tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26795939381702625312024-03-06T19:35:29.059-08:00SydneysBuzzA compendium of news about the film industry: buyers - distributors, sellers - sales agents, acquisitions - executives, financiers and festivals gathered from personal and news sources.Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-24595325678889848142024-02-06T06:10:00.000-08:002024-02-06T06:10:02.084-08:00<div class="ev ew ex ey ez l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="fo fp fq fr fs" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="a860" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px 32px;">Simone Baumann to remain Managing Director of German Films for Another Five years</h1><div class="gw gx gy gz ha" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="speechify-ignore ab co" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="speechify-ignore bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 680px;"><div class="hb hc hd he hf ab" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div class="bm bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 12px; width: 604px;"><div class="ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 1 1 0%;"><span class="be b bf z bj" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div class="hs ab q" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-bottom: 2px;"><div class="ab q ht" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap;"><div class="ab q" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div aria-describedby="3" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="3" class="bl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block;"><p class="be b hu hv bj" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"></p></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><figure class="me mf mg mh mi mj mb mc paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 40px auto 0px;"><div class="mb mc md" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 600px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><img alt="" class="bg lj mk c" height="585" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/0*5H2qGjrRW_l5KxQ7.jpg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 600px;" width="600" /></picture></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b7db" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mn fw" style="box-sizing: inherit;">It is fitting that 2024 when German Films is celebrating its 70th anniversary should also see another good piece of news: the contract with Managing Director Simone Baumann has been extended by another five years. This is also a relief in light of the fact that the five year contracts of the co-heads of the Berlin Film Feestival and the head of its European Film Market did not have their five year contracts renewed and will be leaving after this year’s festival.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="46cc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“Simone Baumann has successfully managed the fortunes of German Films since 2019, including during the pandemic, with wisdom, foresight and great commitment. Under her leadership, the German Films team has launched and overseen new initiatives, organised successful Oscar campaigns and bolstered the international networking activities. The focus has always been on the films, their makers and, in particular, on young talent“, says Philipp Kreuzer, chair of the supervisory board responsible for the position.<strong class="mn fw" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </strong>“We would like to express our sincere thanks to her for all of this. We are delighted that Simone Baumann will be accompanying German Films for another five years to successfully master the upcoming challenges for German cinema abroad.“</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="da9a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Simone Baumann studied Philosophy in Rostov/Don and worked as a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her career in documentaries began in the early 1990s at MDR in Dresden. In 1997, she became a managing partner for LE Vision Film- und Fernsehproduktion. As a producer, Simone Baumann was responsible for all of LE Vision’s documentary productions, ranging from news reports and TV documentaries through docu-soaps to docu-dramas. LE Vision’s films also received such prestigious awards as the Bavarian Television Award, the CIVIS Media Prize, the Hans Klein Media Prize and a Grimme Prize nomination.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b83b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In 2003, Simone Baumann was appointed a member on the boards of AG DOK and MFFV (Mitteldeutscher Film- und Fernsehproduzentenverband) and became German Films’ representative for Eastern Europe in 2005. She had been responsible as Executive Producer Documentary for the documentary projects at Saxonia Entertainment GmbH since 2011.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="04a7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Simone Baumann: “I’m really looking forward to another five years at the helm of German Films and would like to thank the supervisory board for the trust they have placed in me. Together with my team, I will continue to work to ensure that German cinema and German filmmakers are visible and successful abroad. These are turbulent times, but German cinema need not fear comparison. Apart from internationally renowned filmmakers, we have many new talents who will be making a name for themselves in the coming years. Accompanying them on their journey to the world stage is a big challenge and an interesting task.“</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="92cc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As the successor organisation to the Export Union (founded in 1954), German Films is responsible for the promotion of German films worldwide. The activities of the Service und Marketing GmbH include close cooperation with major international festivals, the staging of Festivals of German Films in selected international territories, the promotion of young talent, distribution support and the organisation of the selection procedure for the German entry for the Oscar® for Best International Feature Film.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ml mm fv mn b mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b709" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Simone Baumann has been Managing Director of German Films since 2019. Her contract has now been extended by a further five years as of 1 February, 2024.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"></div></div></div><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="nj nk ab ia" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 6px;"><div class="nl ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><br /></div><div class="nl ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"></div></div></div></div><div class="ok ol om on oo l bw" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: inherit; padding-top: 72px;"><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); display: flex; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="ck ab op co" style="align-items: flex-end; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 16px;"><div class="ab hg" style="align-items: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-81104889958751773922024-02-01T04:50:00.000-08:002024-02-01T04:50:10.902-08:00<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="8a9d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;">2024 Winter Film Fests and Awards are Underway: Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin</h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7bf2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">The big three winter film festivals — Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin — are now showing the world what lies in store in top notch moviemaking, new moviemaking and some duds masquerading as art. And the Academy Award nominees are gearing up for their final sprint before Oscars on March 10 <a class="af hi" href="https://abc.com/shows/oscars" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">live on ABC 7e/4p.</a> Noteworthy is the number of non-English language films nominated for Best Picture. This points to the Berlinale as a source of the next batch of Oscar noms in all categories.<img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="220" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*9I-9X65cL1Fy4RjOIpLG3w.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dd10" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Keep in touch with Sundance through<a class="af hi" href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/sundance-2024-film-festival-acquistions-1234940243/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> Indiewire</a>, with Rotterdam through <a class="af hi" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/festival/455515/?tag=IFFR+2024" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Cineuropa</a> and Berlin through me for now. During the festival and market the daily trades are supplied thanks to Penske Media Corp. who, btw, is now owner of SXSW (50%), American Pavilion in Cannes, Variety, Indiewire, Deadline Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Rolling Stone, et al., and often shares the auto racetracks through his IndyCar Series racing team Dragon Racing, with Saudi Arabia’s NEOM.</p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mx my ef mz bg na" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mo mp ny" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1434px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mo mp oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Carllo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1817" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As the last year of their five year terms ends for Administrative Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and European Film Market Director Dennis Ruh, they have their hands full. In my informal talk over coffee this week in Berlin with Dennis Ruh, some of the current events needing to be reined in this edition include incendiary protests for and against Democracy, Hamas, Ukraine and how such a high cultural event as the Berlinale seeks to contain free and civil discussion. Funding for a special place in the Berlinale to keep awareness of the Ukraine-Russia war is supplied by USAid. On the Israel/ Palestine front, a special “little house” will stand in Potsdamer Platz where an Arab-Palestinian woman and a Jewish-Israeli woman will be available to anyone to discuss their concerns. The pair is often seen in Germany’s many public schools fostering dialogue.</p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mo mp oe" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 566px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 566px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1132/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1132w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 566px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1132/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1132w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="328" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1132/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 566px;" width="566" /></picture></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mo mp oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Dennis Ruh, outgoing EFM Director</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1420" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Next year 2025 will be filled with firsts and the reins for it all will be held by American-British Tricia Tuttle. <a class="af hi" href="https://www.kulturstaatsministerin.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/12/2023-12-12-berlinale-en.html?nn=9d01efe2-3478-4d3f-b082-3ea8728974b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tricia Tuttle, the newly appointed Director of the Berlin International Film Festival</a>, is currently Head of Directing Fiction at the UK’s prestigious National Film and TV School, but <a class="af hi" href="https://www.kulturstaatsministerin.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/12/2023-12-12-berlinale-en.html?nn=9d01efe2-3478-4d3f-b082-3ea8728974b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">starting in April 2024</a> will be dealing with the German bureaucracy, the German language, raising money as the German government subsidies subside, an relocating as many of the usual festival cinemas will be closing including the Arsenal which will be moving to Moabit as the DffB (German film school) moves to Wedding; the Kinotek and Film Museum will also moving as their shared building in Potsdamer Platz undergoes renovation. The Martin Gropius Bau (MGB where the film market takes place) is also undergoing a renovation in 2025.</p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mx my ef mz bg na" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mo mp of" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1024px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mo mp oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Tricia Tuttle, incoming <a class="af hi" href="https://www.kulturstaatsministerin.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/12/2023-12-12-berlinale-en.html?nn=9d01efe2-3478-4d3f-b082-3ea8728974b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Director of the Berlin International Film Festival</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="548f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Officially, Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian post on the <a class="af hi" href="https://www.berlinale.de/en/home.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Berlinale.de</a>site:</p><blockquote class="og oh oi" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="nc nd oj ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="21d8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Film festivals provide a space for artistic expression and enable peaceful dialogue. They are places of encounter and exchange and contribute to international understanding. We believe that through the power of films and open discussions, we can help foster empathy, awareness, understanding — even and especially in painful times like these.</p><p class="nc nd oj ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="db56" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our sympathy goes out to all the victims of the humanitarian crises in the Middle East and elsewhere. We want everyone’s suffering to be recognised and for our programme to be open to discussing different perspectives on the complexity of the world. We are also concerned to see that anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim resentment and hate speech are spreading in Germany and around the world. As a cultural institution, we take a firm stand against all forms of discrimination and are committed to intercultural understanding.</p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7266" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Meanwhile, Kristen Stewart, Adam Sandler, Lena Dunham, Sebastian Stan, Amanda Seyfried and Rooney Mara are among the talent heading to Berlin where many have films in competition, including Mara, whose <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19864832/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">La Cocina</em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em>ISA: Hanway<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) — </em>where life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush is depicted —<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>is one of 20 competing alongside of Mati Diop’s <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31015216/?ref_=nm_flmg_unrel_1_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Dahomey </em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em>ISA: Les Films du Losange<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) — </em>charting the journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin, voicing a new generation’s demands —<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>and Hong Sangsoo’s <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31015344/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Traveler’s Needs</em></a>(ISA: Finecut) starring Isabelle Huppert. Look for Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson in <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27196021/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_0_q_Small%2520Things%2520Like%2520These" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Small Things Like These </em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em>ISA: Filmnation<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">); </em>Gael García Bernal and Bérénice Bejo in <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26749648/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_another%2520end" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Another End</em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em>ISA: Newen, A TF1 Group Company)<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </em>Fabrice Luchini in <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17375596/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_L%27EMPIRE" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">L’Empire</em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em>ISA: Memento)<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>of Bruno Dumont.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="de33" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af hi" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:1807a95c-659e-4b5d-8f06-b10e2b929b85" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">See full list of films</a> A-Z or those<a class="af hi" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:e4166cda-d40e-41fa-a29e-aa61e2722dd0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> in Competition</a> (Wettbewerb in German) and <a class="af hi" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:b1b5acac-14b9-48b4-ac00-dabf34abb215" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Encounters</a>, thus far. The entire program — including seasons and locations — will be on the 6th of February, <a class="af hi" href="https://www.berlinale.de/de/programm/berlinale-programm.html?sort=1&section_id=70&day_id=0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">published here</a>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9d86" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="ne fw" style="box-sizing: inherit;">See you in Berlin! February 15–25, 2024 at Potsdamer Platz.</strong></p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mx my ef mz bg na" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mo mp ok" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 938px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="466" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-34822760074980750332024-02-01T03:05:00.000-08:002024-02-01T03:05:53.934-08:002024 Winter Film Fests and Awards are Underway: Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin<p> </p><div class="ev ew ex ey ez l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="fo fp fq fr fs" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="8a9d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><br /></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7bf2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">The big three winter film festivals — Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin — are now showing the world what lies in store in top notch moviemaking, new moviemaking and some duds masquerading as art. And the Academy Award nominees are gearing up for their final sprint before Oscars on March 10 <a class="af hi" href="https://abc.com/shows/oscars" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">live on ABC 7e/4p.</a> Noteworthy is the number of non-English language films nominated for Best Picture. This points to the Berlinale as a source of the next batch of Oscar noms in all categories.<img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="220" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*9I-9X65cL1Fy4RjOIpLG3w.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dd10" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Keep in touch with Sundance through<a class="af hi" href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/sundance-2024-film-festival-acquistions-1234940243/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> Indiewire</a>, with Rotterdam through <a class="af hi" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/festival/455515/?tag=IFFR+2024" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Cineuropa</a> and Berlin through me for now. During the festival and market the daily trades are supplied thanks to Penske Media Corp. who, btw, is now owner of SXSW (50%), American Pavilion in Cannes, Variety, Indiewire, Deadline Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Rolling Stone, et al., and often shares the auto racetracks through his IndyCar Series racing team Dragon Racing, with Saudi Arabia’s NEOM.</p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mx my ef mz bg na" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mo mp ny" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1434px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*FgzXsVKUow-FbRg9wKvcqw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mo mp oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Carllo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1817" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As the last year of their five year terms ends for Administrative Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and European Film Market Director Dennis Ruh, they have their hands full. In my informal talk over coffee this week in Berlin with Dennis Ruh, some of the current events needing to be reined in this edition include incendiary protests for and against Democracy, Hamas, Ukraine and how such a high cultural event as the Berlinale seeks to contain free and civil discussion. Funding for a special place in the Berlinale to keep awareness of the Ukraine-Russia war is supplied by USAid. On the Israel/ Palestine front, a special “little house” will stand in Potsdamer Platz where an Arab-Palestinian woman and a Jewish-Israeli woman will be available to anyone to discuss their concerns. The pair is often seen in Germany’s many public schools fostering dialogue.</p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mo mp oe" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 566px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 566px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1132/format:webp/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1132w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 566px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1132/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png 1132w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="328" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1132/1*XPINlHrFb99J8hdFfe9UIw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 566px;" width="566" /></picture></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mo mp oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Dennis Ruh, outgoing EFM Director</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1420" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Next year 2025 will be filled with firsts and the reins for it all will be held by American-British Tricia Tuttle. <a class="af hi" href="https://www.kulturstaatsministerin.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/12/2023-12-12-berlinale-en.html?nn=9d01efe2-3478-4d3f-b082-3ea8728974b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tricia Tuttle, the newly appointed Director of the Berlin International Film Festival</a>, is currently Head of Directing Fiction at the UK’s prestigious National Film and TV School, but <a class="af hi" href="https://www.kulturstaatsministerin.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/12/2023-12-12-berlinale-en.html?nn=9d01efe2-3478-4d3f-b082-3ea8728974b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">starting in April 2024</a> will be dealing with the German bureaucracy, the German language, raising money as the German government subsidies subside, an relocating as many of the usual festival cinemas will be closing including the Arsenal which will be moving to Moabit as the DffB (German film school) moves to Wedding; the Kinotek and Film Museum will also moving as their shared building in Potsdamer Platz undergoes renovation. The Martin Gropius Bau (MGB where the film market takes place) is also undergoing a renovation in 2025.</p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mx my ef mz bg na" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mo mp of" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1024px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*vWaoQrJ9Ezr7qGWeKQykWw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mo mp oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Tricia Tuttle, incoming <a class="af hi" href="https://www.kulturstaatsministerin.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2023/12/2023-12-12-berlinale-en.html?nn=9d01efe2-3478-4d3f-b082-3ea8728974b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Director of the Berlin International Film Festival</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="548f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Officially, Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian post on the <a class="af hi" href="https://www.berlinale.de/en/home.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Berlinale.de</a>site:</p><blockquote class="og oh oi" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="nc nd oj ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="21d8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Film festivals provide a space for artistic expression and enable peaceful dialogue. They are places of encounter and exchange and contribute to international understanding. We believe that through the power of films and open discussions, we can help foster empathy, awareness, understanding — even and especially in painful times like these.</p><p class="nc nd oj ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="db56" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our sympathy goes out to all the victims of the humanitarian crises in the Middle East and elsewhere. We want everyone’s suffering to be recognised and for our programme to be open to discussing different perspectives on the complexity of the world. We are also concerned to see that anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim resentment and hate speech are spreading in Germany and around the world. As a cultural institution, we take a firm stand against all forms of discrimination and are committed to intercultural understanding.</p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7266" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Meanwhile, Kristen Stewart, Adam Sandler, Lena Dunham, Sebastian Stan, Amanda Seyfried and Rooney Mara are among the talent heading to Berlin where many have films in competition, including Mara, whose <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19864832/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">La Cocina</em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em>ISA: Hanway<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) — </em>where life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush is depicted —<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>is one of 20 competing alongside of Mati Diop’s <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31015216/?ref_=nm_flmg_unrel_1_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Dahomey </em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em>ISA: Les Films du Losange<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) — </em>charting the journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin, voicing a new generation’s demands —<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>and Hong Sangsoo’s <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31015344/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Traveler’s Needs</em></a>(ISA: Finecut) starring Isabelle Huppert. Look for Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson in <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27196021/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_0_q_Small%2520Things%2520Like%2520These" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Small Things Like These </em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em>ISA: Filmnation<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">); </em>Gael García Bernal and Bérénice Bejo in <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26749648/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_another%2520end" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Another End</em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em>ISA: Newen, A TF1 Group Company)<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </em>Fabrice Luchini in <a class="af hi" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17375596/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_L%27EMPIRE" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;">L’Empire</em></a><em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em>ISA: Memento)<em class="oj" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>of Bruno Dumont.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="de33" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af hi" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:1807a95c-659e-4b5d-8f06-b10e2b929b85" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">See full list of films</a> A-Z or those<a class="af hi" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:e4166cda-d40e-41fa-a29e-aa61e2722dd0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> in Competition</a> (Wettbewerb in German) and <a class="af hi" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:b1b5acac-14b9-48b4-ac00-dabf34abb215" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Encounters</a>, thus far. The entire program — including seasons and locations — will be on the 6th of February, <a class="af hi" href="https://www.berlinale.de/de/programm/berlinale-programm.html?sort=1&section_id=70&day_id=0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">published here</a>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nc nd fv ne b gt nf ng nh gw ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9d86" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="ne fw" style="box-sizing: inherit;">See you in Berlin! February 15–25, 2024 at Potsdamer Platz.</strong></p><figure class="mr ms mt mu mv mw mo mp paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mx my ef mz bg na" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mo mp ok" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 938px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lw nb c" height="466" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*-FxYAem8NTzdo7POwjKfZg.png" style="background-color: white; 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caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title qa el qb be kz qc qd qe qf qg qh qi qj qk ql qm qn qo qp qq qr qs qt qu qv qw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="7b76" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;">“Because the world is too troubled for any of us to rest, “ Julie Carmen recently directed her third short film, ‘</span><span class="rn" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Unnecessary Salvation of Mary McDaniel’</span><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;">, written by Herman Johansen with music composed by Maria Newman and Scott Hosfeld.</span></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><div class="ro rp rq rr rs" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="speechify-ignore ab ij" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="speechify-ignore bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 680px;"><div class="rt ru rv rw rx ab" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div class="bm bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 12px; width: 604px;"><div class="ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 1 1 0%;"><span class="be b bf z bj" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div class="sk ab q" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-bottom: 2px;"><div class="ab q kn" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap;"><div class="ab q" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div aria-describedby="17" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="17" class="bl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block;"><p class="be b es ek bj" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"></p></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fc18" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Unnecessary Salvation of Mary McDaniel,</em> in 22 minutes deals with women who are in prison for murder. Their ideas of salvation are very strong and very deep. The roots of their acts, you can imagine, are not shallow.</p><figure class="wh wi wj wk wl wm kg kh paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="wn wo cq wp bg wq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="kg kh wg" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 748px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg hx wr c" height="944" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*7pwLmloeoFhlI4QI" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ws hr wt kg kh wu wv be b bf z cj" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Julie Carmen</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="89e6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie:</strong> “We did not submit to many festivals because we felt the story was meant to be a springboard for dialogue and an opportunity to listen to the unheard so we shared it publicly but I was especially jazzed that it screened in Turkey at the Anatolia Film Festival since Istanbul is where #ChallengeAccepted started due to the high number of femicides there.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7d75" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our film is about four women in prison for retaliating against their abusers. Interestingly, when we went to Anatolia for our honeymoon, I was told that Anatolia’s name itself means, “place of women”.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="03f9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney:</strong> I think Julie’s giving voice to the women in such circumstances in the film highlights that bearing witness to one another’s traumas has its own curative effects.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="169c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af gf" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3CShTsbus&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Watch the short here </em></strong></a><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">and then come back here for our far ranging conversation about Julie’s purpose in making the film as well as her life as an actress and licensed psychotherapist. We talk as friends about everything from our feelings, the intersection of immersive empathy in psychoanalysis and in acting… and why acting is her mainstay.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a16a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie</strong><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">: </em>I never felt intimidated by the profession, walloped, yes, but challenged in a profoundly centering way. My neurosis is that I am addicted to riding a carousel 🎠 and reaching for a ring but barely missing it round after round that makes grabbing it all the sweeter.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f5cc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Psychoanalysis saved me. Without it I might have continued wandering among the selves in the scripts that came fast and fantastically at a developmental age.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2080" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney</strong>: Julie’s memories are so vivid — how acting work finds her and “drops from the sky”, how working with John Cassavetes trained her to be an experiential actor vs. a presentational one. She played the female lead in two European films for the new wave Berlin cooperative Filmverlag der Autoren, <a class="af gf" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084299/?ref_=fn_al_tt_46" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Der Mann auf der Mauer</em> (<em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Man on the Wall</em></a>) and <a class="af gf" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083746/?ref_=fn_al_tt_12" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Comeback</em></a><em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">. </em>As the only American working with German crews it taught her that the essence of German filmmaking contrasts greatly from Hollywood mindsets. So many other subjects are covered which, if you care to, you can follow on the<strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </strong><a class="af gf" href="https://vimeo.com/905738647?share=copy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">video conversation here</strong>.</a></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="73f2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney: </strong>Where do we begin? How did you begin to become a storyteller through acting and directing the three shorts you have made?</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a69c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie<em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">: </em></strong>Gosh, maybe it all began when, listening to my mom reading us fairy tales and telling us our great great grandfather Jonas Hoffa was the house doctor of the Brothers Grimm. Maybe that was the moment when I believed storytelling is an essential part of being human.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aeca" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney</strong>: You have quite a few fascinating ancestors. Aren’t you currently producing a documentary about your great grandfather, Afro Cuban child piano prodigy, José Manuel “Lico” Jiménez Berroa? I read that he was born in Trinidad de Cuba in 1851 and died in Hamburg in 1917, co-director of the Hamburg Conservatory of Music and Professor of Composition.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="975d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie</strong>: Yes, that’s my passion project. But working on a documentary with layers of relevance is consuming. It’s so important for me to complete this film that I felt the urgency to totally retire after 20 years from my private practice as a psychotherapist and from my teaching and clinic. As I got older, I couldn’t keep three careers in the air. I didn’t want to spread myself too thin. All of a sudden life feels short.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e5f8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney</strong>: Tell me about Lico. It’s a documentary? How far along are you?</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c82e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie</strong>: We already filmed in France, Spain, Cuba, the USA and currently are filming in Hamburg, Leipzig, Bayreuth and Nuremberg. The documentary is called “Lico Jiménez the Ebony Liszt”. But the hardest part is raising money for an independent documentary. The 23 living descendants want to protect the authenticity of the narrative. Therefore, I’ve been “hat in hand” collecting donations through a fiscal sponsor.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3fbd" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney</strong>: In Europe we don’t use fiscal sponsors in the same way as in the USA. Tell me about that.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="78aa" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie</strong>: When philanthropists, friends and family who believe in your film want to donate, a reputable 501 ©3 fiscal sponsor provides a letter the donor can use to reduce their federal taxes. The sponsor takes a small percentage and the rest of the donation can be used to pay camera crew, editors, etc.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="83b7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney</strong>: You created an IMPACT CAMPAIGN. What is that about?