Honoring an annual tradition, Nicolas Philibert, the head of this year’s Œil d’Or Jury, which rewards the best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival, opened up about his filmmaking process before an industry crowd on the final day of Cannes Docs, the Film Market sidebar dedicated to documentary film.
Hosted by France’s National Film Board (Cnc) and moderated by film programmer and producer Madeline Robert, the conversation focused on the French director’s work in psychiatry, notably his recent trilogy, which started with the 2023 Golden Bear winner “On the Adamant.”
Shot on a floating day care centre in Paris for people suffering from mental disorders, “On the Adamant” follows a group of patients as they attend a variety of activities and share the stories of their lives with the filmmaker.
The next two films are “Averroès & Rosa Parks” and “The Typewriter and Other Headaches,” both released earlier this year.
Hosted by France’s National Film Board (Cnc) and moderated by film programmer and producer Madeline Robert, the conversation focused on the French director’s work in psychiatry, notably his recent trilogy, which started with the 2023 Golden Bear winner “On the Adamant.”
Shot on a floating day care centre in Paris for people suffering from mental disorders, “On the Adamant” follows a group of patients as they attend a variety of activities and share the stories of their lives with the filmmaker.
The next two films are “Averroès & Rosa Parks” and “The Typewriter and Other Headaches,” both released earlier this year.
- 5/22/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
On The Adamant
Celebrated French documentarian Nicolas Philibert’s On The Adamant ventures inside a place like no other - a home to the transformative power of art. Anchored on the Seine River in Paris, a boat called the Adamant runs daily programs that utilise therapy, education and the arts to reimagine a more humanistic approach to mental health and wellbeing.
In conversation with Eye For Film, Philibert reflected on his career and discussed how the times are positively changing for documentaries.
Paul Risker: A celebrated documentarian, what initially led you to choose documentary filmmaking as a means of expression?
Nicolas Philibert Photo: Michel Crotto
Nicolas Philibert: I don't know, because at the beginning of my career I was an assistant director on fiction films. The first film I wanted to make curiously and paradoxically was a documentary. I had seen very few documentaries at that time, and so I can't explain why.
Celebrated French documentarian Nicolas Philibert’s On The Adamant ventures inside a place like no other - a home to the transformative power of art. Anchored on the Seine River in Paris, a boat called the Adamant runs daily programs that utilise therapy, education and the arts to reimagine a more humanistic approach to mental health and wellbeing.
In conversation with Eye For Film, Philibert reflected on his career and discussed how the times are positively changing for documentaries.
Paul Risker: A celebrated documentarian, what initially led you to choose documentary filmmaking as a means of expression?
Nicolas Philibert Photo: Michel Crotto
Nicolas Philibert: I don't know, because at the beginning of my career I was an assistant director on fiction films. The first film I wanted to make curiously and paradoxically was a documentary. I had seen very few documentaries at that time, and so I can't explain why.
- 3/29/2024
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The first thing you notice about the Adamant is that it’s absolutely beautiful — not just for a psychiatric facility, which tend to resemble prisons or kennels, but for a building of any kind. A floating barge moored on the right bank of the Seine (where it’s surrounded by a labyrinth of unfeeling concrete towers), this self-contained wing of the Paris Central Psychiatric Group sticks out of the landscape like an antique cabinet that was accidentally dropped into the middle of an Ikea showroom; it’s hard to shake the feeling that someone might notice the error and scoop the whole thing right out of the water at any moment.
And yet the barge’s oak brown wooden slats continue to creak open every morning, music to the ears of local men and women whose mental disorders have left them nowhere else to go. Unlike so many other day centers like it,...
And yet the barge’s oak brown wooden slats continue to creak open every morning, music to the ears of local men and women whose mental disorders have left them nowhere else to go. Unlike so many other day centers like it,...
- 3/26/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The spice must flow, and take over most theaters. While Denis Villeneuve’s gargantuan-sized blockbuster will suck up much of the oxygen when it comes to discussions around March’s releases, there’s plenty more to uncover. From adventurous festival favorites to micro-sized productions to a would-be blockbuster relegated to streaming, here are my picks for what to see next month.
