Please see our Press & Reviews below:
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ANNA’S WAR (Screen International)
“A remarkable central performance from a six-year-old child carries pretty much the entirety of this nail-biting tale of wartime survival”
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BARRACUDA (The Los Angeles Times)
“(directors Julia Halperin and Jason Cortlund) choreographed a tense dance among characters who will stay with you long after the unsettling fade-out.” - Review by Sheri Linden
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BARRACUDA (The Wrap)
“It’s a film that showcases Cortlund and Halperin’s skill as storytellers, by resonating with audiences while challenging their expectations."- Review by Todd Gilchrist
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LITTLE WING
Winner of Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at RiverRun FF!
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ROOM 213
Winner of Jury Award for Best Film at Barnefilmfestivalen Kristiansand!
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YOU ARE MY SUNDAY
Wins the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at Cinequest IFF!
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ROOM 213 (The Hollywood Reporter)
“…provides wholesome entertainment with hardly a nasty shock” Review by Clarence Tsui
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LITTLE WING (The Hollywood Reporter)
"(...) this coming-of-age story is a winner." Review by Stephen Farber
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YOU ARE MY SUNDAY (The Hollywood Reporter)
"A pleasant update on the Indian rom com." Review by Deborah Young
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LITTLE WING (Variety)
Review by Alissa Simon
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CLOUDY SUNDAY (The Pappas Post)
Top pick for the New York Greek Film Festival
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TWO WOMEN (Telegraph)
Theatrical release in the UK on September 16th!
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LITTLE WING (Variety)
World Premiere at TIFF!
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LIKE FOAM (Variety)
Our new acquisition revealed exclusively.
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HANDS OF A MOTHER
Double Honors at Filmfest Munich
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DOLORES (ActuaBD)
“The script of the film is very well written, it is the first time that I see an adaptation which is better than the original” congratulates Benoît Peeters (one of the co-writers of the comic DOLORES) to the scriptwriter Sebastian Feld, during the film screening at the Erlangen Film Festival.
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GUARANI (Paraguay.com)
Two awards at Pantalla Pinamar and theatrical release!
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THE SNAKE BROTHERS (Film New Europe)
The winner at the Czech Lion Awards!
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POST-PRODUCTION TITLES (Variety)
LITTLE WING, THE MODERNS, LIVE FOR ME and BREADCRUMBS exclusively revealed!
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THE BRIBE OF HEAVEN & THE BIG EVERYTHING (Variety)
Exclusive presentation of our latest acquisitions!
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THE PARADISE SUITE (Indiewire)
One of the best 25 foreign language Oscar entries!
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THE PARADISE SUITE (Nisimazine)
"These stories compose a powerful symphony“ "The imagery of the film is stunning. It speaks so purely about the themes and conveys emotions so strongly that it is likely to stay with you for a long time after the screening.“
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EPITAPH (The Film Prospector)
"(…) a meditative history lesson on a famous, almost mythical, chapter of the Conquest of America." "Epitaph is quiet, slow and contemplative, a stunning epopee magnificently rendered by Yulene Olaizola and Rubén Imaz“
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THE PARADISE SUITE (Cineuropa)
"Through a particularly low-key, unobtrusive directing style, the director gives the audience an incredibly realistic portrait of contemporary Europe, where each of the characters embodies a current stereotype contained in the collective unconscious.“
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GUARANI (Postimees)
"The film fascinates with a lifelike plot and beautiful camera work“ "Guarani (...) and its heartfelt story is one of this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival goodies that you should certainly look at.“
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EPITAPH (Postimees)
"(…) the art of offering a peaceful pace running drama is an ultimate pleasure."
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EPITAPH (Variety)
"It is the conquistadors’ mental landscape and will power, particularly De Ordaz’s, however, that dominate the film, with “Epitaph” playing out like a psychological adventure film.“
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THE PARADISE SUITE (Postimees)
"Paradise Suite particularly applies the tragic truth of the injustice that surrounds us on a daily basis.“
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ABSOLUTION (Hollywood Reporter)
"Chewing on universal themes of guilt, forgiveness and revenge, Absolution is a superior suspense thriller that is not afraid to tackle difficult ethical questions."
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TALLINN 2015 (Variety)
Debut Directors Put in Spotlight at Black Nights Film Festival “A “bittersweet afterglow of an ancient culture in decline” can be felt in Paraguayan-Argentinian co-production “Guarani,” a world premiere from director Luis Zorraquin. A traditional Guarani-speaking grandfather sees that his descendants are drifting away from the old ways. The proud river-boat operator senses the angst of his closest granddaughter and sets out with her on a “journey of self discovery and reconciliation” through the scenic Paraguayan countryside to Buenos Aires looking for the girl’s mother.”
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TALLINN 2015 (Cineuropa)
Tallinn Black Nights announces Main Competition line-up: “… Mexican film Epitaph by Rubén Imaz and Yulene Olaizola […]will see the light of day at the festival.” “In the European premieres, audiences will get the chance to see Joost van Ginkel’s The Paradise Suite the Netherlands' submission for the Oscars in the Best Foreign-language Film category, which follows six strangers from different parts of the world whose paths cross in the underground sex-slave business of Amsterdam…”
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3 BEAUTIES
3 BEAUTIES and GONE WITH THE RIVER Awarded in NY!
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INTERNET JUNKIE
“Alexander Katzowicz doesn’t have Twitter, Facebook, neither Whatsapp, but he made the film “Internet Junkie”, based on stories about addiction to the virtual world. Besides, other two put emphasis on the social networks.”
