TV Beats Forum announces its 2021 programme

TV Beats Forum announces its 2021 programme

The drama series-orientated strand of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, set to take place from 19-20 November, will offer a number of panels, fireside chats and case studies  

22/10 | Black Nights 2021 | Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

European titles submitted for the Oscars race

European titles submitted for the Oscars race

European countries reveal their titles submitted for the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2022 Academy Awards  

22/10 | Oscars 2022

Movistar+ produces Rapa, the new series from the creators of Hierro

Movistar+ produces Rapa, the new series from the creators of Hierro

The six-episode show is currently filming in Galicia, directed by Jorge Coira, created y his brother Pepe and starring Javier Cámara and Mónica López  

22/10 | Production | Funding | Spain

HBO readies its first-ever Slovak series, The Winner

HBO readies its first-ever Slovak series, The Winner

The six-episode dramedy, directed by Jan Hřebejk, will follow a former prime minister after he returns to a normal life and poke fun at patriarchy and politics  

22/10 | Production | Funding | Slovakia

Co-funded by the European Union - Creative Europe MEDIA
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Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... - MIA asks: What are the realities and hopes for equity investment? - 19/10/2021

Produce – Co-Produce... – 19/10/2021
MIA asks: What are the realities and hopes for equity investment?
A panel discussed how equity investors can help finance high-budget productions, and cover development or gap expenses

Market Trends - The future state of the film industry explored at MIA Market - 18/10/2021

Market Trends – 18/10/2021
The future state of the film industry explored at MIA Market
At the Italian event, a panel of film experts discussed the challenges they have been facing in recent times and what could keep the industry afloat in the future

Market Trends
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As the global audiovisual sector attempts to recover and the busy festival season moves ahead, Cineuropa keeps on covering the European film industry's most recent developments and market trends with fresh reports and interviews. Read our latest articles here.

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - A seminar on neurodiversity and inclusion in the screen industries organised by Screen Skills Ireland - 19/10/2021

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – 19/10/2021
A seminar on neurodiversity and inclusion in the screen industries organised by Screen Skills Ireland
The virtual event explored the different strategies and solutions to favour the inclusion of neurodiverse creative workers

European Policy - During an online talk, screenwriters and directors call for fair rights and remuneration - 13/10/2021

European Policy – 13/10/2021
During an online talk, screenwriters and directors call for fair rights and remuneration
Authors and experts explored the main challenges faced by audiovisual authors and the discrepancies between the different countries’ legal systems

Market Trends - Sonia Hausséguy and Irena Gruca-Rozbicka • Editorial and Development Department, Crew United - 07/10/2021

Market Trends – 07/10/2021
Sonia Hausséguy and Irena Gruca-Rozbicka • Editorial and Development Department, Crew United
Our conversation focused on the platform’s main objectives and its future expansion plans

European Film Schools - Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt • Head of the Department of Film and Media, Stockholm University of the Arts - 06/10/2021

European Film Schools – 06/10/2021
Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt • Head of the Department of Film and Media, Stockholm University of the Arts
Our conversation focused on the main opportunities offered to prospective students by the prestigious Swedish university

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - HBO Max expands into seven new territories, and unveils its pricing and a new 45-day theatrical-to-streaming window - 06/10/2021

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 06/10/2021
HBO Max expands into seven new territories, and unveils its pricing and a new 45-day theatrical-to-streaming window
During the initial phase of its European rollout, the streaming giant will go live in the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, Iceland and the three Baltic republics in 2022

Branko Tomović • Director of, and actor in, Vampir

Interview: Branko Tomović • Director of, and actor in, Vampir

"I've always been fascinated with vampire stories coming from Serbia"

The German-born actor of Serbian origin discusses his directorial feature debut, which world-premiered at Sitges and has started its theatrical distribution in Serbia  

22/10 | Sitges 2021

Julien Paolini • Director of The Raïs of Palermo

Interview: Julien Paolini • Director of The Raïs of Palermo

"It tells the story of the first non-Sicilian boss of the Cosa nostra"

We talked to the filmmaker, who is also co-director of production company La Réserve, to discuss his new project at the Cinemed Meetings  

22/10 | Cinemed 2021 | Cinemed Meetings

Martyn Robertson • Director of Ride the Wave

Interview: Martyn Robertson • Director of Ride the Wave

“You see Ben's parents in their most vulnerable state”

The Scottish filmmaker unpicks his documentary, which, while ostensibly a surf movie, is also a coming-of-age tale about 14-year-old Ben Larg  

