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Nimrod Eldar's The Day After I'm Gone, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 18 – July 18, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.The Day After I'm Gone is a road movie, a story of a journey. A single father, whose daughter’s suicide attempt shakes his closed and impenetrable world to the core, is forced to acknowledge his vulnerabilities, his humanity and his debilitating fear of loss. And, furthermore, he is forced to come to terms with his weaknesses that he so laboriously suppressed—a very costly suppression that hurt everything and everyone he cared about.The father, who cannot move past mourning his dead wife, who cannot accept the loss, discovers that his daughter is over identifying with his severe melancholy and latent suicidal urges. I envisioned this father awakened in the middle of the night by the violent knocking of police officers: they...

A bereaved vet takes his daughter on a healing road trip after she tries to kill herself, in Nimrod Eldar’s intelligent drama

Israeli film-maker Nimrod Eldar makes an accomplished and worthwhile feature debut with this very intelligent, character-driven drama, which he has written, directed and edited. A middle-aged man in Tel Aviv, Yoram (Menashe Noy), is coming to terms with the death of his wife but failing to communicate with his 17-year-old daughter, Roni (Zohar Meidan), or understand her feelings. When she makes an unsuccessful attempt to take her own life, Yoram gets it into his head to take her on a healing road trip to visit his late wife’s relatives, people that he doesn’t at all get on with – especially his reactionary, gun-toting brother-in-law, Arie (Alon Neuman).

The opening 20 minutes of the film are superbly composed, especially the extraordinarily tense scene when police officers show up at the family apartment,...

Rising from the rubble of the Bosnian War to become one of Southeastern Europe’s leading film and TV industry events, the Sarajevo Film Festival has plenty to celebrate as it marks its 25th edition this year.

The festival was established in 1995 during the four-year siege of Sarajevo as part of an effort to help the reconstruction of society and save the cosmopolitan spirit of the city. Today Sarajevo not only plays a vital role for the region’s growing film and TV industries, it is also becoming an increasingly significant conduit to global partners in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

“From the very start, we have been inspired by art and it helped us create new values and break the existing social and cultural barriers,” Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra says.

Indeed, Unesco is honoring the fest this year for its promotion of “dialogue and tolerance through the arts.

Film Fest Košice loves Asian Movies. They have a whole section dedicated to them, called Eastern Promises, and curated by Kristina Aschenbrennerova (also a contributor of Asian Movie Pulse).

But beside Eastern Promises they also have always a good selection of Asian Titles within the general Programme. Let’s have a look at those titles.

Asian Films in The Programme

International Competition Of Feature Films (Peter Nágel)

(1st-3rd feature films of the director produced after 1 January 2018)

Still Human by Oliver Chan, 2018, Hk

The Day After I`m Gone, by Nimrod Eldar, 2019, Il

A Tale of Three Sisters, by Emin Alper, 2019, Tr-de-nl-gr

A Tale of Three Sisters

International Competition Of Short Films

(Short films (up to 30 minutes) produced after 1 January 201)

Brotherhood by Meryam Joobeur, 2018, CA-tn-qa-se

The Fox by Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh, 2018, Ir

Tungrus by Rishi Chandna, 2018, In

Tungrus

Around The World (Peter Nágel)

Bag of Rice by Kiseye Berendj, 1996, Ir-jp...

In Israeli director Nimrod Eldar’s feature debut, The Day After I’m Gone (Hayom Sheachrey Lechti), the failed suicide attempt of a teenage girl prompts her father to finally take an interest in her life — or at least to try to. The result is a delicately handled if rather underwhelming story of communication breakdown, where there’s more showing than telling but not enough of an emotional charge, especially in the last act. A premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section should give the film a push abroad.

Eldar delivers some of his strongest scenes during the opening reels,...

In Israeli director Nimrod Eldar’s feature debut, The Day After I’m Gone (Hayom Sheachrey Lechti), the failed suicide attempt of a teenage girl prompts her father to finally take an interest in her life — or at least to try to. The result is a delicately handled if rather underwhelming story of communication breakdown, where there’s more showing than telling but not enough of an emotional charge, especially in the last act. A premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section should give the film a push abroad.

Eldar delivers some of his strongest scenes during the opening reels,...

Exclusive: Here’s a first trailer for Berlin Film Festival premiere The Day After I’m Gone from Israel’s Spiro Films, the local producer of critical hit Foxtrot and fellow Berlin Film Festival movie The Operative, starring Diane Kruger.

Paris-based sales outfit Luxbox is handling sales at the Efm on the drama about a 50-year-old veterinarian living in Tel-Aviv who must re-examine his relationship with his adolescent daughter after she tries to end her life. He decides to take her on a journey to visit her mother’s family, a journey which becomes a process of self and mutual discovery in the desert landscape enveloping the Dead Sea.

The debut from Israeli filmmaker Nimrod Eldar stars Menashe Noy (Big Bad Wolves) and newcomer Zohar Meidan. Producers also include United King, which will distribute in Israel, Cinema Group and the Israeli Film Fund.

