Tag: Encounters
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Senegalese feature ‘Demba’ acquired for sales ahead of Berlinale debut (exclusive)
France’s The Party Film Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights on Mamadou Dia’s Demba, ahead of the film’s world premiere in Encounters at the Berlinale.It is the second feature from Senegalese filmmaker Dia, after 2019’s Nafi’s Father.Demba follows a 55-year-old man near retirement – whose mental health is deteriorating after the death of his wife…
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Why an Alien Encounters Docuseries Is Dominating the Netflix Top 10
Going through an “alien phase” in life is just as much a rite of passage as is learning how to drive a car, which is why it’s not surprising that Netflix’s newest docuseries, Encounters, has remained within the Top 10 of television shows on the streaming service since it first dropped on September 27, 2023.…
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Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell review – complex, poetic digressions in Soviet Russia
These two striking, improvisatory remasters by Kira Muratova resemble early Polanski, and establish the late director as a fiercely intelligent auteurTwo complex, elusive and demanding films by the late Moldovan-born, Ukrainian-based director Kira Muratova have now been digitally remastered and rereleased: Brief Encounters (1967) (★★★★★) and The Long Farewell (1971) (★★★★★). The latter was not…
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Ashley McKenzie on Her Romantic Second Feature ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’
Filmmaker Ashley McKenzie (“Werewolf”) returns to the Berlinale this year with her second feature, “Queens of the Qing Dynasty,” premiering in Encounters on Tuesday. The writer-director stands out as an emerging Canadian talent, backed by the Toronto Film Critics Assn., who awarded her debut film the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award in 2017.An impressive…