22/10 | London 2021

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Co-Production Podcast

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 08 - 16/09/2021

16/09/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 08
The producers of Dénes Nagy's Natural Light are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 07 - 06/09/2021

06/09/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 07
The producers of Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper's Vesper Seeds are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 06 - 07/07/2021

07/07/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 06
The producers of Juho Kuosmanen's Compartment No. 6 are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 05 - 05/07/2021

05/07/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 05
The producers of Nora Martirosyan's Should the Wind Drop are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 04 - 25/05/2021

25/05/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 04
The producers of Marko Šantić's Wake Me are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 03 - 03/05/2021

03/05/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 03
The producers of Philippe Lacôte's The Night of the Kings are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 02 - 06/04/2021

06/04/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 02
The producers of Oleh Sentsov's Rhino are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 00 - 01/04/2021

01/04/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 00
Cineuropa's editor-in-chief Domenico La Porta speaks with Roberto Olla, executive director of Eurimages, about their new collaboration and the European audiovisual landscape

Nicolas Pariser shoots Le parfum vert

Nicolas Pariser shoots Le parfum vert

Vincent Lacoste and Sandrine Kiberlain head the cast of the new film from the director of The Great Game and Alice and the Mayor, produced by Bizibi with Versus and sold by Orange Studio  

22/10 | Production | Funding | France/Belgium

Rob Savage • Director of Dashcam

Interview: Rob Savage • Director of Dashcam

“I think we need to be careful not to confuse the real Annie Hardy with the movie Annie Hardy”

The British director breaks down his film, starring a podcast host who comes to London to visit a friend and subsequently finds plenty of demons  

22/10 | London 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Thessaloniki pays tribute to Bulgarian filmmaker Binka Zhelyazkova

EXCLUSIVE: Thessaloniki pays tribute to Bulgarian filmmaker Binka Zhelyazkova

The Greek festival rediscovers a strong female voice of European auteur cinema by organising the first retrospective dedicated to her outside of Bulgaria  

22/10 | Thessaloniki 2021

Captain Nova comes out on top at the 35th Cinekid Festival

Captain Nova comes out on top at the 35th Cinekid Festival

The festival’s opening film ended up taking home the Cinekid Lions for Best Children’s Film and Best Dutch Children’s Film  

22/10 | Cinekid 2021 | Awards

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Reviews

DASHCAM - by Rob Savage

DASHCAM
by Rob Savage
A rapping, COVID-sceptic vlogger from Los Angeles livestreams her battle with a mysterious demon, in Rob Savage’s wilfully absurd new horror

Dog Years - by Fabio Mollo

Dog Years
by Fabio Mollo
Fabio Mollo directs a funny young adult comedy starring the talented young rising star Aurora Giovinazzo, a colourful, inclusive and slightly crazy film

The Albanian Virgin - by Bujar Alimani

The Albanian Virgin
by Bujar Alimani
Bujar Alimani’s new film is a tale of female revolution and a curious ethnographic study of Albanian customs

SpaceBoy - by Olivier Pairoux

SpaceBoy
by Olivier Pairoux
Olivier Pairoux delivers an unexpected first feature film for all audiences, which tells the pop and deliciously nostalgic adventures of a young boy who dreams of space

The North Sea - by John Andreas Andersen

The North Sea
by John Andreas Andersen
Norwegian director John Andreas Andersen's disaster movie imagines the collapse of all the oil platforms in the North Sea, with great special effects and a brave heroine

L'Arminuta - by Giuseppe Bonito

L'Arminuta
by Giuseppe Bonito
Giuseppe Bonito elegantly films a coming-of-age story in 1970s rural Italy; no sentimentality, but emotions are guaranteed

Passing - by Rebecca Hall

Passing
by Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall adapts Nella Larsen’s classic text of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the practice of racial passing

Hide and Seek - by Victoria Fiore

Hide and Seek
by Victoria Fiore
Victoria Fiore’s documentary offers a striking and heartbreaking view of life in Naples from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy

Review: The Power of the Dog

Review: The Power of the Dog

Macho habits die hard in Jane Campion’s adaptation of a tale rife with psychosexual tension, set in the dying days of the Old West  

22/10 | London 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Silvia Rey Canudo’s Seville-selected film Wan Xia

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Silvia Rey Canudo’s Seville-selected film Wan Xia

Based on the Goya-nominated short film of the same name, the movie was shot in Spain and China, and is being presented in The New Waves Non-fiction section of the 18th European Film Festival  

