The first trailer has been unveiled for “Walls” (“Mur”), actor-turned-filmmaker Kasia Smutniak’s directorial debut that will world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, leading to a mass exodus of refugees seeking asylum across Europe. Among the European countries offering aid and refuge, Poland was particularly generous but the country had also simultaneously commenced the construction of Europe’s most expensive wall along its entire border with Belarus to deter further refugees from entering.
A strip of land known as the red zone running parallel to the Belarusian border prevents anyone from approaching and seeing the construction of the wall. Smutniak undertakes an uncertain and risky journey into the red zone, where access is not allowed to the media, with the help of local activists and minimal technical equipment. The director’s journey begins and ends with two walls.
The first wall rejects migrants arriving...
In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, leading to a mass exodus of refugees seeking asylum across Europe. Among the European countries offering aid and refuge, Poland was particularly generous but the country had also simultaneously commenced the construction of Europe’s most expensive wall along its entire border with Belarus to deter further refugees from entering.
A strip of land known as the red zone running parallel to the Belarusian border prevents anyone from approaching and seeing the construction of the wall. Smutniak undertakes an uncertain and risky journey into the red zone, where access is not allowed to the media, with the help of local activists and minimal technical equipment. The director’s journey begins and ends with two walls.
The first wall rejects migrants arriving...
- 8/21/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Newmarket in 3-film Trust
NEW YORK -- Indie distributor Newmarket Films said Tuesday that it has acquired a trio of Scandinavian movies from international sales outfit Trust Films Sales -- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, In Your Hands and Daybreak. Newmarket previously has rolled out such Trust films as Open Hearts, by Susanne Bier, and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-ever. Natasha Arthy's Danish dogma project, Borrowed and Blue, is a bittersweet comedy about the perils of love and honesty. The film, which screened stateside at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, was written by Kim Fupz Aakesen and stars Sidse Babett Knudsen, Bjorn Kjellman and Soeren Byder.
- 9/1/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Howard's 'Missing' in Berlin fest competition
COLOGNE -- Ron Howard's dark western The Missing is one of the early selections for competition at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival, scheduled to kick off in February next year, organizers said Monday. The film, which stars Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones, was one of five competition entries announced by Berlin Festival director Dieter Kosslick. Also in the running for the 2004 Golden Bear will be Nightsongs, from German director Romuald Karmakar; Your Next Life, from Spain's Manuel Gutierrez; Croatian entry Witnesses, directed by Vinko Bresan; and In Your Hands from Danish helmer Annette K. Olesen. "[The entries] range from tragic love story to political psychodrama, from historical thriller to intimate family saga," Kosslick said, adding that the combination of Oscar-winning director Howard and art house favorites such as Gutierrez and Karmakar were a guarantee for "a versatile program, both in theme and style."...
- 12/1/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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