Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora has clinched the Golden Shell in the main competition of the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival with her latest feature The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo).
Billed as a subversive tale of disobedience, friendship, and dignity, the film follows five boys living on the streets of Medellín who set out on a journey in search of the promised land. The film is a Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico, and Norway.
This is the third year running that a film helmed by a woman has taken home the Golden Shell following Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning in 2020 and Alina Grigore’s Blue Moon last year. This is also the first time a Colombian production has picked up San Sebastian’s top prize in the festival’s seven decades.
In other main competition awards, Japanese writer Genki Kawamura picked up the Silver Shell for Best...
Billed as a subversive tale of disobedience, friendship, and dignity, the film follows five boys living on the streets of Medellín who set out on a journey in search of the promised land. The film is a Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico, and Norway.
This is the third year running that a film helmed by a woman has taken home the Golden Shell following Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning in 2020 and Alina Grigore’s Blue Moon last year. This is also the first time a Colombian production has picked up San Sebastian’s top prize in the festival’s seven decades.
In other main competition awards, Japanese writer Genki Kawamura picked up the Silver Shell for Best...
- 9/24/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Other winners include Genki Kawamura’s ‘A Hundred Flowers’ and China’s ‘A Woman’.
Colombian director Laura Mora’s second film The Kings Of The World has won the Golden Shell award for best film at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
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A Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, the film follows five street kids from Medellin who venture into the countryside in search of the land that one of them inherited. Film Factory Entertainment handles international sales. Mora’s debut was 2017 Toronto and San Sebastian selection Killing Jesus.
Colombian director Laura Mora’s second film The Kings Of The World has won the Golden Shell award for best film at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Scroll down for full list of winners
A Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, the film follows five street kids from Medellin who venture into the countryside in search of the land that one of them inherited. Film Factory Entertainment handles international sales. Mora’s debut was 2017 Toronto and San Sebastian selection Killing Jesus.
- 9/24/2022
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Argentinian producer Matias Mosteirin will take over as jury president.
US actress Glenn Close has withdrawn from her role as jury president of this week’s San Sebastian Film Festival, due to a ‘family emergency’.
Argentinian producer Matias Mosteirin, already a jury member, will take over Close’s role, with no replacement jury member incoming.
A statement issued by the festival said Close “conveyed to the Festival her regrets for not being able to attend a duty to which she felt very committed.”
It also relayed a message from Close, who said, “I deeply regret that I will not be...
US actress Glenn Close has withdrawn from her role as jury president of this week’s San Sebastian Film Festival, due to a ‘family emergency’.
Argentinian producer Matias Mosteirin, already a jury member, will take over Close’s role, with no replacement jury member incoming.
A statement issued by the festival said Close “conveyed to the Festival her regrets for not being able to attend a duty to which she felt very committed.”
It also relayed a message from Close, who said, “I deeply regret that I will not be...
- 9/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Glenn Close no longer will preside over the San Sebastian jury and has canceled her trip to the festival due to a family emergency.
“I deeply regret that I will not be able to take part in the Festival as there has been a family emergency for which I must stay home,” Close said in a statement. “I apologize to the Festival, the Jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees, and the festival audience, that I will not be there to celebrate with you all.”
Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín, who already was announced as part of the jury, will serve as the president. Mosteirin’s feature film as a producer, Bolivia, received the Young Critics Award at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. He recently executive produced Marcelo Piñeyro’s series El Reino (The Realm) for Netflix.
The jury will be filled out by French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat,...
“I deeply regret that I will not be able to take part in the Festival as there has been a family emergency for which I must stay home,” Close said in a statement. “I apologize to the Festival, the Jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees, and the festival audience, that I will not be there to celebrate with you all.”
Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín, who already was announced as part of the jury, will serve as the president. Mosteirin’s feature film as a producer, Bolivia, received the Young Critics Award at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. He recently executive produced Marcelo Piñeyro’s series El Reino (The Realm) for Netflix.
The jury will be filled out by French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Glenn Close, who was due to serve as the jury president at the San Sebastian Film Festival, has canceled her trip due to a family emergency.
“I deeply regret that I will not be able to take part in the festival as there has been a family emergency for which I must stay home,” Close said in a statement. “I apologize to the festival, the jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees and the festival audience, that I will not be there to celebrate with you all.”
