The Czech Film and Television Academy has urged its voting members to select “Broken Voices” as the Czech Republic’s Oscar submission from a shortlist of three films, a move that has been slammed by some in the film industry as “manipulative,” “bizarrely undemocratic” and one that “risks undermining trust in the process.”
Ondřej Provazník’s drama focuses on the real-life sex abuse scandal centering on the Bambini di Praga choir in the Czech Republic. The film premiered recently in the main competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, with actor Kateřina Falbrová receiving a Special Jury Mention.
In an email sent by ČFTA, shared with Variety by one of its members, three films have been selected by the academy’s presidium commission — a seven-member committee — for the second round of voting: documentary “I’m Not Everything I Want to Be,” “Caravan” and “Broken Voices.”
The commission, whose members had to prove...
Ondřej Provazník’s drama focuses on the real-life sex abuse scandal centering on the Bambini di Praga choir in the Czech Republic. The film premiered recently in the main competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, with actor Kateřina Falbrová receiving a Special Jury Mention.
In an email sent by ČFTA, shared with Variety by one of its members, three films have been selected by the academy’s presidium commission — a seven-member committee — for the second round of voting: documentary “I’m Not Everything I Want to Be,” “Caravan” and “Broken Voices.”
The commission, whose members had to prove...
- 7/15/2025
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Actress Ana Geislerova may be something of a household name in the Czech Republic, where she broke out in the mid-’90s and then scooped up lots of awards in the early aughts with films like Innocence and Something Like Happiness. But beyond co-starring with Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan in the 2016 Nazi assassination flick Anthropoid, she remains virtually unknown outside of her homeland.
That’s unfortunate, because based on her performance in Zuzana Kirchnerova’s tough and tender feature debut, Caravan, she’s a talent who deserves wider acclaim. As Ester, a single mother on a road trip in Italy with her disabled teenage son, David (David Vodstrcil), Geislerova channels love, despair, pain, sensuality and deep frustration. Desperate to remain close to her son, but also to live on her own terms, Ester grows increasingly aware of the fact that she may soon have to let David live his own life as well.
That’s unfortunate, because based on her performance in Zuzana Kirchnerova’s tough and tender feature debut, Caravan, she’s a talent who deserves wider acclaim. As Ester, a single mother on a road trip in Italy with her disabled teenage son, David (David Vodstrcil), Geislerova channels love, despair, pain, sensuality and deep frustration. Desperate to remain close to her son, but also to live on her own terms, Ester grows increasingly aware of the fact that she may soon have to let David live his own life as well.
- 7/10/2025
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Czech Filmmakers Cross Borders, Push Boundaries as Industry Rides State Support to Reach New Heights
It was a historic scene at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, when Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová climbed the stairs of the Lumière Theater for the premiere of her long-gestating debut feature “Caravan,” the first time in more than three decades that a Czech majority production played in the French fest’s official selection.
While the Cannes triumph was a crowning moment for the debutante director, it also marked the latest in a series of watershed achievements for the Czech industry. Beyond the Croisette, Czech directors are becoming a staple at prestigious festivals, including Venice, Berlin and Annecy, reflecting a steady growth arguably not seen in the Central European nation since the glory days of the Czech New Wave.
“I feel there’s real movement in the right direction,” says “Caravan” producer Dagmar Sedláčková. “That kind of consistency speaks to a maturation of the industry — better developed scripts, more precise...
While the Cannes triumph was a crowning moment for the debutante director, it also marked the latest in a series of watershed achievements for the Czech industry. Beyond the Croisette, Czech directors are becoming a staple at prestigious festivals, including Venice, Berlin and Annecy, reflecting a steady growth arguably not seen in the Central European nation since the glory days of the Czech New Wave.
“I feel there’s real movement in the right direction,” says “Caravan” producer Dagmar Sedláčková. “That kind of consistency speaks to a maturation of the industry — better developed scripts, more precise...
- 6/24/2025
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
When Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová began working on the script for her feature debut, “Caravan,” which premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, she says she never intended to start a movement.
A deeply personal and emotional story inspired by her own experiences raising a son with an intellectual disability, the film’s Riviera premiere struck a chord in the Czech Republic — and also sparked a broader conversation around accessibility and visibility for people with disabilities. “My main aim was to make a film,” Kirchnerová tells Variety. “I didn’t aim to change the system.”