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INTERNET JUNKIE
“Festivals: Internet Junkie by Alexander Katzowicz is presented in Israel, Argentina and Germany.”
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The Duel Of Wine
Wine Degustation and World Premiere of THE DUEL OF WINE at Montreal World Film Festival!
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The Duel Of Wine
Italian Winemaking Brought to Life in "Fictionalized Documentary"
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The Paradise Suite (Cineuropa)
The Paradise Suite and (Otto) are the two Dutch Oscars submissions
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The Paradise Suite (Deadline)
‘The Paradise Suite’ Toronto Clip: Dutch Oscar Entry Depicts Human Resilience In Face Of Adversity
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The Paradise Suite (Review)
Review
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The Paradise Suite (Screen International)
Oscars: Netherlands submits 'The Paradise Suite'
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The Paradise Suite (Variety)
‘Paradise Suite’ Booked As Dutch Candidate For Foreign-Language Oscar Race
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THE SNAKE BROTHERS
Won Best Actor Award (Kryštof Hádek) at Karlovy Vary IFF!
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BUZZARD
Buzzard is #3 of the 15 best movies of 2015 so far according to Indiewire film critics!
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BABY STEPS (San Francisco Chronicle)
“[Baby Steps by Barney Cheng] is an adventure that takes mother and son all over the globe, but in the end, it’s also a touching coming-out story — not of a gay man, but of a mother struggling to be part of her son’s life.”
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FLOCKING (Variety)
FLOCKING by Beata Gårdeler won the Jury Award in the World Fiction Competition at Los Angeles Film Festival!
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BUZZARD
Director Joel Potrykus as one of the 25 emerging North American indie directors ones needs to know!
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BABY STEPS
With this impressive feature directional debut, [Barney Cheng] establishes himself as a talented rising Chinese American filmmaker."
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FLOCKING (Cineuropa)
Berlinale Crystal Bear’s winner FLOCKING is in competition at Brussels Film Festival!
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LUNA (Variety)
“Multihyphenate Dave McKean's long-delayed feature is a small but impressive mix of fantasy and emotionally grounded drama.”
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CANNES 2015 (VARIETY)
Cannes: Media Luna Acquires ‘Talion,’ ‘I Was There,’ ‘The Duel of Wine’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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FLOCKING (The Hollywood Reporter)
"Beata Gardeler’s Crystal Bear-winning second feature is a stifling and sadly revealing condemnation of the modern response to assault.“
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La Tirisia (Variety)
Tracing the Social Causes of Mexico’s Perpetual Sadness
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THE MUD WOMAN and LA TIRISIA (Culture31)
The short list of Best Films to see in Cine Latino Toulouse by Carine Trenteun (Culture31): our two films The Mud Woman and La Tirisia!
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BUZZARD (L.A Times)
“Tough to categorize, tougher to shrug off, "Buzzard" firmly places young indie filmmaker Joel Potrykus on the ones-to-watch list.”
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BUZZARD (N.Y. Times)
"An Angry, Unkempt Antihero"
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BUZZARD (IndieWire)
“A Twisted, Hilarious Anti-Capitalist Masterpiece”
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BUZZARD (N.Y. Times)
“Joel Potrykus’s Film ‘Buzzard’ Is Inspired by Dead-End Jobs”
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FLOCKING (Cineuropa)
Interview with Beata Gårdeler
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3 BEAUTIES (Variety)
Berlin: Artsploitation Takes ‘3 Beauties’ For North America
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GUARANI (Variety)
Berlin: Media Luna Acquires Luis Zorraquin’s ‘Guarani’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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FLOCKING (Cineuropa)
Flocking: A dark portrait of a community in which the victim becomes the scapegoat
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THE MUD WOMAN (The Hollywood Reporter Review)
“A film of artful, challenging austerity”
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FLOCKING (Kino-Zeit.de)
Berlinale Review of Flocking
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FLOCKING (Generation-Reporter)
“Beata Gårdeler has created an impressive piece of art.”
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TWO WOMEN (Variety)
Media Luna Takes ‘Two Women’, Starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud
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3 BEAUTIES (Variety)
Media Luna Bows ‘3 Beauties,’ about Venezuela’s Fixation...
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ACES (Cineuropa)
Interview with Alfonso Zarauza, director of ACES
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BUZZARD (Critic.de)
Lass mich in Ruhe, lass dich selbst in Ruhe: Buzzard will nicht gemocht werden, aber man sollte ihn lieben
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Unlucky Plaza
“A witty and surreal, black crime comedy caper, ‘Unlucky Plaza’ is the opening film of the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) which starts 4 December, and both its screenings have sold out." Festival director Zhang Wenjie said: “I haven’t seen a Singapore film quite like this before – it’s accessible but has something to say. It’s entertaining but it has depth as well. This film really packs a punch.”
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Buzzard (AFI Fest Review)
“…one of the most exciting pictures in contemporary American cinema.”
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Internet Junkie (Variety)
Media Luna takes Internet Junkie
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La Tirisia (Cineuropa)
“Perpetual Sadness” takes over Thessaloniki!
