a film by PEDRO NEVES “OS CONTINUADORES DA REVOLUÇAO” is a film made of memories. Particularly of memories of imminent war spectres and unfinished revolutions. However, there is no intention to interpret the war or to explain the history of former colonies or colonial powers. Nor is it the point of view of a director[…]
REPUBLIC DEMOCRATIC OF CONGO • 65′ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH by Elisé Sawasawa January 2025, Goma, capital of North Kivu in the DRC, falls to rebels. It took only four days for the M23 to defeat the Congolese army, the armies of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, Burundi, mercenaries and militias under the watchful eye[…]
INDIA • 90′ a film by MEGHA RAMASWANY PRODUCTION PREVISIONAL SHOOTING FEBRUARY 2027 CREDIT author director MEGHA RAMASWANYproducers NICOLE GERHARDS MARIANNE DUMOULIN JACQUES BIDOU ALAN MAC ALEX KONSTANTINA STAVRIANOUproduction NIKO FILMS (Germany) JBA PRODUCTION (France) SUITABLE PICTURES (India) GRAAL (Greece) HUMMEL (Norway) ZDF ARTE (Germanyimage NDmontage NDannée de production 2027 LANGUAGES original version: Indi
MYANMAR – 29’50” a film by THAN LWIN OO When I was 19, I tried to kill myself. For love. But I didn’t succeed. I was too afraid to die, afraid to live. In Burmese Buddhism, suicide is a crime. “He who commits suicide must pay, he must reap the bitter harvest of a similar[…]
UKRAINE • 90′ a film by SERGEÏ LOZNITSA On September, 29th and 30th, 1941 Sonderkommando 4a led by SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel, assisted by Wehrmacht units and the Ukrainian auxiliary police force, and without any resistance from the local population, shot dead in Babi Yar ravine almost the entire remaining Jewish population of the city of[…]
a film by PEDRO NEVES “THE FOLLOWERS OF THE REVOLUTION” is a film made of memories. Particularly of memories of imminent war spectres and unfinished revolutions. However, there is no intention to interpret the war or to explain the history of former colonies or colonial powers. Nor is it the point of view of a[…]
Iran 89′ a film by MASSOUD BAKHSHI In Iran today: Maryam (22) accidentally kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser’s daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular live TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are[…]
Start shooting of “Sow the wind” by Danilo Caputo on Monday 18 March. Region of Taranto in Puglia. The “liothrips caeruleus” decimates the olive trees, Nica (Yile Vianello) decided to fight. She is looking for the antagonist insect in an area where insecticides and pollution have killed everything. But pollution is also in the heads and[…]
Sadaf Asgari, on the front page, is Maryam in the latest born, just finished, of JBA, “YALDA” by Massoud Bakhshi. The second feature film by this young Iranian filmmaker, we produced the first “A respectable family” (Cannes 2012).
WAJIB, WAJIB!! AGAIN End of July Wajib picked up BEST FILM at the Prishtina International Film Festival in Kosovo, BEST FILM in Casablanca Film Festival, Cine Ville, and the JURY PRIZE as well as BEST ACTOR for both Mohamad Bakri and Saleh Bakri at the Arab Film Festival of Oran, Algeria. Earlier awards include Best[…]