“Caravan” follows Ester (Anna Geislerová), a woman in her forties who is emotionally and physically worn out after years of sole caregiving for a son with autism and Down syndrome. Overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood, she steals an aging caravan and sets off on a road trip across southern Italy...
A deeply personal and emotional story inspired by her own experiences raising a son with an intellectual disability, the film’s Riviera premiere struck a chord in the Czech Republic — and also sparked a broader conversation around accessibility and visibility for people with disabilities. “My main aim was to make a film,” Kirchnerová tells Variety. “I didn’t aim to change the system.”
“Caravan” follows Ester (Anna Geislerová), a woman in her forties who is emotionally and physically worn out after years of sole caregiving for a son with autism and Down syndrome. Overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood, she steals an aging caravan and sets off on a road trip across southern Italy...
- 6/24/2025
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The upcoming Josh O’Connor film “Rebuilding” will screen as part of the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival along with multiple world premieres, Kviff organizers announced on Tuesday.
The festival announced 11 films in its Crystal Globe competition section, but added that the section will include a 12th film from Iran. Artistic director Karel Och said in a release that the announcement of this final feature has been postponed until closer to the festival out of consideration for “the safety of its makers.”
“Rebuilding,” which makes its international premiere at the festival, immerses us in the life of a rancher (O’Connor) whose ranch has been destroyed in a wildfire and must now pick up the pieces in his life. It’s written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, who previously made his feature debut with the delicate drama “A Love Song” in 2022. “Rebuilding” previously premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival...
The festival announced 11 films in its Crystal Globe competition section, but added that the section will include a 12th film from Iran. Artistic director Karel Och said in a release that the announcement of this final feature has been postponed until closer to the festival out of consideration for “the safety of its makers.”
“Rebuilding,” which makes its international premiere at the festival, immerses us in the life of a rancher (O’Connor) whose ranch has been destroyed in a wildfire and must now pick up the pieces in his life. It’s written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, who previously made his feature debut with the delicate drama “A Love Song” in 2022. “Rebuilding” previously premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival...
- 6/3/2025
- by Chase Hutchinson
- The Wrap
Ioncinema.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Our Cannes coverage continues well beyond the festival dates.
Competition
Alpha – Julia Ducournau – [Review]
Dossier 137 – Dominik Moll – [Review]
Die, My Love – Lynne Ramsay – [Review]
Eagles of the Republic – Tarik Saleh – [Review]
Eddington – Ari Aster – [Review]
Fuori – Mario Martone – [Review]
The History of Sound – Oliver Hermanus – [Review]
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi – [Review]
La Petite Dernière – Hafsia Herzi – [Review]
The Mastermind – Kelly Reichardt – [Review]
Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater – [Review]
The Phoenician Scheme – Wes Anderson – [Review]
Renoir – Chie Hayakawa – [Review]
Resurrection – Bi Gan – [Review]
Romería – Carla Simón – [Review]
The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho – [Review]
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier – [Review]
Sirât – Óliver Laxe – [Review]
Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski – [Review]
Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa – [Review]
Woman and Child – Saeed Roustayi – [Review]
Jeunes mères – Dardennes – [Review]
Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away – Morad Mostafa – [Review]
Caravan – Zuzana Kirchnerová – [Review]
The Chronology of Water...
Competition
Alpha – Julia Ducournau – [Review]
Dossier 137 – Dominik Moll – [Review]
Die, My Love – Lynne Ramsay – [Review]
Eagles of the Republic – Tarik Saleh – [Review]
Eddington – Ari Aster – [Review]
Fuori – Mario Martone – [Review]
The History of Sound – Oliver Hermanus – [Review]
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi – [Review]
La Petite Dernière – Hafsia Herzi – [Review]
The Mastermind – Kelly Reichardt – [Review]
Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater – [Review]
The Phoenician Scheme – Wes Anderson – [Review]
Renoir – Chie Hayakawa – [Review]
Resurrection – Bi Gan – [Review]
Romería – Carla Simón – [Review]
The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho – [Review]
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier – [Review]
Sirât – Óliver Laxe – [Review]
Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski – [Review]
Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa – [Review]
Woman and Child – Saeed Roustayi – [Review]
Jeunes mères – Dardennes – [Review]
Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away – Morad Mostafa – [Review]
Caravan – Zuzana Kirchnerová – [Review]
The Chronology of Water...
