Kaori Oda in [RADICAL WHISPERS] Asian Film Archive, Singapore.

This past September and October, the Asian Film Archive, Singapore screened a collection of films by our Kaori Oda as part of ‘RADICAL WHISPERS: Asian Shorts and Documentaries’

Description:

Bringing together documentaries and short films from Japan, India and Myanmar, represented by filmmakers Kaori Oda, Payal Kapadia and filmmaker-curator Moe Myat May Zarchi, RADICAL WHISPERS explores how whispers—in the form of love letters, secret conversations, journal entries and hearsay— are amplified and transformed into potent sources of political action in film. Through a diverse range of ephemera and story-telling devices, including iphone footage of strangers, 16mm family videos and text messages between friends, the clandestine is made communal, allowing access into the deeply intimate subjectivities of filmmakers and the communities they are part of. Stories of lost love and intergenerational trauma become intertwined with social movements and transnational connections. The boundaries of private and public, solitude and solidarity, secret and overt are re-negotiated. The films offer a provocation into the role of film in disseminating and organising, in connecting and healing. 

Las Niñas, the debut film of Pilar Palomero, wins 4 Goya Awards and more!

Huge congratulations are in order for Las Niñas, the debut film of our Pilar Palomero, which has won 4 Goya Awards - for Best Film, Best Debut Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

In fact, Las Niñas has been the most awarded film this year in Spain, and since Sept 4th, day of public release, the film is still in cinemas!

-Feroz Awards: Best Drama Film, Best director and best screenplay.

-Gaudí Awards: Best non-catalan film, Best Director and best cinematography.

-Forqué Awards: Best Film.

-The film was premiered at Berlinale Kplus 2020 and won the Golden Biznaga in the Malaga Film Festival.

Pilar is preparing her new film "La Maternal" which will start shooting on October 2021.

Berlinale 2020 - Las Niñas debut feature of Pilar Palomero

    

via CineEuropa:

BERLINALE 2020 Generation

Review: Las Niñas

BERLINALE 2020: With sensitivity, Pilar Palomero’s first work recreates the repressive atmosphere which far too many Spanish girls grew up within towards the end of the 20th century

For those more familiar with showy and ultra-fast commercial cinema, Schoolgirls might prove a disappointing watch: the action is minimal, depicting the characters’ day-to-day activities, such as doing homework, painting their lips for the first time or playing during breaktime. But there’s a subtext behind the description of this routine; a background and an intent which reveal a contradictory country which has continued to teach its future women to accept acquired machismo, sexual repression and all-important conformism.

Celia, the film’s protagonist (the magnificent acting revelation Andrea Fandos), is the daughter of a single mother (played by Natalia de Molina). She’s growing up and at the very moment her body begins to change, doubts of every kind start to alter her thinking. She’s no longer comfortable with the lies and silences her mother metes out every time she asks questions, about her origins, for example. The times are changing too, even if her environment – especially the convent school where she’s studying – seems to be doing everything possible to stave off the inevitable. But a new friend will breathe fresh air into her personal prison.

Schoolgirls opens with a magnificent scene, and its closing shot contrasts perfectly with the first. Between the two, we accompany this young woman in her insomnia, doubts and anxieties, with the camera ever glued to Celia’s gaze. And it won’t be hard for those who grew up in the eighties and nineties to recognise themselves or their friends, sisters or neighbours in Schoolgirls’ various scenes.

As we watch the film, titles such as Carlos Saura’s legendary film Cría cuervos or the recent Ojos Negros [+], by the duo Marta Lallana and Ivet Castelo, spring to mind; works which display the same freshness, talent and authenticity as Palomero’s offering. But above all, this director’s first full-length film underscores the crucial point that, much like the course taken by her central character, it has only been through individual rebellion that a generation of women have been able to fully fulfil themselves, and that they are now in a position to question that time which is thankfully in the past.

Schoolgirls is an Inicia FilmsBTeam Prods and Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E. production. International sales are entrusted to Film Factory Entertainment.

鉱 ARAGANE - Kaori Oda's debut feature screens

鉱 ARAGANE

上映スケジュール

2019/10/19(土)〜10/25(金)★1週間限定

10/19(土)〜10/20(日)11:30(〜12:40終)
10/21(月)〜10/25(金)19:25(〜20:35終)
*10/25で終映。

料金

均一料金:1000円

Original title:Aragane
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | Japan
Language: Bosnian
▶IMDb Info.

