It would be reductive and unfair to say that Michal Marczak’s “All These Sleepless Nights” is the film that Terrence Malick has been trying to make for the last 10 years, but it certainly feels that way while you’re watching it. A mesmeric, free-floating odyssey that wends its way through a hazy year in the molten lives of two Polish twentysomethings, this unclassifiable wonder obscures the divide between fiction and documentary until the distinction is ultimately irrelevant, using the raw material of real life to create a richer story of drift and becoming than “Song to Song” could ever manufacture from oblivious celebrities trying to find their characters between the notes.
Unfolding like a plotless reality show that was shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, this lucid dream of a movie paints an unmoored portrait of a city in the throes of an orgastic reawakening. From the opening images of fireworks exploding over downtown Warsaw,...
Unfolding like a plotless reality show that was shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, this lucid dream of a movie paints an unmoored portrait of a city in the throes of an orgastic reawakening. From the opening images of fireworks exploding over downtown Warsaw,...
- 4/7/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
There’s a new music video featuring the beautifully haunting vocals of Thom Yorke, but it’s not from Radiohead.
Yorke has collaborated with English electronic musician Mark Pritchard on the track “Beautiful People,” from Pritchard’s album “Under the Sun.” The music video, which premiered at Sundance’s Next Fest, ran on The Guardian on Thursday.
Directed by documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Michal Marczak, the video follows an unidentifiable person, whose head sometimes features a holograph of Yorke, walking around a strange land that doesn’t appear to be governed by the laws of physics. Marczak has directed three documentaries, including 2012’s “Fuck for Forest” about a bizarre charity that raises money for the environmental by selling home-made erotic movies online.
“Beautiful People” has nothing to do with Radiohead, which last year wrote a tune for the James Bond film “Spectre” that sadly didn’t end up being included in the film,...
Yorke has collaborated with English electronic musician Mark Pritchard on the track “Beautiful People,” from Pritchard’s album “Under the Sun.” The music video, which premiered at Sundance’s Next Fest, ran on The Guardian on Thursday.
Directed by documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Michal Marczak, the video follows an unidentifiable person, whose head sometimes features a holograph of Yorke, walking around a strange land that doesn’t appear to be governed by the laws of physics. Marczak has directed three documentaries, including 2012’s “Fuck for Forest” about a bizarre charity that raises money for the environmental by selling home-made erotic movies online.
“Beautiful People” has nothing to do with Radiohead, which last year wrote a tune for the James Bond film “Spectre” that sadly didn’t end up being included in the film,...
- 9/2/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Based on their outstanding careers forged on international co-productions, 24 up-and-coming players in the European film industry have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion's (Efp) networking platform Producers on the Move. Now in its 15th year, Efp spotlights emerging European producers at the Cannes Film Festival from May 17-19 and helps them embark on successful cooperation with their similarly ambitious Producers on the Move colleagues from all over Europe.
The programas been financially supported by the Media Program (2007-2013) of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations who each made a careful selection of their national participants according to specific criteria.
The schedule of Producers on the Move includes working sessions, one-to-one speed-dating meetings and various opportunities to exchange knowledge and follow up discussions on future projects. In addition, Efp will be teaming up with the European cultural channel Arte and the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages for Producers on the Move. For the first time, Eurimages has prepared a case study exclusively for Efp's program to be discussed under the direction of Eurimages Executive Director Roberto Olla.
He points out the importance of programs such as Producers on the Move:
“This is the 4th consecutive year that Eurimages is involved with this initiative which perfectly marries our objectives of encouraging co-operation between producers so as to stimulate cinematographic co-productions and of promoting their international distribution. Further to the success of the collaboration at the Cannes Festival, the Eurimages Fund has strengthened its partnership with European Film Promotion through other initiatives which also seek to unite professionals from the European film industry in order to participate in its development on an international level.”
Looking back at previous editions, Efp's programme results each year in several new trans-national co-productions and gives the producers a higher profile in Cannes. For 2013, almost all of the participants are still in contact with one another and 17 co-productions are in development.
One recent success story is the coming-of-age feature The Word, directed by Anna Kazejak and co-produced by two Producers on the Move from 2011, Lukasz Dzieciol(Opus Film, Poland) and Jesper Morthorst (Sf Film Production, Denmark). The film was released in Poland in March after its premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation sidebar.
Currently in post is Dirk Ohm - The Illusionist That Disappeared, directed by Bobbie Peers. The producer Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film As, Norway), joined forces for this film with her Producers on the Move colleague from 2011, Gian-Piero Ringel (Neue Road Movies, Germany) and the 2010 Producers on the Move, Lizette Jonjic (Migma Film, Sweden). Norway has scheduled the release for September 2014. Ekerhovd and Ringel also worked together for two further projects: Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders and the six episodes for Cathedrals of Culture which have been presented at this year’s Berlinale.
The following producers were selected by the Efp member organizations:
Viktoria
Director: Maya Vitkova
Producer: Maya Vitkova
Viktoria Films, Bulgaria
selected by Bulgarian National Film Centre
Gangster of Love
Director: Nebojša Slijepcevic
Producer: Vanja Jambrović
Restart, Croatia
selected by Croation Audiovisual Centre
Burning Bush
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producer: Tomáš Hrubỳ
Nutprodukce, Czech Republic
selected by Czech Film Center
Antboy
Director: Ask Hasselbalch
Producer: Eva Jakobsen
Nimbus Film, Denmark
selected by Danish Film Institute
Concrete Night
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Producer: Mark Lwoff
Bufo, Finland
selected by Finnish Film Foundation
Möbius
Director: Eric Rochant
Producer: Mathias Rubin
Récifilms, France
selected by UniFrance films
Brides
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Gemini, Georgia
selected by Georgian National Film Center
The Special Need
Director: Carlo Zoratti
Producer: Henning Kamm
Detailfilm, Germany
selected by German Films
Standing Aside, Watching
Director: Yorgos Servetas
Producer: Konstantin Kontovrakis
Heretic Creative Producer, Greece
selected by Greek Film Centre
Land of Storms
Director: Adam Csaszi
Producer: Eszter Gyárfás
Proton Cinema, Hungary
selected by Magyar Filmunió/ Hungarian National Film Fund
Metalhead
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Producer: Árni Filippusson
Mystery, Iceland
selected by Icelandic Fim Centre
You're Ugly Too
Director: Mark Noonan
Producer: John Keville
Sp Films, Ireland
selected by Irish Film Board
Black Souls
Director: Francesco Munzi
Producer: Olivia Musini
Cinemaundici, Italy
selected by Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Monument to Michael Jackson
Director: Darko Lungulov
Co-Producer: Ognen Antov
Dream Factory Macedonia, Fyr of Macedonia
selected by Macedonian Film Agency
The Ascent
Director: Nemanja Becanovic
Producer: Ivan Djurović
Artikulacija Production, Montenegro
selected by Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
Totally True Love
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Producer: Teréz Hollo-Klausen
Anna Kron Film, Norway
selected by Norwegian Film Institute
Fuck for Forest
Director: Michal Marczak
Producer: Mikołaj Pokromski
Pokromski Studio, Poland
selected by Polish Film Institute
Collider
Director: Jason Butler
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
beActive Entertainment, Portugal
selected by Ica I.P. / Portugal
Slovakia 2.0
Director: Iveta Grófová, Juraj Herz, Martin Šulík, Miro Jelok, Mišo Suchý, Ondrej Rudavský, Peter Kerekes, Peter Krištúfek, Viera Cákanyová, Zuzana Liová
Producer: Mátyás Prikler
MPhilms, Slovak Republic
selected by Slovak Film Institute
The Extraordinary Tale
Director: José F. Ortuño, Laura Alvea
Producer: Marta Velasco
Áralan Films, Spain
selected by Icaa / Spain
Beyond Beyond
Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Producer: Petter Lindblad
Snowcloud Films, Sweden
selected by Swedish Film Institute
Ate Ver La Luz
Director: Basil da Cunha
Producer: Elodie Brunner
Box Productions, Switzerland
selected by Swiss Films
Secrets of War
Director: Dennis Bots
Producer: David Bijker
Bijker Film & TV, The Netherlands
selected by Eye International
Weekend
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
The Bureau Film Company, United Kingdom
selected by British Council...
The programas been financially supported by the Media Program (2007-2013) of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations who each made a careful selection of their national participants according to specific criteria.
The schedule of Producers on the Move includes working sessions, one-to-one speed-dating meetings and various opportunities to exchange knowledge and follow up discussions on future projects. In addition, Efp will be teaming up with the European cultural channel Arte and the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages for Producers on the Move. For the first time, Eurimages has prepared a case study exclusively for Efp's program to be discussed under the direction of Eurimages Executive Director Roberto Olla.
He points out the importance of programs such as Producers on the Move:
“This is the 4th consecutive year that Eurimages is involved with this initiative which perfectly marries our objectives of encouraging co-operation between producers so as to stimulate cinematographic co-productions and of promoting their international distribution. Further to the success of the collaboration at the Cannes Festival, the Eurimages Fund has strengthened its partnership with European Film Promotion through other initiatives which also seek to unite professionals from the European film industry in order to participate in its development on an international level.”
Looking back at previous editions, Efp's programme results each year in several new trans-national co-productions and gives the producers a higher profile in Cannes. For 2013, almost all of the participants are still in contact with one another and 17 co-productions are in development.
One recent success story is the coming-of-age feature The Word, directed by Anna Kazejak and co-produced by two Producers on the Move from 2011, Lukasz Dzieciol(Opus Film, Poland) and Jesper Morthorst (Sf Film Production, Denmark). The film was released in Poland in March after its premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation sidebar.
Currently in post is Dirk Ohm - The Illusionist That Disappeared, directed by Bobbie Peers. The producer Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film As, Norway), joined forces for this film with her Producers on the Move colleague from 2011, Gian-Piero Ringel (Neue Road Movies, Germany) and the 2010 Producers on the Move, Lizette Jonjic (Migma Film, Sweden). Norway has scheduled the release for September 2014. Ekerhovd and Ringel also worked together for two further projects: Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders and the six episodes for Cathedrals of Culture which have been presented at this year’s Berlinale.
The following producers were selected by the Efp member organizations:
Viktoria
Director: Maya Vitkova
Producer: Maya Vitkova
Viktoria Films, Bulgaria
selected by Bulgarian National Film Centre
Gangster of Love
Director: Nebojša Slijepcevic
Producer: Vanja Jambrović
Restart, Croatia
selected by Croation Audiovisual Centre
Burning Bush
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producer: Tomáš Hrubỳ
Nutprodukce, Czech Republic
selected by Czech Film Center
Antboy
Director: Ask Hasselbalch
Producer: Eva Jakobsen
Nimbus Film, Denmark
selected by Danish Film Institute
Concrete Night
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Producer: Mark Lwoff
Bufo, Finland
selected by Finnish Film Foundation
Möbius
Director: Eric Rochant
Producer: Mathias Rubin
Récifilms, France
selected by UniFrance films
Brides
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Gemini, Georgia
selected by Georgian National Film Center
The Special Need
Director: Carlo Zoratti
Producer: Henning Kamm
Detailfilm, Germany
selected by German Films
Standing Aside, Watching
Director: Yorgos Servetas
Producer: Konstantin Kontovrakis
Heretic Creative Producer, Greece
selected by Greek Film Centre
Land of Storms
Director: Adam Csaszi
Producer: Eszter Gyárfás
Proton Cinema, Hungary
selected by Magyar Filmunió/ Hungarian National Film Fund
Metalhead
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Producer: Árni Filippusson
Mystery, Iceland
selected by Icelandic Fim Centre
You're Ugly Too
Director: Mark Noonan
Producer: John Keville
Sp Films, Ireland
selected by Irish Film Board
Black Souls
Director: Francesco Munzi
Producer: Olivia Musini
Cinemaundici, Italy
