Sentences with phrase «refugee drama film»
The Lebanese director's moving refugee drama film received a 15 - minute standing ovation at its premiere
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INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (R for graphic sexuality and nudity) Romance drama, set in Paris in the Twenties, abut the scandalous affair conducted by a famous French clothes designer (Anna Mouglalis) with the promising classical composer (Mads Mikkelsen) whose penniless, refugee family she let live in her villa after they escaped the Russian Revolution.
The Fortnight's Europa Cinema Labels Award went to «A Ciambra,» a migrant drama directed by the U.S. - born, Italy - based filmmaker Jonas Carpignano and produced by Martin Scorsese, underscoring the strong contingent of festival films addressing themes of immigration and the refugee crisis.
Gianfranco Rosi «s refugee documentary Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday, beating out several other politically - charged dramas.
Amour director and Cannes staple Michael Haneke has a film in competition this year, a drama about the French refugee crisis called Happy End.
As it turns out, the refugees are even more peripheral, almost invisible (including the Moroccan household staff members) to the film's narrative, which suggests Happy End is pointing a wagging finger at the entirety of white, privileged Europe, a continent engaged in her own foolhardy, manipulative dramas, happily ambivalent to anything beyond the safety and convenience of self - imposed blinders.