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La Tirisia (Euronews)
Mexico “Perpetual Sadness” takes top prize at Thessaloniki Film Festival!
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La Tirisia (Screen Daily)
"Perpetual Sadness" wins at Thessaloniki.
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Perfect Obedience (Variety)
Media Luna takes “Perfect Obedience”
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Perfect Obedience (Variety Review)
“Juan Manuel Bernal acts up a storm as the corrupt spiritual leader of a Catholic seminary in this elegantly salacious tale of priestly pedophilia.”
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DUAL (Hollywood Reporter Review)
The filmmaker’s unusual blend of lightheartedness, dark comedy and poignant drama is assured.
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Unlucky Plaza (Variety)
Unlucky Plaza,’ John Woo’s ‘The Crossing’ Head Singapore Festival Lineup
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Unlucky Plaza (Channel New Asia)
Unlucky Plaza to open Singapore International Film Festival.
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BUZZARD
“Grand Rapids actor Joshua Burge, who starred in locally made film-festival sensations "Buzzard" and "Ape," landed a role in "The Revenant," a Western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domnhall Gleeson and Will Poulter, and directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.”
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BUZZARD (Chicago IFF Review)
“One of the most bombastic releases of the year!” "Call it American Neo-surrealism!”
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BUZZARD (Chicago IFF Review)
“CIFF 2014: ‘Buzzard’ is slacker cinema at its ugliest and most honest.” “Buzzard is more than a Midwestern white male fantasy – it’s a mirror to the mangled heart of contemporary culture”
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Unlucky Plaza (Variety)
'Unlucky' tapped to Open Singapore Film Fest
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Unlucky Plaza (Hollywood Reporter)
Censors Clear 'Unlucky Plaza' to Open Singapore Fest
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Unlucky Plaza (Asia One)
Unlucky Plaza to open film fest
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Unlucky Plaza (The Hollywood Reporter)
Toronto: Banned Singaporean Director Debuts 'Unlucky Plaza'
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La Tirisia (Variety Review)
A major theme of recent Latin American cinema — the erosion of the family caused by a parent leaving to work elsewhere in an endless chain of abandonment — assumes archetypal, quasi-mythical dimensions in Jorge Perez Solano’s “La tirisia.” An exemplar of flourishing Mexican cinema, this slow-building, powerful film, told in imagistic pantomime, could lure arthouse auds beyond the fest circuit.
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Marina
“Marina”, big winner of the Ensors! Stijn Coninx's film about the life of singer Rocco Granata won 7 awards at the Ostend Film Festival in Belgium, amongst which: Best Film, Best Director and Best Scenario! Our other Belgium titles won respectively 3 and 2 awards (Best Actor for “TheVerdict” and Best Actress for “Flying Home”).
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Unlucky Plaza (Variety)
Toronto: Media Luna adds UNLUCKY PLAZA to sales slate.
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Aire Libre (Variety)
Toronto/San Sebastian: Media Luna Acquires Anahi Berneri’s ‘Aire Libre’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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BUZZARD (Notebook)
Moments of compositional genius are accorded limited screen time but leave a lasting impression […] The film finds in these sequences a higher, metaphorical poignancy. Despite its minimalist nature, Buzzard is a rather grand film…
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BUZZARD (The Conversation)
[Buzzard] is a dissertation against contemporary capitalism and its ravages – but equally it’s an invitation to audiences to check their own sources of moral disapproval.
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LUNA (Variety)
Media Luna Acquires “Luna”!
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No Thank You (Variety)
Media Luna Picks Up Samuli Valkama’s ‘No Thank You’
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Buzzard (Bbook.com)
Interview with director Joel Protrykus and actor Joshua Burge on BUZZARD.
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Buzzard (Revuewm.com)
Media Luna acquires Grand Rapids-based director's film “Buzzard”
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Buzzard (The Hollywood Reporter)
A chilly allegory whose antihero is both compelling and repulsive.
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Buzzard (Variety)
Media Luna acquires U.S. Indie title “Buzzard” (Exclusive)
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Buzzard (Variety)
The third film in Joel Potrykus' animal trilogy proves as fascinating as it is off-putting.
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La Tirisia (Filmfilm)
The best of the first six films in competition watched at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is without a doubt “La Tirisia”, second feature of the Mexican Jorge Perez Solano…
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La Tirisia (ActualidadCine)
Spanish-speaking cinema will be represented by “La Tirisia” this year, in the official competition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival!
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La Tirisia (Variety)
Tracing the Social Causes of Mexico’s Perpetual Sadness
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Flying Home (The Hollywood Reporter)
”Fifty Shades of Grey" lead Jamie Dornan stars in this romantic drama from Oscar-nominated Belgian director Dominique Deruddere.”
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La Tirisia (Variety)
“In his second film, the magical and oppressive “La Tirisia,” Mexican director Jorge Perez Solano presents the story of Cheba and Angeles Miguel, two women who are pregnant by the same man. They live in a small isolated village, and their attempts at leading a modest but dignified life are constantly attacked by a strange illness of the soul, “la tirisia”.”
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A Good 2013 for Flemish cinema (Cineuropa)
“The Verdict by Jan Verheyen and Marina by Stijn Coninx respectively attracted 374,891 and 372,295 spectators. The latter, which is still showing in Ghent, will have reached 500,000 tickets sold by the time it is no longer showing.”
