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35th European Film Awards
The 35th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at the Harpa Conference and Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland on 10 December 2022. According to the academy, films eligible for the awards are those that had their first official screening between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022 and have a European director. German actress, director and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta received the Lifetime Achievement Award while Palestinian actor and director Elia Suleiman was honoured with the Achievement in World Cinema Award. Selection Feature Film Selection's part 1 was announced on 18 August 2022. * ''Aftersun'' – Charlotte Wells () * ''Alcarràs'' – Carla Simón ( / ) * ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' – Edward Berger ( / ) * '' As Far as I Can Walk'' – Stefan Arsenijević ( / / / / ) * ''The Beasts'' – Rodrigo Sorogoyen ( / ) * ' – Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson ( / / / / ) * ''Belfast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harpa (concert Hall)
Harpa () is a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík, Iceland. The opening concert was held on May 4, 2011. The building features a distinctive colored glass facade inspired by the basalt landscape of Iceland. History Harpa was designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects in co-operation with Danish- Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The structure consists of a steel framework clad with geometric shaped glass panels of different colours. The building was originally part of a redevelopment of the Austurhöfn area dubbed World Trade Center Reykjavík, which was temporarily abandoned when the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis took hold. The development was originally intended to include a 400-room hotel, luxury apartments, retail units, restaurants, a car park and the new headquarters of Icelandic bank Landsbanki. These related developments were put on hold, but resumed construction by 2018 and as of 2022, the development is almost complete. The Reykjavik Edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As Far As I Can Walk
''As Far as I Can Walk'' (also known as ''Strahinja Banović'' or ''Strahinja'') is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Stefan Arsenijević and written by Arsenijević, Bojan Vuletić and Nicolas Ducray. It is a modern reimagining of Strahinja Banović, a hero of medieval Serbian epic poetry, that follows a young Ghanaian couple living as refugees in Belgrade. It premiered at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won five awards. Cast * Ibrahim Koma as Strahinja, an aspiring footballer * Nancy Mensah-Offei as Ababuo, an aspiring actress * Maxim Khalil as Ali * Rami Farah as Dervish Production The film was produced by Miroslav Mogorovich of Serbia's Art & Popcorn, Alice Ormieres of France's Surprise Valley, Gilles Chanial of Luxembourg's Les Films Fauves, Borislav Chouchkov of Bulgaria's Chouchkov Brothers, and Kestutis Drazdauskas of Lithuania's Artbox. The project received support from Eurimages, Film Center Serbia, the Serbian Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont (born 1991) () is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019. Early life Dhont was born in Gent (in English Ghent), Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art school. He has a younger brother Michiel who is a producer. As a teenager, Dhont worked as a costume design assistant on film and television sets. Career He made his feature-length debut in 2018 with ''Girl'', a drama film inspired by the story of Nora Monsecour which focuses on a trans girl pursuing a career as a ballerina. ''Girl'' premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or award for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm. It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC) and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. It received nine nominations at the 9th Magritte Awards and won four, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Close (2022 Film)
''Close'' is a 2022 coming-of-age drama film directed by Lukas Dhont, and written by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens, reteaming after their first feature film ''Girl'' (2018). The film stars Eden Dambrine, Gustav de Waele, Emilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker. ''Close'' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 26 May 2022 to critical acclaim and the Grand Prix. The film was released by Diaphana Distribution in France on 1 November 2022 and by Lumière in Benelux on 2 November. On 16 September 2022, the film was announced as Belgium's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, and made the December shortlist. It also won the award for Best Foreign Language Film from the National Board of Review. Plot Thirteen year olds Léo and Rémi spend the long summer holidays in innocent intimacy, but come the school year, their close friendship is thrown into disarray as their relationship is noticed and commented on by their contemporaries. In r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emin Alper
Emin Alper (born 13 August 1974, Karaman) is a Turkish filmmaker and historian. His directorial debut, ''Beyond the Hill'' won the Caligari Film Prize in the 62nd Berlinale and Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His second feature ''Frenzy (2015 film), Frenzy'' won the Special Jury Prize after premiering in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. Life During his university years, Emin Alper was an active member of the cinema club at Boğaziçi University, spending most of his time with friends thinking on and discussing about cinema. They would organize seminars with the prominent filmmakers of their time, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Zeki Demirkubuz. He began writing scripts and film reviews. Together with his friends, he published the film magazine “Görüntü.” It was during his university years that his lifelong love for cinema shaped, persuading him to pursue filmmaking as a career. After graduating from the university with a degree in Economics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarik Saleh
