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Paris-based Totem Films has boarded Rosanne Pel’s darkly comic family drama Donkey Days ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at Locarno Film Festival.

The Dutch-German production is about two sisters who have always fought for their mother’s attention. When the duo return to their family home they discover strange mysteries, including anonymous ashes and their mother’s love for a donkey.

Donkey Days is produced by Floor Onrust for The Netherlands’ Family Affair Films, who are behind Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts that premiered in Berlin last year, and Pel...

Berlin-based Films Boutique has boarded Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts, which world premieres next month in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus strand.

Young Hearts centres on a 13-year-old boy who feels attracted to his new neighbour. The film marks the directorial debut of Belgian director Anthony Schatteman and won the work in progress award at Connext 2023. Schatteman most recently directed the Irish series Northern Lights for Lionsgate. His youth series Panna was released in 2021, airing on Goplay.be for Sbs Belgium, and his series 2de Zit played Belgian streaming platform Streamz.

Young Hearts’ stars Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg,...

The winners of the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) were announced at the annual ceremony at Old Billingsgate with BIFA patron Ray Winstone kicking off the celebration of independent film.

The award for Best British Independent Film, presented by Fiona Shaw, went to Andrew Haigh’s ‘All of Us Strangers’, a beautifully unsettling tale of a writer revisiting his past, starring Andrew Scott. Haigh, who was previously BIFA nominated for 2015’s 45 Years and 2018’s Lean on Pete, also came away with the coveted awards for Best Director sponsored by Sky Cinema and Best Screenplay sponsored by Apple Original Films.

There were two winners announced for Best Supporting Performance from a field of ten nominees and Paul Mescal took one of those trophies for his role in the film. All of Us Strangers won four awards on the night.

Best Lead Performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker...

Andrew Haigh’s touching new drama All Of Us Strangers was the big winner at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).

As the calendar year draws to a close, we’re also inching close toward the season that will see multiple prestigious awards bodies, in theory, hand the best films of the year a golden statuette. The season kicked off with the British Independent Film Awards, also known as BIFA 2023, which were held in London on the 3rd of December.

Lolly Adefope and Kiell Smith-Bynoe hosted the event which celebrated British cinema, especially the slightly lesser-seen films with budgets far smaller than that of Oppenheimer. There were some terrific films nominated this year, and the roster of winners was as surprising as it was satisfying.

Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers was the biggest winner of the night, taking home a total of four awards plus three previously announced ones.

Once more we celebrate another remarkable year for British talent, as the 2023 British Independent Film Awards rolled out their red carpet this evening. We were there once again on the carpet to talk with the nominees and presenters, all to champion a fierce and fulsome chorus of new cinematic voices.

A full list of winners follows the interviews. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.

The 2023 BIFAs Red Carpet Interviews

The full list of winners is below.

Best British Independent Film All Of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey Femme – Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Myles Payne, Sam Ritzenberg How To Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker, Ivana MacKinnon, Emily Leo, Konstantinos Kontovrakis Rye Lane – Raine Allen-Miller, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Damian Jones Scrapper – Charlotte Regan, Theo Barrowclough Best Joint Lead Performance David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane Nathan Stewart-Jarrett,...

The ceremony commences at 20:00 GMT, with ’Rye Lane’, ‘Scrapper’, ‘All Of Us Strangers’ and ‘How To Have Sex’ among the hot contenders.

The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) will be unveiling the 2023 winners today (December 3) from a ceremony at London’s Old Billingsgate, kicking off at 20:00 GMT.

Screen will be updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced, so refresh this page for the latest winners.

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Raine Allen-Miller’s south London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations, followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh...

“Rye Lane”, “Scrapper”, “All of Us Strangers”, “How to Have Sex” y “Femme” encabezan las nominaciones a los premios BIFA.

El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA

All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh

Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping

How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker

Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller

Scrapper, Charlotte Regan

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional

Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet

Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki

Fremont, Babak Jalali

Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda

Past Lives, Celine Song

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane

Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme

Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...

