Synopsis of BABY BLUES:

Natalia really wanted to have a baby. Now she’s got one and this extrovert seventeen-year-old’s life has suddenly become one big struggle. Feeling rejected by her still youthful mother, she clings desperately to her child, although she hasn’t really got the hang of things yet or developed a genuine bond. Her carefree skateboarding friend Kuba tries his best to get used to the idea of being a father but winds up using her tiny apartment as a venue for parties with the rest of his pot-smoking crew. Natalia fritters what little money she has managed to borrow on flamboyant outfits. Hoping to secure a job as a sales assistant in a stylish clothing store, she allows herself to fall for the charms of the shop’s young manager – who is only too willing to exploit his position. Natalia’s world is beginning to spin out of control.

Motivation of the CICAE jury :

„BABY BLUES is a colourful and stereotype-free story of adolescents being parents already told in an energetic and modern manner combining a hypnotic cinematic view with remarkable acting of teenagers. Kasia Roslaniec` work revealing complex issues without moralizing and offering a new cinema style has the potential to attract young and old spectators in art house cinemas.“

About the film :

BABY BLUES

Poland 2012

105 min

Direction : Kasia Rosłaniec

Cast : Magdalena Berus, Klaudia Bułka, Nikodem Rozbicki, Michał Trzeciakowski, Mikołaj Łubek, Dominik Łubek

Production company :

Mental Disorder 4 (MD4) ul. Narbutta 25A, 02-536 Warsaw, Poland

E-mail: zentropa@zentropa.pl

Co-production : Zentropa International Poland

World sales : Mental Disorder 4 (MD4)

TRAILER : http://vimeo.com/62819570

CICAE’s annual ART CINEMA AWARDS are attributed by a jury of independent programmers at leading European festivals. The aim of the award is to help films find an audience within the international art cinema network, and paying particular attention to films by young auteurs and from less well-known countries.

The CICAE jury at the FESTROIA was composed of Gertraud Eiter, Otto Preminger-Institut (Leokino / Cinematograph, Austria), Odeta Karoblyte, Vilnius International Film Festival (Kino pavasaris, Lithuania), Aleš Ogorevc (winner of CICAE best visual contest, Slovenia)

Members of the jury were : Ula Sniegowska (New Horizons Association, Pologne),  Anne-Juliette Jolivet (Cinéma Les 400 COUPS, Angers, France) and Thorsten Kleinschmidt (ZOOM Kino, Allemagne).

Me Myself and Mum

Guillaume Gallienne

First film

1h25

Sales Agent: Gaumont

SYNPOSIS: 

How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have simply decided it will be another way ? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. Beyond an heterosexual coming out, the movie tells the story of an actor who from «bourgeoisie» to the stage has never stopped to love women, maybe too much…

Director Guillaume Gallienne

Detlef Rossmann

Il dibattito condotto sotto la sua direzione e animato dal prestigioso invitato Laurent Creton, professore all’Università Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle e direttore dell’Istituto di ricerca sul cinéma e gli audiovisivi (IRCAV), ha portato i membri delle CICAE a concludere che : “tanto nell’era digitale come in passato non si puo contestare l’enorme contributo delle finestre al dinamismo e alla diversità del cinema e della programmazione in sala, come per una visibilità più larga del cinema d’essai europeo.”

Le discussioni affrontate in un’atmosfera appassionata, ed il dialogo tra i membri CICAE venuti dall’America Latina, dall’Africa e da tutta Europa, sono sfociate sula volontà di creare “un’alleanza del cinema” con il network UNIC ed Europa Cinemas. Lo scopo di quest’iniziativa è l’espressione e la difesa comune e rafforzata degli interessi dei cinema nelle discussioni attuali sulle finestre dello sfruttamento del prodotto cinematografico e nelle negoziazioni sull’accordo di libero scambio con gli Stati Uniti. I membri della CICAE, che rappresenta circa 3.000 schermi e festival nel mondo, hanno ugualmente affermato il loro impegno nella salvaguardia della diversità culturale e dell’esperienza unica che costituisce il cinema per il pubblico europeo e mondiale.

È a questo titolo che la CICAE organizza ormai da 10 anni la Formazione Europea ART CINEMA = ACTION + MANAGEMENT, nell’ambito del Programma MEDIA dell’UE, destinata a preparare i giovani esercenti dei Cinema d’Essai ad offrire il meglio del loro talento e delle loro sale cinematografiche al pubblico. La presentazione della 10° edizione del corso ha avuto luogo sabato 18 maggio presso il Padiglione Italiano al festival di cannes, in collaborazione con il Media Desk Italia, Antenna MEDIA di Torino e Cinecittà / Istituto Luce, nell’ambito della presentazione dei training MEDIA moderata da Arnaud PASQUALI (Programma MEDIA / Commissione Europea). La formazione avrà luogo dal 26 Agosto al 1 Settembre a Venezia, in collaborazione con La Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, festival Membro della CICAE e presso il quale la CICAE ha una giuria.

]]> http://cicae.org/it/non-classe/cannes-2013-salle-pleine-pour-lassemblee-generale-de-la-cicae-et-la-presentation-de-la-10eme-formation-%e2%80%9eart-cinema-action-management/feed 0 http://cicae.org/it/non-classe/art-cinema-award-pour-keep-smiling-a-vilnius http://cicae.org/it/non-classe/art-cinema-award-pour-keep-smiling-a-vilnius#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:56:46 +0000 cicae http://cicae.org/?p=2554 Georgia again! 

RUSUDAN CHKONIA’s “KEEP SMILING” won CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD within the framework of the 18th Vilnius International Film Festival last Monday – just one month and a half after Simon Groß et Nana Ekvtimishvili’s victory in Berlin!

Cicae international jury was composed of German theater, cinema and television actress Elke Bludau, Austrian descent film programme curator, cinema journalist and editor Evelin Stark and cinema theater “Pasaka” director Justas Prascevicius.

Keep Smiling’s Film actress Olga Babluani  with the Cicae Art Cinema Award in Vilnius

Photo: Audrius Solominas, Vilija Buivyde

SYNOPSIS of  ”KEEP SMILING”

Climas tells the story of “three women from different ages and social backgrounds living in three different regions of Peru. Eva is a girl awakening to her sexuality, surrounded by the tropical climate of Amazonia. Victoria is a wealthy woman from Lima bearing a tragic secret which makes her life dull and cold like the city she lives in. Zoraida is an elderly woman from the Andean community welcoming her son after a very long absence. Three regions, three women, three stories affected by the various geographies, societies and climates of a fragmented country.“

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY:

Enrica Pérez (Perú, 1976) (Peru, 1976) holds a graduated degree in Cinema from the University of Columbia in NYC. Her short film Taxista (2007) won various international prizes and, as a director, she obtained the Adrienne Shelly Award and Someone to Watch Award. In 2008, she was granted a scholarship to enter La Femis in Paris, where she directed De mon côté.

FILMOGRAPHY:

Climas – Feature – Postproduction
2008 – De mon côté – Short – Fiction
2007 – Taxista – Short – Fiction
2005 – The hitchhiking game – Short – Fiction
2000 – Bordes – Short – Fiction

PRODUCTION NOTES:

SEXTO SENTIDO PRODUCCIONES (2009) is a young company specialized in developing, financing, producing and commercializing independent films, creating international quality products capable of a potential worldwide trading. It started its cinematographic career producing Enrica Pérez’s debut feature Climas.

SUPPORT:

The project has received the following supports: PUENTES – BAL 2009 production workshop, Mannheim Meetings 2009. Project winner of the CONACINE 2010 Peruvian fund. Ibermedia production fund. Awaiting the response of the Riviera Lab, FidLab Marseille, World Cinema Fund, BAL.

CLIMAS 

Country:  Peru,  Colombia

Director:  Enrica Pérez

Length:  80 min

Actors:  Claudia Ruiz, Fiorella de Ferrari, María Unocc

Production company:  Sexto Sentido Producciones

Coproducción:  Burning Blue

Members of the jury were : Artemio Benki (Studio Bela, Prague, Czech Republic), Laurent Coët (Cinema Le Régency, St Pol sur Ternoise, France) and Jérémie Monmarché (Cinema Les Studios, Tours, France).

“The Magic Piano” tells the story of Anna, a girl whose father has had to leave Poland and look for work in London. She’s left with her auntie and annoying little cousin Chip-Chip who desperatly seeks her attention. Missing her Dad, Anna decides to run away, but Chip-Chip follows her. As she tries to hide from him in a trash heap, they find a broken piano which magically tranforms into the Flying Machine and rises into the sky with Anna and Chip-chip on board and they set off for a thrilling journey across Europe, following the wonder and passion of Chopin’s life and music on their way to London, and hoping to find Anna’s dad.

Contact:

BreakThru Films

Arkadiusz Domanus

+44 (0) 208 144 8506

arek@breakthrufilms.pl

Members of the jury were : Francesca Bolognesi (Villa Medici, Rome), Iris Praefke (cinema Moviemento, Berlin) and Marianne Piquet (Cinéma Le Rex, Châtenay-Malabry, France).

Statement of the jury:

“The jury honors unanimously the force of the mise-en-scène and the subject. The director shows great intelligence in talking about a very personal situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on one side and on the other side he tells the universal story of the nonsense of war.”

Synopsis

The Gaza Strip in the early summer of 1989. A company of young Israeli soldiers reports for duty in the occupied area. Continuous clashes with the Palestinian population soon claim their first fatality: one of the soldiers, Iliya, is killed when a washing machine is dropped on him from the rooftop of an apartment block. The perpetrator escapes. In order to find him, their commanding officer orders some of the soldiers to take up position on the roof for the weekend. In spite of vehement protests from the building’s Palestinian owner, who fears being considered a collaborator, Aki, Ariel, Haim and Tomer begin their vigil. A lounger is set up and they listen to rock music on their transistor radio. But when the dead soldier Iliya’s father, now a broken man, pays them a visit they realise each and every one of them will lose their innocence in that place.
All the action of Yariv Horowitz’s film takes place in just a few days. His drama explores the psychological effects of the Arab-Israeli conflict on those involved. In particular the experiences of Tomer, who has only just reached adulthood, reflect the senselessness of armed action, which only ever creates yet more injustice.

The CICAE ART CINEMA AWARDS are awarded in the major European festivals by an international jury of independent cinema programmers. The CICAE ART CINEMA AWARDS help to bring to the international Arthouse network films of high quality, for it to find its audience.

Salesagent Rock the Casbah

Films Boutique

http://www.filmsboutique.com/

Members of the jury were : Dirk van der Straaten (De Balie Cinema, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Mario Fortin (Cinéma Beaubien, Montréal, Canada) and Gabor Boszormenyi (Mozinet, Budapest, Hungary)

Statement of the jury: 

„This year’s CICAE Forum jury choose a film that’s very strong on both a cinematic and political level. It tells a universal and personal story that plays to a background full of violence. The production design is marvellous and the two young main actresses pulled us in their story and did not let us go, untill this very moment.“ 

Synopsis

Tbilisi, Georgia, 1992: The Soviet era is over and Georgia must fend for itself. Civil war is raging in the province of Abkhazia. For Natia and Eka, the barely fourteen-year-old protagonists of Grzeli nateli dgeebi, childhood is coming to an end. Eka is growing up without her father, rebelling against her concerned mother and her older sister. And Natia’s father, a choleric alcoholic, terrorises the entire family. The two friends cannot find peace outside of the family either – not in school, not on the street, and not in the bread lines. Chaos, insecurity, and fear of what the future might bring hold sway in everyday life. An admirer gives Natia a pistol with one single bullet. A little later, she’s abducted by another admirer.
This first feature film by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß takes up the buried traditions of Georgian cinema, weaving together loud and soft, melancholy and missing love, eruptions of violence and a sense of the idyllic, precocious cold-bloodedness and childlike naïveté into a wonderfully rhythmic, exciting cinematic composition. A new generation of filmmakers has emerged in Georgia and is starting out by remembering its own history.

