Five Israeli projects won Pitch Point awards at the ceremony.
Zetjune, the upcoming second feature from Luzzu director Alex Camilleri, has won the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Grand Prize on Saturday (July 23), at a joint ceremony in which Jerusalem Industry Days announced its Pitch Point winners.
Featuring real artists from the Maltese folk scene, musical Zejtune follows a 30-year-old woman whose life is reinvigorated by an encounter with an elderly troubadour.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The 50,000 award was given to Maltese-us filmmaker Camilleri and his producers Rebecca Anastasi from Malta and Ramin Bahrami from the US.
Zetjune, the upcoming second feature from Luzzu director Alex Camilleri, has won the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab Grand Prize on Saturday (July 23), at a joint ceremony in which Jerusalem Industry Days announced its Pitch Point winners.
Featuring real artists from the Maltese folk scene, musical Zejtune follows a 30-year-old woman whose life is reinvigorated by an encounter with an elderly troubadour.
Scroll down for the full list of winners
The 50,000 award was given to Maltese-us filmmaker Camilleri and his producers Rebecca Anastasi from Malta and Ramin Bahrami from the US.
- 7/25/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The concept of “the parents not knowing their children” has been presented on global cinema many times, usually in extreme fashion, through films that range from “We Need to Talk About Kevin” to “The World of Kanako”. Yuval Aharoni takes the concept and adapts it to an Lgbt theme, with an approach, though, that is anything but extreme.
Heritage is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival
Noam, a young gay man, discovers that his father, who just died, had a secret affair with a married man, unbeknownst to anyone. Not knowing what to do with this information, since he cannot share with the rest of his family, he becomes firstly depressed and then curious. His curiosity leads him to follow (stalk one could say) and then meet the man, with their meeting eventually leading to sex, but his actions do not offer any solution or solace and his situation becomes even worse.
Heritage is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival
Noam, a young gay man, discovers that his father, who just died, had a secret affair with a married man, unbeknownst to anyone. Not knowing what to do with this information, since he cannot share with the rest of his family, he becomes firstly depressed and then curious. His curiosity leads him to follow (stalk one could say) and then meet the man, with their meeting eventually leading to sex, but his actions do not offer any solution or solace and his situation becomes even worse.
- 10/19/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
This the third year that the Slovak Queer Film Festival introduces a sidebar section focusing on Far East cinemas Queer Asia. In its 13th edition, the festival brings a retrospective dedicated to the Philippines.
It is the diversity of the stories that caught the attention of the festival. Moreover, the Philippine Lgbtq+ films stretch across the spectrum from arthouse to mainstream. This also applies to the 3rd Queer Asia section. Consisting of five features, it presents a sample from the last decennial.
Among them, “Boy” (2009) by Auraeus Solito is the oldest. A macho dancer film in its best, it plays out a story of a search for joy and fulfillment in a relationship with a hired erotic dancer. Subtle in its execution, strong in its character, “Boy” unashamedly exposes the male body to the gaze. “Those Long Haired Nights” (2017) by Gerardo Calagui heads out from the night clubs and interiors of homes.
It is the diversity of the stories that caught the attention of the festival. Moreover, the Philippine Lgbtq+ films stretch across the spectrum from arthouse to mainstream. This also applies to the 3rd Queer Asia section. Consisting of five features, it presents a sample from the last decennial.
Among them, “Boy” (2009) by Auraeus Solito is the oldest. A macho dancer film in its best, it plays out a story of a search for joy and fulfillment in a relationship with a hired erotic dancer. Subtle in its execution, strong in its character, “Boy” unashamedly exposes the male body to the gaze. “Those Long Haired Nights” (2017) by Gerardo Calagui heads out from the night clubs and interiors of homes.
- 10/2/2019
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
Shlomi Elkabetz has boarded ground-breaking project.
The first ever feature directed by Bedouin filmmakers - and giving a rare insight into Israel’s Bedouin community - was among the 10 projects unveiled at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point industry event over the weekend.
