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A group of Israeli filmmakers and artists are urging the Locarno Film Festival to drop the world premiere screening of Israeli feature My Neighbor Adolf due to concerns over what the group is calling “racist” and “explicitly political” conditions attached to its funding, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The tragicomedy, from Russian-born Israeli director Leon Prudovsky (Five Hours From Paris), is currently set to get a screening in Locarno on Thursday, Aug. 4, the second day of the festival, but the group — which includes Oscar-nominated director Guy Davidi (Five Broken Cameras, upcoming Venice-bowing doc Innocence) — has signed a letter calling on this event to be pulled because of the film’s support by the Rabinovich Foundation’s Israel Cinema Project, Israel’s largest film fund.
The move comes a day after Pacbi, the cultural arm of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a Palestinian-led...
A group of Israeli filmmakers and artists are urging the Locarno Film Festival to drop the world premiere screening of Israeli feature My Neighbor Adolf due to concerns over what the group is calling “racist” and “explicitly political” conditions attached to its funding, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The tragicomedy, from Russian-born Israeli director Leon Prudovsky (Five Hours From Paris), is currently set to get a screening in Locarno on Thursday, Aug. 4, the second day of the festival, but the group — which includes Oscar-nominated director Guy Davidi (Five Broken Cameras, upcoming Venice-bowing doc Innocence) — has signed a letter calling on this event to be pulled because of the film’s support by the Rabinovich Foundation’s Israel Cinema Project, Israel’s largest film fund.
The move comes a day after Pacbi, the cultural arm of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a Palestinian-led...
- 8/2/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Project development platform to take place virtually, ahead of physical FIDMarseille
French festival FIDMarseille has revealed the projects set to be presented at project development event FIDLab, including upcoming features from the UK’s Ben Rivers and last year’s grand prix winner Carolina Moscoso.
The 13th edition of the incubator event, known for its focus on experimental films spanning both documentary and fiction, will take place online – as it did for the first time last year – from June 14-18. The main FIDMarseille festival is planned to go ahead in-person from July 19-25.
FIDLab will include 16 projects, selected from 502 submissions,...
French festival FIDMarseille has revealed the projects set to be presented at project development event FIDLab, including upcoming features from the UK’s Ben Rivers and last year’s grand prix winner Carolina Moscoso.
The 13th edition of the incubator event, known for its focus on experimental films spanning both documentary and fiction, will take place online – as it did for the first time last year – from June 14-18. The main FIDMarseille festival is planned to go ahead in-person from July 19-25.
FIDLab will include 16 projects, selected from 502 submissions,...
- 5/10/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals have signed a petition calling on the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned Israel Film Focus, organised in partnership with the state-backed Israel Film Fund. Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Sally El Hosaini as well as Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Eyal Sivan and Rachel Leah Jones were among the signatories, who expressed, “our deep concern with the fact that the Locarno festival is choosing to partner with the Israel Film…...
- 4/17/2015
- Deadline TV
More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals have signed a petition calling on the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned Israel Film Focus, organised in partnership with the state-backed Israel Film Fund. Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Sally El Hosaini as well as Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Eyal Sivan and Rachel Leah Jones were among the signatories, who expressed, “our deep concern with the fact that the Locarno festival is choosing to partner with the Israel Film…...
- 4/17/2015
- Deadline
Ken Loach, Simone Bitton, Walter Bernstein, Annemarie Jacir and Elia Suleiman among signatories of petition; Locarno Film Festival issues statement.
More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals are urging the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned focus on Israel this summer, being organised in partnership with the state-backed Israeli Film Fund
Ken Loach, a Locarno regular and recipient of its Leopard of Honour in 2003, is among the petitioners alongside screenwriter Walter Bernstein and composer Richard Horowitz.
Other protestors include Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Rachel Leah Jones and Eyal Sivan, and Palestinian directors Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman and Hany Abu-Assad.
But a statement from Locarno said the festival “has always been a place of freedom of expression” and that it would not drop the focus, which would “represent an important opportunity for debate and dialogue, within the context of cultural enrichment”.
Click here for the petition in fullScroll down for Locarno’s statement
The Swiss lakeside, summer festival...
More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals are urging the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned focus on Israel this summer, being organised in partnership with the state-backed Israeli Film Fund
Ken Loach, a Locarno regular and recipient of its Leopard of Honour in 2003, is among the petitioners alongside screenwriter Walter Bernstein and composer Richard Horowitz.
Other protestors include Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Rachel Leah Jones and Eyal Sivan, and Palestinian directors Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman and Hany Abu-Assad.
But a statement from Locarno said the festival “has always been a place of freedom of expression” and that it would not drop the focus, which would “represent an important opportunity for debate and dialogue, within the context of cultural enrichment”.
Click here for the petition in fullScroll down for Locarno’s statement
The Swiss lakeside, summer festival...
- 4/16/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ballet movie sells for Wide House, who are also beginning pre-sales on Unpleasant Truths directed by Marcel Opuls.
Wide House has concluded an eye-catching deal on its new ballet movie Ulyana Lopatkina.
The film, directed by Marlene Ionesco, follows the twists and turns, ups and downs, in the career of Ulyana Lopatkina, a prima ballerina at the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre. It has been picked up for Japan by Showgate in an all rights deal.
At Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm), the company is also beginning pre-sales on what promises to be a highly controversial new doc from Marcel Opuls (the French director of The Sorrow And The Pity).
The new film, entitled Unpleasant Truths and made by Ophuls and Eyal Sivan, asks whether “Islamophobia is the new anti-Semitism” and also explores “the very strange linkage between the far right in Europe and Israel.”
Just prior to the Efm, Wide sold its...
Wide House has concluded an eye-catching deal on its new ballet movie Ulyana Lopatkina.
The film, directed by Marlene Ionesco, follows the twists and turns, ups and downs, in the career of Ulyana Lopatkina, a prima ballerina at the Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre. It has been picked up for Japan by Showgate in an all rights deal.
At Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm), the company is also beginning pre-sales on what promises to be a highly controversial new doc from Marcel Opuls (the French director of The Sorrow And The Pity).
The new film, entitled Unpleasant Truths and made by Ophuls and Eyal Sivan, asks whether “Islamophobia is the new anti-Semitism” and also explores “the very strange linkage between the far right in Europe and Israel.”
Just prior to the Efm, Wide sold its...
- 2/8/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
BERLIN -- The casual visitor to Berlin can today cross from the former east to the former west and back and barely notice the transition. Nowhere is this more true than in the ultramodern redevelopment in Potsdamer Platz, home to the Berlinale since 2000. But a stark reminder for festivalgoers of what the former communist regime meant for the city's residents came in the shape of the documentary I Love You All from directors Eyal Sivan and Audrey Maurion, which drew packed houses for its special screenings. The 88-minute film is based on a text written by a zealous Stasi officer on his last day of work in 1990, shortly after the wall came down. In it, the agent, known only as Mr. S., reflects on 20 years of devoted service at Ministry of State Security, which he performed "out of love" for his country and people.
- 2/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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