All Screen articles in February 24 2017 – Page 770
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NewsKorea’s Cinema Dal wins blacklist case against government, KOFIC
The company distributed documentaries critical of the government such as ’The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol’.
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Reviews‘The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou’: Cannes Review
Lucas Delangle’s offbeat debut concerns a young man torn between mysticism and music
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Reviews‘Magdala’: Cannes Review
Damien Manivel creates a gentle, unhurried portrait of Mary Magdalene in this melancholy autumnal tale
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Reviews‘Salam’: Cannes Review
Doc exploring French rap star Diam’s mental health and conversion to Islam is compromised by the involvement of its subject
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Reviews‘For The Sake Of Peace’: Cannes Review
Forest Whitaker-backed doc follows two young South Sudanese people determined to reclaim their country
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Reviews‘The Beasts’: Cannes Review
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller about outsiders in a Galician village is ’a brooding, muscular piece of filmmaking’
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News“It’s not a comeback film”: former French rap star Diams talks Cannes bio-doc ‘Salam’
Bio-documentary is co-directed by ex-rapper Melanie Diams, ‘Divines’ director Houda Benyamina and writer Anne Cissé.
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News‘Broker’, ‘Close’, ‘Pacifiction’ land on Screen’s Cannes jury grid
Competition titles from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lukas Dhont and Albert Serra face our jurors.
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NewsMubi adds Ali Abbasi’s ‘Holy Spider’ to Cannes 2022 acquisition slate
Arthouse platform has taken UK-Ire, LatAm excluding Mexico, and Malaysia.
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NewsSicily launches €10.8m fund for film and TV productions
Aim to boost employment and tourism in the Italian region.
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NewsCristi Puiu feature among Marseille’s FIDLab 2022 projects
Romania’s Puiu competed for the Palme d’Or in 2016 with ‘Sieranevada’.
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News‘Holy Spider’ director Ali Abbasi: “We didn’t do it as an activist work but it takes up the themes”
The Iran-born, Denmark-based director was talkinig about the issue of women’s rights in Iran.
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FeaturesDirecting duo of Cannes title ‘Feminist Riposte’ on the activists firing up French feminism
Marie Perennès and Simon Depardon wanted to capture the ‘collage’ movement sweeping France and give profile to the debate.
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Reviews‘Dodo’: Cannes Review
Panos Koutras’ chaotic comedy farce is an ambitious fresco of a family’s existential crisis
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Reviews‘Close’: Cannes Review
Lukas Dhont’s |Grand Prix-winning picture is an intimate, quietly devastating study of childhood friendship between two boys
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NewsStreaming brightens financial picture for Lionsgate
The company expects a deal to spin off Starz by the end of the summer.
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Reviews‘Rebel’: Cannes Review
Adil & Bilall’s family drama about Jihad radicalisation hits close to home for the Belgian-Moroccan duo
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Reviews‘Broker’: Cannes Review
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first Korean-language picture is a sensitive and compassionate look at the market for unwanted children
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NewsTaking part in the Cannes Unifrance Critics Lab
Alexandra Slater took part in the first Unifrance Critics Lab, devised to strengthen the ties between English-speaking film critics and French industry.
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Reviews‘Pacifiction’: Cannes Review
Albert Serra’s latest is the strangely captivating tale of a colourful politician in French Polynesia