Exclusive: Dakota Shapiro (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), Ben Groh (God’s Time, Mutt) and Oliver Cooper are to star in psychedelic indie movie The Lemurian Candidate after it received SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement approval.
The film, written and directed by Casey Cooper Johnson, follows three former college buddies who reunite for a backpacking trip on Mount Shasta to heal old wounds and improve their mental health. The weekend descends into madness and a quest for alien contact after one of them introduces hallucinogens into the mix.
Production is set to begin this summer in California following the go-ahead from the striking SAG.
The union’s interim agreements, aimed at keeping truly independent productions filming and retaining jobs for below-the-line workers, have come under scrutiny in recent days following the approval for more than 120 films and TV to continue. The situation was described...
The film, written and directed by Casey Cooper Johnson, follows three former college buddies who reunite for a backpacking trip on Mount Shasta to heal old wounds and improve their mental health. The weekend descends into madness and a quest for alien contact after one of them introduces hallucinogens into the mix.
Production is set to begin this summer in California following the go-ahead from the striking SAG.
The union’s interim agreements, aimed at keeping truly independent productions filming and retaining jobs for below-the-line workers, have come under scrutiny in recent days following the approval for more than 120 films and TV to continue. The situation was described...
- 8/3/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The film is scheduled for a VoD release in April.
Matchbox Films has acquired UK-Ireland and Australia-New Zealand distribution rights on Antoneta Kastrati’s Kosovar drama Zana.
A UK-Ireland VoD release is set for mid-April, first through Curzon Home Cinema and BFI Player before expanding to other platforms by the end of the month.
The Australia-New Zealand release will follow shortly after that.
UK-based Alief Film Company co-produced the film and has confirmed further sales for Germany (Zdf) and German-speaking Austria and Switzerland (3Sat), also for releases in April.
Inspired by Kastrati’s own tragic family history, Zana is set...
Matchbox Films has acquired UK-Ireland and Australia-New Zealand distribution rights on Antoneta Kastrati’s Kosovar drama Zana.
A UK-Ireland VoD release is set for mid-April, first through Curzon Home Cinema and BFI Player before expanding to other platforms by the end of the month.
The Australia-New Zealand release will follow shortly after that.
UK-based Alief Film Company co-produced the film and has confirmed further sales for Germany (Zdf) and German-speaking Austria and Switzerland (3Sat), also for releases in April.
Inspired by Kastrati’s own tragic family history, Zana is set...
- 3/5/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Efp’s European Shooting Stars has announced the three judges that will head up them 24th Edition of the programme.
The jury consists of Kosovan director Antoneta Kastrati, whose highly acclaimed and awarded feature film debut Zana celebrated its World Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival 2019 and was also presented at the Sydney Film Festival as part of the Efp programme Europe! Voices Of Women In Film, and has recently been announced as Kosovo’s entry for Oscars 2020.
American casting director Cassandra Han, whose Italian credits include Ford v. Ferrari by James Mangold, A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick and the ongoing Netflix series Barbarians, by Barbara Eder and Steve Saint Leger.
Also in news – Glasgow Film Festival Announces Hybrid Festival for 2021
The former Producer On The Move from Denmark, René Ezra, who recently produced the critically acclaimed series The Investigation by Tobias Lindholm and Queen of Hearts by May el-Toukhy,...
The jury consists of Kosovan director Antoneta Kastrati, whose highly acclaimed and awarded feature film debut Zana celebrated its World Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival 2019 and was also presented at the Sydney Film Festival as part of the Efp programme Europe! Voices Of Women In Film, and has recently been announced as Kosovo’s entry for Oscars 2020.
American casting director Cassandra Han, whose Italian credits include Ford v. Ferrari by James Mangold, A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick and the ongoing Netflix series Barbarians, by Barbara Eder and Steve Saint Leger.
Also in news – Glasgow Film Festival Announces Hybrid Festival for 2021
The former Producer On The Move from Denmark, René Ezra, who recently produced the critically acclaimed series The Investigation by Tobias Lindholm and Queen of Hearts by May el-Toukhy,...
- 11/26/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 24th edition of the initiative will introduce 10 up-and-coming actors and actresses to press and industry during the Berlinale in February 2021. The 24th edition of Efp's European Shooting Stars will introduce 10 up-and-coming actors and actresses to press and industry during the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2021. The agency has announced the appointment of this year's jury, consisting of three industry experts who will select the ten fresh European acting talents from the candidates who have been nominated by their national film promotion institutes. The jury consists of Kosovan director Antoneta Kastrati, whose highly acclaimed and awarded feature film debut Zana celebrated its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival 2019, and was Kosovo's entry for the 2020 Oscars; American casting director Cassandra Han, whose Italian credits include Ford v. Ferrari by James Mangold, A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick and the ongoing Netflix series Barbarians,...
- 11/25/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
London-based Matchbox films has bagged the U.K., Ireland and Australasian rights to Boaz Yakin’s all-singing, all-dancing gender-fluid romance “Aviva,” from Tbilisi, Béziers and London-based producer/distributor Alief Film.
The film is scheduled for distribution in those territories from the first quarter 2021.
Closed on the eve of the AFM, the deal follows Alief’s earlier U.S. sale of the film to Outsider Pictures and Strand Releasing in April. Outsider released the dance drama virtually in the U.S. in June on fledgling Hollywood movie service Row8.
Strand has also announced a mid-December release date for the film’s distribution for electronic sell-through/transactional video on demand, DVD and BluRay.
Shot on location in Paris and New York, “Aviva” revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden, whose characters take on both male and female forms at different moments during the narrative.
Young Parisian Aviva is played...
The film is scheduled for distribution in those territories from the first quarter 2021.
Closed on the eve of the AFM, the deal follows Alief’s earlier U.S. sale of the film to Outsider Pictures and Strand Releasing in April. Outsider released the dance drama virtually in the U.S. in June on fledgling Hollywood movie service Row8.
Strand has also announced a mid-December release date for the film’s distribution for electronic sell-through/transactional video on demand, DVD and BluRay.
Shot on location in Paris and New York, “Aviva” revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden, whose characters take on both male and female forms at different moments during the narrative.
Young Parisian Aviva is played...
- 11/6/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Boaz Yakin ‘s romantic dance drama “Aviva” has been sold by Alief Film Company to several big territories.
An exploration of gender identity and self-expression through body language, “Aviva,” shot on location in Paris and New York and revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden. After a long courtship they meet in person and fall in love, settling into an intimate relationship that leads to marriage, but one, as many are, laced with conflicts. The two protaganists are played by four different actors expressing both masculine and feminine sides.
Alief Film Company has closed deals with Synapse Distribution for Latin America and Yes Dbs for Israel, following the film’s premiere in competition at the Haifa Film Festival.
The film also played virtually at SXSW, Fantaspoa, Choreoscope Spain and Mexico editions, where it won the top prize.
“Aviva” was released virtually on in June 12 in North America by Outsider Pictures,...
An exploration of gender identity and self-expression through body language, “Aviva,” shot on location in Paris and New York and revolves around a pair of transatlantic lovers, Aviva and Eden. After a long courtship they meet in person and fall in love, settling into an intimate relationship that leads to marriage, but one, as many are, laced with conflicts. The two protaganists are played by four different actors expressing both masculine and feminine sides.
Alief Film Company has closed deals with Synapse Distribution for Latin America and Yes Dbs for Israel, following the film’s premiere in competition at the Haifa Film Festival.
The film also played virtually at SXSW, Fantaspoa, Choreoscope Spain and Mexico editions, where it won the top prize.
“Aviva” was released virtually on in June 12 in North America by Outsider Pictures,...
- 9/19/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
London and Tblisi-based Alief has picked up worldwide rights for Ángeles Hernández and David Matamorros’ Spanish relationship drama “Isaac.” Variety has obtained exclusive access to the trailer.
