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The film is the second by French director Emilie Brisavoine and explores motherhood.

Brussels-based sales company Best Friend Forever has acquired iternational sales for Emilie Brisavoine’s French documentary feature Keeping Mum (Maman Déchire ) ahead of the film’s premiere in the Proxima Competition at the Karlovy Vary International FIlm Festival (June 30-July 8).

The film is Brisavoine’s second feature following 2015 Cannes Acid title Oh La La Pauline!! Brisavoine is also an actress who starred in Justine Triet’s debut feature Age Of Panic. The film is produced by Nicolas Anthomé of Paris-based Bathysphere Productions.

It about the director’s punk mother,...

The 57th edition includes new films by directors Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev, Tinatin Kajrishvili and Babak Jalali.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 57th edition, including new features by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev and Tinatin Kajrishvili.

The festival, which runs from June 30-July 8 in the Czech spa town, has nine world premieres and two international premieres in its main Crystal Globe Competition.

Canadian director Plante, whose Nadia Butterfly was in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020 and Fake Tattoos played in the Berlinale’s Generation strand in 2018, world premieres arthouse thriller Red Rooms about a woman...

The Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, Eastern and Central Europe’s leading cinema event, has unveiled its lineup, which includes new works by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev, Tinatin Kajrishvili and Babak Jalali in the Crystal Globes Competition. They will vie against films by up-and-comers Ernst De Geer, Itsaso Arana and Cyril Aris. The section has nine world and two international premieres. Oscar-nominated actor Patricia Clarkson is one of the jury members.

The Proxima Competition, which made its debut at last year’s Kviff, presents what the festival defines as “bold works,” directed by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike. The section comprises of 10 world and two international premieres. The festival says “playfulness, courage and freshness can be found” in the new films by Swiss auteur Thomas Imbach, Poland’s Olga Chajdas, Cyprus-born Kyros Papavassiliou, French filmmaker Émilie Brisavoine and Romanian documentarist Alexandru Solomon, among others.

Eight films will play in the Special Screenings section,...

French actress Emilie Brisavoine (The Battle of Solferino) turns the camera on her own family, and her younger half-sister in particular, in the often raucous documentary Pauline (Pauline s’arrache). Part of the independent Acid sidebar in Cannes, this rather quixotic nonfiction concoction paints a rough-brushstrokes idea of what family, love and relationships might mean for millennials, though it seems unlikely that many members of the Y generation will see this at once colorful and coarse arthouse feature in any legal manner. However, it could find pockets of admirers at youth-focused and queer festivals and as a potential

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Patrick Wang’s The Grief of Others set for international premiere in the selection.

France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the line-up for its 22nd Cannes showcase, running May 14-23.

The initiative aimed at giving greater visibility to up and coming, indie filmmakers will screen nine works – five of them first features and six of them without a distributor.

They include Us filmmaker Patrick Wang’s The Grief of Others, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year.

An adaptation of Leah Hager Cohen’s novel about a family who come to terms with the recent loss of a baby through the arrival of a pregnant, teenager stepdaughter in their care, it is Wang’s second film after the much-praised In the Family.

Paris-based Ed Distribution has just acquired the film for France.

Launched in 1993, Acid’s Cannes showcase has put the spotlight on more than 200 works on the Croisette including early works...

The Association for Independent Film Distribution announced that it'll be screening nine features from May 13 through 23 in Cannes, five of them world premieres: Lionel Baier's La vanité, Emilie Brisavoine's Pauline s'arrache, Philippe Fernandez's Cosmodrama, Benoît Forgeard's Gaz de France, Julia Kowalski's Crache coeur, Nathan Nicholovitch's De l'ombre il y a, João Pedro Plácido's Volta a terra, Anna Roussillon's I Am the People and Patrick Wang's The Grief of Others. Plus: Ken Loach leads a protest against the Locarno Film Festival for its partnership with the Israeli Film Fund. And Toronto's jumping on the television bandwagon. » - David Hudson...

The Association for Independent Film Distribution announced that it'll be screening nine features from May 13 through 23 in Cannes, five of them world premieres: Lionel Baier's La vanité, Emilie Brisavoine's Pauline s'arrache, Philippe Fernandez's Cosmodrama, Benoît Forgeard's Gaz de France, Julia Kowalski's Crache coeur, Nathan Nicholovitch's De l'ombre il y a, João Pedro Plácido's Volta a terra, Anna Roussillon's I Am the People and Patrick Wang's The Grief of Others. Plus: Ken Loach leads a protest against the Locarno Film Festival for its partnership with the Israeli Film Fund. And Toronto's jumping on the television bandwagon. » - David Hudson...