Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama
Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and reclamation in her fourth feature, Silver Haze, another pseudo-sordid kitchen sink melodrama focused on wounded souls relegated to social peripheries. Returning with another UK co-production headlined by Vicky Knight, the breakout star from her 2019 title Dirty God (read review), the wounds of the past are both literal and figurative this time around with a young nurse just beginning to explore her sexuality while her life remains overshadowed by a horrific childhood incident that left her scarred for life.…...
Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and reclamation in her fourth feature, Silver Haze, another pseudo-sordid kitchen sink melodrama focused on wounded souls relegated to social peripheries. Returning with another UK co-production headlined by Vicky Knight, the breakout star from her 2019 title Dirty God (read review), the wounds of the past are both literal and figurative this time around with a young nurse just beginning to explore her sexuality while her life remains overshadowed by a horrific childhood incident that left her scarred for life.…...
- 2/29/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Film reunites writer/director Polak with British actor Vicky Knight.
BFI Distribution has acquired Berlinale Panorama title Silver Haze from New Europe Film Sales for theatrical release in the UK and Ireland.
The film reunites its Dutch writer/director Sacha Polak with British actor Vicky Knight who previously worked together on Dirty God in 2019.
Knight’s performance won the Teddy Jury Award in the Panorama strand at Berlin. Earlier this week the film had its North American premiere in competition at the Tribeca Festival.
The film has also sold to Dark Star for the US, Caramel Films for Spain, Lucky Red for Italy,...
BFI Distribution has acquired Berlinale Panorama title Silver Haze from New Europe Film Sales for theatrical release in the UK and Ireland.
The film reunites its Dutch writer/director Sacha Polak with British actor Vicky Knight who previously worked together on Dirty God in 2019.
Knight’s performance won the Teddy Jury Award in the Panorama strand at Berlin. Earlier this week the film had its North American premiere in competition at the Tribeca Festival.
The film has also sold to Dark Star for the US, Caramel Films for Spain, Lucky Red for Italy,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Territories sold also include Spain, Italy, Poland.
New Europe Film Sales has secured sales to several key territories on Sacha Polak’s Dutch-uk feature Silver Haze.
The film has sold to North America (Dark Star), Spain (Caramel Films), Italy (Lucky Red), Poland (Tongariro), Israel (Tlv Fest) and Brazil (Bitelli Films).
Starring Screen Stars of Tomorrow Vicky Knight and Esme Creed-Miles, Silver Haze tells the story of an East London nurse with a thirst for revenge following a traumatic event 15 years previously, who falls in love with one of her patients.
It debuted in the Panorama strand at the 2023 Berlinale, with...
New Europe Film Sales has secured sales to several key territories on Sacha Polak’s Dutch-uk feature Silver Haze.
The film has sold to North America (Dark Star), Spain (Caramel Films), Italy (Lucky Red), Poland (Tongariro), Israel (Tlv Fest) and Brazil (Bitelli Films).
Starring Screen Stars of Tomorrow Vicky Knight and Esme Creed-Miles, Silver Haze tells the story of an East London nurse with a thirst for revenge following a traumatic event 15 years previously, who falls in love with one of her patients.
It debuted in the Panorama strand at the 2023 Berlinale, with...
- 5/10/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Silver Haze,” directed by Sacha Polak, has debuted its trailer (below) ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. Polak’s last film, “Dirty God,” was in Sundance’s World Dramatic Competition, and was the opening film of Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019.
“Silver Haze,” starring Vicky Knight and Esme Creed Miles, is being sold by New Europe Film Sales. French distribution is being handled by The Jokers, and Cinéart is looking after Benelux distribution.
The film centers on 23-year-old Franky, a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence.
They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family.
“Silver Haze,” starring Vicky Knight and Esme Creed Miles, is being sold by New Europe Film Sales. French distribution is being handled by The Jokers, and Cinéart is looking after Benelux distribution.
The film centers on 23-year-old Franky, a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence.
They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family.
- 2/6/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Silver Haze
For her fourth feature film, Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak appears to be moving into an area that blurs the lines – promising “a fictional story with documentary components.” Returning to the Berlinale next month for a third time, Polak’s 2012 debut Hemel was followed by 2015’s Zurich and 2019’s Dirty God (Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition selection and Rotterdam). Silver Haze won a Les Arcs Festival Work-in-Progress special mention for its “striking cinematography, and the way Polak works with the actors” Re-teaming with her Dirty God actress Vicky Knight (who inspired Polak – as this feature utilizes part of Knight’s past), this also features Esmé Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden and Angela Bruce.…...
For her fourth feature film, Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak appears to be moving into an area that blurs the lines – promising “a fictional story with documentary components.” Returning to the Berlinale next month for a third time, Polak’s 2012 debut Hemel was followed by 2015’s Zurich and 2019’s Dirty God (Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition selection and Rotterdam). Silver Haze won a Les Arcs Festival Work-in-Progress special mention for its “striking cinematography, and the way Polak works with the actors” Re-teaming with her Dirty God actress Vicky Knight (who inspired Polak – as this feature utilizes part of Knight’s past), this also features Esmé Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden and Angela Bruce.…...
- 1/16/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Selected films include Tina Satter’s ‘Reality’ with Sydney Sweeney in Panorama.
The Berlinale has revealed the first films that will play in its 2023 edition, announcing 14 features for the Panorama strand and nine for the youth-focused Generation section; plus a full move to Potsdamer Platz for the European Film Market, returning as a physical event for the first time since 2020.
The 14 Panorama titles include Reality, the feature debut of US filmmaker Tina Satter, which depicts a young woman confronted at home by the FBI, which leads her life to unravel. The film stars Sydney Sweeney, known for her roles in TV hits Euphoria,...
The Berlinale has revealed the first films that will play in its 2023 edition, announcing 14 features for the Panorama strand and nine for the youth-focused Generation section; plus a full move to Potsdamer Platz for the European Film Market, returning as a physical event for the first time since 2020.
The 14 Panorama titles include Reality, the feature debut of US filmmaker Tina Satter, which depicts a young woman confronted at home by the FBI, which leads her life to unravel. The film stars Sydney Sweeney, known for her roles in TV hits Euphoria,...
- 12/15/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In one of the hardest sequences to look at in “From Where They Stood” (it’s also one of the hardest to look away from), we see four photographs taken inside the Buchenwald concentration camp by Alberto Errera, a Jewish prisoner from Greece who was a member of the Sonderkommando — the inmates who were allowed to live, at least for a time, because they agreed to be part of the grisliest work detail. There is no known photograph that exists of what went on inside the gas chambers. But Errera came close by taking several clandestine photographs from the gas chambers, giving us a window into what happened before and after.
One of his images shows a group of women prisoners, several of them naked, against a woodland setting; they think they’re about to take a shower, which is the lie that was told to prisoners to get them to enter the gas chambers.
One of his images shows a group of women prisoners, several of them naked, against a woodland setting; they think they’re about to take a shower, which is the lie that was told to prisoners to get them to enter the gas chambers.
- 8/5/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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