Angelina Jolie’s fourth film as a director, First They Killed My Father, is Cambodia’s submission for the best foreign-language film Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. “This means a great deal to all of us involved in making the film,” Jolie said in a statement in response to the news. “To work with local artists to bring this story forward has been a moving and humbling experience,” she added. First They Killed My Father was fully financed and produced by Netflix. The film is an adaptation of a memoir by Cambodian writer Loung Ung about her childhood experience of surviving…
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“The Servant”, the acclaimed short animation by Iranian director Farnush Abedi, has scored another triumph by winning the award for best animated film at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival in San Diego, California, the organizers announced. The film is about a servant who becomes a master and a bug becomes his servant. After a while, the man understands that he has begun a game that has no rules. https://youtu.be/s86HM6tG56I “The Servant” has been screened at many Iranian and international events and won several awards from some of them. The movie was selected as best animation at 19th Iran Cinema Celebration…
Alen Drljević’s debut feature Men Don’t Cry / Muškarci ne plačuwas screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). This brilliantly directed drama, which explores how we can only forgive others once we have forgiven ourselves, has been chosen as the official candidate from Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences nomination 2017 in the Best Foreign Language Film category. When two decades after the war a group of war veterans gathers in a remote mountain hotel to undergo therapy, harmony can hardly be expected. Each inconsiderate word, each seemingly angry…
The iconic Minack Theatre will be transformed into an outdoor cinema for a special film event on Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7. The world-famous location will provide the setting for a special outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn, marking the first time the Minack has been used for a film event. The event, On The Rocks, presented by Compass Presents and Watershed will consist of the film screening and an archive film trail, where the cliff faces and rocks of the open air amphitheatre will be animated with film and projection. The little-known classic Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn…
A committee of nine cineastes is evaluating a shortlist of 10 films to select Iran’s submission to the 90th Academy Awards for the best foreign-language film category. The big surprise is that “No Date, No Signature” is not in this list!!! Directors Sirus Alvand, Mohammad Bozorgnia, Kamal Tabrizi and Rasul Sadr-Ameli, actor Reza Kianian and musician Majid Entezami are among the members of the committee selected by Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation. The shortlist includes Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian’s acclaimed political drama “The Midday Event”, which was crowned best film at the 35th Fajr Film Festival. “The Villa Tenants” by Monir Qeidi, “Twenty-One Days…
Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG) and Actors have impressed on government through Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to save the dying Ghana movie industry. The group is worried about the influx of Telenovelas on national TV stations which, according to them, is affecting the progress of the local movie industry. The association together with other stakeholders walked through some principal streets of Kumasi in what they call ‘Yegey Y’adee’ peace march and petitioned the Asantehene. They said localising foreign programmes into Twi and other local languages through voice-over was an insult to the Ghanaian movies and pose serious negative…
very now and then, I like to highlight noteworthy films that aren’t, or are hardly, available to the public, both because they should be and because their unavailability, due to the vagaries of the marketplace and the milieu, is a kind of news in itself. So it is with a new film, “Gavagai,” by a sharply original and deeply accomplished filmmaker, Rob Tregenza, which screened in July, at the Maine International Film Festival, in Waterville, Maine; it will be playing this weekend at the local art-house theatre, the Reel Pizza Cinerama, in Bar Harbor, Maine; and it won’t, as of…
TORONTO — A funny thing happened on the way home from the festival. Instead of drawing up a list of definitive Oscars favorites, much of Hollywood boarded planes in puzzlement leaving Toronto International Film Festival, with the 2018 Oscar race as cloudy as ever. What happened? “Usually the festivals anoint two or three unanimous front-runners,” like last year’s Moonlight and La La Land, says Dave Karger, special correspondent for film site IMDb.com. With critics disagreeing over many of the season’s biggest films, “that didn’t happen this year.” Let’s take a look at what we know for sure. The best picture race is (still) wide open After Guillermo del…
Tehran-born, Montreal-based director Sadaf Foroughi wins Discovery Fipresci Award and Honorable mention as the Best Canadian First Feature at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” won the audience award on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, putting it in prime position to compete at the Academy Awards. Directed by Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards” stars Frances McDormand as a woman who takes a stand against the police, using the titular three billboards after her daughter is murdered and months later no arrests have been made. The rest of the cast includes Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell (who, along with McDormand,…
It’s only on its second year, but the “Asian Next Wave” competition of the annual QCinema Film Festival is becoming an important segment of the event. It highlights up-and-coming Asian filmmakers with less than three features to their name. Much like its debut last year, only six feature films make up the “Asian Next Wave” segment. Unlike last year, there are no Filipino movies included this year, which is happening from Oct 19-28. Below are the six movies: 1. Dragonfly Eyes The debut movie of Chinese artist Xu Bing, Dragonfly Eyes uses actual surveillance-camera recordings to show the story of…