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57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival took place from 30 June to July 8, 2023, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.Will Tizard"Russell Crowe, Alicia Vikander Wow Karlovy Vary Film Festival Crowds as 57th Edition Kicks Off" ''Variety'', 30 June 2023. Juries The following were appointed as the juries at the 57th edition:Andreas Wiseman"Karlovy Vary Reveals Award Winners: ‘Blaga’s Lessons’ Takes Key Prizes" ''Deadline Hollywood'', 8 July 2023. Crystal Globe Jury *Patricia Clarkson * Dora Bouchoucha * Olmo Omerzu * John Nein * Barry Ward Proxima Jury *Dana Linssen * Marija Razgutė *Šimon Šafránek *Barbara Wurm *Meng Xie The Ecumenical Jury *Hana Ducho *Anna Grebe *Hermann Kocher Europa Cinemas Label Jury *Anna-Lena Arreborn *Ilona van Heeckeren *Jörg Jacob Official selection Crystal Globe PROXIMA Special Screenings Horizons Awards The following awards were presented: Official selection awards *Grand Prix – Crystal Globe: '' Blaga's Lessons (Urotci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firebrand (2023 Film)
''Firebrand'' is a 2023 British historical drama film directed by Karim Aïnouz from a screenplay by Henrietta Ashworth and Jessica Ashworth, based on the 2013 novel ''Queen's Gambit'' by Elizabeth Fremantle. The film focuses on Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII. It stars Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Sam Riley, Eddie Marsan, Simon Russell Beale, and Erin Doherty. The film marks Aïnouz first directorial effort in the English language. ''Firebrand'' premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2023, where it was selected to compete for Palme d'Or. Premise Centers around Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII. Cast Production The film was announced during the 2021 American Film Market. Karim Aïnouz was set to direct, with Michelle Williams and Jude Law cast to star. In March 2022, Alicia Vikander joined the cast, replacing Williams. In May, Sam Riley, Eddie Marsan, Simon Russell Beale and Erin Doherty were among the additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Ward (actor)
Barry Ward is an Irish actor. He began his career as a child actor in the RTÉ/ BBC series '' Family'' (1994) and '' Plotlands'' (1997), and the film '' Sunburn'' (1999). His films since include ''Jimmy's Hall'', '' Blood Cells'' (both 2014), ''Extra Ordinary'' (2019), and ''Dating Amber'' (2020), the latter of which won him an IFTA. On television, he is more recently known for his roles in the RTÉ series ''Rebellion'' (2016) and ''Taken Down'' (2018), the Sky Atlantic series '' Britannia'' (2017–2019) and ''Save Me'' (2018–2020), and the BBC series '' The Capture'' (2019). Early life and education Ward grew up in Blanchardstown, a northwestern suburb of Dublin. He went to school at St. Declan's College in Cabra. He studied English and Philosophy at NUI Maynooth. Career Ward made his television debut as a child actor starring as John Paul Spencer in the 1994 BBC One and RTÉ One miniseries '' Family''. He made his stage debut the following year in ''Buddleia'' at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
About Dry Grasses
''About Dry Grasses'' () is a 2023 Turkish-language drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and co-written by Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, and Akın Aksu. Starring Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar and Musab Ekici, it follows a teacher working in rural eastern Anatolia with hopes of moving to Istanbul when he is accused of abusing a student. The film premiered in the main competition section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where Dizdar won the Best Actress award. It was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Plot Samet is a teacher who used to live in Istanbul but has been assigned to a post at a remote village in Eastern Anatolia for years. He comes back from holidays for the winter term. He and his co-worker and roommate Kenan are soon accused of inappropriate behavior by two female pupils. To Samet's dismay, one of them is Sevim, who has been so far a protégée of his. In parallel, both Samet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Pier-Philippe Chevigny (born 1988) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec,Martin Gignac"Portrait du TIFF: Pier-Philippe Chevigny" ''Voir'', September 6, 2019. most noted for his 2019 short film ''Rebel (Recrue)''. Originally from Contrecœur, Quebec, he is a graduate of the film school at the Université de Montréal. He made a number of short films before breaking through with ''Rebel'', which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2021 he entered production on his feature debut, ''Richelieu''. The film was shown under the name ''Temporaries'' at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Filmography * ''Carré de sable'' - 2011 * ''Les Jours qui suivront'' - 2012 * ''La Résistance d'Hippocrate'' - 2013 * ''La Gardienne'' - 2013 * ''Tala'' - 2013 * ''The Visit (La Visite)'' - 2015 * ''Vétérane'' - 2017 * ''Hamecon'' - 2019 * ''Rebel (Recrue)'' - 2019 * ''Richelieu Richelieu (, ; ) may refer to: People * Cardinal Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Ples ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temporaries
''Richelieu'' (french: Richelieu), also released as ''Temporaries'' in some territories, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny and released in 2023. The film stars Ariane Castellanos as Ariane, a woman who is hired as a Spanish-French translator at a food processing plant in Quebec that has a large staff of temporary migrant workers from Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ..., but becomes an ally and advocate for the workers as she realizes the need to defend them from abuse and exploitation by owner Stéphane ( Marc-André Grondin).Pierre-Marc Durivage"Le long métrage québécois Richelieu en compétition à Tribeca" '' La Presse'', April 18, 2023. The cast also includes Nelson Coronado, Micheline Bernard, Ève Duranceau, Luis Oliva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Weinrib