22/10 | Seville 2021

Review: Dashcam

Review: Dashcam

A rapping, COVID-sceptic vlogger from Los Angeles livestreams her battle with a mysterious demon, in Rob Savage’s wilfully absurd new horror  

21/10 | London 2021

Interviews

Maxime Roy • Director of The Heroics

Maxime Roy • Director of The Heroics
On the eve of its French release, Maxime Roy talks about his very intense first feature film, much appreciated at Cannes, in a special screening of the Official Selection

Nabil Ben Yadir • Director of Animals

Nabil Ben Yadir • Director of Animals
A meeting with the Belgian filmmaker, who delivers with his fourth feature a film that plunges into the heart of the darkness of the human soul by probing a racist and homophobic crime

Michael Pearce • Director of Encounter

Michael Pearce • Director of Encounter
We talked to the British director about his film, which stars Riz Ahmed as a father determined to save his two sons from an alien invasion

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed

Christophe Leparc • Director, Cinemed
We met with the director of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in order to unearth the main aims of his 2021 edition

Branko Tomović • Director of, and actor in, Vampir

Branko Tomović • Director of, and actor in, Vampir
The German-born actor of Serbian origin discusses his directorial feature debut, which world-premiered at Sitges and has started its theatrical distribution in Serbia

Martyn Robertson • Director of Ride the Wave

Martyn Robertson • Director of Ride the Wave
The Scottish filmmaker unpicks his documentary, which, while ostensibly a surf movie, is also a coming-of-age tale about 14-year-old Ben Larg

Rob Savage • Director of Dashcam

Rob Savage • Director of Dashcam
The British director breaks down his film, starring a podcast host who comes to London to visit a friend and subsequently finds plenty of demons

Julien Paolini • Director of The Raïs of Palermo

Julien Paolini • Director of The Raïs of Palermo
We talked to the filmmaker, who is also co-director of production company La Réserve, to discuss his new project at the Cinemed Meetings

Peter Middleton and James Spinney • Directors of The Real Charlie Chaplin

Interview: Peter Middleton and James Spinney • Directors of The Real Charlie Chaplin

“We were making the film during the #MeToo era, and of course, it looms large over everything”

The directors of the acclaimed Notes on Blindness documentary and VR project talk about their new doc on the iconic British artist  

21/10 | London 2021

Thessaloniki’s Agora bolsters its schedule

Thessaloniki’s Agora bolsters its schedule

The industry section of the 62nd edition of the festival will run both physically and on digital platforms and is introducing new initiatives  

21/10 | Thessaloniki 2021 | Agora

Review: SpaceBoy

Review: SpaceBoy

Olivier Pairoux delivers an unexpected first feature film for all audiences, which tells the pop and deliciously nostalgic adventures of a young boy who dreams of space  

21/10 | Ghent 2021

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Who’s Stopping Us - by Jonás Trueba

Who’s Stopping Us
by Jonás Trueba
San Sebastián - Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance
Spanish release October 22

The Giants - by Bonifacio Angius

The Giants
by Bonifacio Angius
Locarno 2021 - Competition
Italian release October 21

Lost Illusions - by Xavier Giannoli

Lost Illusions
by Xavier Giannoli
Venice 2021 - Competition
French and Belgium releases October 20

My Sunny Maad - by Michaela Pavlátová

My Sunny Maad
by Michaela Pavlátová
Annecy 2021 - Jury Award
Czech release October 21

Playground - by Laura Wandel

Playground
by Laura Wandel
Cannes 2021 - Un Certain Regard
Belgium release October 20

Pleasure - by Ninja Thyberg

Pleasure
by Ninja Thyberg
Cannes 2020 - Official Selection
Sundance 2021 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition
French release October 20 and Polish release October 22

Alma - by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir

Alma
by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir
Norwegian release October 22

La Civil - by Teodora Ana Mihai

La Civil
by Teodora Ana Mihai
Cannes 2021 - Courage Prize Un Certain Regard
Norwegian release October 20

Review: Dog Years

Review: Dog Years

Fabio Mollo directs a funny young adult comedy starring the talented young rising star Aurora Giovinazzo, a colourful, inclusive and slightly crazy film  

21/10 | Rome 2021 | Alice nella città

Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd

Interview: Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd

"There is no better magician than a good casting director"

The British director’s take on the same Welsh legend that inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse gives the story a new, unique twist  