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Aces (The Hollywood Reporter)
“This honest, warm-hearted and well-played working people’s drama extends the honorable tradition of Ken Loach, but its virtues are themselves more workmanlike than truly inspiring.”
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Ciudad Delirio (The Hollywood Reporter)
“Cartagena Film Festival to Open With 'Ciudad Delirio'”
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Ciudad Delirio (El Espectador)
"Ciudad Delirio" is a domestic box office hit in Colombia. After only two weeks of exhibition, the Colombian-Spanish co-production film has more than 176,000 viewers, a figure really difficult to achieve for a local production.”
Read More! (article in spanish)
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Flying Home (Cineuropa)
Dominique Deruddere returns with an international romantic comedy
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Media Luna Picks Up ‘Flying Home,’ ‘Ciudad Delirio’ (Variety)
Bringing down the flag on its Cannes sales slate campaign, Germany’s Media Luna has announced it will be handling international rights on five brand new acquisitions, including Dominique Deruddere’s “Flying Home” with “Fifty Shades of Grey” lead Jamie Dornan.
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Marina (Estadao)
“The film takes to the screen the story of the singer of the hit Marina”
Read More! (article in Portuguese)
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The Verdict (The Hollywood Reporter)
“The Verdict” is a talky piece – and a riveting one.
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Hanna’s Journey (Cleveland IFF Review)
‘Hanna’s Journey’ well worth the trip!
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Marina (The Hollywood Reporter)
"A conventional but involving musical rags-to-riches story from Flanders by way of southern Italy."
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ATLANTIDA (Review – Italian)
“Presented at the 2014 edition of the Berlinale, in the section Generation 14Plus (dedicated to teenagers), Atlantida, first feature film of the Argentinian Ines Maria Barrionuevo, is one of the most beautiful works that could be seen at the Berlinian film event.”
Read the whole review (in Italian) here
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My Brother’s Keeper (Goethe Institut - Review)
“…An accomplished debut…”
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Atlantida (The Hollywood Reporter - Review)
“[Director Ines] Barrionuevo does a good job revealing those reticent, in-between moments of youth where both nothing and everything happens at the same time…”
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Blue And not So Pink
“Spanish – Venezuelan Production Wins Best Ibero-American Film at Goya Awards”
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Blue And Not So Pink
Venezuela wins first Goya Award with gay themed movie ‘Blue and not so Pink’.
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My Brother’s Keeper (Review – German)
“… A successful opening of the "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" at the Berlinale…”
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Dark Side Of The Moon (SEE NL )
"The film's partly tragic but I also wanted it to be funny: it's a comedy of weaknesses." Director Dick Tuinder about its features Farewell to the Moon
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German sales agents pick up Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlinale films (Screen Daily)
Media Luna New Films has picked up Dutch filmmaker Dick Tuinder’s Farewell To The Moon, which had its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards Competition this week.
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Lilet Never Happened travels the world (SEE NL)
"Low budget Dutch feature [Lilet] tackling about child prostitution in the Philippines has been racking up awards accross the world over the last 12 months..."
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Farewell To The Moon (Screen Daily)
“It is a tragicomic tale, packed with well-observed incident.”
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Farewell To The Moon (Rotterdam IFF Tigers)
"Farewell to the Moon, already at the start of the festival, looks to be one of the event’s quiet gems or hidden treasures because of its competent direction and a smart cohesion of story and setting as well as a surprisingly fresh take on the theme of desire, love and even lust."
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Matterhorn (View London)
Matterhorn is a disarming, charming and uplifting comedy which tackles serious issues gracefully and poetically. Aki Kaurismaki and Alex Van Warmerdam like in tone and genuinely heart-warming."
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Farewell To The Moon (Screendaily)
“The ’70s are recreated in “functional” fashion. [Director Dick] Tuinder was determined not to be camp but to stay true to his own memory of the time. “If a period film is to have any meaning, it has to relate in some way to the current situation,” the writer-director suggests. He believes that ’70s angst, brought on by oil shortages, the Vietnam War and the permanent feeling of impending crisis, is close to the anxiety felt today.”
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Matterhorn review (LOCO London Comedy Film Festival)
“[The film] had me confounded, in the most delightful way, and left me with a big stupid grin on my face and tears in my eyes.”
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The Last Match (Variety)
The Last Match was released on 24th January 2014 in the US Theatres.
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The Last Match (The Hollywood Reporter)
“Told with an immediacy and rawness that suggest life in working-class Cuba is far from easy yet always animated and extremely alive, this same-sex romance benefits from unselfconscious, impressively nuanced and mature performances from its two young leads.”
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Hawaii (The Hollywood Reporter)
"The agony of unspoken same-sex desire is impressively prolonged to feature length in Hawaii, the third and by far most mature feature of Argentinian director Marco Berger.”
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Hanna’s Journey
Great theatre Premiere of Hanna’s Journey in Cologne (Germany) on 14.01.14! Director Julia von Heinz, main actress Karoline Schuch and actor Max Mauff were also present. The German-Israeli romantic comedy by Julia von Heinz will be released in German Cinemas on January 23rd!