Entitled Eed, the drama will be set and shot in the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, a city never before shown on the big screen in feature film format.
It revolves around the titular character of Eed, a 21-year-old aspiring theatre director whose artistic ambitions and desires for personal freedom are compromised when his family...
The first ever feature directed by Bedouin filmmakers - and giving a rare insight into Israel’s Bedouin community - was among the 10 projects unveiled at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Pitch Point industry event over the weekend.
Entitled Eed, the drama will be set and shot in the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, a city never before shown on the big screen in feature film format.
It revolves around the titular character of Eed, a 21-year-old aspiring theatre director whose artistic ambitions and desires for personal freedom are compromised when his family...
- 7/30/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
One day ahead of its scheduled announcement of the feature film lineup, the Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official selection of short films headed to the 70th edition of the festival.
Read More: Cannes Wish List: 50 Films That Have a Serious Shot at the 2017 Festival Lineup
Nine films have been selected from 4,843 submissions to compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or. The lineup includes eight works of fiction and one animated short. The films come from countries including Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece, Iran China, Colombia and Sweden.
In addition, 16 films have been selected for the Cinéfondation Selection out of 2,600 submissions from film schools around the world. A jury presided over by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu will decide the winners of both selections.
The official selection:
“Ceiling” (Finland)
Director: Teppo Airaksinen
“Grandpa Walrus” (France)
Director: Lucrèce Andreae
“A Drowning Man” (U.K, Denmark, Greece)
Director: Mahdi Fleifel...
Read More: Cannes Wish List: 50 Films That Have a Serious Shot at the 2017 Festival Lineup
Nine films have been selected from 4,843 submissions to compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or. The lineup includes eight works of fiction and one animated short. The films come from countries including Finland, France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece, Iran China, Colombia and Sweden.
In addition, 16 films have been selected for the Cinéfondation Selection out of 2,600 submissions from film schools around the world. A jury presided over by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu will decide the winners of both selections.
The official selection:
“Ceiling” (Finland)
Director: Teppo Airaksinen
“Grandpa Walrus” (France)
Director: Lucrèce Andreae
“A Drowning Man” (U.K, Denmark, Greece)
Director: Mahdi Fleifel...
- 4/12/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Cristian Mungiu will head the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury
With the Official Selection of features for the 70th Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) set to be revealed tomorrow (April 13), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year, the selection committee received 4,843 films, a slight drop from the 5,008 entered last year.
The nine films, eight works of fiction and one animation, are in the running for the Short Film Palme D’ or, to be awarded by president of the jury Cristian Mungiu at the official ceremony of the festival’s award ceremony on May 28.
More than half of the titles are from Europe, with the rest spread across the globe.
Short Films Competition
Keppo (Ceiling)
Teppo Airaksinen, Finland
Pépé le Morse (Granda Walrus)
Lucrèce Andreae, France
A Drowning Man
Madhi Fleifel, Greece, UK, Denmark
Lunch Time
Alireza Ghasemi, Iran
Across My Land
Fiona Godivier, USA
Koniec Widzenia (Time to go)
Grzegorz Mołda, Poland...
With the Official Selection of features for the 70th Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) set to be revealed tomorrow (April 13), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year, the selection committee received 4,843 films, a slight drop from the 5,008 entered last year.
The nine films, eight works of fiction and one animation, are in the running for the Short Film Palme D’ or, to be awarded by president of the jury Cristian Mungiu at the official ceremony of the festival’s award ceremony on May 28.
More than half of the titles are from Europe, with the rest spread across the globe.
Short Films Competition
Keppo (Ceiling)
Teppo Airaksinen, Finland
Pépé le Morse (Granda Walrus)
Lucrèce Andreae, France
A Drowning Man
Madhi Fleifel, Greece, UK, Denmark
Lunch Time
Alireza Ghasemi, Iran
Across My Land
Fiona Godivier, USA
Koniec Widzenia (Time to go)
Grzegorz Mołda, Poland...
- 4/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
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