selected by Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Monument to Michael Jackson
Director: Darko Lungulov
Co-Producer: Ognen Antov
Dream Factory Macedonia, Fyr of Macedonia
selected by Macedonian Film Agency
The Ascent
Director: Nemanja Becanovic
Producer: Ivan Djurović
Artikulacija Production, Montenegro
selected by Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
Totally True Love
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Producer: Teréz Hollo-Klausen
Anna Kron Film, Norway
selected by Norwegian Film Institute
Fuck for Forest
Director: Michal Marczak
Producer: Mikołaj Pokromski
Pokromski Studio, Poland
selected by Polish Film Institute
Collider
Director: Jason Butler
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
beActive Entertainment, Portugal
selected by Ica I.P. / Portugal
Slovakia 2.0
Director: Iveta Grófová, Juraj Herz, Martin Šulík, Miro Jelok, Mišo Suchý, Ondrej Rudavský, Peter Kerekes, Peter Krištúfek, Viera Cákanyová, Zuzana Liová
Producer: Mátyás Prikler
MPhilms, Slovak Republic
selected by Slovak Film Institute
The Extraordinary Tale
Director: José F. Ortuño, Laura Alvea
Producer: Marta Velasco
Áralan Films, Spain
selected by Icaa / Spain
Beyond Beyond
Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Producer: Petter Lindblad
Snowcloud Films, Sweden
selected by Swedish Film Institute
Ate Ver La Luz
Director: Basil da Cunha
Producer: Elodie Brunner
Box Productions, Switzerland
selected by Swiss Films
Secrets of War
Director: Dennis Bots
Producer: David Bijker
Bijker Film & TV, The Netherlands
selected by Eye International
Weekend
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
The Bureau Film Company, United Kingdom
selected by British Council...
- 5/3/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Leona and Tommy, a young Norwegian couple, were upset by the amount of war and destruction of the earth they saw on the news, so they decided to put their best talents to work in order to save the environment. Embodying the motto, "do the best you can with what you've got," Leona and Tommy set about saving the world one naked photo at a time, and Fuck For Forest, the Ngo was born. Essentially a porn website, the Fuck for Forest crew takes nude photos and videos of themselves and others which air live behind a paywall (unless you've participated in a photoshoot yourself). "Fuck For Forest," the film, directed by Michal Marczak, follows the activities of the core group, a merry band of hippies living and loving in Berlin. The result is a freewheeling, heady brew of a film, an intoxicating, surprising, but ultimately revelatory work that may...
- 8/14/2013
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Eco-sex campaigners Fuck for Forest and atheists who look down on 'the religious' will not save us any more than the C of E
There is a wonderful, sad, silly piece in Der Spiegel about a group of earnest young people in Berlin who make idealistic erotic films. They are almost all foreigners, mostly Scandinavians, and they make earnest videos of themselves whose proceeds are meant to go towards saving the rainforests. A Polish filmmaker has in turn made a documentary film about their campaign. The Der Spiegel article says:
"The film Fuck For Forest shows the eco-porn hippies as they cruise the streets in a bid to convince total strangers to engage in spontaneous sex in front of the camera; how they use small camcorders to zoom in on their unshaven genitalia and bushy pubic hair; how two of them penetrate each other in front of an audience in...
There is a wonderful, sad, silly piece in Der Spiegel about a group of earnest young people in Berlin who make idealistic erotic films. They are almost all foreigners, mostly Scandinavians, and they make earnest videos of themselves whose proceeds are meant to go towards saving the rainforests. A Polish filmmaker has in turn made a documentary film about their campaign. The Der Spiegel article says:
"The film Fuck For Forest shows the eco-porn hippies as they cruise the streets in a bid to convince total strangers to engage in spontaneous sex in front of the camera; how they use small camcorders to zoom in on their unshaven genitalia and bushy pubic hair; how two of them penetrate each other in front of an audience in...
- 6/28/2013
- by Andrew Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary wins jury award at the Sheffield festival.
The Act of Killing has won the Special Jury Award at the 20th Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The film, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, features former Indonesian death squad leaders reenacting their real-life mass-killings.
Producer and jury spokesperson Krishan Arora said: “From its mystical beginning, this film presented to us the celebratory narrative inside people’s heads while they are committing unspeakable acts.
“Despite its uncomfortable length, it revealed a reality of genocide in which we are all complicit. The film leaves you asking more questions than it provides answers and is an important piece of cinema.
A special mention was given to Xu Huijing’s Mothers, which centres on a village in northern China and the impact of the state-enforced birth control policy.
Prizes were handed out at a ceremony this morning on the final day of Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 12-16).
The Inspiration Award went to...
The Act of Killing has won the Special Jury Award at the 20th Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The film, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, features former Indonesian death squad leaders reenacting their real-life mass-killings.
Producer and jury spokesperson Krishan Arora said: “From its mystical beginning, this film presented to us the celebratory narrative inside people’s heads while they are committing unspeakable acts.
“Despite its uncomfortable length, it revealed a reality of genocide in which we are all complicit. The film leaves you asking more questions than it provides answers and is an important piece of cinema.
A special mention was given to Xu Huijing’s Mothers, which centres on a village in northern China and the impact of the state-enforced birth control policy.
Prizes were handed out at a ceremony this morning on the final day of Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 12-16).
The Inspiration Award went to...
- 6/16/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exploits For Earth: Marczak Gazes Into The Gutter
After the breakout success of his docu debut At the Edge of Russia, Polish director Michal Marczak found himself following the sexual and political exploits of Fuck For Forest, a Berlin based organization whose core beliefs link the free-sex ideology of the 60s and 70s with a save-the-world objective that leap-frogs off the back of exotica. To be frank, they produce porn – gritty, no cost productions starring themselves or willing participants plucked off the street. The resulting material is distributed via their website for a fee banked with the intention of promoting environmentalism. Or, at least that’s the plan. Marczak’s meandering exposé often feels as free spirited as the nebulous group of stargazing activists that make up the porn peddling agency it tracks, but in their blindly thrusting propulsion his film finds a fascinating conundrum of culture clash and wasted potential.
After the breakout success of his docu debut At the Edge of Russia, Polish director Michal Marczak found himself following the sexual and political exploits of Fuck For Forest, a Berlin based organization whose core beliefs link the free-sex ideology of the 60s and 70s with a save-the-world objective that leap-frogs off the back of exotica. To be frank, they produce porn – gritty, no cost productions starring themselves or willing participants plucked off the street. The resulting material is distributed via their website for a fee banked with the intention of promoting environmentalism. Or, at least that’s the plan. Marczak’s meandering exposé often feels as free spirited as the nebulous group of stargazing activists that make up the porn peddling agency it tracks, but in their blindly thrusting propulsion his film finds a fascinating conundrum of culture clash and wasted potential.
- 4/28/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
What with one thing and another, we almost forgot that this week is Cannes selection week: as Peter Bradshaw pointed out, almost as sure a fixture in the annual seasonal cycle as the first cuckoo of spring.
We had the official lineup exactly a week ago, the Directors Fortnight and Critics Week at the start of this week, and yesterday the composition of the (alarmingly star-studded) jury.
As ever, there's an almost indecent amount of stuff to get excited
about: more Gozzle, a new Coens and Baz Lurhman's Great Gatsby being personal highlights. If you like your news in picture form, here's 10 key films.
In the news
Reese Witherspoon arrested for disorderly conduct
Bret Easton Ellis's tweets provoke 'ban' from gay media awards
Seth MacFarlane considering reprising his role as Oscar's host
DreamWorks Animation...
The big story
What with one thing and another, we almost forgot that this week is Cannes selection week: as Peter Bradshaw pointed out, almost as sure a fixture in the annual seasonal cycle as the first cuckoo of spring.
We had the official lineup exactly a week ago, the Directors Fortnight and Critics Week at the start of this week, and yesterday the composition of the (alarmingly star-studded) jury.
As ever, there's an almost indecent amount of stuff to get excited
about: more Gozzle, a new Coens and Baz Lurhman's Great Gatsby being personal highlights. If you like your news in picture form, here's 10 key films.
In the news
Reese Witherspoon arrested for disorderly conduct
Bret Easton Ellis's tweets provoke 'ban' from gay media awards
Seth MacFarlane considering reprising his role as Oscar's host
DreamWorks Animation...
- 4/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Time Out has put its heart on its sleeve and shouted its Brief Encounter infatuation from the rooftops. Will you join them in their lovebombing of the 68-year-old classic? Or have your tastes in romantic movies moved on?
Sam played it again, now it's our turn to plug in the turntable and petition you once more for your top romance films of all time. The peg? Time Out's 100 Most Romantic Films of all Time poll, which has been announced today, and which names Brief Encounter as the title most likely to get your heart a-flutter.
But by our reckoning, the Time Out folk are cruising for a bruising; when we came to the same conclusion three years ago, the readers felt we'd done them wrong, and suggested Casablanca was Mr Right when it came to romantic movies.
Do you feel the same? Has your taste for gin joints endured over the past three years?...
Sam played it again, now it's our turn to plug in the turntable and petition you once more for your top romance films of all time. The peg? Time Out's 100 Most Romantic Films of all Time poll, which has been announced today, and which names Brief Encounter as the title most likely to get your heart a-flutter.
But by our reckoning, the Time Out folk are cruising for a bruising; when we came to the same conclusion three years ago, the readers felt we'd done them wrong, and suggested Casablanca was Mr Right when it came to romantic movies.
Do you feel the same? Has your taste for gin joints endured over the past three years?...
- 4/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Michal Marczak's movie about a group of oddball environmental crusaders in Berlin recalls Werner Herzog without ever equalling him
Directed by a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School in Warsaw, this deadpan documentary introduces us to a discontented Norwegian, the 23-year-old Danny, a former Olympian equestrian star who meets three latter-day hippies in Berlin, that hothouse for the nurturing of lost causes. They're the 32-year-old Tommy, a native of Oslo, and two German women, the 28-year-old Leona and the 22-year-old Natty, and he joins their quest to save the planet. Calling their idealistic, non-profit organisation Fuck for Forest, they pose for nude photographs and take part in clumsy hardcore movies as a way of raising money to save the rainforest. They speak a comic form of English, live in squats, dress in clothes they find in the streets, scavenge for food in dustbins and sing in primitive nightclubs.
Directed by a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School in Warsaw, this deadpan documentary introduces us to a discontented Norwegian, the 23-year-old Danny, a former Olympian equestrian star who meets three latter-day hippies in Berlin, that hothouse for the nurturing of lost causes. They're the 32-year-old Tommy, a native of Oslo, and two German women, the 28-year-old Leona and the 22-year-old Natty, and he joins their quest to save the planet. Calling their idealistic, non-profit organisation Fuck for Forest, they pose for nude photographs and take part in clumsy hardcore movies as a way of raising money to save the rainforest. They speak a comic form of English, live in squats, dress in clothes they find in the streets, scavenge for food in dustbins and sing in primitive nightclubs.
- 4/20/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Not much goes to plan for a Berlin-based enviromentalist collective that makes porn in this curious documentary
There's an unintentional comedy in this curious, entertaining documentary by Polish film-maker Michał Marczak, about Berlin-based activist collective Fuck for Forest. They make gonzo porn videos of themselves and volunteers from the street, upload them to the web, charge for viewing and donate the money to Amazonian rainforest charities. At least … that's the plan.
But when they journey to Amazonian communities offering cash, they are dismayed to find that the people there are not groovy or grateful but hostile, suspicious and contemptuous of these Euro free-love crusties, finding them naive and condescending. The Fuck-for-Foresters leave in dejection, and it's not clear how funny this spectacle is supposed to be. They seemed in any case to have little idea as to how their money could be spent and, in fact, none of it is...
There's an unintentional comedy in this curious, entertaining documentary by Polish film-maker Michał Marczak, about Berlin-based activist collective Fuck for Forest. They make gonzo porn videos of themselves and volunteers from the street, upload them to the web, charge for viewing and donate the money to Amazonian rainforest charities. At least … that's the plan.
But when they journey to Amazonian communities offering cash, they are dismayed to find that the people there are not groovy or grateful but hostile, suspicious and contemptuous of these Euro free-love crusties, finding them naive and condescending. The Fuck-for-Foresters leave in dejection, and it's not clear how funny this spectacle is supposed to be. They seemed in any case to have little idea as to how their money could be spent and, in fact, none of it is...
- 4/18/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Some of the most entertaining documentaries utilise humorous subject matter that audiences can titter at, before revealing a more affecting interior. This is certainly the plan with F*ck for Forest (2012), the centrepiece screening of the 11th annual Polish Film Festival, Kinoteka. The sophomore feature of director Michal Marczak, the film chronicles the exploits of a troupe of neo-hippies who combine free love with a mission to save the planet. More than just a provocative title, 'Fuck for Forest' is the name of a Berlin-based Ngo that has one goal; to raise money for environmental causes through human fornication.
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- 4/15/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Fuck for Forest use porn to spread their green message. In a new documentary, they are taken to the Amazon to meet a threatened Peruvian tribe. But how can they rescue the planet when they can barely look after each other?
"Blood and sperm. The perfect mix," says a tattooed hippy, as he licks both off his hands, having just had sex with a woman in front of a small audience in a Berlin basement. "Life-giving fluids we are all so afraid of. We're so afraid of ourselves! It's all organic." It's not everyone's idea of popular entertainment, but this scene can be experienced at a safe distance in a new documentary, F*ck for Forest, detailing the activities of the group of the same name (without the asterisk). They enjoy confronting society with sex, nudity and bodily fluids, but what Fuck for Forest (Fff) really want to do is save the world.
"Blood and sperm. The perfect mix," says a tattooed hippy, as he licks both off his hands, having just had sex with a woman in front of a small audience in a Berlin basement. "Life-giving fluids we are all so afraid of. We're so afraid of ourselves! It's all organic." It's not everyone's idea of popular entertainment, but this scene can be experienced at a safe distance in a new documentary, F*ck for Forest, detailing the activities of the group of the same name (without the asterisk). They enjoy confronting society with sex, nudity and bodily fluids, but what Fuck for Forest (Fff) really want to do is save the world.
- 4/12/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Fresh off appearances at the Warsaw and Rotterdam film festivals and on its way to SXSW, Michal Marczak's documentary Fuck For Forest is sure to raise eyebrows for its racy subject matter.Berlin's Fuck For Forest is one of the world's most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the Ngo raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films on the internet. Meet Danny, a troubled soul, as he accidentally discovers this exuberant, neo-hippy world where sexual liberation merges with global altruism, and joins their already colourful operation. From the streets of Berlin to the depths of the Amazon, together they are on a planet-saving mission to buy a piece of forest and save the indigenous peoples from...
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- 2/1/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
In last week’s rundown of my favorite posters of 2012 I included the work of a young British designer named Sam Ashby who had created two witty, rule-bending posters for two of my very favorite films of the year: The Turin Horse and Two Years at Sea. Both of those played with type over a single stark black and white image so it was a surprise to see his newest poster—unveiled here for the first time—which is a riot of color, detail and illustration.
The delightfully titled Fuck for Forest, or Fff, is a brand new documentary by Polish director Michał Marczak about the radical German eco-charity of the same name.
The film—which had its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last October where it won the Best Documentary prize—will play at the Rotterdam Film Festival next month and will be distributed in the UK by Dogwoof in March.
The delightfully titled Fuck for Forest, or Fff, is a brand new documentary by Polish director Michał Marczak about the radical German eco-charity of the same name.
The film—which had its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last October where it won the Best Documentary prize—will play at the Rotterdam Film Festival next month and will be distributed in the UK by Dogwoof in March.
- 1/4/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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