It’s interesting to see a documentary exploring the challenges for a new mother returning to work – and when that new mother happens to be a prima ballerina, the results are especially fascinating. Laura Kaehr’s engrossing documentary Becoming Giulia won the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Festival, and follows the charismatic Giulia Tonelli, an Italian dancer at the Zurich Opera. Shot over three years, it’s an insight into her profession as well as a portrait of parenthood and, as the film evolves, life in lockdown.
Four months after giving birth, Tonelli is preparing to come back to the stage. We see her orderly life at home with her husband, and the time they enjoy with their baby. We see the joy and nerves when she returns to the Opera House. “This is like being back home again,” she says, before adding, “I’ve never been away from the stage this long.
Four months after giving birth, Tonelli is preparing to come back to the stage. We see her orderly life at home with her husband, and the time they enjoy with their baby. We see the joy and nerves when she returns to the Opera House. “This is like being back home again,” she says, before adding, “I’ve never been away from the stage this long.
- 10/25/2022
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Dubai-based sales agent Cercamon has acquired world sales rights excluding Switzerland for Laura Kaehr’s first feature documentary “Becoming Giulia,” which has its world premiere Sept. 23 in the Focus competition at the Zurich Film Festival.
Produced by Point Prod, the outfit behind Elie Grappe’s Cannes Critics’ Week prize winner “Olga,” in partnership with Srg Ssr, the film is an intimate and committed look at the journey of a woman who reclaims her body and herself to return to the stage.
Shot over three years, “Becoming Giulia” opens with prima ballerina Giulia Tonelli returning to the main stage at the Zurich Opera House after an 11-month absence due to her first pregnancy. The film offers a sensitive portrait of an artist at the top of her craft, moving from rehearsals to opening nights to everyday life in the home, even as Tonelli juggles the competing demands of work and family.
Produced by Point Prod, the outfit behind Elie Grappe’s Cannes Critics’ Week prize winner “Olga,” in partnership with Srg Ssr, the film is an intimate and committed look at the journey of a woman who reclaims her body and herself to return to the stage.
Shot over three years, “Becoming Giulia” opens with prima ballerina Giulia Tonelli returning to the main stage at the Zurich Opera House after an 11-month absence due to her first pregnancy. The film offers a sensitive portrait of an artist at the top of her craft, moving from rehearsals to opening nights to everyday life in the home, even as Tonelli juggles the competing demands of work and family.
- 9/21/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
A miner in Germany’s last coal mine undergoing a gender change, a prima ballerina fighting to keep her status after becoming a mother, a repentant hooligan turned kickboxing champion, a father who fled the former Uruguayan dictatorship, rejected refugees awaiting deportation, and stuntwomen taking hit after hit for the film industry: to say that the 5th Swiss Films Previews at doc film fest Visions du Réel introduced us to strong characters is an understatement.
Six promising films soon to be launched on the festival circuit and the international market were selected for the event and pitched at VdR-Industry. Five of them were directed (co-directed for “Red”) by women. Four of them are first features. By the quality of the excerpts and the originality of the themes that fit the times, all of them demand to be seen as finished film.
Here’s an overview of what’s coming up...
Six promising films soon to be launched on the festival circuit and the international market were selected for the event and pitched at VdR-Industry. Five of them were directed (co-directed for “Red”) by women. Four of them are first features. By the quality of the excerpts and the originality of the themes that fit the times, all of them demand to be seen as finished film.
Here’s an overview of what’s coming up...
- 4/16/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
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