</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="39e4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie</strong>: Since we are relaunching the extraordinary music of Lico Jiménez, nicknamed, “The Father of Cuban Lieder”, we are selling the recently rescued and republished symphony, piano concertos and songs in classroom packs. People and orchestras who buy classroom packs not only receive the music and biography, they help underwrite the costs of making the documentary. Our director, Isidro Betancourt Benítez, re-mastered all the music. The heart and soul of our impact campaign are “Afro Cuban German Lieder Incubators and Salons” that we are launching wherever musicians master and perform Lico’s compositions.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8558" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af gf" href="https://www.licojimenez.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Read more about the film and impact campaign here</strong></a><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</strong></p><figure class="wh wi wj wk wl wm kg kh paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="wn wo cq wp bg wq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="kg kh ww" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1358px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg hx wr c" height="538" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*pLiEoiAjTBEbDTD8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ws hr wt kg kh wu wv be b bf z cj" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Julie Carmen & Sam Neill in In The Mouth of Madness 1994</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fc01" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sydney</strong>: On<a class="af gf" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0138388/fullcredits" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> IMDb </a>it says you have co-starred in films for John Cassavetes, Michael Mann, Robert Redford, John Carpenter, Nicolas Roeg, William A. Graham, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Franc Reyes, Tommy Lee Wallace, Carl Schultz, Dan Petrie, Jr., Michael Olmos, Tom Dolby, Tom Williams, Reinhard Hauff, Christel Buschmann, Alfonso Ungria and on television for Karen Arthur, Betty Thomas, David Milch, Paris Barclay, Debbie Allen, Deborah Kampmeier and Quentin Tarantino. Any stories you want to share?</p><figure class="wh wi wj wk wl wm kg kh paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="wn wo cq wp bg wq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="kg kh wx" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1400px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg hx wr c" height="539" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*Z-uqj1ifn3xzTIK1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph vo vp qb mf b qy vq vr vs rb vt vu vv lk vw vx vy lp vz wa wb lu wc wd we wf kt bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f065" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="mf kz" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Julie: </strong>Actually, I’d prefer people see the films themselves. I’ve always hoped there would be retrospectives for Cassavetes’ <em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Gloria </em>or Tommy Lee Wallace’s cult classic <em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Fright Night Part Two</em> or “Films about Walls”, where Reinhard Hauff’s <em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Man on the Wall </em>could finally find a wider audience or a retrospective about Latino Noir where Marcus De Leon’s <em class="ht" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Kiss Me a Killer </em>would screen. They were all cutting edge films that contributed significantly to their genres. I always prefer people see the films rather than talk about them.</p><figure class="wh wi wj wk wl wm kg kh paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="wn wo cq wp bg wq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="kg kh wy" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1396px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg hx wr c" height="546" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*gU57sq_nX7Jck_fE" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><figure class="wh wi wj wk wl wm kg kh paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="wn wo cq wp bg wq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="kg kh wz" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 844px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg hx wr c" height="724" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*WiUVVKL4hfJTU1mwftiSIw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-47905395963899919262023-12-21T21:19:00.000-08:002023-12-27T13:49:41.590-08:00Consideration of the Oscars© 2024 for Best International Feature<p> </p><div class="ev ew ex ey ez l" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="fo fp fq fr fs" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="437b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">Thoughts on the place of art in our world today convince me that we are doomed when art is censored and proscribed. Art is subversive by nature, anti-establishment because it creates new visions. It also creates purpose and it redeems us from the materialistic and chaotic that so frequently envelops us. Through art, we can transcend into the idea[l], the spiritual, the immaterial realms of being. Real art creates new universes.</h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="437b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="802" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1080/1*Xep4J_UcxLBtHT6zC2m1ow.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" width="540" /></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="07b8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Fifteen films shortlisted for the International Feature Film category will advance to the next round of voting for the 96th Academy Awards. Films from 88 countries and regions were eligible in the category and 15 were chosen. Out of that, five will be nominated and of course, only one will win, though all are winners in their lands and in coming to the Academy Awards, getting a glimpse of our world here in LaLaLand.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f9c8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="67e4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The films are listed here in my own favored order by country — but I have to see the rest still. And I apologize to my friends and countries I love but may not have put into a Number One position. I call it as I see it, no malice intended.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dcfb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">United Kingdom, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/441010/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Zone of Interest</em></span> </a>directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322242/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Jonathan Glazer</a>.<span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em></span>Cannes Competition 2023 winner of Grand Prix. This will win if the Academy goes for the most intellectually stirring and gut-wrenching account of fascist life as lived by good fascists.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3f48" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. release February 2 by A24. <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA A24 </span>has licensed it to Argentina and Brazil — Diamond Film; Australia and New Zealand — Madman; Germany-Leonine; Greece-Spentzos; Japan-Happinet; Poland-Gutek; Portugal-Alambique; Romania-Bad Unicorn, U.K.-Film Four; U.S.-A24 (of course — and I assume they also have Canada).</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5b97" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7160372/?ref_=ttco_ov_i" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Watch the trailer here</span></a><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">.</span></p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo nv" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 806px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1027" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*3b7Ok11Ix7GIOpAkrc19Zw.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f26a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">France, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/441068/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Taste of Things</em></span></a> directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870841/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Anh Hung Tran</a>. Cannes Competition 2023 winner of Best Director to Anh Hung Tran<em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (The Scent of Green Papaya). </em>This will win if the Academy goes for the most luxurious, taste-good, mood altering classic French cuisine movie.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f426" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. release February 9 by Sapan and IFC. <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA Gaumont </span>has licensed it to Australia and New Zealand-Rialto; Austria-Polyfilm; Benelux-Cherry Pickers; Brazil-Diamond; Canada-Mongrel; France-Gaumont (of course); Germany-Weltkino; Greece-Rosebud; Hong Kong (China)-First Distributors; Israel-Lev/ Shani; Italy-Lucky Red; Japan-Gaga; Latin America-Sun; Portugal-Sun; Spain-A Contracorriente; Switzerland-Frenetic; Taiwan-Swallow Wings; Thailand-Hal, U.K. and Ireland-Picturehouse. U.S.-Sapan and IFC.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ac68" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7160372/?ref_=ttco_ov_i" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Watch the trailer here.</span></a></p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo oa" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 810px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1041" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*g6sS02e1IPg3Mx0ktNhcfg.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="59a3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Denmark, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/447689/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Promised Land</em></span></a><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>directed <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1064048/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Nikolaj Arcel</a>. Premier Venice Film Festival and winner of three European Awards for Best Actor, Cinematographer and Costume Designer. This will win if the Academy wants a grand, sweeping and satisfying saga of the triumph of the underdog, played by one of the world’s greatest actors today.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1dd9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. release February 2 by Magnolia. <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA TrustNordisk</span> has licensed to over 50 territories including Benelux, Surinam, Dutch Antilles-September; Canada-Mongrel; Czech Republic (now called Czechia), Slovakia-Film Europe; Denmark-Nordisk; Finland-Atlantic; France-The Jokers; Germany-Koch (now Plaion); Greece-Weird Wave; Hungary-Vertigo; Italy-Movies Inspired; MENA (Middle East and North Africa)-Front Row; Poland-Best; Portugal-Alambique; Russia-Arna and Atmsfera Kino; Spain-Divisa Red and Team; U.S.-Magnolia</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo ob" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 972px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1040" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*LF1sUKcWyir7ghSfYqe1KA.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9279" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Mexico, <a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/437770/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Totem</em></a><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3569165/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Lila Avilés</a>.<em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>Premiere Berlinale Competition 2023, winner of Ecumenical Jury Prize; Telluride 2023. This film especially touches my heart. I can personally vouch for its authenticity for I, like the protagonist, was also seven years old when my father died. Sol is lucky that they got to say goodbye to one another. We did not. But the sweet sadness of Sol resonates with me completely. The relationship between a father and his daughter at seven is so delicate; its fragility is like a budding flower.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="89e2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. release by Sideshow and Janus (Criterion) January 26th.<span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> ISA Alpha Violet </span>licensed the film to Australia and New Zealand-Hi Gloss; Austria-Polyfilm; Benelux-Vedette, Cassette; Canada-Films We Like; Denmark-Camera; Ex-Yugo and Albania-MCF Megacom; France-Rezo; Germany-Piffl; Greece-Cinobo; Italy-Officine UBU; Japan-Bitters End; Mexico-Canibal; Poland-New Horizons; Spain-Adso; Switzerland-trigon; Taiwan-Hooray; U.K.-New Wave; U.S.-Sideshow, Janus, Criterion</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo oc" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 914px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1010" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*p0gmjOup_rKJK_pLxmRmMQ.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3797" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Italy, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/443421/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Io Capitano</em></span></a><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308520/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Matteo Garrone</a>. Premiere Venice Film Festival 2023 with a 13-minute standing ovation and winner of the Silver Lion for Garrone and Best Emerging Actor for Seydou Sarr.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b92a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. theatrical release by Cohen Media early 2024.<span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> ISA Pathe</span> has licensed rights to Benelux-Paradiso; France-Pathe (of course); India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar (SAARC)-Alliance; Italy-01; Poland-Aurora; Romania-Bad Unicorn; Russia-Exponenta; YouPlanet-Spain; Switzerland-Pathe; U.K.-Altitude; U.S.-Cohen Media.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1883" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Personally, I really wanted the “African space” to be occupied by an African filmmaker, not a European giving us the pity the poor immigrant picture where the underdog wins…for now. What happens to our hero when he lands on the shores of Sicily or Lampedusa with the newly passed European Immigration Law?</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8c7c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“This new system will make sure we have prison camps at our borders and should have never been accepted,” said German EU lawmaker Damian Boeselager, a member of the European Greens. “The negotiators agreed to undermine the right to seek asylum.”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="85e6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Several aid agencies that work with migrants, such as Amnesty International, Oxfam, Caritas and Save the Children, have also slammed the reform, saying it will create a “cruel system” that is also unworkable.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="07a4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“Not one single life will be saved by today’s decision. This agreement is a historic failure and a bow to the right-wing parties of Europe,” said the Sea-Watch rescue charity in a statement it said was backed by more than a dozen NGOs.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c34c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The EU migration reform agreement comes as the <a class="af nt" href="https://www.dw.com/en/france-passes-controversial-immigration-bill/a-67772998" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">French parliament has just approved a divisive immigration bill</span></a><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>that also contains stricter rules enabling the faster deportation of certain foreigners and that <a class="af nt" href="https://www.dw.com/en/frances-new-immigration-bill-sparks-widespread-protests/a-67673671" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">has drawn considerable criticism from leftist lawmakers and migration advocacy groups.</span></a><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>(DW World, tj/fb (dpa, AFP, Reuters)</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*FXIc7voAq8sSl1g-.gif" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bd3d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Bhutan, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/film/449373/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Monk and The Gun</em></span></a><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8293167/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Pawo Choyning Dorji</a>. His films don’t even play the top Five Fests. This played other fests and always won top prize at Illuminate (Danette Wolpert’s festival, now in Santa Barbara), Mumbai (probably the top film festival in India and coming up into the international landscape more and more) and Rome (always in with those who get to go). My guess is, that as Kaouther Ben Hania who has become the Academy Darling of North Africa and the Middle East (nominated two years ago for <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Man Who Sold His Skin; </em>this year shortlisted for both documentary and feature categories with <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Four Daughters</em>), so Pawo Choyning Dorji will become the Academy Darling of South Asia. A self-taught filmmaker, though totally international in outlook (son of a diplomat, raised abroad and studied poli sci in the U.S.), his ease and humor looking at the world reflects so positively on Bhutan, the happiest of nations, that it is pure pleasure to watch his films about education (<em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Yak in the Classroom</em> was nominated last year but lost out to <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">All Quiet on the Western Front</em>) and democracy (his current film). His films give us a chance to enjoy the ideals we have set for ourselves.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0507" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. release February 2024 by Roadside Attractions. Top notch <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA, Films Boutique </span>has licensed the film to Rialto for Australia, N.Z.; MFA+ for Austria and Germany; September for Benelux, Pyramide for France; EDKO for Hong Kong and Macao; India to Impact; Israel to Lev, Italy to Officine UBU; Japan-Maxam I; No. America — Roadside Attractions; Poland — Aurora; Portugal-Alambique; Spain-A Contracorriente, Sweden-Future Films; Switzerland-trigon.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*QpDHSUu9SQfpIYic.gif" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c726" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Finland, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Fallen Leaves</em></span><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442454/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Aki Kaurismäki</a>. Premiere Mumbai 2023 and Cannes 2023. One one hand Kaurismäki deserves an Award as he has been in the top international feature level since 1981. His most acclaimed film, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Man Without a Past</em>, won the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003. However, Kaurismäki refused to attend the Oscar ceremony, asserting that he did not feel like partying in a country that was in a state of war. Kaurismäki’s next film <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lights in the Dusk</em> was also chosen to be Finland’s nominee for best foreign-language film, but Kaurismäki again boycotted the awards and refused the nomination, as a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush’s foreign policy. So nu? Where does this leave him? Have we improved or has he mellowed? We’ll see.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e83b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. theatrical release by MUBI was November 17, 2023. It is available on MUBI now. The innovative ISA The Match Factory (owner of MUBI) has licensed the film to Argentina-Maco; Australia, New Zealand — Palace; Baltics-A-One; Benelux-September; Brazil-02Play; Canada-Films We Like; China-Road Pictures; Colombia-Cineplex; Central America-Pacifica Gray; Denmark-Camera; Finland-B Plan; France-Diaphana; Germany and Austria-Pandora (owned by The Match Factory); Greece-Cinobo; Hungary-Cirko; Iceland-Heimili Kvikmyndanna — Bio Paradis; Israel-Lev/ Shani; Italy-Bim; Japan-Eurospace; MENA-Moving Turtle; Norway-Arthaus; Poland-Aurora; Portugal-Midas; Romania-Bad Unicorn; Spain-Avalon; Sweden-Folkets Bio; Switzerland-Filmcoopi; U.S., U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Latin America, Turkey, India, World-MUBI</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*h6FWgRJ4zCLL8iSD.gif" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="522b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Armenia, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13616368/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Amerikatsi" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Amerikatsi </em></span></a>directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329640/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Michael A. Goorjian</a>— have not yet seen. Premiered at Woodstock, went on to Hamburg, played Beloit International Film Festival in U.S., Cinequest, Glasgow, Fargo, and River Run from September 2022 to April 2023. That is a very eclectic and unusual festival trail.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5f9c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was released September 8, 2023 in a limited engagement. I did see it on the Laemmle theater marquis in Glendale where the big Armenian community lives when I went to my hairdresser Ani Gafafyan.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3478" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We all wait for a definitive film which will finally move the needle on recognizing the Armenian Genocide the way Franz Werfel’s 40 Days of Musa Dagh woke people when it came out in the early 30s. Its publication in Germany preceded the Holocaust by only about seven years. It was almost made into a film starring Clark Gable, but the Turkish government lobbied against it heavily, so it was never made. Perhaps this is the film that will move the needle.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fd36" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Michael Goorjian must be an American independent (like so many indies) pushing at the boundaries and still remaining marginal until now. This acclaim, from what my Armenian friends tell me, is well-deserved.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="be97" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13616368/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Amerikatsi" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Amerikatsi</em></a><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>is about a man who escaped the Armenian genocide as a boy by fleeing to the United States, but returns as an adult and is arrested. From his prison cell he can watch an Armenian couple and so finally learns about his homeland. <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA Amadeus </span>has licensed U.S. rights to Variance who released it in September 2023.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo oe" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 882px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1024" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*qBrd9eJT-N3GuInc01r7UA.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0f92" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Iceland, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Godland</em></span> directed by Hlynur Pálmason— have not yet seen. Premiered at Telluride and TIFF in 2022. Janus/ Criterion picked it up just prior to the festivals. Also screened in Cannes Un Certain Regard 2022. U.S. release February 2023; it is available on Criterion.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ca62" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA New Europe Film Sales</span> has licensed it to Australia, New Zealand-Palace; Baltics-Scanorama; Benelux-Imagine; Estonia-Estinfilm; Finland-Cinemanse; France-Jour2Fete; Greece, Cyprus-One From The Heart; Hungary-Vertigo; Poland-New Horizonss; So. Korea-M&M; Sweden-Folkets; Taiwan-Hooray; U.K. Curzon, U.S. Janus/ Criterion.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*k1JA4Fo0Lz8s8q0i.gif" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4f59" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Japan, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/441316/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Perfect Days</em></span><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em></a>directed by Wim Wenders — have not yet seen. Premiere Cannes 2023, Winner Best Actor to <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945131/?ref_=ttawd_awd_3" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Kôji Yakusho</a>, Ecumenical Jury Prize to Wim Wenders.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="397a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. theatrical release by Neon early 2024. <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA The Match Factory</span> has licensed it to Australia, New Zealand-Madmen; Austria-Polyfilm; Baltics — A-One; Benelux-Paradiso; Bulgaria-Art Fest; China-DDDream; Czech Republic and Slovakia-Aerofilms; Denmark- Camera; France-Haut et Court; Germany, Switzerland-DCM; Greece-Feel Good; Hong Kong-EDKO; Hungary-Cirko; Iceland- Heimili Kvikmyndanna — Bio Paradis; Israel-Lev/ Shani; Italy-Lucky Red; Japan-Bitters End; MENA-Moving Turtle; Norway-Arthaus; Poland-Gutek; Portugal-Alambique; Romania-Bad Unicorn; Russia--A-One; Singapore-Anticipate; Spain-A Contracorriente; Sweden-Triart; Taiwan-Applause, U.K., Ireland, Turkey-MUBI; U.S.-Neon</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*jByMQN40SqUWpxgf.gif" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9bdc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Germany, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Teachers’ Lounge </em></span>directed by Ilker Çatak. Premiered at the Berlinale Panorama where it won <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000091/2023/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Label Europa Cinemas</a> and the C.I.C.A.E. prize. Having been a teacher for five years, I am always interested in the subject. I would like to compare and contrast <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">T</em><a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26612950/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">he Teachers’ Lounge</em></a> with Kore-Eda’s <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Monster,</em> Nuri Bilge Ceylon’s <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">About Dry Grasses</em>, and contrast it to Alexander Payne’s <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Holdovers</em>, and <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Radical </em>by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2343031/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Christopher Zalla</a> in which a teacher in a Mexican border town full of neglect, corruption, and violence, tries a radical new method to unlock students’ curiosity, potential — and maybe even their genius. Today we know that if a student objects to something about the teacher or something the teacher says in class, the teacher immediately bears a heavy burden to prove that the words or actions were <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">a propos. </em>But this teacher makes some poor decisions which put her into a quagmire. I blame her but I still feel for her.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="73e4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Germany is the third most-nominated country behind France and Italy. It has received 21 Oscar© nominations, with four wins (1979 <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Tin Drum</em>, 2002 <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nowhere in Africa</em>, 2006 <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Lives of Others</em>, 2022 <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">All Quiet on the Western Front</em>). This is counting the five East German submissions that sometimes competed against West Germany. The great director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was submitted once, in 1981, for <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lili Marleen</em>. He died the following year at age 37.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b360" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Sony Pictures Classics will release <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Teachers’ Lounge</em> on Christmas Day.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f806" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">ISA Be for Films has licensed <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Teachers’ Lounge </em>to Australia and New Zealand to Madman; Austria-Panda Lixhtspiele; Benelux-Cineart; France-Tandem; Germany and Austria-Alamode; Greece-Cinobo; Hungary-Mozinert; Italy-Lucky Red; Japan-King Records; Portugal-Alambique; Singapore-Lighthouse; So. Korea-Studio DHL; MENA (Middle East & North Africa)-Moving Turtle; Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Baltic)-Nonstop; Spain-A Contracorriente; Switzerland-Filmcoopi; Taiwan-Light Year Images; Turkey-Bir; U.K. and Ireland-Curzon; U.S. and Canada-Sony Pictures Classics.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo of" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 824px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1045" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*TI3BksEUfeRUjoyS16oSjw.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e00f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Spain, </span><a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/447181/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Society of the Snow</em></span></a> directed by Juan <a class="af nt" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.A._Bayona" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Antonio Bayona</a> — have not yet seen. People in the Academy liked it alot. Premiere Venice. However the Cineuropa review kills it for me:<a class="af nt" href="https://cineuropa.org/en/film/447181/en/newsdetail/449564/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“VENICE 2023: Juan Antonio Bayona brings not much new to the recreation of the incredible plane crash in the Andes in 1973, which has already been seen in previous films such as <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Alive</em></a>!”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="27a3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Netflix</span> has the world and it has sold to Argentina-Maco; Brazil-02Play & Netflix; Mexico-Pimienta; Portugal-NOS; Spain-Netflix; U.S.-Netflix</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo og" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 878px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1050" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*_KwUwHCYGWuiNbBZCmZQ6g.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aead" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Ukraine, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">20 Days in Mariupol</em></span> directed by <a class="af nt" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13512939/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Mstyslav Chernov</a> — have not yet seen. Premiere Sundance Film Festival 2023 World Cinema Documentary Audience Award for Best Doc. As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities. Completed in 2022. <span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">ISA Dogwoof</span> thus far has licensed it to Australia, New Zealand-Madman; Finland-Finnkino and YLE (Yleisradio); France-Originals Factory ; Spain-Filmin, Ukraine-Arthouse Traffic</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mn mo oh" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 574px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 574px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1148/format:webp/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 1148w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 574px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1148/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png 1148w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="822" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1148/1*0AUuxipSTWIDa27oCmRV7g.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 574px;" width="574" /></picture></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b083" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Morocco, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Mother of All Lies</em></span> directed by Asmae El Moudir. This documentary premiered in Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard where it won for Best Director.<span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> ISA Autlook</span> licensed to Benelux-Vedette; France-Arizona</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8933" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="mz fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Tunisia, <em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Four Daughters</em></span><em class="nu" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>by Kaouther ben Hania. This documentary premiered in Cannes Competition 2023. U.S. theatrical release by Kino Lorber was October 27th, 2023. ISA The Party Film Sales has licensed it to Austria-Polyfilm; English Canada-Mongrel; French Canada-Metropole; Denmark-Camera; Ex Yugo-Discovery +; Finland-Cinemanse; France-Jour2Fete; Germany-Rapid Eye Movies; Greece-Ama; Hungary-Vertigo; Iceland-Heimili Kvikmyndanna- Bio Paradis; Italy-I Wonder; Norway-Arthaus; Poland-New Horizons; Portugal-Nitrato; Romania-Bad Unicorn; Spain-Caramel; Sweden-TriArt; Switzerland-trigon; Tunisia-Hakka; Turkey-Bir; U.S.-Kino Lorber</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*fU58zrh---HJ8WGO.gif" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mx my fv mz b gt na nb nc gw nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="35c2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I do not think documentaries should qualify for both the Doc Category and the International Feature Category. The two categories are both very small (boxoffice wise) and the field is very crowded. To take two places in the crowded categories seems unfair somehow. Perhaps there could be a Best International Doc category added to make the doc field less crowded, like Sundance does.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nw nx ef ny bg nz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo oi" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 850px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv mw c" height="297" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*qAb0S3Yu2IpEva-nUdavrg.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="oj ok ol mn mo om on be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Tune in March 10, 2024!</figcaption></figure></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article><div class="ab ca" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"></div></div></div><div class="ab ca" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); display: flex; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; justify-content: center;"><div class="ch bg fa fb fc fd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="oo op ab im" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 6px;"><div class="oq ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><a class="or ax am ao" href="https://medium.com/tag/movies?source=post_page-----db0d2e204b5c---------------movies-----------------" rel="noopener follow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></div></div></div></div>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-66521945994099818852023-12-20T21:19:00.000-08:002023-12-21T21:21:48.294-08:00Asian Oscar© 2024 Submissions at the Asian World Film Festival in L.A.<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="e685" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><br /></h1></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5dbc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">The Asian World Film Festival, going on its 10th year, opens a window to the public to watch the films from the Asian world, the East and the MIddle East which have been chosen by their countries for Oscar and Golden Globe consideration in the U.S.</h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5dbc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><img alt="" class="bg lv na c" height="471" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*CkZZVSSf9i5UZaY4bquoeg.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><figcaption class="nb nc nd mn mo ne nf be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Asel Sherniyazova, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Asian World Film Festival</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="af32" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">One of the tiniest (and happiest) countries Bhutan, next to Nepal on the map of South Asia, has submitted <a class="af oc" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15560314/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Monk and the Gun</em></a>, a film I guess will be shortlisted. (<a class="af oc" href="https://blogs.sydneysbuzz.com/bhutans-oscar-entry-for-best-international-feature-the-monk-and-the-gun-by-pawo-choyning-dorji-83dd7e9fc8d2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Read my blog on it here</span></a><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">.