A24 released the trailer for Steve McQueen's documentary Occupied City, which contrasts modern-day Amsterdam with life under Nazi occupation during World War II. Instead of relying on archival footage, McQueen used 36 hours of film collected over three years to create a powerful juxtaposition between the present and the past. McQueen emphasizes that the film is not just about the past, but also about the present, urging viewers to question everything and learn from history.

A24 has unveiled the trailer for the thought-provoking documentary Occupied City from Academy Award winning filmmaker Steve McQueen. As visuals of everyday life in Amsterdam flash on the screen– children skating, a game of chess, youth in school– we hear narrator Melanie Hyams speak of a different time. While using modern day footage, Occupied City details happenings in the Netherlands capital from 1940 to 1945, chronicling the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam and the horrendous crimes against Jews...

Steve McQueen seeps into an old world for a new feature.

McQueen’s whopping four-hour long documentary “Occupied City” charts a five-year period from 1940 to 1945 during World War II in Amsterdam. Based on historian and filmmaker Bianca Stigter’s “Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945),” the documentary uses archival footage that McQueen spent three years collecting.

The official synopsis reads: The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book “Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945),” written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.

Melanie Hyams narrates the A24 and New Regency film, which debuted at Cannes.

Final five nominations to be announced on November 2.

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall and Todd Haynes’ May December are among the titles on the latest British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) longlists, for Best Feature Documentary and Best International Independent Film.

15 films are on the documentary longlist, with five of them by first-time directors; with 17 films on the international list.

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Alongside McQueen’s film combining analysis of Amsterdam during the Second World War with the present day, documentary titles include Kevin MacDonald’s High & Low: John Galliano about the...

Super Ltd has acquired North American rights to Bianca Stigter’s Three Minutes — A Lengthening, a Holocaust documentary co-produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown). The doc will be released in theaters next year.

Stigter’s first feature-length doc centers on a three-minute home movie shot by David Kurtz on a European holiday in 1938, in a Jewish town in Poland. The amateur footage— discovered by Kurtz’s grandson, writer Glenn Kurtz, in his parents’ Florida home—captures the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk just one year before the Nazis invaded. Most were eventually killed in the Treblinka extermination camp.

Family Affairs Films’ Floor Onrust produced Stigter’s meditation on history and memory with Lammas Park, with the support of The Netherlands Film Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

The film made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival...

The film is directed by Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter.

Austrian documentary sales specialist Autlook has acquired world rights to Three Minutes - A Lengthening, a new feature documentary by leading Dutch director, producer, director and cultural critic, Bianca Stigter.

Three Minutes – A Lengthening is based around a home movie shot by David Kurtz with a 16mm camera in a Jewish town in Poland in 1938 and poses the questions: can a film of three minutes last for over an hour? Stigter examines these three minutes of film, to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid, narrated by actress Helena Bonham Carter.

Magic Mountains

Poland’s Urszula Antoniak embarks on a Dutch production for her fifth film, Magic Mountains, starring Flemish actor Thomas Ryckewaert, Polish actor Marcin Dorocinski and Dutch actor Hannah Hoekstra (a breakout in Sacha Polack’s 2012 Hemel who also had a minor role in Elizabeth Banks’ reboot of Charlie’s Angels). Antoniak reunites with her Beyond Words (read review) P Lennert Hillege, with Floor Onrust serving as producer. Antoniak’s breakout was her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, which competed in Locarno and won a handful of awards.…...

Here is the group shot with all the participants of this year's Producers Lab Toronto.

Top row (left to right): Arnie Zipursky (Canada), Kaleena Kiff (Canada), Chantelle Kadyschuk (Canada),Leanne Saunders (New Zealand), Rebecca Summerton (Australia), Raquelle David (Australia),Nathalie Lichtenthaeler (Ireland), Marie-Claude Poulin (Canada), Simone Urdl (Canada),Floor Onrust (The Netherlands), Julia Rosenberg (Canada), Hanan Kattan (United Kingdom), Eva Jakobsen (Denmark), Barbara Willis Sweete (Canada), Bob Crowe (Canada).

