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Except perhaps Souleymane’s Story‘s Abou Sangare biking away with the European Actor award (beating out Conclave‘s Ralph Fiennes) there were no surprises at last night’s European Film Awards with Jacques Audiard‘s Emilia Pérez winning four of the five prizes it was nominated for. Karla Sofía Gascón won Best Actress, Audiard won Best Screenwriter and Director while the film the top prize of the evening. Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal’s No Other Land continues to dominate the docu awards circuit which means here is a legit shot at a future Oscar. Here are the noms and winners:

European Director:

Winner: Jacques Audiard for Emilia PÉREZ

Andrea Arnold for Bird

Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Next Door

Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig

Maura Delpero for Vermiglio

European Screenwriter:

Winner: Jacques Audiard for Emilia PÉREZ

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In Luzern sind heute Abend die European Film Awards verliehen worden. Jacques Audiards Cannes-Beitrag wurde als bester Film, für die beste Regie, das beste Drehbuch und die beste Hauptdarstellerin ausgezeichnet.

Karla Sofía Gascón wurde für ihre Rolle in „Emilia Pérez“ mit dem European Film Award ausgezeichnet (Credit: Neue Visionen / Wild Bunch Germany)

Jacques Audiards Cannes-Beitrag „Emilia Pérez“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) war viermal für die European Film Awards nominiert – und wurde heute Abend in Luzern viermal ausgezeichnet.

Die Produzenten des Films erhielten den European Film Award für den besten Film, Audiard wurde zweimal ausgezeichnet, für die beste Regie und das beste Drehbuch, woraufhin er in seiner Dankesrede für die zweite Auszeichnung mit einem Augenzwinkern bat: „Nennen Sie mich nicht mehr Jacques Audiard, nennen sich mit Jacques Award.“ Hauptdarstellerin Karla Sofia Gascón erhielt die Auszeichnung als beste Schauspielerin; sie hatte zuvor in Cannes schon zusammen mit Zoe Saldaña, Adriana Paz und Selena Gomez den Schauspielpreis gewonnen.

Jacques Audiard’s latest Emilia Pérez dominated the European Film Awards this evening in Lucerne, Switzerland, taking Best Film and Best Director. Check out the full winners list below.

The Netflix crime drama won all four of it’s nominations. Audiard’s pic came into this evening’s tied with Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door for the most noms. The film’s haul included Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón and Best Screenplay.

Other big winners this evening in Switzerland included filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis who won Best Animated feature for his buzzy pic Flow and the Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land took the Best Documentary prize.

Tonight’s dominant display hands Audiard and his Emilia Pérez collaborators a significant vote of confidence as they head into the heat of awards seasons. The European Film Awards, which are voted on by the Berlin-based European Film Academy’s some 5,000 members based across Europe,...

Emilia Pérez got an early boost in its awards campaign on Saturday night by cleaning up at the 37th European Film Awards, handed out in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language transgender musical won best film, best director and best screenplay honors for Audiard. Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the titular character, won best actress, becoming the first trans performer to win in the category.

“I didn’t prepare anything because I was sure I wasn’t going to receive anything tonight,” said Gascón, accepting her prize. She thanked Audiard, “the best European director for making the best European actress.” Gascón dedicated here prize “to my mother and to all mothers in this world because their values and their function are sometimes undervalued, [and] I would like to devote this prize to all families and ask all parents to love their children, because, unfortunately, in this world, there are families that...

The European Film Awards is taking place in the Swiss city of Lucerne tonight (December 7) and Screen is revealing the winners live from the ceremony, which kicked off at 20.00 Cet.

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The ceremony is also being live-streamed below.

Emilia Pérez and The Room Next Door are the front-runners for this year’s awards with four nominations apiece.

Fifteen features compete for the best European film prize, up from five last year. This follows a recent rule...

The producer of Croatia’s Oscar contender claims the film is getting shortchanged by Croatian officials because its themes, including the oppression of homosexuals by the former communist regime in Yugoslavia, are not to the government’s liking.

