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2019 Stockholm International Film Festival
The 30th Stockholm International Film Festival took place on 6–17 November 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden. Peruvian drama film '' Song Without a Name'' won the Bronze Horse, most prestigious award. Noah Baumbach's '' Marriage Story'' served as the opening film for the 30th edition. ''Jojo Rabbit'' closed the festival. Official selections Competition American Independents Discovery Documania Documentary Competition Icons Impact Open Zone Awards The following awards were presented during the 30th edition: *Best Film (Bronze Horse): '' Song Without a Name'' by Melina León *Best Director: Mark Jenkin for '' Bait'' *Best First Film: ''You Deserve a Lover'' by Hafsia Herzi *Best Script: ''Synonyms'' by Nadav Lapid and Haim Lapid *Best Actress: Nina Hoss for ''The Audition'' *Best Actor: Bartosz Bielenia for '' Corpus Christi'' *Best Cinematography: Inti Briones for '' Song Without a Name'' *Best Documentary: '' One Child Nation'' by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang *Best S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriage Story
''Marriage Story'' is a 2019 Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach, who also produced the film with David Heyman. It stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a warring couple going through a coast-to-coast divorce. Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty, and Merritt Wever appear in supporting roles. The project was announced in November 2017, with the cast joining that same month. Filming took place in New York City and Los Angeles from January to April of the following year. Released by Netflix, the film premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2019, and began a limited theatrical release on November 6, followed by digital streaming on December 6. ''Marriage Story'' received critical acclaim, particularly for Baumbach's screenplay and direction and the performances of Johansson, Driver and Dern. Among its List of accolades received by Marriage Story, many accolades, the film received six nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Komasa
Jan Tadeusz Komasa (born October 28, 1981) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing '' Suicide Room'' (2011), '' Warsaw 44'' (2014), and ''Corpus Christi'' (2019), which was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. His previous works premiered and won awards at Tribeca Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Cannes, and Venice. Early life Komasa was born in Poznań, in western Poland. His father, Wiesław Komasa, is a theater actor and professor at National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. His mother, Gina Komasa, is a singer, music producer, and music supervisor. She was a Director of Entertainment Department at Polish Television (TVP) and a director of the Sopot International Song Festival and the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. His brother, Szymon Komasa, is a bass-baritone singer, graduate of Jiulliard School in New York and Guildhall School of Music in London. He has two sisters: Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubaiyat Hossain
Rubaiyat Hossain ( bn, রুবাইয়াত হোসেন) is a Bangladeshi film director, writer, and producer. She made the films '' Meherjaan'' (2011), '' Under Construction'' (2015) and '' Made in Bangladesh'' (2019). Education Inspired by the works of Satyajit Ray, Hossain pursued her interest in cinema and completed a diploma in film direction at New York Film Academy in 2002. She has also completed a B. A. in women studies from Smith College, and an M. A. in South Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania and M. A. in Cinema Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in the United States. Her primary fields of interest are Sufism, Bengali nationalism, formation of Bengali modernity and its correlation with female sexuality. Career Filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain's works reflect social realism and use a feminist lens to deconstruct the otherwise phallocentric institution of cinema. Rubaiyat debuted as a feature filmmaker in 2011 with '' Meh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Made In Bangladesh (2019 Film)
''Made in Bangladesh'' (also known in Bengali as ''Shimu'' bn, শিমু;) is a 2019 Bangladeshi drama film directed by Rubaiyat Hossain. It premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, following the participation at BFI London Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival and other major festivals. Distributed by Pyramide Films, the film was widely released in France on 4 December 2019 and running for several months following the theatrical release worldwide including USA, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Germany, China, Mexico, Singapore, Australia, Turkey, Bangladesh and Japan. Plot Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way. Cast * Rikita Nandini Shimu as Shimu * Novera Rahman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Eggers
Robert Houston Eggers (born July 7, 1983) is an American filmmaker, director, and production designer. He is best known for writing and directing the historical horror films ''The Witch'' (2015) and ''The Lighthouse'' (2019), as well as directing and co-writing the historical fiction epic film '' The Northman'' (2022). His films are noted for their folkloric elements, as well as his efforts to ensure historical authenticity. Early life Eggers was born in New York City in 1983 to Kelly Houston. Eggers does not know who his biological father is. Soon after, he and his mother moved to Laramie, Wyoming where his mother met and married Walter Eggers, with whom she had twins, Max and Sam. The family then moved to Lee, New Hampshire, in 1990 when his stepfather became a provost at the University of New Hampshire. He moved to New York City in 2001 to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Eggers was inspired by his childhood in New England and frequently visited the Plimoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lighthouse (2019 Film)
''The Lighthouse'' is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as nineteenth-century wickies (lighthouse keepers) in turmoil after being marooned at a remote New England outpost by a wild storm. The film has defied categorization in media, and interpretations of it range from a horror film, a psychological thriller, a survival film, and a character study, among others. ''The Lighthouse'' first emerged from Max's re-envisioning of Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished short story of the same name. Robert assisted the development when Max was unable to complete the adaptation of "The Light-House", sourcing the plot from a nineteenth-century legend of an accident at a lighthouse in Wales. ''The Lighthouse'' draws visually from photography of 1890s New England, maritime-themed French cinema from the 1930s, and symbolist art. Principal photography took place in Nova Scotia begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladj Ly
