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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
Sunday night with a record-breaking seven wins for a film not in the English languag,
including for Best Director.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
importance of art.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
Amini’s feature won the VPRO Big Screen Award, as the Dutch gathering celebrated its in-
person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Garrone, Matteo
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Date of birth
15 October 1968, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Mini biography
Matteo Garrone (October 15, 1968, Rom, Italien)
After obtaining a diploma from art school, Garrone dedicated himself to painting.
He made the decision to become a filmmaker in 1996, a choice that was almost instantly rewarded: his short film entitled "Silhouette" scooped Nanni Moretti’s Golden Sacher award.
This achievement paved the way for his debut feature length film: he pieced together three segments originally intended to be short films – the first being the above-mentioned "Silhouette" – to release "Terra di mezzo" (1997), which depicts Rome and the immigrants who struggle to survive there, amid destitution and exploitation, illegal labour and nostalgia for their native lands.
Garrone was to pick up the theme of emargination again in the subsequent "Guests (Ospiti)" (1998), a docudrama that portrays two young Albanians who scrape a living by washing dishes in the capital.
“I’d obviously like to find my own way and not be considered an imitator. Some have claimed my style is a new neorealism. But neorealism is of course a style that is connected to an earlier period of Italian cinema. I do owe a great debt to those directors — to Rossellini and many others.”
A different society is placed under the microscope in "Roman summer (Estate romana)" (2000), which is set in Rome in the run-up to the Jubilee and portrays a number of frustrated characters – a would-be artist, a young single mother, a former actress between jobs - who are all among life’s losers: there remains a constant sense of malaise, a kind of existential disquiet that is almost impossible to pin down.With "The embalmer (L’imbalsamatore)" (2002), presented at Cannes to positive critical reviews,
Garrone gave audiences his best, most complete film to date: the ambiguous relationship between a dwarfish taxidermist and his handsome assistant, which becomes a triangle when a strong-willed, reckless young woman comes on the scene, becomes the means for dissecting different forms of unhappiness, against backdrops that vary from a frozen Caserta to a foggy, devitalized Cremona.
The subsequent "First love (Primo Amore)" (2004), the synopsis of the relationship between a man determined to starve his girlfriend until she is dangerously thin, is as sharp and clinical as any medical record: the utter indifference with which the story is narrated to the viewer becomes the stylistic hallmark of one of Italy’s most original and bitter films of recent seasons.
Filmography of Matteo Garrone
Terra di mezzo (1997) director: Matteo Garrone, screenplay: Matteo Garrone, featuring: Gabriella Aru, Mario Colasanti, Giacomo De Martino, Gertian Durmishi
Guests (Ospiti) (1998) director: Matteo Garrone, screenplay: Attilio Caselli, Matteo Garrone, featuring: Corrado Sassi, Pasqualino Mura, Paolo Rota, Llazar Sota
Roman Summer (Estate romana) (2000) director: Matteo Garrone, screenplay: Matteo Garrone, featuring: Salvatore Sansone, Rossella Or, Monica Nappo
The embalmer (L'imbalsamatore) (2002) director: Matteo Garrone, screenplay: Ugo Chiti, Paolo Bonfini, Massimo Gaudioso, Francesca Leondeff, Matteo Garrone, featuring: Lina Bernardi, Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti
First Love (Primo amore) (2004) director: Matteo Garrone, screenplay: Vitaliano Trevisan, Massimo Gaudioso, Matteo Garrone, featuring: Vitaliano Trevisan, Michela Cescon
Director - Selected filmography
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Io capitano (2023)
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Gomorrah (2008)
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