The film is based on the Spanish play “El día que nació Isaac” by Antonio Hernández Centeno, who is also known for his work on such Spanish series as Amazon’s “Caronte” and Netflix’s “Unauthorized Living.”
Described as “a quirky Dogma 95-style story of love and gender fluidity,” “Isaac” focuses on two old friends, Denis and Nacho, who meet again years after having had an intense relationship as teenagers. Now in relationships with their respective partners, the two couples grow close and end up fulfilling each other’s needs.
Hernández and Matamorros co-directed the pic and produced via their Barcelona-based Mr. Miyagi Films.
Toplining the cast are Ivan Sanchez and Pepe Ocio, both of whom currently star in hit Netflix shows “You Cannot Hide” and “High Seas,...
The film is based on the Spanish play “El día que nació Isaac” by Antonio Hernández Centeno, who is also known for his work on such Spanish series as Amazon’s “Caronte” and Netflix’s “Unauthorized Living.”
Described as “a quirky Dogma 95-style story of love and gender fluidity,” “Isaac” focuses on two old friends, Denis and Nacho, who meet again years after having had an intense relationship as teenagers. Now in relationships with their respective partners, the two couples grow close and end up fulfilling each other’s needs.
Hernández and Matamorros co-directed the pic and produced via their Barcelona-based Mr. Miyagi Films.
Toplining the cast are Ivan Sanchez and Pepe Ocio, both of whom currently star in hit Netflix shows “You Cannot Hide” and “High Seas,...
- 6/17/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The Sydney Film Festival has revealed a heavily Australian leaning selection as the backbone of its first virtual edition.
Organizers had planned a real-world festival for late June. But that was canceled in March due to the coronavirus outbreak, which caused cinemas to be closed and audiences confined to their home addresses.
More recently, the festival organizers saw that they could make use of some of their selection and preparatory work to come up with an online festival instead. Announced on May 3, the online edition will run June 10 – 21.
The full program, announced Wednesday, comprises 7 feature films, 13 documentaries, and 13 shorts, for a total of 33 titles. That compares with some 300 pieces of content in a normal Sff edition.
The lineup is organized in four programming strands: the Documentary Australia Foundation award for best Australian documentary; the Dendy Awards for Australian short films; Europe! Voices of Women in Film; Screenability, which includes three...
Organizers had planned a real-world festival for late June. But that was canceled in March due to the coronavirus outbreak, which caused cinemas to be closed and audiences confined to their home addresses.
More recently, the festival organizers saw that they could make use of some of their selection and preparatory work to come up with an online festival instead. Announced on May 3, the online edition will run June 10 – 21.
The full program, announced Wednesday, comprises 7 feature films, 13 documentaries, and 13 shorts, for a total of 33 titles. That compares with some 300 pieces of content in a normal Sff edition.
The lineup is organized in four programming strands: the Documentary Australia Foundation award for best Australian documentary; the Dendy Awards for Australian short films; Europe! Voices of Women in Film; Screenability, which includes three...
- 5/27/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Ten films have been chosen, produced by 14 different European nations.
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
Neasa Hardiman’s sci-fi thriller Sea Fever is one of the 10 female-directed features chosen for Sydney Film Festival (Sff) and European Film Promotion (Efp)’s Europe! Voices of Women in Film initiative, which will run online from June 10-21.
Chosen by Sff director Nashen Moodley, the 10 films are produced by 14 European countries.
Hardiman’s film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last September, and is an Ireland-Sweden-Belgium-uk co-production. It stars Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield and Dougray Scott in the story of a West of Ireland trawler crew who struggle for...
- 5/26/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Outsider Pictures, with Strand Releasing, has acquired all North American rights on “Aviva,” a resolute return to independent filmmaking by the director who lit a fire with his Sundance Grand Prix winning debut, “Fresh,” but is best known by many for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced feel-good race relations drama “Remember the Titans.”
