Review: Tench

Review: Tench

Patrice Toye dares to tackle the topic of paedophilia head on, charting the inner conflict of a young man fighting his deepest, darkest thoughts  

22/01 | IFFR 2020 | Voices Limelight

Pedro Almodóvar producing another Isabel Coixet film

Pedro Almodóvar producing another Isabel Coixet film

El Deseo is financing Nieva en Benidorm, the new movie by the Catalan director, filming for which kicked off on Monday in the titular multilingual tourist hotspot  

22/01 | Production | Funding | Spain

Review: The Breitner Commando

Review: The Breitner Commando

Intense violence, cruelty, ideals and betrayals run rife in screenwriter-cum-director Abdel Raouf Dafri’s first feature film, which follows a commando on a mission at the height of the Algerian War  

22/01 | Films | Reviews | France

Filippo Meneghetti • Director of Two of Us

Interview: Filippo Meneghetti • Director of Two of Us

“We all lie, all the time”

Cineuropa met up with director Filippo Meneghetti at Unifrance’s 22nd Rendez-vous with French Cinema to discuss Two of Us  

22/01 | France/Luxembourg/Belgium

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MIDPOINT TV Launch

Film Reviews

The Breitner Commando - by Abdel Raouf Dafri - Intense violence, cruelty, ideals and betrayals run rife in screenwriter-cum-director Abdel Raouf Dafri’s first feature film, which follows a commando on a mission at the height of the Algerian War
The Breitner Commando
by Abdel Raouf Dafri
Intense violence, cruelty, ideals and betrayals run rife in screenwriter-cum-director Abdel Raouf Dafri’s first feature film, which follows a commando on a mission at the height of the Algerian War
Light from the Chocolate Factory - by Dag Johan Haugerud - Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud channels Éric Rohmer and the French New Wave in this excellent comedy of morals and music
Light from the Chocolate Factory
by Dag Johan Haugerud
Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud channels Éric Rohmer and the French New Wave in this excellent comedy of morals and music
Marek Edelman... And There Was Love in the Ghetto - by Jolanta Dylewska - This subtle and moving documentary about romance in the Warsaw Ghetto, as told by a witness and recorded by Jolanta Dylewska, has been screened at Trieste
Marek Edelman... And There Was Love in the Ghetto
by Jolanta Dylewska
This subtle and moving documentary about romance in the Warsaw Ghetto, as told by a witness and recorded by Jolanta Dylewska, has been screened at Trieste
Adoration - by Fabrice du Welz - Fabrice du Welz concludes his Ardennes-based trilogy with the tale of two innocent and pure-hearted youngsters, Paul and Gloria, as they make a break for freedom
Adoration
by Fabrice du Welz
Fabrice du Welz concludes his Ardennes-based trilogy with the tale of two innocent and pure-hearted youngsters, Paul and Gloria, as they make a break for freedom
The Weeping Woman - by Jayro Bustamante - VENICE 2019: In his third feature, presented in Giornate degli Autori, Jayro Bustamante tells the story of the Guatemalan genocide using the codes of the ghost movie
The Weeping Woman
by Jayro Bustamante
VENICE 2019: In his third feature, presented in Giornate degli Autori, Jayro Bustamante tells the story of the Guatemalan genocide using the codes of the ghost movie
The Audition - by Ina Weisse - Featuring a captivating performance from Nina Hoss, Ina Weisse’s sophomore feature follows a woman trapped in the pursuit of success and abandoning her family
The Audition
by Ina Weisse
Featuring a captivating performance from Nina Hoss, Ina Weisse’s sophomore feature follows a woman trapped in the pursuit of success and abandoning her family
1917 - by Sam Mendes - Director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins have created a stunning continuous-shot dash into enemy territory during World War I
1917
by Sam Mendes
Director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins have created a stunning continuous-shot dash into enemy territory during World War I
Les Misérables - by Ladj LY - CANNES 2019: With his first fiction feature, Ladj Ly paints an intense and impactful portrait of the relations between police and young people in the Paris suburbs
Les Misérables
by Ladj LY
CANNES 2019: With his first fiction feature, Ladj Ly paints an intense and impactful portrait of the relations between police and young people in the Paris suburbs
ALICE launched in Barcelona to champion European-made animation

ALICE launched in Barcelona to champion European-made animation

The first meeting for this new project for European interregional cinematic cooperation, which seeks to promote companies in the animation sector, took place last week  