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TLA Releasing Swoops on ‘Match’ and ’Hawaii’ at Ventana Sur (VARIETY)
Adding to the lengthening list of deals going down at Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur Latin American film market, TLA Releasing has swooped on […] “The Last Match,” from Andalusian Antonio Hens […] and “Hawaii,” from Argentina’s Marco Berger […], acquiring U.K., Polish and French-speaking European rights.
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TLA Releasing Sees ‘Blue’ for Key European Territories (VARIETY - EXCLUSIVE)
TLA Releasing has acquired the U.K., Poland and French-speaking European rights to Venezuelan gay family drama “Blue and Not So Pink,” the directorial debut of actor-turned-director Miguel Ferrari.
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Blue And Not So Pink (Review)
“The expression "I'm feeling blue" usually implies a feeling of sadness. This Venezuelan movie shows the hardship of living as a homosexual. It played at Image+nation on December 8, 2013 and won the Award for Best Feature.”
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Canteen Outlaws to Serve Up ‘Blue and Not So Pink’ for the U.S., Canada (VARIETY)
Canteen Outlaws, the new gay-focused label of TLA Entertainment Group and Artsploitation Films, has acquired Venezuelan gay family drama “Blue and Not So Pink,” the directorial debut of actor-turned-director Miguel Ferrari.
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Media Luna Nabs ‘El Facilitador’ (VARIETY - EXCLUSIVE)
Ecuadorian drama hits world stage at Ventana Sur.
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LILET NEVER HAPPENED
Lilet Never Happened had its Premiere in Manila (Phillippines) end of November, as the opening of Human Rights Day in co-operation wit the the European Union. Over 500 people attended the screening with full cast and crew.
Read below some of the articles written by the filipino press:
“Lilet Never Happened” movie screening an eye opener on the problem of sexual abuse and child prostitution" (Balita.ph) - View article
"EU screens “Lilet Never Happened” for Human Rights Day" (balikbayan mag) - View article
"Child prostitution film marks Human Rights Day" (rappler.com) - View article
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BEATRIZ'S WAR (Times Of India)
The 44th International film festival of India (Iffi) closed on an emotional note as 'Beatriz's War', East Timor's first feature film in its post-colonization period and its co-director Bety Reis's debut, won the Golden Peacock award for the 2013 best film, and the prize money of 40 lakh.
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THE VERDICT
Will participate to the AFI European Union Showcase in Washington D.C and will be screened on December 17 (9:00) and December 18 (5:00)!
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DUAL
Will participate to the AFI European Union Showcase in Washington D.C and will be screened on December 14 (11:00am) and December 16 (09:45)
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MARINA (Arte Journal)
Arte journal makes a report about the success of the theatre release of Marina in Belgium!
Read in French here!
Read in German here!
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MARINA
Fantastic start of Marina in Belgium! Stijn Coninx's feature, inspired from the famous Italian-Belgian singer Rocco Granata was number one at the flemisch box-office with 77 000 spectators on the first weekend of its release!
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THE VERDICT
The Verdict from Jan Verheyen has reached the second place at the flemish box-office, directly after Marina, with over 300 000 spectators since its release in October!
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KID
Will participate to Cork Film Festival on 13th November (10:15)
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Something In The Way, A Dark Tale Of Obsession, Addiction And Faith (Twitchfilm.com)
Something in the Way is [...] a film with a clearly defined sense of place and community that operates on its own terms while also delivering enough genre beats to work as a recognisable thriller.
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LILET NEVER HAPPENED (Entertainment Inquirer)
Only 11 when she played a child prostitute, Sandy Talag wins an international award four years later!
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LILET NEVER HAPPENED (Ordet)
Lilet Never Happened: an essayistic Interview. Article in Danish magazine (p.12-13)
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Media Luna sells four to Brazil (Screen Daily) (Screen Daily)
Cologne-based Media Luna New Films has closed deals for four titles to be theatrically released in Brazil
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Hawaii (Variety) (Variety)
Media Luna has sold “Hawaii” to Artsploitation for North America, Pro-Fun for German-speaking territories, and Palmera Intl. for Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Read article
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Toronto: Media Luna Offers ‘Dinner’ to Buyers (Variety)
Ida Martins’ Media Luna has added four pics to its Toronto fest sales slate, which is headed by Dutch psychological drama “The Dinner.”
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The Dinner (ioncinema.com) (ioncinema.com)
Top 20 Alternative Picks for TIFF 2013: Menno Meyjes’ The Dinner
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Three Kids
Three Kids by Jonas d'Adesky will be in competition in the new section "Molodist for Kids"!
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Molodist Film Festival (Ukraine, 19-27 Oct.)
A Fold In My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze will participate to Molodist FF in the special programme"Films Across the Borders"
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A Fold In My Blanket
Will participate to Queer Lisboa (Portugal), from 20th to 28th september
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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Our managing director, Ida Martins will be in Toronto International Film Festival from 7th to 12th September! You can meet her at the German Films stand, Mezzanine Level, King Ballroom!
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Dual by Nejc Gazvoda will participate to three festivals in September!
Dual by Nejc Gazvoda will participate to three festivals in September!
- Skeive Filmer FF (Norway), from 13th to 20th September
- Helsinki IFF (Finland), from 19th to 29th September (Screening dates: 21.09.2013, 18h30 / 22.09.2013, 16h00 / 25.09.2013, 21h00, "view more" for link)
- Llamale H LGBT FF (Uruguay), from 21st to 29th September
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A Fold In My Blanket (Queer Lisboa)
A Fold In My Blanket, by Zaza Rusadze, will participate to Queer Lisboa, from 20th to 28th September, in competition for Best Feature Film!
It will be screened on 22nd September at 19h30 (Cinema São Jorge, Sala Manoel de Oliveira)
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Hemel
Will participate to St Petersburg Film Festival (Russia) in the section Orange cinema (Screening on September 19th)
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Broken Glass Park
Broken Glass Park by Bettina Blümner will have its International Premiere at Buster Copenhagen IFF (Denmark). The film will be screened on September 6th, 10:30am and September 7th, 10:00am. The director Bettina Blümner will attend the festival.
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Lilet Never Happened
Will participate to Buster Copenhagen IFF (Denmark).
Screenings:
September 6th, 11:30am
September 9th, 12:00am
September 10th, 09:45am
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Patty's Catchup
Will participate to Buster Copenhagen IFF (Denmark).
Screenings:
September 11th, 12:30am
September 13th, 10:15am
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The Last Match
Will participate to Skeive Filmer Film Festival (Norway), from 13th to 20th September
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Chaika - Hollywood Reporter - 07 July 2013 (Hollywood Reporter)
"Chaika Wins Top Honor at Japan's Skip City Festival"
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DUAL (Screen International) (Screen International)
"A tender and accessible film that deserves to find distribution and festival support"
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Matterhorn (Acento) (Acento)
"La película holandesa 'Matterhorn' ganó el premio del público y también el premio de la crítica en el 35 Festival Internacional de Cine de Moscú."
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MATTERHORN (Moscow IFF) (Moscow IFF)
"'MATTERHORN' won record number of Awards at the 35th Moscow IFF."
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MATTERHORN (Twitch) (Twitch)
"What sets this film apart, though, is its finale, which builds towards an emotional crescendo that feels wholly earned and gave me a punch in the soul."
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A Fold In My Blanket | The Hollywood Reporter | 08 February 2013 | Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter)
"Filled with as many WTF moments as can be squeezed into 70 minutes, but none the more compelling for it, Georgian writer-director-producer Zaza Rusadze’s A Fold in My Blanket (Chemi Sabnis Naketsi) follows the exploits of a young man caught in a bizarre triangle of family, bureaucracy, and, well, mountain climbing. A baffling choice to open up Berlin’s Panorama section, this Hubert Bals Fund joint will probably find a few additional fest berths before folding away into obscurity."
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A Fold In My Blanket | Screen Daily | 08 February 2013 | Lee Marshall (Screen Daily)
"One of those films that you come out of not sure what you’ve just seen, Georgian director Zaza Rusadze’s feature debut is, just possibly, a mix of gay love story, satirical reflection on today’s Georgia and its political miasmas, and poignant generational comedy. But it never quite declares itself to be any of these things – and it’s this shape-shifting nature that makes A Fold In My Blanket such an intriguing and at times frustrating viewing experience."
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A Fold In My Blanket | Variety | 10 February 2013 | Leslie Felperin (Variety)
"Ambitions exceed grasp on both story and filmmaking levels in "A Fold in My Blanket," a debut for Georgian-born, Europe-based writer-helmer Zaza Rusadze. Although occasionally visually arresting and atmospheric in its own weird way, the pic attempts to blur a character's fantasies with reality, resulting in a mostly baffling blend of small-town drama, homoerotic longing and rock climbing. "Blanket" will remain tightly tucked up on the fest circuit at best."
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Jackie | Screen Daily | 7 September, 2012 | Mark Adams (Screen Daily)
"Rambling road trip film Jackie is a real honest-to-goodness charmer as two Dutch twin sisters head off to the US and the wide open spaces of New Mexico to spend less-than-quality time with their surrogate mother Jackie, a woman they have never met but are forced to deal with when she is hospitalised. The premise may sound lightweight, but the film is beautifully performed, warm and funny and looks terrific and certainly deserves to find distribution."
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Student | ScreenDaily | 20 May, 2012 | Howard Feinstein (ScreenDaily)
"With his new film Student, Kazakh director Darezhan Omirbayev puts to rest any notion among the world’s intellectuals and literary folk that adaptations of Dostoievski’s great Crime and Punishment have been exhausted. Not only is his aesthetic singular—lean, pared down to nicely textured basics, excision of extraneous images and sounds—but the overall social, political, and geographical context is so unique that it affords him the opportunity to spin the entire narrative in an uncharted direction. The use of gorgeous spare wrapping for complex ideas is an inspired choice that keeps the entire project both accessible and stimulating."
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Student | Variety | 18 May 2012 | Leslie Felperin (Variety )
"A roughly faithful adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," despite its setting in contempo Almaty, Kazakh filmmaker Darezhan Omirbayev's "Student" unspools a stark, Bressonian tale of a young man who commits an almost random act of murder. With its deadpan perfs, retro visual style and crime-story plot, the pic almost feels like an Aki Kaurismaki movie but without the jokes or rockabilly music, just the despair. "Student" is bound to study abroad at fests, especially given Omirbayev's reputation (after "Killer") as one of Kazakhstan's most accomplished helmers, but distribution will be minimal beyond the CIS and Germany, where so many Russian-speakers reside."