Scheduled to world premiere in the Visions section of the SXSW Festival this April, and channelling part autobiographical elements, as well as life-long but unexplored influences and years of pent-up frustration from not doing the movies he really wanted to make – Yakin has told Indiewire’s Eric Kohn – “Aviva” turns on Eden, a Yakin alter-ego, who hesitates about marrying his French partner who has moved to New York to live with him.
A simple plot summary is unlikely, however, to do justice to a film which is part musical – with set pieces in a barroom, at a wedding,...
Scheduled to world premiere in the Visions section of the SXSW Festival this April, and channelling part autobiographical elements, as well as life-long but unexplored influences and years of pent-up frustration from not doing the movies he really wanted to make – Yakin has told Indiewire’s Eric Kohn – “Aviva” turns on Eden, a Yakin alter-ego, who hesitates about marrying his French partner who has moved to New York to live with him.
A simple plot summary is unlikely, however, to do justice to a film which is part musical – with set pieces in a barroom, at a wedding,...
- 4/14/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Taking a bet on U.S. audiences' growing appetite for unusual foreign-language drama, Synergetic Distribution has picked up North American rights to Zana, a surreal feature from Kosovar director Antoneta Kastrati.
Zana premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it drew rave reviews for its haunting story of post-traumatic stress and the psychological scars of war, inspired by Kastrati's own tragic family history.
The plot of Zana also has a touch of horror about it. Set in a small Kosovar town 10 years after the end of the Balkan wars, Lume (Adriana Matoshi), who is still traumatized from losing ...
Zana premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it drew rave reviews for its haunting story of post-traumatic stress and the psychological scars of war, inspired by Kastrati's own tragic family history.
The plot of Zana also has a touch of horror about it. Set in a small Kosovar town 10 years after the end of the Balkan wars, Lume (Adriana Matoshi), who is still traumatized from losing ...
- 2/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taking a bet on U.S. audiences' growing appetite for unusual foreign-language drama, Synergetic Distribution has picked up North American rights to Zana, a surreal feature from Kosovar director Antoneta Kastrati.
Zana premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it drew rave reviews for its haunting story of post-traumatic stress and the psychological scars of war, inspired by Kastrati's own tragic family history.
The plot of Zana also has a touch of horror about it. Set in a small Kosovar town 10 years after the end of the Balkan wars, Lume (Adriana Matoshi), who is still traumatized from losing ...
Zana premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it drew rave reviews for its haunting story of post-traumatic stress and the psychological scars of war, inspired by Kastrati's own tragic family history.
The plot of Zana also has a touch of horror about it. Set in a small Kosovar town 10 years after the end of the Balkan wars, Lume (Adriana Matoshi), who is still traumatized from losing ...
- 2/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The annual Palm Springs International Film Festival in California is always an opportunity to catch up on many of the contenders for the Best International Feature — née Best Foreign-Language — Film Academy Award. Now in its 31st edition, the festival this year has 51 of them, from favorite-to-beat “Parasite” from South Korea and Senegal’s “Atlantics,” to other films quietly making strides in the race: Czech Republic’s “The Painted Bird,” Sweden’s “And Then We Danced,” Russia’s “Beanpole,” Romania’s “The Whistlers,” North Macedonia’s documentary contender “Honeyland,” Norway’s “Out Stealing Horses,” and many more.
The festival will screen 188 films from 81 countries, including 51 premieres, from January 2-13, 2020. The Awards Buzz section includes a special jury of international film critics, who will review these films to present the Fipresci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay in this category.
The festival will screen 188 films from 81 countries, including 51 premieres, from January 2-13, 2020. The Awards Buzz section includes a special jury of international film critics, who will review these films to present the Fipresci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay in this category.
- 12/10/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
One hundred eighty-eight films films from 81 countries including 51 premieres highlight the lineup for the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which kicks off January 2 with a star-studded gala that has become a must-stop during awards season for Oscar hopefuls. The festival, which runs through January 13, also is known for showcasing a large number of submissions in the Motion Picture Academy’s International Film (formerly Foreign Language) competition and will feature 51 of those entries.