Eric Weinrib (born 21 April 1972) is a filmmaker and TV producer from Plainview, New York, United States. Career Weinrib is currently a producer for the Emmy Award-winning documentary series VICE on HBO. His pieces include "Closing Gitmo," "Flint Water Crisis" and "White Collar Weed," which ''The Denver Post'' describes as a marijuana story with "a fresh angle" and PopMatters describes as "an age-old cautionary tale of the privatization of a new market." He produced "The Paradise Papers," a VICE News Tonight hour-long special from behind the scenes an undercover, global investigation into a massive data leak containing millions of confidential documents from the international law firm, Appleby, which provides offshore services to the ultra-rich. "The Paradise Papers" won the New York Press Club award for TV Business Reporting. Weinrib is the producer and director of ''Roseanne for President!'', a documentary about Roseanne Barr's 2012 run for president of the United States. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Jean-Gabriel Périot is a French filmmaker. Biography He lived in southern France and Guadeloupe before moving to Paris. Périot never went to a film school, instead he studied media and communication. While working in the audiovisual service at Centre Georges Pompidou he turned to editing and got introduced to archives. His favourite filmmaker include: Dziga Vertov, Michael Haneke, Jean-Luc Godard and Guy Debord Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationis .... Périot currently shares his time between Paris and Nice. Filmography Feature films *''A German Youth'' (2015) *''Summer Lights'' (2017) *''Our Defeats'' (2019) * ' (2021) Short films * Some Joy In This Struggle (2018) * Song For The Jungle (2018) * If We Have To Disappear It Will Be Without Disquiet But We Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Have Never Been Modern (film)
''We Have Never Been Modern'' ( cs, Úsvit literally ''Dawn'') is a 2023 Czech and Slovak Crime film, crime Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Matěj Chlupáček and written Miro Šifra. ''We Have Never Been Modern'' is Chlupaček's second feature film, defined by him as "a detective story with a female protagonist who is not a police officer or an investigator, but while everyone else draws conclusions according to what suits them, she is the only one who wants to find out the truth". The film title quotes the We Have Never Been Modern, eponymous book by French philosopher Bruno Latour. Plot The film is set in 1937. A married couple, a pregnant former medical student and a factory director, arrive in the town of Svit in the Spiš Region of Slovakia. Together with other Bata Corporation, Bata employees, they are to build a new town modeled on Zlín. However, the plan is thwarted by a mysterious discovery on the factory premises. Helena Hauptová, the former medicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Plante
Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film, ''Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages)'', premiered in 2017. He won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017, and the film's lead actress Rose-Marie Perreault received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. His second feature film ''Nadia, Butterfly'' was announced as an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.Gregory Strong"Canada's Plante humbled by Cannes selection for film 'Nadia, Butterfly'" CityNews, June 4, 2020. Plante is a former competitive swimmer who tried out, but did not qualify, to represent Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and subsequently studied film at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.Renée Dunk"Film stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rooms
''Red Rooms'' (french: Les chambres rouges) is a 2023 Canadian psychological thriller film, written and directed by Pascal Plante. The film stars Juliette Gariépy as Kelly-Anne, a woman who is fascinated with the criminal trial of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), and is driven into the dark web world of cybercrime as she becomes obsessed with trying to find the missing video of the death of a 13-year-old girl which would definitively prove Ludovic's guilt or innocence. The film also stars Laurie Babin as Clémentine, a fellow groupie that Kelly-Anne initially bonds with, as well as Charlotte Aubin, Guy Thauvette, Frédérick De Grandpré, Pierre Chagnon, Elisabeth Locas, Natalie Tannous, Sébastien Beaulac, Rebecca Makonnen, Maxim Martin, Richard Turcotte, Stanley Hilaire and Marie-Gabrielle Ménard in supporting roles. The film's production was first announced in November 2022. The film premiered at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itsaso Arana
Itsaso Arana Baztan (born 20 August 1985) is a Spanish actress and writer. Biography Born on 20 August 1985 in Tafalla, Navarre, she earned a degree in from the Madrid's RESAD. She founded the theatre company 'La tristura' alongside another two RESAD alumni. She has since featured in films such as ''The Cliff'' or ''Seventeen'' and series such as '' 14 de abril. La República'', ''Vergüenza'', ''High Seas The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regiona ...'', '' Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War'' and '' Reyes de la noche''. In 2022, she wrapped shooting of her debut feature as a director, '' The Girls Are Alright'', in which she also plays an acting part. Filmography ;Film ;Television Accolades References {{authority control 21st-century Spanish actresses Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girls Are Alright
''The Girls Are Alright'' ( es, Las chicas están bien, links=no) is a 2023 Spanish drama film written and directed by Itsaso Arana in her directorial debut film. It stars Arana, Bárbara Lennie, Irene Escolar, Itziar Manero, and Helena Ezquerro. Plot Set in Summer, the plot follows four actresses and one writer rehearsing a stage play in an old mill. Cast Production Shooting took place in a mill in Nistal de la Vega, province of León. Sara Gallego lensed the film. Release The film made it to the main slate of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in the Crystal Globe competition. Distributed by Elastica, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 25 August 2023. Filmin scooped video on demand rights to the film. Reception Wendy Ide of '' ScreenDaily'' wrote that "beguiling, tactile and intimate, 'The Girls Are Alright''is a delightful film that revels in its femininity". Guy Lodge of '' Variety'' deemed the film to be a "short, sweet, winsome f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |