Isabelle Huppert, recipient of this year’s Honorary Golden Bear is unable to attend the Berlin Film Festival in person due to testing positive for Covid, the festival has announced.
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Emiliano Granada World premiering in this year’s Rotterdam Tiger Competition, Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina’s fourth feature “Eami” is a mythological tale born of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, an indigenous community from the country’s northern regions. Unique in its form, the film blends Encina’s documentarian strengths that have garnered her international recognition and her interest in a highly poetic narrative storytelling.Produced by Silencio Cine and sold by MPM Premium, the story follows Eami, a child who embodies a bird-god and, in a trance, imagines herself wandering through the forest in constant contact with the cruel reality that surrounds her in the form of deforestation that is a very real, very tangible danger for the Ayoreo Totobiegosode.
Isabelle Huppert, recipient of this year’s Honorary Golden Bear is unable to attend the Berlin Film Festival in person due to testing positive for Covid, the festival has announced.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorDutch-Caribbean teen documentary “Shabu” has debuted an exclusive clip, ahead of its screening at Berlin Film Festival on Monday. Reservoir Docs is handling world sales, except for Netherlands, Belgium and France.The film, directed by Aruban-Dutch filmmaker Shamira Raphaëla, world premiered at IDFA, winning the best youth documentary award, and also played at Rotterdam Film Festival.
Joachim Trier is having a good day. The excitement is almost pouring through the phone.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Neon film Flee made history this morning, as it became the first ever to score a trifecta of Oscar nominations in the categories of Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film.
Neon’s racked up a few bests this weekend with a cume of $135,042 at four NY/LA theaters for a popping per screen average of $33,768.
Marta Balaga Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,” about a young woman figuring out life and love, might have brought Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes, but the two actually started their collaboration in 2011 on “Oslo, August 31st” – Reinsve’s very first film. “I was an extra with one line,” she said during an online discussion with the director, accompanying a surprise screening of their film at Rotterdam Film Festival. “The Worst Person in the World” was recently shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.
Christopher Vourlias Paraguayan director Paz Encina, whose striking ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile, “Eami,” won the Tiger Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, is developing a slate of feature film projects, Variety can reveal.The first project, “Sy,” follows the titular character – whose name means “mother” in the Guarani language – after she receives the news that she’ll give birth to a savior who will also be the son of her god. “In this project I would like to work on a woman’s dichotomy between motherhood and faith,” said Encina.The second film, “El Único Tiempo,” tells the story of an elderly couple living in exile, where they await news of the son who disappeared during Paraguay’s military dictatorship.
Sofi Tukker have announced the details of their sophomore album ‘Wet Tennis’ and shared the new video for their single ‘Original Sin’. Check it out below.‘Wet Tennis’ arrives on April 29 via Ultra / Sony Music and will be the follow-up to the electro-pop duo’s Grammy-nominated debut, ‘Treehouse’. The band’s new track is about rejecting imposed social mores.“‘Original Sin'” is the perfect way to introduce the world of ‘Wet Tennis’ and it’s very emblematic of “the freak fam”, our community,” said Sophie Hawkey-weld and Tucker Halpern of the track.
The Worst Person in the World. The , now in theaters, kicks off with Julie (Renate Reinsve) diving headfirst into a quarter-life crisis. A student in Oslo, Norway, she switches from surgery to psychology to photography, changing up her hair color with every shift. We are told via voice over—the film is divided up into “chapters” that telegraph the stages of her growth—that Julie was once a hard-working, straight-A type, but that the macro issues of the world (The news! The environment!) and the micro-distractions of cell phones and social media have set her somewhat adrift.
Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” is finally gracing America’s theaters and not only will moviegoers be able to catch the best movie of 2021, as well as BAFTA Best Actress nominee Renate Reinsve, but the movie’s secret weapon, Anders Danielsen Lie’s heartbreaking performance. Amazingly, Danielsen Lie is a celebrated actor who somehow manages a side career as a practicing medical doctor.
“It’s a tough thing; making movies. And to talk to people who appreciate them means a lot.” Director Joachim Trier has an undeniably infectious energy, housing a clear love for the history of cinema and storytelling art in general.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIn a new series, Variety catches up with the directors of films shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar to discuss their road to the awards, what they’ve learned so far, and what’s taken them off guard. “The Worst Person in The World” competed at Cannes where it was acquired by Neon for domestic rights and earned its star Renate Reinsve a best actress award. The critically lauded romantic drama rounds out Trier’s Oslo Trilogy, which began with “Reprise” in 2006 and continued with “Oslo, August 31st” in 2011.
With all of the buzz surrounding the Sundance Film Festival last month and with the Berlin International Film Festival poised to begin later this month, it’s easy to miss some of the smaller films released on the regular schedule. While January failed to offer many must-see titles, February looks to offer more with films such as likely Oscar nominee “The Worst Person in the World” sharing release dates with the anticipated return of Johnny Knoxville and the gang in “Jackass Forever.” Later in the month will see another attempt to adapt a video game into a series building film, Channing Tatum’s directing debut, and the return of indie favorite Josephine Decker.
party. Played by the beguiling Renate Reinsve, Julie is the picture of cool glamour, her hair tied back in a casually elegant ponytail. It almost looks like the end to something.
“It’s a tough thing; making movies. And to talk to people who appreciate them means a lot.” Director Joachim Trier has an undeniably infectious energy, housing a clear love for the history of cinema and storytelling art in general.
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NEW YORK -- Last fall, film director Joachim Trier and the actors Renata Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie gathered at a restaurant in midtown New York to talk about why people seem to keep crying during their movie.If their film, “The Worst Person in the World,” was a weepy melodrama, such responses could be expected. But while “The Worst Person in the World" has moments of grief and loss, it’s principally about an uncertain, meandering journey of self-discovery for a young woman (Reinsve) in early adulthood.
Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic has been resentenced to 21 years in prison despite pleas from the former zookeeper for leniency as he begins treatment for early-stage cancer.On Friday (January 28), a federal judge reduced the 58-year-old’s punishment by just a year. “Please don’t make me die in prison waiting for a chance to be free,” Exotic tearfully told the judge, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January 2020 after he was convicted of animal abuse charges and a murder-for-hire plot involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin. Both were featured in Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness.Prosecutors said Exotic offered $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent to kill Baskin during a recorded December 2017 meeting.
Angelique Jackson When “King Richard” star Aunjanue Ellis and “The Harder They Fall’s” Regina King paired off for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon, Ellis asked King to dish on one of her favorite performances from her fellow actor — Marcee Tidwell in 1996’s “Jerry Maguire.”“You’re taking me back to a long time ago. I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since that film,” King told Ellis.The film debuted on Dec.
Joe Exotic is receiving a resentencing.