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71st San Sebastián International Film Festival
The 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival will run 22–30 September 2023 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. Background In May 2023, actor Javier Bardem was announced as a recipient of a Donostia Award as well as the main feature of the 71st edition's official poster. An early subset of the official selection film slate was announced on 7 July 2023. New official selection titles were announced on 14 July 2023. In August 2023, ''The Boy and the Heron'' was announced as the out-of-competition opening film. Later that month, Spanish director Víctor Erice Víctor Erice Aras (; born 30 June 1940) is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, ''The Spirit of the Beehive'' (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and '' El Sur'' (1983 ... was announced to be the recipient of a Donostia Award. The entire official selection line-up was announced on 25 August. Sections Official selection The lineup of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy And The Heron
is a 2023 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Produced by Studio Ghibli, the film's Japanese title references Genzaburō Yoshino's 1937 novel of the same name but is not an adaptation of it. The Japanese voice cast includes Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Shinobu Otake. Described as a "big, fantastical film", it follows a boy named Mahito Maki who moves to the countryside after his mother's death, discovers an abandoned tower near his new home, and enters a fantastical world with a talking grey heron. Miyazaki announced his retirement in September 2013 but later reversed this decision after working on the short film ''Boro the Caterpillar'' (2018). He began storyboarding for a new feature-length project in July 2016, and official production began in May 2017. The film's title was announced in October 2017, targeting a release around the 2020 Summer Olympics. By May 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingernails (film)
''Fingernails'' is a 2023 science fiction romantic drama film directed and co-written by Christos Nikou. The film stars Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, and Luke Wilson. Cate Blanchett serves as one of the film's producers. The film follows a woman who starts working at an institute that tests whether the love between two people in a couple is real. ''Fingernails'' premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in limited theaters on October 27, 2023, prior to its streaming release on Apple TV+ on November 3, 2023. Plot Some years prior to the film, a test costing one fingernail that determines whether couples were truly in love was developed. However, the test has caused mostly negative results, which lead to an increase in couples breaking up and divorcing. Unemployed schoolteacher Anna gets a job as an instructor at the Love Institute, a one-year-old company founded by a man named Duncan, where researchers and instructor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance First
''Dance First'' is a 2023 biographical film about Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, directed by James Marsh and written by Neil Forsyth. Gabriel Byrne stars as Beckett, with a supporting cast featuring Fionn O'Shea as a younger Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce. Synopsis The film documents the Irish writer's life, from his childhood, his friendship with James Joyce until the incarceration of the latter's mentally ill daughter Lucia Joyce, his relationship with his future wife Suzanne Dumesnil, his time as a fighter for the French Resistance during the Second World War, his postwar literary rise and subsequent Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, his affair with translator Barbara Bray and his later life until his death in 1989. Throughout the film, Beckett carries out an interior monologue. Cast * Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett * Fionn O'Shea as the eldest of three younger Becketts * Aidan Gillen as James Joyce * Maxine Peake as Barbara Bray * Sandrine Bonnaire as Suzann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Calvo (actor)
Javier Calvo Guirao (born 21 January 1991) is a Spanish actor, stage, film and television director and writer. He is best known for his role of Fernando "Fer" Redondo in the Antena 3 series ''Física o Química'', and for creating and directing the musical ''La llamada'' and its film adaptation together with Javier Ambrossi, as well as the television series ''Paquita Salas'' and '' Veneno''. Career Calvo began acting in theatre at age 11, eventually appearing in 2007 in film ''Doctor Infierno''. Beginning in 2008, he starred in the Antena 3 television series ''Física o Química'', portraying gay teenager Fernando "Fer" Redondo. Focusing on problems such as drugs, addictions, anorexia and sexual orientation, the series attracted much controversy. Calvo considers the themes of the series "problems that are also present in reality". He, however, received critical acclaim for portraying a gay male in his debut role. On 5 May 2012 a fan-conference with Calvo took place in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Ambrossi
Francisco Javier García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi (born 24 June 1984), better known as Javier Ambrossi, is a Spanish people, Spanish actor, Theatre director, stage, film director, film and television director and writer. He is best known for creating and directing the Musical theatre, musical ''La llamada'' and La llamada (2017 film), its film adaptation together with Javier Calvo (actor), Javier Calvo, as well as the television series ''Paquita Salas'' and ''Veneno (TV series), Veneno''. Early life Ambrossi was born in Madrid, he graduated in Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid and studied Dramaturgy at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático. His younger sister, Macarena García, is also an actress. Career Ambrossi has had supporting roles in a number of television series, including ''El comisario'', ''Amar en tiempos revueltos'', ''Sin tetas no hay paraíso'', and ''Cuéntame cómo pasó''. Since 2013 he co-directs ''La llamada'' at the Teatro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation. Born in ward of Tokyo, expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age, and he joined Toei Animation in 1963. During his early years at Animation he worked as an in-between artist and later collaborated with director . Notable films to which contributed at include '' Doggie March'' and ''Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon''. He provided key animation to other films at , such as ''Puss in Boots'' and ''Animal Treasure Island'', before moving to A-Pro in 1971, where he co-directed ''Lupin the Third Part I'' alongside . After moving to (later known as Nippon Animation) in 1973, worked as an animator on ''World Masterpiece Theater'', and dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Legrand
