Tag: Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival appoints Ruben Ostlund as jury president
Washington [US]February 28 (ANI): Director Ruben Ostlund will head this year’s Cannes International Film Festival competition jury, organizers announced on Tuesday. The Swedish director’s “Triangle of Sadness” is a capitalist satire starring Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Dolly De Leon and the late Charlbi Dean. It won the Cannes Palme d’Or for best film last year, […]
Tarik Saleh – wants to “drill into the real”
Tarik Saleh has been acclaimed for his films and they have taken him to the world. At the Cannes Film Festival last summer, his “Boy from Heaven” won the award for best screenplay, which is “hard to top”, according to himself. But now he has a chance to win at another French film gala, having […]
The monstrous beauty of Iceland in the film “Godland” by Hlynur Pálmason
A young Danish pastor is sent on a mission to build a church and create a community in Iceland. This is how the film “Godland” by Hlynur Pálmason (creator of, among others, “Winter Brothers” and “White, White Day”) begins. Godland premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The audience gave him a standing ovation, and critics […]
The monstrous beauty of Iceland in the film “Godland” by Hlynur Pálmason
A young Danish pastor is sent on a mission to build a church and create a community in Iceland. This is how the film “Godland” by Hlynur Pálmason (creator of, among others, “Winter Brothers” and “White, White Day”) begins. Godland premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The audience gave him a standing ovation, and critics […]
The 50 most IMPORTANT Soviet and Russian animated films (VIDEOS)
Animation technology pioneers, the best-known screen adaptations, favorite characters that have won the love of audiences around the world and popular contemporary animated series – all this makes up Russian animation, the history of which goes back over a century. 1. The Beautiful Leukanida (Russian title: Prekrasnaya Lyukanida, ili Voyna usachey s rogachami), 1912 The […]
The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival opens in the Bosnian capital
SARAJEVO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) opened Friday with the film Triangle of Sadness by award-winning Swedish film director Ruben Ostlund. Ahead of the screening of his latest film, which won him the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival three months ago, Ostlund received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo […]
5 Russian actors in British films and TV shows
The TV program “The Undeclared War” about the near future, where British intelligence fights Russian hackers, was released on Britain’s Channel 4. One of the main characters in the program was played by the young actor German Segal from Russia. Find out more about him and other Russian actors who have participated in British projects […]
The BBC’s The Arts Hour on Tour arrives in Helsinki
There is an award-winning author on stage with Nikki Rosa LiksomThe novel, published 6 years ago, examines the historical tensions between Finland and neighboring Russia through the eyes of a young Finnish student and a Russian miner who enters into an unlikely friendship while traveling on a train to Russia. The film adaptation of Liksom’s […]
Culture collection: Two thirds of print newspaper subscribers are retired
Only 14 percent of the adults in Denmark (700,000 people in total) have a subscription to a printed newspaper, against 11 percent who subscribe to an online newspaper, according to The cultural habits survey, the cultural habits survey covers the first quarter of 2022. About 6 percent subscribe to both. The results indicate that it […]
Postcard from Cannes # 9: Place your bets
It has been a whirlwind two weeks at the Cannes Film Festival 2022, where dreams definitely came true for some at the awards ceremony on Saturday night. When the names of the winners were read out, those who saw the films shouted for joy, while others sighed, disappointed not to have placed the “winning bet”. […]
Postcards from Cannes # 9: Place your bets
It has been a whirlwind two weeks at the Cannes Film Festival 2022, where dreams definitely came true for some at the awards ceremony on Saturday night. When the names of the winners were read out, those who saw the films shouted for joy, while others sighed, disappointed not to have placed the “winning bet”. […]
Swedish satire on the super-rich wins the Cannes Palme d’Or
“Triangle of Sadness”, a sharp satire on class conflict by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival last Saturday. “Triangle of Sadness” places Ostlund among a selected group of two-time winners of Cannes’ highest prize. He won the Palme d’Or 2017 for “The Square”, and joked […]
Park Chan-wook wins best director at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes [France]May 29 (ANI): South Korea’s Park Chan-wook was named best director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Park received the award for best film director for his novel “Decision to Leave” at the 75th edition of the festival held at the Palais Lumiere in Cannes. News agency Yonhap reported that Park became […]
1st Ld Writethru: Triangle of Sadness wins the Palme d’Or at Cannes
PARIS, May 28 (Xinhua) – Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s film Triangle of Sadness won the Palme d’Or, highest award at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this Saturday. Triangle of Sadness is a movie where a couple, invited to a luxury cruise with super-rich passengers, ended up on a desert island after a storm. The hierarchy […]
75th Cannes Film Festival: Ruben Ostlund removes second Palme d’Or with “Triangle of Sadness”
Cannes [France]May 29 (ANI): The 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday gave away the Palme d’Or for best film to Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness”, a broad, fierce satire on modern capitalism. This will be Österlund’s second Palm win after “The Square” 2017. The film revolves around models, millionaires and their various trophy […]