- 5/27/2025
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Zuzana Kirchnerová’s road-trip movie “Caravan” opens with a series of idyllic holiday scenes. A wide shot of a tranquil swimming pool. A beach ball, close up, with iridescent sequins inside. Lambent rays of sunshine bouncing lazily off the surface of the pool. A breathy voiceover whispers, “It’s going to be nice, David. You’ll see.” The whisperer is revealed as a mother, reassuring her child as they lie next to each other in bed under a white sheet. If Terrence Malick directed a commercial for an Italian holiday home, it would go something like this sequence. However, the idyll is a short-lived mirage.
Filmed mainly in Italy’s Reggio Calabria, as well as Bologna and the Czech Republic, this is the story of 45-year-old single mom Ester (Ana Geislerova) and 15-year-old David (David Vodstrcil), whose holiday with comfortable middle-class friends is disrupted when the pair are asked by...
Filmed mainly in Italy’s Reggio Calabria, as well as Bologna and the Czech Republic, this is the story of 45-year-old single mom Ester (Ana Geislerova) and 15-year-old David (David Vodstrcil), whose holiday with comfortable middle-class friends is disrupted when the pair are asked by...
- 5/24/2025
- by Catherine Bray
- Variety Film + TV
Zuzana Kirchnerová’s debut feature, “Caravan,” arrives not with a bang, but with a deeply resonant hum of lived experience. This is an intimate, thoughtfully sculpted character drama that introduces us to Ester (Ana Geislerová), a mother whose profound weariness is etched into every frame, and her adolescent son, David (David Vodstrcil), who is non-verbal and lives with Down’s Syndrome and autism.
Kirchnerová’s sensitive directorial hand immediately establishes a reflective, deeply personal atmosphere, drawing us into a world where unspoken realities and potent emotional truths take center stage. The narrative finds its initial spark when Ester’s attempt to find a brief period of respite on a holiday with friends quickly disintegrates.
The challenges of David’s care, amplified by the unaccommodating environment and the thinly veiled pity of others, starkly highlight Ester’s pervasive isolation and the societal incomprehension she frequently navigates. This experience becomes the urgent...
Kirchnerová’s sensitive directorial hand immediately establishes a reflective, deeply personal atmosphere, drawing us into a world where unspoken realities and potent emotional truths take center stage. The narrative finds its initial spark when Ester’s attempt to find a brief period of respite on a holiday with friends quickly disintegrates.
The challenges of David’s care, amplified by the unaccommodating environment and the thinly veiled pity of others, starkly highlight Ester’s pervasive isolation and the societal incomprehension she frequently navigates. This experience becomes the urgent...
- 5/22/2025
- by Caleb Anderson
- Gazettely
All About My Martyr: Kirchnerová’s Debut Finds the Journey is the Destination
For her directorial debut, “Caravan,” Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová weaves autobiographical elements into a road trip narrative contending with transitional phases of life, and, moreover, motherhood. Buoyed by esteemed Czech actor Anna Geislerová, captivating in what may stand as one her most prominent performances, it’s an internalized relationship film about a woman running away from the inevitable, perhaps mistakenly by turning to relief from remnants of the past. Defined by her somewhat isolating role as a mother to a disabled child, her bond built on codependent emotional survival with her teenage son begins to crumble as both yearn for the independence life has denied them.…...
For her directorial debut, “Caravan,” Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová weaves autobiographical elements into a road trip narrative contending with transitional phases of life, and, moreover, motherhood. Buoyed by esteemed Czech actor Anna Geislerová, captivating in what may stand as one her most prominent performances, it’s an internalized relationship film about a woman running away from the inevitable, perhaps mistakenly by turning to relief from remnants of the past. Defined by her somewhat isolating role as a mother to a disabled child, her bond built on codependent emotional survival with her teenage son begins to crumble as both yearn for the independence life has denied them.…...
- 5/22/2025
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In Zuzana Kirchnerová’s Caravan, a mother-son tale prefigures against familiar templates, but the surge of emotion and candour in the telling elevates it far beyond the trite. It’s so emotionally authentic and minutely observed not much issue can be taken with the fairly predictable rhythms, the narrative points at which devastation strikes as well as ultimate reconciliation. Aňa Geislerová plays the exhausted, battered Ester, mother to the mentally challenged teen David (David Vodstrcil).
Being mother to David wholly consumes her. Her circumstance is perennially shaded with acute loneliness. People come and go, offer concern and sympathy and are quick to distance themselves from the mother-son duo. The most cutting jolts of reality spring from friends. The film opens with Ester visiting her friends with David. There’s unease and awkwardness tinting David’s presence amidst them. The friends initially mask discomfort but when David has his sudden violent episodes,...
Being mother to David wholly consumes her. Her circumstance is perennially shaded with acute loneliness. People come and go, offer concern and sympathy and are quick to distance themselves from the mother-son duo. The most cutting jolts of reality spring from friends. The film opens with Ester visiting her friends with David. There’s unease and awkwardness tinting David’s presence amidst them. The friends initially mask discomfort but when David has his sudden violent episodes,...
- 5/22/2025
- by Debanjan Dhar
- High on Films
Exclusive: Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2025 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2025 edition comprises 10 fiction projects, selected from 179 applications. Six of the projects are debut features, with four second works.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Among the 10 projects selected this year are The Dog Trainer by Argentinian director Federico Luis, whose debut Simón de la Montaña won the Grand Prix at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2024, and is now collaborating with Chilean producer Fernando Bascuñán.
Also taking part is The Passion Of Angela...
The 2025 edition comprises 10 fiction projects, selected from 179 applications. Six of the projects are debut features, with four second works.
Scroll down for full list of projects
Among the 10 projects selected this year are The Dog Trainer by Argentinian director Federico Luis, whose debut Simón de la Montaña won the Grand Prix at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2024, and is now collaborating with Chilean producer Fernando Bascuñán.
Also taking part is The Passion Of Angela...
- 5/8/2025
- ScreenDaily
Among the selections found in this year’s Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard line-up we find “Caravan,” Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová‘s feature debut. The road trip movie about a mother (actress Aňa Geislerová) and her disabled is said to explore themes of maternal guilt, motherhood and rebellion. Kirchnerová previously won the Cinéfondation Prize at Cannes in 2009 for her short “Bába,” and finally makes her return. We have the poster exclusive below:
Ester, 45, has devoted her life to caring for her son David, who has Down syndrome and autism. Their bond is fierce—but so is her exhaustion.…...
Ester, 45, has devoted her life to caring for her son David, who has Down syndrome and autism. Their bond is fierce—but so is her exhaustion.…...
- 5/7/2025
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive:Les Alchimistes has acquired French rights to Un Certain Regard title Caravan from Paris-based Alpha Violet.
Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová’s feature debut is a road movie about a woman overwhelmed with motherhood who steals a caravan and flees to southern Italy with her son who has an intellectual disability. They meet a young drifter whose open heart transforms their makeshift family and gives them hope.
Caravan is produced by the Czech Republic’s MasterFilm and Slovakia’s nutprodukcia, with Italy’s Tempesta co-producing.
Kirchnerová won the Cinefondation’s best short film prize in Cannes for Baba in 2009. Alpha Violet...
Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová’s feature debut is a road movie about a woman overwhelmed with motherhood who steals a caravan and flees to southern Italy with her son who has an intellectual disability. They meet a young drifter whose open heart transforms their makeshift family and gives them hope.
Caravan is produced by the Czech Republic’s MasterFilm and Slovakia’s nutprodukcia, with Italy’s Tempesta co-producing.
Kirchnerová won the Cinefondation’s best short film prize in Cannes for Baba in 2009. Alpha Violet...
- 5/7/2025
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales outfit Alpha Violet has acquired world distribution rights to “Caravan,” a first feature by Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová about a mother and her disabled son who embark on road trip. The film will soon premiere in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
“Caravan” stars prominent Czech actor Aňa Geislerová as a mother “worn down by years of caregiving who embarks on a transformative journey through Italy with her intellectually disabled son,” according to the provided synopsis.
A personal drama, shaped by Kirchnerová’s own experience as a parent to a child with Down syndrome and autism, “Caravan” explores themes of motherhood and rebellion. The film marks Czech cinema’s return to the Cannes’ official selection after more than three decades. The last majority Czech film in the fest’s main program was Jan Švankmajer’s “Faust” in 1994.
“Despite its difficult subject, I wanted to create a film that allows for lightness,...
“Caravan” stars prominent Czech actor Aňa Geislerová as a mother “worn down by years of caregiving who embarks on a transformative journey through Italy with her intellectually disabled son,” according to the provided synopsis.
A personal drama, shaped by Kirchnerová’s own experience as a parent to a child with Down syndrome and autism, “Caravan” explores themes of motherhood and rebellion. The film marks Czech cinema’s return to the Cannes’ official selection after more than three decades. The last majority Czech film in the fest’s main program was Jan Švankmajer’s “Faust” in 1994.
“Despite its difficult subject, I wanted to create a film that allows for lightness,...
- 4/22/2025
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival 2025 line-up reveals the films that likely will be chatted about long through the year. Here’s what’s showing.
Cannes Film Festival has published its official line-up for this year’s event, and we get our first hint at the films that are set to be part of the awards conversation for the coming months. The festival will be screening several interesting films, including the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson in the new filmmaker category.
Screening out of competition will be Spike Lee’s latest offering, Highest 2 Lowest, and Tom Cruise and company are taking Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to the festival too. This has proved to be a public relations misstep in the past (remember Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny?) but with Mission releasing so soon after the festival, this seems like a savvy move to us.
Cannes Film Festival has published its official line-up for this year’s event, and we get our first hint at the films that are set to be part of the awards conversation for the coming months. The festival will be screening several interesting films, including the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson in the new filmmaker category.
Screening out of competition will be Spike Lee’s latest offering, Highest 2 Lowest, and Tom Cruise and company are taking Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to the festival too. This has proved to be a public relations misstep in the past (remember Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny?) but with Mission releasing so soon after the festival, this seems like a savvy move to us.
- 4/11/2025
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
The full list of films that will be screening at the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival has been released. The line-up was announced this morning by the Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and President Iris Knobloch at a press conference in Paris. The Hollywood Reporter has shared the program listing for this year’s event. While there are a number of anticipated high-profile titles, a bevy of auteurs will be showcasing their latest, including Kelly Reichardt, who will be returning to the competition with The Mastermind. The film is an art-heist drama and stars Josh O’Connor and John Magaro, which takes place during the Vietnam War.
Joachim Trier, the Norwegian filmmaker who made a splash in 2021 with The Worst Person of the World, returns with the new film Sentimental Value, which features Renate Reinsve. Julia Ducournau, the director of the surreal film, Titane, which got her a Palme d’Or...
Joachim Trier, the Norwegian filmmaker who made a splash in 2021 with The Worst Person of the World, returns with the new film Sentimental Value, which features Renate Reinsve. Julia Ducournau, the director of the surreal film, Titane, which got her a Palme d’Or...
- 4/10/2025
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
The guessing game around which films could make the lineup for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13—24, came to an end this morning at a press conference in Paris by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch. If you tapped the latest works by Ari Aster (Eddington), Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind), Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague), Wes anderson (The Phoenician Scheme), and the Dardenne brothers (Young Mothers) to make the cut, then you were correct.
Neon, which is on a five-year winning streak of Palme d’Or winners, two of which went on to win best picture at the Oscars (Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Sean Baker’s Anora), will try to make it a sixth with, for now, either of the two films it already has in its stable: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Julie Ducournau’s Alpha.
Absent from the...
Neon, which is on a five-year winning streak of Palme d’Or winners, two of which went on to win best picture at the Oscars (Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Sean Baker’s Anora), will try to make it a sixth with, for now, either of the two films it already has in its stable: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Julie Ducournau’s Alpha.
Absent from the...
- 4/10/2025
- by Ed Gonzalez
- Slant Magazine
Dieciséis años después, el cine español vuelve a duplicar presencia en la Competición Oficial de la Croisette.
© Cannes
Hoy es un día para celebrar. Porque esta mañana se ha desvelado la programación oficial del Festival de Cannes 2025 y, por primera vez desde aquel histórico 2009 –cuando coincidieron Isabel Coixet y Pedro Almodóvar–, dos cineastas españoles competirán por la ansiada Palma de Oro. Ellos son Carla Simón (recordemos que ganó el Oso de Oro en la Berlinale 2022 con Alcarràs) y Oliver Laxe. España vuelve a estar doblemente representada en la Croisette con sus nuevos largometrajes: Romería y Sirat, respectivamente.
Romería, tercer largometraje de Carla Simón, es una obra profundamente personal en la que la directora catalana se sumerge en la memoria de su familia biológica paterna. La historia sigue a Marina (interpretada por la debutante Llúcia Garcia Torras), una joven adoptada que viaja a Vigo para encontrarse por primera con la familia de su padre biológico.
© Cannes
Hoy es un día para celebrar. Porque esta mañana se ha desvelado la programación oficial del Festival de Cannes 2025 y, por primera vez desde aquel histórico 2009 –cuando coincidieron Isabel Coixet y Pedro Almodóvar–, dos cineastas españoles competirán por la ansiada Palma de Oro. Ellos son Carla Simón (recordemos que ganó el Oso de Oro en la Berlinale 2022 con Alcarràs) y Oliver Laxe. España vuelve a estar doblemente representada en la Croisette con sus nuevos largometrajes: Romería y Sirat, respectivamente.
Romería, tercer largometraje de Carla Simón, es una obra profundamente personal en la que la directora catalana se sumerge en la memoria de su familia biológica paterna. La historia sigue a Marina (interpretada por la debutante Llúcia Garcia Torras), una joven adoptada que viaja a Vigo para encontrarse por primera con la familia de su padre biológico.
- 4/10/2025
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Handing in their almost finished homework, we expect an extra of titles to be added to the sixteen titles that were unveiled today. The upcoming Un Certain Regard programme has eight feature debuts with notables in Harris Dickinson (Urchin) and Scarlett Johansson (Eleanor the Great) making the move behind the camera. Also in the newbie club we find the highly anticipated films by Morad Mostafa in Aisha Can’t Fly Away and Diego Céspedes‘ The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo. Charlie Polinger‘s The Plague, Akinola Davies Jr.‘s My Father’s Shadow (a Mubi pick-up), Zuzana Kirchnerová‘s Karavan and Harry Lighton’s Pillion – the A24 Kinky Queer Romance film starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling are also up for the Camera d’Or prize.…...
- 4/10/2025
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Cannes Film Festival announced its 2025 lineup on Thursday morning. Several expected contenders are set for world premieres on the French Riviera, including new projects from Scarlett Johansson, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier, and more.
Among the titles that will premiere at Cannes this year are Eleanor the Great, Johansson’s directorial debut with a lead role for June Squibb; Nouvelle Vague, Linklater’s tribute to the French New Wave and the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless; The Mastermind, Reichardt’s latest about an art-world heist with roles for Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, and John Magaro; Splitsville (directed by Michael Angelo Covino), a Neon release with Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona; and Sentimental Value, Triet’s follow-up to The Worst Person in the World with Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning in the cast.
Other films of note include Alpha (Cannes winner Julia Ducournau...
Among the titles that will premiere at Cannes this year are Eleanor the Great, Johansson’s directorial debut with a lead role for June Squibb; Nouvelle Vague, Linklater’s tribute to the French New Wave and the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless; The Mastermind, Reichardt’s latest about an art-world heist with roles for Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, and John Magaro; Splitsville (directed by Michael Angelo Covino), a Neon release with Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona; and Sentimental Value, Triet’s follow-up to The Worst Person in the World with Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, and Elle Fanning in the cast.
Other films of note include Alpha (Cannes winner Julia Ducournau...
- 4/10/2025
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The Official Selection for the 78th Cannes Film Festival was revealed Thursday, with 19 movies in Competition. See full lists below.
Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Wes Anderson, who brings his latest flick The Phoenician Scheme; Richard Linklater will launch his Paris-shot Nouvelle Vague; Jochim Trier debuts his latest feature Sentimental Value; and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau returns with Alpha.
Cannes will open this year with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. Thierry Frémaux said during his presser this morning that it was the first time a debut film has been selected to open the festival. Also hitting the Croisette for the first time is horror auteur Ari Aster, who returns to feature filmmaking with his buzzy A24 feature Eddington.
Related: Thierry Frémaux Talks ‘Mission: Impossible’; Star Presence; Hollywood Introspection & Oscar Track Record
Elsewhere, American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt will...
Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Wes Anderson, who brings his latest flick The Phoenician Scheme; Richard Linklater will launch his Paris-shot Nouvelle Vague; Jochim Trier debuts his latest feature Sentimental Value; and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau returns with Alpha.
Cannes will open this year with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. Thierry Frémaux said during his presser this morning that it was the first time a debut film has been selected to open the festival. Also hitting the Croisette for the first time is horror auteur Ari Aster, who returns to feature filmmaking with his buzzy A24 feature Eddington.
Related: Thierry Frémaux Talks ‘Mission: Impossible’; Star Presence; Hollywood Introspection & Oscar Track Record
Elsewhere, American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt will...
