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Dearest Sister
Dearest Sister ( Lao: ນ້ອງຮັກ) is a 2016 Lao horror film that was released in the US on September 25, 2016 and Laos on May 11, 2017. It is the second feature film directed by Mattie Do. It was selected as the Laotian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, the first time that Laos has submitted a film for consideration in this category, but it was not nominated. The film is about a Lao village girl who travels to Vientiane to care for her rich cousin who has mysteriously lost her sight, and somehow gained the ability to communicate with the dead. Matters are further driven by the cousin’s ambivalent marriage with an Estonian white migrant, who has his own dark secrets to hide. Do has cited the 19th century ballet ''La Bayadère'' as a source of inspiration for the film. Plot Nok is a naive village girl who travels to Vientiane to take care of her cousin Ana, made wealthy from her marriage to a foreigner, who is suddenly ill. Jakob has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattie Do
Mattie Do ( lo, ແມດດີ ໂດ) is a Laotian American film director. She is Laos's first and only female film director and the first horror film director from Laos. Career ''Chanthaly'' Her directorial debut, ''Chanthaly'' ( lo, ຈັນທະລີ) (2012), was the first horror film written and directed entirely in Laos, as well as the first to be screened at major film festivals outside of Southeast Asia like the 2013 Fantastic Fest. ''Dearest Sister'' Do's second feature film, ''Dearest Sister'' (2016), ( Lao: ນ້ອງຮັກ) was chosen to attend the 2014 Cannes Film Festival as part of the ''La Fabrique des Cinémas du monde'' program and was selected as the Laotian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, the first time that Laos submitted a film for consideration in this category. It was screened at more than 20 film festivals and was selected by Laos as its first Oscars submission for Best Foreign Language Film. ''The Long Walk' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bayadère
''La Bayadère'' ("the temple dancer") ( ru. «Баядерка», ''Bayaderka'') is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. The ballet was staged especially for the benefit performance of the Russian ''Prima ballerina'' Ekaterina Vazem, who created the principal role of Nikiya. ''La Bayadère'' was first presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on . From the first performance the ballet was universally hailed by contemporary critics as one of the choreographer Petipa's supreme masterpieces, particularly the scene from the ballet known as ''The Kingdom of the Shades'', which became one of the most celebrated pieces in all of classical ballet. By the turn of the 20th century, ''The Kingdom of the Shades'' scene was regularly extracted from the full-length work as an independent showpiece, and it has remained so to the present day. Nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Horror Films
This is a list of horror films that were released in 2016. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Horror films of 2016 * 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ... 2016-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Films
2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and deaths. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best films of 2016, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' stated, "Hollywood is the world's best money-laundering machine. It takes in huge amounts of money from the sale of mass-market commodities and cleanses some of it with the production of cinematic masterworks. Earning billions of dollars from C.G.I. comedies for children, superhero movies, sci-fi apocalypses, and other popular genres, the big studios channel some of those funds into movies by Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, James Gray, and other worthies. Sometimes there's even an overlap between the two groups of movies, as when Ryan Coogler made '' Creed'', or when Scorsese made the modernist horror instant-classic ''Shutter Island'', or when Clint Eastwood makes just about anything." Highest-gross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Laotian Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Laos submitted a film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for the first time in 2017. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. Submissions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 90th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2016 and 30 September 2017. The deadline for submissions was 2 October 2017, with the Academy announcing a list of eligible films on 5 October. A record total of 92 countries submitted a film, with six countries submitting a film for the first time. Haiti sent '' Ayiti Mon Amour'', Honduras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival
The Lund International Fantastic Film Festival ( sv, Fantastisk Filmfestival, abbreviated FFF or LIFFF) is a popular film festival in Lund in southern Sweden that mainly shows Fantasy film, fantasy, Science fiction film, science fiction and horror film, horror films. LIFFF is the largest Fantastique, fantastic/Film genre, genre film festival in Scandinavia. In 2015 the festival is broken up into two parts, the first part taking place in Malmö 22—27 September, and the main festival part is held in Lund 22—31 October. Venues The festival office and the ticket registers are located in the Lund city hall. Most of the screenings during the main festival in October, as well as the year-round previews, take place in Lund, mainly in the cinemas Kino and SF, while the screenings in September take place in the Malmö cinema Spegeln. Some events and screenings are also arranged in other surrounding cities. Since July 2011, FFF regularly arranges a movie quiz at Moriskan in Malmö. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanthaly
''Chanthaly'' ( Lao: ຈັນທະລີ) is a 2012 Lao horror film directed by Mattie Do and written by Christopher Larsen. It is the first horror film to be written and directed entirely in Laos and the first Lao feature film directed by a woman. ''Chanthaly'' was screened at the 2012 Luang Prabang Film Festival and the 2013 Fantastic Fest. Pop singer Amphaiphun Phimmapunya stars as Chanthaly, alongside Douangmany Soliphanh and Soukchinda Duangkhamchan. Plot Chanthaly is being raised alone by her overprotective father, sequestered in their home in Vientiane. She suspects that her dead mother's ghost is trying to deliver a message to her from the afterlife. After a change in the medication treating her hereditary heart condition causes the hallucinations to cease, Chanthaly must decide whether or not to risk succumbing to her terminal illness to hear her mother's last words. Cast * Amphaiphun Phimmapunya as Chanthaly * Douangmany Soliphanh as Father * Soukchinda Duangkhamchan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December Heat
''December Heat'' ( et, Detsembrikuumus) is a 2008 historic action drama film about the 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt directed by Asko Kase and starring Sergo Vares and Liisi Koikson. Plot "December 1924. It's only a matter of minutes whether Estonian young independence continues to exist or we become a province with minor importance of big communist Russia. Independence which seems so self-evident today depends at that moment on couple of random coincidences." Cast * Sergo Vares as Tanel Rõuk * Liisi Koikson as Anna Rõuk * Ain Lutsepp as Julius Saarepuu * Piret Kalda as Maret Saarepuu * Emil-Joosep Virkus as Joosep Saarepuu * Tambet Tuisk as Specialist * Mait Malmsten as lawyer Jaan (prototype: Jaan Anvelt) * Taavi Teplenkov as Veidesoo * Tiit Sukk as factory owner Indrek * Rain Simmul as Head of Intelligence Historic people * Tõnu Kark as Major General Ernst Põdder * Priit Pedajas as Major General Johan Unt * Carmen Mikiver as Elsa Kingissepp * Ilkka Koivula as Ott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poll Diaries
''The Poll Diaries'' (german: Poll) is a 2010 German drama film directed by Chris Kraus. ''The Poll Diaries'' was the most expensive film that had ever been made in Estonia at the time. Later, '' Truth and Justice'' (2019) became the most expensive Estonian film with a budget of 2.5 million euros. Cast * Paula Beer as Oda von Siering * Edgar Selge as Ebbo von Siering * Tambet Tuisk as Schnaps * Jeanette Hain as Milla von Siering * Richy Müller as Mechmershausen * Enno Trebs as Paul von Siering * Yevgeni Sitokhin as Hauptmann Karpow * Susi Stach as Gudrun Koskull * Erwin Steinhauer as Professor Plötz * Michael Kreihsl as Professor Hasenreich * Gudrun Ritter Gudrun Ritter (born 16 November 1936) is a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films since 1959. Selected filmography References External links * * 1936 births Living people German film actresses {{Germ ... as Oda Schaefer References External links * 2010 films 2010 drama f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