Tarik Saleh ( ar, طارق صالح; born 28 January 1972) is a Swedish television producer, animator, publisher, journalist and film director. He was born in Högalids församling, Stockholm to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of Sweden's most prominent graffiti artists, including co-creating ''Fascinate''. He has also worked as a TV host for Sveriges Television and is one of the founders of production company Atmo. At the 53rd Guldbagge Awards, his film '' The Nile Hilton Incident'' won five awards, including Best Film. His film ''Boy from Heaven'' was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. His work often contains techniques such as montages, cut-out graphics and faces with manipulated lip synching. Filmography ;Feature films * '' Metropia'' (2009) * ''Tommy'' (2014) * '' The Nile Hilton Incident'' (2017) *'' The Contractor'' (2022) * ''Boy from Heaven'' (2022) ;Documentary fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy From Heaven
''Boy from Heaven'' (; released in North America as ''Cairo Conspiracy'') is a 2022 Arabic-language political thriller film directed by Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh. The film is a co-production between Sweden, France and Finland. The film had its world premiere on 20 May 2022 at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or. At Cannes, Saleh was awarded Best Screenplay and the film received the François Chalais Prize. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, and made the December shortlist. Premise Adam, the son of a fisherman, accepts an offer to study at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after his arrival, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar suddenly dies and a power struggle to replace him ensues. Cast * Tawfeek Barhom as Adam * Fares Fares as Ibrahim * Mohammad Bakri as General Al Sakran * Makram Khoury as Sheikh Negm * Mehdi Dehbi as Zizo * Moe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Davies
Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, and novelist, seen by many critics as one of the greatest British filmmakers of his times. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films, including ''Distant Voices, Still Lives'' (1988), '' The Long Day Closes'' (1992) and the collage film, ''Of Time and the City'' (2008), as well as literature adaptations, such as ''The House of Mirth'' (2000). Early years Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool, Merseyside, the youngest of ten children of working-class Catholic parents. Though he was raised Catholic by his deeply religious mother, at the age of 22 he rejected religion and considered himself an atheist. Davies' father, whom Terence remembers as "psychotic", died of cancer when Davies was seven years old. From then until he entered boarding school at the age of 11, he remembers as the four happiest years of his life. Career After leaving school at sixteen, Davies worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benediction (film)
''Benediction'' is a 2021 biographical drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, along with Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones and Ben Daniels. It was released in United Kingdom on 20 May 2022 by Vertigo Releasing and United States on 3 June 2022 by Roadside Attractions. Synopsis The story of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet and decorated W.W.I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance during W.W.I, had love affairs with several men during the 1920s, married, had a son, and after his conversion to Catholicism continued to be plagued by his memories. Cast * Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon ** Peter Capaldi as Older Siegfried Sassoon * Simon Russell Beale as Robbie Ross * Jeremy Irvine as Ivor Novello * Kate Phillips as Hester Gatty ** Gemma Jones as Older Hester Gatty * Ben Daniels as Dr Rivers * Calam Lynch as Stephen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has served as its president since 2015. He has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs (plus two honorary awards), two Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, of which he is a devoted fan, including ''Henry V'' (1989), ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1993), ''Othello'' (1995), ''Hamlet'' (1996), '' Love's Labour's Lost'' (2000), and ''As You Like It'' (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for ''Henry V'' and for Best Adapted Screenplay for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast (film)
''Belfast'' is a 2021 British coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film stars Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan and Jude Hill. The film, which Branagh has described as his "most personal", follows a young boy's childhood in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the beginning of The Troubles in 1969. ''Belfast'' had its world premiere at the 48th Telluride Film Festival on 2 September 2021; shortly thereafter, it won the People's Choice Award at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on 12 November 2021 by Focus Features, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 21 January 2022, by Universal Pictures. It received praise from critics for Branagh's direction and screenplay, cinematography and the performances of the cast, and grossed over $49 million worldwide. The film received seven nominations at the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning for Best Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (born ) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. .... Filmography * ''Þröng sýn'' (2005) (Short) * ''Jeffrey & Beta'' (2008) (Short) * ''Hvalfjörður'' (2013) (Short) * ''Ártún'' (2014) (Short) * '' Heartstone'' (''Hjartasteinn'') (2016) * ' (2022) References External links Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundssonat the Icelandic Film Centre * 1982 births Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Living people {{Iceland-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
