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Little Black Spiders
''Little Black Spiders'' is a 2012 Belgian drama film directed by Patrice Toye. The film is set in 1978 and tells the story of a group of teenage girls who are sent to a secluded maternity ward to give birth in secret. The film explores themes of social shame, hidden pregnancies, force adoptions and institutional control. Plot In 1978, sixteen-year-old Katja is sent to a secret attic ward in a hospital where pregnant teenage girls are hidden from society. Each girl has her own backstory—some are victims of abuse, others of social prejudice. Under the watch of strict nuns, the girls form close bonds while facing the harsh reality that their babies may be taken from them against their will. Based on real events The story of Little Black Spiders was inspired by real-life accounts of young unmarried girls in Belgium who were hidden away in so-called mother houses (moederhuizen) during the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, the film draws on testimonies connected to Tamar in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Toye
Patrice Toye (born Ghent, 1967) is a Belgian film director. Her 1998 film ''Rosie (1998 film), Rosie'' was selected as the Belgian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not nominated.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Filmography Short films * ''Vrouwen willen trouwen'' (1992) Feature films * ''Rosie (1998 film), Rosie'' (1998) * ''Nowhere Man (2008 film), Nowhere Man'' (2008) * ''Little Black Spiders'' (2012) * ''Tench (film), Tench (2019)'' References External links * 1967 births Living people Belgian film directors Place of birth missing (living people) Magritte Award winners {{Belgium-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019."Montreal World Film Festival abruptly cancelled weeks before opening" CBC News Montreal, July 22, 2019. Founded and run throughout its lifetime by Serge Losique, it was the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF. (The |
Cinema Of Belgium
Cinema of Belgium refers to the film industry based in Belgium. Belgium is essentially a bi-lingual country divided into the Flemish ( Dutch-speaking) north and the French-speaking south. There is also a small community of German speakers in the border region with Germany. Belgium is further a federal country made up of three regions (the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region) and three language communities (the Flemish Community (Dutch-speaking), the French (i.e., French-speaking) Community and the German-speaking Community). Due to these linguistic and political divisions it is difficult to speak of a national, unified Cinema of Belgium. It would be more appropriate to talk about Flemish or Dutch-language cinema of Belgium and Walloon or French-language cinema of Belgium. History Early history While the invention of the cinématographe by the Lumière brothers is widely regarded as the birth of cinema, a number of developments in photogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin Suicides (film)
''The Virgin Suicides'' is a 1999 American psychological romantic drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola in her feature directorial debut, and co-produced by her father, Francis Ford Coppola. It stars James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, A.J. Cook, and Josh Hartnett, with Scott Glenn, Michael Paré, Jonathan Tucker, and Danny DeVito in supporting roles. The film is based on the 1993 debut novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. The film follows the lives of five adolescent sisters in an upper-middle-class suburb of Detroit during 1975. Shot in 1998 in Toronto, it features an original score by the French electronic band Air. The film marked the first collaboration between Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst, whom Coppola later cast as the lead in several of her subsequent films. ''The Virgin Suicides'' premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release on April 21, 2000, in the United States, later expanding to a wide release in Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola ( , ; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award. Her parents are filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, and she made her acting debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama ''The Godfather'' (1972). Coppola later appeared in several music videos and had a supporting role in the fantasy comedy film ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986). She then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in the sequel ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990). Coppola transitioned into filmmaking with her feature-length directorial debut in the coming-of-age drama ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1999). It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. Her films often deal with themes of loneliness, wealth, privilege, isolation, youth, fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Georgia Straight
''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations. ''The Straight'' has a long history of independent, unconventional editorials and content, and is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average , was once 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership was once 804,000 . Its website traffic once ranked 92,215 globally and 5,395 within Canada, from Alexa. In January 2020, the newspaper's acquisition by Media Central Corporation was announced, a few weeks after the same company announced a deal to acquire the similar Toronto publication '' Now''. In September 2022, after Media Central Corporation filed for bankruptcy, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmkrant
''Filmkrant'' is a Dutch free independent film magazine covering the film industry in the Netherlands. The magazine was founded in 1981 by Jan Heijs and Henk Rabbers. It is distributed for free and is available online and at movie theaters across the Netherlands. Since 2012, conciding with the Netherlands Film Festival the Filmkrant releases a yearly top 20 list highlighting the most influential people and organizations in the Dutch film industry, they took it over from the Volkskrant who discontinued the list in 2010 after starting it in 1999. History The magazine was originally founded by Jan Heijs and designer Henk Rabbers in 1980 under the original name of Kriterion-Filmkrant, which was an offshoot of Filmtheater Kriterion, under the direction of Huub Bals. In its original incarnation it provided cinema listings for the Kriterion theatre in Amsterdam. In March 1981, they expanded to nationwide while the magazine remained free. In the summer of 1982, they began running into fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magdalene Sisters
''The Magdalene Sisters'' is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as " fallen" by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders, usually by the Catholic Church. Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene asylums had received no closure in the form of recognition, compensation or apology, and many remained lifelong devout Catholics. Former Magdalene inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene asylums was much worse than depicted in the film. Some people have questioned some of the depictions of these institutions in the film. Though set in Ireland, the film was shot entirely on location in Dumfries and Galloway, South-West Scotland. The film was distributed by Miramax, run at the time by Harvey Weinstein. The convent used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan (; born 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. His credits include '' Riff-Raff'' (1991), '' Shallow Grave'' (1994), ''Braveheart'' (1995), '' Trainspotting'' (1996), '' My Name Is Joe'' (1998), '' The Claim'' (2000), '' Neds'' (2010), '' War Horse'' (2011), '' The Fixer'' (2008), '' Top of the Lake'' (2013), '' Mum'' (2016-2019), '' Ozark'' (2017-2018), '' Westworld'' (2018-2020), '' Cursed'' (2020), '' The North Water'' (2021), '' The Underground Railroad'' (2022), '' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' (2022–2024), '' After the Party'' (2023), and '' Baghead'' (2023). He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International Film Festival for his direction of '' The Magdalene Sisters'' (2002). Early life and education Peter Mullan was born in 1959 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Patricia (a nurse) and Charles Mullan (a lab technician at Glasgow University). The seventh of eight children, Mullan was brought up in a working class Roman Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arras Film Festival
The Arras Film Festival is a film festival devoted to French and European cinema, held in early November in Arras, Pas-de-Calais department. Description The Arras Film Festival was founded in 2000 by Plan-Séquence. The event is dedicated to the promotion of French and European cinema with a focus on young and emerging filmmakers. Every year 125 films are selected for the festival. Apart from the main competition, awards are given in ''Visions of the East'' and ''Discoveries'' sections along with assistance grants. The festival also hosts additional events — ''ArrasDays'', a co-production and funding platform, and ''Rencontres du Nord'' for distributors and exhibitors. Editions The 20th anniversary edition of the festival took place from 8 to 17 November 2019, with Nicole Garcia as the guest of honour. Film-opening — Valérie Donzelli's ''Our Dame'', the closing film — Julie Manoukian's ''Vetos''. In 2022, the festival had 45,000 visitors, exceeding the 43,000 popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid International Film Festival
The Valladolid International Film Festival, popularly known as Seminci (short for ; ), is a film festival held annually in Valladolid, Spain. First held in 1956 as ('Valladolid Religious Film Week'), the Seminci is one of the longest-standing film festivals in Spain. It stands out in the area of films d'auteur and independent films. The Seminci conventionally takes place every October, about a month later than the San Sebastián Film Festival, the most prestigious film festival in Spain. History The first edition of the festival began on 20 March 1956 under the name of Semana de Cine Religioso de Valladolid with the goal of promoting Catholic moral values in conjunction with the celebration of Holy Week in Valladolid. For the first two years it was not competitive and no prizes were awarded. In 1958 the Don Bosco gold and silver awards and the Special Mention appeared, which the following year were replaced by the Lábaro and the Ciudad de Valladolid Award, respectively. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostend Film Festival
The Ostend Film Festival () is an annual film festival held in Ostend, Belgium. The film voted by a jury as the best in the competition section receives the Best Film Award. It was launched in 2007 and has been held every year in September. In 2022 the 14th instance of the festival was held in March. In 2010, the Festival transformed its structure to create the Flemish film awards, which in 2012 was named the Ensor Awards. The Ensor Awards take place at the end of each festival to honor the cinematic achievements in the Flemish film and television industry. The Jamies for the best Flemish online video maker are also awarded there each year. Awards The Ensor Awards The festival was founded in 2007 and in 2010 organized the first Flemish Film Awards. In 2012, the awards were renamed the Ensor Award The Ensor Award (for the first two years ''Vlaamse Filmprijzen'') is an accolade presented by the Ensor Academy of Belgium to recognize cinematic achievement in the film industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