</span>) It premiered in Toronto before coming to AWFF. <a class="af oc" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8293167/?ref_=tt_ov_wr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Pawo Choyning Dorj</a>’s previous film, <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Yak in the Classroom </em>was nominated for the Oscar last year. Roadside Attractions will release <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Monk and the Gun</em> in the U.S. in February 2024 so the public can see it before the awards are announced. ISA: Films Boutique*</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="122f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Other films I caught there were Georgia’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/citizen-saint" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizen Saint</em></a> (<a class="af oc" href="https://medium.com/sydneysbuzz-the-blog/georgias-oscar-entry-for-best-international-feature-citizen-saint-by-tinatin-kajrishvili-6faf2862bea8" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Read my blog</span></a><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>and<span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a class="af oc" href="https://medium.com/sydneysbuzz-the-blog/georgias-oscar-2024-entry-for-best-international-feature-citizen-saint-an-interview-with-the-101baa1b1d82" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">interview</span></a>), Turkey’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/about-dry-grasses" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">About Dry Grasses</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">read my blog</span><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">)</em>, India’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/2018" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">2018</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">: Everyone is a Hero </em>(<a class="af oc" href="https://medium.com/sydneysbuzz-the-blog/indias-oscar-entry-for-best-international-feature-2018-everyone-is-a-hero-by-jude-anthany-a68e2e6461a4" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">read my blog</span></a>), Taiwan’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/marry-my-dead-body" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Marry My Dead Body</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em><a class="af oc" href="https://medium.com/sydneysbuzz-the-blog/taiwans-oscar-entry-for-best-international-feature-marry-my-dead-body-by-wei-hao-cheng-3776fc3ecc35" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">read my blog</span></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">)</em>, So. Korea’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/concrete-utopia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Concrete Utopia</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>intriguing but a little over done, Bangladesh’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/no-ground-beneath-the-feet" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">No Ground Beneath the Feet</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (</em><a class="af oc" href="https://medium.com/sydneysbuzz-the-blog/bangladeshs-oscar-entry-for-best-international-feature-no-ground-beneath-the-feet-by-mohammad-a5078a8604b0" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">blog</span></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">) </em>too raw of a treatment about a most troubled land, Iran’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/the-night-guardian" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Night Guardian</em></a>, a sweetly innocent and surprisingly happy film, Kyrgyzstan’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/this-is-what-i-remember" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">This is What I Remember</em></a> which was very good and unfortunately was disqualified. In a tiny provincial settlement somewhere in Kyrgizstan, a man gone 20 years as a guest worker in Russia but long considered dead, returns home. His son has two kids, his wife has remarried and he cannot relate to any of it because he has lost his memory. Fortunately I have the card of one of the screenwriters, Dalmira Tilepbergenova, who has also just directed her first feature.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d198" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Films I missed there and which I have not seen playing anywhere else are Hong Kong’s entry, <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/a-light-never-goes-out" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Light Never Goes Out</em></a>, Armenia’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/amerikatsi" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Amerikatsi</em></a>, Indonesia’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/autobiography" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Autobiography</em></a>, Vietnam’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/glorious-ashes" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Glorious Ashes</em></a>, Nepal’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/halkara" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Halkara</em></a>, Iraq’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/hanging-gardens" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Hanging Gardens</em></a>, Mongolia’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/city-of-wind" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">City of Wind</em></a> which played in Venice and Toronto, Singapore’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/the-breaking-ice" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Breaking Ice</em></a>, Yemen’ <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/the-burdened" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Burdened</em></a>, and Pakistan’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/in-flames" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In Flames</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a2f9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Others I missed but which seem to have publicists attached and are therefore screened around town are Japan’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/perfect-days" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Perfect Days</em></a><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>by Wim Wenders whose great documentary <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Anselm</em> is in the Documentary category<em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </em>Jordan’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/inshallah-a-boy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Inshallah a Boy</em></a>, Malaysia’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/tiger-stripes" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tiger <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Stripes</em></a>, and Israel’s <a class="af oc" href="https://www.asianworldfilmfest.org/2023-films/seven-blessings" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Seven Blessings</em></a>,</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c59f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Next year will require greater stamina so as not to miss the great films which represent their countries in Asia, the East and even the Middle East. Put Asian World Film Festival on your calendar, held just after the AFI Fest in L.A.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mw mx ef my bg mz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo oe" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 964px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv na c" height="950" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*ja3YorlEBC-tUfr6fCu5SA.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fc01" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">A surprise in how quickly it disappeared, the film <a class="af oc" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13231544/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_about%2520dry" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">About Dry Grasses</em></a> by the renowned Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan which debuted in Cannes Competition and went on to play Toronto and other top fests commands attention. At 197 minutes, it caters to the most cinephilic among us. Centering on a handful of teachers in a snow-covered village in Anatolia, a teacher who longs to escape the system and go to Istanbul has his career endangered by a sexual abuse accusation from his student. The film goes to the heart of the complexity of its characters. It is notable as one of several films dealing with school systems and their inability to serve the needs of special students or of its teachers or of the parents. Japan’s non-Oscar entry, Kore-Eda’s <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Monster </em><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(</em></span><a class="af oc" href="https://blogs.sydneysbuzz.com/my-15-minutes-with-hirokazu-kore-eda-monster-cannes-2023-and-tiff-2023-688fc35683b7" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Read my blog here</span></a><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">.</span>) and Germany’s <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The</em> <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Teachers’ Lounge</em> (<a class="af oc" href="https://medium.com/sydneysbuzz-the-blog/germanys-oscar-entry-2024-for-best-international-feature-the-teacher-s-lounge-by-ilker-catak-0aa31acab7a2?sk=ff3efe7cbf79ccb855106df8013ecd00" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="ni fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Read my blog here</span>.</a>) deal with the same issue, as does <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Holdovers</em> to some extent. All are good, though I had problems agreeing with the choices of the new teacher in <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The</em> <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Teachers Lounge</em>, still the dramatization of the precarious position of teachers today in all films hits the bulleye. A co-production of Turkey, France, Germany and Sweden, its ISA is Playtime whose sales are good.**</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f261" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">— — — — — — — — — -</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d51d" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">*Films Boutique has licensed <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Monk and the Gun</em> to Rialto for Australia, N.Z.; MFA+ for Austria and Germany; September for Benelux, Pyramide for France; EDKO for Hong Kong and Macao; India to Impact; Israel to Lev, Italy to Officine UBU; Japan-Maxam I; No. America — Roadside Attractions; Poland — Aurora; Portugal-Alambique; Spain-A Contracorriente, Sweden-Future Films; Switzerland-trigon.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh fv ni b gt nj nk nl gw nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aadd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">**Playtime licensed <em class="od" style="box-sizing: inherit;">About Dry Grasses</em> to Austria-Filmladen; Baltics — A-One Films; Benelux, Surinam, Dutch Antilles-September; Canada-Sphere; France-Memento; Italy-Movies Inspired; Norway-Arthaus; Switzerland-trigon; Taiwan-Swallow Wings; U.K. and Ireland-Picturehouse</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-23944321925209662122023-12-19T18:05:00.000-08:002023-12-21T21:20:54.386-08:00Germany’s Oscar© Entry 2024 for Best International Feature: ‘The Teacher’s Lounge’ by Ilker Catak<p> <span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Joining a recent group of films about teachers and the communities they serve, ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ brings up difficult questions about the parent-teacher and student-teacher relationships as well as parent-children relationships. ‘</span><span class="pf" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Teacher’s Lounge’,</span><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Kore-Eda’s ‘</span><span class="pf" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Monster’,</span><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Alexander Payne’s ‘</span><span class="pf" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Holdovers’</span><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">, Nuri Bilge Ceylon’s ‘</span><span class="pf" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">About Dry Grasses’ </span><span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">and ‘</span><span class="pf" face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Radical’ all share the dilemma of what to do about any aberration from society’s rigid system of education today.</span></p><figure class="to tp tq tr ts tt tl tm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tu tv fl tw bg tx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><figure class="to tp tq tr ts tt tl tm paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tu tv fl tw bg tx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"></div></figure><div class="tl tm tn" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 882px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><img alt="" class="bg sw ty c" height="1039" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*TRcZzqUzRTqOsS2Z-Hy4Gw.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cf9e" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Today we know that if a student objects to something about the teacher or something the teacher says in class, the teacher immediately bears a heavy burden to prove that the words or actions were <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">a propos </em>… I would like to compare and contrast <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">T</em><a class="af uw" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26612950/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">he Teachers’ Lounge</em></a> with Kore-Eda’s <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Monster,</em> Alexander Payne’s <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Holdovers</em>, Nuri Bilge Ceylon’s <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">About Dry Grasses</em>, and <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Radical </em>by <a class="af uw" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2343031/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Christopher Zalla</a> in which a teacher in a Mexican border town full of neglect, corruption, and violence, tries a radical new method to unlock students' curiosity, potential - and maybe even their genius. It stars Eugene Derbez who also played a teacher in the same director’s Oscar winning <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Coda</em>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9fa4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our schools in the U.S. are undergoing great pressure. In the name of the children and their comfort zones, curriculums are deleting subjects that the right wing deems unacceptable (that is, that might “make the child uncomfortable”)— like race and sex education. The local parent associations also want to add a liberal dose of so-called Christian values to the curriculum. Teachers are quitting in the midst of allegations against them, they are hesitant to sign up to teach and they are very underpaid. These are not specifically the issues of the films above and yet they all are dealing with great pressures to do the right thing originating from their society’s antiquated systems.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2875" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We usually want inspirational teaching films like <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Black Board Jungle, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Stand and Deliver, </em><span class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">and </span><em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Dead Poets Society. </em>In this vein, <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Radical</em> and <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Holdovers </em>are very satisfying. They bring us the teachers who inspire even us, the viewers, to want to excel because we have learned to love learning.</p><figure class="to tp tq tr ts tt tl tm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tu tv fl tw bg tx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tl tm ux" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1110px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sw ty c" height="730" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Zbh79fKx8PzjKe3S2NmhpQ.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="uy ey uz tl tm va vb be b bf z ga" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Read my blog on this here.</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ae68" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">These others deal with problems the children face and how mismanaged the actions of the school are when dealing with anything out of line with their standard procedures.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2911" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Teachers’ Lounge,</em> Leonie Benesch plays Carla, a new high school teacher. There’s a thief on the loose in school and when Carla thinks she’s caught the person on her computer camera, it changes everything regarding how she is treated by faculty, her students and the accused. The fascistic methods used by the administration coercing kids to name names and other methods of dealing with what they see as aberrations grates on her and us. When the school newspaper publishes an article hostile to her, she tries desperately to hold her world, the classroom, together…and fails miserably. The film succeeds in producing great anxiety, to say the least as we watch her dig herself into a hole she cannot dig herself out of.</p><figure class="to tp tq tr ts tt tl tm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tu tv fl tw bg tx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tl tm vc" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1744px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sw ty c" height="523" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*i0s2Fyz86WgUFVDPh0LOng.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="uy ey uz tl tm va vb be b bf z ga" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Leonie Benesch plays Carla, a new high school teacher</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2c2f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Premiered at Berlinale 2023 and went on to play Toronto and other festivals.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2c0a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Germany is the third most nominated country behind France and Italy. It has received 21 Oscar© nominations, with four wins (1979 <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Tin Drum</em>, 2002 <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nowhere in Africa</em>, 2006 <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Lives of Others</em>, 2022 <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">All Quiet on the Western Front</em>). This counts the five East German submissions that sometimes competed against West Germany.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e964" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Enigmatic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was submitted once, in 1981, for <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lili Marleen</em>. He died the following year at age 37.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5e7b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This is Germany’s 64th submission.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="40dc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Sony Pictures Classics will release <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Teachers’ Lounge</em> on Christmas Day.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua og ub b oq uc ud ue ot uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="55fc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">ISA: Be for Films has licensed <i>The Teachers’ Lounge</i> to Australia and New Zealand to Madman; Austria-Panda Lixhtspiele; Benelux-Cineart; France-Tandem; Germany and Austria-Alamode; Greece-Cinobo; Hungary-Mozinert; Italy-Lucky Red; Japan-King Records; Portugal-Alambique; Singapore-Lihthouse; So. Korea-Studio DHL; MENA (Middle East & North Africa)-Moving Turtle; Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Baltic)-Nonstop; Spain-A Contracorriente; Switzerland-Filmcoopi; Taiwan-Light Year Images; Turkey-Bir; U.K. and Ireland-Curzon; U.S. and Canada-Sony Pictures Classics</p><figure class="to tp tq tr ts tt tl tm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tu tv fl tw bg tx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tl tm vd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1688px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sw ty c" height="450" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*ux3WnrrXAW22AqikxnD3mw.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="uy ey uz tl tm va vb be b bf z ga" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;"><a class="af uw" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14555338/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Leonard Stettnisch</a></figcaption></figure>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-372010182037953442023-12-19T16:02:00.000-08:002023-12-19T16:02:04.605-08:00Denmark’s Oscar© Entry for Best International Feature: ‘The Promised Land’ by Nikolaj Arcel<p><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Classic epic of a renegade settler in 18th century Denmark who makes the land grow in spite of everyone’s lack of faith in him. The masterful sweep of the pioneer Danish on the heath, the interactions of the stoic outsider and his aristocratic neighbors and how he creates a family against all odds, classic in style and subject: It delivers 100%.</span><img alt="" class="bg su tw c" height="877" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*LBkYTBNHidqlNH5QcqQ2Hw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></p><figure class="tm tn to tp tq tr tj tk paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ts tt fl tu bg tv" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tj tk tx" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 2062px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg su tw c" height="326" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><figure class="tm tn to tp tq tr tj tk paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ts tt fl tu bg tv" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tj tk ty" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1238px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg su tw c" height="328" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Q--FHlQSZFMaHdiLpHgstg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c4b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Promised Land</em> is an epic Nordic saga which creates a seamless archetypical story of struggle and triumph. And in classic western style, the hero rides off into the sunset; only this time, he is not alone.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4501" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Its original language title is <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Bastard</em>, and the outsiders of the society are those born out of wedlock from masters raping their servants who are essentially slaves. Mads Mikelson embodies a Danish John Wayne archetype in this western saga about the bastard son of a noble who has served heroically in the Seven Years War and returns to claim his due.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bb9b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Ludvig Kahlen arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king’s call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honor himself. He quickly makes an enemy with the merciless landowner, Frederik De Schinkel, who is sole ruler of the area and believes that the heath belongs to him and not the king. When De Schinkel’s serf runs away with Ann Barbara played by <a class="af uw" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4518657/?ref_=tt_ov_st" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Amanda Collin</a> (Remember her name!) his wife and a housemaid who had been raped and exploited by Schinkel and seeks refuge with Kahlen, Schinkel does everything to drive Kahlen away and at the same time exact a cruel revenge. Kahlen does not bow, but stubbornly takes up the unequal battle and risks his life and the bond with the small, troubled family that has arisen around him on the heath.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4cec" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Kahlen becomes the champion of the same stock of people who later emigrated and worked the farmlands of the plains and prairies in America (Pure Edna Farber material, although in her prize-winning novel and movie <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">So Big</em>, the immigrant farmers were Dutch), but here the people are working the heath, long considered unsustainable as an agricultural endeavor, but remaining a wish of the King to cultivate.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4155" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I love Nordic sagas, like <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">War Sailor </em>last year, like <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Kristen Lavransdotter</em> which I read as a girl. I also love the composer Leroy Anderssen and the early TV series,<a class="af uw" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041039/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I Remember Mama</em></a><em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>that ran from 1949 to 1957, and all the stories by Hans Christian Anderson. I loved the little Danish community of <a class="af uw" href="https://solvangusa.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Solvan</a>g in California when I was a girl and the blue and white tableware I bought when I first moved into my own apartment in college. I loved my first visit to Europe and visiting Denmark and Tivoli Gardens where I lost my sweater and someone turned it in; the people looked like angels and were honest.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fb29" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The only issue I have is with the title of this and of another film called <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Settlers</em>, both of which were playing in Toronto where I caught them. Together, they sound like two films about Israel, but neither has the least connection to that land, so don’t get confused when you see their titles in your theaters and streaming platforms. Think Denmark and Chile!</p><figure class="tm tn to tp tq tr tj tk paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ts tt fl tu bg tv" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tj tk ux" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1850px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg su tw c" height="358" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="uy ey uz tj tk va vb be b bf z ga" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Director Nikolaj Arcel and Leading Man Mads Mikelson</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e4b7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The Zentropa-produced drama premiered in Competition at the Biennale di Venezia 2023, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious festivals before going to Toronto International Film Festival.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1e33" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This is Denmark’s 61st submission. Denmark has been nominated 14 times with 4 wins (<em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pelle the Conquerer </em>in 1987, <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Babette’s Feast</em> in 1988, <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In a Better World</em> in 2010 and <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Another Round</em>, which also starred Mikkelsen, in 2020).</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c200" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Nikolaj Arcel’s <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Royal Affair </em>(which also starred Mikkelsen) was nominated in 2012. This is the first time since <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Royal Affair</em> that the critically acclaimed director is directing a Danish feature and reuniting with the talented Mads Mikkelsen.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f0bc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Written by Arcel and Danish screenwriter and director Anders Thomas Jensen (<em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Riders of Justice</em>, 2020), based on the 2020 Danish bestseller ‘Kaptajnen og Ann Barbara’ (translated ‘The Captain and Ann Barbara’), it is produced by Louise Vesth (<em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Kingdom Exodus</em>, 2022; <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Royal Affair</em>, 2012 and <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Melancholia</em>, 2011) for Zentropa Entertainments.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="834a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Estimated to be one of Zentropa’s biggest feature films in years, with a budget of EUR 8M, the feature has already received massive attention in Denmark, within the industry and has already sold more than 50 territories, including: U.S. (Magnolia Pictures), Canada (Mongrel Media), Germany (Plaion), France (The Jokers Films), Poland (Best Film), Spain (Divisa Red) and many more, underlining the immense attention that the film has received worldwide.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b165" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">A Danish-Swedish-German Coproduction</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bd1c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Produced by Zentropa Entertainments ApS in co-production with Zentropa Berlin GmbH, Zentropa Sweden AB in cooperation with TV2 Denmark, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, SVT, PLAION PICTURES in co-production with Film i Väst with support from Danish Film Institute Markedsordningen, Eurimages, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Czech Film Fund and Swedish Film Institute. Developed by the Creative Europe Media Programme — Media of the European Union. Domestics distribution through Nordisk Film. International sales handled by TrustNordisk.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9fd4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Promised Land</em> was released widely in Denmark on 5 October 2023.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tz ua nz ub b on uc ud ue oq uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2830" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Magnolia Pictures will release <em class="uv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Promised Land</em> in U.S. theaters on February 2, 2024.</p><figure class="tm tn to tp tq tr tj tk paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ts tt fl tu bg tv" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tj tk vc" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 934px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg su tw c" height="1036" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*dgJ2wXNpB8eVl6VL2KaiFQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><figure class="tm tn to tp tq tr tj tk paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ts tt fl tu bg tv" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); cursor: zoom-in; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></figure>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-69764111542710511922023-12-19T16:00:00.000-08:002023-12-19T16:00:23.672-08:00African Oscar© Submissions for 2024<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title gb gc gd be ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="e4af" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 0px 0px -0.27em;"><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;">In the Best International Feature Category of the Oscar race, 88 submissions are competing for 5 Best International Feature Nominations.</span><img alt="" class="bg lx my c" height="348" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1388/1*F8T-X736iwJD2WcJx4A12w.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="694" /></h1></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="985d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Out of the 88, officially there are 11 from Africa, the highest yet, up from 8 last year. I would add two more, Congo’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen </em>and Senegal’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Io Capitano</em>. Both of these were submitted by European countries (Belgium and Italy respectively). <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em> is the feature debut of the Congo-Belgium director named Balogi and <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Io Capitano</em> is by the renowned Italian director Matteo Garrone. However, in the eyes of the viewer, they will both be perceived as African because their subjects and stories are African. Judging from the few other African films I have seen and heard this year (<em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sira</em>, <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Goodbye Julia </em>and<em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Banel & Adama)</em>, most of the films from Africa are very good. The stories are authentic and original, and production values are high. They are freer of European influence and embody more original concepts than the previous pre-pandemic decade that relied solely on European funding and workshops. While Europe and MENA continue to lend support to African filmmaking, or maybe because the Middle East is now giving more support than previously, the post-pandemic cinema out of Africa is innovative with a youthful energy bursting out on many, many levels.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The voting for the shortlist requires dividing the 88 submitted international features into groups of 12 or 13 to be seen by subcommittees of the International Film Selection Committee. Culled from these committees’ decisions, a shortlist of 15 finalists will be announced on December 21 to be voted on by the entire committee to arrive at the final five nominees to be announced on January 24, 2024 and then voted on by the entire Academy membership.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b30e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Because of their limited budgets, many of the smaller countries’ films are without publicists and so are not seen by media or cinephiles. They are only available on the Academy’s streaming platform. That is, of course, only available to Academy members. Therefore,when there is no publicist setting up screenings and inviting press, cinephiles and influencers along with Academy members, there is no word-of-mouth discussion or even knowledge of the films’ existence unless one is lucky enough to have seen them in Venice, Cannes, Toronto, Sundance or Berlin.</p><figure class="ms mt mu mv mw mx mp mq paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nx ny ef nz bg oa" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mp mq nw" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1180px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lx my c" height="742" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*vkqupWrGZFQEGACc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6530" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">With little or no publicity budget, the African films are practically invisible.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6d8b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Only one feature so far has a representative here in L.A. I was lucky enough to meet, see his film and speak with: Balogi, the writer and director of the Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Winner of the New Voice Award. His debut film <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em> is a coproduction of Belgium and Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Belgian-Congolese filmmaker is lucky to have Belgium as his submitting country because Congo and Central Africa in general have no film infrastructure. Congo has no film laws and no official standing with the Academy.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ea6b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In addition, <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em> also has Memento, a top international sales agent, footing his publicity.* And still more, Balogi has a U.S. distribution deal in place with Utopia (a new small U.S. distributor). And <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">al final</em>, he has the honor of having a live in-person screening for the Academy sponsored by no less than <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_2_q_Mahershala%2520Ali" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Mahershala Ali</a>, the star of <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Moonlight, Greenback</em> and the upcoming <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Blade</em> and <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Spiderman: Beyond the Spider-Verse</em>. Balogi is on the top of my list. <strong class="nb ge" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(Read our </strong><a class="af ob" href="https://blogs.sydneysbuzz.com/belgiums-oscar-entry-for-best-international-feature-omen-by-balogi-3f86c3c07372?sk=075e6253ce39a3ba9eb5ab360db9dafd" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="nb ge" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Interview here!</strong></a><strong class="nb ge" style="box-sizing: inherit;">)</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf39" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The Italian submission <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14225838/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_6_nm_2_q_io" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Io Capitano</em></a> about two young men leaving Senegal to sail to Italy may be the best film (after <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Gemorrah</em>) of the accomplished director, <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308520/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Matteo Garrone</a>. Cohen Media is releasing in U.S. ISA: Pathe has also licensed the film widely.**</p><figure class="ms mt mu mv mw mx mp mq paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nx ny ef nz bg oa" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mp mq oc" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 870px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lx my c" height="1014" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*LVdsy7FyZ2k8rjWx.gif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="245b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The 11 official submissions from Africa are East African Sudan’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Goodbye Julia, </em>West African Senegal’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Banel & Adama,</em> Burkina Faso’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sira, </em>Nigeria’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mami Wata,</em> and Kenya’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mvera,</em> South Africa’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Music Is My Life</em> and Namibia’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Under the Hanging Tree</em> from Southern Africa, and Central African Cameroon’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Half Heaven</em>. From North Africa come Tunisia’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Four Daughters</em> by Kaouther Ben Hania (whose film <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Man Who Sold His Skin </em>was nominated last year), Morocco’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Mother of All Lies</em> and Egypt’s <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Voy! Voy! Voy!</em> by Omar Hilal.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2a46" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14330672/?ref_=ttco_ov" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Goodbye Julia</em></a><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>by Mohamed Kordofani premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard where it won the Freedom Award. It is from the Sudan, a Central African country rarely seen in the movies. Taking place just before the secession of South Sudan it is about an upper middle class Indian Muslim family as the wife, a former singer, does her best to make amends for harm she has caused a working class Black Christian family. This well told and well produced movie opens a new and surprising window on the issue of the privileged and the not-so-privileged in their own country. Premiere Cannes Film Festival 2023 Un Certain Regard, Winner of Freedom Prize, BFI London FF. ISA: Mad Solutions***</p><figure class="ms mt mu mv mw mx mp mq paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nx ny ef nz bg oa" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mp mq od" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 994px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lx my c" height="924" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Id8eSOWrCY2VUgSoGSdCkg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="28dd" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Senegal’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26256406/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_5_nm_2_q_banel%2520%2526" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Banel & Adama</em></a> directed by Toulaye Sy Pular is about a couple who has loved each other since childhood who go outside their society’s mores. This is one of the more nuanced and original stories except for <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em>. Premiere Cannes Film Festival 2023 Competition, Toronto Centerpiece. ISA: Best Friend Forever ****</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="726a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Burkina Faso’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26440747/?ref_=ttco_ov" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sira</em></a> directed by Apolline Traoré is about a beautiful nomad woman on the way to marry a man from another village and religion whom she loves. Terrorists attack, kill the men and kidnap the women, but Sira refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror. Winner of Berlinale Panorama Audience Award, African Academy Award Winner for Best Director, FESPACO Winner Gold Medal. <a class="af ob" href="https://blogs.sydneysbuzz.com/kenyas-oscar-2024-entry-for-best-international-feature-sira-by-apolline-traor%C3%A9-94e3c988d282" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Read my blog for more information</a>. ISA: Wide has done little to sell the rights. TV5Monde has French rights and K Amerique has French Canada. This should have sold far more widely!