Filmmakers from Latvia, Kosovo and Slovenia will be among those presenting projects in development and works in progress at the 26th edition of the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco), taking place during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus from November 4-6.
The project line-up includes Latvian director Anna Ansone’s debut feature Summer Blues about two sisters taking a transformative journey amid tense emotions from Germany back to Riga, It is currently structured as a Latvia-Germany co-production between Alise Gelze’s White Pictures and Cologne-based Filmfaust,
Kosovar director Rita Krasniqi will present Vestige, a drama that centres on a town’s...
The project line-up includes Latvian director Anna Ansone’s debut feature Summer Blues about two sisters taking a transformative journey amid tense emotions from Germany back to Riga, It is currently structured as a Latvia-Germany co-production between Alise Gelze’s White Pictures and Cologne-based Filmfaust,
Kosovar director Rita Krasniqi will present Vestige, a drama that centres on a town’s...
- 9/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
The streets of Bucharest serve as the stage for an unlikely bond in the film Where Elephants Go. Directors Gabi Virginia Sarga and Catalin Rotaru take a step away from their intense hospital drama debut with this tale. We meet Marcel, drifting through the capital without direction, amusing himself by imitating strangers. Fighting inner turmoil, he lashes out in juvenile ways. Into his path walk waitress Magda and her young daughter Leni, facing cancer bravely.
Where might these solitary souls find solace? Leni escapes into a world of colorful graffiti, imagining lively stories for people she sees. Though just a girl, she displays wisdom and zest many lack. Her attachment to Marcel brings him purpose and joy to her difficult days. Magda strives to give Leni normalcy but hides her own pain. As barriers fall between the three, they gift each other the greatest medicine—compassion. Their bond shows how...
Where might these solitary souls find solace? Leni escapes into a world of colorful graffiti, imagining lively stories for people she sees. Though just a girl, she displays wisdom and zest many lack. Her attachment to Marcel brings him purpose and joy to her difficult days. Magda strives to give Leni normalcy but hides her own pain. As barriers fall between the three, they gift each other the greatest medicine—compassion. Their bond shows how...
- 8/22/2024
- by Arash Nahandian
- Gazettely
Indian cinema triumphs at the 23rd Transylvania International Film Festival, which took place June 14-24 in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca.
First-time director Shuchi Talati won the Transylvania Trophy, the top prize of the International competition, along with its $11,7000 (10,000 euro) bursary for her feature Girls Will Be Girls, a mother-daughter drama that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. The drama follows a young, academically gifted teenager at a strict boarding school in the Himalayas who gets caught up in an emotional love triangle with her mother, as they both compete for the affection of the same boy.
“The story of this film is very rooted in India, but I always hoped that people outside this very specific space and time where the story takes place would resonate with it,” said Talati in a video presented at the Gala ceremony at the Cluj-Napoca’s historic National Theater on Saturday evening. “I...
First-time director Shuchi Talati won the Transylvania Trophy, the top prize of the International competition, along with its $11,7000 (10,000 euro) bursary for her feature Girls Will Be Girls, a mother-daughter drama that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. The drama follows a young, academically gifted teenager at a strict boarding school in the Himalayas who gets caught up in an emotional love triangle with her mother, as they both compete for the affection of the same boy.
“The story of this film is very rooted in India, but I always hoped that people outside this very specific space and time where the story takes place would resonate with it,” said Talati in a video presented at the Gala ceremony at the Cluj-Napoca’s historic National Theater on Saturday evening. “I...
- 6/24/2024
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indian director Shuchi Talati’s debut feature Girls Will Be Girls was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Cluj, Romania
The coming-of-age story about a teenage girl from a boarding school in the Himalayas won the Transilvania Trophy at the festival’s awards ceremony in Cluj’s historic National Theatre on Saturday evening (June 22).
Girls Will Be Girls previously won the audience award and special jury prize when it premiered in the world dramatic competition at Sundance in January.
Scroll down for full list of winners
In her acceptance speech sent as a video message,...
