Every edition, the Doha Film Institute lands some bold global filmmaker folk to offer mentorship and masterclasses for the next generation of filmmakers and this year’s Qumra have selected the likes of Alice Diop, who gave us the masterwork Saint Omer (read review) Ambulante’s Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Moroccan actor-filmmaker Faouzi Bensaïdi (he last gave us the Cannes-selected...
Review of Maurice Jarre's outstanding The Man Who Would Be King
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Berlin: Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, Callum Turner, Lukas Gage, Riley Keough, and Tracy Letts are all excellent in Karim Aïnouz's stilted domestic satire, but that's not enough to make it really prick.
Tom Morello discussed the inherently political nature of his directorial debut “The Ballad of Judas Priest” at its Berlin Film Festival press conference, saying that the band is a model for “how we all can do better.” When asked to weigh in on the conversation surrounding politics at this year’s Berlinale, Morello said: “What a […]
Turkish writer/director Emin Alper – who was at the Berlinale in 2019 with “A Tale of Three Sisters,” followed by his incendiary 2022 Cannes entry “Burning Days” – is back in Berlin with timely drama “Salvation” that delves, he says, into the dynamics of contemporary “mass murders, massacres, genocides, and wars.” Set in a remote Turkish […]
Johnny Knoxville and Jason Flemying are starring in two new thrillers from Vienna-based Pont Pictures that are slated to film in Serbia this year. Knoxville is toplining the psychological thriller “Night Sessions,” based a script by American writer Christopher Beachum that Pont Pictures’ Philipp Mair Vargas came across on the Black List database of unproduced […]
Austria continues to entice international film, TV and streaming productions with targeted funding, diverse locations and impressive infrastructure, despite the slashing of a key incentive that has rattled the local industry. The country’s film funding programs, while reduced, still offer a wide range of support, particularly for international productions, and it boasts a slew of […]
The Doha Film Institute has recruited Mexican multi-hyphenates Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, Venice prizewinner Alice Diop, Moroccan auteur Faouzi Bensaïdi, and Oscar-winning composer and producer Gustavo Santaolalla to hold onstage conversations and act as mentors during its upcoming Qumra Arab industry incubator. Qumra, which means “camera” in Arabic, blends together a creative...
Variety is exclusively unveiling a new clip from “Light Pillar,” the feature debut from Chinese writer-director Xu Zao, which is in the Berlin Film Festival’s Perspectives section. Dubai-based company Cercamon recently acquired worldwide sales rights to the production, which screens in competition for the best first feature award in the strand. “Light Pillar” follows a […]
Berlin’s EFM Animation Days industry showcase presented a selection of eight German animation projects on Friday in a lively pitching session that offered a wide range of family-friendly and darker, adult-themed fare. Projects included modern twists on such classics as Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” and “Der Struwwelpeter,” by German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann, as well […]