Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest 2021 to premiere the latest batch of Czech films

Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest 2021 to premiere the latest batch of Czech films

The sprawling gathering will be opened by Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival on 17 September and brought to a close by Florian Zeller’s The Father on the 24th  

16/09 | Festivals | Awards | Czech Republic

La Cour des miracles by Carine May and Hakim Zouhani is now in post-production

La Cour des miracles by Carine May and Hakim Zouhani is now in post-production

Rachida Brakni, Anaïde Rozam, Gilbert Melki and Disiz La Peste star in the cast of the filmmaking duo’s first feature film, which is produced by Haut et Court and sold by France TV Distribution  

16/09 | Production | Funding | France

Shooting on We Started Together enters the home straight

Shooting on We Started Together enters the home straight

Following on from Free Entry which scooped an award at SXSW in 2015, Yvonne Kerékgyártó delivers a second feature, produced by Együtt Kezdtük Film in co-production with Sparks  

16/09 | Production | Funding | Hungary

Shooting of Ein Platz an der Sonne by Lars Kraume starts in Namibia

Shooting of Ein Platz an der Sonne by Lars Kraume starts in Namibia

The German director's new feature is set in former German South West Africa at the time of the Herero and Nama genocide  

16/09 | Production | Funding | Germany

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Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... - Co-productions are still European film industry’s firepower, say the panellists of the European Producers Club - 14/09/2021

Produce – Co-Produce... – 14/09/2021
Co-productions are still European film industry’s firepower, say the panellists of the European Producers Club
The talk explored the measures put in place by European film bodies to resume filming, the new opportunities offered by virtual production and new co-productions models

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.

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - How can Nordic films reach an international audience? - 14/09/2021

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 14/09/2021
How can Nordic films reach an international audience?
The circulation and promotion of Scandinavian films is the focus of an Europa Distribution panel at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films

Europe and the Rest of the World - AJD Industry Days to be launched in 2022 - 14/09/2021

Europe and the Rest of the World – 14/09/2021
AJD Industry Days to be launched in 2022
The industry programme of AJB DOC will be launched at the 5th edition of the festival, while an MoU was also signed by the Al Jazeera Balkans and Al Jazeera Documentary managing directors

New Media - VR technologies and metaverses are set to change media production and entertainment modes, say panellists at the Venice Production Bridge - 14/09/2021

New Media – 14/09/2021
VR technologies and metaverses are set to change media production and entertainment modes, say panellists at the Venice Production Bridge
Experts discussed how creators are pushing the boundaries to create real-time, multi-person experiences ranging from festivals, live performance, games and other artistic forms

Documentary - Latvian veteran documentarian Laila Pakalniņa discusses her career at Baltic Sea Docs - 13/09/2021

Documentary – 13/09/2021
Latvian veteran documentarian Laila Pakalniņa discusses her career at Baltic Sea Docs
The masterclass covered the director's work in documentary and fiction, her approach to writing as well as the importance of building up atmospheres for effective storytelling

New Media - The challenges of independent immersive content rounded off this year’s Venice Production Bridge - 10/09/2021

New Media – 10/09/2021
The challenges of independent immersive content rounded off this year’s Venice Production Bridge
VENICE 2021: The discussion focused on the issues posed by the platforms’ moral standards, how these can affect artistic expression and the main technical problems incurred in VR exhibition

Documentary - Baltic Sea Docs and Creative Europe MEDIA organise a seminar on distributing documentaries in Covid times - 08/09/2021

Documentary – 08/09/2021
Baltic Sea Docs and Creative Europe MEDIA organise a seminar on distributing documentaries in Covid times
The seminar put a spotlight on loss of income from distribution during Covid and how this is might become a long-term problem for independent documentaries

European titles submitted for the Oscars race

European titles submitted for the Oscars race

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

16/09 | Oscars 2022

Asier Etxeandia and Silvia Abascal starring in Amazing Elisa

Asier Etxeandia and Silvia Abascal starring in Amazing Elisa

The cast of this fantasy-drama, directed by Sadrac González-Perellón, is rounded off by Iván Massagué and the young Jana San Antonio  