Xavier Legrand (born 28 March 1979) is a French actor, scriptwriter and filmmaker. Legrand was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 2013 film ''Avant que de tout perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)''. His first feature '' Custody'' was in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival and earned Legrand the Silver Lion for Best Director. Selected filmography * ''Just Before Losing Everything ''Just Before Losing Everything'' (original title ''Avant que de tout perdre'') is a 2013 short film by French film maker Xavier Legrand. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The film follows the day in the life ...'' (2013, short film) * '' Custody'' (2017) References External links * 1979 births Living people French film directors Venice Best Director Silver Lion winners {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Lafosse
Joachim Lafosse (born 18 January 1975) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. Career Lafosse studied at the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) at Louvain-la-Neuve between 1997 and 2001. His graduation film ''Tribu'', a 24-minute short, won the best Belgian short subject category at the 2001 Namur Film Festival. His first full-length feature, ''Folie Privée'' (2004), won the FIPRESCI award at the Bratislava International Film Festival., and the semi-autobiographical ''Ça rend heureux'' (2006) took the Grand Prix at the 2007 Premiers Plans d'Angers festival. 2006 also saw the release of '' Nue Propriété'', starring Isabelle Huppert and brothers Jérémie and Yannick Renier, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival where it was nominated for the Golden Lion and won a SIGNIS award. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). For his film '' Private Lessons (Élève libre)'', he was nominated for two Magrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty Green
Kitty Green is an Australian film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. The majority of her projects have been documentaries, while only one has been a narrative driven story. Green produced, directed, wrote, and edited the 2019 film '' The Assistant''.Q 2020-02-03, CBC radio , Interview with Kitty Green. Her work often portrays heavy topics such as unsolved murders and politics. Early life and education Kitty Green attended the Victorian College of the Arts, where she studied film and television. While attending the Victorian College of the Arts, Green made a short film entitled ''Spilt'' that was premiered at the Brisbane International Film Festival and screened at festivals internationally, earning a few awards in the process. Soon after her graduation, Green began work at ABC on 'Art Nation' and 'Artscape'. Green also traveled around Europe and described herself as “crashing on couches” during the beginning of her career. She later went to work on a film entit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Royal Hotel (film)
''The Royal Hotel'' is a 2023 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Kitty Green, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar Redding. The film stars Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Toby Wallace, and Hugo Weaving. It is inspired by the 2016 documentary ''Hotel Coolgardie'' by Pete Gleeson. ''The Royal Hotel'' premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on 1 September 2023. It was released in Australia by Transmission Films on 23 November 2023. Plot Two young Canadian backpackers, Hanna and Liv, are travelling through Australia. After running out of money while partying in Sydney, they take up an employment agency's offer to work as bartenders at the Royal Hotel, a pub in a remote outback mining town. Upon arrival, they meet the pub's owner Billy and his wife Carol, who also works as the pub's chef. Hanna and Liv's first shift is handling the raucous farewell party for their predecessors, English tourists Jules and Cassie. While working, they meet several of the regular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Campillo
Robin Campillo (; born 16 August 1962) is a Moroccan-born French screenwriter, editor and film director. He is known for his work on films such as ''The Class (2008 film), The Class'' (2008), ''Heading South'' (2005), the French zombie film ''They Came Back'' (2004), ''Eastern Boys'' (2013), and ''Time Out (2001 film), Time Out'' (2001), the latter of which was placed at ninety-nine on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s, number nine of ''The Guardian's'' Best Films of the noughties, and number eleven at ''The A.V. Club's'' top fifty films of the 2000s. In 2017, he released ''120 battements par minute, 120 BPM (Beats per Minute)'' which received mass acclaim and went on to garner many awards, including the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Grand Prix and 2017 César Award for Best Film. Filmography References External links * 1962 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French-language film directors French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Island (film)
''Red Island'' (french: L'Île rouge) is a 2023 coming-of-age drama film directed by Robin Campillo. Written by Campillo and Gilles Marchand, it stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, and Charlie Vauselle. Set in the early 1970s Madagascar, where Campillo spent his childhood, it follows a ten-year-old boy and his family stationed in a French military base. Cast * Nadia Tereszkiewicz as Colette Lopez * Quim Gutiérrez as Robert Lopez * Charlie Vauselle as Thomas * Amely Rakotoarimalala as Miangaly * Hugues Delamarlière as Bernard Huissens * Sophie Guillemin as Mrs. Guedj * David Serero as Mr. Guedj * Luna Carpiaux as Odile Huissens * Mitia Ralaivita as Andry * Cathy Pham as Suzanne * Mathis Piberne as Alain * Sacha Cosar-Accaoui as Michel * Calissa Oskal-Ool as Fantômette Production Filming took place from August to November 2021. Working titles included and . Release and reception ''Red Island'' was released in French cinemas on 31 May 2023. It was submitted to the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
