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‘The Yellow Ceiling’ tells the story of nine former students at Spain’s Lleida Theatre who filed a complaint against two of their teachers for sexual abuse.

Italian sales company The Open Reel has unveiled three new additions to its Cannes Marché slate, including Isabel Coixet’s latest film The Yellow Ceiling.

The feature documentary, produced by Miss Wasabi Films, tells the story of nine former students at Spain’s Lleida Theatre who filed a complaint against two of their teachers for sexual abuse.

The Open Reel’s slate also includes Eleonora Veninova’s debut Things Unsaid. This North Macedonian...

Rafael Morais and Ana Lopes will be toplining the cast of the director’s new project, produced by Ukbar Filmes and distributed by Nos Audiovisuais. Vicente Alves do Ó has started shooting Amadeo, an intimate and personal portrait of Portuguese painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. After Florbela (2012) and Al Berto (2017), in which Alves do Ó depicted the lives of two Portuguese poets – Florbela Espanca and Al Berto – the director is once again preparing to portray yet another important figure in the Portuguese artistic and cultural scene. Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was born in 1887, in Manhufe. He lived and worked in Paris for most of his life, returning to Portugal at the beginning of World War I. There, he lived in Espinho with his family until he died in 1918. The film will depict three key moments in Amadeo’s life: the city of Paris at the beginning...

The Open Reel sells film to Tla Releasing for key territories.

With the 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival now underway in the Estonian capital, Official Selection title Sunburn has scored key territory deals.

Torino-based sales agent The Open Reel has sold the film to Philadeliphia-based Tla Releasing for North America, UK and Ireland, France and French-speaking Territories.

Sunburn has its world premiere in Tallinn on Thursday, November 29.

Directed and written by Vicente Alves do Ó, the Portugese psychological drama follows four friends in their 40s who meet for a weekend by the pool. When a sudden call disrupts the quietness of the hot countryside,...

11 titles added to competition strand.

Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 11- 27) has announced the complete line-up for its competition strand, adding eleven titles to the previously announced eight.

Films having their world premiere at Tallinn include the Greek-French-Latvian co-production Still River by director Angelos Frantzis; Sunburn, a Portuguese production by director Vicente Alves do Ó, which was presented at the Locarno Iff’s First Look showcase this summer; and Indian-born filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s third film Slam. His last films Let The Wind Blow and Sunrise have screened at the Berlinale, the Busan Iff, Tribeca and London.

"Films should also reflect beauty and not just the reality that people anyhow are forced to face every day of their lives," said Vicente Alves do ó, director of Portuguese film Florbela.Interacting with media here on Tuesday he said that he wants people who watch his movies to go back with a sense of contentment and happiness and not his/her soul twisted by what he/she saw on the screen. He made Read More...

The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.

Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.

Complete list of films:

Competition Films

Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.

Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)

Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)

A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)

Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)

Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)

The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)

Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)

Present Tense...