Just last week, the star of “Fatal Attraction” and “Dangerous Liaisons” posted a video on her social media in which she expressed her enthusiasm about chairing the festival jury, describing it as “a new adventure I’ve never done before.” “I love San Sebastian, people are fantastic, I’m really looking forward to seeing some wonderful films and I’m very excited about meeting my fellow jury members,...
“I deeply regret that I will not be able to take part in the festival as there has been a family emergency for which I must stay home,” Close said in a statement. “I apologize to the festival, the jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees and the festival audience, that I will not be there to celebrate with you all.”
Just last week, the star of “Fatal Attraction” and “Dangerous Liaisons” posted a video on her social media in which she expressed her enthusiasm about chairing the festival jury, describing it as “a new adventure I’ve never done before.” “I love San Sebastian, people are fantastic, I’m really looking forward to seeing some wonderful films and I’m very excited about meeting my fellow jury members,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Ulrich Seidl’s “Sparta” has been pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival amid allegations of impropriety and child exploitation against the director, but its premiere at next week’s San Sebastian Film Festival will continue as planned, Variety can reveal.
A spokesperson for the Spanish festival tells Variety on behalf of festival management that “Sparta” will remain in competition.
Providing a three-point list explaining their reasoning, San Sebastian said “the festival team assesses the films after their viewing according to their interest and quality” and that the event “does not have the ability to judge how a film has been shot and whether a crime has been committed in the course of the filming. If anyone has any evidence of a crime, they should report it to a judge.”
The statement concludes: “Only a court order would lead us to suspend a scheduled screening.”
This means that “Sparta” is...
A spokesperson for the Spanish festival tells Variety on behalf of festival management that “Sparta” will remain in competition.
Providing a three-point list explaining their reasoning, San Sebastian said “the festival team assesses the films after their viewing according to their interest and quality” and that the event “does not have the ability to judge how a film has been shot and whether a crime has been committed in the course of the filming. If anyone has any evidence of a crime, they should report it to a judge.”
The statement concludes: “Only a court order would lead us to suspend a scheduled screening.”
This means that “Sparta” is...
- 9/10/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The festival runs September 16-24.
Glenn Close has been named president of the official selection jury for the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Close will be joined by French director and casting director Antoinette Boulat; Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg; Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín; Spanish writer Rosa Montero; Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and the Icelandic director and screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason.
Wang Chao’s A Woman has also been added to Ssiff’s official selection, becoming the 16th title eligible for the Golden Shell.
The Chinese film is based on Zhang Xiu Zhen’s autobiography Dream and follows an aspiring...
Glenn Close has been named president of the official selection jury for the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Close will be joined by French director and casting director Antoinette Boulat; Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg; Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín; Spanish writer Rosa Montero; Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and the Icelandic director and screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason.
Wang Chao’s A Woman has also been added to Ssiff’s official selection, becoming the 16th title eligible for the Golden Shell.
The Chinese film is based on Zhang Xiu Zhen’s autobiography Dream and follows an aspiring...
- 9/2/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
American actress Glenn Close has been announced as the jury president for the Official Section of the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, running from September 16-24.
Close will be joined by the French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat, Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg, Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín, the Spanish writer Rosa Montero, Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, and the Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.
The jury awards the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell awards for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, as well as jury prizes for Cinematography and Screenplay. The Official Awards will be announced and presented at the festival’s Closing Gala on September 24.
Close was last at the Spanish festival with The Wife, which closed out the Official Section in 2017. The film went on to earn Close her eighth Academy Award nomination.
As previously announced, Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez will open the...
Close will be joined by the French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat, Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg, Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín, the Spanish writer Rosa Montero, Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, and the Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.
The jury awards the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell awards for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, as well as jury prizes for Cinematography and Screenplay. The Official Awards will be announced and presented at the festival’s Closing Gala on September 24.
Close was last at the Spanish festival with The Wife, which closed out the Official Section in 2017. The film went on to earn Close her eighth Academy Award nomination.
As previously announced, Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez will open the...
- 9/2/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Valladolid, Spain – The Valladolid Intl. Film Festival (Seminci), the truest event dedicated to international arthouse cinema on Spain’s festival calendar, capped off eight days of screenings, press conferences and roundtables by handing out awards on Saturday evening at the Spanish city’s historic Calderon Theater. The evening’s big winners: Wang Quan’an’s “Öndög” and Karim Aïnouz’s “The Invisible Life.”
After premiering in competition at February’s Berlinale, Quan’an’s Mongolian dramedy “Öndög” has hit its stride eight months later scoring a best film award at last week’s Ghent Intl. Film Festival before repeating the feat at last night’s closing gala along with a best cinematography award for its Beijing-based French cinematographer Aymerick Pilarski.
Set on the seemingly endless planes of Mongolia, the film follows a rookie officer and a veteran shepard tasked with protecting a crime scene from harsh elements and harsher wolves.
After premiering in competition at February’s Berlinale, Quan’an’s Mongolian dramedy “Öndög” has hit its stride eight months later scoring a best film award at last week’s Ghent Intl. Film Festival before repeating the feat at last night’s closing gala along with a best cinematography award for its Beijing-based French cinematographer Aymerick Pilarski.
Set on the seemingly endless planes of Mongolia, the film follows a rookie officer and a veteran shepard tasked with protecting a crime scene from harsh elements and harsher wolves.
- 10/27/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
New Law And Order Svu season 15,episode 13 official spoilers & clips hit the net. Last night,NBC delivered the new,official,synopsis/spoilers and sneak peek/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Law And Order: Svu" episode 15 of season 13. The episode is entitled, "Betrayal's Climax," and it appears to be very,very dramatic as a disturbed young girl takes a plunge of a roof, and more! In the new "Betrayal’s Climax” episode 13 press release: Sixteen year-old Avery Capshaw’s (guest star Fiona Robert) parents will report her kidnapped, and the Svu team will find signs of a party turned violent. Her boyfriend, Manny Montero, is a scholarship student from the Projects, and though his family swears he’s on the right track, Amaro will suspect he’s involved with a dangerous gang. When Manny refuses to talk, the cops are going to be forced to arrest him, but the violence will escalate.
- 1/23/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
Opens
Friday, July 25
In "Lucia, Lucia", a man's disappearance leads his wife into a midlife crisis and all kinds of intrigue involving gangsters, crooked cops, an aging political lefty and a 25-year-old cutie hot to slip into her bed. While midlife-crisis movies can't help covering the same territory more or less, by mixing in such shady and fascinating characters, this Mexican comedy gives the genre a real kick in the pants. Featuring Goya Award-winning actress Cecilia Roth, star of five of Pedro Almodovar's films, "Lucia, Lucia" (known as "La Hija Del Canibal" or "The Cannibal's Daughter" in its native land) did extremely well in Mexico earlier this year and should perform admirably in art house venues for Fox Searchlight. The film plays Saturday in the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
Roth plays Lucia, a writer of children's stories who might as well be a widow for all she gets out of her marriage to a dull bank officer. She doesn't quite realize the extent of her dissatisfaction and loneliness until he mysteriously vanishes moments before the couple is to board a plane for a holiday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tears are shed, the police informed, then Lucia can do little more than sit miserably in their flat. A knock at the door brings a consoling 70-year-old neighbor, Felix (Carlos Alovarez-Novoa), she has never spoken to before. A while later, another neighbor, a good-looking youth named Adrian (Kuno Becker), comes to her rescue when two thugs try to mug her. Adrian, young enough to be Lucia's son, makes no secret of his attraction to her.
The relationship among this trio forms the core of the movie, in which Lucia gradually emerges from her shell to reclaim her life. Meanwhile, all three become embroiled in a plot worthy of a Dashiel Hammett novel. A political group claims to have kidnapped Lucia's husband and demands a huge ransom. She insists she has no money. A note from her husband directs her to their bank safety deposit, where she finds stacks of cash. Where did that come from? Clearly, things were going on around Lucia she knew nothing about.
Antonio Serrano, who directs and adapts Rosa Montero's novel to the screen, takes a light approach, letting suspense and action unfold naturally yet often kidding these genre conventions at the same time. Then there is another element to this tall tale: Lucia makes an unreliable narrator. A writer who tends to believe her own fiction, she occasionally stops the movie to admit she has "lied" about a fact or development. We can't always be certain whether some part of this story may be taking place in her vivid imagination.
For a talented actress like Roth, Lucia is a dream role, where she gets to play histrionics, romance, adventure and the trauma of self-discovery. Lucia's two companions in crime-solving are both idealists. Felix, a leftist who fought against Franco in Spain in the '30s, refuses to accept corruption in any form. And Adrian refuses to see Lucia as she herself does but rather as a vibrant, passionate woman. His pursuit of her makes her gradually convinced he may be right.
"Lucia, Lucia" never takes itself too seriously. The movie wants to get from A to B by taking the most interesting and colorful route possible. At times, the movie sags from too much plot, but the characters remain buoyant and funny right to the very end.
LUCIA, LUCIA
Fox Searchlight
Titan Prods. and Argon Communications in association with Lola Films
Credits:
Writer-director: Antonio Serrano
Based on the novel by: Rosa Montero
Producers: Epigmenio Ibarra, Carlos Payan, Christian Valdelievre, Inna Payan, Matthias Ehrenberg
Director of photography: Xavier Perez Grobet
Art director: Brigitte Broch
Music: Nacho Mastretta
Co-producer: Andres Vicente Gomez
Editor: Jorge Garcia
Cast:
Lucia: Cecilia Roth
Adrian: Kuno Becker
Felix: Carlos Alvarez-Novoa
Running time -- 110 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, July 25
In "Lucia, Lucia", a man's disappearance leads his wife into a midlife crisis and all kinds of intrigue involving gangsters, crooked cops, an aging political lefty and a 25-year-old cutie hot to slip into her bed. While midlife-crisis movies can't help covering the same territory more or less, by mixing in such shady and fascinating characters, this Mexican comedy gives the genre a real kick in the pants. Featuring Goya Award-winning actress Cecilia Roth, star of five of Pedro Almodovar's films, "Lucia, Lucia" (known as "La Hija Del Canibal" or "The Cannibal's Daughter" in its native land) did extremely well in Mexico earlier this year and should perform admirably in art house venues for Fox Searchlight. The film plays Saturday in the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
Roth plays Lucia, a writer of children's stories who might as well be a widow for all she gets out of her marriage to a dull bank officer. She doesn't quite realize the extent of her dissatisfaction and loneliness until he mysteriously vanishes moments before the couple is to board a plane for a holiday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tears are shed, the police informed, then Lucia can do little more than sit miserably in their flat. A knock at the door brings a consoling 70-year-old neighbor, Felix (Carlos Alovarez-Novoa), she has never spoken to before. A while later, another neighbor, a good-looking youth named Adrian (Kuno Becker), comes to her rescue when two thugs try to mug her. Adrian, young enough to be Lucia's son, makes no secret of his attraction to her.
The relationship among this trio forms the core of the movie, in which Lucia gradually emerges from her shell to reclaim her life. Meanwhile, all three become embroiled in a plot worthy of a Dashiel Hammett novel. A political group claims to have kidnapped Lucia's husband and demands a huge ransom. She insists she has no money. A note from her husband directs her to their bank safety deposit, where she finds stacks of cash. Where did that come from? Clearly, things were going on around Lucia she knew nothing about.
Antonio Serrano, who directs and adapts Rosa Montero's novel to the screen, takes a light approach, letting suspense and action unfold naturally yet often kidding these genre conventions at the same time. Then there is another element to this tall tale: Lucia makes an unreliable narrator. A writer who tends to believe her own fiction, she occasionally stops the movie to admit she has "lied" about a fact or development. We can't always be certain whether some part of this story may be taking place in her vivid imagination.
For a talented actress like Roth, Lucia is a dream role, where she gets to play histrionics, romance, adventure and the trauma of self-discovery. Lucia's two companions in crime-solving are both idealists. Felix, a leftist who fought against Franco in Spain in the '30s, refuses to accept corruption in any form. And Adrian refuses to see Lucia as she herself does but rather as a vibrant, passionate woman. His pursuit of her makes her gradually convinced he may be right.
"Lucia, Lucia" never takes itself too seriously. The movie wants to get from A to B by taking the most interesting and colorful route possible. At times, the movie sags from too much plot, but the characters remain buoyant and funny right to the very end.
LUCIA, LUCIA
Fox Searchlight
Titan Prods. and Argon Communications in association with Lola Films
Credits:
Writer-director: Antonio Serrano
Based on the novel by: Rosa Montero
Producers: Epigmenio Ibarra, Carlos Payan, Christian Valdelievre, Inna Payan, Matthias Ehrenberg
Director of photography: Xavier Perez Grobet
Art director: Brigitte Broch
Music: Nacho Mastretta
Co-producer: Andres Vicente Gomez
Editor: Jorge Garcia
Cast:
Lucia: Cecilia Roth
Adrian: Kuno Becker
Felix: Carlos Alvarez-Novoa
Running time -- 110 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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