Ivona Juka’s Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day was the unanimous pick of Croatia’s 12 film professional associations to represent the country in the Oscar race for best international feature. But the promotional funding provided by the Croatian Audiovisual Center to market the movie to Academy voters is far less than that for Croatia’s Oscar contender from last year.

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day received 69,550 euro ($73,250) in promotional funding, less than half the budget granted to Dubravka Turić’s Traces last year (the film was not nominated). More egregiously, Nebojsa Slijepcević’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, an Oscar contender for best life action short film, received more than twice that amount,...

When Tomo Buzov boarded a train in Belgrade, Serbia the morning of February 27, 1993, on his way to visit his son in Montenegro, he had no way of knowing what lay in store for him or that his bravery would be remembered to this day.

As the train wound through newly independent Bosnia, it came to a sudden halt and was boarded by members of a Serbian militia. Heavily armed men went car by car demanding to know the ethnicity and religious identity of everyone on board.

The Oscar-contending drama The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent retells what happened on that train as war flared in the former Yugoslavia and old grievances fueled new atrocities. The film directed by Nebojša Slijepčević won the Palme d’Or for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Director Nebojša Slijepčević

“This film is based on a real event,” Slijepčević explained during...

Jakarta Film Week 2024 was officially opened on October 23, 2024 with great excitement at Cgv Grand Indonesia, Jakarta. Now in its fourth year, the festival continues to demonstrate its commitment to strengthening Indonesia’s film ecosystem and bringing local

films to the international stage.

The commitment of the Jakarta Provincial Tourism and Creative Economy Agency (Disparekraf) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) in supporting the film industry

The Jakarta Provincial Tourism and Creative Economy Agency (Disparekraf) continues to support Jakarta Film Week as a way to encourage the growth of the national film industry. This

festival also strengthens the film ecosystem and helps Indonesian films gain broader recognition on an international scale.

In line with this, Nuzul Kristanto, Head of the Film Appreciation and Literacy Task Force at the Directorate of Film, Music, and Media (Pmm) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek), expressed the...

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Another Mip In The Cannes

“A fun run”: Stewart, Jake and Max returned from Cannes yesterday following another invigorating few days at MIPCOM. This year’s international TV market hit a milestone as MIPCOM turned 40, and it also became the first that will not be followed by MIPTV in April (more on that later). The team was on the ground for talks from some of the TV industry’s biggest names including Warner’s Channing Dungey and outgoing Sony Pictures Entertainment chief Tony Vinciquerra. “It’s been a fun run and it’s time to do something different,” said the latter, as he...

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival got underway on Thursday amid calls for peace in the region as well as claims of censorship after an Egyptian short work with a Palestine-related subtext was pulled as the opening film at the eleventh hour without reason.

Abdelwahab Shawky’s short film The Last Miracle was to have opened El Gouna’s seventh edition, but a festival press release Wednesday announced it had been replaced by Cannes Palme d’Or-winning short The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Croatian director Nebojša Slijepčević.

The festival said the “adjustment to the original line-up” was because Shawky’s film “could not be screened” without giving a reason.

Local press reported that El Gouna had been forced to replace The Last Miracle after Egypt’s General Authority for Censorship of Works of Arts had revoked its screening license 48 hours ahead of the festival.

Commenting on the pulling of the film,...

Egyptian drama The Last Miracle has been replaced as the opening-night film of El Gouna Film Festival amid reports it had not been cleared by local censors.

The film, directed by Abdelwahab Shawky, was due to screen this evening (October 24) at the festival in the Egyptian resort town on the shores of the Red Sea.

However, a statement released today by organisers said there has been “an adjustment to the original lineup” as The Last Miracle “unfortunately could not be screened”.

In its place, the festival is set to screen The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Croatia’s Nebojsa Slijepcevic,...

Egyptian drama The Last Miracle has been replaced as the opening-night film of El Gouna Film Festival amid reports it had not been cleared by local censors.

The film, directed by Abdelwahab Shawky, was due to screen this evening (October 24) at the festival in the Egyptian resort town on the shores of the Red Sea.

However, a statement released today by organisers said there has been “an adjustment to the original lineup” as The Last Miracle “unfortunately could not be screened”.

