Tag: Daughter of Mine
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…