Triangle of Sadness wins Palm d’Or at Cannes
PARIS, May 28 (Xinhua) – Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s film Triangle of Sadness won the Palme d’Or, highest award at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this Saturday. Triangle of Sadness is a movie where a couple, invited to a luxury cruise with super-rich passengers, ended up on a desert island after a storm. The hierarchy […]
Triangle of Sadness wins the Palme d’Or at Cannes
© Provided by Xinhua This year, 21 films have been selected to compete for the Palme d’Or. PARIS, May 28 (Xinhua) – Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s film Triangle of Sadness won the Palme d’Or, highest award at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this Saturday. Triangle of Sadness is a movie where a couple, invited to […]
Film critics are thinking about the next Palme d’Or when the Cannes Film Marathon ends
The Cannes Film Festival showed the last of its competition entries on Friday, ending its first full-scale edition since the pandemic. On the eve of the announcement of the Palme d’Or, FRANCE 24 spoke with critics from Japan, Italy and Bangladesh about watching the world’s premier film festival and their favorite films from this year’s […]
Cannes 2022: Woody Harrelson’s “Triangle of Sadness” receives eight minutes of standing ovations
Washington [US]May 24 (ANI): Hollywood star Woody Harrelson’s latest film, “Triangle of Sadness”, recently received an impressive eight-minute standing ovation at the ongoing 75th Cannes Film Festival. Variety reported that the overwhelming response topped the reception of any other film at the festival to date, including Tom Cruise’s lead actor “Top Gun: Maverick.” ‘Triangle of […]
Finnish film will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
Direction and script Mikko Myllylahti, The Story of a Lumberjack or Woodcutter’s Story premieres on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. The film will compete for the Camera d’Or Award for Best Direction at this year’s festival as well as the Critics ’Week Award. The Woodcutter’s Story follows a man who goes through several tragic […]
French actor Vincent Lindon will lead the Cannes Film Festival jury
French actor Vincent Lindon will lead the main jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which awards the coveted Palme d’Or. The jury under Vincent Lindon, who starred in the 2021 winner “Titane”, will choose from 21 films in the main competition at the film festival which takes place May 17-28. In a statement, Lindon […]
Division No. 6 does not qualify for Oscars
Finnish director Juho Kuosmasen Title No. 6 has not been nominated for an Oscar. The film was chosen as the best international feature film in Finland, and it was in December, among other 15 proposals. The final list of nominees for this year’s best international feature film was released on Tuesday and Title No. 6 […]
The Finnish film is not only about the Golden Globe gong
finnish film Title No. 6, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, did not win the Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film at a quiet awards ceremony on Sunday night. This year’s award went instead to a Japanese film Drive My Car. Title No. 6 however, is still nominated for Best International Feature Film at the […]
finnish film "Title No. 6" gets on the Oscar list
Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen‘s Title No. 6 is a step closer to an Oscar nomination. Selected as the best international feature film in Finland, the film was released on Tuesday among 15 films in the series. However, Somali Oscar nominee Guled & Nasra did not make the list. The Somali film, shot in Djibouti, was […]
Title No. 6 Golden Globe Award Winner
Juho Kuosmanen‘s Title No. 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and now has a Golden Globe Award The film’s producer, Jussi Rantamäki, told Yle that the appointment came as a surprise. "There were no clues and we were not in the candidacy. It even happened that when Juho […]
Two Finnish-produced films chase the Oscar dream
Two Finnish productions will compete for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film of 2022. Finnish Oscar jury selected Title No. 6, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, as the country’s candidate for the category in October, and the U.S. Motion Picture Academy has approved the film Wife of a grave digger (known in Finnish as Guled […]
Finnish films compete for the 2022 Golden Globe Awards
Nevertheless, in December 2021, nominations were nominated for the category of the best non-English-language film, including many notable participants such as Almodovar, Verhoeven, Sorrentino, Ozon, Ducournau, Farhadi. There are six films from Finland among the applicants. All films are co-productions except for the film “A blind man who didn’t want to see the Titanic”, which […]
The list of Finlandia literary awards was published, half of the candidates are previous winners
The six nominees for the Fiction Finlandia award were announced on Thursday. A three-member jury selected the finalists from about 200 books. There are first-timers on the list Joel Elstelä, Marjo Niemi and Matias Riikonen, along with previous winners Rosa Liksom, Pirkko Saisio and Jukka Viikilä. The best known of these is probably Liksom, who […]
Danish short film has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival
In July, a Danish film may end up coming home with one of the prestigious statuettes from the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France. The Danish short film “Det er i Jorden”, directed by Casper Kjeldsen, has been selected for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. This is stated by the […]
Sztorm changes the plans of the festival. The car theater will be held on Sunday
As part of the Polish Culture Festival in Reykjanesbær, Ásbru, tomorrow, one of the biggest events – a car cinema – was to take place. However, due to the ongoing storm, the event was moved to Sunday, November 8. There will be film screenings from 5 p.m. and three Polish cinema productions will be shown […]