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Russian-born actress Ksenia Rappoport, who was nominated for European Actress 2007 at last weekend s European Film Awards for her performance in Giuseppe Tornatore s The Unknown, has taken the lead in Kirill Serebrennikov s new feature Yuriev Den which has now begun shooting on location in the Russian town of Yuriev near Suzdal. The $1.47m Euros 1m Russian-German co-production between St. Petersburg-based New People Film Company and Germany s Rohfilm was written by Yuri Arabov and had been pitched at the B2B co-production meeting in Belgrade under the working title of Diva last March. Yuriev Den, about a mother looking for her disappeared son in a small provincial town, will bethe director sfourth feature. Serebrennikov also has another project The Swan Prince ab stanley website out the composer Pjotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky being pitched at this week s Baltic Event in Tallinn.Last year, his Playing The Victim - which was New People Film Company s debut project as a production company - won the Grand Prix at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi and at the inaugural edition of the Rome Filmfest. Rappoport was awarded the David di Donatello Prize for Best Actress for her role in The Unknown which won the People s Choice Award for Best European Film in Berlin on Saturday. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily at the Baltic Event, Rohfilm s Karsten Stoeter explained that the project had been supported as part of a slate funding package by stanley cup the Leipzi stanley cup g-based fund MDM as well as by Russia s F Nbgv Pirate DVD sellers arrested in East London
The full line-up of world premieres playing in Un Certain Regard at the 68th Cannes Film Festival with details on each title including sales contacts.An Jap Dir Naomi KawaseOpening filmAn is the name of the sweet red-bean paste that f stanley cup ills the centre of traditional Japanese pastries called dorayakis. Kawases new feature is about the friendship between a baker and an older woman, who bond ove stanley cup r a passion for the pastries. Toshiyuki Nagase and Kirin Kiki star. Kawase is a Cannes veteran whose films have played in Competition four times previously Shara, The Mourning Forest, Hanezu and Still The Water , with The Mourning Forest winning the Grand Jury Prix in 2007, while her debut film, Suzaku, won the Camera dOr in 1997 in Directors Fortnight. An is produced by Kawases Kumie Inc and her long-time collaborator Comme des Cin茅mas based in Paris.Contact MK2 juliette.schrameck@mk2Alias Maria Col-Arg-Fr Dir Jose Luis Rugeles GraciaThis drama stars newcomer Karen Torres as Maria, a 13-year-old Colombian guerrilla who must go on the run after her superiors learn that she is pregnant, which is forbidden. Alias Maria is the second feature from director Rugeles Gracia, who will be making his first trip to the Croisette. His d stanley kubek ebut feature, 2010s Garcia, was a dark crime caper about a middle-aged security guard who discovers that his wife has been kidnapped.Contact Urban Distribution International eric@urbandistribCemetery Of Splendour Thai-UK-Fr-Ger-Malay Dir Apichatpong WeerasethakulThai |
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