In its place, the festival is set to screen The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Croatia’s Nebojsa Slijepcevic,...

Die European Film Academy hat heute die fünf Filme für die Kategorie „European Short Film“ für die Verleihung der European Film Awards am 7. Dezember bekannt gegeben. Ebenfalls neu: Titelsponsor Vimeo, mit dem eine Zusammenarbeit vereinbart wurde.

Die für die European Film Awards nominierten Kurzfilme (Credit: European Film Academy)

Aus 28 Einreichungen sind jetzt die fünf Filme benannt worden, die ins Rennen um den European Film Award in der Kategorie „European Short Film“ gehen. Das gab die European Film Academy heute bekannt.

Nominiert sind:

• „2720“, Regie: Basil da Cunha

• „Clamor“, Regie: Salomé Da Souza (Frankreich)

• „The Exploding Girl”, Regie: Caroline Poggi und Jonathan Vinel (Frankreich)

• „The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”, Regie: Nebojša Slijepčević

• „Wander to Wonder“, Regie: Nina Gantz

Wie die European Film Academy mitteilt, wurde mit Vimeo eine Zusammenarbeit beschlossen, in deren Rahmen die Videoplattform in diesem als exklusiver Titelsponsor der Kategorie „European Short Film“ fungiert, die damit unter „European Short Film – Prix Vimeo“ firmiert.

With the Toronto International Film Festival starting, there’s plenty to look forward to on the feature front. There’s also much room for discovery among Short Cuts, TIFF’s dedicated program of short films. Spread across seven groups and one feature pairing, this year’s Short Cuts comprises 48 shorts from 23 countries, the most titles in the program since 2019. There’s also one major change this year in the form of Strange Cuts, a set of six genre shorts one might describe as a bite-sized take on TIFF’s Midnight Madness.

This year also has the strongest collection of shorts in some time, which is partly why I decided to highlight 11 titles this year as opposed to the usual 10 (a self-imposed maximum due to limited time more than a lack of wanting to write about more films). Below are my thoughts on these 11 highlights from this year’s program, and...

New episodic series from Alfonso Cuarón, Thomas Vinterberg, Joe Wright and Janicza Bravo will screen in the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival’s Primetime program, TIFF organizers announced Friday.

Cuarón will be at the festival with his Apple TV+ psychological thriller series “Disclaimer,” starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline; Vinterberg with “Families Like Ours,” a six-episode series set in a future when Denmark must be evacuated because of rising sea level; Wright with “M: Son of the Century,” a limited series about the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; and “Zola” director Bravo with “The Listeners,” starring Rebecca Hall.

Other projects in Primetime include “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” director Tomas Alfredson’s “Faithless,” an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical 2000 film written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullman; Australian director Dylan River’s “Thou Shalt Not Steal”; and two projects from Canadian filmmakers, Courtney Montour and Tanya Talaga’s “The Knowing...

The TIFF 2024 TV lineup is full of buzzy world premieres and screenings from beloved auteurs venturing into the episodic space.

The Primetime lineup includes eight new series, with five world premieres. For one, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” director Tomas Alfredson reimagines Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman’s iconic 2000 film “Faithless” as a six-part limited series.

The show’s synopsis reads: “In the present day, renowned director David Howard, 73, is reunited with his former great love, actress Marianne Vogler, 75 (Lena Endre). Their encounter forces them to confront the painful repercussions of their past relationship, not only for themselves but also for their families. 40 years prior, a young David (Gustav Lindh) and Marianne (Frida Gustavsson) find themselves entwined in a passionate love affair which they must keep a secret, as Marianne is married to David’s best friend, Markus (August Wittgenstein).”

Other highlights include the world premiere of Janicza Bravo’s sci-fi series “The Listeners,...

Goran Bogdan, centre, and Silvio Mumelaš in The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent. Nebojša Slijepčević: 'I wanted the audience to think that they are following the hero because we all love to identify with heroes in the film' Croatian director Nebojša Slijepčević’s tense and polished The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, won the short film Palme d’Or in Cannes last week. Set in 1993, it relates the true story of Tomo Buzov, one of those people who commit a remarkable act of heroism that can often be overlooked by history in events running up to the Štrpci massacre. His drama unfolds on a train after it is stopped by paramilitaries with murder in mind. As the occupants of a single carriage consider their response, Slijepčević also, by extension, asks us what we might do in their place. We caught up with the director after his Cannes...