</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b3c2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Nigeria’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6315898/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mami Wata</em></a> by C.J. Obasi is about two sisters who must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land to restore the harmony in a village when it is threatened by outside elements. Premiere Sundance 2023 winner for Best Cinematography. ISA: Alief*****</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2c82" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">South Africa’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27589548/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_6_nm_2_q_Music%2520Is%2520My%2520Life" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Music Is My Life</em>- <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo</em></a>by Mpumi Mbele is a 2023 look at Ladysmith Black Mambazo and its founder who powered the sound of Paul Simon’s Graceland. From apartheid roots to five Grammys, the story offers insights into their Graceland sessions and how their Zulu music changed the world. ISA: FilmOption seems not to have sold it anywhere (per IMDb and Cinando listing)</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7ddc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Namibia’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8789594/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Under the Hanging Tree</em></a> by Perivi Katjavivi is about a troubled police officer who battles to keep her small town in the stark Kalahari desert from being ripped apart by a horrific murder and the ghosts from a colonial past. ISA: Antidote</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d276" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Cameroon’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22490938/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Half%2520Heaven" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Half Heaven</em></a><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>by <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6332285/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Enah Johnscott</a> is about an evangelist and a sex worker having a revelatory encounter. ISA: Film One</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e1ba" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Kenya’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29313917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_q_Mvera" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mvera</em></a> directed by Daudi Anguka. Kenya’s seventh submission. No nominations yet. About a woman who uncovers an organ trafficking ring in her local community, loosely inspired by Kenyan activist Mekatilili Wa Menza. No ISA</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ed40" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">From North Africa come</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="de12" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Tunisia’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27502426/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Four%2520Daughters" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Four Daughters</em> </a>by Kaouther Ben Hania (whose film <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Man Who Sold His Skin</em> was nominated last year). A documentary of a mother and her four daughters, two of whom have disappeared. The director invites two actresses in to recreate their lives. Premiere Cannes Competition 2023, Toronto 2023. ISA: The Party Film Sales******</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0b8e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Morocco’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15307068/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Mother of All Lies</em></a> by Asmae El Moudir. A documentary on a handmade set recreating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood. Premiere Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard winner for Best Director. ISA: Autlook licensed to Benelux-Vedette and France-Arizona.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="eb18" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Egypt’s <a class="af ob" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27721079/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_1_q_voy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Voy! Voy! Voy!</em></a> by Omar Hilal is a popular comedy based on an incredible true story about a man who fakes blindness to join a team of blind footballers bound for Poland with the idea of fulfilling his dream of leaving his home country Egypt and living in Europe. He discoves that every player on the team is doing the same thing. ISA: AGC has sold to Pakistan-HKC Entertainment.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ebc5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">***********************</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c37c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">*Memento has licensed <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em> to Utopia for U.S., Stadtkinofilmverleigh for Austria; Pan for France; Grandfilm for Germany, Imagine for Netherlands, HHG for Russia, Filmin for Spain, AYA for U.K.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5bfd" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">**Pathe has licensed<em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Io Capitano to </em>France-Pathe; India and SAARC countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanma) to Alliance; Netherands-Paradiso; Poland-Aurora; Romania-Bad Unicorn; Spain-Youplanet; Switzerand-Pathe; U.K. & Ireland-Altitude</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8a78" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">***Mad Solutions has licensed<em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Goodbye Julia</em> to Australia/ N.Z.-Potential; Benelux, Surinam, Dutch Antilles-September, France-ARP Selection; Germany, Austria, Italy-Satine; MENA-MAD; Sudan-Station; Sweden-Folkets; Switzerland-trigon; Taiwan-Swallow Wings. CAA is representing U.S.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="177b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">****Best Friend Forever licensed <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Banel & Adama</em> to Australia, New Zealand-AHI; Benelux-Cherry Pickers; France-Tandem; Greece-Filmin; Italy-Movies Inspired; Norway-Njuta; Poland-Cinobo; Portugal-Alambique; Serbia-Trigon Films; So. Korea-Green Narae; Spain-Filmin; Switzerland-trigon; U.K., Ireland-We Are Parable; U.S. Kino Lorber</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4968" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">***** Alief licensed <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mami Wata</em> to Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Senegal, Niger, Togo, Rwanda-Canal Olympia; Germany-Cinemalovers; Nigeria-Flm One; No. America-Dekanalog; Switzerland-trigon; U.K., Ireland-Aya</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mz na gd nb b gx nc nd ne ha nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu fw bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d4c3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">****** Party Film Sales licensed <em class="nv" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Four Daughters</em> to Austria-Polyfilm; Canada-Mongrel, Metropole; Denmark-Camera; Ex-Yugo-Discovery +; Finland-Cinemanse; France-Jour2Fete; Germany Rapid Eye Movies; Greece-Ama;Hungary-Vertigo; Iceland-Heimili Kvikmyndanna-Bio Paradis; Italy-Mongrel; Norway-Arthaus; Poland-New Horizons; Portugal-Nitrato; Romania-Bad Unicorn; Spain-Caramel; Sweden-TriArt; Switzerland-trigon; Tunisa-Hakka, U.S.-Kino Lorber</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-65435583381421893822023-12-19T15:42:00.000-08:002023-12-19T15:42:41.712-08:00Belgium’s Oscar© Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Omen’: An Interview with Balogi<p><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">The director Baloji is currently in L.A. showing his film and speaking to the Academy members and press about his Cannes Award winning debut feature ‘</span><span class="agz" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Omen’</span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">(aka ‘</span><span class="agz" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Auguri’</span><span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">). He himself is outgoing, beautifully mannered and dressed, a treat to speak with as he so gracefully articulates his creative sources. While he is Belgian, he was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and this film speaks to us of Congo as much as it credits Belgium today, a multicultural democracy.</span><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="1006" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*PvjSFmBILFGrMTxeErJLBQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a1fa" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">After spending 18 years in Belgium, a young Congolese man named Koffi returns with his pregnant Belgian wife to his birthplace of Kinshasa to introduce her to his family and give them the honors due as a first son. However their glacial welcome reminds him that homeland culture with its family secrets and sorcery has frozen his status as a Zabolo, one who wears the mark of the devil. The intricacies of identity, culture, and belief systems is captured within the context of magical realism in a deeply rich, original and visually captivating style.</p><h2 class="ahb ahc nv be ahd ahe ahf ahg aby ahh ahi ahj acc uc ahk acd acg ug ahl ach ack uk ahm acl acn ahn bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="05b9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px; margin: 1.72em 0px -0.31em;">Watch the trailer <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21086802/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7_nm_1_q_omen" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="al" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">here</span></a><span class="al" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">.</span></h2><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); 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box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ahp ey afm tf tg ahq ahr be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;"><a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3207271/?ref_=tt_ov_st" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Marc Zinga</a> and <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3580372/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t5" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Lucie Debay</a> as Koffi and Alice</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3269" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The story takes hold of the audience as it is unfolds through intertwined stories of four Congolese characters acting <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">ensemble</em> who are labeled witches or sorcerers.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="90cf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">What is your connection to these stories of sorcery and witchcraft?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1e5b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It is personal and extremely dear to me, having been considered a sorcerer myself.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8eaf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In Swahili, my name, Baloji, semantically means “man of science”. With the Christian colonizers arriving in Africa, it became “man of black science” (healer) and then “man of black magic” (witch doctor). In the last few years, it has become a synonym for sorcerer, and is basically the same as being called “devil” or “demon” in Africa itself. It’s not an easy name to live with. It’s an awful name, really, being named “Demon” in Belgium. Because people used to label me as a sorcerer, I’ve always been fascinated by witchcraft and by people who are seen as “different”.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3dcc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">That’s why Koffi, the main character, has a port-wine stain on his face: I wanted to visualize the weight of that label.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ad44" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Why did your parents name you this?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ef4b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For personal reasons I prefer not to discuss except to say my father was ill at the time I was born.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9bca" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I understand. When loved ones are ill, the family will do anything they can to help heal their beloved.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ad6a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">So as a kid, you were called a sorcerer. Does making this movie help you?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aa72" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Yes, I’ve finally accepted that maybe my name is also what I am. In Congo, when I learned that originally my name meant “man of science,” it became something positive. It wasn’t until European Christian colonialism came into the picture that the word “baloji” turned into something negative<strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1b2b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(Editor parenthesis: How coincidental that those with a so-called “christian”, but dumb-downed, mentality today in the U.S., the ones so against immigration of formerly colonized people are the same people who are against acknowledging scientific sources and cures for global warming, famine, COVID, critical racism, sex education, et al.)</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6be4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">So now I can deal with it. And when I started making movies, I decided to put some magical realism into them. It’s part of me, so it must be part of my cinema language.</p><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="to tp fl tq bg tr" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tf tg ahs" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1238px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="494" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*N0TmLG_EFkoItMXlU4bv6g.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ahp ey afm tf tg ahq ahr be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Baloji</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7d71" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">What statement did you intend to make with the story?</strong><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The more I reflected on witchcraft and sorcery and on all the ways that society finds to define and fight against those who are “different”, the more I wanted to focus on the effects of that.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="86d3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I wanted to show how society is structured for men, and how they try to control women’s bodies. What happens when a young girl doesn’t want to have kids. Being a 35-year-old woman and not having children is considered “not right” in Europe as well as in Africa. A woman gets completely discarded when she grows old. I’ve been studying feminism and I think it’s my obligation — because as a man and therefore part of the problem — that I be a part of the solution as well.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d2cb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In the same way that racism is a white people’s issue: it can’t be solved unless white people start talking about it.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="02bf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The topic of family is one of the most important in the film.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></strong>I think the family is the laboratory of society. Everything you can find in a family is a reflection of society. So it means you have to fight and accept the same things in your own family as you do in society on a bigger scale.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0a81" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I wanted to show different forms of assignation, in order to approach the subject in a larger way. For a woman like Tshala, Koffi’s sister who lives a life of polyamory, being labeled a witch is a bigger burden than for a man.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4019" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For an older woman like Mujila, Koffi’s mother, it’s even worse. Really the one I think is the true protagonist is the mother…and then the sister.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ef55" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Paco, one of the main characters, is a young boy who is also considered a sorcerer. Paco is a young shégué (street urchin) on the other side of town who’s haunted by his little sister’s death and mired in a gang war that prevents him from grieving. Koffi and he are both witch children, cursed sons who need to be exorcised. In Paco’s case, when parents have money issues, it’s sometimes believed to be the fault of their youngest children who have supposedly cursed the family. The parents often send these kids away, and they end up on the streets. This is what happened to Paco. But he deals with his assignation in a way very different from the protagonist Koffi, who is ashamed and thinks it’s the worst thing that ever happened to him. Paco has learned to use it to his advantage: he does magic tricks and scares people. He takes a certain pride in his assignation.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ab49" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In fact, throughout the movie Paco and Koffi appear in adjacent scenes as mirrors of each other. Both have epileptic attacks, often taken as a sign of possession by the devil. When Paco suffers such an attack, the next scene shows Koffi awakening. You will notice throughout the movie that they are always scenically joined together.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="99d7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">You’ve done many different things in your life: you were part of successful Belgian hip-hop group Starflam; you’ve acted. How did you become a film director?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3eac" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">From 1998 to 2006, I lived above a music and video store in Brussels. Every day, I would go pick up my mail downstairs and start talking about movies with the guys who hung around in the store. They made me discover films like Gus Van Sant’s <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Gerry</em>, that had a very different rhythm to them. That was my film school. For years, I would watch a movie every day. And since I was already very interested in music, fashion and art direction, film felt like the perfect fit for me, because it combined all of my passions into one art form.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="955d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">As a musician, not a director, how did you secure funding for this first feature?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1720" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Because I’m a musician, for a long time I wasn’t taken seriously as a director. I wasn’t part of the “film family.” So a lot of people in the industry and the press were very surprised when my film got selected for<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Cannes. And now for the Oscars too!</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2bdc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was very difficult to convince those in the film industry that I was able to be a filmmaker, but I made commercials and music videos. Germany and the Berlinale World Film Fund funded it based on my short film <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Zombies</em> which won many prizes in Germany. You can see it here on <a class="af uq" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJuZ7qhcKho" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">YouTube</strong></a>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3a98" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was also diffficult write a filmic synopsis for this film which I needed to finance it. I pitched it as the story of Koffie and his return to Congo. Koffie is apparently the main protagonist, but he isn’t, in reality. His storyline ends after 20 minutes.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="81c1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I got more and more interested in the voices of the other characters, who do not have the luxury of being able to come and go in the same way he does. The real victims in this world are the ones who can’t leave. That’s why the movie ends with the character of Koffie’s sister.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9d88" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I want to return to where you mentioned the port-wine birthmark on the face of Koffi. Your use of colors throughout the film is very striking.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="201e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I have <a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">synesthesia</a>.<strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </strong>To me, everything is connected to color. Sounds, moods — they all have colors in my head. And so all the characters in the movie also have their own color: for Koffi, it’s dark red — like his port-wine stain. Paco is associated with pink, etc. You can see it in the typeface I used to present their names on screen, but also in the color filters we used.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="655d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">And in the music, too. I only used chords that I felt were connected to certain colors. For instance, I like the music of Eric Satie who often writes in C minor. To me that is blue, a color of melancholia, or the blue at the base of a candle flame, very dynamic and determined.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9108" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How did you create the music for <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em>?</strong><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Very early on in the process, I realized the recording artist music I usually make wouldn’t fit the film. As a recording artist, I always use vocals, but in this film they would just be too much. There is already a lot of information in the image. So I kept the music in the film quite subtle. But then I also<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />recorded four albums with songs that wouldn’t appear in the film.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="71df" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Each album is written from a different character’s point of view. It was a great opportunity to create backstories for the characters, which could help the actors. But mostly, it was an exercise in empathy for me. It made me love and understand each one of my characters.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd5b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The first is Koffi (Marc Zinga, seen in Cannes two years ago in <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/film/424200/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tori and Lokita</em></a>), a Congolese Belgian returning to his birthplace for the first time in almost two decades after being banished to Europe because he was born with a birthmark.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7d89" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The second is about Koffi’s sister Tshala played by Eliane Umuhire (<em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Neptune Frost </em>in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2021), Tshala’s album is all about female sexuality. As a man, it took a lot of reading and studying to be really able to understand the dynamics at play.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bfe7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The third introduces Paco (the first role of Marcel Otete Kabeya) a teen antibiotic dealer who is the leader of a group of outcasts who all dress in pink drag to honor his dead sister.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="03b8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The fourth is Mama Mujila’s (steely-eyed Yves-Marina Gnahoua, a theatre actress who starred in the hard-hitting documentary <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/film/369865/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">That Which Does Not Kill</em></a>) story of patriarchal trauma and the real reason she was forced to send him away.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5132" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In the film, sometimes the kitchen is green and sometimes gray, depending upon what is happening. I feel moods and hear music in colors. My color associations are very personal to me. Others with synethesia associate other colors to their senses.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4238" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Sometimes <a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">synesthesia</a> feels like a disease, but I try to have fun with it.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c8f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">(Editor: Baloji is in good company. </strong><a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nikola Tesla</strong></a><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> had it. </strong><a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Beyoncé</strong></a><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> is said to have Chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia. Duke Ellington, Billie Ellish and Kanye West, Mary </strong><a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J._Blige" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">J. Blige</strong></a><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">,</strong> <strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pharrell Williams, Billy Joel, Franz Lizst and Hans Zimmer all have or had various forms of the condition. Marilyn Monroe had it with taste-to-color and Proust has another sort of taste-to- emotion.)</strong></p><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tf tg aht" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 426px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 426px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:852/format:webp/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 852w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 426px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:852/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png 852w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="274" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:852/1*IvQ1nx14XaPiCR1IBL-lOg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 426px;" width="426" /></picture></div><figcaption class="ahp ey afm tf tg ahq ahr be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">The pinks of Paco</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0886" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">T<strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">he pinks of Paco were outstanding…as were the bright colored dresses of the three women when Koffi and Alice first come to meet the family… Can you talk more about the costumes?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="419b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Together with Elke Hoste, I also designed the costumes for the film. They blend elements from different cultures. For instance the mother, Mujila, always wears lace. Lace is very Belgian. The techniques were introduced to Congo by the Belgians but they used raffia to create the designs, not the fine threads used in Belgium The mother is always dressed with lace and a the sober brown of raffia.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="93c8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I created a cultural triangle. There are obviously lots of elements from Central Africa, but there’s also an influence from American heritage: the costumes in the parade are inspired by Mardi Gras — we actually went<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />to New Orleans to create the masks. What I discovered there was that the origin of their own customs including music began in the place they named “Congo Square”!</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5faa" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">So this depiction completes a full circle as well as a triangle within the circle.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5704" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We also took inspiration from the “Gilles,” the famous folklore characters<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />who appear in the carnival parade of Binche in Belgium. I also used Belgian surrealist painters like Magritte as an influence, for example in the opening and closing scenes.</p><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="to tp fl tq bg tr" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tf tg ahu" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 2554px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="286" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*hEbKfXsmCQIl3IYHBQ1B9g.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ahp ey afm tf tg ahq ahr be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;"><strong class="be ahd" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The carnival calendar in Wallonia begins with a bang in Binche. Every Shrove Tuesday, this walled city hosts a festival so ancient it has been listed by UNESCO as a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”. Indeed, Binche has been a byword for indulgence for so long that it actually gave the English language the term “binge”. (Photo and caption courtesy of VisitWallonia.com)</strong></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="11eb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">What does it mean for you to be able to come to L.A. with your first feature film (after winning New Voice Prize at Cannes)?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="97e9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It is interesting and challenging to talk about my next movie with the people I meet here when the first one has not yet completed its final phase of release. It’s schizophrenic in a way.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cacb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It is very important for all of Central Africa to have a film from Congo represented at the Oscars. It is extremely big! I am from a country where there is no film culture….not in all of Central Africa. Congo has no Academy [AMPAS] standing at all, so it is good that Belgium submitted this film.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f29b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">You are, as far as I know, the only representative of a film from Africa here and some really good films from Africa are hoping to get shortlisted.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="36d3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">It is also very impressive that your Academy Screening and post-screening Q&A is being sponsored by </strong><a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_2_q_Mahershala%2520Ali" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mahershala Ali</strong></a><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> (<em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Moonlight, Greenbook</em>). Maybe we will see him in your next movie. You have an advantage by being here in L.A.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3296" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Thank you! If I return to L.A., I will bring you a box of the best Belgian truffles!</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0ac8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">*****************</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="81f2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Rapper turned filmmaker Baloji is Belgian-Congolese. He was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and lives in Belgium. He is an award-winning musician, filmmaker, polymath, art director, and costume designer. He transforms his own Belgian-Congolese heritage to original forms and we hope to new heights as well for a long future of success.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4e2c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen </em>follows several well-received short films that have been distributed worldwide, including<em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Zombies </em>(2019).</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2169" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As a musician, Baloji has released two critically acclaimed albums and two EPs. The latest, <strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Avenue Kaniama</strong>, was released on Bella Union Records (Father John Mistry, Fleet Foxes).</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a273" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">**********</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="45cb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">International sales agent <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/intsale/51447/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Memento</a> has licensed the film to Utopia for U.S. to release theatrically early 2024, Stadtkinoverleih for Austria, Imagine for Benelux, Pan Distribution for France, Grandfilm for Germany, I Wonder Pictures for Italy, HHG for Russia, Filmin for Spain, Outside the Box for Switzerland, AYA Films for U.K.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="260d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Omen</em> is produced by <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/prodcompany/286542/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Wrong Men</a> (Belgium), in co-production with <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/prodcompany/327970/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">New Amsterdam Film Company</a>(the Netherlands), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0930782?ref_=ttco_co_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tosala Films</a> (D.R. Congo), <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/prodcompany/300899/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Special Touch Studios</a> (France), <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/prodcompany/286322/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Radical Media</a>(Germany), <a class="af uq" href="https://cineuropa.org/prodcompany/80478/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Serendipity</a>(Belgium) and Big World Cinema (South Africa).</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9fc3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Further support has come from <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0351494?ref_=ttco_co_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">BNP Paribas Fortis Film Financ</a>e (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0011677?ref_=ttco_co_3" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)</a> (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0511943?ref_=ttco_co_4" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Proximus</a> (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0375934?ref_=ttco_co_5" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">VO</a>O (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0178188?ref_=ttco_co_6" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">BE TV</a> (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0291888?ref_=ttco_co_7" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">VRT / Canvas</a> (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0028557?ref_=ttco_co_8" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Canal+</a> (co-production), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0065172?ref_=ttco_co_9" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel et des Télédistributeurs Wallons</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0169751?ref_=ttco_co_10" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0004924?ref_=ttco_co_11" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Nederlands Filmfonds</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0492280?ref_=ttco_co_12" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Netherlands Film Production Incentive</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0673104?ref_=ttco_co_13" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">The Berlinale World Cinema Fun</a>d (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0704817?ref_=ttco_co_14" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Région de Bruxelles-Capital</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co1030911?ref_=ttco_co_15" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Fonds de Promotion Culturelle (FPC)</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0585754?ref_=ttco_co_16" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Fonds Images de la Francophonie</a>(support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0031991?ref_=ttco_co_17" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0124813?ref_=ttco_co_18" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">TV5MONDE</a> (participation), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co0503416?ref_=ttco_co_19" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Institut Français</a> (support), <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/company/co1030910?ref_=ttco_co_20" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Red Sea Film Fund</a>(support)</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="51e2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">*************</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f940" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This is Belgium’s 48th Oscar submission. Belgium’s submissions have received eight nominations but no wins. Lukas Dhont’s <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Close</em> was nominated last year.</p><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="to tp fl tq bg tr" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tf tg ahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1416px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="472" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*eIDasB1Be9Lh-eSIFyWgmA.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ahp ey afm tf tg ahq ahr be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Baloji and me</figcaption></figure>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-64871217657966456732023-12-19T15:40:00.000-08:002023-12-19T15:40:39.779-08:00Burkino Faso’s Oscar © Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Sira’ by Apolline Traoré<p> <span style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">The power of art can dispel the bleakest of moods. Great art revives our spirit and for that reason alone, I do not ever want to lose my love for great motion pictures and music.