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TorinoFilmLab
TorinoFilmLab (TFL) is a Turin-based laboratory that primarily supports persons working on their first and second fiction feature films. Its four main fields of involvement are training, development, funding and distribution. TorinoFilmLab runs several projects in each of these fields every year. They end at the TFL Meeting Event in November during the Torino Film Festival, when participants of the different programmes present their work to a selected group of producers, sales agents, distributors and other professionals in independent filmmaking. History This lab was created in 2008 with the aim of complementing Torino Film Festival with a laboratory dedicated to emerging filmmakers. TFL offers various residential workshops and on-line sessions to its participants. The programmes run parallel during the year and reach their conclusion in November at the TFL Meeting Event during the Torino Film Festival. At this occasion, TFL also hand over various awards in order to financiall ... [...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 Galicians, Galician ancestry. His feature directorial debut, ''You All Are Captains'', premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI Prize in the ''Directors' Fortnight, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs''. His third feature, ''Fire Will Come'', was selected for the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, earning the Jury Prize. His fourth feature, ''Sirât'', premiered in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival), Jury Prize. Early life Laxe was born in Paris to Galicians, Galician emigrants. His parents met at Bataclan (theatre), Bataclan at a dance party for emigrants. Laxe's maternal family comes from Vilela, Navia de Suarna, Province of Lugo, Lugo. He has a brother, Felipe, who works as a film producer and often collaborates on his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men Who Save The World
''Men Who Save the World'' () is a 2014 Malaysian Malay-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Liew Seng Tat. The film was nominated for multiple awards in international film festivals, and won several awards at the 27th Malaysian Film Festival, including Best Picture. Cast * Wan Hanafi Su as Pak Awang * Soffi Jikan as Wan * Jjamal Ahmed as Mat Kacamata * Harun Salim Bachik as Megat * Azhan Rani as Cina * Muhammad Farhan Mohamad Nizam as Zakari * Hazeehan Husain as the Headman's Wife * Othman Hafsham as Encik Juta Seri * Jalil Hamid as Tok Bilal * Azman Hassan as Khamis * Khalid Mboyelwa Hussein as Solomon * Bob Idris as Mat Lembu * Hishamuddin Rais as the Tok Bomoh * Pitt Hanif as Sharman's Intern Production Liew developed Lelaki Harapan Dunia at the Cannes Director's Residence – Cinéfondation and participated at the 2011 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. The film was shot in Kuala Kangsar, Perak. Lelaki Harapan Dunia was supposed to be Liew's debut feature film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juho Kuosmanen
Juho Kuosmanen (born September 30, 1979) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2014. Kuosmanen's graduation film called The Painting Sellers was nominated for five Finnish film Academy Awards. (set design, screenplay, best actress, best director, best film). The Painting Sellers won the first prize in Cinéfondation in Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Kuosmanen acted in Leea Klemola's arctic trilogy, performing in "Kokkola" and "New Karleby", both staged at Tampere Theatre in Tampere, Finland. Kuosmanen has also directed opera with conductors Sakari Oramo and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. His debut feature '' The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the top prize. The project had been developed through the TorinoFilmLab Script&Pitch programme in 2014. The movie also won the Grand Prix of the Saint-Jean-de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaelle Kayam
Yaelle Kayam (), also Yael Kayam is an Israeli filmmaker and journalist. She is known for her most recent film, ''Mountain'', released in 2015. It was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her other notable works include ''Providence'' and ''Diploma''. ''Diploma'' was regarded at festivals across the world, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Munich International Student Film Festival. ''Diploma'' was later bought by the television production company, Canal+. Her films also have a heavy influence of geography and location. Yaelle Kayam is known for posing strong political questions in her films, and they mostly revolve around the religion of Judaism. Biography Yale Kayam was born in 1979 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Before entering the film world, Yaelle Kayam studied anthropology and acting at the Tel-Aviv University. Yaelle Kayam then moved on to study film and cinema at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 2004 to 2006. She lived in a notorious sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritesh Batra
Ritesh Batra (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film '' The Lunchbox'' premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. ''The Lunchbox'' was the highest-grossing foreign film in North America, Europe and Australia for 2014 grossing over US$25 Million. The film was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language in 2015. He then directed the English-language film '' The Sense of an Ending'' (2017), an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel. 2017 also saw the release of Batra's ''Our Souls at Night'' on Netflix. Batra's latest film is ''Photograph'', released in 2019. Early life and background Ritesh grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, India. His father Joginder Batra, worked in the Merchant Navy of India and his mother Manju K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimosas (film)
''Mimosas'' (original title: ''Mimosas'') is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by Oliver Laxe, described by Laxe as 'a Religious Western'. The film is a co-production between Spain, Morocco, France and Qatar. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. The film shares some footage with Ben Rivers's '' The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers'' and an installation by Artangel that accompanied it: Rivers's film portrays a high-handed Western film-maker working in North Africa, and uses footage of the making of ''Mimosas''. In the assessment of Jonathan Romney, 'this is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters – and their accompanying mules – often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki
''The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki'' () is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Juho Kuosmanen and written by Mikko Myllylahti and Kuosmanen. An international co-production between Finland, Sweden, and Germany, the film stars Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, and Eero Milonoff. It tells the true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title. The film had its world premiere at the 69th Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2016, where it was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize. It was theatrically released in Finland on 2 September 2016, by B-Plan Distribution. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. At the 71st Jussi Awards, the film earned a leading ten nominations and won in eight categories, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (for Lahti), and Best Supporting Actress (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogs (2016 Film)
''Dogs'' () is a 2016 Romanian drama film directed by Bogdan Mirică. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It is Mirică's directorial debut. The action takes place near Tulcea, in an area of the Danube sector of the Romania–Ukraine border, where groups of smugglers make the law. The city dweller Roman inherits of land from his recently deceased grandfather. His attempt at selling the property is disrupted by a group of thugs led by the smug, sinister Samir, throwing Roman into a violent arena with only a dilapidated shack as his fortress. Cast *Dragoș Bucur as Roman *Gheorghe Visu as Hogaș *Vlad Ivanov as Samir * as Pila * as Nea Epure *Raluca Aprodu as Ilinca *Cătălin Paraschiv as Agent Ana * as Sebi Voicu *Teodor Corban as the veterinarian *Andrei Ciopec as Laie *Ela Ionescu as Mara *Marius Bardasan as Nea Toader *Corneliu Cozmei as Nea Terente Awards At the 2017 Gopo Awards, ''Dogs'' won fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnus Dei (film)
''The Innocents'' (), also known as ''Agnus Dei'', is a 2016 drama film directed by Anne Fontaine, which features Lou de Laâge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek and Vincent Macaigne in its cast. The script is by Sabrina B. Karine, Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine and Alice Vial, after an original idea by Philippe Maynial. Maynial took inspiration from the experiences of his aunt, Madeleine Pauliac, a French Red Cross doctor who worked in Poland after World War II. Plot In Warsaw, December 1945, a nun known as Sister Teresa approaches a young French female student doctor, Mathilde Beaulieu, serving with an army unit. She says there are sick women in need and is not satisfied with a referral to the Polish Red Cross. Beaulieu decides to go at night to the nun's convent, where one woman has given birth. The Mother Superior tells her that the nun was thrown out by her family and was taken in out of charity. Beaulieu tells the Mother Superior (Abbess) that she works for the French Red Cross. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain (2015 Film)
''Mountain'' is a 2015 Israeli drama film directed by Yaelle Kayam. The world premiere took place as part of the "New Horizons" competition at the Venice Film Festival, and the film was also screened at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Additionally, it was featured at the "New Directors, New Films" festival at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The film won the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival and First Prize at the Fribourg Film Festival in Switzerland. At Fribourg, Kayam also received the Don Quixote Prize for Breakthrough Female Directors. She was nominated for the Best Director award by the European Union. Plot The film's protagonist (Shani Klein) is a religious woman living with her husband (Avshalom Pollak) and their four children in a home located within the Jewish cemetery compound on the Mount of Olives. Her days are spent on household chores and caring for the children. When her husband returns home late in the evening, he pays her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Nová
''Eva Nová'' is a 2015 Slovak-Czech drama film written, directed and co-produced by Marko Škop. It was screened in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Cast * Emília Vášáryová Emília Vášáryová, Doctor Artis Dramaticae ( hon.) (; born 18 May 1942) is a Slovak stage and screen actress, whom '' Variety'' and other publications refer to as the "First Lady of Slovak Theater". During a career of more than five decades ... as Eva Nová * Milan Ondrík as Ďoďo * Anikó Varga as Helena * Gabriela Dzuríková as vedoucí supermarketu Awards See also * List of submissions to the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Slovak submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film References External links * 2015 films 2015 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Agüero
Pablo Agüero (born 13 May 1977 in Mendoza, Argentina) is an Argentine-French filmmaker and screenwriter. He obtained international recognition with ''Primera Nieve'', winner of the Jury Prize for Short Films at the 2006 Cannes Festival. Born and raised in Patagonia, Agüero made his first film, ''Mas allá de las puertas'' at age 15, and won the main prize at the Patagonian Biennale of Art. Some of the actors who participated in his films are John Cale (Velvet Underground), who acted for the first time in the cinema in "Salamandra". Gael García Bernal ( Amores perros, La mala Educación), Denis Lavant (Mister Lonely, Holy Motors) and Imanol Arias ( La Flor de mi Secreto) were gathered for the first time in " Eva no duerme". Jeanne Moreau performed a radio adaptation of "Eva no Duerme" and an original song together with Gotan Project. It was the last performance of her life. Géraldine Chaplin plays "God" in "Madres de los Dioses". Louis Garrel, Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |