All Benelux articles – Page 3
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NewsNew owner of Benelux distributor Cinemien reveals ambitions for LGBT-focused Euro network
OUTtv acquired the Benelux film distributor on July 1.
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NewsLuxbox to launch Joachim Lafosse’s ‘The Restless’ at virtual Cannes (exclusive)
Leila Bekhti and Damien Bonnard to star in drama exploring impact of bipolar disorder.
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NewsFrench film publicists unite to create association as lockdown bites
Publicists have been hard hit by cinema closures and festival cancellations.
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NewsNetflix picks up Luxembourg-Egypt comedy ‘Sawah’
Source: Deal Productions ‘Sawah’ Netflix has acquired Luxembourgish-Egyptian director Adolf El Assal comedy Sawah, starring popular Egyptian actor Karim Kassem as a Cairo-based DJ whose trip to Europe takes an unexpected turn when his identity papers are stolen. Under the acquisition, the film began screening in 46 ...
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NewsEuropean film industry pays tribute to Francine Brücher
Brücher piloted international promotions at Swiss Films and was a well-known figure on the festival and market circuit.
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NewsWarner Bros promotes Eric Broet to EVP of France, Benelux
Executive to be based in Paris, reporting to Iris Knobloch.
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NewsFilms Boutique inks deals on Ildikó Enyedi’s ‘Story Of My Wife’ (exclusive)
The romantic drama stars Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber and Louis Garrel.
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NewsEuropean Producers Club, Largo team up on independent film AI project
European producers to trial AI software aimed at enhancing outcomes for features at script, rough-cut and fine cut stages.
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NewsMalou Reymann’s ‘A Perfectly Normal Family’ moves into Benelux (exclusive)
The film, inspired by the director’s own life, is about a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female.
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Features“There is no subject more unpleasant than mine”: Belgium’s Patrice Toye on her Rotterdam title ‘Tench’
The film is about a reluctant paedophile.
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Features“What if the wings of society fall off?”: Director Mees Peijnenburg on his IFFR title ‘Paradise Drifters’
Peijnenburg’s first feature debuts at IFFR before going to Berlin.
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NewsRotterdam festival opens with speech championing sustainability, power of film in 2020
The world premiere of João Nuno Pinto’s Mosquito opened the festival.
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Features“There was a real wildness about the script” Ewen Bremner on Ulrich Thomsen’s Rotterdam title ‘Gutterbee’
Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen’s second film as director is a satire of Trump’s America.
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Features42 European films to tempt festival directors in 2020
The hot productions from France, Benelux, Nordics, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia.
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NewsAutobiographical documentary ‘In A Whisper’ wins top IDFA prize
UK director Lucy Parker’s investigative work Solidarity wins best first appearance prize for debut features.
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NewsDutch FilmWorks takes ‘The Ice Road’, ‘Harry Haft’ for Benelux
Details of new film and TV sales arm, DFW International, also revealed.
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NewsDutch film promotion body Eye International to relaunch as See NL, appoints director
Ido Abram will head the organisation formerly known as Eye International.
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NewsTrine Dyrholm to star in Henrik Ruben Genz’s ‘Erna At War’
Dyrholm recently won awards for her role in Sundance 2019 title ‘Queen Of Hearts’.
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NewsBest Friend Forever acquires TIFF Midnight Madness title ‘The Twentieth Century’ (exclusive)
The film is Matthew Rankin’s English-language debut.
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NewsNew Lucrecia Martel title among 14 projects selected for Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund
12 titles for script and development; two titles on the co-production scheme.