The coming-of-age story about a teenage girl from a boarding school in the Himalayas won the Transilvania Trophy at the festival’s awards ceremony in Cluj’s historic National Theatre on Saturday evening (June 22).
Girls Will Be Girls previously won the audience award and special jury prize when it premiered in the world dramatic competition at Sundance in January.
Scroll down for full list of winners
In her acceptance speech sent as a video message,...
- 6/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
Indian director Shuchi Talati’s debut feature Girls Will Be Girls was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Cluj, Romania
The coming-of-age story about a teenage girl from a boarding school in the Himalayas won the Transilvania Trophy at the festival’s awards ceremony in Cluj’s historic National Theatre on Saturday evening (June 22).
Girls Will Be Girls previously won the audience award and special jury prize when it premiered in the world dramatic competition at Sundance in January.
Scroll down for full list of winners
In her acceptance speech sent as a video message,...
The coming-of-age story about a teenage girl from a boarding school in the Himalayas won the Transilvania Trophy at the festival’s awards ceremony in Cluj’s historic National Theatre on Saturday evening (June 22).
Girls Will Be Girls previously won the audience award and special jury prize when it premiered in the world dramatic competition at Sundance in January.
Scroll down for full list of winners
In her acceptance speech sent as a video message,...
- 6/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
The 23rd edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival, kicked off Friday night with a sold-out screening of Dogman, the canine-focused revenge thriller by the French veteran Luc Besson, with Dogman co-star Jojo T. Gibbs in attendance.
Some 3,500 viewers backed Unirii Square in Cluj-Napoca for the start of the 11-day festival, which runs through June 24. The biggest film extravaganza in Romania, the festival is one of the premier events on the Eastern European industry calendar, with more than 200 films, exhibitions, concerts, talks and special events scheduled, and around 1,000 industry professionals expected.
Alongside Jojo T. Gibbs, most recently seen in Alex Garland’s Civil War, the TIFF guest list this year includes Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti (The Yes Man), who will be honored with the festival’s special award for contribution to world cinema; and Romanian film and theater legend Catrinel Dumitrescu (Aurora), who will receive the excellence award at the closing gala on June 22nd.
Some 3,500 viewers backed Unirii Square in Cluj-Napoca for the start of the 11-day festival, which runs through June 24. The biggest film extravaganza in Romania, the festival is one of the premier events on the Eastern European industry calendar, with more than 200 films, exhibitions, concerts, talks and special events scheduled, and around 1,000 industry professionals expected.
Alongside Jojo T. Gibbs, most recently seen in Alex Garland’s Civil War, the TIFF guest list this year includes Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti (The Yes Man), who will be honored with the festival’s special award for contribution to world cinema; and Romanian film and theater legend Catrinel Dumitrescu (Aurora), who will receive the excellence award at the closing gala on June 22nd.
- 6/15/2024
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UK sales outfit Reason8 has picked up Gabi Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru’s debut Where Elephants Go for sales, ahead of its world premiere at the second edition of Smart7, a travelling competition across seven European film festivals.
The titles, one from each of the seven countries involved, will kick off by screening together at Lithuania’s Vilnius Iff Kino Pavasaris (which runs March 14-27), before travelling throughout the year to Portugal’s IndieLisboa, Spain’s Filmadrid, Transilvania International Film Festival, Poland’s New Horizons, Iceland’s Reykjavik.
It will finish at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November,...
The titles, one from each of the seven countries involved, will kick off by screening together at Lithuania’s Vilnius Iff Kino Pavasaris (which runs March 14-27), before travelling throughout the year to Portugal’s IndieLisboa, Spain’s Filmadrid, Transilvania International Film Festival, Poland’s New Horizons, Iceland’s Reykjavik.
It will finish at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November,...
- 3/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Gabi Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru’s Where Elephants Go will world premiere at the second edition of Smart7, a travelling competition across seven European film festivals.
The titles, one from each festival’s respective country, will screen together at Transilvania International Film Festival; Poland’s New Horizons; Portugal’s IndieLisboa; Greece’s Thessaloniki; Spain’s Filmadrid; Iceland’s Reykjavik; and Lithuania’s Vilnius Iff Kino Pavasaris.