22/01 | Industry | Market | Spain

Mihai Sofronea in post-production with his first feature, The Windseeker

Mihai Sofronea in post-production with his first feature, The Windseeker

The drama centres on a man who finds out he has only months to live  

22/01 | Production | Funding | Romania/Bulgaria/Serbia

Shooting Stars unveils its trailer for 2020

Shooting Stars unveils its trailer for 2020

European Film Promotion selects 10 of the most promising up-and-coming actors from Europe to be honoured at the Berlinale in February  

22/01 | Shooting Stars 2020

The Berlinale’s Panorama calls for political action

The Berlinale’s Panorama calls for political action

Further additions to the section include a new documentary by Karim Aïnouz and the latest fiction films by Srdan Golubović, Andrea Štaka and Guillaume Brac  

22/01 | Berlinale 2020

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Interviews

Cineuropa caught up with Greek video artist-turned-director Janis Rafa, who is back at IFFR with her feature debut, Kala azar, following her short Requiem to a Shipwreck
Cineuropa caught up with Greek video artist-turned-director Janis Rafa, who is back at IFFR with her feature debut, Kala azar, following her short Requiem to a Shipwreck
We spoke to German director Harald Bergmann on the occasion of the world premiere of his documentary Vorzeit – In Praise of Greece at the Hellas Filmbox Berlin festival
We spoke to German director Harald Bergmann on the occasion of the world premiere of his documentary Vorzeit – In Praise of Greece at the Hellas Filmbox Berlin festival
Cineuropa met up with director Filippo Meneghetti at Unifrance’s 22nd Rendez-vous with French Cinema to discuss Two of Us
Cineuropa met up with director Filippo Meneghetti at Unifrance’s 22nd Rendez-vous with French Cinema to discuss Two of Us
Spaniard Juan Rodrigáñez is finally releasing his second feature, Rights-of-Man, in his home country after presenting it at festivals such as Gijón, Málaga, Cinespaña in Toulouse and FIDMarseille
Spaniard Juan Rodrigáñez is finally releasing his second feature, Rights-of-Man, in his home country after presenting it at festivals such as Gijón, Málaga, Cinespaña in Toulouse and FIDMarseille
UniFrance’s new managing director, Daniela Elstner, examines the new challenges involved in promoting French cinema abroad in a rapidly changing distribution context
UniFrance’s new managing director, Daniela Elstner, examines the new challenges involved in promoting French cinema abroad in a rapidly changing distribution context
We chatted with the director of the Solothurn Film Festival, Anita Hugi, about the strengths of a gathering which is so crucial to Swiss film
We chatted with the director of the Solothurn Film Festival, Anita Hugi, about the strengths of a gathering which is so crucial to Swiss film
We talked to Dr Huw Jones, lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton, about how he developed Moving Docs’ survey on documentary audiences in Europe
We talked to Dr Huw Jones, lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton, about how he developed Moving Docs’ survey on documentary audiences in Europe
We chatted to the artistic director of the Göteborg Film Festival, Jonas Holmberg, to discuss plans for the gathering, both big and small
We chatted to the artistic director of the Göteborg Film Festival, Jonas Holmberg, to discuss plans for the gathering, both big and small
Janis Rafa • Director of Kala azar

Interview: Janis Rafa • Director of Kala azar

“Humans infect everything around them”

Cineuropa caught up with Greek video artist-turned-director Janis Rafa, who is back at IFFR with her feature debut, Kala azar, following her short Requiem to a Shipwreck  

21/01 | IFFR 2020 | Tiger Competition

The Father named Best Feature Film in Trieste

The Father named Best Feature Film in Trieste

The audience crowned Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s film their winner, while Réka Szabó’s The Euphoria of Being scoops the Best Documentary accolade  

21/01 | Trieste 2020 | Awards

Review: Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto

Review: Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto

This subtle and moving documentary about romance in the Warsaw Ghetto, as told by a witness and recorded by Jolanta Dylewska, has been screened at Trieste  

21/01 | Trieste 2020

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Mosquito - by João Nuno Pinto - Rotterdam 2020 - Voices Big Screen Competition
Mosquito
by João Nuno Pinto
Rotterdam 2020 - Voices Big Screen Competition
Time of Moulting - by Sabrina Mertens - Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future Competition
Time of Moulting
by Sabrina Mertens
Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future Competition
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection - by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese - - Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future
A Yellow Animal - by Felipe Bragança - Rotterdam 2020 - Big Screen Competition
A Yellow Animal
by Felipe Bragança
Rotterdam 2020 - Big Screen Competition
For the Time Being - by Salka Tiziana - Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future Competition
For the Time Being
by Salka Tiziana
Rotterdam 2020 - Bright Future Competition
First Cut+ hands out its awards