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Student | LE MONDE | 18 May 2012 | Par Jacques Mandelbaum (LE MONDE)
"Voici vingt ans que le réalisateur kazakh Darezhan Omirbayev livre au cinéma son étrange et impérieuse vision du monde. Dans le même temps, son oeuvre offre une chronique impitoyable de la société kazakhe depuis l'implosion du bloc soviétique et la conquête de son indépendance. Il le fait à la manière d'un professeur de mathématiques appliquées s'apercevant un jour que son goût des images est plus fort que celui pour les chiffres, et que son Dieu ne s'appelle pas Evariste Galois mais Robert Bresson."
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Unconditional | ScreenDaily | 2 April, 2012 | Mark Adams (ScreenDaily )
"A darkly intriguing psycho-romance, low-budget British film Unconditional – which screened in Slamdance – is a smartly made tale of skewed obsessive love, driven by impressive performances by newcomers Harry McEntire and Madeleine Clark. Its brooding style and crisp cinematography mark writer/director Bryn Higgins out as filmmaker to be watched, though it may be too inaccessible for international audiences."
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Unconditional | The Hollywood Reporter | 16 March 2012 | Stuart Kemp (The Hollywood Reporter)
"Bryn Higgins’ big-screen debut Unconditional, starring debutante actress Madeleine Clark alongside Christian Cooke and Harry McEntire has sealed a deal with German sales label Media Luna New Films."
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Unconditional | San Francisco Chronicle | 10 June 2012 | David Lewis (San Francisco Chronicle)
"This gritty comingof-age film, about a slick businessman who seduces a financially disadvantaged, teenaged boy into wearing women's clothes, is a potent mix of class, gender, sexual and generational tensions. With excellent performances by Harry McEntire (who gamely plays the beautiful, pliant Owen) and Christian Cooke (who effectively captures the sometimes charming, oftentimes depraved older suitor, Liam), "Unconditional" may appear quite unconventional on the surface, but ultimately it's a universal story about discovering who you are."
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Unconditional | The Hollywood News | 26 June 2012 | Emma Thrower (The Hollywood News)
"From the opening few minutes of Bryn Higgins’ UNCONDITIONAL, you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s just another film about underprivileged teenagers and their day-to-day struggles. But everything you think in those first five minutes could not be further from the truth, and we are soon presented with an incredibly brave and demanding film that deserves a huge amount of acclaim."
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Unconditional | Edinburgh International Film Festival | 2 May 2012 | Christian Cooke (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
"Click the link to watch a video review from Christian Cooke about Unconditional at EIFF."
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Unconditional | Thoughts on Film | 23 June 2012 | Ross Miller (Thoughts on Film )
"Unconditional represents the sort of great little gems you find at film festivals, those which you know nothing about but grab your attention with brave new filmmaking talent, in front of and behind the camera, and tackle a touch subject with real daring."
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Hemel | Variety | 12 February 2012 | Boyd Van Hoeij (Variety )
"A tale of a young woman's compulsive and transgressive sexual behavior that features ample shots of its characters' nether-regions, "Hemel" at first feels like a Dutch female version of "Shame." But unlike that recent film, helmer Sacha Polak's debut pays equal attention to the complex family bonds that underlie its protag's psychological makeup and inform her actions. Beautifully lensed look at the moment just before a daughter has to let go of her father should travel extensively and turn Polak into a name to watch."
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Blowfish | Twitch | 6 December 2011 | Niels Matthijs (Twitch )
"Taiwanese dramas are usually a pretty safe bet and while most of them are not all that original or creative, in the end they definitely know how to deliver. Blowfish is one of the best examples I've seen so far, only sparingly experimenting with more frivolous elements, yet fleshing out on of the dearest romances I've seen on film so far. Chi Y. Lee just bumped up a few notches on my list of notable discoveries."
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Blowfish | Film Business Asia | 24 October 2012 | Stephen Cremin (Film Business Asia)
"The Taiwan film is about a young woman who, having been cheated on by her boyfriend, moves in with the stranger who has bought her pet blowfish in an internet auction. The stranger, a baseball coach, is waiting for the return of his wife who has run away with another man."
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My Tehran For Sale | International Film Festival Rotterdam | 23 January 2012 (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
"Last week, Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and one year imprisonment by a court in Iran. The actress was arrested in July for her role in the film My Tehran For Sale, in which she plays a young, female artist. This debut film by poet Granaz Moussavi screened at IFFR 2011, but has never officially been released in Iran."
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My Tehran For Sale | ScreenDaily | 1 July 2009 | Frank Hatherley (ScreenDaily)
"Click on the link to read Frank Hatherley's review of My Tehran For Sale."
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My Tehran For Sale | Adelaide Film Festival | 11 Oct 2011 | Various (Adelaide Film Festival)
"MY TEHRAN FOR SALE is an independent low-budget production which was filmed on location in Tehran in 2008. Adelaide-based company Cyan Films worked with an established Iranian production company to produce the film and all proper government permits were obtained for filming." Click on the link to read more of the review of My Tehran For Sale
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Beautiful Crazy | Taipei Times | 20 April 2009 | Ho Yi (Taipei Times)
"With Beautiful Crazy (亂青春), director Lee Chi-yuan (李啟源) breaks from the conventional approach to storytelling in an attempt to capture the fluidity of time, love and memory. The result is a cinematic poem about three teenage girls and their friendship, desires and betrayals, in which the time in a linear sense collapses and non-chronological montages drive the story. Fragments of the characters’ lives from the past, present and future intertwine, and the past is juxtaposed with and thrust into the present in the same way that one’s memory is constantly filtered, transformed and re-interpreted."
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Mesh (Walking) | German Films | Various (German Films)
"Xelilo, a disturbed man, lives in an abandoned store and walks endlessly through the streets of a Kurdish village in the south east of Turkey. He is curiously being noticed by Cengo, a 12-year-old boy, living more or less happily under poor conditions with his friends and family, selling chewing gum for a living. Cautiously they become friends and Cengo leads him to the meeting point under the German bridge, where the children live through carefree moments. When the Turkish military takes power in 1980, a curfew is imposed on the city. The life of Xelilo and the other Kurds is endangered. Who are the winners and losers in this conflict?"
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Romeos | Seattle Gay News | 10 June 2011 | Herb Krohn (Seattle Gay News)
"Two guys meet, converse, and date (if you want to call it that) over a weekend and forever change one other's lives. While not very complex, not very deep, and nothing unique or new, it nonetheless is a mildly entertaining film. At 96 minutes, it may be a bit too long and does tend to drag. Yet it all takes place over a weekend. It does explore deep topics as the two characters converse about their lives, but it doesn't really satisfy the potential that it could have had as a film. Worthwhile, but don't expect to be too impressed. It seems to be a valid effort in Gay-oriented cinema even if it doesn't really hook the audience on any emotional level, as it is more of a 'been there, done that' film plot."
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Romeos | German Films | Various (German Films)
"20-year-old Lukas is right in the midst of male puberty – medically triggered – for he was in fact born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he enters big-city life but even upon arrival encounters a major screw up: recruited for his community service, he is the only male quartered in the female nurses’ residential hall. What would be a dream for any other boy is acute, everyday stress for Lukas: being transgender means always finding yourself trapped in the wrong social compartment. Fortunately his best friend Ine sticks by him and sweeps him into the scene of homosexuals in Cologne, where she is very well integrated."
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Malu on a Bicycle | ScreenDaily | 4 October 2010 | Mark Adams (ScreenDaily )
"Malu On A Bicycle might offer no real surprises in its tale of romance, love and jealousy, but it is delightfully performed (especially by Fernanda De Freitas asMalu) and set against impressive Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo locations. It has acertain charm and could interest distribs and certainly deserves to feature infilm festivals."
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Luk's Luck | German Films | Various (German Films)
"A Turkish family in Germany wins the lottery jackpot. While the parents want to buy a hotel in Cappadocia to fulfill their dreams, their youngest son Luk has no clue what to do with his part of the fortune. His parents assume that he will contribute to the hotel, but Luk wants to record a song with his ex-girlfriend Gül, which ends in a tragicomical catastrophe, guiding him to discover his real fortune."
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Blessed Events | German Films | Various (German Films)
"37-year-old Simone decides to go out alone on New Year’s Eve. The next morning, she wakes up next to a stranger in his car, and a few weeks later she discovers that she’s pregnant. By coincidence, she runs into the stranger again – the handsome Hannes – and is surprised to find that contrary to her expectations, he’s actually happy about the pregnancy and wants to live with her. Could this be the face of happiness? While Hannes works in a hospital as a nurse in palliative care, tending to the dying with extraordinary tenderness."
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Black Field | Variety | 8 July 2012 | Andrew Barker (Variety )
"Possibly the most polished and best-financed entry in the recent influx of Greek festival product, "Black Field" is a woozy, enigmatic period piece that should raise eyebrows as well as the profile of its first-time auteur, Vardis Marinakis, who exhibits a sense of pacing and tonal control that serves him well even when his discretion lets him down. Dealing as it does with graphic sexual confusion, religious self-loathing and ethnic identity issues, pic might ruffle some feathers in a wide Hellenic/Balkan release, though festival play ought to be forthcoming."
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Amphetamine | Fridea | 06 April 2010 | Nigel Collett (Fridea)
"The appearance of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)’s programme is always greeted with interest by the LGBT community. The Festival has never been shy of showing films which are edgy or avant garde and has often included queer films in its lists. I should point out straightaway here that Hong Kong has four general film festivals (the HKIFF, the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, the Hong Kong Asian Independent Film Festival and the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) as well as a host of more specific festivals (like the French, the Israeli and the like). The HKIFF is the biggest. This year is the 34th HKIFF, with a schedule running from 19 March to 6 April in many cinemas around the city (with some films running on into extra time as far as May), and the organisers chose to show four gay films. One of them has caused a storm."
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Amphetamine | Notes From Hollywood | 26 June 2010 | Nicholas Snow (Notes From Hollywood)
"Following its world premiere in Berlin's Panorama section, a closing-night screening at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, gay drama AMPHETAMINE by Scud is slated for an August 13 release in Taiwan. Distributor Zeus Film will release the film nationwide with a minimum of 12 copies. The Taiwanese censorship body has cleared the film for public screenings with no cuts required."
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ROTTERDAM 2015
LA TIRISIA (PERPERTUAL SADNESS) and BUZZARD at Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival in the section “Bright Future”!
