All Features articles – Page 73
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FeaturesRobert De Niro regales Sarajevo audience, slams "crazy" Donald Trump
De Niro received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo for lifetime achievement at this year’s festival.
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FeaturesLocarno: spotlight on Summer Academy
Summer Academy returns to support another group of up-and-coming film-makers, critics and industry professionals, as Wendy Mitchell discovers.
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FeaturesLocarno: industry spotlight
This year’s Industry Days (August 6-8) at Locarno Film Festival has a sharper focus on the market potential of films at script stage, finds Martin Blaney.
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FeaturesLocarno: Open Doors Hub spotlights south Asian projects
This year Locarno’s annual co-production lab introduces a fresh format — a three-year focus on eight south Asian countries. Martin Blaney reports on the new Open Doors Hub.
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FeaturesLocarno's Carlo Chatrian talks "most challenging competition"
Chatrian tells Geoffrey Macnab why this year’s line-up is his most diverse and eclectic yet.
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FeaturesEran Kolirin on 'Beyond The Mountains And Hills'
How do we live our lives against a backdrop of hostility? This is the question posed by Eran Kolirin in Beyond The Mountains And Hills, his exploration of middle-class mores. Melanie Goodfellow reports.
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FeaturesMia Hansen-Love interview
French director Mia Hansen-Love talks about the joy of working with Isabelle Huppert, avoiding melancholy and a new project inspired by her relationship with her husband, Olivier Assayas. Geoffrey Macnab reports.
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FeaturesJerusalem: Women directors dominate Israeli shorts competition
This year’s expanded selection of short films in competition at Jerusalem Film Festival features a majority of women directors. Tom Grater finds out why.
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FeaturesJerusalem: Ori Sivan talks 'Harmonia'
Renowned TV writer-director Ori Sivan explains to Wendy Mitchell why his latest project Harmonia could only be made as a film.
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FeaturesJerusalem: Sam Spiegel lab introduces 2016 projects
International sales companies and financiers are in town to get the first glimpse of new projects from the prestigious Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Melanie Goodfellow reports.
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FeaturesIn Focus: Jerusalem Film & TV fund
The dynamic Jerusalem Film & Television Fund has a wide brief that includes attracting local and international production to the city and jump-starting its animation and VFX sectors. Geoffrey Macnab reports.
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FeaturesJerusalem: Nadav Lapid talks 'Diary Of A Wedding Photographer'
Inspired by his time as a wedding photographer, Nadav Lapid has transformed the complex feelings he has about love, intimacy and marriage into a 40-minute feature. Melanie Goodfellow reports.
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FeaturesIsraeli funds: For the love of film
For a relatively small country, Israel boasts a multitude of film funds. Geoffrey Macnab discovers how vital these are to both local and international film-makers
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FeaturesRemembering Ronit Elkabetz
Jerusalem Film Festival is paying tribute to late Israeli actress and director Ronit Elkabetz. Her friends and colleagues tell Melanie Goodfellow about their beloved collaborator.
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FeaturesRevisiting a British classic: 'Swallows And Amazons' set report
The UK team behind the new feature take on children’s classic Swallows And Amazons tell Tom Grater how the project set sail.
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FeaturesDocs land at Sunny Side
Virtual reality, SVoD and the return of the US networks to the documentary arena will be among the topics on the table at the 27th edition of Sunny Side Of The Doc (June 20-23). Melanie Goodfellow reports.
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FeaturesExperiential cinema: set to stun
A growing arsenal of immersive technologies is being deployed this summer by international exhibitors to tempt consumers off the sofa and into cinemas. Adrian Pennington reports.
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FeaturesScreenTech: Disappearing acts
Photo-real humans are now regularly used in VFX-heavy films but ensuring it is seamless and invisible is a tricky business. John Hazelton reports.
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Features...So that was Cannes 2016
From barefoot stars championing gender equality to the arrival of virtual reality and a noisy Palme d’Or debate, Melanie Goodfellow reflects on what went down on the Croisette this year.
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FeaturesDoc/Fest: Filmmakers show Cuba in transition
British Council supports a delegation of three emerging Cuban filmmakers, and one Colombian filmmaker with a Cuban project, to attend Sheffield Doc/Fest with their new works that explore Cuba in its moment of transition.