</span></p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><div class="oy oz pa pb pc" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="speechify-ignore ab dc" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="speechify-ignore bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 680px;"><div class="pd pe pf pg ph ab" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="ab jw" style="align-items: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><br /></div></div><div class="bm bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 12px; width: 604px;"><div class="ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 1 1 0%;"><span style="color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The story of a young nomad named Sira who refuses to surrender to her fate without a fight and instead takes a stand against Islamist terror.</span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">This is a great film to pick up and is still available for U.S.!</strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="to tp fl tq bg tr" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tf tg agj" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 772px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="924" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*XJQ9Jv8-7c_QfMlI0gfuEg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2787" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This is a story of a real female warrior set today in Sahel, the region that stretches across the north of sub-Saharan Africa. Boku Haram kidnaps and rapes a 17 year old on a caravan going with her nomadic Fulani family to her wedding with the son of a farming family. We see Boku Haram’s other young women kidnapped from schools to use as sex slaves, breeders and servants hopelessly trapped, but she survives and in the end, carries the day.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ec53" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Music by Cyril Morin is, as is all his music, unique and perfectly fitted to the film. This coproduction of Burkina Faso, France, Germany and Senegal runs a bit long at 122 minutes but its heart is pure as it traces the fight to survive by this Fulani woman.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ae6f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Tom Twkvers and Marie Steinmann-Tykwer’s company, <a class="af uq" href="https://www.somefinedaypix.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Some Fine Day Pix</a>, in Kenya was founded in 2008, to give young African filmmakers the opportunity to create their own films.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f7ac" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This film is Kenya’s submission for Academy Award nomination. The problem will then be finding strong enough publicity on their shoestring budget to get it seen widely enough to be shortlisted, which it clearly deserves. Perhaps the below-the-radar Academy campaign of <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">To Leslie </em>to get<em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></em>Andrea Riseborough the nomination for Best Actress<em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>can offer some lessons — IF a U.S. distributor picks up the film and makes a decent campaign for it.</p><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="to tp fl tq bg tr" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tf tg agk" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1230px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="570" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*vWEHiPoMAtTXjMgk.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="381b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film went on to Burkino Faso where it played in FESPACO, Africa’s top film festival and its oldest, founded in 1969. Since the bi-annual festival was last held in 2021 the West African nation has had to deal with the political fallout from two coups within eight months and spiraling violence driven by groups linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3247" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In Berlin <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033205/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Apolline Traoré</a> spoke so eloquently to the audience afterward that they did not want to let her go but were forced to leave the theater so the next film could play. She began this film eight years ago. Five countries are still being terrorized by Boku Haram: Nigeria, Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. Only Mauritania has rid itself of them. She hopes that this tale of resistance brings hope to the people of the region. She spoke of the Fulani people, who the star represents. They are divided by color and don’t mix with each other, nor do Muslims usually marry Christians so this story is complicated in ways Westerners may not wholly understand. The topic, very near and dear to Apolline, may also not find a home with Burkino audiences. And there is something else close to her heart: portraying women as strong characters.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="362a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Watch the </strong><a class="af uq" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Vh20EdGxUHw&fbclid=IwAR3mAzaZrbtYT4ciPQqDCzynqRpd3C-JpV35QX34ZSpRhXcUdjKiw61Akrc" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Berlinale Meets interview with Apolline Traoré</strong></a>, director of <em class="up" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sira</em>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b317" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“I simply have to give them a voice. Most of the time, they are portrayed as victims: People show women in refugee camps who have lost their fathers or husbands. But it’s these same women who protect their children. Who have used dangerous escape routes to save them.” Women, in fact, who have demonstrated how to survive. According to Traore, it is precisely these women who play a major role in the fight against the jihadists in Africa.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="607c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Watch the </strong><a class="af uq" href="https://www.dw.com/en/international-womens-day-a-fight-for-freedom/a-64920145" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="tv js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">discussion of women filmmakers in Africa here.</strong></a></p><figure class="ti tj tk tl tm tn tf tg paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="to tp fl tq bg tr" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tf tg agl" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1400px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sq ts c" height="339" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*VWTCCipNa70UwRNa.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="297f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Director and writer <a class="af uq" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033205/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Apolline Traoré</a> was born in 1976 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Her father’s profession, a diplomat, led to her travelling the world. At the age of 17, her family moved to the United States and she began her studies at <a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_College" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Emerson College</a> in <a class="af uq" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Boston</a>, a well known institution in the field of art and communication. This is her fourth feature film.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph tt tu nv tv b oj tw tx ty om tz ua ub uc ud ue uf ug uh ui uj uk ul um un uo jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4047" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">She clearly deserves recognition; Berlin, Fespaco, Toronto have all welcomed this film. It’s clear that the ISA (International Sales Agent) is not doing anything to promote or sell this film!</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-74775265902281528262023-12-19T15:35:00.000-08:002023-12-19T15:35:09.861-08:00India's Oscar© Entry 2024 for Best International Feature: '2018: Everyone is a Hero' by Jude Anthany Joseph<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="74a7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">A disaster film as it really happened set during the 2018 Kerala Floods where people from all walks of life were taken by surprise and forced to face the catastrophic consequences of climate change. Their collective efforts to survive the calamity take the audience by storm and rivet them to their seats.<img alt="" class="bg lv na c" height="855" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*op_rpTqwJ84l9CWXoLmzsQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9b17" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The director <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6272974/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Jude Anthany Joseph</a> actually lived through the floods. What he told us was that he was at home with his parents when they heard the water rising. They said they would stay but he went to his sister’s. When he returned home, it was flooded. His car was washed away, the streets were a stream. The roads were blocked and he stayed at a hotel and spent the whole night thinking life was over. Luckily during the seven days it lasted, his wife and children were away at a wedding. They all survived and he is here to share this story with the world.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="049e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Watch the trailer <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/?ref_=nm_knf_t_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="80e5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As I was reading the newspapers and watching the news videos, I saw a great story in the success of Keralites standing together to fight this disaster. It was a great story of humanity saving each other. The army and the police were powerless, but the fishermen took to their boats and rescued as many of those stranded in their homes as possible.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e23b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was after the L.A. screening by JJ PR that he told me how it was all shot on a set. He built a tank and filled it with water from the river. He built 16 houses with facades which he put into the tank. A house of three floors is depicted as getting flooded floor by floor. He did this by putting each floor in the water, so that when the scene with the couple in the attic up to their noses in water by the time they were rescued (or not), only the top floor was placed in the tank.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2b59" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_2018%253A%2520Everyone%2520is%2520a%25C2%25A0Hero" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">2018: Everyone Is A Hero</em></a><em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>is so masterfully handled that you would think it took many millions to make. But it is a truly independent film. All this was done on a budget of US$3 million!</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ccb2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film’s great production quality can compete with any other film in this category. In fact it can almost compete with the renowned Roland Emmerich disaster movies whose budgets are in the hundreds of millions.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a3d4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Most of the 129 actors were professionals and, like the producer as well, were all victims of the flood. The lead character in the film actually did die.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mw mx ef my bg mz" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="mn mo nz" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1554px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv na c" height="393" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="508e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“The idea was pure and sincere. Maybe that is the reason it came out well. And it is the people of Kerala who made the film a huge success, I could see the claps and tears in the cinema halls when the film was released,” Joseph said. With a box office take of $25 million, <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_2018%253A%2520Everyone%2520is%2520a%25C2%25A0Hero" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">2018: Everyone Is A Hero</em></a> is the highest grossing Malayalam-language film of all time.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7e13" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“It is a global topic. People from different parts of the world are suffering from disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes etc. and the people will relate to the characters,” Joseph said. “People must act together across the globe by seeing themselves as a part of nature (and its disasters). Humans and nature are one.”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="19f6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film was released May 5 in India and U.S. It will be re-released in the U.S. Sony (India) saw it before it was finished when they picked up all rights and partnered with his team on the production. Sony has worldwide rights.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5e9c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">India has been submitting to this international film category since 1957 and has been nominated three times: for <em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mother India </em>(1957), <em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Salaam Bombay</em>(1988); and <em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lagaan</em> (2001). Its 2022 entry <em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Last Film Show</em> was shortlisted, but did not score a nomination. India is yet to win the category. However <em class="ny" style="box-sizing: inherit;">RRR</em>was the <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/2023/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">2023 Oscar Winner </a>in the category of Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) by <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444807/?ref_=ttawd_awd_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">M.M. Keeravani</a> and <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151513/?ref_=ttawd_awd_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Chandrabose</a> for the song “Naatu Naatu” and the winner of <a class="af nx" href="https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000133/2023/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_4" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">2023 Winner Critics Choice Award</a> for Best Foreign Language Film.</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-91862842519823251882023-12-19T15:33:00.000-08:002023-12-19T15:33:25.297-08:00Bangladesh’s Oscar© 2024 Entry for Best International Feature: ‘No Ground Beneath The Feet’ by Mohammad Rabby Mridha<p> </p><div class="nz oa ob oc od l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="jq jr mj ok ol" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="pw-post-title om if on be js oo op oq or os ot ou ov dn ow do dq dr ox ds du dv oy dw dy oz bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="9ea0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><span class="al" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;">Bangladesh, the sound of sobbing. A desperate people in need of aid.</span><img alt="" class="bg ti uk c" height="1126" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*wtCruayc679SkCDN-t7JNw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h1></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4f55" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Submerging, dying, rotten. Its people must go abroad to work on lousy construction sites, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai from which they fall from 22 floors and rot before their families are even notified. This world is depicted in all its misery while the people deal with their daily bread and shelter and the love or non-love lives they find themselves living.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e4ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our protagonist rubs beetlenut juice on his gums to keep from croaking. Set in the backdrop of the scathing consequences of climate change, an impoverished ambulance driver Saiful staggers between two wives while he sets out on a bone-tired journey of moral decay, murder, deception, and social bashing.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0b31" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Everyone cries about floods, phones that get stolen or run out of batteries.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4ee8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We watch as the flood overtake even the highest in the country, both its people and its land, the sound of a real baby crying is almost unbearable, just too real and horrible to watch.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="08b9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For all their human degradation, how well the women dress and maintain their dignity. But this is not about that; it is merely incidental. Through it all, the women maintain a dignity, innate within them along with an ability to manage others. And yet, the people are all so rude and unpleasant with each other, enslaved at the lowest rangs of society.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="722f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This schlump, played by Rocky Chowdury, has more than one wife and can barely take care of himself. His wives are constantly demanding payments while his boss cuts his salary. It’s enough to make you want to commit suicide and just end it all.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd6d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Only the promise of heaven when all the good things that will come keeps him going in misery that gets worse and worse. For all the misery I feel no empathy. I think of the country and I am appalled.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e50b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It also stars Deepanwita Martin as the second wife. She was also in the praiseworthy film, <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Made in Bangladesh</em> (See my blog) and as the first wife, Priyam Archi, a Bangladeshi Actor who has brought many challenging characters to life throughout her acting career and whose life epitomizes success in Bangladesh, from a humble beginning of life as the youngest child from her parents. By being the restless daredevil with an indomitable spirit, playing in the wild backyard, swimming in the ponds and staging games with nature, her natural intelligence, beauty and wit brought her far.</p><figure class="ua ub uc ud ue uf tx ty paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tx ty agt" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 280px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 280px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 560w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 280px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 560w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg ti uk c" height="360" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 280px;" width="280" /></picture></div><figcaption class="agu ey agv tx ty agw agx be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Priyam Archi</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0645" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film has played well on the international festival circuit starting in South Korea at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival and going to The International Film Festival of India, Japan’s Osaka Asian Film Festival, and the Asian Film Festival Barcelona before its U.S. premiere at the Asian World Film Festival 2023</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"></div></div></div><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="vl vm ab dd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 6px;"><div class="vn ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><br /></div><div class="vn ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-46732784464379950292023-12-19T14:30:00.000-08:002023-12-19T14:30:46.180-08:00Taiwan’s Oscar© Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Marry My Dead Body’ by Wei-Hao Cheng<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title om if on be js oo op oq or os ot ou ov dn ow do dq dr ox ds du dv oy dw dy oz bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="096e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><span style="color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px;">This very mixed genre film combines comedy, policier and gay romance in a fun-to-watch unexpected submission for the Oscar from a country where some of the world’s great cinema has been created.</span><img alt="" class="bg ti uk c" height="994" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*8F_NEGHrwpRA_9_cEH6IgQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h1></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7453" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Taiwan cinema has always been committed to stories told from a Taiwanese perspective since its inception in 1901 to the 1950s and 1960s, genre films of the 1960s and 1970s, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_New_Cinema" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Taiwan New Cinema</a> of the 1980s, and the Second New Wave of the 1990s whose films are slightly less serious and more popular with the people. Internationally known representative directors include King Hu, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Hsiao-hsien" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Hou Hsiao-hsien</a>, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Yang" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Edward Yang</a>, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Ming-liang" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tsai Ming-liang</a>, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Tso-chi" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Chang Tso Chi</a>, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Mong-hong" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Chung Mong-Hong</a>, and Midi Zhao. <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Ang Lee</a> is perhaps the most well-known of the Second New Wave directors. His early films <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Hands_(film)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pushing Hands</em></a> (1991), <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Banquet" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Wedding Banquet</em></a> (1993), and <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Drink_Man_Woman" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eat Drink Man Woman</em></a> (1994) focus on the generational and cultural conflicts confronting many modern families. He has had three films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and one of these films, <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</em>, is the only Taiwanese film to have won the award.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="21cd" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">His revived the <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">wuxia</a> genre successfully. Although not in the tradition of New Wave or Second New Wave, <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger,_Hidden_Dragon" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</em></a> (2000) was a commercial success, revived the wuxia genre and placed Asian films firmly in the international domain. The later films <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Summer_(2006_film)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eternal Summer</em></a> (2006), <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Tears" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Prince of Tears</em></a> (2009) and <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winds_of_September" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Winds of September</em></a> (2009) have pushed the boundaries of Taiwanese film-making and broken the island’s long-standing <a class="af vh" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">taboos</a> about the depiction of controversial subject matter.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6f44" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Taiwan was the first country in Asia to legalize same sex marriage in 2019. The way LGBTQ themes are depicted here is heartwarming and original. Who says you cannot mix genres? Mixed in with a police story teaming a woman and a man vying for credit in solving crimes, it often convolutes into hilariously incongruous shenanigans. as they try to solve the mystery of the death of the foil of our protagonist.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1f1a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Staying with the tradition of Taiwanese perspectives, this caper deals with a tradition called “ghost marriage” where a family tries to find their deceased daughter a groom because without a husband, she has no place on the traditional family altar honoring the family ancestors. They find a husband by placing her photo and a lock of her hair in a red envelope and laying it on the ground. If a man picks it up, expecting money, he will find he has just married the person. He is still free to marry a real-life woman but the deceased then has a place to rest upon the traditional family altar of the husband. Otherwise, she has no place and wanders the earth as a ghost.</p><figure class="ua ub uc ud ue uf tx ty paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ug uh fl ui bg uj" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tx ty vj" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1816px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg ti uk c" height="459" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="84a2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In this story, the man finds the envelope, but the family is trying to marry off <strong class="un js" style="box-sizing: inherit;">their son</strong>, Mao,<strong class="un js" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </strong>who has recently passed away. And the ghost remains fully active until he convinces the man to go through with the marriage. The man is the homophobic policeman, Wu, who heavy-handled a homosexual suspect and was chided by his boss for his prejudice. His partner, the beautiful Tzu-Shing also berates Wu for his staunch homophobia. Wu spots Mao’s father, who tells his ‘son-in-law’ that he’s trying to look for clues about the car that ran over Mao. The video footage had been removed, according to the police, and Wu decided to look into the matter.</p><figure class="ua ub uc ud ue uf tx ty paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ug uh fl ui bg uj" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tx ty vk" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1568px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg ti uk c" height="392" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7a8b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Thus the cop and ghost team up to search for clues, which leads to multiple hilarious situations, including Wu having to approach a suspect at a gay bar and being laid flat on his back. Coincidentally, this suspect, who’d witnessed the hit-and-run of Mao, was an underling of a drug lord, who was being investigated by Wu’s old precinct. Thus the “romance” and the policier go hand in glove</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9ce2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It is the filmmaker Wei-Hao Cheng’s fifth feature. Most of his films are crime, suspense or horror stories. In 2015, his short film, <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Death of A Security</em> Guard, won Best Short Film at 52th Golden Horse Awards. In 2016, his debut feature film <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Tag-Along</em> garnered four award nominations including Best Director. It also smashed box office records of horror movies in Taiwan for over ten years. In 2017, feature films <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Who Killed Cock Robin</em> and <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Tag-Along 2</em> were released and nominated for eight awards in 54th Golden Horse Award. In 2021, his film <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Soul </em>was nominated for 11 Golden Horse Awards including Best Director. His first series <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Pond</em> was selected in the 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2023, this latest film <em class="vi" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Marry My Dead Body</em> was released and ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films in Taiwan’s cinematic history. It won the Best Screenplay at the 25th Taipei Film Awards, and was nominated for the Best Narrative Feature, the Best Director and six other awards at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ul um on un b pb uo up uq pe ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va vb vc vd ve vf vg jq bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="105e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film is currently available on Netflix.</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-71340861390403282602023-12-19T14:27:00.000-08:002023-12-19T14:27:45.708-08:002024 Oscar Consideration for Best Documentary: ‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ directed by Nicole Newnham<div class="nj nk nl nm nn l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article class="meteredContent" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="jr js oc od oe" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="pw-post-title of ig og be jt oh oi oj ok ol om dn do dq dr ds du dv dw dy on oo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="0a2d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 0px 0px -0.27em;"><br /></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph op ig og be b oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe mk ga" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c472" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">Premiere Sundance 2023</h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph op ig og be b oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe mk ga" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c472" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><span style="color: #242424; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Hite Report, a groundbreaking study of female sexuality, remains one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976. The Hite Report brought the female orgasm out of unspoken shadows into the light of day by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Shere Hite’s findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sex.</span></span></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq ul um un ot uo up uq tv ur us ut tz uu uv uw ud ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f27d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.94em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions. With each subsequent bestseller, she engaged television titans in unforgettably explicit debates about sexuality while suffering the backlash her controversial findings provoked. But who remembers Shere Hite today? What led to her erasure?</p><figure class="ve vf vg vh vi vj vb vc paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="vk vl fl vm bg vn" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="vb vc vd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1334px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg sv vo c" height="395" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*wBtCQ6v1AnhGKHwF.jpg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="004c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The takeaway of <strong class="uk jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Hite Report</strong> was that female expression of sexuality should not be defined by patriarchal power. This idea deeply offended the male establishment and consequently, the media made as much of their wounded ideas of themselves as of the book itself whose authentic and anonymous findings were treated with intense controversy.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7a4d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The astonishing beauty of Shere Hite herself lies outside of the cliche perameters of the “scholarly” (i.e., “homely) woman. And so her methodical research was called “unscientific” and was called into question (and answered smartly by her). Her background as a working-class, bisexual, former nude model with photographs appearing in Playboy did not sit well with the offended and offensive men who interviewed her on top TV shows after the book became a runaway success. All of her many identities are displayed in the movie.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="382b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Digging into exclusive archives, as well as Hite’s personal journals and the original survey responses, filmmaker Nicole Newnham transports viewers back to the 70s, a time of great societal transformation around sexuality (See <em class="vu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Fairyland,</em> about queer life in San Francisco, also playing here in Sundance,for another take on the 70s and <em class="vu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Food and Country </em>about the coming of age of California cuisine in the 70s under the guiding hands of Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse). Newnham’s revelatory portrait brings us to reconsider a pioneer who broke the ground for our current conversations about gender, sexuality, and autonomy. Her story also is a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e76c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Nicole Newnham is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary director and producer and four-time Sundance alum. She co-directed <em class="vu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Crip Camp</em> (2020) with Jim LeBrecht. <em class="vu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Crip Camp</em> was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance U.S. Documentary Audience Award. Newnham’s other documentary directing credits include the Emmy-nominated films <em class="vu" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Revolutionary Optimists, Sentenced Home, and The Rape of Europa.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7642" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">U.S. IFC</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0300" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Sales: Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d306" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uk jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Directed and Produced By:</strong> Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp)<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong class="uk jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Produced By:</strong> Molly O’Brien, R.J. Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Kimberley Ferdinando, Trevor Smith<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong class="uk jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Co-Produced By:</strong> Erica Fink, Eleanor West<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><strong class="uk jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Executive Produced By:</strong> Elizabeth Fischer, Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Andy Berg, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph ui uj og uk b oq vp um un ot vq up uq tv vr us ut tz vs uv uw ud vt uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3307" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">116 minutes</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"></div></div></div><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="vv vw ab dd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 6px;"><div class="vx ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><a class="ez ax am ao" href="https://medium.com/tag/movies?source=post_page-----a3a7dde64488---------------movies-----------------" rel="noopener follow" style="border: medium; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="eh fl hy ii km kn ko be b bf z bj kp" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(242, 242, 242); box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 8px 16px; position: relative; transition: background 300ms; white-space: nowrap;">Movies</div></a></div><div class="vx ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><a class="ez ax am ao" href="https://medium.com/tag/documentary?source=post_page-----a3a7dde64488---------------documentary-----------------" rel="noopener follow" style="border: medium; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><p> </p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-51502793916189829832023-12-13T08:17:00.000-08:002023-12-13T08:17:02.452-08:002024 Oscar© Consideration for Documentary ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ directed by Lisa Cortés<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title og ig oh be jt oi oj cr ok ol om on ct oo op dn oq ahw do dq dr or ahx ds du dv os ahy dw dy bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="002e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px 32px;"><br /></h1><div class="pk pl pm pn po" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="speechify-ignore ab dc" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="speechify-ignore bg l" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 680px;"><div class="pp pq pr ps pt ab" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="ab jx" style="align-items: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><h1 class="ahz aia oh be aib abi aic ox abl abm aid pa abp adx aie ady adz aea aif aeb aec aed aig aee aef aih bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e38c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.016em; line-height: 30px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;">Born in Macon, Georgia in 1937, Richard Wayne Penniman stood up loud and clear for who he was and what he deserved. The history of the Black queer origins of rock ’n’ roll, beginning with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, clearly the Mother of Rock ’n’ Roll, who gave Little Richard his first break when he was 14, would have been obliterated had not Little Richard objected so vociferously to such an event.</h1><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts aii" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1384px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="446" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*1htr8gjUwZt4jdTNmP6AcA.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e681" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">But</strong> before acknowledging Little Richard’s vast contribution to rock ’n’ roll, we should also give credit to the Indigenous Americans as depicted in the 2017 documentary by Catherine Bainbridge called <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333080/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World</em></a>. Without acknowledging their contribution we would be guilty of doing what this documentary stives to correct, that is the obliteration of the black queer origins of the genre. The genre’s musicological roots lie as much in the beat of the Native American drums as in Little Richard’s brazenly displayed performances which electrified White audiences and got them onto their feet.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts aij" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1400px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*PSHG52kZn3A3n48D.