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Industry - Belgium - When film and tax go hand in hand
2008-05-27 10:37:50It won't have escaped people's attention that this was an exceptional year for Belgian film at Cannes. Beyond the films themselves, there is a particular mechanism that everyone is talking about: the tax shelter. For the first time this year, the Belgian federal state occupied a Village International pavilion, foregrounding the opportunities the country brings in terms of film shoots and...
Cannes 2008 - Market - Lukewarm with spots of sunshine
2008-05-27 10:37:50Just like the weather, the temperature of the 2008 Cannes Film Market was rather lukewarm for most sales companies, but sunny for the dozen outfits that had strong titles in official selection, such as A Christmas Tale, Gomorrah, The Class (Entre les murs) , Waltz with Bashir and Three Monkeys. Buyers seemed to have arrived late and left early, staying only three-four days, and...
Cannes 2008 - Awards - Winners' reactions
2008-05-27 10:37:50The winners speak at this evening's press conference at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Laurent Cantet (Palme d'Or): "I'm not surprised that an international jury liked the film because the subject of school interests everybody the world over. We go to school to learn, to become a responsible adult and citizen. The Class does justice to this and I am especially delighted to share this...
Cannes 2008 - Awards - Cantet wins Palme d'Or and Sorrentino, Garrone and Dardenne brothers scoop awards
2008-05-27 10:37:50Laurent Cantet scored a surprise triumph this evening at the 61st Cannes Film Festival with his film The Class (see news), putting an end to a 21-year dearth of Palme d'Ors for France. Italy claimed an extraordinary double success with the Grand Prize for Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (see news) and the Jury Prize for Paolo Sorrentino's Il divo (“The Deity”) (see news). The Best...
Cannes 2008 - Un Certain Regard - Tulpan scoops top honours
2008-05-27 10:37:50Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy yesterday evening picked up the Un Certain Regard Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Presided by German director Fatih Akin, the jury unanimously decided to present the prize to this co-production between Germany (Pandora Film and Pallas Film), Switzerland (Cobra Film), Poland (Filmcontract), Russia and Kazakhstan. This fascinating feature set in the...
Cannes 2008 - Competition/France - Cantet reveals hidden world of teaching
2008-05-27 10:37:50An experimental director who subtly explores social realities, Laurent Cantet received an enthusiastic reception this morning at the screening of his fourth feature, Entre les murs (“Between the Walls”). This was the last of the 22 titles shown in official competition this year at the Cannes Film Festival. Echoing the flurry of sales of the feature at the Film Market (see...
Cannes 2008 - Awards - Bouli Lanners' Eldorado wins Europa Cinemas Label Award
2008-05-27 10:37:50Awarded to the best European film screened in the Directors' Fortnight, the Europa Cinemas Label went to Eldorado by Belgium's Bouli Lanners (see news). Boosting the winning film's distribution, promotion and the length of its programming in the network's theatres, the Europa Cinemas prize was awarded by a jury of four European exhibitors. Lanners' feature also picked up the sixth...
Cannes 2008 - Market/Scandinavia - Trust Nordisk makes Mammoth sales
2008-05-27 10:37:50Trust Nordisk registered the most interest during Cannes in Lukas Moodysson's first English-language film, Mammoth, based on 19-minute reel of footage shown twice to buyers at private screenings. The film starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams was sold Benelux (A Film), Filmcoopi (Switzerland), Budapest Film (Hungary) and Austria (Filmladen). The Memfis Film production will be...
Cannes 2008 - Market/France - Three Monkeys brings success for Pyramide
2008-05-27 10:37:50French international sales company Pyramide have scored excellent deals at the Cannes Festival Film Market. Riding the wave of critical success following its official competition screening, Nuri Bige Ceylan's Turkish/French/Italian co-production Three Monkeys (see news) attracted numerous buyers. The title has so far sold to the US, Benelux (Imagine), Greece (Rosebud), Portugal...
Cannes 2008 - Directors' Fortnight - Monsieur Morimoto: A Japanese man in Paris
2008-05-27 10:37:50As yet another edition of Cannes nears the end, young French director Nicola Sorgana presented his second feature film this morning in the Directors' Fortnight. Monsieur Morimoto is an unpretentious comedy about an elderly Japanese painter living in Paris. In the post-screening Q&A, the witty and visibly tired Sorgana stated his fascination for his lead actor, his Jean-Pierre Léaud, as he...
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