Bottom row (left to right): Peter Rommel (Germany), Alex Behse (New Zealand), Hlin Johannesdottir (Iceland), Silvia Panakova (Slovak Republic), Edmon Roch (Spain), Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith (Canada), Jane Loughman (Canada), Adis Djapo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Not pictured Ivo Felt (Estonia).

Intense networking and pitching events among producers from Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia took place at the Toronto International Film Festival. The sixth edition of this initiative, which ran September 9 to 12, was created for 24 hand-picked participants to exchange project ideas and funding information for trans-atlantic co-production deals.

The international co-production forum was organized and financed by European Film Promotion (Efp) in collaboration with the Ontario Media Development Corporation (Omdc) and the Toronto International Film Festival®.Screen Australia and the New Zealand Film Commission (Nzfc) supported the event once again, along withCreative Europe – Media Program, the participating Efp member organizations, Eurimages, and Telefilm Canada.

Here is a list of the participants:

European participants

Canadian participants

Adis Djapo , Scca (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Ivo Felt, Allfilm (Estonia)

Eva Jakobsen , Snowglobe (Denmark)

Hlín Johannesdóttir , Vintage Pictures (Iceland)

Hanan Kattan , Enlightenment Productions (UK)

Nathalie Lichtenthaeler , Wide Eye Films (Ireland)

Floor Onrust , Family Affair Films (The Netherlands)

Silvia Panáková , Arina (Slovak Republic)

Edmon Roch , Ikiru Films (Spain)

Peter Rommel , Rommel Film (Germany)

Bob Crowe , Angel Entertainment Corp.

Chantelle Kadyschuk , No Trace Camping Productions

Kaleena Kiff , Radius Squared Media Group

Jane Loughman , Monkeys & Parrots

Marie-Claude Poulin , Item 7

Julia Rosenberg , January Films

Simone Urdl , The Film Farm

Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith , First Love Films

Barbara Willis Sweete , Willis Sweete Productions

Arnie Zipursky , Cci Entertainment

Australian participants

New Zealand’s participants

Raquelle David , Damsel Pictures

Rebecca Summerton , Closer Productions

Alexander Behse , Monsoon Pictures International

Leanne Saunders , Piki Films

Detailed information about the 24 participants of Producers Lab Toronto 2015 can be found...

The sixth edition of Producers Lab Toronto is set to launch during the Toronto International Film Festival from September 9 to 12, 2015. Twenty four producers from Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have been chosen to exchange project ideas, funding information, and co-production deals. This successful networking platform has facilitated the development of several trans-Atlantic co-productions, with 17 former participants now working on 17 projects at various stages of production.

Producers Lab Toronto 2015 will see the 24 participants taking part in various networking and pitching events, case studies, and round tables with key industry members. The event will enable the participants to broaden their scope of projects regarding financing, creativity, and distribution in order to create trans-Atlantic co-productions.

The international co-production forum is organized and financed by European Film Promotion (Efp) in collaboration with theOntario Media Development Corporation (Omdc) and the Toronto International Film Festival®.Screen Australia and the New Zealand Film Commission (Nzfc) will again be supporting the event, along with Creative Europe – Media Programme, the participating Efp member organisations, Eurimages, and Telefilm Canada.

Selected by the event's five partners, the participating producers have significant experience of co-production and will be presenting new projects with international market potential. Adis Dapo, known for Aida Begic’s "Children of Sarajevo" (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Germany/ France/ Turkey 2012), is from Efp’s youngest member country Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is one of the ten European internationally-experienced producers coming to take part in the event.

Canadian producer participants include Simone Urdl, known for her long association with Atom Egoyan ("The Captive," Cannes 2014), and Chantelle Kadyschuk of No Trace Camping, Canadian producer of "Room," a Canada-Ireland co-production premiering at Tiff 2015.

