Wednesday, September 30, 2020
MeeraSahib Online: 68th San Sebastián Film Festival -Dea Kulumbegashv...
MeeraSahib Online: 68th San Sebastián Film Festival -Dea Kulumbegashv...: The 68th San Sebastián Film Festival helped revive the global festival circuit this season with a physical event held September 18-26 in S...
68th San Sebastián Film Festival -Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “Beginning” bagged four of the jury’s seven prizes.
The 68th San Sebastián Film Festival helped revive the global festival circuit this season with a physical event held September 18-26 in Spain. The lineup, which kicked off with Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival,” concluded with the annual awards on September 26.Thirteen films were in the race for coveted awards for this rare physical film festival of the season.
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature “Beginning” took four of the jury’s seven prizes, including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress for star Ia Sukhitashvili, and finally the Golden Shell for Best Film. It is a remarkable haul for a harrowing, avant-garde film that has taken critics by surprise this fall festival season, also landing the Fipresci critics’ prize in Toronto last week. The Franco-Georgian production centers on a close-knit community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in remote rural Georgia, and tracks the growing psychological torment of its leader’s wife (played by Sukhitashvili) in the wake of an extremist attack on their place of worship.
The Official Jury
chaired by the Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has decided that the Silver
Shell for Best Actor should go collectively to Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo
Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe, the group of actors from the film Druk / Another
Round (Denmark-Sweden-Netherlands), directed by Thomas
Vinterberg.
In addition, the Special Jury Prize
goes to Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (UK),
Julien Temple’s music documentary about the leader of The Pogues. The jury decided that the award is “for Julien Temple and Shane
MacGowan for the beautiful, poetic, unflinching and unreconciled punk energy”
transmitted by this film produced by Johnny Depp.
The Jury Prize for Best
Cinematography has gone to Yuta Tsukinaga for his work in the feature film Nakuko wa ineega / Any Crybabies Around? (Japan), directed by Takuma
Sato.
Other awards
Isabel Lamberti’s La última primavera / Last Days of Spring (Netherlands-Spain) won the
Kutxabank-New Directors Award, and in the same section a special mention went
to Gē shēng yuán hé màn bàn pāi / Slow Singing (China), by Dong Xingyi. The
Horizontes Award was presented to Sin
señas particulares / Identifying
Features (Mexico-Spain), by Fernanda Valadez, while the
special mention went to Clarisa Navas for Las
mil y una / One
in a Thousand (Argentina-Germany). The Zabaltegi-Tabakalera
Award was carried off by Catarina Vasconcelos with A metamorfose dos pássaros / The Metamorphosis of Birds (Portugal) and the
special mention went to Domangchin
yeoja / The
Woman Who Ran (South Korea), by Hong Sang-soo.
The Orona-Nest Award went to Catdog (India), by Ashmita Guha, with a special
mention for The
Speech (USA), by Haohao Yan. David Perez Sañudo’s Ane / Ane
is Missing won the Irizar Basque Film Award, while Non dago Mikel? / Where is Mikel? by Amaia Merino and Miguel Ángel
Llamas landed a special mention. The City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience
Award went to The
Father (UK), by Florian Zeller, and the Audience Award for
Best European Film was carried off by El
agente topo / The Mole Agent (Chile-USA-Germany-Netherlands-Spain),
by Maite Alberdi. Moreover, the TCM Youth Award went to Ben Sharrock for Limbo (UK).
Dasatskisi / Beginning, Druk / Another Round and Limbo come from the official selection of the Festival de Cannes, which cancelled its 73rd edition this year due to the pandemic.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
MeeraSahib Online: 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI 20...
51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI 2021)to be held from 16-24 January 2021
The 51st International Film Festival of India would be held at Panaji, Goa from 16-24th January 2021. It has been postponed from the usual November schedule,20-28th due to the current pandemic. Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, and Pramod Savant Goan Chief Minister discussed the matter based on the COVID situation prevailing in the country and agreed on the dates . It has also been resolved to keep the COVID protocol strictly during the festival. Similar to many festivals around the world held recently the IFFI will take place as a hybrid combining in-person and virtual.
Thursday, September 17, 2020
MeeraSahib Online: Kochi -Muziris Biennale 2020
MeeraSahib Online: Kochi -Muziris Biennale 2020: Kochi -Muziris Biennale 2020 Support art and creativity Kochi Biennale Foundation is a non-profit charita...
MeeraSahib Online: 25th edition of the International Film Festival of...
MeeraSahib Online: 25th edition of the International Film Festival of...: The 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) is tentatively programmed during 12-19 February 2021. The conduct of ...
25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) first announcement.
The 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) is tentatively programmed during 12-19 February 2021. The conduct of IFFK will be subject to the evolving situation of the global pandemic Covid19. It is learned that the Festival will follow the guidelines, of the Governments, prevailing at that time.
• Festival Dates: 12-19 February 2021
• Films Completed between 01 September 2019 and 31 August 2020 are eligible to apply.
• Deadline for Entry Submission: 31 October 2020
• Preview Material deadline: 02 November 2020
• Publishing of List of Selected Films: 10 December 2020
• Deadline for Submission of Screening Materials: 20 January 2021
Saturday, September 5, 2020
Kochi -Muziris Biennale 2020
Kochi -Muziris Biennale 2020
Support art and creativity
Kochi Biennale Foundation is
a non-profit charitable trust engaged in promoting art & culture and
educational activities in India; primary amongst them the hosting of the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale, an art exhibition and festival that is the largest of its kind in
South Asia. The fifth edition of the Biennale will run from 12 December,
2020 until 10 April, 2020.The Foundation works throughout the year to
strengthen contemporary art infrastructure and to broaden public access to art
across India through a diverse range of programmes.
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the
latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical
past, Muziris, and create a platform that will introduce contemporary
international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and debate new
Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences and enable a dialogue
among artists, curators, and the public. The
committee for the 2020 edition of the Biennale comprised Amrita
Jhaveri, Gayatri Sinha, Jitish
Kallat, Sunita Choraria,
and Tasneem Mehta,
as well as Kochi Biennale Foundation trustees Alex Kuruvila, Bose
Krishnamachari and V Sunil..
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