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="agg ey agh tr ts agi agj be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Little Richard, courtesy of Sundance Institute</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1e29" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13885492/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Little Richard: I Am Everything</em></a><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>takes us on a ride through the complex evolution of a man of many qualities, from generosity to bragadoccio, from flamboyantly queer and hyper-sexualized to extremely and conservatively religious. He was true to all these facets of himself.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8ca5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Testimonials from legendary musicians and cultural figures, Black and queer scholars, Little Richard’s family and friends, and interviews with the artist himself are insightful and interesting. The treasure trove of rarely seen archival footage of his Penniman family and of Black southern life lift this documentary beyond his performances and talking heads. Among the gems are scenes with his Black and queer predecessors and his own mother and other women, depictions of household and field chores and churches. Cortés exuberantly reclaims a history that has been appropriated by white artists and institutions.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ff94" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As the audience watches his life and its changes, the audience itself is changed from pure love and enthusiasm for his music to an understanding of the complexity of a showbiz figure in his mental development and changes. He is transformed from an icon to a human being.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="tr ts aik" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 608px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 608px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1216/format:webp/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 1216w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 608px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1216/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png 1216w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="814" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1216/0*Q7hhJ5WQzznODBnc.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 608px;" width="608" /></picture></div><figcaption class="agg ey agh tr ts agi agj be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Lisa Cortés, courtesy of Sundance Institute</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cc1e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Kudos are due to director Lisa Cortés who is also the producer of <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Invisible Beauty </em>which also premiered at Sundance 2023. She also has a first-look development agreement with the Museum of the City of New York to create documentaries based on the museum’s exhibitions. She plans for projects on food, social justice, music, and more. The first being made under the deal is a docuseries based on <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off</em>, an exhibition inviting bakers from every borough to design New York City-inspired gingerbread creations.</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-26968097928288435262023-12-13T08:15:00.000-08:002023-12-19T15:35:57.340-08:00An Interview with the Director and Producer of Georgia’s Oscar© 2024 Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Citizen Saint’ <p> </p><div class="nr ns nt nu nv l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="jr js od oe of" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="pw-post-title og ig oh be jt oi oj ok ol om on oo op dn oq do dq dr or ds du dv os dw dy ot bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="5533" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><br /></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph ou ig oh be b ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj mr fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2c8c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">After watching the ‘Citizen Saint’ at the Asian World Film Festival this past month, I spoke with the producer <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4885422/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr6" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Lasha Khalvashi</a> and director <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5091608/?ref_=nm_mv_desc" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tinatin Kajrishvili</a>.<img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="1072" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*ScCla65K2Y_kM_uLQ4MY3A.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><figcaption class="agg ey agh tr ts agi agj be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Director <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5091608/?ref_=nm_mv_desc" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tinatin Kajrishvili</a> and producer <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4885422/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr6" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Lasha Khalvashi</a>, a partnership in real life and in cinema.</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6fb7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">While I already knew that Georgian food was exceptional and its method of winemaking was 5,000 years old, fermented in unique clay amphora buried in the earth, I did not know that its language is the most ancient non-Indo-European of Europe. Nor did I know that it shares a 556 mile border with Russia who has five permanent military bases in South Ossetia manned by approximately 5,000 army troops, border guards and FSB personnel another 5,000 based in Abkhazia. Nor did I know that the most famous Georgian of all is the Dictatort Joseph Stalin whose life will be the subject of a US$10 million film Lasha is about to produce. Don’t we need to know as much as we can about Stalin? A former priest-in-training turned gangster, Stalin knew how to appeal to the masses until he walked them to their grave. A populist if ever there was one, on par with Hitler himself, the devil incarnate.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9e8e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Georgia’s 3 million people are still free — perhaps for the first time in their millennia-old world which throughout history has been constantly invaded either by the East or the West. Constantly.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7685" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizen Saint</em> takes us to a time seemingly under Stalin’s Soviet Rule but it is actually today, as the mining town has changed very little except it is now independent of USSR. The story, essentially an absurdist reenactment of The Passion Play, is reminiscent of the 1957 film by Jules Dassin (<em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Never on Sunday</em>), <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">He Who Must Die</em> written by Kazanzackis (<a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_The%2520last%2520temptation" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Last Temptation of Christ</em></a>). However, neither Lasha nor Tinatin had ever heard of Jules Dassin or his film.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c026" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This satirical black-and-white parable about a saint who descends the cross to live among mortals explores the complexities of faith and human nature, when the patron saint of the harsh mining community comes to life.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fb35" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Known for her Berlinale titles, the Panorama Audience Award winning <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Brides</em> and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon, </em>Tinatin Kajrishvili’s third feature should extend her reputation beyond Europe (where she is well known) to the U.S.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d23c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How did you come to make this film?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="62b6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I read a short story called <strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Bye Amigo</strong> by a Georgian woman writer about a saint who comes alive and wanders among the people. It took a lot of time to figure out how write the script and when I found the town to set it in, I began. The town, Chiatura, is mine complex. No one lives there. It’s just mines. The workers live in the hills around it and come in on a cable car that was last renovated by Stalin. They come to work and then they leave. It is a town where anything can happen.You do not know what happens in their homes and in their private lives, but going into the mines is dangerous. It is very difficult to astonish these people. They are very kind but face fear and obstacles all the time. Mining is the only job they can have.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8690" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Don’t the young people leave?</strong> Yes only about 40% remain to become miners.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f0ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I read that the Christianity in Georgia began through the ministry of a woman named Saint Nino during the 4th century, and it is one of the oldest church communities in the world. Are the people religious today?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8912" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It is very difficult to touch on religious themes in Georgia. The religion is Georgian Orthodox. The people censure themselves and ask the priest if they should undertake something different, or if they have doubts about things.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="27c9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Is it believable that they would take to a living saint as they did in your movie?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0ca5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I often get this question from people. In my own neighborhood in Tbilisi, there is a living saint with many followers who wait outside of his place to see him at the window. He throws his garbage out the window and the people run to collect it. His followers post videos on Facebook. For example, a childless couple say they conceived after eating the tomatoes he threw out his window. His name is King Nariman and he is on Facebook. If you challenge the followers, they become very aggressive. So yes, I find the story is believable, although it is an imaginary town, even though it was shot in a real town where I previously shot two other films. And the people do have a protector image on the hill, their patron saint, though it was not the one in the film. The place is a microcosm to show how people come to work and leave from work without our knowing where they live. They are always going to or coming from work…as so many of us do today.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c902" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">What about the characters? They are odd to say the least…</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9a0f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was very deliberate that I show people as if they were dressed in uniforms. I did not go deep into their characters. It was my decision to shoot in darkness with wide shots to lose the characters and then get close to them after seeing how they behave publicly. Then I would do a close shot with them alone with the saint and their most private thoughts. But that would only be a short sentence reveal.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts ahv" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1912px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="301" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*L3ANzqV2ldlmLlz45fc1uQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="agg ey agh tr ts agi agj be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Mari and the Saint before he comes alive</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0034" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For instance, Mari who when she is alone with the saint says that he never answered her prayers; she had prayed to him to kill her husband and now she is glad he never listened to her prayers. Except for that, you always see her in a uniform, very uptight, a suit jacket and skirt and high heels, even when she is walking on gravel.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2945" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">And, credit the great sound designer, Thomas Jaeger, worked with Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, you hear her high heels everywhere. The sound was very important…it was all recreated as were the film’s settings. Only about 20% of it was from real life…I did not make anything near a documentary.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="49b0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Even the paintings?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c323" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Yes the set designer painted the murals that looked so much like social realism of the 30s, but were not. You can actually see some of the characters in the film in the artwork. And the statue of the miner on the cross was his work; he was a sculptor.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="76f0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How about the music? It was very minimalistic but so deeply moving.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="14c4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The music took one or two years. I usually do not use music at all in my movies but here I was working with inner sound, like inhaling and exhaling. I used a Georgian folk instrument like a flute. Then an instrument that sounded like an alarm. And a trumpet.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="75b3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The composer, Tako Jordania, is a therapist for children who undergo ear surgery and need to adapt to hearing voices and sounds and to start talking and pronouncing words for the first time. She also works with children on the autistic spectrum.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6277" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How about the actors, how did you find your lead actors?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5537" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I knew Mari and Vano and the old couple from my other films and I knew I could trust them to handle any sort of difficulty and still act well. They had to act in very difficult settings, like the mine and I had to trust them to be able to do it. Mari was the lead in <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Brides</em>. Vano was the lead in <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon</em> and the old couple was in both <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Brides </em>and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon</em>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ea2a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Berdo was the most difficult to find. That is his real name and I changed the character’s name to Berdo. He is really quite young and he transformed himself to look old. He is quite well known as a stage actor.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="83c8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For the saint I was looking for someone who was a stranger yet local. George Babluani lived half his life in France. Audience may remember him from <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">the film Thirteen. </em>He has a naïve look, he is calm, kind and positive. He lives mostly in Georgia now but goes back and forth to France.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9f98" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The whole crew played a major part in the film, not just in recreating but in acting as well. Half of the crew is acting in the film. It is crew members that take down the cross and statue. We were all dressed as miners and were in the tunnels as miners. The set designer and we all knew exactly where to point our flashlights and where to aim our head lights on our helmets.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5105" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was very difficult for the DP Krum Rodriguez to shoot these scenes, using our lights for his with a light always at the end of the tunnel. He had to shoot these huge old soviet cars, tracks, the minors.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ab52" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I shot with non-linear horizons; I used the hills, the giant metallurgical factory in the background, half-lit underground. Even the sound had to come from underground.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cc19" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">You shot during extreme times, the time of COVID.</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="29e3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Yes there was a real threat of death; it was a depressing time and the future unknown. It was during lockdown. We needed special permits to go to work which was allowed between 7am and 9pm.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="59aa" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We did great work, we went to great extremes to make it work. The production designer worked two years on it; he recreated the main square.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1f1b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The Bulgarian DP was very brave because travel was very restricted and yet he shot with his crew.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6c3b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">You seem to thrive on filming in difficult places. Can you say more about that?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8b1f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We shot <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Brides </em>in a prison, it was very claustrophobic and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon</em> was shot on a very isolated small island with only one house on it.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5a89" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How did you find your crew?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c445" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The DP had seen my films and we met online until the point of shooting when we met personally on location.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cb7b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How did you find your partners in production and your cast?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f37f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Lasha and I knew established producers in Bulgaria and in France.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5e4c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Did they finance the film as well?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f1d3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Yes CNC from France, the Bulgarian Film Center and the Georgian Film Center financed it plus some in-kind from the studios.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a5a4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">And how is the film now playing?</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b834" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We had a very strong premiere in Karlovy Vary where it won the Ecumenical Award. Its local premier was at the Batumi Film Festival here in Georgia where it won for Best Director and the Audience Award and it went into the cinemas in September. It just finished its theatrical run after playing one month.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1b03" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">INTERNATIONAL TRAILER</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e43d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af vb" href="https://vimeo.com/artizm/cstrailer?share=copy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/artizm/cstrailer?share=copy</a></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c4df" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Produced by Georgia’s Lasha Khalvashi at Studio Artizm and Tinatin Kajrishvili for Germini. It is a coproduction with France’s Mandra Films and Bulgaria’s Chouchkov Brothers. Sales are being handled by Studio Artizm.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2caa" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Title — CITIZEN SAINT<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Country — Georgia<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Director — Tinatin Kajrishvili<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Screenwriter — Tinatin Kajrishvili, Basa Janikashvili</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0b19" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Cinematography — Krum Rodriguez<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Editor — David Apkhaidze<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Production design — George Gordzamashvili</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="83f4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Music: Tako Zhordania<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Producer — Tinatin Kajrishvili, Lasha Khalvashi, Studio Artizm</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6326" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Starring — George Babluani, Levan Berikashvili, Mari Kitia, Gia Burdjanadze, Temiko Tchitchinadze, George Bochorishvili and Lia Abuladze</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="821a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Director, Scriptwriter, Producer — TINATIN KAJRISHVILI</strong></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5b83" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Tinatin Kajrishvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1978. In 2001 she graduated from the State Theatre and Film University of Georgia with the qualification of Film Director. In 2014 she directed and wrote the screenplay to her first feature film <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Brides</em>. In 2018 she directed and wrote the screenplay to her second feature Film <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon.</em>Both films premiered at Berlin International Film Festival. Brides won the Audience Award for Best Picture in the Berlinale Panorama. She is a member of Georgian Filmmakers Union.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article></div><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="vf vg ab dd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 6px;"><div class="vh ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-50035907876768637512023-12-13T08:11:00.000-08:002023-12-13T08:13:06.791-08:00Georgia’s Oscar © Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Citizen Saint’ by Tinatin Kajrishvili<p> <span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Into a deeply religious mining community, an angel comes. Well, not an angel exactly, more of a saint. And the saint is more of a Christ </span><mark class="agp agq ao" style="background-color: #e8f3e8; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">figure. </mark><mark class="agp agq ao" style="background-color: #e8f3e8; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Even a townsman confuse their only saint with Je</mark><mark class="agp agq ao" style="background-color: #e8f3e8; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">sus Christ.</mark><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="560" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*CdtYLnybRN34bDyn6i0G_w.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></p><div class="nr ns nt nu nv l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 68px;"><article style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="jr js od oe of" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e7f7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In this stark and beautiful film, the statue of the saint upon a cross has disappeared. Shortly after a mute man appears who seems able to perform miracles and is accepted as the saint come-to-life. This leads to conflicts not to peace. Filmed in the still-operating oppressive Chiatura mine complex in central-western Georgia, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizen Saint</em> explores the harsh lives of the locals as they cope with the questions of faith.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c6c9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The miners and Christian hypocrisy do not go together. The struggle between right and wrong as the ruling powers in a small mining town in Georgia connive brings with it the conundrum of faith. A parable for today, this story rings as true as it was when it first occurred.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="797d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In regard to the complex themes explored in the film, director Tinatin Kajrishvili says, “Observing how far people can go in search of hope and miracles made me write the script. Unrealized expectations and fear of loss lead people to make extraordinary decisions. It’s an endless circle.”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="22d6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Reminiscent of Jules Dassin’s 1957 movie, <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050237/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_he%2520who%2520must%2520" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">He Who Must Die</em></a>, although the political backstories differ, both re-enact the passion of the Christ saga in their particular milieu. In <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">He Who Must Die</em>, the back political story is the politics of resistance of the Greeks against the Turks. In this, it is the workers against the capitalist ruling class. While we all know it, the truth as illuminated in both movies still often eludes us. This film reminds us of the struggles we all share.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dc59" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The stark black and white opening of the film — from the inside of the mine where Berdo (played by Levan Berikashvili) the protagonist lives to be near his son who died in the mine’s collapse, to the outside of hard unforgiving stone cliffs contrasting against a huge sky where Berdo takes the saint (aka foreigner) to view the town from above, to the town where Berdo takes the saint to report in and they enter the sheet shrouded room where the monument’s cross, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">sans </em>disappeared saint is laid out — the cinematography plays an important part in shaping our response as the story unfolds. The town’s mayor and VIPs measure the saint to be sure he fits the cross, and he leaves it with stigmata on his hands; these sharply contrasted and enigmatic scenes lead the viewer into a mystical and particular Georgian story of a saint who is lost, found and lost again.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8690" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Georgia’s Christian roots go deep and this film captures faith as the people adopted it 300 years after Christ, the same time that the Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity leading to the Christianization of the Roman Empire. However, this is not a “faith-based” film. Its plot goes in crazy places, into the townspeople’s lives who have been praying with no salvation for years until the saint comes to life. Again, in contrast to <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">He Who Must Die</em>, written by Nikos Kazantzakis, who also wrote <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Last Temptation of Christ </em>one of the most controversial books of all time and often on “banned book” lists, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizen Saint</em> does not leave you with the compassion and catharsis of the Passion. It leaves you with the supposition that faith does not really matter in truth, only in fiction, as a sop for the masses, and yet there remains the elusive wish for righteousness.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9771" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The exploitation and sacrifice, even martyrdom, of the miners is exemplified by the saint himself, said to have been a miner who died and whose body miraculously did not decay but calcified and became the statue of the only saint worshipped in this village.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts agm" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1116px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="383" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*lds0B2Do8woKAKt2uKdXAg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="77d7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The magnificent monochrome cinematography by Krum Rodriguez, (which won Best Cinematography at the Asian World Film Festival, its U.S. premiere) focuses on the mines, rusting mining equipment, ladders to the saint, sheets covering the surroundings where the saint on the cross lies waiting for restoration, outside in an unforgiving wild landscape, and in reconstructed artwork. All bring to mind the industrial photography of Lewis Hines or the cinematography of Tarkofsky, Bela Tarr and Angelopolous. It transports the viewer from the mundane to the sublime.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts agn" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1428px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="399" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*wa4E-jw1FeCpfJW780iqfQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2f54" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The music also transcends. The score of Tako Jordania punctuates and carries the mysticism of the story. A single long-held trumpet note; a motif going from two notes to four, repeated with a sustained interval and then repeated again; at the sound of the train going into the mountain a religious longhorn is followed by a chorale combining with an almost rabbinic song. The lone horn again — the mine will collapse again.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cc90" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Tako Jordania, the composer, began not only composing but by working with children with hearing problems and with children who were on the autistic spectrum. She helped them begin to speak with the help of music. Says Kajrishvili: “Her attitude to the world of sound was very interesting for me, as I have the main character, who doesn’t talk and we don’t know what he hears (he hears thoughts).” Jordania also has scored eight shorts between 2010 and 2017 and one feature in 2017. Where has she been an what has she been doing between 2017 and 2023?</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts agm" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1116px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="381" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*VhaGAP1FXBqubM4IhqpJIw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b24a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Also admirable is the beautiful faded socialist art on walls and on building facades. It was surprising to learn they had been painted specifically for this film. Giorgi Gordzamashvili gets credit as the production designer. I would buy this artist’s work in an instant. Gordzamashvili was also the production designer on Tinatin Kajrishvili’s 2018 film <a class="af vb" href="https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt7976972/?ref_=nm_ovrvw_cr_kf_3" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon</em></a><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a222" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Known in Germany and throughout Europe for her Berlinale titles <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Brides</em>(winner of Panorama Audience Award) and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Horizon</em>, Tinatin Kajrishvili directed and cowrote (with Basa Janikashvili) <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizen Saint, </em>her third feature. She is not known in the U.S., but this film should put her on the map.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts ago" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1152px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="561" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*_yHUcasfM09ORjzWtxmwbw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f7b8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Watch the international trailer </strong><a class="af vb" href="https://vimeo.com/artizm/cstrailer?share=copy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">here</strong></a><strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">. </strong><a class="af vb" href="https://vimeo.com/artizm/cstrailer?share=copy" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/artizm/cstrailer?share=copy</a></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f0d2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizen Saint</em> premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2023 and was recently nominated for Best Film at the 16th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It won for Best Cinematography at the Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles, its North American premiere.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d725" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In Georgian with English subtitles, the film is produced by Georgia’s Lasha Khalvashi at Studio Artizm and Tinatin Kajrishvili for Germini. It is a coproduction with France’s Mandra Films and Bulgaria’s Chouchkov Brothers. International sales are by Studio Artizm. U.S. is available.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"></div></div></div><div class="ab cl" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="cm bg cn co cp cq" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 0px 24px; max-width: 680px; min-width: 0px; width: 680px;"><div class="vf vg ab dd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 6px;"><div class="vh ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><br /></div><div class="vh ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"></div><div class="vh ab" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin-top: 8px;"><a class="ez ax am ao" href="https://medium.com/tag/international-film?source=post_page-----6faf2862bea8---------------international_film-----------------" rel="noopener follow" style="border: medium; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-46847594363960739822023-12-13T08:04:00.000-08:002023-12-13T08:13:46.390-08:00Denmark’s Oscar© Entry for Best International Feature: ‘The Promised Land’ by Nikolaj Arcel<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title og ig oh be jt oi oj ok ol om on oo op dn oq do dq dr or ds du dv os dw dy ot bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="0f87" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><br /></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph ou ig oh be b ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj mr fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4bf7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">Classic epic of a renegade settler in 18th century Denmark who makes the land grow in spite of everyone’s lack of faith in him. The masterful sweep of the pioneer Danish on the heath, the interactions of the stoic outsider and his aristocratic neighbors and how he creates a family against all odds, classic in style and subject: It delivers 100%.<img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="877" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*LBkYTBNHidqlNH5QcqQ2Hw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts age" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 2062px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="326" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*0D9VUU5CMluQDfOoasgW3w.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c4b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Promised Land</em> is an epic Nordic saga which creates a seamless archetypical story of struggle and triumph. And in classic western style the hero rides off into the sunset, only this time, he is not alone.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4501" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Its original language title is <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Bastard</em>, and the outsiders of the society are those born out of wedlock from masters raping their servants who are essentially slaves. Mads Mikelson embodies a Danish John Wayne archetype in this western saga about the bastard son of a noble who has served heroically in the Seven Years War.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bb9b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Ludvig Kahlen arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king’s call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honor himself. But Kahlen quickly makes an enemy. The merciless landowner, Frederik De Schinkel, who is sole ruler of the area and believes that the heath belongs to him and not the king. When De Schinkel’s serf runs away with Ann Barbara played by <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4518657/?ref_=tt_ov_st" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Amanda Collin</a>, his wife and a housemaid who had been raped and exploited by Schinkel, and seeks refuge with Kahlen, Schinkel does everything to drive Kahlen away and at the same time exact a cruel revenge. Kahlen does not bow, but stubbornly takes up the unequal battle and now risks his life, and the bond with the small, troubled family that has arisen around him on the heath.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4cec" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Kahlen becomes the champion of the same people who later emigrated and worked the farmlands of the plains and prairies in America (Pure Edna Farber material, although in her prize-winning novel and movie <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">So Big</em>, the immigrant farmers were Dutch), but here the people are working the heath, long considered unsustainable as an agricultural endeavor, but remaining a wish of the King to cultivate.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4155" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">I love Nordic sagas, like <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">War Sailor </em>last year, like <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Kristen Lavransdotter</em> which I read as a girl. I also love the composer Leroy Anderssen and the early TV series,<a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041039/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"> <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I Remember Mama</em></a><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>that ran from 1949 to 1957, and all the stories by Hans Christian Anderson. I loved the little Danish community of <a class="af vb" href="https://solvangusa.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Solvan</a>g in California and blue and white tableware. I loved my first visit to Europe and visiting Denmark and Tivoli Gardens where I lost my sweater and someone turned it in; the people looked like angels and were honest.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fb29" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The only issue I have is with the title of this and of another film called <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Settlers</em>, both of which were playing in Toronto where I caught them. Together, they sound like two films about Israel, but neither has the least connection to that land.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts agf" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1850px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="358" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*VFi5pX9QWm-zaGQ4TvRaCg.