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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
- Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s 12 Angry Men-inspired new film invites us to question our sympathies and biases, for the betterSix-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman co-write and co-direct Re-Creation, a new instalment in the oeuvre of juror dramas, which has enjoyed its world premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
- This will be the sophomore feature by the Romanian writer, director and producer who previously brought us RusalkaWhat God Thinks About Animals, the sophomore fiction feature by Romanian director Claudiu Mitcu, is now in post-production after a 20-day shoot earlier this spring. The screenplay was written by Mitcu and Mihai Radu and follows a 70-year-old retired cook, Sandra, who decides to leave her husband Tudor after 50 years of marriage.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
- Lilian T Mehrel’s relatable mother-daughter dramedy set on the Azores is a confident debut that will make you want to call your mumWith a title that is a play on “honeymoon” and joon, a Persian word used to endearingly refer to loved ones, Lilian T Mehrel’s debut feature, Honeyjoon, threads together grief, desire, miscommunication, independence, longing and joy in a tapestry that the children of immigrants, among others, will recognise all too well.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
- Laurent Slama’s third feature traces a beautiful platonic encounter between a free-spirited American and an uptight Parisian who meet during the Paris Olympics“When there’s a river, take a boat,” says Elijah (Alex Lawther), a free-spirited US man specialising in hypnosis who has come to the 2024 Paris Olympics to prep athletes.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
TRIBECA 2025 por - El tercer largometraje de Laurent Slama sigue a un bello encuentro platónico entre un americano de espíritu libre y una parisina más estricta durante las Olimpiadas de ParísEste artículo está disponible en inglés.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
On Sunday night, Lithuania’s film industry gathered to honour the recipients of this year’s Silver Cranes, the country’s national film awards. A total of 21 statuettes were given out, including in 18 juried categories, an Audience Award, a Special Award for the Promotion of Cinema Culture and the Golden Crane Lifetime Achievement Award.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
A transformation is afoot in Egyptian filmmaker Morad Mostafa’s Aisha Can’t Fly Away, his eagerly awaited feature debut that has collected a series of coveted awards along the way to its Cannes world premiere in Un Certain Regard. The project picked up major prizes at Cinemed meetings, Venice Final Cut and Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops, and was also developed at Cannes’ La Résidence du Festival in 2023.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
CANNES 2025 Un Certain Regard by - CANNES 2025: Morad Mostafa crafts a debut feature that’s cinematically familiar in its festival aesthetic but is let down by a surface-level story despite its weighty themes A transformation is afoot in Egyptian filmmaker Morad Mostafa’s Aisha Can’t Fly Away, his eagerly awaited feature debut that has collected a series of coveted awards along the way to its Cannes world premiere in Un Certain Regard. The project picked up major prizes at Cinemed meetings,...
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moderntimes.review | Olivia Popp
COLONIALISM / A Tanzanian lawyer’s quest to reclaim ancestral remains reveals the deep-rooted legacy of German colonial violence and systemic silence. Director: Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece MlayInternational sales: Country: Germany, TanzaniaCece Mlay and Agnes Lisa Wegner’s The Empty Grave emerges as one amongst a larger set of films about decolonial repatriation and historical restitution: most famously, last year’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey by Mati Diop.
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cineuropa.org | Olivia Popp
With a title borrowed from a quote by famed Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, Kopal Joshy’s We Are Two Abysses is a vibes-forward film that captures its weightiness through spoken words laden with longing and a desire for comfort. Directed and lensed by Lisbon-based Indian director Joshy, the documentary is also a very personal one as she seeks to capture her story as intertwined with that of another person caught up in a form of emotional grief of his own.
