Marta (Elena Andrada) is 17, from Barcelona and alternately bored and mortified to be on a Christmas vacation to Senegal with her estranged dad, Manel (Sergi López), and annoying little brother, Bruno (Ian Samsó). For her, the freedoms of imminent adulthood, such as the occasional poolside mojito, are tantalizing close but still technically forbidden, rather like the employees’ section of their resort hotel that is quarantined from the guests’ domain by a doorway marked “Staff Only.”
Catalan director Neus Ballús, in her calm, intelligent second feature after 2013’s docudrama “The Plague,” allows Marta’s coming of age to sensitively parallel, in unexpected ways, a clear-eyed critique of tourism in post-colonial regions. The film is mediated through a white Westerner’s experience rather than that of a local, but it is no white-savior narrative; if anything, it is a gentle dismantling of that myth from the inside, revealing the myopia and self-deluding...
Catalan director Neus Ballús, in her calm, intelligent second feature after 2013’s docudrama “The Plague,” allows Marta’s coming of age to sensitively parallel, in unexpected ways, a clear-eyed critique of tourism in post-colonial regions. The film is mediated through a white Westerner’s experience rather than that of a local, but it is no white-savior narrative; if anything, it is a gentle dismantling of that myth from the inside, revealing the myopia and self-deluding...
- 3/22/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Spain-based sales company acquires worldwide rights.
Spain-based sales company Film Factory has acquired worldwide rights to Neus Ballús’ Berlinale Panorama title Staff Only.
The film has its world premiere on Sunday, February 10, marking director Ballús’ first showing at the festival since her debut The Plague in 2013.
It follows a rebellious teenager’s initiation into adulthood in a Senegalese tourist resort. Sergi López (Happy As Lazzaro) leads the cast, alongside Elena Andrada, Diomaye A. Ngom, Ian Samsó and Madeleine C. Ndong.
Staff Only is a Spanish-French production from Ikiru Films, El Kinògraf, Turanga Films and Les Films Hatari. Edmon Roch is producer on the title,...
Spain-based sales company Film Factory has acquired worldwide rights to Neus Ballús’ Berlinale Panorama title Staff Only.
The film has its world premiere on Sunday, February 10, marking director Ballús’ first showing at the festival since her debut The Plague in 2013.
It follows a rebellious teenager’s initiation into adulthood in a Senegalese tourist resort. Sergi López (Happy As Lazzaro) leads the cast, alongside Elena Andrada, Diomaye A. Ngom, Ian Samsó and Madeleine C. Ndong.
Staff Only is a Spanish-French production from Ikiru Films, El Kinògraf, Turanga Films and Les Films Hatari. Edmon Roch is producer on the title,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres.
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
- 1/21/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
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