Jack Baun

75 Locarno Film Festival

Hikayat elbeit elorjowani
(Tales of the Purple House)

Concorso internazionale
Lebanon, Iraq, France · 2022

From their ’Purple House’ in the South of Lebanon, French-Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel and his Lebanese wife, the painter Nour Ballouk, start exploring a multifaceted country that seems to be on the edge…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival
Concorso internazionale Italy, France, Belgium · 2022

Gigi la legge (The Adventures of Gigi the Law)
Gigi is a rural traffic officer where nothing ever happens. One day however, a young girl throws herself under a train. This is not the first time. Facing this unexplainable suicide wave, Gigi starts…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Annie Colère (Angry Annie)
February 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two children, comes into contact with the MLAC; an organization that performs illegal abortions in broad daylight. Welcomed by the movement founded on tangible help for women and shared knowledge, Annie…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Alles über Martin Suter. Ausser die Wahrheit.
(Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.)

This film is not a classic portrait but a documentary using fiction to bring Martin Suter’s novels to life while introducing us to the author behind the stories on a whole new level. “Fantasy is usually tr…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival
De noche los gatos son pardos

A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigate, the filming continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, keeps a promise and reaches the Mexican P…[Leggi tutto]

75 Locarno Film Festival

Bowling Saturne
(Saturn Bowling)

Concorso internazionale
France, Belgium · 2022

When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of…[Leggi tutto]

Tribeca 2022 – winners:
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Best Performance
Rain Spencer in Good Girl Jane

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  Rain Spencer in Good Girl Jane

Tribeca 2022 – winners:
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION
Best Cinematography
Next Exit
Directed and written by Mali Elfman

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Tribeca 2022 – winners:
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION

Best Screenplay

Allswell
Directed and written by Ben Snyder; written by Elizabeth Rodriguez

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Drama Good Girl Jane, written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, took the Tribeca Festival Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature.
Andie MacDowell is Jane’s beleaguered mom. It’s produced by Fred Bernstein, Dominique Telson, Lauren Pratt, Mintz and Simone Willi…[Leggi tutto]

Here’s the complete list of Tribeca winners:
U.S. NARRATIVE COMPETITION

The Founders’ Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature
Good Girl Jane
Directed and written by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz

Best Screenplay
Allswell
Directed and written by Ben Snyder; written by Elizabeth Rodriguez

Best Cinematography
Next Exit
Directed and written by Mali Elf…[Leggi tutto]

Tribeca 2022
NEXT EXIT
New York, Horror, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Technology, Asian Diaspora Stories
One of life’s greatest mysteries has been solved: Life after death does exist. The widespread acceptance of ghosts has led to Life Beyond, a radical scientific study based in San Francisco and launched by Dr. Stevenson (…[Leggi tutto]

Tribeca 2022
THE YEAR BETWEEN
Comedy, Drama
Forced to return home from college after her erratic behavior alienates everyone around her (namely her amusingly panicked roommate), Clemence begrudgingly begins an undesired new chapter in the suburbs, hell-bent on defying her Mom (J. Smith-Cameron), Dad (Steve Buscemi), younger siblings,…[Leggi tutto]

Tribeca 2022
THE BLACK PHONE
Denver, 1978. Thirteen-year-old Finney is an insecure suburban kid with a spunky younger sister, Gwen, and an alcoholic father. Several of his peers have recently disappeared—the locals believe it’s the work of a child abductor and killer dubbed “The Grabber.” When Finney encounters a strange man dressed as a cl…[Leggi tutto]