16/09 | Production | Funding | Spain

Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy

Interview: Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy

"Trap music was a good starting point to portray all the absurdity, contradictions and nihilism of these modern times"

VENICE 2021: The sophomore film by the Italian director tells of the dizzying rise and fall of a young trap music star who got sucked into a downward spiral of drugs and self-destruction  

16/09 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

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Co-Production Podcast

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

The Co-production Podcast – Episode 01 - 18/03/2021

18/03/2021
The Co-production Podcast – Episode 01
The producers of Giordano Gederlini's Between Life and Death are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night

Interview: Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night

“I never thought of casting as an endgame”

VENICE 2021: The French casting director tells us about fulfilling a lifelong dream by calling the shots on a film set, and how grief, desire and spending a night with a girl in Paris contributed  

16/09 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti Extra

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

Interview: Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

"I didn’t want the film to be a trial, but everyone has their own inner convictions"

The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace  

15/09 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable

Interview: Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable

"I tried not to play the artist too much with this film, in order to construct a thriller, pure and simple"

The Belgian director spoke to us about this new film which is very much in keeping with his previous work, but which also breathes fresh air into his cinema by exploring the huis clos form  

15/09 | Toronto 2021 | Special Presentations

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

Interview: Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

“Documentary is cinema’s most democratic genre”

The festival is currently unfolding online until Sunday, following a physical edition held between 5-12 September, whose strengths and challenges we discussed with its artistic director  

15/09 | Astra 2021

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Reviews

Arthur Rambo - by Laurent Cantet

Arthur Rambo
by Laurent Cantet
With trademark subtlety, Laurent Cantet analyses the different sides to identity by broaching the subject of offensive outbursts on social media to tell the tale of a fall from grace

Nobody Has To Know - by Bouli Lanners

Nobody Has To Know
by Bouli Lanners
Bouli Lanners deterritorialises his cinema to tell, in English, a tender and delicate love story, doubled with a portrait of emancipation and a reflection on memory

Earwig - by Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Earwig
by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Lucile Hadzihalilovic signs a cryptic and bewitching work, a subjugating saturnian masterpiece pushing the doors of other dimensions

Inexorable - by Fabrice du Welz

Inexorable
by Fabrice du Welz
Fabrice Du Welz delivers an incredibly dark film noir scrutinising an inescapably fatal encounter between a mysterious young woman and a very bourgeois couple

Anaïs in Love - by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

Anaïs in Love
by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
CANNES 2021: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet delivers a fast-paced, existentialist comedy of manners which is refreshing, entertaining and skilfully subdued

Two Ships - by Jan Foukal

Two Ships
by Jan Foukal
Jan Foukal's movie, based on a book of poetry, is a love story full of songs but not much affection

The Consequences - by Claudia Pinto Emperador

The Consequences
by Claudia Pinto Emperador
Claudia Pinto plunges us into the painful secrets of a scarred family, relying on passionate actors and the innate dramatic qualities of the Canary Islands’ volcanic landscape

You Resemble Me - by Dina Amer

You Resemble Me
by Dina Amer
VENICE 2021: Produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze and Alma Har’el, Dina Amer's film is a powerful take on the woman falsely accused of being Europe's first female suicide bomber

Review: Certainty of Probabilities

Review: Certainty of Probabilities

Raluca Durbacă's found footage documentary assembles a glorious portrait of the Romania in 1968 while elaborating on the means and meanings of audiovisual propaganda  

15/09 | Astra 2021

Giacomo Abbruzzese is shooting Disco Boy

Giacomo Abbruzzese is shooting Disco Boy

Franz Rogowski, Morr N’Diaye and Laetitia Ky headline this production piloted by Films Grand Huit with Belgium, Italy and Poland, and sold by Charades  

15/09 | Production | Funding | France/Belgium/Italy/Poland

Online “7+7” festival, celebrating Ukrainian and British women film directors, kicks off

Online “7+7” festival, celebrating Ukrainian and British women film directors, kicks off

Taking place from 14 September-3 November, the festival will host screenings of old and new films, plus educational events about women in the film industry  