★本編字幕[なし]版上映:10/19(土)、21(月)、23(水)、25(金)
★本編字幕[あり]版上映:10/20(日)、22(火)、24(木)

【『鉱 ARAGANE』上映方式についてのご説明】
今回の上映では、日本語字幕ありの通常版と日本語字幕なし版を日替わりで上映します。
字幕なし版上映は、光と闇に溢れた映像と鳴り響く爆音に集中して鑑賞していただくという意図です。
(元々字幕が非常に少ない作品ですので、作品本来の表現の妨げにはほとんどならないと考えております。)

Rozanski's debut feature, Papagajka, at Chicago's Nightingale Cinema

On Monday 25th Feb at the lovely and quaint cinema The Nightingale, Emma Rozanski's striking and weird debut feature film PAPAGAJKA (accompanied by two lovely shorts by up and coming directors) screened to a full room, followed by a robust and interesting Q&A with the director following the screening - @NightCine http://nightingalecinema.org/ #SupportIndieFilm #womeninfilm

Emma Rozanski's feature, PAPAGAJKA available to watch on @SeedandSpark

As of today, the wonderful new USA-based streaming site, Seed and Spark (who are also a great crowdfunding platform for films with a unique twist on this service), have our Emma Rozanki’s (@aparticularfilm) debut feature film, Papagajka (The Parrot) available to watch online.

Their platform is very inclusive as they offer a pay what you can model, so they are accessible for those with lower incomes. So we’re very happy that Rozanki’s film is now in their online catalogue for an ever-growing audience to watch.

WATCH THE FILM HERE: https://www.seedandspark.com/watch/papagajka

Every viewing the film gets supports the filmmaker and will help her continue to make films!

Enjoy!

-Bistrik7 x

Emma Rozanski's debut feature, Papagajka, now available to watch online

After its premiere at SXSW Film Festival a couple of years ago and subsequent festival screenings around the globe, you can now watch Emma Rozanski's debut feature film PAPAGAJKA (aka The Parrot) online.

UK/Europe - Watch here on Amazon: http://amzn.eu/1GdeXh7 (Amazon On Demand and Prime)

USA - Watch here: http://a.co/bxM8WgR (Via Amazon.com Prime and Amazon Video on Demand)

Canada/USA - also Watch here: https://www.fandor.com/films/parrot_papagajka
(Subscription based, but free trials are available)

Rest of the world - If you have an Amazon.com or an  account you can watch via the links above in many countries not just UK/USA (Sadly not her home country of Australia just yet).

Keep up to date on other availability here:

https://www.facebook.com/PapagajkaFilm/

Go forth, watch and enjoy!

Watch Emma Rozanski's debut feature in North America on @Fandor

Emma Rozanski's debut feature film, PAPAGAJKA (SXSW Premiere), is now available to watch on VOD via FANDOR in Canada and the USA.

You can watch if you are a subscriber of Fandor, via Apple TV, or you can sign up for a free trial subscription (there are loads of amazing movies on the platform so it's well worth a try)

Here's the link to @Fandor

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Emma Rozanski's PAPAGAJKA awarded at The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival

Congratulations to Emma Rozanski, whose debut feature film, PAPAGAJKA, has been awarded several prizes at The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival:

Best Narrative Feature Film

Best Director, Emma Rozanski

Best Cinematography, Malte Rosenfeld

Best Actress, Susanna Cappellaro

http://www.massiff.org/

UK Premiere of Papagajka at East End Film Festival

Emma Rozanski's feature debut, Papagajka, will have its UK premiere in London at the East End Film Festival - she and some cast and crew will also be there for a Q&A afterwards.

Where: The Rio Cinema, Dalston E8

When SAT June 17th 3:45pm

Screening details: http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/papagajka/

Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=9428549

STEFAN MALEŠEVIĆ set to shoot this winter in Bosnia and Herzegovina

-Mamonga, Stefan's first fiction feature, is in pre-production - A three-part film, set in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Shooting starts on winter in Tuzla, Bosnia. The project was selected for Kino Der Kunst Project Pitch in Munich, part of the film festival by the same name, held this April, where 8 alumni of European film academies have been selected to compete for the main prize (post-production funding by ARRI), awarded by the jury presided by Doryun Chong, main curator of M+ museum in Hong Kong.

The festival will also screen his short film "The Bucket Rider" as a part of their official program. 

'Papagajka' to premiere at SXSW 2016

Emma Rozanski's debut feature film premieres at South by South West Film festival (SXSW), March 2016:

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_FS19485

Synopsis:

A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his apartment and colonizes his life. She manipulates his dreams. Finally she threatens his very existence.


Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Kingdom / Language: English and Bosnian
Year: 2016 / Runtime: 81min

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