Last night, our coproduction Everybody in our Family from director Radu Jude won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film at the Sarajevo Film Festival and received a cash prize of €16.000, provided by the Council of Europe. The film premiered at the Berlin Film festival and will be released in the Netherlands next […]
De Jueves a Domingo at EYE Film Institute
Our coproduction De Jueves a Domingo (Thursday till Sundag) by Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor will be screened in the Netherlands by EYE Film Institute from 19 till 25 July. De Jueves a Domingo won the Hivos Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 and a number of other international awards. For more information […]
Martijn Maria Smits selected for script development Oversteek VI
Dutch Film Fund, Mediafund and VARA, VPRO and NTR have selected Everything We Always Had Was Now by Martijn Maria Smits for the second phase of script development in the Oversteek VI program. Last year, this project has won the development award and the ARTE International Relations Award at the 4th edition of the Torino […]
Hannah Hoekstra wins Best Actress at VOICES Festival
Hannah Hoekstra has won the Best Actress Award at VOICES Festival in Vologda, Russia. The International Jury led by director Alexander Proshkin and including director Hans Weingartner and French actress-producer Julie Gayet praised Hannah for her stunning performance in Hemel.
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Circe Films new adress: Da Costakade 176 HS 1053 XE Amsterdam
FIPRESCI Award for HEMEL at Berlinale
The Jury of the International Critics honoured Sacha Polak with a FIPRESCI award for best film in the Forum section. HEMEL will be released in the Netherland from 29th March.
De Jueves a Domingo wins Tiger Award
Dominga Sotomayor’s Thursday till Sunday has won a Tiger Award at the Rotterdam IFF last Friday. One week earlier Sotomayor won the NHK Mahindra Award at Sundance for her new project, Tarde Para Morir Joven (Late to Die Young), developed at the Binger Film Lab.
Two world premieres Circe at Forum Berlinale
First feature HEMEL by Sacha Polak, based on a screenplay written by Helena van der Meulen and featuring Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet and Rifka Lodeizen, has been selected for the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival 2012. Release by Cineart in the Netherlands is set for 29 March. HEMEL is coproduced by VPRO, […]
Thursday till Sunday in Tiger Competition
De Jueves a Domingo by Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor has been selected for the Tiger Awards Competition 2012 at the IFF Rotterdam. The debut film is produced by Forastero and Cinestacion (both CL) and was coproduced by Circe Films, with support of the Hubert Bals Fund. World sales is handled by FiGa Films.
Martijn Maria Smits wins two development awards at Torino Filmlab
Everything We Always Had Was Now by Martijn Maria Smits had won a development award at the 4th edition of the Torino Film Lab. Smits’ film also took the Euros 6,000 ARTE International Relations Award from ARTE France Cinema. Held during the Turin Film Festival, the lab hosted 120 professionals spanning screenwriters, directors, producers and […]