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14/10/2021 - Films produced on the shores of Mare Nostrum make up the jam-packed programme of the 36th edition of the festival, which kicks off on Friday 15 October
Wide Acquires Joe Duca's Road Movie 'Her Name Was Jo' (EXCLUSIVE) Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Wide has acquired international sales rights to Joe Duca’s road movie “Her Name Was Jo” in the run-up to the European Film Market. North American rights are being handled by Gravitas Ventures for cable, VOD, SVOD and all digital platforms. Duca’s sophomore feature stars newcomer Mary Cate Williams as Jo, a 10-year-old girl who spends her days along the Shenandoah River in Virginia with her best friend Selma. When her abusive stepdad over-doses on heroine, she dumps his bo...
Indie Sales Acquires Cannes 2020 Title 'Broken Keys' (EXCLUSIVE) Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Indie Sales has acquired Jimmy Keyrouz’s feature debut “Broken Keys,” which was part of Cannes 2020’s official selection and represented Lebanon in the Oscar race. “Broken Keys” is a follow-up of Keyrouz’s short “Nocturne in Black,” winner of a flurry of international awards, including the BAFTA Los Angeles Student Film Award. More from Variety The movie was scored by music composer Gabriel Yared (“The English Patient”) and produced by Antoun Sehnaoui at Ezek...
'Broken Keys' Review: A Musician Defies ISIS in Lebanon's Oscar Contender 'Broken Keys' Review: A Musician Defies ISIS in Lebanon's Oscar Contender Jimmy Keyrouz combines real-life crisis and potent emotion in the Oscar-submitted expansion of his Student Academy Award-winning short. Alissa Simon, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Jimmy Keyrouz With: Tarek Yaacoub, Rola Beksmati, Julian Farhat, Mounir Maasri, Ibrahim El Kurdi, Adel Karam, Sara Abi Kanaan, Gabriel Yammine. Running time: Running time: 110 MIN. Courtesy of Ezekiel Film An endangered musician in a Syrian town controlled ...
YOUTUBE Yared says he wrote the score for Lebanon's best international feature Oscar entry as if he were "inhabited by a flame, to stand up for music." The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman spoke to Jimmy Keyrouz, director of Broken Keys, and the film’s composer, Gabriel Yared, for a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. During the half-hour chat, the pair described how an Oscar-winning student short film morphed into a full-length feature — a Cannes 2020 selection and now Lebanon’s submission to the Academy Awards' international feature category — and attracted an Oscar-winni...