All Europe articles – Page 555
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NewsBodega takes on Policeman for France
Highly feted Israeli thriller Policeman has been picked up by Bodega Films for France.
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NewsSpain chooses Black Bread over Almodovar for Oscar race
The Spanish Film Academy has made the surprising decision of putting forward Agusti Villaronga’s post Spanish Civil War drama Black Bread (Pa Negre) as Spain’s entrant for the foreign-language Oscar, snubbing Pedro Almodovar’s critically acclaimed film The Skin I Live In.
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NewsNorman Jewison to be honoured at 38th Ghent Film Festival
Award-Winning director and producer Norman Jewison, renowned for such films as In The Heat Of The Night, Fiddler On The Roof and The Thomas Crown Affair, will be presented with the Joseph Plateau Award at this year’s 38th Ghent Film Festival, which takes place in the Belgian city (October 11-22).
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NewsTerraferma chosen as Italy's foreign Oscar submission
Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma, the director’s third film about immigration which just scooped up the Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival, has been selected by the Oscar commission to represent Italy as a foreign Oscar hopeful.
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NewsSomeday This Pain set for Rome premiere
Italian director Roberto Faenza’s English language project Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You will have its world premiere at the upcoming edition of the International Rome Film Festival (Oct 27-Nov 4).
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NewsDirector Yann Samuell ahead in first week of the war of The War of the Buttons
Rival adaptations of French literary classic The War of the Buttons battle it out at the box office in France on more than 500 prints each. Version directed by Yann Samuell some 130,000 entries ahead in first week.
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NewsKormakur dives into post for The Deep for end-of-year release
Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep is one of a number of hot Icelandic titles, also including thriller Black’s Game, that are in post production now.
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NewsAlvernia Studios to partner with co-production market Gotham in Progress
The Krakow based production company is offering up one of the awards.
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NewsKalliope Films to produce Van Gogh biopic feature
The English language feature will focus on the artist’s entire life story.
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NewsMusic Box acquires US rights to Canadian Oscar submission Monsieur Lazhar
Paris-based sales company Films Distribution has secured a slew of sales on heart-warming tale about an Algerian refugee who lands himself ajob as a replacement teacher, including to US distributor Money Box.
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NewsCentEast selects 10 works in progress
The CentEast Warsaw-Moscow has selected 10 Eastern European films to present as works-in-progress.
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NewsColla and Madsen among 20 European filmmakers showcased by EFP in Korea's Busan
Switzerland’s Rolando Colla, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru and Denmark’s Ole Christian Madsen are among 20 European directors who will be having their latest films showcased by European Film Promotion (EFP) at the forthcoming Busan International Film Festival (Oct 6-14).
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NewsAdrian Sitaru plans third feature, Domestic
Romanian writer-director Adrian Sitaru is gearing up for a November shoot in Bucharest for his third feature film, Domestic.
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NewsNetherlands Film Festival showcases 'rich year' of Dutch production
Organisers have been striking a defiant note about future prospects for the Netherlands Film Festival, the main festival showcase for Dutch cinema.
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NewsNiki Caro to direct biopic of Maria Callas
Niki Caro (Whale Rider) will direct the new Maria Callas biopic, Callas, for Rome-based De Angelis Group.
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NewsEFA finalises short film nominees
Terry Gilliam’s The Wholly Family completes the line up of 15 short films which have been nominated for the European Film Awards.
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