Line-up also includes the new project from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker.
Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.
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The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).
Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...
Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).
Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international sales rights to Caroline Monnet’s feature debut “Bootlegger” which won best screenplay at Cannes’ Cinefondation in 2017.
A well-known contemporary artist, Monnet has shed light on Indigenous identity and has debunked stereotypes through her works, which have been shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Haus der Kulturen in Berlin, Aesthetica in London and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, among many other places. Monnet has also earned critical acclaim with her short films, six of which played at Toronto. She also directed the 2016 short “Mobilize,” which world premiered at Sundance.
Currently in post-production, “Bootlegger” was written by Monnet and Daniel Watchorn. Set in contemporary Northern Quebec, the film follows Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s who heads back to her remote Indigenous community to help her people free themselves from outdated paternalistic laws, leading...
A well-known contemporary artist, Monnet has shed light on Indigenous identity and has debunked stereotypes through her works, which have been shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Haus der Kulturen in Berlin, Aesthetica in London and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, among many other places. Monnet has also earned critical acclaim with her short films, six of which played at Toronto. She also directed the 2016 short “Mobilize,” which world premiered at Sundance.
Currently in post-production, “Bootlegger” was written by Monnet and Daniel Watchorn. Set in contemporary Northern Quebec, the film follows Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s who heads back to her remote Indigenous community to help her people free themselves from outdated paternalistic laws, leading...
- 2/21/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar” which was developed with the support of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and is co-produced by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, the Palme d’Or-winning directors/producers.
Set in Paris in 1993, the film follows Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy. While Selma discovers the strength of her own desire, fundamentalism takes over her country and her family starts to crumble.
“Honey Cigar” is being produced by French veteran producer Christine Rouxel (“Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami”) and Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (“Heaven Will Wait”). The movie is being co-produced by the Dardennes and Malek Ali-Yahia, as well as French star Dany Boon.
Best Friend Forever will unveil the exclusive first footage of...
Set in Paris in 1993, the film follows Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy. While Selma discovers the strength of her own desire, fundamentalism takes over her country and her family starts to crumble.
“Honey Cigar” is being produced by French veteran producer Christine Rouxel (“Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami”) and Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (“Heaven Will Wait”). The movie is being co-produced by the Dardennes and Malek Ali-Yahia, as well as French star Dany Boon.
Best Friend Forever will unveil the exclusive first footage of...
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired two debut features, Camilo Restrepo’s Berlinale-bound “Los Conductos” and Pascal Tagnati’s “Corsican Summer.” Both films are produced by up-and-coming outfit 5à7 films.
Set to premiere at the Berlinale’s new competitive section Encounters, “Los Conductos” is a Spanish-language film set in Medellin, Colombia, and loosely based on the true story of Pinky, who freed himself from the grip of a religious sect and gets a job in a t-shirt factory. Misled by his own faith, he tries to to get his life back on track, but is haunted by the violent memories of his past.
Restrepo has shot several shorts such as “La Bouche,” which played at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight. The French banner 5à7 films produced the film with Mutokino in Colombia, in co-production with the outfits If You Hold a Stone and Montanero Cine. Mutokino will release “Los Conductos...
Set to premiere at the Berlinale’s new competitive section Encounters, “Los Conductos” is a Spanish-language film set in Medellin, Colombia, and loosely based on the true story of Pinky, who freed himself from the grip of a religious sect and gets a job in a t-shirt factory. Misled by his own faith, he tries to to get his life back on track, but is haunted by the violent memories of his past.
Restrepo has shot several shorts such as “La Bouche,” which played at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight. The French banner 5à7 films produced the film with Mutokino in Colombia, in co-production with the outfits If You Hold a Stone and Montanero Cine. Mutokino will release “Los Conductos...
- 1/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Greek festival celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Lithuanian director Karolis Kaupinis’ debut feature Nova Lituania won the Golden Athena for the best film at the 25th-anniversary edition of the Athens International Fim Festival on September 29.
The award came with a cash prize of €2,000.
Produced by Vilnius-based M-Films, Nova Litunaia is a satire about the real-life attempts to establish a Lithuanian colony abroad as a devastating world war loomed in the 1930s. The film premiered in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier this year. Dutch outfit Some Shorts is handling international rights.
The...
