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2009 Adelaide Film Festival
The 4th Adelaide Film Festival took place in Adelaide, Australia, from 19 February to 1 March 2009. Katrina Sedgwick was again Festival Director.Official Program 2009 Adelaide Film Festival received the 2009 Don Dunstan AwardAdelaide Film Festival (30 August 2013) ''Don Dunstan Award Recipient Announced''. Retrieved 10 February 2015. (10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Year Without Sex
''My Year Without Sex'' is an Australian drama film written and directed by Sarah Watt, opening the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival and given wider release in May 2009. Set in Altona (suburban Melbourne), it is about a 30-something couple, Ross and Natalie, and their children Ruby and Louis, after Natalie suffers a ruptured brain aneurysm and is advised not to have sex for 12 months. Watt has said that after her first film '' Look Both Ways'', she wanted to make a film "without a sex scene": ''My Year Without Sex'' received strongly favourable reviews, and was touted by ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' as "possibly the best" Australian film of 2009, as well as "the most accomplished" local film of 2009 by ''The Age''. As with ''Look Both Ways'', ''My Year Without Sex'' deals with the impact that serious illness has on individuals and relationships. The two films are reportedly part of a "proposed trilogy". This film was the last film by Sarah Watt, about two years before she died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Around Us
is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Ryōsuke Hashiguchi and starring Lily Franky and Tae Kimura. Cast * Lily Franky *Tae Kimura *Mitsuko Baisho * Susumu Terajima * Tamae Ando *Minori Terada *Akira Emoto * Norito Yashima *Seiichi Tanabe * Ryo Kase *Reiko Kataoka *Hirofumi Arai Reception Todd Brown of Twitch Film called ''All Around Us'' " once sweepingly panoramic and microscopically intimate", adding that "Hashiguchi's fourth feature parallels the pains and struggles of the married couple at its center with the changes in Japan itself, touching on such major events as the 1990s economic collapse, the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks, and others." Awards and nominations 51st Blue Ribbon Awards * Won: Best Actress - Tae Kimura * Won: Best New Talent - Lily Franky 33rd Hochi Film Award * Won: Best Director - Ryōsuke Hashiguchi 32nd Japan Academy Prize: Best Actress (Tae Kimura is a Japanese actress. She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima (born March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Since 1975, Haile has been an influential film professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is best known for ''Sankofa'' (1993), which won numerous international awards. Early life Gerima was born and raised in Gondar, Ethiopia. Haile is ethnic Amhara. His father was a dramatist and playwright, who traveled across the Ethiopian countryside staging local plays. He was an important early influence. He has discussed the unconscious effect representations of colonialism in film had on him as a child: ...as kids, we tried to act out the things we had seen in the movies. We used to play cowboys and Indians in the mountains around Gondar...We acted out the roles of these heroes, identifying with the cowb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teza (film)
''Teza'' ( ''Ṭeza'', " Dew") is a 140 minutes 2008 Ethiopian drama film about the Derg period in Ethiopia. ''Teza'' won the top award at the 2009 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. The film was directed and written by Haile Gerima. Plot The film follows the story of the protagonist, Anbeber – who is a highly educated lab researcher who returns to his village in the Ethiopian countryside after a long absence, during which he lived in Germany and the capital city of Ethiopia. The story is not structured chronologically. It opens with a sequence that rapidly crosscuts between shots of a chanting priest who is shrouded in sheer muslin fabrics and a badly injured man being wheeled down hospital corridors on a stretcher. There is also an image of a child that appears multiple times during this opening sequence; it becomes clear later on in the film that this child is a visual hallucination. The priest is ordering someone to wake up and get up. Then there is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Verheyde
Sylvie Verheyde (born 1967) is a French film director, actress, and screenwriter. Director The films Verheyde has directed include ''Un frère'' (1997), in which Emma de Caunes won a César Award for Most Promising Actress, ''Princesses'' (2000), ''Amour de Femme'' (2001), ''Stella'' (2008) and ''Confession of a Child of the Century'' (2011), starring Pete Doherty, which was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, ''Sex Doll'' (2016; she also wrote the screenplay for this film), and directed ''Madame Claude'' (2021). With Sylvie Ohayon, she co-wrote the screenplay of the 2021 film ''Haute Couture''. The movies ''Stella'' (2008) and ''Stella In Love'' (2022) are both references to Verheyde's childhood. ''Sex Doll'' (2016) and ''Madame Claude'' (2021) are both movies about prostitution, again a topic close to Verheyde as her grandmother and one of her cousin were prostitutes. Awards *Best Director for ''Sang froid'' at Television Festival of La Rochelle, 2007 *Lina Mangiac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella (2008 Film)
Stella is an autobiographical 2008 French film directed by Sylvie Verheyde. Cast * Léora Barbara as Stella * Mélissa Rodrigues as Gladys * Laëtitia Guerard as Geneviève * Benjamin Biolay as Stella's father * Karole Rocher as Stella's mother * Thierry Neuvic as Yvon * Guillaume Depardieu as Alain-Bernard * Anne Benoît as Madame Douchewsky Festivals and awards *Official selection at the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival *The Lina Mangiacapre Award, and also a Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award for education about the disease of alcoholism, at the 65th Venice International Film Festival The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 27 August 2008 by '' Burn After Reading'', [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granaz Moussavi