The opening-night film on January 3 is the Italian farce An Almost Ordinary Summer, while the closer is director Peter Cattaneo’s heartwarming dramedy Military Wives in which Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng lead a superb ensemble cast. The film had its world premiere at September’s Toronto International Film Festival and became an instant crowd-pleaser. Bleecker Street releases it in 2020.
Among the previously announced honorees at the January 2 gala are Antonio Banderas, Renee Zellweger,...
The opening-night film on January 3 is the Italian farce An Almost Ordinary Summer, while the closer is director Peter Cattaneo’s heartwarming dramedy Military Wives in which Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng lead a superb ensemble cast. The film had its world premiere at September’s Toronto International Film Festival and became an instant crowd-pleaser. Bleecker Street releases it in 2020.
Among the previously announced honorees at the January 2 gala are Antonio Banderas, Renee Zellweger,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival will open on Jan. 3 with Simone Godano’s Italian farce “An Almost Ordinary Summer” and close on Jan. 12 with Peter Cattaneo’s Kristin Scott Thomas/Sharon Horgan film “Military Wives,” Psiff organizers announced on Tuesday.
The festival will screen 188 films from 81 different countries, including 51 of the 91 Oscar entries in the Best International Feature Film category. Those films will include Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain and Glory,” Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables,” Karim Ainouz’s “Invisible Life,” Halina Reijn’s “Instinct,” Yaron Zilberman’s “Incitement,” Vaclav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird,” Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole,” Lila Aviles’ “The Chambermaid” and Antoneta Kastrati’s “Zana.”
Other programs will include the Talking Pictures series of conversations with filmmakers and authors from “Hustlers,” “Jojo Rabbit” and “Motherless Brooklyn”; Focus on Italy, featuring seven Italian films including “The Traitor”; Modern Masters, which will present new films from Roy Andersson,...
The festival will screen 188 films from 81 different countries, including 51 of the 91 Oscar entries in the Best International Feature Film category. Those films will include Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain and Glory,” Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables,” Karim Ainouz’s “Invisible Life,” Halina Reijn’s “Instinct,” Yaron Zilberman’s “Incitement,” Vaclav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird,” Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole,” Lila Aviles’ “The Chambermaid” and Antoneta Kastrati’s “Zana.”
Other programs will include the Talking Pictures series of conversations with filmmakers and authors from “Hustlers,” “Jojo Rabbit” and “Motherless Brooklyn”; Focus on Italy, featuring seven Italian films including “The Traitor”; Modern Masters, which will present new films from Roy Andersson,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
After losing both their sister and their mother to the Kosovo war two days before it ended, filmmaker sisters Antoneta Kastrati and Sevdije Kastrati, tell a very personal tale in ‘Zana’.
Zana premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It was released recently in Kosovo and is one of the country’s top theatrical openings.
Los Angeles-based director/co-writer Antoneta and her sister, cinematographer Sevdije, both graduated from the American Film Institute. The screening, held at AFI, was attended by classmates and family, including the director’s husband, co-writer and producer of the film, Casey Cooper Johnson, an American who lived for 10 years in post-war Kosovo producing documentaries and television who Antoneta met in Kosovo with whom she has now been working for 17 years. At AFI he wrote and directed the short film Unmanned which screened at AFI Fest and Tribeca. He is currently completing a documentary for Brave New Films on voter suppression in U.
Zana premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It was released recently in Kosovo and is one of the country’s top theatrical openings.
Los Angeles-based director/co-writer Antoneta and her sister, cinematographer Sevdije, both graduated from the American Film Institute. The screening, held at AFI, was attended by classmates and family, including the director’s husband, co-writer and producer of the film, Casey Cooper Johnson, an American who lived for 10 years in post-war Kosovo producing documentaries and television who Antoneta met in Kosovo with whom she has now been working for 17 years. At AFI he wrote and directed the short film Unmanned which screened at AFI Fest and Tribeca. He is currently completing a documentary for Brave New Films on voter suppression in U.
