• News

    Director Eytan Fox floats The Bubble at Berlin

    2005-02-10T04:00:00Z

    After the high-profile success of last year's Panoramaopening film Walk On Water, Israeli-American director Eytan Fox is using Berlin as the platform for his next film The Bubble.New French sales company Scalpel Films has picked upinternational rights to the story of three young people who share an apartmentin Tel Aviv's ...

  • Reviews

    The Bubble (Ha'Bua)

    2006-08-02T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Eytan Fox. Is. 2006. 90mins.Film-maker Eytan Foxdisappointingly follows Walk On Water, one of Israel's strongest exports of recenttimes, with The Bubble, asurprisingly feeble drama which picks up on similar themes but frames them indisorganised fashion.Set in Tel Aviv's Shenkin neighbourhood, the Israeli capital's equivalent ofGreenwich Village, the drama addresses ...

  • News

    Israel's The Bubble picked up by Strand

    2007-02-09T13:22:00Z

    Strand Releasing has snapped up US rights to Israeli director Eytan Fox's Panorama title, The Bubble, it was confirmed this week. The deal was negotiated between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Pierre Menahem of Scalpel Films. Strand Releasing plans an August opening for the film across the US. The ...

  • News

    Fox's Bubble ready to burst onto world stage

    2005-11-14T04:00:00Z

    Director Eytan Fox and writer-producer Gal Uchovsky havecompleted their follow-up to Israel's biggestever international hit Walk On Water ($2.7m in US, $7m worldwide).The Bubble returns to the theme of the individual's right to live a life of their own choosing and the Middle East conflict, which determines fates regardless of ...

  • News

    First Berlinale Panorama titles unveiled

    2007-01-11T10:41:00Z

    New films by Hal Hartley (Fay Grim), Eytan Fox (The Bubble), Korea's Hong Sangsoo (Woman On The Beach), actress Julie Delpy (Two Days in Paris) and actor Antonio Banderas (Summer Rain) are among the titles so far confirmed for more than half of the programme for this year's Panorama at ...

  • News

    Scalpel takes rights to Berlin-bound In Memory Of Myself

    2007-01-22T11:16:00Z

    Pierre Menahem's Paris-based sales label Scalpel Films has picked up worldwide rights to Berlin competition title In Memory Of Myself (In Memoria Di Me), by Italy's Saverio Costanzo.Scalpel will also handle German title Hotel Very Welcome, by Sonja Heiss, at Perspective Deutsches Kino and Panorama title The Bubble, by Israel's ...

  • News

    Belgrade starts competition for Europe Out Of Europe sidebar

    2007-02-20T11:51:00Z

    The 35th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST (Feb 23-Mar 4) will open with Berlinale Forum entry The Trap (Klopka) by Serbian Srdan Golubovic. The festival will present 80 of the most successful films from other festivals around the world over the past year, including Babel and Marie Antoinette, and for ...

  • News

    Belgrade festival attracts record attendance

    2007-03-04T21:50:00Z

    The beleagured Serbian film industry was boosted by a strong 35th Belgrade International Film Festival.Local cinema-going has suffered recently with attendance dropping 42% year-on-year in 2006, with just 40 theatres remaining.The Belgrade event, closed by Nanni Moretti's The Caiman, by contrast attracted a record 100,000 admissions to see about 80 ...

  • News

    Chinese film takes Golden Bear

    2007-02-17T23:47:00Z

    Chinese director Wang Quan'an had an ideal start for the Chinese New Year by winning this year's Golden Bear for his third feature Tuya's Marriage (Tu ya de hun shi) on the eve of the Year of the Pig.The tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in ...

  • News

    Son Of Rambow to open Seattle Film Festival

    2007-05-10T00:32:00Z

    The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) will kick off with Garth Jennings' coming-of-age drama Son Of Rambow and close with the North American premiere of Laurent Tirard's period comedy Moliere.All in all 405 features will screen during the May 24-Jun 17 festival. Events include the new Planet Cinema ...