15. Road House (Doug Liman; March 21)
While his recent output hasn’t touched the entertainment value of Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity, or Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Doug Liman seems quite confident in the crowdpleaser appeal of his Jake Gyllenhaal-led Road House remake. While he won’t be getting the theatrical release he believes he deserves, those at SXSW will at least be able to experience it in a crowd before it lands on Prime Video soon after.
14. Yuni (Kamila Andini; March 22)
One of our favorite undistributed films...
15. Road House (Doug Liman; March 21)
While his recent output hasn’t touched the entertainment value of Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity, or Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Doug Liman seems quite confident in the crowdpleaser appeal of his Jake Gyllenhaal-led Road House remake. While he won’t be getting the theatrical release he believes he deserves, those at SXSW will at least be able to experience it in a crowd before it lands on Prime Video soon after.
14. Yuni (Kamila Andini; March 22)
One of our favorite undistributed films...
- 2/28/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For the second in a row, the Berlinale jury has awarded the top prize of Golden Bear to a documentary. Before Mati Diop’s Dahomey Is a Fulminating Story of Restitution and Liberation”>Dahomey this year, Nicolas Philibert’s On the Adamant picked up the prize and now Kino Lorber will release the film in theaters next month. The documentary, set for a March 15 release, centers on a psychiatric care center that sits on the river Seine and provides a port for inner storms. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has now arrived.
Here’s the synopsis: “Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary from nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant and witness the transformational power of art and community. The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of...
Here’s the synopsis: “Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary from nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant and witness the transformational power of art and community. The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of...
- 2/27/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Documentarian Nicolas Philibert turned his camera on a Parisian mental health facility to capture an alternative way to treat those in need.
Philibert’s “On the Adamant,” named for the institution the Adamant, which the film focuses on, won the 2023 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The Adamant is a floating center on the Seine River in the heart of Paris, and offers day programs for adults with mental illnesses; the purpose of the center is to pair therapy and education with art and culture to assist clients in their recovery processes. The documentary tells the story of how art serves as a therapy tool for people affected by mental illness.
“On the Adamant” was nominated for a European Film Award and a César Award for Best Documentary. The film will premiere in New York at the Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival on March...
Philibert’s “On the Adamant,” named for the institution the Adamant, which the film focuses on, won the 2023 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The Adamant is a floating center on the Seine River in the heart of Paris, and offers day programs for adults with mental illnesses; the purpose of the center is to pair therapy and education with art and culture to assist clients in their recovery processes. The documentary tells the story of how art serves as a therapy tool for people affected by mental illness.
“On the Adamant” was nominated for a European Film Award and a César Award for Best Documentary. The film will premiere in New York at the Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival on March...
- 2/26/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Plenty of worthy documentaries manage to tackle a subject from all angles, offering a well-rounded portrait of a specific social issue, historical figure or cultural phenomenon. Much rarer are those that go beyond the subject to reveal something deeply and essentially human, using the camera to uncover truths that aren’t always visible to us.
French director Nicolas Philibert’s latest work, At Averroes & Rosa Parks, is one of those films. On the surface, it’s a long and immersive plunge into two psychiatric wards at the Esquirol Hospital facility, located in a leafy suburb outside of Paris. Through extended sessions between patients and their doctors, we get to know a group of people who’ve been committed with varying levels of mental illness.
By giving the patients considerable time and space to bare themselves before the camera, Philibert grants us access to the the darker sides of the human psyche,...
French director Nicolas Philibert’s latest work, At Averroes & Rosa Parks, is one of those films. On the surface, it’s a long and immersive plunge into two psychiatric wards at the Esquirol Hospital facility, located in a leafy suburb outside of Paris. Through extended sessions between patients and their doctors, we get to know a group of people who’ve been committed with varying levels of mental illness.
By giving the patients considerable time and space to bare themselves before the camera, Philibert grants us access to the the darker sides of the human psyche,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Nicolas Philibert’s At Averroes & Rosa Parks, the filmmaker’s follow-up to 2023 Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.
The film is part of a triptych of feature documentaries devoted to patients and caregivers in Paris’ Central Psychiatric Group, and has been selected in the Berlinale’s 2024 Special strand.
At Averroes & Rosa Parks is named after two units in the Esquirol Hospital and focuses on individual interviews and meetings between caregivers and patients to spotlight the different forms of mental health care used and give viewers a glimpse into the unique worlds of those giving and receiving treatment.
The film is part of a triptych of feature documentaries devoted to patients and caregivers in Paris’ Central Psychiatric Group, and has been selected in the Berlinale’s 2024 Special strand.
At Averroes & Rosa Parks is named after two units in the Esquirol Hospital and focuses on individual interviews and meetings between caregivers and patients to spotlight the different forms of mental health care used and give viewers a glimpse into the unique worlds of those giving and receiving treatment.
- 1/24/2024
- ScreenDaily
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Nicolas Philibert’s Averroes & Rosa Parks, the filmmaker’s follow-up to 2023 Golden Bear winner On the Adamant.
The film is part of a triptych of feature documentaries devoted to patients and caregivers in Paris’ Central Psychiatric Group, and has been selected in the Berlinale’s 2024 Special strand.
Averroes & Rosa Parks is named after two units in the Esquirol Hospital and focuses on individual interviews and meetings between caregivers and patients to spotlight the different forms of mental health care used and give viewers a glimpse into the unique worlds of those giving and receiving treatment.
The film is part of a triptych of feature documentaries devoted to patients and caregivers in Paris’ Central Psychiatric Group, and has been selected in the Berlinale’s 2024 Special strand.
Averroes & Rosa Parks is named after two units in the Esquirol Hospital and focuses on individual interviews and meetings between caregivers and patients to spotlight the different forms of mental health care used and give viewers a glimpse into the unique worlds of those giving and receiving treatment.
- 1/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Festival will play upcoming Netflix series Supersex about pornstar Rocco Siffredi.
South Korean action title The Roundup: Punishment and Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart are among 12 additions to the Berlinale Special line-up, ahead of next month’s Berlin Film Festival (February 15-25).
Directed by Heo Myeong-haeng, Punishment will have its world premiere in Berlin. It is the fourth instalment in The Roundup action franchise, in which Don Lee plays detective Ma Seok-do.
Scroll down for the full list of new Special titles
Third title The Roundup: No Way Out took $69m in just three weeks at the...
South Korean action title The Roundup: Punishment and Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart are among 12 additions to the Berlinale Special line-up, ahead of next month’s Berlin Film Festival (February 15-25).
Directed by Heo Myeong-haeng, Punishment will have its world premiere in Berlin. It is the fourth instalment in The Roundup action franchise, in which Don Lee plays detective Ma Seok-do.
Scroll down for the full list of new Special titles
Third title The Roundup: No Way Out took $69m in just three weeks at the...
- 1/15/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Festival will play upcoming Netflix series Supersex about pornstar Rocco Siffredi.
South Korean action title The Roundup: Punishment and Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart are among 12 additions to the Berlinale Special line-up, ahead of next month’s Berlin Film Festival (February 15-25).
Directed by Heo Myeong-haeng, Punishment will have its world premiere in Berlin. It is the fourth instalment in The Roundup action franchise, in which Don Lee plays detective Ma Seok-do.
Scroll down for the full list of new Special titles
Third title The Roundup: No Way Out took $69m in just three weeks at the...
South Korean action title The Roundup: Punishment and Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart are among 12 additions to the Berlinale Special line-up, ahead of next month’s Berlin Film Festival (February 15-25).
Directed by Heo Myeong-haeng, Punishment will have its world premiere in Berlin. It is the fourth instalment in The Roundup action franchise, in which Don Lee plays detective Ma Seok-do.
Scroll down for the full list of new Special titles
Third title The Roundup: No Way Out took $69m in just three weeks at the...
- 1/15/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
2023 had its fair share of memorable scores and music. Any year with new work from Joe Hisaishi and Mica Levi is going to be one for the books, but the last 12 months also gave us Robbie Robertson’s swan song and a Dev Hynes/Paul Schrader collaboration. In terms of performance, Bradley Cooper conducting the London Philharmonic was irresistible, but no more so than Talia Ryder’s opening number in The Sweet East or the hero of Fallen Leaves experiencing his moment of clarity while listening to a Swedish synth group. Maybe the best musical performance I saw in a movie this year comes at the beginning of Nicolas Philibert’s On the Adamant, a documentary about a psychiatric care center that sits on the river Seine and provides a port for inner storms. The singer’s name is François, an angular, middle-aged man who growls a raw rendition of...
- 12/20/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Director Nicolas Philibert had an unexpected triumph with On the Adamant, his film about a haven for people with mental health problems, named after the British pop star. We go aboard
The Adamant is both the setting and the star of the film that earned director Nicolas Philibert a surprise top prize at the Berlin film festival this year. But in his absorbing documentary, this institution – a floating daycare centre for people with mental health problems moored on the River Seine – somehow remains a bit of an enigma. Philibert’s slow, unassuming films don’t use narration, and in the absence of a contextualising voice you might assume that it’s a terrible idea to invite potentially vulnerable patients into a centre surrounded by water.
It’s only when you walk over the metal gangway and step into the ship-length reception area that the concept starts to make sense. Eric Piel,...
The Adamant is both the setting and the star of the film that earned director Nicolas Philibert a surprise top prize at the Berlin film festival this year. But in his absorbing documentary, this institution – a floating daycare centre for people with mental health problems moored on the River Seine – somehow remains a bit of an enigma. Philibert’s slow, unassuming films don’t use narration, and in the absence of a contextualising voice you might assume that it’s a terrible idea to invite potentially vulnerable patients into a centre surrounded by water.
It’s only when you walk over the metal gangway and step into the ship-length reception area that the concept starts to make sense. Eric Piel,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Philip Oltermann
- The Guardian - Film News
Selection includes Nicolas Philibert’s Golden Bear winner ‘On The Adamant’.
The 14 feature documentaries in the running for the 2023 European Film Awards (EFAs) have been announced.
Scroll down for full list of titles
They include Nicolas Philibert’s On The Adamant, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in February. The film follows the daily lives of patients and caregivers at a central Paris psychiatric centre, which has a unique structure floating in the Seine river. French filmmaker Philibert previously won the best European documentary prize at the EFAs in 2002 with To Be And To Have (Être Et Avoir...
The 14 feature documentaries in the running for the 2023 European Film Awards (EFAs) have been announced.
Scroll down for full list of titles
They include Nicolas Philibert’s On The Adamant, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in February. The film follows the daily lives of patients and caregivers at a central Paris psychiatric centre, which has a unique structure floating in the Seine river. French filmmaker Philibert previously won the best European documentary prize at the EFAs in 2002 with To Be And To Have (Être Et Avoir...
- 8/30/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Distributor plans theatrical release, awards run after closing deal with Films du Losange.
Kino Lorber has acquired US and English-speaking Canadian rights to Nicolas Philibert’s 2023 Berlin Golden Bear-winning documentary On The Adamant.
‘On The Adamant’: Berlin Review
The distributor plans a theatrical release and Oscar campaign later this year followed by a digital and home video release.
On The Adamant focuses on a unique day-care centre – a floating structure in the middle of the Seine in the heart of Paris – where staff use a blend of therapy and education rooted in the arts to care for adults with mental disorders.
Kino Lorber has acquired US and English-speaking Canadian rights to Nicolas Philibert’s 2023 Berlin Golden Bear-winning documentary On The Adamant.
‘On The Adamant’: Berlin Review
The distributor plans a theatrical release and Oscar campaign later this year followed by a digital and home video release.
On The Adamant focuses on a unique day-care centre – a floating structure in the middle of the Seine in the heart of Paris – where staff use a blend of therapy and education rooted in the arts to care for adults with mental disorders.
- 3/16/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kino Lorber has bought U.S. and Anglo-Canadian distribution rights to Nicolas Philibert’s poignant documentary “On the Adamant” which just won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.
Sold by Films du Losange, “On the Adamant” takes place at a unique day-care centre for adults suffering from mental disorders. Located in a structure floating the middle of the Seine, in Paris, the center heals these adults with a blend of therapy, education, and culture rooted in music and the arts. The affecting documentary follows the team running the Adamant as they attempt to transform and uplift the lives for these people.
“On The Adamant” was directed, shot, and edited by Philibert, who is known for his humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking. He previously highlighted...
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.
Sold by Films du Losange, “On the Adamant” takes place at a unique day-care centre for adults suffering from mental disorders. Located in a structure floating the middle of the Seine, in Paris, the center heals these adults with a blend of therapy, education, and culture rooted in music and the arts. The affecting documentary follows the team running the Adamant as they attempt to transform and uplift the lives for these people.
“On The Adamant” was directed, shot, and edited by Philibert, who is known for his humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking. He previously highlighted...
- 3/16/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) comprises the annual pre-autumn festival circuit alongside Sundance, SXSW and Cannes. Though the competition isn’t exactly a pipeline to the Oscars, it has hosted premieres for past Best International Feature winners and nominees “A Fantastic Woman,” “On Body and Soul” and “A Separation.” Additionally, the festival launched “45 Years,” which earned Charlotte Rampling her first Academy Award nomination in 2016, and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which received nine bids and won four in 2015. The 73rd festival was held February 16 – 26.
This year’s jury was presided over by Academy Award nominee Kristen Stewart. The slate includes new efforts from Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec and Christoph Hochhäusler, all three of whom belong to the Berlin school of filmmaking that emerged in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. 2023’s Golden Bear went to Nicolas Philibert’s “On the Adamant,” a documentary about a health care facility in...
This year’s jury was presided over by Academy Award nominee Kristen Stewart. The slate includes new efforts from Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec and Christoph Hochhäusler, all three of whom belong to the Berlin school of filmmaking that emerged in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. 2023’s Golden Bear went to Nicolas Philibert’s “On the Adamant,” a documentary about a health care facility in...
- 3/14/2023
- by Ronald Meyer and Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Les Film du Losange scores multiple sales for Nicolas Philibert’s documentary.
Nicolas Philibert’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner On The Adamant has sold to a slew of territories worldwide.
Les Films du Losange has agreed deals for the documentary in Europe to Austria (Panda Film), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Bulgaria (Art Fest), Croatia (ReStart),Czech Republic (Aerofilms), Estonia (Estofilm), Germany (Grandfilm), Greece (Cinobo), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Latvia (Kinoteatris Bize), Lithuania (Kino Pavasaris), Poland (Aurora), Portugal (Midas Filmes), Romania (Voodo Films), Serbia (Five Stars), Scandinavia (Njuta), Slovenia (Demiurg), Slovakia (Filmtopia) and Spain (Filmin), following previous pre-sales ahead of EFM to Adok Films...
Nicolas Philibert’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner On The Adamant has sold to a slew of territories worldwide.
Les Films du Losange has agreed deals for the documentary in Europe to Austria (Panda Film), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Bulgaria (Art Fest), Croatia (ReStart),Czech Republic (Aerofilms), Estonia (Estofilm), Germany (Grandfilm), Greece (Cinobo), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Latvia (Kinoteatris Bize), Lithuania (Kino Pavasaris), Poland (Aurora), Portugal (Midas Filmes), Romania (Voodo Films), Serbia (Five Stars), Scandinavia (Njuta), Slovenia (Demiurg), Slovakia (Filmtopia) and Spain (Filmin), following previous pre-sales ahead of EFM to Adok Films...
- 3/13/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) comprises the annual pre-autumn festival circuit alongside Sundance, SXSW and Cannes. Though the competition isn’t exactly a pipeline to the Oscars, it has hosted premieres for past Best International Feature winners and nominees “A Fantastic Woman,” “On Body and Soul” and “A Separation.” Additionally, the festival launched “45 Years,” which earned Charlotte Rampling her first Academy Award nomination in 2016, and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which received nine bids and won four in 2015. The 73rd festival was held February 16 – 26.
This year’s jury was presided over by Academy Award nominee Kristen Stewart. The slate includes new efforts from Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec and Christoph Hochhäusler, all three of whom belong to the Berlin school of filmmaking that emerged in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. 2023’s Golden Bear went to Nicolas Philibert’s “On the Adamant,” a documentary about a health care facility in...
This year’s jury was presided over by Academy Award nominee Kristen Stewart. The slate includes new efforts from Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec and Christoph Hochhäusler, all three of whom belong to the Berlin school of filmmaking that emerged in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. 2023’s Golden Bear went to Nicolas Philibert’s “On the Adamant,” a documentary about a health care facility in...
- 3/7/2023
- by Ronald Meyer and Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival came to a close this past weekend, and despite speculation that Sundance import “Past Lives” or Lila Avilés’ “Tótem” would take the Golden Bear, the jury, led this year by Kristen Stewart, awarded it to the French documentary “On the Adamant.” Directed by Nicolas Philibert, the movie follows operations at the Parisian Centre de jour l’Adamant, a floating medical facility on the Seine that offers its patients innovative forms of art therapy.
Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) writes, “While documenting the daily routine of a small clinic that most Parisians walk by without ever noticing, ‘On the Adamant’ ultimately becomes a moving testament to what people are capable of, if they could just find the right place to do it.” Guy Lodge (Variety) compares the film to Philibert’s “To Be and To Have,” which is set inside a single-room schoolhouse in rural France,...
Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter) writes, “While documenting the daily routine of a small clinic that most Parisians walk by without ever noticing, ‘On the Adamant’ ultimately becomes a moving testament to what people are capable of, if they could just find the right place to do it.” Guy Lodge (Variety) compares the film to Philibert’s “To Be and To Have,” which is set inside a single-room schoolhouse in rural France,...
- 2/28/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
’Suzume’, ’On The Adamant’, and ’Art College 1994’ all land in joint fourth place with a score of 2.7.
Celine Song’s feature debut Past Lives has finished top of Screen’s 2023 Berlin jury grid after the final five titles failed to match its average score of 3.6 from seven critics.
The romantic drama has the highest score of a Berlin jury grid winner since 2017’s The Other Side Of Hope by Aki Kaurismaki, which scored 3.7.
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Past Lives stars Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro, and follows two childhood friends from South Korea who reconnect...
Celine Song’s feature debut Past Lives has finished top of Screen’s 2023 Berlin jury grid after the final five titles failed to match its average score of 3.6 from seven critics.
The romantic drama has the highest score of a Berlin jury grid winner since 2017’s The Other Side Of Hope by Aki Kaurismaki, which scored 3.7.
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Past Lives stars Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro, and follows two childhood friends from South Korea who reconnect...
- 2/27/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Los Angeles, Feb 26 (Ians) Veteran French documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
He took home the prize for his film ‘On the Adamant’ which is a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility, reports Variety.
He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and name checking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding: “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”
Candidly and sometimes humorously surveying...
He took home the prize for his film ‘On the Adamant’ which is a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility, reports Variety.
He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and name checking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding: “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”
Candidly and sometimes humorously surveying...
- 2/26/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Nicholas Philibert, whose film On the Adamant won the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlinale on Saturday, has made a lifetime commitment to observational documentary, moving between interviews and long, patient takes of his subjects pursuing what it is that they do. The best known of these is Etre et Avoir (2002), which followed a year in the life of a tiny rural school where the single teacher – kindly but exacting, in the French manner – taught several grades at once. Thanks to the magnetism of this committed teacher – and of his delightful enfants, of course – Etre et Avoir became an unlikely but enduring arthouse hit.
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- 2/26/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Philibert’s new film, On the Adamant, follows life at a day care centre in Paris, while eight-year-old Sofia Otero won the acting prize for trans drama 20,000 Species of Bees
The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its Golden Bear top prize to a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert and its best acting award to an eight-year-old girl in what jury chief Kristen Stewart described as a “boundary-pushing” event.
On the Adamant, coming more than 20 years after Philibert’s acclaimed education documentary Etre et Avoir, is about a floating day-care centre for people with psychiatric problems on the Seine in Paris.
The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its Golden Bear top prize to a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert and its best acting award to an eight-year-old girl in what jury chief Kristen Stewart described as a “boundary-pushing” event.
On the Adamant, coming more than 20 years after Philibert’s acclaimed education documentary Etre et Avoir, is about a floating day-care centre for people with psychiatric problems on the Seine in Paris.
