Billed as “a survey of the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking,” this year’s showcase features an eclectic, globe-spanning host of discoveries, including seven North American premieres and eight U.S. premieres.
“In our fourth year we’ve put an emphasis on placing works by first-time and emerging filmmakers alongside established names, with the aim to highlight the experimentation happening across generations, and to trace a new trajectory of documentary art that points to its promising future,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes, who organized the festival with Director of Programming Dennis Lim.
The Opening Night selection is the New York premiere of Theo Anthony’s “Rat Film,” which has...
“In our fourth year we’ve put an emphasis on placing works by first-time and emerging filmmakers alongside established names, with the aim to highlight the experimentation happening across generations, and to trace a new trajectory of documentary art that points to its promising future,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer at Large Rachael Rakes, who organized the festival with Director of Programming Dennis Lim.
The Opening Night selection is the New York premiere of Theo Anthony’s “Rat Film,” which has...
- 3/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
New documentaries by Boris Mitic, Vitaly Mansky and Salome Jashi are among the projects being pitched at this year’s East Doc Platform in Prague (March 2-8).
Broadcasters, distributors, film funders, festivals and producers from Europe and North America will attend pitching sessions for the East European Forum, Project Market and the second edition of the cross-media showcase Doc Tank.
200 applications were submitted for the 15th edition of the East European Forum which will be presenting ten projects including:
Georgian film-maker Salomé Jashi’s The Station about the aspirations of the only journalist and anchor-woman of a small provincial TV station
Estonian Jaak Kilmi’s People From Nowhere which will also be presented at next week’s When East Meets West co-production gathering in Trieste
Jakub Piatek’s A Film For My Mom, a home video documentary with fictional scenes
Vitaly Mansky’s highly topically Close Relations – The Ukraine Crisis, My Family...
Broadcasters, distributors, film funders, festivals and producers from Europe and North America will attend pitching sessions for the East European Forum, Project Market and the second edition of the cross-media showcase Doc Tank.
200 applications were submitted for the 15th edition of the East European Forum which will be presenting ten projects including:
Georgian film-maker Salomé Jashi’s The Station about the aspirations of the only journalist and anchor-woman of a small provincial TV station
Estonian Jaak Kilmi’s People From Nowhere which will also be presented at next week’s When East Meets West co-production gathering in Trieste
Jakub Piatek’s A Film For My Mom, a home video documentary with fictional scenes
Vitaly Mansky’s highly topically Close Relations – The Ukraine Crisis, My Family...
- 1/16/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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