All articles by Rebecca Leffler – Page 34
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NewsBerlin Competition title ’Suspended Time’ clocks deals for Playtime (exclusive)
The Covid-era comedy drama has secured deals for Spain, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Taiwan and Hungary.
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NewsMathieu Kassovitz and Yvan Attal star in ‘Brothers’ for Ginger & Fed (exclusive)
Source: Copyright Quad - Traveling Angel - Zinc ‘Brothers’ Brothers, starring Matthieu Kassovitz and Yvan Attal, as siblings who were survived for several years alone in the wilderness when they were abandoned by their mother as young children, has been picked up by France’s Ginger & Fed ...
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FeaturesClaire Burger on bringing France and Germany together with Berlin competition title ‘Langue Etrangere’
Claire Burger talks straddling two countries, two languages and two teenage personalities with her third feature.
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NewsNewen Connect launches ‘Cross Away’, the French remake of Steven Knight’s ‘Locke’ (exclusive)
Curiosa Film is producing the remake that sees Vincent Lindon take on the role of the troubled driver originally played by Tom Hardy.
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NewsBuyers tune to Anne Fontaine’s Maurice Ravel biopic ‘Boléro’ (exclusive)
Raphael Personnaz stars as the famed composer.
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NewsLe Pacte gears up for ‘Villeneuve: Rise Of A Champion’ biopic (exclusive)
It is being billed as one of the most expensive productions in recent Quebec cinema history.
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FeaturesEFM 2024: The buzz titles from France
Screen highlights the buzz titles ready to entice international buyers at the 2024 European Film Market (EFM), which runs February 15-21.
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NewsRestored version of Carlos Reygadas ‘Battle In Heaven’ sells to US (exclusive)
Film is having its world premiere in Berlin’s Classics Special.
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NewsThe Party boards Belfast-set documentary ‘The Flats’ ahead of CPH: DOX premiere (exclusive)
Alessandra Celesia directs the film about a man looking back on his youth growing up during the Troubles.
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NewsBest Friend Forever moves in on Belgian family drama ‘Milano’ (exclusive)
Film is debut feature from Belgian director Christina Vandekerckhove.
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NewsIsabelle Huppert to take on multiple roles in Tonino de Bernardi’s ‘Close-Up’ (exclusive)
Paris-based Loco Films is on board for international sales and is launching the film at the EFM.
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NewsFrench lottery comedy ‘Lucky Winners’ comes up trumps with buyers for Charades (exclusive)
The dark comedy is about a group of friends who win big but then quickly lose hard.
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FeaturesIn profile: the 2024 Bafta casting director contenders
Screen speaks to the casting directors behind ‘The Holdovers’, ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’, ‘All Of Us Strangers’, ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ and ‘How To Have Sex’.
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FeaturesJustine Triet breaks down four key scenes from ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’: “‘P.I.M.P.’ wasn’t our first choice for the song”
Anatomy Of A Fall puts a family under the courtroom microscope after a woman is accused of murdering her husband. Director Justine Triet takes the stand to tell Screen about the creation of four crucial sequences.
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NewsBruno Dumont to direct Riviera-set Romeo and Juliet-style love story ‘Red Rocks’ (exclusive)
Bruno Dumont is first in Berlin Competition with supernatural drama ‘The Empire’.
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NewsUrban Sales boards Konstantin Bojanov’s Indian forbidden romance drama ‘The Shameless’ (exclusive)
The love story follows two women who must wrestle with an oppressive society rooted in centuries-old patriarchal traditions.
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NewsCoproduction Office acquires the catalogue of German filmmaker Konrad Wolf (exclusive)
The deal is part of a committment by Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office to help preserve cinematic history.
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NewsElle Driver lands on Alanté Kavaité’s ‘The Islanders’ ahead of EFM (exclusive)
The third film by the France-based director stars Nadia Tereszkiewic and Dali Bensallah.