- 11/21/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Kosovo’s Oscar® 2019 Entry for the Best International Feature ‘Zana’After losing both their sister and their mother to the Kosovo war two days before it ended, filmmaker sisters Antoneta Kastrati and Sevdije Kastrati, tell a very personal tale in ‘Zana’.
Zana premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It was released recently in Kosovo and is one of the country’s top theatrical openings.
Los Angeles-based director/co-writer Antoneta and her sister, cinematographer Sevdije, both graduated from the American Film Institute. The screening, held at AFI, was attended by classmates and family, including the director’s husband, Casey Cooper Johnson, an American who lived for 10 years in post-war Kosovo producing documentaries and television. whoshe met in Kosovo with whom she has been working for 17 years. At AFI he wrote and directed the short film Unmanned which screened at AFI Fest and Tribeca. He is currently completing a documentary for Brave...
Zana premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. It was released recently in Kosovo and is one of the country’s top theatrical openings.
Los Angeles-based director/co-writer Antoneta and her sister, cinematographer Sevdije, both graduated from the American Film Institute. The screening, held at AFI, was attended by classmates and family, including the director’s husband, Casey Cooper Johnson, an American who lived for 10 years in post-war Kosovo producing documentaries and television. whoshe met in Kosovo with whom she has been working for 17 years. At AFI he wrote and directed the short film Unmanned which screened at AFI Fest and Tribeca. He is currently completing a documentary for Brave...
- 11/20/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
This story on Mati Diop, Antoneta Kastrati and the female directors in the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category first appeared in the International Film issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
When Mati Diop first heard questions about gender inequity in the film business, she didn’t know how to react. A mixed-race woman of Senegalese descent raised in Paris from the age of 8 by a strong single mother, she had been directing short films and acting since her early 20s, seldom stopping to consider that her opportunities might be restricted by her gender.
“When people started to talk to me about misogyny, I was like, ‘What is it?'” said Diop, whose haunting feature debut, “Atlantics,” is Senegal’s entry in the Best International Feature Film race. “I think I was in denial.”
Even as she worked on “Atlantics,” Diop said she resisted being a standard-bearer for her gender.
When Mati Diop first heard questions about gender inequity in the film business, she didn’t know how to react. A mixed-race woman of Senegalese descent raised in Paris from the age of 8 by a strong single mother, she had been directing short films and acting since her early 20s, seldom stopping to consider that her opportunities might be restricted by her gender.
“When people started to talk to me about misogyny, I was like, ‘What is it?'” said Diop, whose haunting feature debut, “Atlantics,” is Senegal’s entry in the Best International Feature Film race. “I think I was in denial.”
Even as she worked on “Atlantics,” Diop said she resisted being a standard-bearer for her gender.
- 11/19/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Kosovo has selected Amsterdam-based actor-turned-director Edon Rizvanolli's Unwanted as its candidate for foreign-language film Oscar consideration.
The social drama tells the story of a teenage boy from Kosovo, Alban (Jason De Ridder), living in exile in Holland with his mother, Zana (Adriana Matoshi). Although they both left Kosovo during the Balkan Civil War, when Alban begins a romance with a sensitive young woman, Anna, neither realize that unresolved injustices and dark memories of the past lie just beneath the surface.
The film marks Kosovo's fourth submission to the Oscars and was produced by Pristina-based 1244 Productions and Dutch company Asfalt...
The social drama tells the story of a teenage boy from Kosovo, Alban (Jason De Ridder), living in exile in Holland with his mother, Zana (Adriana Matoshi). Although they both left Kosovo during the Balkan Civil War, when Alban begins a romance with a sensitive young woman, Anna, neither realize that unresolved injustices and dark memories of the past lie just beneath the surface.
The film marks Kosovo's fourth submission to the Oscars and was produced by Pristina-based 1244 Productions and Dutch company Asfalt...
- 9/13/2017
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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