Hey dear friends! Welcome to the Film Journal channel. Anna News Category. Today’s issue:
1. ‘Radiograph Of A Family’ wins best feature documentary prize at IDFA
2. Slamdance announces 2021 line-up, new disabilities showcase
3. Ivaylo Hristov’s ‘Fear’ wins best film at Tallinn Black Nights
And now about everything in order.
0:00 Film Journal — Anna News. Today’s issue:
1. ‘Radiograph Of A Family’ (Iran) wins best feature documentary prize at IDFA
2. Slamdance announces 2021 line-up, new disabilities showcase
3. Ivaylo Hristov’s ‘Fear’ wins best film at Tallinn Black Nights
The films with international potential from the IDFA, Tallinn and Slamdance festivals
0:23 Slamdance announces 2021 line-up, new disabilities showcase (movie reaction, first time watching)
Canadian drama No Trace and documentary 18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story bookend a 25-strong feature line-up at the upcoming virtual Slamdance Film Festival 2021, which is also unveiling a new section for creators with disabilities. The feature selection includes 20 premieres and encompasses films from the UK, Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lithuania, Romania, Taiwan, and the US.
18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story by Stephen DeBro plays in Spotlight and chronicles the life of a 20th Century fight palace and the woman who ran it.
No Trace (Nulle Trace) from Simon Lavoie plays in the Breakouts section for people who, unlike those in the main section, have already made their first film. It takes place in the near future as a smuggler takes a young woman and her child across the border.
3:12 Ivaylo Hristov’s ‘Fear’ wins best film at Tallinn Black Nights
Director Ivaylo Hristov and producer Assen Vladimirov have won the Grand Prix for best film, for Bulgarian drama Fear, at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). Hristov and Vladimirov share the €10,000 grant that comes with the win.
The jury praised “a beautifully-made film that astutely balances dry humour with important contemporary drama. At a period when the subject of immigration is very much in the headlines this feature is very much a film for our times.” (film distribution)
4:03 Trailer ‘Fear’
4:49 ‘Radiograph Of A Family’ wins best feature documentary prize at IDFA
Amsterdam-based documentary festival IDFA has crowned Firouzeh Khosrovani’s Radiograph Of A Family as Best Feature-Length Documentary at its 2020 Awards Ceremony. The Best Feature-Length Documentary winner receives €20,000 while other awards range from €10,000 to €2,500.
Director Firouzeh Khosrovani (Fest of Duty, Profession: Documentarist, filmmaker) manages to get not just under the skin of her family, but also under that of modern Iran in her spare but inventive and revealing Radiograph of a Family. Khosrovani’s essay film could be described as pre-autobiography, as the history it deals with is less her own — although she figures prominently — than that of her parents, whose relationship is irrevocably transformed by seismic changes in their nation’s history. Premiering in IDFA, Radiograph should attract festival and niche platform slots for its individual and revealing approach to the themes of family relations, memory and women’s social roles.
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7:54 Trailer ‘Radiograph Of A Family’