- 4/10/2025
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Ahead of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, taking place May 13 to 24, the lineup has now been unveiled. Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, have revealed the slate this morning.
Highlights include Ari Aster’s Eddington, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Joachim Trier’s Sentimal Value, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, Carla Simon’s Romeria, and more. In other sections we have Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson, Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave, Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, and more.
See below.
In Competition
After (Oliver Laxe)
Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
The Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll...
Highlights include Ari Aster’s Eddington, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Joachim Trier’s Sentimal Value, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, Carla Simon’s Romeria, and more. In other sections we have Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson, Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave, Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, and more.
See below.
In Competition
After (Oliver Laxe)
Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
The Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll...
- 4/10/2025
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Screen shines a light on 30 European titles that look set to grab the attention of festival directors in 2023, including new features by Tom Tykwer, Paz Vega, Paolo Sorrentino, Cecilia Verheyden and Baltasar Kormakur.
For our separate list of French festival hopefuls for 2024, click here.
Ariel (Sp-Por)
Dir. Lois Patiño
Patiño won the Encounters special jury prize at Berlin last year for Samsara and picked up the emerging director prize at Locarno in 2013 with Coast Of Death. His latest is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, shot in Galicia and The Azores islands. Ariel stars Goya winner Irene Escolar...
For our separate list of French festival hopefuls for 2024, click here.
Ariel (Sp-Por)
Dir. Lois Patiño
Patiño won the Encounters special jury prize at Berlin last year for Samsara and picked up the emerging director prize at Locarno in 2013 with Coast Of Death. His latest is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, shot in Galicia and The Azores islands. Ariel stars Goya winner Irene Escolar...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects.
The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects at the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30-Septmber 9), including a new project from Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, All Before You.
All Before You offers a retelling of the 1963 farner-led revolt against British colonial rule in Palestine. Jacir’s previous director credits include The Oblivion Theory, which won the top prize at the Berlinale co-production market in 2021, Salt Of This Sea, Wajib and When I Saw You,...
The Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1-3), part of the Venice Production Bridge, will present 34 fiction and documentary projects at the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30-Septmber 9), including a new project from Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, All Before You.
All Before You offers a retelling of the 1963 farner-led revolt against British colonial rule in Palestine. Jacir’s previous director credits include The Oblivion Theory, which won the top prize at the Berlinale co-production market in 2021, Salt Of This Sea, Wajib and When I Saw You,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The 10th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, organized as part of the Venice Film Festival’s industry program Venice Production Bridge, has selected 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding.
Filmmakers taking projects to Venice include Jim Sheridan, an Oscar nominee with “In America,” “In the Name of the Father” and “My Left Foot”; Annemarie Jacir, whose credits include Cannes’ “Salt of This Sea,” Berlin’s “When I Saw You” and Locarno’s “Wajib”; Aisling Walsh, who directed “Maudie” with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, and “Elizabeth Is Missing” with Glenda Jackson; and Kim Mordaunt, who won best debut at Berlin with “The Rocket.”
Also selected are Roberto Minervini, who directed Cannes’ “The Other Side” and Venice’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”; Laurynas Bareisa, who won the Venice Horizons Award for “Pilgrims”; Måns Månsson, who was in Berlin competition with “The Real Estate”; György Pálfi,...
Filmmakers taking projects to Venice include Jim Sheridan, an Oscar nominee with “In America,” “In the Name of the Father” and “My Left Foot”; Annemarie Jacir, whose credits include Cannes’ “Salt of This Sea,” Berlin’s “When I Saw You” and Locarno’s “Wajib”; Aisling Walsh, who directed “Maudie” with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, and “Elizabeth Is Missing” with Glenda Jackson; and Kim Mordaunt, who won best debut at Berlin with “The Rocket.”
Also selected are Roberto Minervini, who directed Cannes’ “The Other Side” and Venice’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”; Laurynas Bareisa, who won the Venice Horizons Award for “Pilgrims”; Måns Månsson, who was in Berlin competition with “The Real Estate”; György Pálfi,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
New Feature projects by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, Ireland’s Aisling Walsh and Jim Sheridan as well as Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian have been selected for the upcoming edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market.
The 10th edition of the co-financing meeting will run from Sept. 1 to 3 as part as of the Venice Production Bridge, which is the industry component of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 30 to Sept. 9)
The market will present 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding, selected from 280 submissions.