15/09 | Shorts | Ukraine/UK

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Interviews

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of The Last Chapter

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of The Last Chapter
VENICE 2021: The Italian director presents a highly intimate and touching portrait of a wounded and lonesome soul

Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö and Petri Poikolainen • Director of, producer of and actor in The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö and Petri Poikolainen • Director of, producer of and actor in The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
VENICE 2021: The Orizzonti Extra entry focuses on a man who would do anything for love – even leave his own apartment

Laurynas Bareisa • Director of Pilgrims

Laurynas Bareisa • Director of Pilgrims
VENICE 2021: The Lithuanian helmer discusses the relationship between his debut feature and his previous shorts, as well as visiting some strangely sacred places

Paolo Sorrentino • Director of The Hand of God

Paolo Sorrentino • Director of The Hand of God
VENICE 2021: The Italian director shares some thoughts on his youthful memoir of Naples and the number of times it’s been compared to Fellini’s Amarcord

Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy

Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy
VENICE 2021: The sophomore film by the Italian director tells of the dizzying rise and fall of a young trap music star who got sucked into a downward spiral of drugs and self-destruction

Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night

Antoinette Boulat • Director of My Night
VENICE 2021: The French casting director tells us about fulfilling a lifelong dream by calling the shots on a film set, and how grief, desire and spending a night with a girl in Paris contributed

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo
The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable
The Belgian director spoke to us about this new film which is very much in keeping with his previous work, but which also breathes fresh air into his cinema by exploring the huis clos form

Dominique Deruddere returns with The Chapel

Dominique Deruddere returns with The Chapel

The director, Oscar-nominated in 2000 for Everybody’s Famous!, is back with a feature that goes behind the scenes of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth competition  

15/09 | Production | Funding | Belgium

Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child

Interview: Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child

“For children, violence is an existential means of saying ‘I’m here’”

VENICE 2021: We chatted with the director about his latest film, which closed the Venice Film Festival  

15/09 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Review: La santa piccola

Review: La santa piccola

VENICE 2021: Silvia Brunelli's first film is a light and dramatic fresco of a humanity torn between the sacred and the profane, set in Rione Sanità in Naples  

15/09 | Venice 2021 | Biennale College Cinema

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

The Daughter - by Manuel Martín Cuenca

The Daughter
by Manuel Martín Cuenca
Toronto 2021 - Contemporary World Cinema
San Sebastián 2021 - Out of competition

The Mad Women's Ball - by Mélanie Laurent

The Mad Women's Ball
by Mélanie Laurent
Toronto 2021 - Gala

Earwig - by Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Earwig
by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Toronto 2021 - Platform
San Sebastián 2021 - Competition

Margrete - Queen of the North - by Charlotte Sieling

Margrete - Queen of the North
by Charlotte Sieling
Danish release September 16

Anatolian Leopard - by Emre Kayis

Anatolian Leopard
by Emre Kayis
Toronto 2021 - Discovery

Belfast - by Kenneth Branagh

Belfast
by Kenneth Branagh
Toronto 2021 - Gala

Anaïs in Love - by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

Anaïs in Love
by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Cannes 2021 - SCritics’ Week
French release September 15

Mr Bachmann and His Class - by Maria Speth

Mr Bachmann and His Class
by Maria Speth
Berlinale 2021 - Silver Bear Jury Prize

German release September 16

Review: You Resemble Me

Review: You Resemble Me

VENICE 2021: Produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze and Alma Har’el, Dina Amer's film is a powerful take on the woman falsely accused of being Europe's first female suicide bomber  

15/09 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Kids Kino Lab announces its call for projects

Kids Kino Lab announces its call for projects

The 2021 edition of the international script development workshop is about to wrap up, while the call is now open for its next participants  

15/09 | Kids Kino Industry 2021

Review: Landscape Zero

Review: Landscape Zero

Bruno Pavić takes us on a moody journey with anonymous but affectionately portrayed characters wandering around an infamous polluted area in Croatia  

15/09 | Astra 2021

Interviews

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival
The festival is currently unfolding online until Sunday, following a physical edition held between 5-12 September, whose strengths and challenges we discussed with its artistic director

Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child

Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child
VENICE 2021: We chatted with the director about his latest film, which closed the Venice Film Festival

Bouli Lanners • Director of Nobody Has to Know

Bouli Lanners • Director of Nobody Has to Know
Cineuropa met with the Belgian filmmaker who is presenting his latest film, a real departure from his previous work since it is a love story and in English

Keti Stamo • Director of Sons of Cain

Keti Stamo • Director of Sons of Cain
VENICE 2021: The director has crafted a dreamlike documentary that calls into question the strict nature of the Kanun, the ancient Albanian code which dictates a blood-for-blood approach

Yvan Attal • Director of The Accusation

Yvan Attal • Director of The Accusation
VENICE 2021: The French director faced several challenges while adapting Karine Tuil’s rape-case novel Les choses humaines, including a delicate scriptwriting process

Ciro De Caro • Director of Giulia

Ciro De Caro • Director of Giulia
VENICE 2021: The Italian director is presenting his new film, which centres on a young woman who, one scorching summer in Rome, searches for her place in the world in her own particular way

Alessandro Gassmann • Director of The Great Silence

Alessandro Gassmann • Director of The Great Silence
VENICE 2021: The Italian actor-director brings Maurizio De Giovanni's stage play of the same name to the big screen, in which a once well-off family is forced to face up to their own secrets

Mathilde Pâques • Co-ordinator, Brussels Co-Production Forum

Mathilde Pâques • Co-ordinator, Brussels Co-Production Forum
The 5th edition of this professional gathering unspooled in Brussels on 7 and 8 September under the umbrella of the Brussels International Film Festival

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser for Antonio Tibaldi’s We Are Living Things

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser for Antonio Tibaldi’s We Are Living Things

The story of the film, which is being sold by TVCO, revolves around a mysterious illegal Mexican immigrant played by Roma’s Jorge Antonio Guerrero  

15/09 | Events | Promotion | USA/China/Italy

Wait for Me crowned as the champion at the fourth edition of AJB DOC

Wait for Me crowned as the champion at the fourth edition of AJB DOC

Other award-winning titles included Brotherhood and Writing With Fire  

15/09 | AJB DOC 2021 | Awards

Omar Al Abdul Razzak’s Matar cangrejos currently shooting

Omar Al Abdul Razzak’s Matar cangrejos currently shooting

Tenerife serves as the setting for the feature-length fiction debut by the director of the documentaries Paradiso and The Calm Tempest, which is being produced by Tourmalet Films  

15/09 | Production | Funding | Spain/Netherlands

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

The Great Silence - by Alessandro Gassmann

The Great Silence
by Alessandro Gassmann
Venice 2021 - Giornate degli Autori
Italian release September 16

Natural Light - by Dénes Nagy

Natural Light
by Dénes Nagy
Berlinale 2021 - Silver Bear for Best Director
Hungarian release September 16

The Consequences - by Claudia Pinto Emperador

The Consequences
by Claudia Pinto Emperador
Spanish release September 17

The Good Boss - by Fernando León de Aranoa

The Good Boss
by Fernando León de Aranoa
San Sebastián 2021 - Competition

La abuela - by Paco Plaza

La abuela
by Paco Plaza
San Sebastián 2021 - Competition

Industry Reports

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 14/09/2021

How can Nordic films reach an international audience?

The circulation and promotion of Scandinavian films is the focus of an Europa Distribution panel at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films

Europe and the Rest of the World – 14/09/2021

AJD Industry Days to be launched in 2022

The industry programme of AJB DOC will be launched at the 5th edition of the festival, while an MoU was also signed by the Al Jazeera Balkans and Al Jazeera Documentary managing directors

New Media – 14/09/2021

VR technologies and metaverses are set to change media production and entertainment modes, say panellists at the Venice Production Bridge

Experts discussed how creators are pushing the boundaries to create real-time, multi-person experiences ranging from festivals, live performance, games and other artistic forms

Produce – Co-Produce... – 14/09/2021

Co-productions are still European film industry’s firepower, say the panellists of the European Producers Club

The talk explored the measures put in place by European film bodies to resume filming, the new opportunities offered by virtual production and new co-productions models

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