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="agg ey agh tr ts agi agj be b bf z fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Director Nikolaj Arcel and Leading Man Mads Mikelson</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e4b7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The Zentropa-produced drama premiered in Competition at the Biennale di Venezia, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious festivals before going to Toronto International Film Festival.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="288e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The critically acclaimed director, Nikolaj Arcel, is back directing a Danish film, for the first time since the Academy Award-nominated <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Royal Affair </em>(2012) and reuniting with the talented Mads Mikkelsen.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f0bc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Written by Arcel and Danish screenwriter and director Anders Thomas Jensen (<em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Riders of Justice</em>, 2020), it is based on the Danish bestseller ‘Kaptajnen og Ann Barbara’ (translated ‘The Captain and Ann Barbara’) from 2020. Produced by Louise Vesth (<em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Kingdom Exodus</em>, 2022; A Royal Affair, 2012 an Melancholia, 2011) 2011) for Zentropa Entertainments.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="834a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Estimated to be one of Zentropa’s biggest feature films in years and with a budget of EUR 8M, the feature has already received massive attention in Denmark, within the industry and has already sold more than 50 territories already sold, including: US (Magnolia Pictures), Canada (Mongrel Media), Germany (Plaion), France (The Jokers Films), Poland (Best Film), Spain (Divisa Red) and many more underlining the immense attention that the film has received worldwide.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b165" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">A Danish-Swedish-German Coproduction</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bd1c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Produced by Zentropa Entertainments ApS in co-production with Zentropa Berlin GmbH, Zentropa Sweden AB in cooperation with TV2 Denmark, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, SVT, PLAION PICTURES in co-production with Film i Väst with support from Danish Film Institute Markedsordningen, Eurimages, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Czech Film Fund and Swedish Film Institute. Developed by the Creative Europe Media Programme — Media of the European Union. Domestics distribution through Nordisk Film. International sales handled by TrustNordisk.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9fd4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Promised Land</em> was released widely in Denmark on 5 October 2023.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c90" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Denmark has been nominated 14 times with 4 wins (<em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pelle the Conquerer </em>in 1987, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Babette’s Feast</em> in 1988, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In a Better World</em> in 2010 and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Another Round</em>, which also starred Mikkelsen, in 2020)</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c200" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Arcel’s <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Royal Affair </em>was nominated in 2012.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1939" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This is Denmark’s 61st submission.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2830" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Magnolia Pictures will release <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Promised Land</em> in U.S. theaters on February 2, 2024.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts agk" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 992px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="528" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*3HMl5LxqpS8pLJhk.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-86328166832983262072023-12-13T08:02:00.000-08:002023-12-13T08:14:07.656-08:00India’s Oscar © Entry for Best International Feature: ‘2018: Everyone is a Hero’ by Jude Anthany Joseph<p> <span face="sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: #6b6b6b; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;">A disaster film as it really happened set during the 2018 Kerala Floods where people from all walks of life were taken by surprise and forced to face the catastrophic consequences of climate change. Their collective efforts to survive the calamity take the audience by storm and rivet them to their seats.</span><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="855" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*op_rpTqwJ84l9CWXoLmzsQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9b17" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The director <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6272974/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Jude Anthany Joseph</a> actually lived through the floods. What he told us was that he was at home with his parents when they heard the water rising. They said they would stay but he went to his sister’s. When he returned home, it was flooded. His car was washed away, the streets were a stream. The roads were blocked and he stayed at a hotel and spent the whole night thinking life was over. Luckily during the seven days it lasted, his wife and children were away at a wedding. They all survived and he is here to share this story with the world.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="049e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Watch the trailer <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/?ref_=nm_knf_t_2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="80e5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">As I was reading the newspapers and watching the news videos, I saw a great story in the success of Keralites standing together to fight this disaster. It was a great story of humanity saving each other. The army and the police were powerless, but the fishermen took to their boats and rescued as many of those stranded in their homes as possible.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e23b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It was after the L.A. screening by JJ PR that he told me how it was all shot on a set. He built a tank and filled it with water from the river. He built 16 houses with facades which he put into the tank. A house of three floors is depicted as getting flooded floor by floor. He did this by putting each floor in the water, so that when the scene with the couple in the attic up to their noses in water by the time they were rescued (or not), only the top floor was placed in the tank.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2b59" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_2018%253A%2520Everyone%2520is%2520a%25C2%25A0Hero" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">2018: Everyone Is A Hero</em></a><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>is so masterfully handled that you would think it took many millions to make. But it is a truly independent film. All this was done on a budget of US$3 million!</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ccb2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film’s great production quality can compete with any other film in this category. In fact it can almost compete with the renowned Roland Emmerich disaster movies whose budgets are in the hundreds of millions.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a3d4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Most of the 129 actors were professionals and, like the producer as well, were all victims of the flood. The lead character in the film actually did die.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts aga" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1554px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="393" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*dU_S2QftZ1QG3fodWhVLRw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="508e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“The idea was pure and sincere. Maybe that is the reason it came out well. And it is the people of Kerala who made the film a huge success, I could see the claps and tears in the cinema halls when the film was released,” Joseph said. With a box office take of $25 million, <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9006564/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_2018%253A%2520Everyone%2520is%2520a%25C2%25A0Hero" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">2018: Everyone Is A Hero</em></a> is the highest grossing Malayalam-language film of all time.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7e13" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“It is a global topic. People from different parts of the world are suffering from disasters like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes etc. and the people will relate to the characters,” Joseph said. “People must act together across the globe by seeing themselves as a part of nature (and its disasters). Humans and nature are one.”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="19f6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film was released May 5 in India and U.S. It will be re-released in the U.S. Sony (India) saw it before it was finished when they picked up all rights and partnered with his team on the production. Sony has worldwide rights.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5e9c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">India has been submitting to this international film category since 1957 and has been nominated three times: for <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mother India </em>(1957), <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Salaam Bombay</em>(1988); and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lagaan</em> (2001). Its 2022 entry <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Last Film Show</em> was shortlisted, but did not score a nomination. India is yet to win the category. However <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">RRR</em>was the <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/2023/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">2023 Oscar Winner </a>in the category of Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) by <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444807/?ref_=ttawd_awd_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">M.M. Keeravani</a> and <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151513/?ref_=ttawd_awd_1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Chandrabose</a> for the song “Naatu Naatu” and the winner of <a class="af vb" href="https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000133/2023/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_4" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">2023 Winner Critics Choice Award</a> for Best Foreign Language Film.</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-50827999068126859742023-12-13T08:01:00.000-08:002023-12-13T08:01:05.049-08:00Taiwan’s Oscar© Entry for Best International Feature: ‘Marry My Dead Body’ by Wei-Hao Cheng<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title og ig oh be jt oi oj ok ol om on oo op dn oq do dq dr or ds du dv os dw dy ot bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="096e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><br /></h1></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph ou ig oh be b ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj mr fz" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="02a8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">This very mixed genre film combines comedy, policier and gay romance in a fun-to-watch unexpected submission for the Oscar from a country where some of the world’s great cinema has been created.<img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="994" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*8F_NEGHrwpRA_9_cEH6IgQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7453" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Taiwan cinema has always been committed to stories told from a Taiwanese perspective since its inception in 1901 to the 1950s and 1960s, genre films of the 1960s and 1970s, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_New_Cinema" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Taiwan New Cinema</a> of the 1980s, and the Second New Wave of the 1990s whose films are slightly less serious and more popular with the people. Internationally known representative directors include King Hu, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Hsiao-hsien" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Hou Hsiao-hsien</a>, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Yang" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Edward Yang</a>, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Ming-liang" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Tsai Ming-liang</a>, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Tso-chi" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Chang Tso Chi</a>, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Mong-hong" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Chung Mong-Hong</a>, and Midi Zhao. <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Ang Lee</a> is perhaps the most well-known of the Second New Wave directors. His early films <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Hands_(film)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pushing Hands</em></a> (1991), <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Banquet" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Wedding Banquet</em></a> (1993), and <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Drink_Man_Woman" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eat Drink Man Woman</em></a> (1994) focus on the generational and cultural conflicts confronting many modern families. He has had three films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and one of these films, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</em>, is the only Taiwanese film to have won the award.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="21cd" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">His revived the <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">wuxia</a> genre successfully. Although not in the tradition of New Wave or Second New Wave, <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger,_Hidden_Dragon" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</em></a> (2000) was a commercial success, revived the wuxia genre and placed Asian films firmly in the international domain. The later films <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Summer_(2006_film)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Eternal Summer</em></a> (2006), <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Tears" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Prince of Tears</em></a> (2009) and <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winds_of_September" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Winds of September</em></a> (2009) have pushed the boundaries of Taiwanese film-making and broken the island’s long-standing <a class="af vb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">taboos</a> about the depiction of controversial subject matter.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6f44" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Taiwan was the first country in Asia to legalize same sex marriage in 2019. The way LGBTQ themes are depicted here is heartwarming and original. Who says you cannot mix genres? Mixed in with a police story teaming a woman and a man vying for credit in solving crimes, it often convolutes into hilariously incongruous shenanigans. as they try to solve the mystery of the death of the foil of our protagonist.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1f1a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Staying with the tradition of Taiwanese perspectives, this caper deals with a tradition called “ghost marriage” where a family tries to find their deceased daughter a groom because without a husband, she has no place on the traditional family altar honoring the family ancestors. They find a husband by placing her photo and a lock of her hair in a red envelope and laying it on the ground. If a man picks it up, expecting money, he will find he has just married the person. He is still free to marry a real-life woman but the deceased then has a place to rest upon the traditional family altar of the husband. Otherwise, she has no place and wanders the earth as a ghost.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts vd" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1816px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="459" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*SMuT5xjxMpWBVRzOHxLXgA.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="84a2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In this story, the man finds the envelope, but the family is trying to marry off <strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;">their son</strong>, Mao,<strong class="uh jt" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </strong>who has recently passed away. And the ghost remains fully active until he convinces the man to go through with the marriage. The man is the homophobic policeman, Wu, who heavy-handled a homosexual suspect and was chided by his boss for his prejudice. His partner, the beautiful Tzu-Shing also berates Wu for his staunch homophobia. Wu spots Mao’s father, who tells his ‘son-in-law’ that he’s trying to look for clues about the car that ran over Mao. The video footage had been removed, according to the police, and Wu decided to look into the matter.</p><figure class="tu tv tw tx ty tz tr ts paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ua ub fl uc bg ud" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="tr ts ve" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1568px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg tc ue c" height="392" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*WPvf1gOHGjRS7BBtboKmuw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7a8b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Thus the cop and ghost team up to search for clues, which leads to multiple hilarious situations, including Wu having to approach a suspect at a gay bar and being laid flat on his back. Coincidentally, this suspect, who’d witnessed the hit-and-run of Mao, was an underling of a drug lord, who was being investigated by Wu’s old precinct. Thus the “romance” and the policier go hand in glove</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9ce2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It is the filmmaker Wei-Hao Cheng’s fifth feature. Most of his films are crime, suspense or horror stories. In 2015, his short film, <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Death of A Security</em> Guard, won Best Short Film at 52th Golden Horse Awards. In 2016, his debut feature film <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Tag-Along</em> garnered four award nominations including Best Director. It also smashed box office records of horror movies in Taiwan for over ten years. In 2017, feature films <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Who Killed Cock Robin</em> and <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Tag-Along 2</em> were released and nominated for eight awards in 54th Golden Horse Award. In 2021, his film <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Soul </em>was nominated for 11 Golden Horse Awards including Best Director. His first series <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Pond</em> was selected in the 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2023, this latest film <em class="vc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Marry My Dead Body</em> was released and ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films in Taiwan’s cinematic history. It won the Best Screenplay at the 25th Taipei Film Awards, and was nominated for the Best Narrative Feature, the Best Director and six other awards at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph uf ug oh uh b ov ui uj uk oy ul um un uo up uq ur us ut uu uv uw ux uy uz va jr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="105e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film is currently available on Netflix.</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-24982484353194960722023-12-13T07:59:00.000-08:002023-12-13T08:01:25.264-08:00Bangladesh’s Oscar © Entry for Best International Feature: ‘No Ground Beneath The Feet’ by Mohammad Rabby Mridha<p> </p><div style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="30bb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><span class="al" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Bangladesh, the sound of sobbing. A desperate people in need of aid.</span><img alt="" class="bg lv na c" height="1126" loading="eager" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*wtCruayc679SkCDN-t7JNw.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></h2></div><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4f55" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Submerging, dying, rotten. Its people must go abroad to work on lousy construction sites, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai from which they fall from 22 floors and rot before their families are even notified. This world is depicted in all its misery while the people deal with their daily bread and shelter and the love or non-love lives they find themselves living.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e4ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Our protagonist rubs beetlenut juice on his gums to keep from croaking. Set in the backdrop of the scathing consequences of climate change, an impoverished ambulance driver Saiful staggers between two wives while he sets out on a bone-tired journey of moral decay, murder, deception, and social bashing.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0b31" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Everyone cries about floods, phones that get stolen or run out of batteries.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4ee8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We watch as the flood overtake even the highest in the country, both its people and its land, the sound of a real baby crying is almost unbearable, just too real and horrible to watch.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="08b9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For all their human degradation, how well the women dress and maintain their dignity. But this is not about that; it is merely incidental. Through it all, the women maintain a dignity, innate within them along with an ability to manage others. And yet, the people are all so rude and unpleasant with each other, enslaved at the lowest rangs of society.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="722f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This schlump, played by Rocky Chowdury, has more than one wife and can barely take care of himself. His wives are constantly demanding payments while his boss cuts his salary. It’s enough to make you want to commit suicide and just end it all.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cd6d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Only the promise of heaven when all the good things that will come keeps him going in misery that gets worse and worse. For all the misery I feel no empathy. I think of the country and I am appalled.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e50b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It also stars Deepanwita Martin as the second wife. She was also in the praiseworthy film, <em class="nx" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Made in Bangladesh</em> (See my blog) and as the first wife, Priyam Archi, a Bangladeshi Actor who has brought many challenging characters to life throughout her acting career and whose life epitomizes success in Bangladesh, from a humble beginning of life as the youngest child from her parents. By being the restless daredevil with an indomitable spirit, playing in the wild backyard, swimming in the ponds and staging games with nature, her natural intelligence, beauty and wit brought her far.</p><figure class="mq mr ms mt mu mv mn mo paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="mn mo ny" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 280px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 280px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/format:webp/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 560w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 280px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png 560w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv na c" height="360" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:560/1*e2_Mj8eW1s4DVO3EASL1XQ.png" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 280px;" width="280" /></picture></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob mn mo oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Priyam Archi</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc fv nd b gt ne nf ng gw nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0645" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.14em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">The film has played well on the international festival circuit starting in South Korea at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival and going to The International Film Festival of India, Japan’s Osaka Asian Film Festival, and the Asian Film Festival Barcelona before its U.S. premiere at the Asian World Film Festival 2023</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-74111733114966909042023-11-15T16:32:00.000-08:002023-12-13T07:57:54.405-08:00Theatrical Release of the Week: ‘Against the Tide’ an Interview with director Sarvnik Kaur<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="a5f9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;">Theatrical Release of the Week: ‘Against the Tide’ an Interview with director Sarvnik Kaur</h1></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b24c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">Theatrical opening in NYC at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema on Friday, November 24.</h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b24c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><br /></h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gs fu fv be b gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b24c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">‘Against the Tide’ directed by Sarvnik Kaur and executive produced by Mira Nair, had its World Premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in World Cinema Documentary Competition where it won a Special Jury Award for vérité filmmaking. This lyrical and beautifully observed portrait of two Bombay fishermen navigating the effects of modernization on their friendship and livelihoods was recently nominated for the Gotham Award for Best Documentary and is shortlisted for the IDA Award for Best Feature Documentary.</h2></div><figure class="no np nq nr ns nt nl nm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nu nv ef nw bg nx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="nl nm nn" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1400px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv ny c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*j03EyOwm79hMKKeJ.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob nl nm oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Koli fisherman Rakesh (r.) checking his catch. Courtesy of Snooker Club Films.</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="24e2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">This powerfully moving portrait of a friendship tested by the strains of the modern world has the same deeply emotional thrust delivered in <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Honeyland </em>(for those who saw it in 2019), and surprisingly, it was edited by the same team behind <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Honeyland.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bf7b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system — a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods while Ganesh, by embracing technology, has strayed away from them. The film tells a tale of deep friendship and rising conflict between the two men against the backdrop of an adoring sea, which is increasingly turning hostile because of climate change.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e747" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“Beautifully composed and movingly intimate.”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />– Justin Chang, <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Los Angeles Times</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="78ca" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“[An] excellent, insightful Indian documentary about life itself…<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Piercing in its personal drama… A vital portrait of the intersection between the spiritual and industrial in the world’s most religious nation.”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />– Siddhant Adlakha,<em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> IndieWire</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0fa5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“[A] poetic, beautifully shot documentary… The aura of the miraculous lingers on.”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />– Ryan Gilbey, <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Guardian</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1857" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Rakesh and Ganesh are so close, they consider themselves brothers. Both are fishermen of Bombay’s Indigenous Koli community, but they’ve taken contrasting paths. Rakesh uses his inheritance — his father’s boat and the knowledge passed down by generations of Koli fisherman — to fish in the traditional ways, while Ganesh — who was educated abroad — has instead embraced modern, technology-driven, and environmentally destructive methods of deep-sea fishing, causing increasing friction between the friends. But with declining fish populations caused by pollution and invasive species, neither man is finding much success, adding to the burdens facing their young families, and testing the bonds of their brotherhood.</p><figure class="no np nq nr ns nt nl nm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nu nv ef nw bg nx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="nl nm nn" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1400px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv ny c" height="391" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*rvLzDgvWTDF6H0MH.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob nl nm oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Ganesh relaxes with his best friend Rakesh. Courtesy of Snooker Club Films.</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6a01" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Beyond the finding story itself engrossing and important, I was faced with the more frequently occurring questions, like, why do we work ourselves up being moved by films of people we learn to love, when we know the way of our materialistic world will destroy their way of life. “These people”, the Kolis, are inheritors of the ancient and great Koli knowledge system — a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Does it make us better people to watch docs like this or <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Honeyland</em>? How can we reconcile the intimate view of these two men and their families and communities with knowing that their way of life is doomed (in this case by technology and climate change)? What is the point of watchng these docs showing us all the injustice of the world? I know I am not going to become more active in fighting climate change. I am too busy living. So then what? What action can we take to rectify the way we know all too well the world is going? There are too many issues needing to be addressed; social action is way beyond my own time and energy.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7664" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">After I praised the film for its beauty, its honesty, its intimacy and the love it revealed sustaining the traditional but poor Koli community living in Bombay and barely getting by in their heritage as fishermen, basically, that was my first question to the director Sarvnik Kaur.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6a32" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">What’s the point of it all?</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ff84" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Director Sarvnik Kaur’s response surprised me.</p><figure class="no np nq nr ns nt nl nm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nu nv ef nw bg nx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="nl nm nn" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1400px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv ny c" height="394" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*MJMkbjE9gXQwu-jw.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob nl nm oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Director Sarvnik Kaur</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="66a6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">SK:</em> </span><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Making this film is a way for me to channel these things, to make sense of the world which is not following society’s mandates. I was given an opportunity to learn how to live life. I never thought about what the Kolis were going to do. The Kolis will take care of themselves. Life as it is lived on the outside, our modern obsession with possessions and growth of wealth does not encompass their lifestyle. They face hardships including finding food for their families while caring for newborn children as a community. With love, they create the joy of life and existence.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="68a9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Kaur‘s deeply humanistic and intimate approach to these two men at a crossroads in both their friendship and profession immerses the viewer in their experiences, where neither man is hero or villain in the choices they make to survive in an imperiled world. She presents a microcosmic, sea level view of the fragility of our relationship with the changing environment while affirming what it is to be alive and human.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="04ac" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">SK: </em></span><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Perhaps no one would put their problems on the table unless I did, but I did it for myself, to be honest and to learn about life from one of its sources. I learned so much from Rakesh, Ganesh and the community.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9570" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How did you begin your journey?</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8473" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">For the past ten years, I have lived next to a Koli village. This has allowed me to get closer to them, to witness their daily concerns. In 2016, when the regional authorities decided to transform their market into a commercial complex without consulting them, the “Collective of Women Fish Sellers” immediately put up resistance. I became actively involved with them and made some short films that they used to conduct their campaign.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9c1b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">This is how my journey with the Kolis began, in trying to be as helpful as I could be. I have spent the last five years with the Koli community and have come to understand their lives — the conflicts and the joys — as a filmmaker, as an ethnologist, and now as a friend. With time and patience, we have established a relationship of trust.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f551" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I began conceiving the idea in 2015 at the end of my film about Kashmir. That film ‘A Ballad of Maladies’ which explores the tradition of political resistance in Kashmir through the work of those poets, musicians and artists who have turned their art into weapons of resistance during periods of heightened state repression and violence in the region. The film was banned from broadcast on the national network but it won India’s 64th National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film in 2017, Best Film at the 11th biennial Film South Asia and Best Documentary at the 10th IDSFF Kerala.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f0be" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Winning the award felt like a sort of co-option by the state, but the co-director certainly deserved an award.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="51ea" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I watched the Koli being pushed out and thought it was the same problem, though it was being labelled differently. My own honesty was at stake in telling their story as well, rather than being co-opted by the state who bestowed a prize on a film that was banned from ever being viewed. As an artist, I have only my own honesty. That the state took my story for its own purposes was unbearable. This new film gave me the chance to empty myself of their poisonous lying.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="becb" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I wanted the film to be life affirming.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d188" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">When did you begin shooting?</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="99be" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">As I watched two friends, both indigenous Koli fishermen in Bombay, being driven to desperation by a dying sea and their friendship beginning to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.</em></p><figure class="no np nq nr ns nt nl nm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; 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height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob nl nm oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Ganesh and Rakesh</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9168" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Meeting Rakesh was like finding a treasure trove. He is not stupid. Generations before him have understood the moon and the movement of the stars and the fish. He took a marker and on my whiteboard drew a bird’s eye view from the moon and stars shining light upon his boat and how the moon’s refracted light attracted the fish and lit the way for the fisherman.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fd6f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I realized the film was about one people (the Koli) becoming divided in itself. Watching these two men conversing in 2019, I knew that was how I would build the film. I saw there were two factions in the community and one faction was “othering” the “other”. Like two monkeys fighting while the cat comes and takes the cream, each side blames the other for the lack of fish which in truth is being depleted by offshore oil drilling and climate change.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9cab" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rakesh and Ganesh fight to survive in this implacable reality they have no control over. Their strategies for getting by diverge, sometimes clash, but what they have in common is that they are fueled by the same determination to exist in a changing and merciless world where respect for nature and tradition weighs very little in the face of the economic and internationalized interests of some.