In collaboration with Mexico’s Morelia International Film Festival (Ficm), Cannes’ Critics’ Week has presented four shorts by upcoming Mexican directors on Thursday: Daniela Silva Solórzano’s “The Things I Tell You”; “The Short Film” by José Luis Isoard Arrubarrena; “To Go Away and Come Back” by José Permar: and “A Hand Beneath the Snow” by José Esteban Pavlovich.
“We started by presenting Critics’ Week’s films at our festival, because it’s an important section for Mexico. That’s where Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu were first discovered,” explains Ficm’s director Daniela Michel.
Since 2005, Mexican shorts have been travelling to Cannes, too.
“We have been very, very lucky to have this collaboration. It has also strengthened our relationship with Critics’ Week. Since last year, we have also been a part of [workshop] Next Step,” she adds, opening up about this year’s selection.
“These films show...
“We started by presenting Critics’ Week’s films at our festival, because it’s an important section for Mexico. That’s where Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu were first discovered,” explains Ficm’s director Daniela Michel.
Since 2005, Mexican shorts have been travelling to Cannes, too.
“We have been very, very lucky to have this collaboration. It has also strengthened our relationship with Critics’ Week. Since last year, we have also been a part of [workshop] Next Step,” she adds, opening up about this year’s selection.
“These films show...
- 5/26/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Vienna-based sales company Square Eyes has acquired Tomasz Wolski’s Polish animated documentary “1970,” which picked up the Special Jury Award at this year’s Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel.
The stop-motion animated pic, which is screening at the Krakow Film Festival, chronicles the increasingly violent efforts by Poland’s communist leaders to end widespread demonstrations over rising prices of food and other everyday items.
Square Eyes also recently added Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee’s German-French documentary work “Bottled Songs 1-4,” a collection of shorts that follow the directors’ investigation of online jihadist propaganda and how media-savvy groups like Isis make effective use of stylistic devices drawn from Hollywood blockbusters.
“Bottled Songs 1-4” is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Harbour section.
Likewise unspooling at IFFR is Square Eyes’ Dutch doc “A Man and a Camera” by Guido Hendrikx. The pic offers a silent tour of Dutch front doors,...
The stop-motion animated pic, which is screening at the Krakow Film Festival, chronicles the increasingly violent efforts by Poland’s communist leaders to end widespread demonstrations over rising prices of food and other everyday items.
Square Eyes also recently added Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee’s German-French documentary work “Bottled Songs 1-4,” a collection of shorts that follow the directors’ investigation of online jihadist propaganda and how media-savvy groups like Isis make effective use of stylistic devices drawn from Hollywood blockbusters.
“Bottled Songs 1-4” is screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Harbour section.
Likewise unspooling at IFFR is Square Eyes’ Dutch doc “A Man and a Camera” by Guido Hendrikx. The pic offers a silent tour of Dutch front doors,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Virtues of Virtual Festivals
Put together in just a few weeks, the online edition of Visions du Reel is perhaps the first festival which really moves the dial on the virtues of virtual festivals, suggesting that, at least when it comes to festivals or markets whose titles are most commonly seen in a broadcast space – drama series, doc features – the onus is now on events to justify doing nothing at all. 95 out of the 97 films selected for Visions du Reel accepted screening online, with one of the Remainers unable to finish postproduction post-lockdown. “There was a real readiness on the audience and filmmaker and producer side,” said Visions du Réel artistic director Emilie Bujes. Though she is fascinating in person, the Claire Denis masterclass was watched by 1,400 viewers around the world who might not have time to attend a three-hour talk at a physical event or fly to Switzerland in the first place.
Put together in just a few weeks, the online edition of Visions du Reel is perhaps the first festival which really moves the dial on the virtues of virtual festivals, suggesting that, at least when it comes to festivals or markets whose titles are most commonly seen in a broadcast space – drama series, doc features – the onus is now on events to justify doing nothing at all. 95 out of the 97 films selected for Visions du Reel accepted screening online, with one of the Remainers unable to finish postproduction post-lockdown. “There was a real readiness on the audience and filmmaker and producer side,” said Visions du Réel artistic director Emilie Bujes. Though she is fascinating in person, the Claire Denis masterclass was watched by 1,400 viewers around the world who might not have time to attend a three-hour talk at a physical event or fly to Switzerland in the first place.
- 5/4/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Francesca Mazzoleni’s “Puntasacra,” Francisco Bermejo’s “The Other One” and Nick Brandestini’s “Sapelo” scooped the top prizes in the three major sections at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel prize ceremony Sunday night, held online as the whole of the documentary festival.
Major plaudits in the festival’s main International Feature Film Competition also went to Markku Lehmuskallio and Johannes Lehmuskallios “Anerca, Breath of Life,” Afsaneh Salari’s “The Silhouettes,” Mo Scarpelli’s “El Father Plays Himself” and José Permar’s “Off the Road.”
