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With the 2025 Sloan Film Summit just around the corner, we want to look back at some of our favorite films that have been supported in the past by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These films are dramas, science fictions, biopics and big budget blockbusters. Yes, they all have science, math, technology, economics or engineering at their core, and this list goes to show just how much storytelling juice you can get out of those topics.

The films on this list show how universal stories about the sciences can be. We all care about nature, we all look up at the stars and wonder and we all love solving a good puzzle. And that’s what the sciences are all about. Both art and science help you understand the world better, just in different ways, and these films prove what you can do when they come together.

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Paris-based Indie Sales has acquired international rights to Leonora Carrington biopic LeonoraIn TheMorning Light about the English surrealist artist who died in 2011

Directed by filmmaking duo Lena Vurma and Thor Klein, the 1930s-set film follows Carrington as she rebels against society’s expectations, mingles with iconic figures including André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris and has a whirlwind love affair with Max Ernst before fleeing to Mexico during the war.

Indie Sales will launch the film at Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris later this month.

The film is based on Elena Poniatowska’s best-selling book Leonora and...

The series of talks and debates taking place mainly in the UK Pavilion to highlight the role of the UK as an international partner launch on Friday May 17 with a Talent Talk with cinemagrapher Robbie Ryan and a series of production case studies about UK-international collaborations.

There will also be a panel talk exploring how the screen production sector can improve working conditions to benefit the mental and physical health of the sector that will be held in the Palais des Festivals.

Ryan, whose credits include Andrea Arnold’s Competition title Bird will be talking in the UK Pavilion at...

The selection also includes projects from Kirill Serebrennikov and Agnieszka Holland

David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is among 32 projects to receive a share of €8.3m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.

Cronenberg’s new feature, a co-production between Canada and France, received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. Vincent Cassel plays a widower who creates a device that allows you to connect with the dead. Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce also star in the thriller.

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The only other project to also receive €500,000 was Adrià Garcia’s animation The Treasure Of Barracuda,...

The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported films we have some veteran filmmakers in David Cronenberg (The Shrouds), Agnieszka Holland (The Green Border) and Kirill Serebrennikov (Disappearance aka La disparition) landing some significant coin amounts. Also grabbing some noteworthy sums of euros are filmmakers Burhan Qurbani (No Beast So Fierce), Jonathan Millet (Lives of Hamid), Nóra Lakos (I Accidentally Wrote a Book) and Scandi helmers Jeanette Nordahl (Connections) and Fanny Ovesen (Laura). Here is the entire list which includes docus and animated films:

A Light at Midday – Elena Manrique (Spain) – €300 000

Aïcha – Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia) – €150 000

Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries – Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi (Italy) – €80 000 Documentary

Blood and Mud – Jean-Gabriel Leynaud (France) – €140 000 Documentary

Catane – Ioana Mischie (Romania) – €150 000

Connections – Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark) – €302 000

Disappearance – Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) – €350 000

DJ Ahmet – Georgi Unkovski (North Macedonia) – €160 000

Dreaming of Lions – Paolo Marinou-Blanco (Portugal) – €150 000

Filipinas – Leonor Noivo (Portugal) – €74 500 Documentary

Flow – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia...

Adventures Of A Mathematician Samuel Goldwyn Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Thor Klein Writer: Thor Klein Cast: Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel, Fabian Kociecki, Joel Basman, Mateusz Wieclawek, Sam Keeley Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/22/21 Opens: October 1, 2021 I know that 2+2 equals 4 and […]

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The Italian event showcases European arthouse fare to potential local distributors.

Italy’s Bergamo Film Meeting (Bfm) opens on Saturday April 24, a month later than usual as organisers had hoped to run it as a physical edition. Although it is now running entirely online, festival director Angelo Signorelli is undiminished in his enthusiasm for the edition which will showcase the first and second films of international directors in its feature narrative and documentary competitions.

The festival has made a name for itself by hosting the Italian premieres of European arthouse films (and sometimes European premieres) with the purpose of helping them find Italian distribution.

Paris-based Indies Sales is handling international rights.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Adventures Of A Mathematician, inspired by the life of the late legendary Polish-American scientist Stanislaw Ulam whose work contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as computers.

The acquisition is among a slew of pre-sales unveiled by Paris-based Indie Sales as it continues to tie up deals on the title during the AFM.

The film has also sold to France (Rezo), the Middle East and North Africa (Gulf Film), China (Huanxi Media Group), Russia, Cis and the Baltics (Rocket Releasing), Taiwan...

In the run up to Berlin’s European Film Market, Indie Sales has unveiled the trailer for Thor Klein’s “Adventures of a Mathematician” which had its world premiere in Palm Springs.

The film tells the inspiring true story of a Polish-Jewish mathematician who got a fellowship at Harvard and went on to join the prestigious Manhattan Project in New Mexico at the end of WW2.

“I think ‘Adventures of a Mathematician,’ which was based on Stanislaw Ulam’s autobiography, has some striking parallels to today’s world issues— refugees in a far land, family separations, threats of war, and of course the bomb,” said Claire Weiner, who is the daughter of Stan Ulam and has been supporting the movie. “Thor Klein has bravely woven the story of my father’s life into a real political morality play as well as a study of family relationships and the lure of the Southwest.

The German producer/director team behind Adventures Of A Mathematician are behind the project.

Lena Vurma and Thorsten Klein, the German producer/director team behind Adventures Of A Mathematician, which is being sold by Indie Sales in the Cannes market. are hatching a new biopic based on the extraordinary life of English surrealist, Leonora Carrington who died in 2011.

The as yet untitled project has received development backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and is based on Leonora, the biographical novel by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska.

Born as the heiress to a British textiles fortune in 1917, Carrington rebelled against her background, had an...

Philippe Tlokinski and Esther Garrel join production in casting reshuffle.

Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired world rights to German director Thorsten Klein’s upcoming English-language debut Adventures Of A Mathematician, inspired by the life of late legendary Polish-American scientist Stanislaw Ulam, whose work contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as computers.

In separate news for the production, the company also revealed that Polish-French actor Philippe Tlokinski has been cast in the role of the protagonist Stanislaw, or Stan, alongside French actress Esther Garrel. Tlokinski replaces Jakub Gierszal who was originally announced for the role.

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Exclusive: Jakub Gierszal already confirmed to play math genius Stanislaw Ulam.

Mongrel International has come on board to handle world sales on Thor Klein’s Adventures Of A Mathematician.

Lead producer Lena Vurma of Dragonfly Films confirmed Mongrel’s involvement in the project, which recently became the first project with a German director to receive support from the Tfi/Sloan Filmmaker Fund. (The production received an initial $75,000 toward production and pre-production.)

“We are very excited to be going on this adventure with our friends, the producers Lena Vurma and Mary Young Leckie. We loved the script immediately. It’s so smart and compassionate, filled with both great joy and stunning gravitas. We are convinced that Thorsten Klein will make an extraordinary movie with enormous contemporary relevance,” Charlotte Mickie, president of Mongrel International, told Screen Daily.

The film is a Germany-Poland-Canada co-production. It tells the story of Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who will be...