Lithuanian director Karolis Kaupinis’ debut feature Nova Lituania won the Golden Athena for the best film at the 25th-anniversary edition of the Athens International Fim Festival on September 29.
The award came with a cash prize of €2,000.
Produced by Vilnius-based M-Films, Nova Litunaia is a satire about the real-life attempts to establish a Lithuanian colony abroad as a devastating world war loomed in the 1930s. The film premiered in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier this year. Dutch outfit Some Shorts is handling international rights.
The...
- 9/30/2019
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sarah Sutherland (Veep), Jared Abrahamson (American Animals), Dominique Provost-Chalkley (Wyonna Earp), Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) and musician Hubert Lenoir have been set to star in Canadian feature drama Like A House On Fire from writer-director Jesse Noah Klein (We’re Still Together).
Production is under way in Toronto until July 15 on the story of a woman (Sutherland) who returns home to reconnect with the young daughter and estranged husband (Abrahamson) she left two years before. She soon finds that her daughter does not remember her and her husband is with a woman now seven-months pregnant (Provost-Chalkley).
Sarah Mannering and Fanny Drew of Colonelle Films (A Colony) are producing with William Woods (Mean Dreams) of Woods Entertainment. Finance comes from Crave, Telefilm, Sodec, Ontario Creates, and Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (Nohfc). Entract Films will distribute in Canada.
Montreal-based Colonelle Films is run by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Fanny Drew and Sarah Mannering.
Production is under way in Toronto until July 15 on the story of a woman (Sutherland) who returns home to reconnect with the young daughter and estranged husband (Abrahamson) she left two years before. She soon finds that her daughter does not remember her and her husband is with a woman now seven-months pregnant (Provost-Chalkley).
Sarah Mannering and Fanny Drew of Colonelle Films (A Colony) are producing with William Woods (Mean Dreams) of Woods Entertainment. Finance comes from Crave, Telefilm, Sodec, Ontario Creates, and Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (Nohfc). Entract Films will distribute in Canada.
Montreal-based Colonelle Films is run by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Fanny Drew and Sarah Mannering.
- 6/17/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Best Friend Forever, the newly-launched sales company based in Brussels, has acquired Nicolas Rincón Gille’s feature debut “Valley of Souls.”
Rincón Gille was previously a critically-acclaimed documentary trilogy whose third part, “Wounded Night,” won the special mention of the international jury at Cinéma de Réel and best film in the Colombian competition at Ficci
Set in the Colombian countryside, in 2002, “Valley of Souls” tells the story of a man, José, who returns to his home deep in the jungle after a long fishing night and discovers that paramilitary forces have killed his two sons, Dionisio and Rafael, and thrown their bodies into the river. During his lonely journey to retrieve his son’s bodies and give them a proper burial, José discovers the magic of a country torn in pieces.
The film’s protagonist is played by the non-professional actor José Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo, a real fisherman in Simití,...
Rincón Gille was previously a critically-acclaimed documentary trilogy whose third part, “Wounded Night,” won the special mention of the international jury at Cinéma de Réel and best film in the Colombian competition at Ficci
Set in the Colombian countryside, in 2002, “Valley of Souls” tells the story of a man, José, who returns to his home deep in the jungle after a long fishing night and discovers that paramilitary forces have killed his two sons, Dionisio and Rafael, and thrown their bodies into the river. During his lonely journey to retrieve his son’s bodies and give them a proper burial, José discovers the magic of a country torn in pieces.
The film’s protagonist is played by the non-professional actor José Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo, a real fisherman in Simití,...
- 5/13/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A young Quebecois girl slowly learns to color outside the lines in writer-director Genevieve Dulude-de Celles’ Berlinale award-winning narrative feature debut, a sensitive and tasteful coming-of-age story that would perhaps have been richer, and certainly more surprising, had it embraced that lesson too. “A Colony,” however, is a neatly rendered package that cycles through its familiar beats with earnest, thoughtful grace, and if Dulude-de Celles’ focus on her protagonist’s hesitance and insecurity can make for a slightly frustrating watch at times, the performances from her young cast still infuse the film with an appealing freshness.
Twelve-year-old Mylia (Émilie Bierre) lives near a First Nations reserve in Pierreville, a small town in the Quebec countryside, dismissively referred to as “the sticks” by one unwilling resident, but rendered relatively idyllic by Léna Mill-Reuillard and Etienne Roussy’s sun-blown, tousled cinematography. Her home life is defined by her parents’ marriage quietly fracturing in the background,...
