Tag: Fire at Sea
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Berlin Film Festival Winners 2021: ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Takes Golden Bear
The winners for the virtual 2021 Berlin International Film Festival have been revealed, and Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s satire “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” received the Golden Bear for best film. The competition jury celebrated the film as “a rare and essential quality of a lasting art work,” adding in a statement, “It captures…
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Gianfranco Rosi on Capturing Scars of Isis-Inflicted Trauma in ‘Notturno’
Gianfranco Rosi’s “Notturno” was shot over three years along the rattled borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon in the director’s signature observational – but also empathetic – style. The impressionistic doc captures people who have long been contending with the ravages of war and terror, most recently inflicted by Isis. Whose members, incidentally, at…
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Gianfranco Rosi talks documentary challenges, upcoming projects
Italian documentarian was giving a masterclass at Qumra.Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi is renowned in documentary circles for the immersive and lengthy processes behind his work which can result in him living months, and often years, in the place or with the community he wants to capture on film.He spent more than a year on the…
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Tilda Swinton Joins Doha’s Qumra Masters Lineup
Oscar-winning British actress Tilda Swinton (“Michael Clayton,” “We Need to Talk about Kevin”) has joined the lineup of star talent who will act as mentors for the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra Masters program. The fourth edition of Qumra Masters, an industry forum that focuses on first- and second-time filmmakers, will be held March 9-14.Swinton joins…
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Berlin Film Review: ‘Eldorado’
Two years after Gianfranco Rosi’s “Fire at Sea” won the Golden Bear at Berlin, the European migrant crisis remains the most prominent topic in the continent’s non-fiction cinema, yielding some essential films and other sketchier, more opportunistic ones. In the sincerely felt “Eldorado,” veteran Swiss filmmaker Markus Imhoof easily staves off “just another refugee doc”…