21/10 | London 2021

Review: 512 Hours

Review: 512 Hours

In this documentary Adina Istrate and Giannina La Salvia show us not the artist Marina Abramovic, but rather the audiences attending her performances, their thoughts and their reactions  

21/10 | Valencia 2021

Interviews

Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd

Russell Owen • Director of Shepherd
The British director’s take on the same Welsh legend that inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse gives the story a new, unique twist

Peter Middleton and James Spinney • Directors of The Real Charlie Chaplin

Peter Middleton and James Spinney • Directors of The Real Charlie Chaplin
The directors of the acclaimed Notes on Blindness documentary and VR project talk about their new doc on the iconic British artist

Serge Lalou • Producer of El portero

Serge Lalou • Producer of El portero
Interview with the producer of Les Films d'Ici Méditerranée who talks about the Aurel project, on the occasion of the Cinemed Meetings, but also about the situation in the industry

Pauline Seigland • Producer of Lives of Hamid

Pauline Seigland • Producer of Lives of Hamid
Interview with the producer of the French company Films Grand Huit who talks about Jonathan Millet's project, on the occasion of the Cinemed Meetings

Marc Irmer • Producer of Aïcha

Marc Irmer • Producer of Aïcha
Cineuropa met with the producer from Dolce Vita Films, who talked about the project by Mehdi M Barsaoui, during the Cinemed Meetings

Michał Krzywicki • Director of The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash

Michał Krzywicki • Director of The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash
We talked to the director of the rather ingeniously titled film originally pitched at Vilnius’ Meeting Point and freshly world-premiered at Warsaw

Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta • Director of El lodo

Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta • Director of El lodo
The Spanish filmmaker has opened the 36th Mostra de València – Cinema del Mediterrani with his second film, starring Raúl Arévalo and Paz Vega

Michaela Pavlátová • Director of My Sunny Maad

Michaela Pavlátová • Director of My Sunny Maad
The Czech director explains how important humour and subtlety were in creating this story about a European woman following her true love to Afghanistan

It's a Sad and Beautiful World wins at the Cinemed Meetings

It's a Sad and Beautiful World wins at the Cinemed Meetings

Cyril Aris' first feature film project wins the Main Development Grant of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival  

21/10 | Cinemed 2021 | Cinemed Meetings

Juliette Binoche, Frank Grillo and Morgan Freeman to topline Paradise Highway

Juliette Binoche, Frank Grillo and Morgan Freeman to topline Paradise Highway

Anna Gutto's feature recently wrapped filming and has been already pre-sold to Lionsgate for distribution in North America and world sales  

21/10 | Production | Funding | Switzerland/Germany/USA

Nine Croatian projects to be presented at Doclisboa's Nebulae

Nine Croatian projects to be presented at Doclisboa's Nebulae

The Portuguese event's industry section also features a Filmmaking Seminar, and a slate of talks, panels and events taking place both on site and online  

21/10 | Doclisboa 2021

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Flee - by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Flee
by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Cannes 2020 - Official Selection
Sundance 2021 - Grand Jury Prize World Cinema Documentary Competition
Annecy 2021 - Crystal Prize for Best Feature Film
Norwegian release October 22

France - by Bruno Dumont

France
by Bruno Dumont
Cannes 2021 - Competition
Italian release October 21

Spectre: Sanity, Madness & the Family - by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier a.k.a Para One

Spectre: Sanity, Madness & the Family
by Jean-Baptiste de Laubier a.k.a Para One
French release October 20

Genderation - by Monika Treut

Genderation
by Monika Treut
Berlinale 2021 - Panorama
German release October 21

The Girl and the Spider - by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher

The Girl and the Spider
by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
Berlinale 2021 - Best Director Encounters Award and FIPRESCI prize
French release October 20

Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... – 19/10/2021

MIA asks: What are the realities and hopes for equity investment?

A panel discussed how equity investors can help finance high-budget productions, and cover development or gap expenses

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – 19/10/2021

A seminar on neurodiversity and inclusion in the screen industries organised by Screen Skills Ireland

The virtual event explored the different strategies and solutions to favour the inclusion of neurodiverse creative workers

Market Trends – 18/10/2021

The future state of the film industry explored at MIA Market

At the Italian event, a panel of film experts discussed the challenges they have been facing in recent times and what could keep the industry afloat in the future

European Policy – 13/10/2021

During an online talk, screenwriters and directors call for fair rights and remuneration

Authors and experts explored the main challenges faced by audiovisual authors and the discrepancies between the different countries’ legal systems

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