Twelve-year-old Mylia (Émilie Bierre) lives near a First Nations reserve in Pierreville, a small town in the Quebec countryside, dismissively referred to as “the sticks” by one unwilling resident, but rendered relatively idyllic by Léna Mill-Reuillard and Etienne Roussy’s sun-blown, tousled cinematography. Her home life is defined by her parents’ marriage quietly fracturing in the background,...
- 5/10/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Best Friend Forever (Bff) was launched by Martin Gondre and Charlie Bin.
New Brussels-based sales and production services company Best Friend Forever (Bff) has boarded sales on Ukrainian producer and director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s dystopian drama Atlantis ahead of Cannes.
Set in near future, war-torn eastern Ukraine, the drama revolves around a former soldier suffering from Ptsd, working at a local smelter and struggling to adapt to the reality of a life in pieces and a land in ruins.
When the smelter shuts down and he loses his job he finds salvation by volunteer Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses.
New Brussels-based sales and production services company Best Friend Forever (Bff) has boarded sales on Ukrainian producer and director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s dystopian drama Atlantis ahead of Cannes.
Set in near future, war-torn eastern Ukraine, the drama revolves around a former soldier suffering from Ptsd, working at a local smelter and struggling to adapt to the reality of a life in pieces and a land in ruins.
When the smelter shuts down and he loses his job he finds salvation by volunteer Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses.
- 5/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Indie Sales, the French international sales boutique behind the Oscar-nominated “My Life as a Zucchini” and Ziad Doueiri’s “The Insult,” is set to branch out with the launch of Best Friend Forever, a new Brussels-based outfit dedicated to festival-driven world cinema.
Best Friend Forever is kicking off with the acquisition of Juris Kursietis’ sophomore outing, “Oleg,” which will world premiere at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight. The movie follows Kursietis’ feature debut, “Modris,” which received San Sebastian’s special mention for the New Directors Award in 2014.
Produced by Tasse Film (“Dogs Don’t Wear Pants”) with Iota Productions (“Song of the Sea”) and In Script & Arizona Productions (“The Gentle Indifference of the World”), “Oleg” follows the story of a young Latvian butcher who immigrates to Brussels to work at a meat factory, hoping for a better life, but instead quickly falls under the yoke of Andzejs, a Polish criminal.
Best Friend...
Best Friend Forever is kicking off with the acquisition of Juris Kursietis’ sophomore outing, “Oleg,” which will world premiere at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight. The movie follows Kursietis’ feature debut, “Modris,” which received San Sebastian’s special mention for the New Directors Award in 2014.
Produced by Tasse Film (“Dogs Don’t Wear Pants”) with Iota Productions (“Song of the Sea”) and In Script & Arizona Productions (“The Gentle Indifference of the World”), “Oleg” follows the story of a young Latvian butcher who immigrates to Brussels to work at a meat factory, hoping for a better life, but instead quickly falls under the yoke of Andzejs, a Polish criminal.
Best Friend...
- 4/29/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Netflix/CBC drama Anne With an E won big Sunday night at the Canadian Screen Awards, earning the best TV drama trophy, with comedies Letterkenny and Schitt's Creek also picking up big awards.
And Canada's national film and TV awards gave the French-language coming-of-age drama A Colony (Une Colonie) from director Genevieve Dulude-De Celles the best movie honors. Anne With an E, which hails from Emmy-winning writer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) and is based on the classic Anne of Green Gables book series, also nabbed the trophy for best drama actress for Amybeth McNulty.
The Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara ...
And Canada's national film and TV awards gave the French-language coming-of-age drama A Colony (Une Colonie) from director Genevieve Dulude-De Celles the best movie honors. Anne With an E, which hails from Emmy-winning writer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) and is based on the classic Anne of Green Gables book series, also nabbed the trophy for best drama actress for Amybeth McNulty.
The Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara ...
- 3/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Netflix/CBC drama Anne With an E won big Sunday night at the Canadian Screen Awards, earning the best TV drama trophy, with comedies Letterkenny and Schitt's Creek also picking up big awards.
