Tag: Balloon
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Pema Tseden’s ‘Snow Leopard’ Among Asian Titles Acquired at Busan Acfm for U.K., Ireland by Day For Night (Exclusive)
Distributor, Day for Night has acquired a trio of Asian titles for U.K. and Ireland at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents and Film Market.Day for Night is acquiring the late Pema Tseden’s “Snow Leopard” from Rediance. Pema Tseden, the Tibetan art house film director known for “Jinpa” and “Balloon,” died at 53 earlier…
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‘Balloon’: Film Review
On paper, the plight of a pair of families fleeing 1979’s East Germany in a hot air balloon sounds like fabricated fodder for a spy novel. But as implausible as it sounds, this “The Mysterious Island”-esque grand escape from Deutschland’s then walled-in, oppressive slice really did happen. And nearly four decades after being the subject…
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‘Balloon’ takes best picture at Hainan Island International Film Festival
Wang Lina’s A First Farewell took awards for best director and best actress.Pema Tsedan’s Balloon was named best picture while Wang Lina’s A First Farewell took awards for best director and best actress (Sonam Wangmo) at the first Golden Coconut Awards at China’s Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) on Sunday night (December 8).Both films,…
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‘Balloon’ Floats to top at Tokyo Filmex Festival
Pema Tseden’s drama “Balloon” won the Grand Prize at Tokyo Filmex’s 20th edition, which unspooled Nov. 23-Dec. 1 at two locations in central Tokyo.The film, which premiered in the Horizon’s section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, examines the sex lives and mores of rural folk in the director’s native Tibet. Tseden also won grand…
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‘Siegfried & Roy’ Biopic in the Works From Director Michael Bully Herbig, Ufa Fiction
The life story of magicians and entertainers Siegfried and Roy is coming to the big screen. German multihyphenate Michael Bully Herbig, one of Germany’s biggest stars and most successful directors, is partnering with Ufa Fiction to direct two feature film projects, including a biopic about the German-American entertainers, whose Las Vegas act with big cats…
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Rediance picks up Venice Orizzonti title ‘Balloon’ (exclusive)
Beijing-based sales agent is also handling Locarno titles The Science Of Fictions, The Dove And The Wolf and Krabi, 2562.Beijing-based sales outfit Rediance has picked up international rights to Pema Tseden’s Tibetan-language drama Balloon, which will receive its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of this year’s Venice film festival.The film is produced by Tang…