Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Ilyas Salman as the farmer in Karlovy Vary’s top award winner Corn Island. The eagerly anticipated second feature Corn Island (Simindis Kundzuli) by already acclaimed Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili (who made The Other Bank (Gagma Napiri)) has taken the top prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, announced this evening (July 12).
The film is a true example of European co-production, involving the resources and talents of Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, and Kazakhstan. The director uses captivating imagery and visuals to present a highly topical subject – the intense relationship between man and nature.
Stunningly set on the border between Georgia and the breakaway republic of Abhazia which is on a renowned geological fault-line, Ovashvili centres on a peasant farmer (Ilyas Salman) and his teenage daughter (Mariam Buturishvili) who build a shelter on an island which has sprung up after flooding.
The film which also received $25,000 (£14,600) in prize money,...
The film is a true example of European co-production, involving the resources and talents of Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, and Kazakhstan. The director uses captivating imagery and visuals to present a highly topical subject – the intense relationship between man and nature.
Stunningly set on the border between Georgia and the breakaway republic of Abhazia which is on a renowned geological fault-line, Ovashvili centres on a peasant farmer (Ilyas Salman) and his teenage daughter (Mariam Buturishvili) who build a shelter on an island which has sprung up after flooding.
The film which also received $25,000 (£14,600) in prize money,...
- 7/12/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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