Granaz Moussavi (Persian : گراناز موسوی ), is an Iranian-Australian contemporary poet, film director and screenwriter. She is primarily renowned for her avant-garde poetry in the 90s. Her award-winning debut feature film '' My Tehran for Sale'' is an internationally acclaimed Australian-Iranian co-production. Biography Granaz was born in December 1976 in Tehran to TV parents, her father, Hashem Moussavi, was a well-known sound engineer in the Iranian National TV (Jaam-e Jam) and in the film industry, and her mother, Parvin Chegini Farahani, a video grader. At the age of 17, she started writing professionally as a book review writer and literary critic at "Donyaye Sokhan literary magazine مجلهٔ ادبی دنیای سخن" in Tehran. Her first poems were published in 1989 and since then, she has continued writing and publishing poetry in various magazines and collections both in Iran and other countries . In Tehran, Granaz went to Razi primary school and Hadaf hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Tehran For Sale
''My Tehran for Sale'' (Persian :تهران من، حراج), is a 2009 Australian-Iranian feature film written and directed by poet turned filmmaker Granaz Moussavi, produced by Cyanfilms and starring Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini and Asha Mehrabi. Officially selected by Toronto, Rotterdam, Pusan and several other international film festivals, this film explores the contemporary Tehran and its underground art scene, focusing on the life of a young actress who has been banned from her theater work. Struggling to pursue her passion in art as well as her secret lifestyle in a socially oppressed environment, Marzieh gets involved in some subsequent and unexpected events leading her to a decision-making dilemma regarding her survival and identity. My Tehran for Sale has been compared with Cristian Mungiu's film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Parviz Jahed, an Iranian critic and film scholar. My Tehran For Sale is the winner of Independent Spirit Inside Film Awards 2009. It won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Daly
Lance Daly is an Irish film director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Daly was born and raised in Dublin. He acted occasionally in his youth, including a role as a harmonica-playing extra in ''The Commitments'' (1991). He studied communications studies at Dublin City University. Daly won an IFTA for his first major film, '' Kisses''. According to Paul Whitington ('' Irish Independent''), "Daly was one of a new generation of filmmakers who emerged in the mid-2000s determined to move beyond the stodgy, word-heavy traditions of Irish cinema. In films like ''Kisses'' (2008), he used visual lyricism and cinematic storytelling to great effect." In 2013, together with Kirsten Sheridan Kirsten Sheridan (born 14 July 1976) is an Irish film director and screenwriter. She is best known for co-writing the semi-autobiographical film '' In America'' with her father, director Jim Sheridan, and her sister, Naomi Sheridan, for which sh ... and John Carney, he established The Facto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kisses (2008 Film)
''Kisses'' is a 2008 Irish drama film directed by Lance Daly. The film is a coming of age drama about two ragamuffin preadolescents, next door neighbours from dysfunctional families living on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland, who run away together one Christmas holiday. Plot Dylan is kicked out of the house to go play by his father, Dylan talks to his neighbour, Kylie, about what a "prick" his father is, and his brother's decision to run away two years ago. Kylie tells him about the Sack Man, who kills kids, but Dylan says that it is just a story used by adults to control kids. Kylie is sent to walk her infant sibling in a stroller. When she returns, there is a motorcycle parked in the driveway. She is cajoled by her mother to give her uncle a kiss. When he is leaving and comes to Kylie's bedroom to say goodbye, Kylie hides under her bed, where she has cash in a shoe. Dylan's father screams at Dylan's mother and punches her, Dylan slams his handheld videogame into his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film ''Silhouette'', that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, ''Terra di Mezzo'' in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for '' Gomorrah'' (2008), among many other awards. His film ''Reality'' (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His films '' Tale of Tales'' (2015) and '' Dogman'' (2018) were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively. The Nastro d'argento awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director with ''Dogman''. He received the latter again for ''Pinocchio'' (2019). Filmography Director Short films * ''Silhouette'' (1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomorrah (film)
''Gomorrah'' ( it, Gomorra) is a 2008 Italian crime film directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviano, who also collaborated in the screenplay. It deals with the Casalesi clan, a crime syndicate within the Camorra — a traditional criminal organization based in Naples and Caserta, in the southern Italian region of Campania. The film was released in Italy on 16 May 2008, and premiered in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2008, followed by release in New York City and Los Angeles on 13 February 2009. It received critical acclaim, winning the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and seven David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for Garrone). It also won five awards at the 2008 European Film Awards. A 2014 TV series of the same name is loosely based on the same book, but is otherwise unrelated to the film. Plot Naples, Summer 2004. Some gangsters are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |