Tag: Daughter of Mine

  • Oslo Pix returns for second year with three competitions

    Oslo Pix returns for second year with three competitions

    Event will open with Joern Utkilen’s Norwegian debut feature Lake Over Fire.The second edition of Oslo Pix (June 4-10) will open with Joern Utkilen’s Norwegian debut feature Lake Over Fire and close with Gustav Moller’s Danish festival hit The Guilty.The festival has three competition programmes: Nordic fiction, Nordic documentary and international competition.The international competition is…

  • Female Filmmakers Win Top Prizes at Hong Kong International Film Festival

    Female filmmakers bagged top prizes at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on Monday, with Chinese drama “Girls Always Happy” scooping two awards and Japanese gay documentary “Of Love & Law” leading the documentary race.“Girls Always Happy,” the directorial debut of Chines filmmaker Yang Mingming, revolves around a complex mother-daughter relationship. It won the Firebird…

  • ‘Daughter of Mine’ Director Laura Bispuri on Motherhood, Modernity and #MeToo

    Italian director Laura Bispuri made a splash in the 2015 Berlin Film Festival competition with her first feature, transgender-themed “Sworn Virgin.” She’s back at the Berlinale this year with “Daughter of Mine,” about a 10-year-old girl’s rapport with her adoptive and biological mothers. She spoke to Variety about tackling the theme of maternity from three…

  • Berlinale: Films Boutique Takes World Sales on Vivo Film’s New Title ‘Flesh Out’ (Exclusive)

    Vivo Film, the Rome-based shingle behind Laura Bispuri’s Berlinale competition entry “Daughter of Mine,” is producing Mauritania-set female empowerment drama “Flesh Out.” Films Boutique has picked up world sales rights for the title at the Efm.Directed by Italy’s Michela Occhipinti, “Flesh Out” is centered on a tradition in Mauritania and sub-Saharan Africa that sees some…

  • Berlin Film Review: ‘Daughter of Mine’ (Figlia mia)

    It has been a little while since the heyday of the Italian island melodrama, since Anna Magnani shaded her eyes from the glare over a darkly sparkling sea, or Ingrid Bergman staggered her stony way up Stromboli. But even back then it would have been rare to come across such a film in which the…