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Will Thorne Staff WriterTo what lengths will a desperate mother go to recover her kidnapped daughter?That’s the central question posed in Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Ana Mihai’s first fiction feature “La Civil,” which is set to debut at the Cannes Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.“La Civil” was produced by Hans Everaert’s Menuetto with the assistance of four illustrious Cannes winning directors, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Cristian Mungiu, and Michel Franco.Menuetto has released a trailer for “La Civil,” obtained exclusively by Variety, which gives a sense of the project’s heart-breaking, action-packed drama.Inspired by a true story, the film follows a mother Cielo (Arcelia Ramirez), whose teenage daughter, Laura (Denisse

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Thierry Fremaux, Alberto Barbera Protest Colombia’s Threatened Cuts to Film Incentives

Anna Marie de la Fuente A constellation of prominent filmmakers, festival directors and film executives from all over the world have signed a petition to protest the Colombian government’s tax reform plan, which would adversely affect current film incentives, in place since 2003.Signees includes Cannes Festival head Thierry Fremaux and Critics’ Week’s Charles Tesson; Venice’s Alberto Barbera; Pyramide Films’ Eric Lagesse and filmmakers from as far afield as Iraq (Abbas Fahdel), Thailand (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) and Europe, led by Luc Dardenne, Laurent Cantet and Romania’s Bianca Oana.“The tax reform project presented on April 15 by the government of Colombia threatens the organization of the Colombian model for the support and

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Amitabh Bachchan to Receive Film Archive Award From Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese

Naman Ramachandran Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan will be the 2021 recipient of the annual award presented by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).The FIAF Award was introduced in 2001, when it was presented to Martin Scorsese for his film archival efforts.

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‘Tori et Lokita’: The Dardenne Brothers’ New Film Is Expected To Begin Production This Summer

Over the decades, filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, aka The Dardenne Brothers, have produced some of the most interesting films to come out of Europe. They’ve collected trophies from all over the world at various festivals, including two Palme d’Or awards from Cannes, and are always surprising film fans with each and every project.

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‘La Civil,’ With Dardenne Brothers, Cristian Mungiu, Michel Franco on Board, to Be Sold By UDI (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentFrédéric Corvez’s Urban Distribution International, which is taking part in this week’s 23rd Rendez-vous With French Cinema international film market, is launching world sales on action drama “La Civil.” The film has been produced with the assistance of a heavyweight team of arthouse filmmakers, including Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Cristian Mungiu, also a Palme d’Or winner, and Michel Franco, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Venice with “New Order.”The film, inspired by a true story, follows a mother Cielo, whose teenage daughter, Laura, is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. Despite ransoms being paid, Laura is not returned.

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Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Open Up About Their Career Before Receiving the Lumiere Award

Lise Pedersen With characteristic modesty and humor, the Dardenne brothers opened up about their career at a masterclass in Lyon for the Lumière Festival, where they are receiving the Lumière Award for lifetime achievement.But before they answered the questions put to them by festival director Thierry Frémaux, the Belgian brothers graciously gave way to a couple of representatives of a local collective, who spoke in the name the thousands of people whom the pandemic has pushed into poverty.While emotion left Jean-Pierre Dardenne speechless, his brother Luc said, “Few things have changed in the 20 years since we made “Rosetta” [their first Palme d’Or in 1999].

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‘Young Ahmed’ review: award-winning jihadist drama blends social realism with artful melodrama

Winners of two Palme d’Or awards at Cannes – Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005) – Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are known for their incisive, socially minded output. In Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed), the brothers return once again to their favourite subject, underprivileged adolescent protagonists on the margins of society or in trouble with the law.The film won the Dardennes Cannes’ ‘Best Director’ gong last year and, despite its familiar tone, feels like something of a departure for the duo who have bravely chosen to broach a rather thorny subject.

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Dardenne Brothers to Receive Honorary Lumière Award

Jamie Lang Brotherly Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will receive this year’s Lumière Award at the upcoming Lumière Festival, which celebrates classic films and cinematic masters each autumn in Lyon, France.Last year’s award went to Francis Ford Coppola, who joined previous recipients including Jane Fonda, Wong Kar-Wai, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar, Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino.This year’s award will be presented during the Lumière Festival, launched by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and Cannes Festival chief Thierry Fremaux, heads of Lyon’s Institut Lumière.One of the biggest classic film celebrations in the world, with an audience of 250,000 last year, the Lumière Festival will run Oct. 10-18.

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Luxbox Acquires Kad Merad Starrer ‘Playback’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Kad Merad, star of Dany Boon’s “Welcome to the Sticks,” the highest-grossing film of all time in France, will star in Stéphane Berthomieux’s “Playback,” which has been picked up for international sales by Paris-based Luxbox.Produced by director Mathieu Demy, whose credits include Salma Hayek-starrer “Americano” and TV series “The Bureau,” “Playback,” the fiction feature debut of documentarian Berthomieux. Pic co-stars Déborah François, star of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Palme d’Or winning “The Child,” and Geraldine Chaplin.