The jury of Greta Gerwig, filmmakers J. A. Bayona, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, acting folks Eva Green, Omar Sy, Lily Gladstone and Pierfrancesco Favino with the all-in-one Ebru Ceylan chose Sean Baker’s Anora as the film worthy of the Palme d’Or. As usual, we were on hand to witness those who claimed an award during the evening. Below are small video snip-its:

Palme d’or: Anora by Sean Baker

Grand Prix: All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia

Jury Prize: Emilia PÉREZ by Jacques Audiard

Best Director: Miguel Gomes for Grand Tour

Special Award: Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Performance by an Actress: Adriana Paz, Zoe SALDAÑA, Karla SOFÍA GASCÓN & Selena Gomez in Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard

Best Screenplay: The Substance by Coralie Fargeat

Short Film Palme d’or: The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević

Special...

The idea that evil thrives in silence is not a new one but it is brought home with emotional punch in the latest short by Nebojsa Slijepcevic. His tense drama unfolds in a place which could scarcely have more witnesses - the busy carriages of a train. It’s 1993 - an era indicated by the walkman headphones sported by one passenger - and the train is travelling through Bosnia and Herzegovina when it is stopped unexpectedly. None of this is stated outright, an appropriate decision for a situation which, you sense could be taking place any time and anywhere, especially given the current state of the world. Soon the train is boarded by paramilitary forces looking bent on ethnic cleansing and demanding to see people’s ID.

Slijepcevic is a documentarian by trade and he maintains a strong sense of realism - there’s attention to detail in those headphones and a believable.

The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Sean Baker’s Anora taking home the Palme d’Or. While our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this week––and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections––we’ve asked our contributors on the ground to share favorites.

See their picks below, and explore all of our coverage here.

Leonardo Goi (@LeonardoGoi)

1. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)

2. All We Imagine As Light (Payal Kapadia)

3. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

4. Anora (Sean Baker)

5. Eephus (Carson Lund)

6. Viet And Nam (Trương Minh Quý)

7. Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina)

8. Black Dog (Guan Hu)

9. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)

10. Good One (India Donaldson)

Read all of Leonardo’s reviews here.

Luke Hicks (@lou_hicks)

1. Anora (Sean Baker)

2. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)

3. Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)

4. Viet and Nam (Trương Minh Quý)

5. The Seed of the Sacred Fig...

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival was officially closed yesterday, on May 25, 2024, as the prizes for the movies and the actors were awarded at the closing ceremony. It was a very exciting and content-filled event, and we have also reported on numerous movies that had their premiere at Cannes, some of which were received well, while others… not so much. But, naturally, everyone wants to know who won and who lost at Cannes, and that is what we are going to report about in this article.

The article will be divided into two main sections. The first one will list all the juries at Cannes, since they are the ones who chose the winners at the film festival, so we think that it is only fair that you know who picked the winners. After that, we are going to list all the winners in each of the categories.

As we have said,...

Update: Sean Baker’s New York-set romantic dramedy Anora has scooped the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or. This marked Baker’s second time in the competition after 2021’s Red Rocket, and tonight’s win amounted to the realization of what Baker said has been his “singular goal as a filmmaker for the past 30 years.”

Anora stars Mikey Madison as a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. Complications arise when his parents find out and try to get the marriage annulled.

Related Gallery: Every Palme d’Or Winner Going Back To 1939

In his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise called it “a high-decibel screwball comedy… that accelerates at speed, cruises at high altitude for a surprisingly long time, then comes back down to Earth with a deeply affecting and almost unbearably melancholy coda that sends the audience out in silence.

Sean Baker’s “Anora” has won the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, a jury headed by Greta Gerwig announced on Saturday.