First Cut+ hands out its awards

The first edition of the new programme has awarded the upcoming film projects by Ana Rocha de Sousa, Teemu Nikki and Juris Poškus  

21/01 | Trieste 2020 | WEMW

Marco D’Amore now filming Peter Chelsom’s Security

Marco D’Amore now filming Peter Chelsom’s Security

Based upon Stephen Amidon’s homonymous novel, the British director’s latest film, by Vision Distribution and Indiana Production, will be shot in Forte dei Marmi  

21/01 | Production | Funding | Italy

Les Misérables crowned French critics’ winner

Les Misérables crowned French critics’ winner

Ladj Ly’s work takes home the title of Best French Film for 2019, while Matthieu Bareyre’s documentary Young and Alive is named Best First Film  

21/01 | Festivals | Awards | France

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Film Reviews

The Personal History of David Copperfield - by Armando Iannucci - Armando Iannucci surprises with this remarkably madcap adaptation of the much-loved Charles Dickens novel
The Personal History of David Copperfield
by Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci surprises with this remarkably madcap adaptation of the much-loved Charles Dickens novel
The Wild Goose Lake - by Diao Yinan - CANNES 2019: Co-produced by France, the new film noir by Chinese director Diao Yinan, who triumphed at the Berlinale 2014 with Black Coal, Thin Ice, is a work of stunning virtuosity
The Wild Goose Lake
by Diao Yinan
CANNES 2019: Co-produced by France, the new film noir by Chinese director Diao Yinan, who triumphed at the Berlinale 2014 with Black Coal, Thin Ice, is a work of stunning virtuosity
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer - by Andrey A. Tarkovskiy - VENICE 2019: Forget Garbo – this time around, in the film by his son Andrey A, it’s Tarkovsky who finally talks
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer
by Andrey A. Tarkovskiy
VENICE 2019: Forget Garbo – this time around, in the film by his son Andrey A, it’s Tarkovsky who finally talks
System K - by Renaud Barret - BERLIN 2019: After Benda Bilili!, Renaud Barret signs a fascinating new documentary set in the heart of Kinsasha that follows the lives of outstanding artists and street performers
System K
by Renaud Barret
BERLIN 2019: After Benda Bilili!, Renaud Barret signs a fascinating new documentary set in the heart of Kinsasha that follows the lives of outstanding artists and street performers
Alice and the Mayor - by Nicolas Pariser - CANNES 2019: Nicolas Pariser delivers a very clever and quirky political comedy, with brilliant performances from Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier
Alice and the Mayor
by Nicolas Pariser
CANNES 2019: Nicolas Pariser delivers a very clever and quirky political comedy, with brilliant performances from Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier
Twelve Thousand - by Nadège Trebal - With determination and a surprising dose of good humour and poetry, Nadège Trebal’s film examines the vicissitudes of two soul mates in pursuit of their own kind of happiness
Twelve Thousand
by Nadège Trebal
With determination and a surprising dose of good humour and poetry, Nadège Trebal’s film examines the vicissitudes of two soul mates in pursuit of their own kind of happiness
Proxima - by Alice Winocour - France’s Alice Winocour puts her name to an original and very well-executed film on space exploration, painting a portrait of a female astronaut and her daughter
Proxima
by Alice Winocour
France’s Alice Winocour puts her name to an original and very well-executed film on space exploration, painting a portrait of a female astronaut and her daughter
Pain & Glory - by Pedro Almodóvar - This 21st film by Pedro Almodóvar exudes the intense emotions that have shaped his life, and features Antonio Banderas as the mirror-image of the director behind Talk To Her and All About My Mother
Pain & Glory
by Pedro Almodóvar
This 21st film by Pedro Almodóvar exudes the intense emotions that have shaped his life, and features Antonio Banderas as the mirror-image of the director behind Talk To Her and All About My Mother
Review: Light From the Chocolate Factory

Review: Light From the Chocolate Factory

Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud channels Éric Rohmer and the French New Wave in this excellent comedy of morals and music  

21/01 | Tromsø 2020

Terence Davies to make Benediction with Jack Lowden

Terence Davies to make Benediction with Jack Lowden

UK production outfit EMU Films is producing Davies’ biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading British poets of World War I  

