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70th San Sebastián International Film Festival
The 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival took place from 16 to 24 September 2022 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. The awards were announced on 24 September 2022, with '' The Kings of the World'' winning the Golden Shell. Background Partnering with the Málaga Film Festival, the 70th edition will feature 'Spanish Screenings XXL', a beefed up joint version of the 'Spanish Screenings' film market, hitherto showcased at Málaga. In May 2022, French actress Juliette Binoche was revealed to be the protagonist of the film's official poster as well as the recipient of a Donostia honorary career award. In June 2022, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg was disclosed as the recipient of another Donostia Award. The official selection's film ''Prison 77'' will open the festival, screened out of competition. Other than the opener, an initial lineup with some titles from Spain was announced on 15 July 2022. A slate of 12 international main competition works was announced on 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison 77
''Prison 77'' ( es, Modelo 77, links=no) is a 2022 Spanish historical thriller drama film directed by Alberto Rodríguez from a screenplay co-written with Rafael Cobos which stars Miguel Herrán and Javier Gutiérrez. Set in the late 1970s in Barcelona's Modelo Prison, the plot consists of a critical revision of the so-called Transition in Spain, focusing on the plight of inmates imprisoned on common charges claiming for an amnesty that, unlike the case of fellow political prisoners, never came to pass. The film opened the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival on 16 September 2022, to be released theatrically in Spain a week later. It scooped 16 nominations to the 37th Goya Awards, winning in five technical categories. Plot Taking place from 1976 to 1978, during the so-called Transition, the plot is inspired by the real attempted prison break from the Barcelona's Cárcel Modelo attempted by 45 inmates in 1978, after a rebellion led by the (). The fiction fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cineuropa
The MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe or simply Creative Europe MEDIA (formerly The MEDIA Programme of the European Union) is designed to support the European film and audiovisual industries. Budget The goal of programmers is to increase the circulation of European works outside their originating countries and worldwide. The programme had a budget of €755 million for the 2007‒2013 period. Budget line divide: Distribution 55%Development 20% Promotion 9% Training 7% Horizontal actions/ Pilot projects 5%/4% Supported films MEDIA supported films include: 1991 *''Europa'' *''Delicatessen'' *''Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' 1993 *''The House of the Spirits'' *'' Orlando'' 1994 *''Nattevagten'' *''Il Postino'' 1995 *'' Land and Freedom'' *''Flamenco'' 1996 *''Trainspotting'' *'' Drifting Clouds'' *'' Secrets & Lies'' *''Hamsun'' *''Farinelli'' *''Breaking the Waves'' 1997 *''La promesse'' *''La vita è bella'' *''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' *'' Western'' 1998 *''On connaît la c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork (film)
''Cork'' ( ca, Suro, links=no) is a 2022 Spanish rural drama film directed by Mikel Gurrea which stars Vicky Luengo and Pol López alongside Ilyass El Ouahdani. It is shot in Catalan. Plot Set in rural Catalonia, the plot follows a couple (Elena and Iván) who moves from the city to the countryside to run an inherited cork plantation, involving as outsiders in the escalating tension between local and immigrant cork workers. Cast * Vicky Luengo as Elena * Pol López as Iván * Ilyass El Ouahdani as Karim Production Gurrea's debut feature, the project was developed at the San Sebastián's Ikusmira Berriak 2016 Residency, Sources2 and the Sam Spiegel Film Lab. The screenplay was penned by Gurrea alongside Francisco Kosterlitz. Laia Costa was originally a cast choice for one of the leads, but eventually Vicky Luengo was cast as the protagonist. The film was produced by Lastor Media alongside Malmo Pictures and Irusoin, with the participation of TV3, EiTB, and funding from I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Václav
Petr Václav (born 11 June 1967) is a Czech film director and screenwriter whose films have received many awards, both in the Czech Republic and internationally. He has lived in Paris since 2003 and holds both French and Czech citizenship. Life and works Václav was born in Prague in a family of music composer Jiří Václav (1940-2020) and film conductor Ljuba Václavová. He graduated from FAMU. His short documentary ''Paní Le Murie'' (''Madame Le Murie'') of 1993 was nominated for FAMU's Student Academy Award and won a prize for best documentary at the Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen (Filmschoolfest) in Munich. Václav´s first feature film, ''Marian'' (1996) won the Silver Leopard and FIPRESCI Award at the Locarno International Film Festival and other prizes at film festivals in Angers, Thessaloniki, Belfort, Cottbus, Bratislava and Tehran. His second feature, ''Paralelní světy'' (''Parallel Worlds'') of 2001 was written in collaboration with the French sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Boemo
''Il Boemo'' () is a 2022 feature film about the life and career of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781), directed by Petr Václav. Mysliveček was one of the most acclaimed and prolific composers of opera seria in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century, and mentor and friend to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The film stars Vojtěch Dyk, Elena Radonicich, Barbara Ronchi, and Lana Vlady. The music for the film has been recorded by the Czech ensemble Collegium 1704 led by Václav Luks, featuring international soloists such as Philippe Jaroussky, Emöke Baráth, Raffaella Milanesi, and Simona Šaturová. It was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. It premiered at 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 19, 2022. Plot The son of a Prague miller, who expected him to follow in his footsteps, Mysliveček as a young man flees to Venice to realize his dream of becoming a compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam Film Festival