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7a70" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Ganesh chooses a different route of bringing in LED lighting on a large scale to attract fish but which leads him into forbidden watersd as well as into compeitition with the Chinese and big business. Both struggle to survive. Rakesh’s solution is the most radical.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d7f1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">And in the end, the two are reconciled by the birth of a new child. Rakesh has solved the problem by selling his boat and downsizing to a smaller boat but catching only high-value fish like lobster which bring in higher prices sufficient to feed his family while keeping overhead low. He has dignity and no debt, lives more slowly and celebrates life.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2c22" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">What attracts you to your subjects? Your previous and first film, <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Soz — A Ballad of Maladies</em>, explored the tradition of political resistance through music and poetry in Kashmir.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2054" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">SK: The subjects reflect my own family’s history. My grandparents were born in Pakistan when the country was part of British India. In 1947, India and Pakistan were divided and the two countries entered into a mortal conflict, which continues today. My grandfather’s family, Sikhs, fled Pakistan to a refugee camp in New Delhi, where my father was born. In 1984, my grandparents managed to leave the camp and build a modest house, but it was completely destroyed during an anti-Sikh riot. I was one year old. My family had to move again.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4910" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">I grew up with the trauma of these successive uprootings and a constant fear. This personal story brings me back to the Koli community, whose territory and tradition are also threatened. Bombay is a suffocated city where space is scarce and expensive. The Kolis’ lands are now the last available space in the city center and their owners, whose income depends on increasingly meager fisheries, are often forced to sell them to rich entrepreneurs or politicians who will build luxury residences with a view. The Kolis who still live there will be driven out in ten years by land pressure and rising waters. Even the most resistant, like Rakesh, will inexorably abandon their house and, with it, their way of life, a part of their history and their traditions. Like my father and his family, they will one day be displaced and become refugees.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b6bc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Koli concerns are the concerns of all of Bombay. They’re the guardians of the city’s coast, the sea and even the mangroves. The Koli community of Bombay will be sacrificed for lucrative real estate deals and generalized inaction regarding climate change. It will soon disappear, and I am Zilming its last stirrings.India is one of the places where the effects of climate change are the most dramatic. Every year, the monsoon and the meteorological hazards become more violent and unpredictable. Since 2000, some of Mumbai’s shores have retreated by more than 20 meters and tomorrow, the city’s climate displaced will number, at the very least, in the hundreds of thousands. If nothing is done to curb climate change, many experts agree that Bombay will be largely submerged by 2050, with the Kolis’ land being the first to be flooded.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cebd" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rakesh is in a way the ancestral conscience of Ganesh. But by sticking to the age-old traditions of his people at all costs, he risks putting his family in danger. I didn’t want to make a film about who is good or bad; I wanted simply to witness and record as sincerely as possible the stakes that these two intelligent, honest and hard-working young men face, and the consequences that their decisions entail. By following the life of one and then the other, I hoped to make the viewer question his own convictions and the choices he would have made himself if he had been in their place.”</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2ddc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">How did you begin and find support for this film?</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5b78" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">S<em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">K: In December 2019 I shot a pilot for the film because I had the clarity of vision that it was about one community and the two “brothers” facing the crisis of the sea with its polution, lack of fish and that everything that was happening in the sea was showing itself in the financial crises, social crises and familial crises.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6761" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">That’s how I started to get the workshops and funds. Once you begin, you are led, as if by your own nose. Then you find champions all over the world. If you care, you find others care about the story and the struggle.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d22f" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">It was life affirming. I felt lost, persecuted, alone. It was eye-opening that someone in Amsterdam or the US or France cared about my story and my struggles, to be recognized. The everyday lies are not the real world. The read world is in being true to oneself and then others lead you into life. That is the real world.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a769" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">She is a recipient of multiple grants from Sundance Film Fund, Catapult Film Fund, IDFA Bertha, San Francisco Film Fund, AlterCine Foundation, HotDocs Crosscurrents International. She has also been a fellow at Hot Docs Accelerator Lab, IDFA Academy, SFFILM and the Chicken & Egg Eggcelerator Labs.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="519a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Further support came from Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in collaboration with the CNC, Procirep Angoa.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="262a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Do you have advise for other doc filmmakers?</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a0e5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">SK: <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lower your ambitions and strenthen your resolve. I do not want the moon.</em></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3e9b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">I understand how radical it is and how documentary filmmakers (and journalists) themselves manage to make meaning out of their lives just as the Koli fishing people do, by living in a community, covering costs and needs basic in order to live a life of joy, love and sharing. That is radical and that is the lesson so many people come away with when they delve into the deeper meaning of life.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f1c1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="og fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Do like Rakesh, downsize to support your life and that which is most meaningful in it. Thank you very much Sarvnik! You have restored my own resolve!</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ba3c" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">For my readers who have gotten this far, here is more information about the key crew:</p><figure class="no np nq nr ns nt nl nm paragraph-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nu nv ef nw bg nx" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="nl nm oy" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1208px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg lv ny c" height="465" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*8be7f-2txNHExxpJ.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nz oa ob nl nm oc od be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Producer Koval Bhatia</figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="31c7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">PRODUCER. Koval Bhatia is a filmmaker and producer based in India. She has been heading A Little Anarky Films for 12 years, during which time she has directed and produced commercials, impact films and TV shows. She began her journey as an international producer with <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Against The Tide</em>, which she has pitched at multiple markets and forums across the world. She is currently a Getting Real Fellow at the International Documentary Association (IDA). Koval is a graduate from Eurodoc and a recipient of the Emerging Producer’s Bursary from the World Congress for Science and Factual Producers, and her feature documentaries as a producer have been awarded grants by Sundance Documentary Fund, Hot Docs, Catapult Film Fund, Docs By The Sea, SFFILM, Al Jazeera, and DOK Leipzig. She is a member of EWA and BGDM.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e683" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">CO-PRODUCER. Quentin Laurent founded Les Films de l’Oœil Sauvage with Frédéric Féraud in 2015. Based in Paris and Marseille, the company mainly produces art-house documentaries and Quentin is particularly interested in non-Western narratives and viewpoints, in approaches that reveal spaces that have remained invisible or try to reconsider the perception of familiar places. He has recently produced or co-produced, Kinshasa Makamboby Dieudo Hamadi (Berlinale 2018), Overseas by Soa Yoon (Locarno 2019),Aswang by Alyx Arumpac (IDFA awarded 2019), Downstream to Kinshasa(Cannes 2020), Dreaming Wallsby Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier (Berlinale 2022), Things I Could Never Tell My Motherby Humaira Bilkis (Visions du Réel 2022), and Kristos the Last Childby Giulia Amati (Venice 20223)</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f437" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">CINEMATOGRAPHY. Ashok Meena is an independent cinematographer from Rajasthan, India. He did his post-graduate degree in cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of India, working towards building an independent visual language at work. Known for his experimental films and videos, his independent work has been traveling to festivals and art galleries across the world. Ashok has shot several documentary films including Kamal Swaroop’s Pushkar Puran,which had its European premiere at the 60th DOK Leipzig.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5de8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">EDITING. Atanas Georgiev is one of the owners of Trice Films and Film Trick from Macedonia, subsidiaries of FX3X. His directorial and producing debut, <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Cash & Marry</em>, won many international awards and recognition. It was followed by <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Avec l’Amour</em>, a festival favorite in 2017 premiering at Hot Docs, and soon after with <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Honeyland </em>in 2019, a triple winner at Sundance Film Festival and nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Documentary and Best International Feature for 2020.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2fd3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">EDITING. Blagoja Nedelkovskiis a film editor and musician based in Skopje, Macedonia. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Film & TV editing in Skopje in 2000. For almost two decades he has actively working on feature films, documentaries, TV series and music videos in Macedonia and the Balkans. He has also spent some time in Vienna, Austria, where he freelanced as an editor and an artist so that he could pay for his music studies at the Music Konzervatorium Franz Shubert. Some of the more notable projects as an editor are the films <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Punk’s Not Dead, State of Shock, To the Hilt,The Year of the Monkey</em>, and <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Honeyland</em>.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="42d6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">SOUND DESIGN. Moinak Bose is a sound designer based out of Bombay, India. He is a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, with a specialization in sound recording and sound design. Moinak’s work includes the internationally acclaimed films <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">A Night of Knowing Nothing </em>in 2021 (sound design) and <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">All That Breathes</em> in 2022 (sound recording), both of which won L’Œil d’Or (The Golden Eye) for best documentary at Cannes. The films have been screened at many festivals and won top prizes at TIFF and Sundance Film Festival respectively. <em class="ox" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Against The Tide</em> is his latest work as a sound designer</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="317c" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">International sales agent is Deckert</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="09e9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">North American Distribution: Submarine Entertainment.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b202" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Genre: Documentary</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3624" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Country: India/France</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bd41" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Language: Koli, Marathi, Hindi</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="95da" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Year: 2023</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph oe of fv og b gt oh oi oj gw ok ol om my on oo op nc oq or os ng ot ou ov ow fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="86df" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Duration: 97 min.</p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-87707097268712909572023-11-10T16:33:00.003-08:002023-12-13T08:18:48.725-08:00<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="a279" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;">‘Bella’ Opens Theatrically at the<span> </span><strong class="al" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><em class="gs" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles — November 10, 2023</em></strong></h1><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="a279" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;"></div></h1><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gt fu fv be b gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fa8f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><span class="gs" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit;">This documentary film by Bridget Murnane is notable because Bella Lewitsky successfully waged a one-woman campaign for recognition as the West Coast Innovator of Modern Dance and stood up for freedom of expression as an integral part of her art.</span></h2><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph gt fu fv be b gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fa8f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;">You can see the documentary at <span class="mj fw" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Laemmle Royal Theatre</span><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="color: #242424; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> in Santa Monica from </span><span class="mj fw" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Friday November 10 to November 16</span><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="color: #242424; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">. Tickets cost </span><span class="mj fw" face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">$16</span><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="color: #242424; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> and more details can be found </span><a class="af nd" href="https://www.bellasfilm.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;" target="_blank">online</a><span face="source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="color: #242424; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">.</span></h2><h1 class="pw-post-title ft fu fv be fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><figure class="nh ni nj nk nl nm ne nf paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nn no ef np bg nq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="ne nf ng" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 708px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg nr ns c" height="200" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*XsfpwL3qElC205_LkPldxw.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="150" /></picture></div></div></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mh mi fv mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d802" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“Modern Dance means nothing,” Bella says, “except that it is not ballet”. That explanation finally made it clear to me just what I would see when I watched Bella Lewitsky or Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, John Cage or others, all so very different from one another and not categorizable. Interpretive or modern dance is movement. When Lewistsky began in L.A. in 1934 with the Lester Horton Troupe, it became an aesthetic, starting with the exercise, “How many ways can you rise from the floor?”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mh mi fv mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="150c" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">When I took interpretive dance in the late 1950s on Hilgard, just next to the church, in Westwood with Else Finley, it was to experience movement. When I was in high school and went to the classes of Bella Lewitsky, I still did not understand “modern dance” and did not go beyond my first few lessons. But as I watched this documentary, I understood that dance for the pure joy of movement is modern dance.</p><figure class="nh ni nj nk nl nm ne nf paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nn no ef np bg nq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="ne nf nt" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1944px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg nr ns c" height="502" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*66sTJB7eHb_noOEgqXzKwA.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div><figcaption class="nu nv nw ne nf nx ny be b bf z dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Could be me among the students standing before leaping around the room.</figcaption></figure><blockquote class="nz oa ob" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="35f5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">Moving for the ecstatic joy of moving is the definition of dance for Bella.</span></p><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b012" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">Born while her parents were members of the socialist Llano Del Rio Colony in 1916 and raised on a chicken farm, Lewitzky moved to the Los Angeles in 1930 from San Bernadino with her family where she lived in a diverse, working-class neighborhood at the height of the depression. Lewitzky joined the Lester Horton Dance Group, the first American inter-racial dance company, in 1934 and became its star and co-developer of The Horton Technique. Taught world-wide and unlike modern techniques developed in the eastern United States, it is based on Native American dance and is unique to the west coast.</span></p><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="95b8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">As the lead dancer of the Horton Company, Lewitzky starred in his productions of “Salome” and “Rite of Spring” at the Hollywood Bowl in 1937 to rave reviews. Her work in “Tierra libertad,” a comment on the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and “Departure From The Land,” an evocation of Dust Bowl emigration, drew cheers at the end of each performance. Social injustice, anti-fascism, American and Mexican history were some of the themes of Horton’s dances embodied by dancers committed to these themes in their daily lives. They did not shrink from such topics as police brutality toward Mexican-Americans in such works as “The Park.” Being a modern dancer in Los Angeles at this time did not provide a sustainable income. To support herself and her family Lewitzky worked under the Federal Theatre Project in works choreographed by Horton and others. She also assisted Horton on film projects as well as Hanya Holm and Agnes DeMille.</span></p><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9a99" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">When she and her love of dance was called into question by the HUAC because of past political activities, she was outraged … and unprepared…and blacklisted. “How could this be happening in our country,” she wondered, “there I got my taste of what fascism could be.”</span></p><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1c6c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">“It really is frightening when you can realize that your safety and right to life can be removed from you and that your enemy is never seen, is hidden, and that your accusers cannot be confronted because you don’t know who they are.” <span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">(Lewitzky’s FBI file was recently released, albeit blacked out excessively.)</span></p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mh mi fv mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9c00" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Film work was impossible for her. The only person who would hire her was Agnes DeMille, choreographer for the film adaptation of <em class="oc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Oklahoma</em>. Lewitzky recalls,” … Her usual assistants were not available to her, and she asked if I would be interested in doing it. I pointed out to her that I was at that point quite publicly blacklisted. Agnes had courage. She said, ‘It’s all right.’” Although she was the rehearsal director, assisted DeMille in re-choreographing scenes, and danced in some scenes, the studio stipulated that she would not receive credit for her work. Lewitzky did not work professionally for ten years, although she continued to choreograph and teach on her own. Her students included Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade who went on to form the Alvin Ailey company in New York.</p><blockquote class="nz oa ob" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="eef6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">She formed her own dance company in 1966 and continued to dance at the age of 62. Lewitzky was as famous off stage as on, thanks to her battles for freedom of expression against the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990.</span></p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mh mi fv mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bce3" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">In 1990 Lewitzky refused to sign an anti-obscenity clause on the acceptance form of a $72,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant. Unable to meet their payroll, her company disbanded as she joined with <span class="mj fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">People for the American Way</span> to sue the NEA. Calling a press conference at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, site of the 1950’s HUAC hearings, she stated, “Please watch out. This is a pattern with which I am very familiar and it has nothing to do with pornography. Pornography is simply the demagogic weapon that permitted mind rule and censorship to move forward.” Lewitzky prevailed in this landmark case and was finally awarded the grant. The NEA was instructed to “take into consideration general standards of decency and respect for the diverse beliefs and values of the American public.” This process took time away from Lewitzky’s choreography and fund raising.After a re-organization she decided to close her company with a final international tour and gala. On May 17, 1997 at the Luckman Theatre at Cal State LA, the campus where her company gave its first performance, she said good-bye to her audience and stated, “The arts are under threat more than ever before. What legacy I have left here will die unless you become responsible for keeping it alive.”</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph mh mi fv mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp mq mr ms mt mu mv mw mx my mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4c5b" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Bella Lewitzky died on July 16, 2004. At age 88, her physical health had deteriorated but her vital spirit continued to inspire those around her. Designated one of <em class="oc" style="box-sizing: inherit;">America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures </em>by the Dance Heritage Coalition and awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton, Lewitzky’s life demonstrates how an artist with vision and tenacity changed the lives of her fellow citizens for the better.</p><blockquote class="nz oa ob" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2bc6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">The life, work, influence, and impact of Los Angeles-based dancer, choreographer, and arts activist Bella Lewitzky, who was referred by dance critic Walter Terry as “one of the greatest American dancers of our age” gives meaning to the word commitment. The film incorporates rare archival footage of Lewitzky’s performances and interviews with Lewitzky’s former students and dancers, and it demonstrates how a “uniquely Californian” artist with vision and tenacity influenced the lives of her fellow citizens.</span></p></blockquote><figure class="nh ni nj nk nl nm ne nf paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nn no ef np bg nq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="ne nf og" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1838px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg nr ns c" height="115" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*E1kTlcv23la6rZGhPGCIeQ.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="200" /></picture></div></div></figure><blockquote class="nz oa ob" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="53eb" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">She was designated one of America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition and awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.</span></p></blockquote><figure class="nh ni nj nk nl nm ne nf paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="ne nf oh" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 416px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 416px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:832/format:webp/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 832w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 416px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:832/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png 832w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg nr ns c" height="266" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:832/1*d8V5ASE11yNomgXXQlrIcA.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 416px;" width="416" /></picture></div></figure><blockquote class="nz oa ob" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="035d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">Making its debut this Friday a special event is the special photography exhibit which accompanies the film’s theatrical release at the Laemmle Royal: “The Horton Dance Group, 1938” featuring Bella Lewitzky, photographed by Viktor von Pribosic and curated by filmmaker Bridget Murnane. And a reconstruction of Lewitzky’s “Game Plan,” by Walter Kennedy, former Lewitzky dancer/rehearsal director, and Associate Producer of the film, will be performed by the students at California State University, Dominguez Hills Theatre and Dance Department in Carson, CA on November 8–11.</span></p><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bda5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><a class="af nd" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RMejXskBA" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank"><span class="mj fw" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">See the trailer here.</span></span></a></p><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="db13" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Bella<span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;"> had its World Premiere at the 2022 Madrid International Film Festival and screened at over fifty festivals world-wide, including the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The film won seventeen awards including Best Documentary at Dance Camera West.</span></p></blockquote><figure class="nh ni nj nk nl nm ne nf paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="nn no ef np bg nq" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1); width: 680px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="ne nf oi" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1268px;"><picture style="box-sizing: inherit;"><source sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;" type="image/webp"></source><source data-testid="og" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" srcset="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png 1400w" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img alt="" class="bg nr ns c" height="569" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*4J88UNCYcpeApPvoEb3gjg.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 680px;" width="700" /></picture></div></div></figure><blockquote class="nz oa ob" style="box-shadow: rgb(36, 36, 36) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="mh mi oc mj b gu mk ml mm gx mn mo mp od mr ms mt oe mv mw mx of mz na nb nc fo bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aebc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">Producer/Director Bridget Murnane is a former Professor of Television, Film and Media Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Bridget produced the feature film </span>Odile and Yvette at the Edge of the World <span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the US. PBS and numerous cable channels have broadcast her films. She was the Associate Producer on </span>Mia a Dancer’s Journey <span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">which won a 2015 LA Emmy for Arts, Culture and History, as well as Cindy, Telly and Golden Mike awards. She was awarded a Pew Fellowship and selected to be a Faculty Fellow by the Television Academy. In 2019 Bridget received a grant from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to design and implement the course “Women Making Films” in collaboration with Canon Burbank. Bridget received an MA in Dance and an MFA in Television and Film Production from UCLA. </span>Bella <span class="fv" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal;">is Murnane’s feature documentary directorial debut.</span></p></blockquote></h1></div>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679593938170262531.post-16156488997637731102023-11-08T22:16:00.005-08:002023-11-08T22:16:38.445-08:00Filmmakers for the Prosecution<p> <strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong">To mark November anniversary of Nuremberg Trial, Sandra Schulberg presents FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC and University of Minnesota / Duluth</strong></p><h4 class="graf graf--h4" name="1b0b">November marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938) and the start of the first Nuremberg trial (November 20, 1945).</h4><figure class="graf graf--figure" name="3cfc"><img class="graf-image" data-height="675" data-image-id="0*SmPv8pwx-UpNG58O.png" data-is-featured="true" data-width="1200" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*SmPv8pwx-UpNG58O.png" /></figure><p class="graf graf--p" name="0a58">November marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938) and the start of the first Nuremberg trial (November 20, 1945). The persecution of Jews in Germany didn’t begin with the looting and burning of synagogues and shops on Kristallnacht, but they marked a deadly turning point that led ultimately to the campaign to annihilate the Jews of Europe under the Nazi regime. Tragically, the issues of persecution and war crimes are still very much with us.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="50b3"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity & Crimes Against the Peace</strong><br />The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT), which began November 20, 1945, serves as a landmark in the history of the rule of law — the first attempt to prosecute “Crimes Against Humanity,” as well as to define and prosecute the “Crime of Aggression,” also known as “Crimes Against Peace — the illegal use of armed force and the very act of making war.</p><figure class="graf graf--figure" name="9bf0"><img class="graf-image" data-height="1200" data-image-id="0*Rmz_gGGYyHAJEV_A.jpg" data-width="927" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*Rmz_gGGYyHAJEV_A.jpg" /></figure><p class="graf graf--p" name="2be4"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Using Motion Pictures to Convict the Nazis — Another First</strong><br />The IMT marked another milestone — the use of motion pictures as a form of legal evidence — as depicted in Jean-Christophe Klotz’s thrilling documentary, FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION. adapted from my monogram and co-produced with wonderful colleagues at Zadig Productions and ARTE,</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="a3e7">John Ford’s OSS unit — including my uncle Budd Schulberg and father Stuart Schulberg — uncovered Nazi film that they assembled and showed in the Nuremberg courtroom, along with footage shot by the Allied camera teams who documented the liberation of the concentration camps. These indelible images continue to shape our view of what came to be known as the Holocaust.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="9926"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Sandra Schulberg Personal Appearances in November</strong><br />I’ve been invited to speak about the work of the OSS film unit and to show Jean-Christophe’s film at events in Washington DC and Duluth MN that are FREE to the public.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="1226"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Monday, November 6, 2023, 4pm<br />Screening “Filmmakers for the Prosecution”</strong><br />Walter A. Slowinski Courtroom<br />Columbus School of Law<br />Catholic University of America <br />3600 John McCormick Road, NE<br />Washington DC 20064<br /><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Followed by discussion with Sandra Schulberg<br />Eli Rosenbaum, Counselor for War Crimes Accountability,<br />U.S. Department of Justice<br />The Honorable Andreas Michaelis, <br />German Ambassador to the United States<br />Sponsored by the German Embassy of the United States<br /></strong><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=510a092633&e=714473560b" href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=510a092633&e=714473560b" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Register Here</a></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="d408">******</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="b920"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7pm<br />Screening “Filmmakers for the Prosecution”</strong><br />Solon Campus Center, Room 120<br />University of Minnesota / Duluth<br />1117 University Drive<br />Duluth, MN 55812<br /><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Followed by discussion with Sandra Schulberg,<br />moderated by Prof. Natalie Belsky<br />Sponsored by Baeumler-Kaplan <br />Holocaust Commemoration Committee <br /></strong><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=89afaed750&e=714473560b" href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=89afaed750&e=714473560b" rel="noopener" target="_blank">No Registration Required</a></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="2c84"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">New Kino Lorber DVD </strong><br />FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION is now in release through Kino Lorber along with my father’s film, NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY, now combined in a wonderful new DVD, which can be purchased below.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="9cd2">The DVD also includes invaluable bonus interviews with scholars Michael Berenbaum, Annette Insdorf, and Stuart Liebman.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="6544"><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=5e0aeb522a&e=714473560b" href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=5e0aeb522a&e=714473560b" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Get the 2 films + 3 bonus interviews on 1 DVD"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Get the 2 films + 3 bonus interviews on 1 DVD</strong></a></p><p class="graf graf--p" name="b552"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Streaming via Kino Lorber</strong><br />You can also see the films online, thanks to Kino Lorber’s streaming service, which can be accessed HERE.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="2a5d"><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=9ac6c0ac5e&e=714473560b" href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=9ac6c0ac5e&e=714473560b" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Stream FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION on Kino Now"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Stream FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION on Kino Now</strong></a><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=3c3ac1fe36&e=714473560b" href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=3c3ac1fe36&e=714473560b" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Stream FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION on other platforms"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Stream FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION on other platforms</strong></a><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=ae2840f9b5&e=714473560b" href="https://indiecollect.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcd2603d9d5cce34949feb7c8&id=ae2840f9b5&e=714473560b" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Stream NUREMBERG on Kino Now"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Stream NUREMBERG on Kino Now</strong></a></p><figure class="graf graf--figure" name="7627"><img class="graf-image" data-height="1200" data-image-id="0*RyF_MxlA4iWZufjV.png" data-width="777" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*RyF_MxlA4iWZufjV.png" /></figure><p class="graf graf--p" name="d082">Please spread the word about these screenings.</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="f11c">Thank you so much!<br />Sandra</p><p class="graf graf--p" name="f455">PS: I wish to thank Prof. Charles Musser of Yale University for having invited me to speak to his Holocaust Film Studies class and show the film on Thursday, October 26, 2023, sponsored by the Fortunoff Video Archive, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and the Film and Media Studies Program.</p><figure class="graf graf--figure" name="4a55"><img class="graf-image" data-height="155" data-image-id="0*cav8DBeeG1POUqNz.jpg" data-width="806" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*cav8DBeeG1POUqNz.jpg" /></figure><p class="graf graf--p" name="9ee7"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">IndieCollect is powered through the generous support of our partners.</strong></p><figure class="graf graf--figure" name="6317"><img class="graf-image" data-height="48" data-image-id="0*ZnDldy3SB1Akx-TM.png" data-width="48" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*ZnDldy3SB1Akx-TM.png" /></figure><p class="graf graf--p graf--empty" name="3678"><br /></p>Sydneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11652097389447853995noreply@blogger.com0