Where Elephants Go is the debut feature from Romanian duo Șarga and Rotaru, whose short film 4:15. The End Of The World screened in competition at Cannes 2016 and won the jury prize. It is...
The titles, one from each festival’s respective country, will screen together at Transilvania International Film Festival; Poland’s New Horizons; Portugal’s IndieLisboa; Greece’s Thessaloniki; Spain’s Filmadrid; Iceland’s Reykjavik; and Lithuania’s Vilnius Iff Kino Pavasaris.
Where Elephants Go is the debut feature from Romanian duo Șarga and Rotaru, whose short film 4:15. The End Of The World screened in competition at Cannes 2016 and won the jury prize. It is...
- 3/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
International sales agents, producers and programmers salute 2023 edition of Transilvania Pitch Stop
Attendees praised the projects, atmosphere and organisation.
Romania-born, Berlin-based director Cosmin Nicolae’s debut feature project Pyrrhic was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania Pitch Stop during TIFF’s industry programme.
The drama, which has already secured more than half of its €1.4m budget, was awarded €25,000 in post-production services as part of the Chainsaw Europe post-production award as well as the CoCo Award’s five-day residency from the Connecting Cottbus East-West Co-Production Market.
Nicolae’s screenplay centres on a 40-year-old woman army veteran returning from Afghanistan to her hometown on the Black Sea coast and making a...
Romania-born, Berlin-based director Cosmin Nicolae’s debut feature project Pyrrhic was the big winner at this year’s Transilvania Pitch Stop during TIFF’s industry programme.
The drama, which has already secured more than half of its €1.4m budget, was awarded €25,000 in post-production services as part of the Chainsaw Europe post-production award as well as the CoCo Award’s five-day residency from the Connecting Cottbus East-West Co-Production Market.
Nicolae’s screenplay centres on a 40-year-old woman army veteran returning from Afghanistan to her hometown on the Black Sea coast and making a...
- 6/19/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
13 projects in development and six works in progress to be presented at festival’s co-production market.
New films from the Czech Republic’s Beata Parkanová and Slovenian director Martin Turk are among the projects in development and works in progress being presented at the 24th edition of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus (coco), which takes place from November 9-11 during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus.
Parkanová’s feature project Black Blood, produced by Ondrej Zach of Prague-based Ozet Film, sees her returning to Cottbus after presenting her previous feature The Word as a work in progress at last year’s Connecting Cottbus.
New films from the Czech Republic’s Beata Parkanová and Slovenian director Martin Turk are among the projects in development and works in progress being presented at the 24th edition of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus (coco), which takes place from November 9-11 during Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus.
Parkanová’s feature project Black Blood, produced by Ondrej Zach of Prague-based Ozet Film, sees her returning to Cottbus after presenting her previous feature The Word as a work in progress at last year’s Connecting Cottbus.
- 9/21/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
‘Utama’ won the World Cinema grand jury prize at Sundance earlier this year.
Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama won both the best film prize and the audience award at the 21st edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival which closed yesterday, Sunday June 26.
Distributed internationally by Alpha Violet, the Bolivian-Uruguayan-French co-production about an elderly Indigenous man trying to survive in the Bolivian highlands, premiered earlier this year in Sundance where it received the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema: Dramatic Competition. It is Grisi’s debut feature.
Iceland’s Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson won the best director prize...
Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama won both the best film prize and the audience award at the 21st edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival which closed yesterday, Sunday June 26.
Distributed internationally by Alpha Violet, the Bolivian-Uruguayan-French co-production about an elderly Indigenous man trying to survive in the Bolivian highlands, premiered earlier this year in Sundance where it received the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema: Dramatic Competition. It is Grisi’s debut feature.
Iceland’s Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson won the best director prize...
- 6/27/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
‘Utama’ won the World Cinema grand jury prize at Sundance earlier this year.
Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama won both the best film prize and the audience award at the 21st edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival which closed yesterday, Sunday June 26.