The CICAE ART CINEMA AWARDS are awarded in the major European festivals by an international jury of independent cinema programmers. The CICAE ART CINEMA AWARDS help to bring to the international Arthouse network films of high quality, for it to find its audience.

Salesagent “Grzeli nateli dgeebi (In Bloom)” : Memento – Artscope  http://international.memento-films.com/artscope

In 2004, the CICAE built its first training program for young art house cinema exhibitors and programmers. Since then, the CICAE has with the help of more than 300 teachers trained 500+ trainees with 42 different nationalities.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CICAE training Art Cinema = Action + Management, the CICAE – International Confederation of Art Cinemas – invited its members, current and former trainees to participate to the contest of the best visual.

We have the pleasure to announce you that Francesco CLERICI won this contest with his artistic visual paying tribute to the magic of cinema.

We would like to thank all the the participants for their contribution.

We wish you happy holidays as well as a great year 2013 with good films, art and cinema lovers!

graphic elaboration on

© Velasco Vitali’s drawing

www.velascovitali.com

LAURENCE ANYWAYS, Xavier DOLAN (Canada, France, 2012, 168 minutes) – Art Cinema Award, Hamburg Film Fest 2012

Synopsis : Synopsis : Set in the 90’s, Laurence tries to salvage his relationship with his fiancée Fred after revealing to her his aspirations of becoming a woman. Laurence Anyways is the story of a wild and unusual love.

The Jury’s Verdict : Graceful and powerful, effortlessly staged and with an astonishing intensity, young Canadian director and author Xavier Dolan succeeds in creating a colorful, musically and emotionally charged piece on the challenging topic of transsexuality. Dolan proves he is more than capable of expressing this melodramatic love story revealed through gorgeous details. Being a man, being a woman and being human at the same time are fundamental questions reflected by Dolan’s film. Therefore this movie has the potential of reaching a young audience with usually little affinity for arthouse productions.

THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, Radu JUDE (Romania, Netherlands, 2008, 100 minutes) – Art Cinema Award, Berlinale Forum 2009

Synopsis : This sweet, simple fascinating story highlights the daily life of a Romanian family that leaves the countryside to visit Bucarest for the day. This subtle comedy smartly unveils the economic and social contradictions Romania experiences.

The Jury’s Verdict : The film depicts a world where driving a car does not get you really far, drink orange juice does not satisfy your thirst and the only freedom you are given is in a cigarette secretely smoked. The strengh of the film lies in its ability to entertain while presenting excellent artistic qualities.

CROSSING BOUNDARIES, Florian FLICKER (Austria, 2012, 90 minutes) – ART CINEMA AWARD Sarajevo 2012

Synopsis: A woman – two men: her husband wants her to flirt with the other man to distract him from finding out about the couples activities as people smugglers. The other man wants to flirt with the woman to get some evidence about the illegal things they do. They fall in love – the woman, being manipulated by both men, finally chooses the only possible way out…Love is a warm gun.

The Jury’s Verdict: : We chose the film that we think combined everything into a perfect orchestra: the screenplay, the cinematography, the acting and of course the directing. The film’s topic is universal and it deals with the human nature of always finding and pushing one’s limits. We believe that this film will find great audiences in the CICAE member cinemas and festivals all across Europe and all over the world.

The Screening Room on CINANDO aims at giving these awarded films another chance to get noticed by exhibitors, distributors, film festival programmers and other professionals who are directly involved in the quality film market, all of them being members of the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas. We encourage our members to offer these films an exploitation while the platform can also be strategically employed by international sellers who will find in this group a professional audience interested in the distribution of art house titles.

More films will soon be available to our members.

More information on Cinando.com or info@cicae.org. If you don’t have a Cinando account, please write to us at this address info@cicae.info