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Venice 2008 - Critics' Week/Italy - Grey-haired humour has the Lido in stitches
2008-09-04 05:00:07The Italian contingent is very large this year on the Lido, with each section having several Italian titles. The Critics' Week is no different, with Pippo Mezzapesa's Sogno di una morte di mezza estate screening as the non-competiting closing film and Gianni Di Gregorio's delightful comedy of manners Mid-August Lunch (Il Pranzo di Ferragosto) in competition. The Italian Ferragosto holiday...
Christophe van Rompaey - Director: Moscow, Belgium: “Everybody has been through something similar”
2008-10-18 05:00:08Moscow, Belgium: released this week in Germany
Sales - France - Greece has taste for French films
2009-03-27 09:00:08On the occasion of the 10th Greek Francophone Film Festival - to be held from April 1-12 in Athens and April 9-15 in Thessaloniki - Unifrance has published a study on French films in Greece from 2002 to 2008. This reveals that French films have been on an upward trajectory since 2006. With 778,831 admissions in 2008 (i.e. €5.92m in box office takings) - representing a 13% increase...
Festivals - Romania - Transylvania has Golden start
2009-05-29 09:00:32The eighth edition of the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) opens today in Cluj-Napoca with the latest feature written and produced by Cristian Mungiu, Tales From the Golden Age, selected in this year's Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Mungiu's film is one of the highlights of the Romanian Days program, which includes festival hits such as Katalin Varga, The Happiest Girl in...
Venice 2009 - Sales/Germany - The Match Factory has four titles in the line-up
2009-08-01 09:00:04German sales company The Match Factory will be present with a strong line-up of four films at Venice this year, starting with Fatih Akin's latest, Soul Kitchen, making its world premiere in Competition. This movie about a young restaurant owner fighting for both his dwindling business and his girlfriend, who has moved away, was produced by Akin and Klaus Maeck for their Hamburg-based...
Venice 2009 - Critics' Week/Italy - Solitude has no (skin) colour in Good Morning Aman
2009-09-07 09:00:03Forty-five-year-old Rome-born Teodoro and 18-year-old Somali-born Aman seem to have two very different journeys and destinies. Separated by skin colour, age and life experiences, they nonetheless cross paths one sleepless night on the roof of a building in the Esquilino area of Rome and share their solitude, in order to find the strength to face the world. This is the story of Claudio...
Films - Italy - Barbarossa has Lega Nord written all over it
2009-10-08 09:00:03No film by Renzo Martinelli can escape controversy, preventative or otherwise. This time, journalists have even pointed out the political colour of the operation - “Padania green”, the colour of the film's official sponsor, the right-wing, separatist Lega Nord party, whose leader Umberto Bossi even appears as a Lombardy nobleman. But the director has done nothing to dispel it, and...
Films - Spain/France - Recha's Petit Indi a boy unlike any other
2009-11-12 09:00:04After numerous shorts and five feature films, Catalan director Marc Recha will soon be back in theatres with Petit Indi, an urban fairy tale that premiered at the latest Locarno Film Festival and is currently in competition at the Estoril Film Festival. Arnaud (Marc Soto) is a simple, altruistic, sometimes naïve 17-yeare-old. He has no cell phone and doesn't follow the latest fashions....
Box office - Spain - End-of-year season has Spanish flavour
2009-12-09 09:00:03Less than a month ago, two Spanish films, Agora and Cell 211, occupied the two top spots in the weekly box office rankings (see news). This week, this feat has been achieved by Spanish Movie and Planet 51, which are completely different to the aforementioned two films and aimed more at children and young people. Their success was a foregone conclusion, albeit less so in the case of Spanish...
Declan Recks - Director / Eugene O'Brien - Screenwriter: "In Ireland cinema has grown thanks to TV"
2009-12-12 09:00:05Acclaimed television director Declan Recks and playwright-screenwriter Eugene O'Brien were on hand at the Irish Film Fest in Rome to present their TV series Pure Mule (2005) and film Eden, the adaptation of O'Brien's award-winning play of the same name. Pure Mule won five Irish Film and Television Awards and is one of the biggest hits of Irish television. Eden, Recks' feature debut, won the...
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