The selection spans 34 feature-length fiction Film and documentary projects, 14 Immersive projects, 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects and three Biennale College Cinema projects.
To be eligible for inclusion, the fiction films must have at least 70% of funding in place and be looking for minority partners only.
Full List of Feature Film Projects:
After The Evil (doc) by Tamara Erde, Gloria Films Production All Before You (fiction), by Annemarie Jacir,...
The 10th edition of the co-financing meeting will run from Sept. 1 to 3 as part as of the Venice Production Bridge, which is the industry component of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 30 to Sept. 9)
The market will present 62 projects in the final stages of development and funding, selected from 280 submissions.
The selection spans 34 feature-length fiction Film and documentary projects, 14 Immersive projects, 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects and three Biennale College Cinema projects.
To be eligible for inclusion, the fiction films must have at least 70% of funding in place and be looking for minority partners only.
Full List of Feature Film Projects:
After The Evil (doc) by Tamara Erde, Gloria Films Production All Before You (fiction), by Annemarie Jacir,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
New films from Cristian Mungiu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bertrand Bonello and Nikolaj Arcel have also receieved funding.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
- 12/10/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
New films from Cristian Mungiu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bertrand Bonello and Nikolaj Arcel have also receieved funding.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).
Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.
- 12/10/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Pia Borg’s ‘Michelle Remembers’ and Lucrecia Martel’s ‘Chocobar’ among those to win awards.
Pia Borg’s “documentary horror” Michelle Remembers was among a raft of winners at TorinoFilmLab’s annual Meeting Event, which shifted entirely online this year due to the pandemic.
The co-production forum, which usually takes place in the Italian city of Turin, virtually awarded its prizes this evening, marking the end of the five-day event that ran November 16-20.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The first of two €50,000 Tfl production awards, funded by Creative Europe, went to Michelle Remembers, a documentary exploring the...
Pia Borg’s “documentary horror” Michelle Remembers was among a raft of winners at TorinoFilmLab’s annual Meeting Event, which shifted entirely online this year due to the pandemic.
The co-production forum, which usually takes place in the Italian city of Turin, virtually awarded its prizes this evening, marking the end of the five-day event that ran November 16-20.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The first of two €50,000 Tfl production awards, funded by Creative Europe, went to Michelle Remembers, a documentary exploring the...
- 11/20/2020
- ScreenDaily
Teenagers struggling with sexual identity, women fighting to reconcile their multi-faceted roles in society, and men grappling with the destructive constraints of masculinity are among the themes to be explored in the 2020 edition of the TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab, an intensive annual workshop focused on first and second feature film projects at advanced stages of development.
The 10 projects selected to participate include seven debut features, spanning the globe from the sweltering jungles of the Amazon to the sun-soaked islands of Greece, from the mountains of Montenegro to the shores of Australia.
“We are proud to present a very diverse selection,” said TorinoFilmLab curator Vincenzo Bugno. “Ten projects with an original artistic identity coming from very different parts of the world, all of them representing somehow the complexity of this planet (and) the state of things in a challenging political-cultural situation.”
Bugno heralded a selection that features a new generation of filmmakers...
The 10 projects selected to participate include seven debut features, spanning the globe from the sweltering jungles of the Amazon to the sun-soaked islands of Greece, from the mountains of Montenegro to the shores of Australia.
“We are proud to present a very diverse selection,” said TorinoFilmLab curator Vincenzo Bugno. “Ten projects with an original artistic identity coming from very different parts of the world, all of them representing somehow the complexity of this planet (and) the state of things in a challenging political-cultural situation.”
Bugno heralded a selection that features a new generation of filmmakers...
- 4/27/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The director is working on her feature debut, about a woman who no longer wants to be just the mother of a disabled child. Czech filmmaker Zuzana Kirchnerová, who won the top prize in Cannes’ Cinéfondation in 2009 with Bába, is hard at work preparing her feature-length debut, The Caravan. Kirchnerová previously worked as a director and scriptwriter on various Czech Television documentary series, and co-wrote the script for The Caravan with documentarian Tomáš Bojar and Kristina Májová. The Caravan’s script won the annual scriptwriting competition organised by the Czech Film Foundation earlier this month. The Caravan is a road movie that will be shot entirely in Italy next summer, and will follow a mother and her intellectually disabled son. Ester has been caring for David for the last 12 years and is...
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