Distributed internationally by Alpha Violet, the Bolivian-Uruguayan-French co-production about an elderly Indigenous man trying to survive in the Bolivian highlands, premiered earlier this year in Sundance where it received the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema: Dramatic Competition. It is Grisi’s debut feature.
Iceland’s Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson won the best director prize...
Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama won both the best film prize and the audience award at the 21st edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival which closed yesterday, Sunday June 26.
Distributed internationally by Alpha Violet, the Bolivian-Uruguayan-French co-production about an elderly Indigenous man trying to survive in the Bolivian highlands, premiered earlier this year in Sundance where it received the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema: Dramatic Competition. It is Grisi’s debut feature.
Iceland’s Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson won the best director prize...
- 6/27/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Selection of titles come from the Black Sea countries and neighbouring territories.
International co-production platform Transilvania Pitch Stop has unveiled the 10 projects set to be showcased later this month.
The ninth edition of the programme will present the titles to potential partners and financiers on June 23, during the Transilvania International Film Festival.
The features in development are from first and second time directors from Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Ukraine.
This year, five projects will benefit from a tailored script consulting provided by script editor and film consultant Christian Routh, while all projects will be...
International co-production platform Transilvania Pitch Stop has unveiled the 10 projects set to be showcased later this month.
The ninth edition of the programme will present the titles to potential partners and financiers on June 23, during the Transilvania International Film Festival.
The features in development are from first and second time directors from Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Ukraine.
This year, five projects will benefit from a tailored script consulting provided by script editor and film consultant Christian Routh, while all projects will be...
- 6/8/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Hard-hitting film is inspired by real-life scandal about life-threatening hygiene standards in Romanian hospitals.
Paris-based Indie Sales has acquired world rights to emerging Romanian filmmakers Gabi Virginia Sarga and Catalin Rotaru’s debut feature Thou Shalt Not Kill, ahead of its premiere at Warsaw Film Festival (Oct 12-21).
The film is inspired by a real-life scandal in Romania about terrible hygiene standards in the country’s hospitals and the use of substandard, diluted disinfectants to clean operating surgeries.
Rising Romanian actor Alexandru Suciu stars as a young surgeon who starts a solitary fight against a corrupted system after the sudden...
Paris-based Indie Sales has acquired world rights to emerging Romanian filmmakers Gabi Virginia Sarga and Catalin Rotaru’s debut feature Thou Shalt Not Kill, ahead of its premiere at Warsaw Film Festival (Oct 12-21).
The film is inspired by a real-life scandal in Romania about terrible hygiene standards in the country’s hospitals and the use of substandard, diluted disinfectants to clean operating surgeries.
Rising Romanian actor Alexandru Suciu stars as a young surgeon who starts a solitary fight against a corrupted system after the sudden...
- 9/26/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Naomi Kawase to head the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury.
With the Official Selection of features for the 69th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) set to be revealed tomorrow (April 14), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 5,008 short films – 458 more than in 2015.
Ten films will compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or, to be awarded by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 22.
The titles are mostly from Europe and Latin America, with one from Asia and one from Africa.
Short Films Competition
La Laine Sur Le Dos
Lofti Achour (Tunisia, France)
Dreamlands
Sara Dunlop (UK)
Timecode
Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Imago
Raymund Gutierrez (Philippines)
Mother (Madre)
Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia)
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo)
João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
Après Suzanne
Félix Moati (France...
With the Official Selection of features for the 69th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) set to be revealed tomorrow (April 14), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 5,008 short films – 458 more than in 2015.
Ten films will compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or, to be awarded by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 22.
The titles are mostly from Europe and Latin America, with one from Asia and one from Africa.
Short Films Competition
La Laine Sur Le Dos
Lofti Achour (Tunisia, France)
Dreamlands
Sara Dunlop (UK)
Timecode
Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Imago
Raymund Gutierrez (Philippines)
Mother (Madre)
Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia)
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo)
João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
Après Suzanne
Félix Moati (France...
- 4/13/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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