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental filmmaking by showcasing emerging talents and established auteurs. The festival also places a focus on presenting cutting edge media art and arthouse film, with most of the participants in the short film program identified as artists or experimental filmmakers. IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. The IFFR logo is a stylized image of a tiger that is loosely based on Leo, the lion in the MGM logo. History The first festival — then called ''Film International'' — was organized in June 1972 under the leadership of Huub Bals. The festival profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. Around 1983, the festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertina Carri
Albertina Carri (born 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film producer, screenwriter and director, as well as an audiovisual artist. Biography Albertina Carri was born in Buenos Aires in 1973, where she currently lives and works. She is the daughter of Ana María Caruso and Roberto Carri, both abducted during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. She has a son, Furio Carri Dillon Ros, registered in Argentina using a so-called triple filiation; he is son of a father, Alejandro Ros and two mothers, Albertina Carri and Marta Dillon. The Carri Dillon couple dissolved in 2015. They are divorced. She filmed her first movie, ''No quiero volver a casa'', at age 24. This work was selected later for the Rotterdam, London and Vienna film festivals. Her foray into animation techniques resulted in the short movies ''Aurora'' and ''Barbie también puede estar triste'', (which is a pornographic short animation). This last short won the Best Foreign Film award in the New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Huezo
Tatiana Huezo Sánchez (; born 9 January 1972) is a film director of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality, residing in Mexico. Her first film, ' (2011), a documentary about the Salvadoran Civil War, has been awarded internationally. In 2016 she premiered '' Tempestad'', the story of two women who suffer the consequences of human trafficking in Mexico. It received the 2016 Fénix Award for Best Documentary. Career Born in El Salvador, Tatiana Huezo has lived in Mexico since she was four years old. She graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica The Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) is a film school belonging to Mexico's Secretariat of Culture. It was founded in 1975 with the aim of providing technical and artistic training for those entering the film industry. The CCC is p ... (CCC), where she has since taught classes. In 2004 she completed a master's degree in creative documentary at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. In 1997 she shot the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selva Almada
Selva Almada (born 5 April 1973) is an Argentine writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. She expanded into nonfiction in 2014 with the book ''Chicas muertas''. Career Selva Almada studied Social Communication in Paraná, although she left this program to enter the Professorship of Literature at Paraná's Institute of Higher Education. She began giving shape to her first works, some of which were developed from the workshop that Maria Elena Lotringer offered at the School of Communication. Her first stories were published in the Paraná weekly ''Análisis''. From 1997 to 1998 she directed a brief self-managed cultural literary project called CAelum Blue. Her apprenticeship as a storyteller was largely established in Buenos Aires in the creative space of Alberto Laiseca's literary workshop. Her authority as a writer has been publicly confirmed by literary figures such as Chilean writer Diego Zúñiga and the journalist, writer, and essayist Beatriz Sarlo. Her stories have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. Throughout her career spanning over four decades, Close has garnered numerous accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards. Additionally, she has been nominated eight times for an Academy Award, holding the record for the most nominations in an acting category without a win (tied with Peter O'Toole). In 2016, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2019, ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Close majored in theater and anthropology at the College of William & Mary. She began her professional career on the stage in 1974 with ''Love for Love''. While in Broadway, she appeared in productions of '' Barnum'' in 1980 and '' The Real Thing'' in 1983, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the latter. Her film debut came in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hlynur Pálmason
Hlynur Pálmason (born 30 September 1984) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter.Wendy Mitchell"Hylnur Palmason on his Iceland-set Critics' Week selection 'A White, White Day'" ''Screen Daily'', 16 May 2019. A native of Hornafjörður, Iceland, he studied film at the National Film School of Denmark. His debut feature film ''Winter Brothers (Vinterbrødre)'' debuted at the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, and went on to win the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and the Robert Award for Best Danish Film, with Pálmason also winning the Robert Award for Best Director. His second feature film, ''A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur)'', was selected to screen in the International Critics' Week section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and was selected as Iceland's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. He followed up in 2022 with ''Godland (film), Godland (Vanskabte Land)'', which premiered at the 2022 Cann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (born 17 Jan 1980) is a Mosotho screenwriter, film director and visual artist. He lives in Berlin.Director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese: Africa Is ‘In the Process of Becoming’ ''Variety'', 23 July 2019. Life Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese was born and grew up in Hlotse. As a child, Mosese watched 16mm B grade movies in a small abandoned community hall in his home town Hlotse. Before making films he started writing poetry. His films explore spiritual and political themes, and are noted for their minimal dialogue, strong poetic imagery, and preoccupation with his own childhood memories, id ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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