Albert Serra’s latest project is a hit in the Holy Land…
The 41-year-old Spanish filmmaker’s The Death of Louis XIV has been named the winner the inaugural edition of the international competition at the 33rd Jerusalem Film Festival, which wraps this weekend.
The film, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, stars French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud as the Sun King struggling with his own mortality in his final days.
Jury members included former Focus exec and Cornerstone Films’ Alison Thompson, Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson (Rams), and Israeli director Talya Lavie (Zero Motivation).
Tobias Lindholm’s A War received an honorable mention.
Albert Serra is in a (bull)fighting mood… The 47-year-old Spanish independent filmmaker plans to follow up his 2022 breakout film Pacifiction with Afternoons of Solitude, an impressionistic documentary that’ll explore bullfighting from the tormented perspective of the man in the ring. “Bullfighting is one of the most excessive examples of the primitive…
Albert Serra’s latest project is going international… Films Boutique has picked up international rights to the 48-year-old Spanish independent filmmaker’s documentary Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de Soledad). The film marks the third collaboration between Serra and the Berlin-based company after Liberté, winner of the Special Jury Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain…
Pedro Almodóvar is taking a special role at this year’s Cannes Film Festival… The 67-year-old Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer has been named the next President of the Jury for the 70th edition of the festival in May. “I am very happy to be able to celebrate Cannes Film Festival[‘s] 70th anniversary…