- 2/25/2023
- by AFP
- The Guardian - Film News
On the Adamant, a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert that gives an intimate look at the patients and caregivers in a mental health center located on the Seine River in the heart of Paris, has won the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear for best film.
For his 11th feature, the 72-year-old Philibert spent months aboard a barge anchored on the Seine in Paris, chronicling a mental health care facility that caters specifically to its patients’ creative needs. His documentary explores issues of creativity and art, of sanity and madness, but does so without applying labels or clear-cut distinctions.
“I don’t like partitions or labels,” Philibert said. “In this film on psychiatry, we were always [careful] to not always distinguish very clearly between patients and carers. I tried to reverse the image we always have of mad people [which I see] as discriminating and stigmatizing. I wanted us to be able,...
For his 11th feature, the 72-year-old Philibert spent months aboard a barge anchored on the Seine in Paris, chronicling a mental health care facility that caters specifically to its patients’ creative needs. His documentary explores issues of creativity and art, of sanity and madness, but does so without applying labels or clear-cut distinctions.
“I don’t like partitions or labels,” Philibert said. “In this film on psychiatry, we were always [careful] to not always distinguish very clearly between patients and carers. I tried to reverse the image we always have of mad people [which I see] as discriminating and stigmatizing. I wanted us to be able,...
- 2/25/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Veteran French docmaker Nicolas Philibert was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking the prize for his film “On the Adamant,” a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility.
He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and namechecking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding, “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”
It was an apt way to introduce a film that stood out in this year’s Competition...
He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and namechecking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding, “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”
It was an apt way to introduce a film that stood out in this year’s Competition...
- 2/25/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Trends in documentary-making have shifted radically since Nicolas Philibert’s “Être et Avoir” was a surprise arthouse hit two decades ago: That sweetly observational little film, following the ins and outs of a village elementary school over the course of a year, seems a quaintly modest proposition beside today’s more slickly immersive and narrativized nonfiction breakouts. If times have changed, however, Philibert has not. His latest, “On the Adamant,” finds him once more examining the human workings of a care-based institution from a reserved but compassionate distance, avoiding commentary and editorialization in favor of real-life character portraiture.
It turns out to be the right approach for the institution under scrutiny: The Adamant, a day-care center in central Paris for adults with a variety of mental disorders, offering its visitors a range of therapy, education and cultural activity. The human subjects here are both expressive and highly vulnerable, open to the low-key,...
It turns out to be the right approach for the institution under scrutiny: The Adamant, a day-care center in central Paris for adults with a variety of mental disorders, offering its visitors a range of therapy, education and cultural activity. The human subjects here are both expressive and highly vulnerable, open to the low-key,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The observant documentaries of Nicolas Philibert, which include such films as Louvre City, In the Land of the Deaf and his 2002 hit, To Be and To Have, often focus on either a single character or location — the latter usually a French public institution — exploring them with painstaking detail and plenty of compassion.
For his eleventh feature, On the Adamant (Sur l’Adamant), the 72-year-old filmmaker spent months aboard a barge anchored on the Seine in Paris, chronicling a mental health care facility that caters specifically to its patients’ creative needs. What emerges is not only a depiction of psychiatric treatment administered with plenty of warmth and enthusiasm, but a portrait of several individuals who, despite their noticeable disabilities, are capable of producing original and moving works of art.
Like his contemporaries Frederick Wiseman and Raymond Depardon, both whom live in France as well, Philibert never provides voiceover or explanatory titles in his movies,...
For his eleventh feature, On the Adamant (Sur l’Adamant), the 72-year-old filmmaker spent months aboard a barge anchored on the Seine in Paris, chronicling a mental health care facility that caters specifically to its patients’ creative needs. What emerges is not only a depiction of psychiatric treatment administered with plenty of warmth and enthusiasm, but a portrait of several individuals who, despite their noticeable disabilities, are capable of producing original and moving works of art.
Like his contemporaries Frederick Wiseman and Raymond Depardon, both whom live in France as well, Philibert never provides voiceover or explanatory titles in his movies,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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