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Like Céline Sciamma’s modern classic Petite maman, Joanna Hogg’s new film The Eternal Daughter plays intriguingly with family likenesses and the maternal bond, says Sahir Avik D’souza, one of the critics on this year’s LFF Critics Mentorship Programme.
French sales agents survive the flames of the pandemic at the EFM Paris, 13th District by Jacques Audiard Armed with a natural, optimistic enthusiasm, not to mention failproof ammunition, which has enabled them to look towards the future and move beyond the restricted context of the unending global health crisis (which has led to a surplus of films for distributors and increasing caution when it comes to acquisitions), French international sales agents have taken the 71st Berlinale’s (online) European Film Market by storm. Here is a brief and non-exhaustive overview of the main announcement...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) Six past winners of the Golden Bear, the Berlinale’s top prize, Zoomed in at noon, European time, to announce that they had decided to award the 2021 Golden Bear to Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. In a statement read by Nadav Lapid ( Synonyms, 2019), the jury, whose other members are Ildikó Enyedi ( On Body and Soul, 2017), Adina Pintilie ( Touch Me Not, 2018), Mohammad Rasoulof ( There Is No Evil, 2020), Gianfranco Rosi ( Fire at Sea, 2016), and Jasmila Žbanić ( Grbavica, 2006), explained that Jude’s film “captures on screen the ...