Ladj Ly (; born 19 March 1980 in Paris) is a French film director and screenwriter. He won a Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival for ''Les Misérables'' in 2019. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Biography Ly's parents are from Mali and he grew up in Montfermeil, a district of Bosquets. He started making films with his friends Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras, and JR, in the collective Kourtrajmé. He directed his first films, notably for Oxmo Puccino, and his first documentaries, ' (''365 days in Clichy-Montfermeil''), filmed after the 2005 French riots; ''Go Fast Connexion''; and ''365 jours au Mali'' (''365 days in Mali''). In 2011, Ly was given a three-year prison sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment. In 2012, the sentence was reduced on appeal to two years imprisonment, and one year suspended sentence. ''Les Misérables'' is the first non-documentary film he directed. The film received many awards, notably at the Clermont-Ferra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Misérables (2019 Film)
''Les Misérables'' is a 2019 French crime thriller film directed by Ladj Ly in his full-length feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti, based on Ly's 2017 short film of the same name. Manenti stars alongside Damien Bonnard, Djebril Zonga, Issa Percia, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Almany Kanoute and Nizar Ben Fatma. The film, set in the commune of Montfermeil in the aftermath of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, is based on a real-life occurrence of police violence which took place in the city on 14 October 2008, and was observed and filmed by Ly. The story follows several characters within the commune, as a theft from a teenager spirals into the threat of a large crisis. The film's title is a reference to the Victor Hugo 1862 novel of the same name, written in Montfermeil and partially set in it; in the novel, Montfermeil is also the setting of the meeting of Jean Valjean and Cosette, a girl abused by her adoptive parents. The film de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Lost My Body
''I Lost My Body'' (french: J'ai perdu mon corps) is a 2019 French adult animated film directed by . It premiered in the International Critics' Week section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the ''Nespresso'' Grand Prize, becoming the first animated film to do so in the section's history. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards, but lost to ''Toy Story 4''. Plot The film begins with a severed hand escaping from a refrigerator in a laboratory and beginning a journey across the suburbs of Paris to reunite with its body, a young man named Naoufel. His story is told via flash-backs. As a boy in Morocco, Naoufel aspires to be a pianist and an astronaut and records his day-to-day life on a tape recorder. During a car journey, he distracts his father while he is driving, causing a crash. He survives, but both of his parents are killed. He is forced to live in France with his emotionally distant uncle and his crude cousin. As a young adul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe Coro (born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. His debut feature film ''You All Are Captains'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His third film '' Fire Will Come'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. Early life Laxe was born in Paris, the son of Galician emigrants. In 1988, at the age of six, he went back with them to Galicia. After completing his secondary education in A Coruña he moved to Barcelona where he studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University, before relocating to London where he filmed his first short ''Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar''. Career His debut feature film ''You All Are Captains'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His next film '' Mimosas'' was shot in the Atlas Mountains. It was screened at the 2016 Cannes Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Will Come
''Fire Will Come'' ( gl, O que arde, links=no) is a 2019 internationally co-produced Galician language drama film directed by Oliver Laxe. Filmed in the Serra dos Ancares area of Galicia, many of the cast were local people and not professional actors. Plot The story takes place in the Serra dos Ancares mountain range in the Galician province of Lugo, in north west Spain. It tells the story of Amador Coro, who has recently been released from prison after a conviction for arson – he had started a fire in the thick forests that cover the local mountains. Returning to live with his mother Benedicta in her farm house, he lives an uneventful life, tending his mother's cows and avoiding unnecessary contact with other people. However, when a large forest fire devastates the area, tensions against him appear due to his arson conviction. Cast * Amador Arias Mon as Amador Coro * Benedicta Sánchez as Benedicta, Amador's Mother * Inazio Brao as Inazio * Nuria Sotelo as Nuria * Rubén G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Mascaro
Gabriel Mascaro (born September 24, 1983) is a Brazilian visual artist and film director. Biography Gabriel Mascaro is a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist. He started his career as a documentary-maker in 2008, with KFZ-1348 (co-directed by Marcelo Pedroso), Um Lugar ao Sol (High-rise, 2009) and Doméstica (Housemaids, 2013). That same year, he released the short film A Onda Traz, O Vento Leva (Ebb and Flow). 2014 saw his first narrative feature-film, Ventos de Agosto (August Winds), followed in 2015 by Boi Neon (Neon Bull), which brought widespread acclaim. He also created an installation entitled ''Não é Sobre Sapatos'' (This is not about shoes) and the photographic series Desamar (De-love). Mascaro has received a great deal of critical attention and stirred the curiosity of film festival curators since debuting ''Boi Neon'' at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where he won the Special Jury Prize, followed by special mention in Toronto and 5 Best Film awards at the Festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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