European participants

Adis Djapo , Scca (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Ivo Felt , Allfilm (Estonia)

Eva Jakobsen , Snowglobe (Denmark)

Hlín Johannesdóttir , Vintage Pictures (Iceland)

Hanan Kattan , Enlightenment Productions (UK)

Nathalie Lichtenthaeler , Wide Eye Films (Ireland)

Floor Onrust , Family Affair Films (The Netherlands)

Silvia Panáková , Arina (Slovak Republic)

Edmon Roch , Ikiru Films (Spain)

Peter Rommel , Rommel Film (Germany)

Australian participants

Raquelle David , Damsel Pictures

Rebecca Summerton , Closer Productions

Canadian participants

Bob Crowe , Angel Entertainment Corp.

Chantelle Kadyschuk , No Trace Camping Productions

Kaleena Kiff , Radius Squared Media Group

Jane Loughman , Monkeys & Parrots

Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith , First Love Films

Marie-Claude Poulin , Item 7

Julia Rosenberg , January Films

Simone Urdl , The Film Farm

Barbara Willis Sweete , Willis Sweete Productions

Arnie Zipursky , Cci Entertainment

New Zealand's participants

Alexander Behse , Monsoon Pictures International

Leanne Saunders , Piki Films...

Twenty-four producers from Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have been selected for the programme.

Toronto International Film Festival sources said the networking initiative has led to 17 former participants working on projects at various stages of production.

Participants will take part in networking and pitching events, case studies and roundtables with key industry members.

The participants are:

Canada: Bob Crowe (Angel Entertainment Corp), Chantelle Kadyschuk (No Trace Camping), Kaleena Kiff (Radius Squared Media Group), Jane Loughman (Monkeys & Parrots), Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith (First Love Films), Marie-Claude Poulin (Item 7), Julia Rosenberg (January Films), Simone Urdl (The Film Farm), Barbara Willis Sweete (Willis Sweete Productions) and Arnie Zipursky (Cci Entertainment).

Europe: Adis Djapo (Scca, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ivo Felt (Allfilm, Estonia), Eva Johannesdóttir (Snowglobe, Denmark), Hanan Kattan (Enlightenment Productions, UK), Nathalie Lichtenthaeler (Wide Eye Films, Ireland), Floor Onrust (Family Affair Films, The Netherlands), Silvia Panáková (Arina, Slovak Republic), Edmon Roch (Ikiru Films, Spain), [link...

The UK’s Hanan Kattan, Germany’s Peter Rommel and Canada’s Chantelle Kadyschuk are among those selected for this year’s Producers Lab Toronto (Plt).

The 24 producers from Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will participate in the sixth edition of the networking platform, which will run Sept 9-12 during the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).

Plt is targeted at producers who have had previous experience in working on international co-productions and now have projects in the pipeline that could be interesting for the international market.

European producers

The ten European producers were selected by European Film Promotion’s member organisations from previous participants of its Cannes-based initiative Producers on the Move.

Together with her partner Shamim Sarif, Hanan Kattan has a presence in the UK and Canada with their Enlightenment Group of companies. Hattan produced Sarif’s three features, including Despite The Falling Snow, starring Charles Dance and Rebecca Ferguson, as well as...

Exclusive: Mongrel International has added a late addition to its Toronto slate in the form of History’s Future from installations artist Fiona Tan.

The Family Affair Films and Rohfilm project is a part-fiction, part-documentary essay about the world and stars Mark O’Halloran, Denis Lavant and Anne Consigny

History’s Future focuses on a man as he embarks on a trans-European voyage after losing his memory in a violent assault and ultimately learns how to survive contemporary life.

The project is currently shooting in various European locations and the producers have earmarked a September 15 end of principal photography.

“We are thrilled that the producers have entrusted us the sales of History’s Future,” said Mongrel International president Charlotte Mickie. “Fiona Tan is a very impressive artist and promises to be an equally impressive feature filmmaker. Her themes of identity, dislocation and connectedness are both urgent and affecting.”

“Both Mongrel and Charlotte have a history of involvement...