The Audience Award, one of the key prizes for distributors,was nabbed by Chines-German feature “Mirror Mirror on the Wall.”
Acquired by Italy’s True Colours for world sales, “Puntasacra” won Visions du Réel’s top Sesterce d’Or la Mobilière for a doc feature that portrays the resilient inhabitants of the last triangle of habitable land at the mouth of the Italy’s Tiber...
Major plaudits in the festival’s main International Feature Film Competition also went to Markku Lehmuskallio and Johannes Lehmuskallios “Anerca, Breath of Life,” Afsaneh Salari’s “The Silhouettes,” Mo Scarpelli’s “El Father Plays Himself” and José Permar’s “Off the Road.”
The Audience Award, one of the key prizes for distributors,was nabbed by Chines-German feature “Mirror Mirror on the Wall.”
Acquired by Italy’s True Colours for world sales, “Puntasacra” won Visions du Réel’s top Sesterce d’Or la Mobilière for a doc feature that portrays the resilient inhabitants of the last triangle of habitable land at the mouth of the Italy’s Tiber...
- 5/3/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Brooklyn-based Zero Chill has boarded “Off the Road,” joining Mexican producer Daniela Silva at Mexico’s production collective Tardígrada on a title which will bow from April 25 at the now totally online Visions du Réel Nyon Intl. Film Festival.
Primed by financing from Mexico’s Imcine film agency, tapped from its Foprocine investment fund, “Off the Road” represents the second collaboration between Tardígrada and Zero Chill, owned by Guillermo Zouain, Wendy V. Muñiz, Marissa Rodriguez and Oz Rodriguez, the latter’s directorial credits taking in “Saturday Night Live” and the Emmy-winning “The Making of Saturday Night Live.”
The first link-up, and Silva’s first feature as a director, “Where Things Remain,” was a docu-portrait of Jalisco fossil-collector Federico Solorzano, her grandfather.
Set in Baja California Sur, halfway down the peninsula and one of the least populated parts of Mexico with huge tracts of scrub desert, “Off the Road” takes place...
Primed by financing from Mexico’s Imcine film agency, tapped from its Foprocine investment fund, “Off the Road” represents the second collaboration between Tardígrada and Zero Chill, owned by Guillermo Zouain, Wendy V. Muñiz, Marissa Rodriguez and Oz Rodriguez, the latter’s directorial credits taking in “Saturday Night Live” and the Emmy-winning “The Making of Saturday Night Live.”
The first link-up, and Silva’s first feature as a director, “Where Things Remain,” was a docu-portrait of Jalisco fossil-collector Federico Solorzano, her grandfather.
Set in Baja California Sur, halfway down the peninsula and one of the least populated parts of Mexico with huge tracts of scrub desert, “Off the Road” takes place...
- 4/24/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Ernesto Contreras’s Sundance audience award winner I Dream In Another Language among roster in Mexico.
Top brass at the festival in Jalisco, Mexico, announced on Wednesday the programme.
Selections include José Permar and Omar Robles’ short and Berlin 2016 premiere Aurelia And Pedro, and David Pablos’s The Chosen Ones, which screened in Un Certain Regard section in Cannes 2015.
Highlights of the ArteCareyes Film & Arts Festival include a day-long music festival and a contemporary art programme that features a public art trail, in lieu of traditional galleries, and solo artist exhibitions.
In addition, ArteCareyes will host ‘Acting For Film’ labs to be led by the following directors: Lucía Carreras, Ana Cristina Barragán, Catalina Aguilar, Diego Ros, Daniel Castro, Pablos, Anwar Safa and actors Karla Souza, Irene Azuela, Darío Yazbek, Fernando Alvarez Rebeil, and José María Yazpik.
The festival was founded in 2010 to showcase contemporary Mexican talent in film, music and contemporary art and runs from March 22-26.
Top brass at the festival in Jalisco, Mexico, announced on Wednesday the programme.
Selections include José Permar and Omar Robles’ short and Berlin 2016 premiere Aurelia And Pedro, and David Pablos’s The Chosen Ones, which screened in Un Certain Regard section in Cannes 2015.
Highlights of the ArteCareyes Film & Arts Festival include a day-long music festival and a contemporary art programme that features a public art trail, in lieu of traditional galleries, and solo artist exhibitions.
In addition, ArteCareyes will host ‘Acting For Film’ labs to be led by the following directors: Lucía Carreras, Ana Cristina Barragán, Catalina Aguilar, Diego Ros, Daniel Castro, Pablos, Anwar Safa and actors Karla Souza, Irene Azuela, Darío Yazbek, Fernando Alvarez Rebeil, and José María Yazpik.
The festival was founded in 2010 to showcase contemporary Mexican talent in film, music and contemporary art and runs from March 22-26.
- 3/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
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