Ghost Town AnthologyThe titles for the 69th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 7-17, 2019. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONThe Ground Beneath My FeetThe Golden Glove (Faith Akin, Germany/France)By the Grace of GodThe Kindness of StrangersI Was at Home, but A Tale of Three SistersGhost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)Berlinale SPECIALGully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India)BrechtWatergate (Charles Ferguson, USA)Panorama 201937 Seconds (Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki), Japan)Dafne (Federico Bondi, Italy)The Day After I'm Gone (Nimrod Eldar, Israel)A Dog Called Money (Seamus Murphy, Ireland/UK)Waiting for the CarnivalChainedFlatland (Jenna Bass, South Africa/Germany/Luxembourg)Greta (Armando Praça, Brazil)Hellhole (Bas Devos, Belgium/Netherlands)Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)AcidMid90s (Jonah Hill, USA) Family MembersMonos (Alejandro Landes, Columbia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay) O Beautiful Night (Xaver Böhm,...

22 films in the Panorama programme so far, with nine directorial debuts.

The first 22 titles from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.

Scroll down for the full line-up

The European premiere of UK director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, starring Tilda Swinton, her daughter Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tom Burke, and the world premiere of Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money are among the titles confirmed today.

The line-up also includes the directing debuts of actors Jonah Hill (Mid90s) and Alexander Gorchilin (Acid), and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael,...

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed a large selection of movies for its Panorama strand. Section head Paz Lázaro and co-curator and programme manager Michael Stütz have revealed 22 titles, 14 of which will be world premieres.

Among highlights are Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid90s; Jamie Bell starrer Skin, about the USA’s neo-Nazi scene; Tilda Swinton drama The Souvenir; and What She Said: The Art Of Pauline Kael, about the legendary film critic.

Panorama Films:

37 Seconds – Japan

by Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki)

with Mei Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitō, Yuka Itaya

World premiere – Debut film

Director Hikari, aka Mitsuyo Miyazaki, tells the story of Yuma, a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, Yuma struggles to lead a self-determined life.

Dafne – Italy

by Federico Bondi

with Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli,...

Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, “mid90s,” about a 13-year-old skateboarder’s coming of age, and a documentary on influential film critic Pauline Kael are among the works that will screen in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.

Films starring Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell and titles from countries including Israel, Brazil and Japan were also announced in the first batch of 22 Panorama selections unveiled by the Berlinale on Tuesday. Nine of the films are debut works, and 14 will have their world premiere in the German capital. The section is curated by Paz Lázaro and co-curator and program manager Michael Stütz.

“mid90s” follows teenage Stevie as he joins up with four skateboarding punks who take him under their wing. Variety described Hill’s debut film as “a slice of street life made up of skittery moments that achieve a bone-deep reality. And because you believe what you’re seeing,...

Sales company also launching titles from Benjamin Naishtat, Nimrod Eldar and Richard Billingham.

French filmmaker Bruno Dumont is developing a second feature exploring the life of iconic French figure Joan of Arc, following on from his musical depiction of her youth, Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight last year.

It is one of four upcoming titles Paris-based sales company Luxbox is bringing to Cannes alongside Argentinian director Benjamin Naishtat’s Rojo, Israeli filmmaker Nimrod Eldar’s The Day After I’m Gone and Ray & Liz by British photographer, artist and filmmaker Richard Billingham.

Simply entitled Joan,...

London-based FremantleMedia is on board to co-develop, co-produce and handle global distribution on “Fertile Crescent,” an ambitious drama set in the Middle East which is being created by the talent behind “False Flag,” Maria Feldman.

Spiro Films’s Eitan Mansuri, the producer of “When Heroes Fly,” is lead-producing “Fertile Crescent” with Haut et Court TV, the French outfit behind “The Young Pope,” “The Last Panthers” and the original “The Returned.” On top of creating and co-writing the series, Feldman is also co-producing via her banner Masha Productions. Amit Cohen, who co-created “False Flag” with Feldman, is co-writing “Fertile Crescent.”

Christian Vesper, FremantleMedia’s executive vice president and creative director at FremantleMedia’s drama team, will serve as executive producer on “Fertile Crescent.” Vesper said FremantleMedia started tracking “Fertile Crescent” after discovering it last year at Series Mania where it won the best project award.

Vesper had previously collaborated with “Haut...

Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things takes best director and best actor.Scroll down to see the full list of winners.

Ana Urushadze’s Gerogia-Estonia drama Scary Mother has won the top prize at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, which concludes today (Aug 18).

The film took the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film, which comes with a financial award of €16,000. It stars Nata Murvanidze as a 50-year-old housewife who experiences family struggles as she tries to complete her first novel.

The main competition saw Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu take the Heart of Sarajevo for best director for his film Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things, which comes with €10,000.

Best actress went to Ornela Kapetani for Daybreak and best actor went to Şerban Pavlu for Meda Or The Not So Bright Side Of Things.

The jury, led by Michel Franco and featuring Mark Adams, Gordan Bogdan...

Israeli title Fig Tree among selection.

The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 11-18) has revealed its line-up of Work in Progress titles set to participate at the event’s industry strand CineLink.

The 10 titles include Balkan projects, as well as several from further afield, such as Alamork Davidian’s Fig Tree, which recently won an award at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point competition, and Reem Saleh’s Lebanon-Egypt doc What Comes Around.

The projects will be presented to around 40 industry delegates, and a jury consisting of Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival), Paz Lazaro (Berlin International Film Festival), Hedi Zardi (LuxBox), Petra Gobel (The Post Republic) and Serkan Yildirim (Trt) will award three prizes: the Post Republic Award (€50,000 in kind), the CineLink Restart Award (€20,000 in kind), and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (€30,000 in cash).

Sarajevo’s head of industry Jovan Marjanovic commented: “The CineLink Work in Progress strand has proved to be incredibly effective for both the...