And Canada's national film and TV awards gave the French-language coming-of-age drama A Colony (Une Colonie) from director Genevieve Dulude-De Celles the best movie honors. Anne With an E, which hails from Emmy-winning writer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) and is based on the classic Anne of Green Gables book series, also nabbed the trophy for best drama actress for Amybeth McNulty.
The Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara ...
And Canada's national film and TV awards gave the French-language coming-of-age drama A Colony (Une Colonie) from director Genevieve Dulude-De Celles the best movie honors. Anne With an E, which hails from Emmy-winning writer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) and is based on the classic Anne of Green Gables book series, also nabbed the trophy for best drama actress for Amybeth McNulty.
The Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara ...
- 3/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The hell that was high school is brought home with resonant realism in A Colony (Une colonie), Genevieve Dulude-de Celles’ closely observed coming-of-age movie which won the Crystal Bear for best film in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus — an award given by a children’s jury. (It earned more laurels at the Quebec City and Whistler film festivals in the director’s native Canada.) With it, she makes a near-flawless leap from her Sundance-winning short film The Cut and her feature documentary Welcome to F.L. into the world of full-length fiction. This French-language tale aimed at young audiences ...
- 2/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The hell that was high school is brought home with resonant realism in A Colony (Une colonie), Genevieve Dulude-de Celles’ closely observed coming-of-age movie which won the Crystal Bear for best film in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus — an award given by a children’s jury. (It earned more laurels at the Quebec City and Whistler film festivals in the director’s native Canada.) With it, she makes a near-flawless leap from her Sundance-winning short film The Cut and her feature documentary Welcome to F.L. into the world of full-length fiction. This French-language tale aimed at young audiences ...
- 2/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Paris-based international sales executive Florencia Gil has joined the staff of the French company Indie Sales, where she will handle key territories together with the outfit’s co-founder and CEO, Nicolas Eschbach, as well as marketing.
Gil is joining Indie Sales from Loco Films, where she headed international sales for four years. Originally from Brazil, where she built an early career in theater as a director and producer, Gil took part part at Femis’ Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, and UCLA Producer’s Program.
“We are thrilled to welcome Florencia in our young and dynamic team. Her creative and international profile as well as her knowledge of the market are a great addition to the company, that keeps growing,” said Eschbach.
Gil said that after four years working on launching Loco Films, where (she) handled all aspects of sales and acquisitions, she is looked forward to taking on this “tailor-made position, focusing on sales and marketing.
Gil is joining Indie Sales from Loco Films, where she headed international sales for four years. Originally from Brazil, where she built an early career in theater as a director and producer, Gil took part part at Femis’ Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, and UCLA Producer’s Program.
“We are thrilled to welcome Florencia in our young and dynamic team. Her creative and international profile as well as her knowledge of the market are a great addition to the company, that keeps growing,” said Eschbach.
Gil said that after four years working on launching Loco Films, where (she) handled all aspects of sales and acquisitions, she is looked forward to taking on this “tailor-made position, focusing on sales and marketing.
- 2/10/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Genevieve Dulude-De Celles says she had to go back to high school to get over her troubled adolescence. We’re not talking about a high school reunion. The Canadian director instead made A Colony, her feature debut, which follows a nerdy 12-year-old girl who’s bullied and ridiculed while navigating her teenage years in small-town Quebec. The coming-of-age drama has its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Generation section Feb. 10.
The 32-year-old Canadian director tells THR that making A Colony helped her make peace with the young girl she was while growing up in Sorel-Tracy, a small village in rural Quebec. The film’...
The 32-year-old Canadian director tells THR that making A Colony helped her make peace with the young girl she was while growing up in Sorel-Tracy, a small village in rural Quebec. The film’...
- 2/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Genevieve Dulude-De Celles says she had to go back to high school to get over her troubled adolescence. We’re not talking about a high school reunion. The Canadian director instead made A Colony, her feature debut, which follows a nerdy 12-year-old girl who’s bullied and ridiculed while navigating her teenage years in small-town Quebec. The coming-of-age drama has its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Generation section Feb. 10.
The 32-year-old Canadian director tells THR that making A Colony helped her make peace with the young girl she was while growing up in Sorel-Tracy, a small village in rural Quebec. The film’...
The 32-year-old Canadian director tells THR that making A Colony helped her make peace with the young girl she was while growing up in Sorel-Tracy, a small village in rural Quebec. The film’...
- 2/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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