21/01 | Production | Funding | UK

The Berlinale announces Forum and Forum Expanded line-ups

The Berlinale announces Forum and Forum Expanded line-ups

For the 50th anniversary of the gathering's most daring section, new head Cristina Nord and her team have selected 35 films and another 39 installations and films for the Expanded segment  

21/01 | Berlinale 2020

Interviews

We spoke to Serbian filmmaker Marija Stojnić about her documentary Speak So I Can See You, centred on Radio Belgrade
We spoke to Serbian filmmaker Marija Stojnić about her documentary Speak So I Can See You, centred on Radio Belgrade
Cineuropa talked to Marcin Krzyształowicz, director of Mister T., already a subject of some controversy in its home country, Poland, where it is set to be released on Christmas day
Cineuropa talked to Marcin Krzyształowicz, director of Mister T., already a subject of some controversy in its home country, Poland, where it is set to be released on Christmas day
Cineuropa braved the snow to talk to director Nathalie Biancheri about Nocturnal at the Les Arcs Film Festival
Cineuropa braved the snow to talk to director Nathalie Biancheri about Nocturnal at the Les Arcs Film Festival
We met with Biljana Tutorov, founder and head of programme of Women Doc Accelerator, after the vibrant sophomore year of the initiative
We met with Biljana Tutorov, founder and head of programme of Women Doc Accelerator, after the vibrant sophomore year of the initiative
We chatted to Dutch first-time director Halina Reijn about her feature Instinct, screened in the main competition at the Les Arcs Film Festival
We chatted to Dutch first-time director Halina Reijn about her feature Instinct, screened in the main competition at the Les Arcs Film Festival
We met with the winner of Les Arcs' Eurimages Lab Project Award, Russian director Ekaterina Selenkina, to discuss her project Figures in the Urban Landscape
We met with the winner of Les Arcs' Eurimages Lab Project Award, Russian director Ekaterina Selenkina, to discuss her project Figures in the Urban Landscape
We talked to Régis Roinsard, director (and magic aficionado) of the opening film of this year’s Les Arcs Film Festival, The Translators
We talked to Régis Roinsard, director (and magic aficionado) of the opening film of this year’s Les Arcs Film Festival, The Translators
Frédéric Boyer, film selector at the Les Arcs Film Festival (whose 11th edition will run from 14-21 December 2019), explains the Work in Progress line-up
Frédéric Boyer, film selector at the Les Arcs Film Festival (whose 11th edition will run from 14-21 December 2019), explains the Work in Progress line-up
And Then We Danced wins big at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards

And Then We Danced wins big at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards

The sci-fi epic Aniara has scooped four gongs, with a low yield for main contenders Roy Andersson and Mikael Håfström  

21/01 | Festivals | Awards | Sweden

Filming under way on Margus Paju’s spy thriller O2

Filming under way on Margus Paju’s spy thriller O2

The Estonian director’s sophomore feature revolves around an Estonian intelligence officer who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent  

20/01 | Production | Funding | Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/Finland

Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market gears up for its 21st edition

Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market gears up for its 21st edition

The leading Scandinavian market is all set to welcome the new projects by Thomas Vinterberg, Magnus von Horn, Eskil Vogt, Teemu Nikki and Charlotte Blom, among others  

20/01 | Göteborg 2020 | Nordic Film Market

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Eden - by Ágnes Kocsis - Rotterdam 2020 - Big Screen Competition
Eden
by Ágnes Kocsis
Rotterdam 2020 - Big Screen Competition
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness - by Massoud Bakhshi - Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
by Massoud Bakhshi
Sundance 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Kala azar - by Janis Rafa - Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition
Kala azar
by Janis Rafa
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition
Desterro - by Maria Clara Escobar - Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition
Desterro
by Maria Clara Escobar
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition
Drama Girl - by Vincent Boy Kars - Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition
Drama Girl
by Vincent Boy Kars
Rotterdam 2020 - Tiger Competition

Industry Reports

03/12/2019

The 13th IDFA DocLab new-media programme announces its winners

Prizes for Best Digital Storytelling and Best Immersive Non-fiction Experience were awarded to the crème de la crème of this year’s projects at IDFA DocLab

26/11/2019

God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya wins the first Arab Critics’ Award for European Films

The joint initiative between European Film Promotion and the Arab Cinema Center, aiming to promote European cinema to the Arab world, handed out its award at the Cairo Film Festival

29/10/2019

Europa Distribution explains why together is better at Rome's MIA

The network held its 13th Annual Conference during Rome's market, gathering around sixty of its members to discuss the latest evolutions in the European distribution market

Film Reviews

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