The win for Baker’s freewheeling film about a stripper and the son of a Russian oligarch becomes the fifth consecutive Palme winner to be distributed by Neon, which previously handled “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Triangle of Sadness,” “Titane” and “Parasite.”

TheWrap’s review said of the film, “It’s one of the most entertaining movies to play in Cannes this year, and also one of the most confounding: part character study of the title character (Mikey Madison), a sex worker from Brighton Beach who falls for rich Russian playboy Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn); part look into the world of the super-rich, an arena Baker has studiously avoided in films like ‘Tangerine,’ ‘The Florida Project’ and ‘Red Rocket’; part escalating nightmare comedy reminiscent of ’80s gems...

The hype out of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, for those far-flung and on the ground, tells one story: This was among the weaker lineups in recent memory.

Sure, huge stories broke out of the festival, from Francis Ford Coppola’s distribution push for his self-funded, decades-in-the-making passion project “Megalopolis” to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fleeing his home country after being sentenced to eight years in prison, finally making it to Cannes with his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” This journey inspired the jury to award him and his film a Special Prize (Prix Spécial).

Elsewhere in the official selection, Un Certain Regard already handed out its prizes on Friday from a jury led by Xavier Dolan and including Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy. Among the top winners were Roberto Minervini (“The Damned”) and Rungano Nyoni (“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”) tying for Best Director,...

The closing ceremony of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is taking place today (May 25) at 18:45 Cest (17.45 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.

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The ceremony is broadcast live on France 2, as well as online in various international territories via Brut. It will be followed by a screening of the closing night film.

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This year’s jury was made up of president Greta Gerwig, plus Ebru Ceylan, Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Nadine Labaki, J.A. Bayona, Pierfrancesco Favino, Kore-eda Hirokazu and Omar Sy.

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the eleven titles selected for the Short Film Competition of its 77th edition running from May 14 to 25.

Works in the running include U.S. director Blake Rice’s drama Tea starring Michael Gandolfini (Beau Is Afraid) as a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee, who gets stung in the throat by a hornet, while rehearsing to ask the girl of his dreams out on a date.

Olivia Nikkanen, Matt Van Orden and Zina Louhaichy also feature in the cast.

Other contenders include two French animated works: Éric Briche’s Volcelest, about a hungry ermine on a mission to raid a chicken coop for food, and Raphaël Jouzeau’s Les Belles Cicatrices, about a broken couple reunion which takes a difficult turn.

This year’s jury will be presided over by Belgian director Lubna Azabal, flanked by director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, programmer and ex-Directors Fortnight head Paolo Moretti,...

More than two decades after the final shots were fired in the war that gave Croatia independence from the former Yugoslavia, the long shadows of that bitter and divisive conflict stretch across the Balkan nation.

“In Croatia…we cannot get over our history,” says director Nebojsa Slijepcevic. “The whole system…keeps us stuck in the past.”

Slijepcevic explores that somber reality in “Srbenka,” a documentary that looks at the persistent ethnic divide in modern-day Croatia, told in part through the lens of a 12-year-old girl coming to terms with her own identity. The winner of the Doc Alliance Award in Cannes this year, the film will unspool this week at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.

Slijepcevic began shooting “Srbenka” in 2014 while filming the preparations for a new play by the provocative theater director Oliver Frljic, about the brutal killing of a 12-year-old ethnic Serbian girl during the war.

Al Jazeera Balkans and Croatian national broadcaster Hrt are negotiating TV rights for Sarajevo Film Festival’s competition films.

Al Jazeera has picked up Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker for the territories of the former Yugoslavia, and Hrt took the film for Croatia.

Hrt is also negotiating acquisition of TV rights for the territory for all the films from Sarajevo Film Festival’s feature competition and most of the films from the documentary selection with running times fitting TV programming slots.

This amounts to a total of nine features and twelve documentaries, including Pjer Zalica’s Slave, Arsen Oremovic’s winner of the Human Rights Award Married To The Swiss Franc, Katherina Mückstein’s Talea and Daniel Hoesl’s Soldate Jeanette, which have already been picked up.

“Both competition selections this year are so good that it’s a no-brainer,” says Djelo Hadziselimovic, acquisition manager...