Usa, Variety: Iceland’s Next Generation of Filmmakers Gains New Entrant
For years, the coming-of-age film has found sometimes large success, but it is ripe for new interpretation for a new generation of filmmakers and…
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Uk, Screen Daily: Hearstone and Kills On Wheels take top prizes at Greek festival
Hungarian action-comedy Kills On Wheels and Icelandic-Danish coming of age story Heartstone take top prizes at Greek festival Hungarian director Attila Till’s Kills On…
Belgium, Cineuropa: Reykjavik, Icelandic Film Centre Works in Process 2016
“The current temperature of Icelandic cinema is warm, and we really like it when it is warm up here in the North,” Laufey Guðjónsdóttir,…
Usa, NBC News: 11 International Films to Watch at the NewFest LGBT Film Festival
Baby Bump, Polish film, received a special mention from the Queer Lion jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2015 More than 100 features…
Iceland, Iceland Review: ‘Heartstone’ Receives Three Awards in Warsaw
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s first feature film, Heartstone (Hjartasteinn), received three prizes at the Warsaw Film Festival last weekend. Guðmundur was elected best director for…
Usa, The Huffington Post: 10 International Films to Watch at the NewFest LGBT Film Festival
Baby Bump, absurdist masterpiece wowed audiences at the Venice Biennale, where it received a Special Mention from the Queer Lion jury Starting Thursday, film…
Usa, Variety: European Film Promotion Brings Key Talent, Films to Festival
Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson presents his coming-of-age Icelandic drama “Heartstone,” which nabbed this year’s Queer Lion Award in Venice European Film Promotion is back at…
Denmark, Danish Film Institute: The War Show and Heartstone wins top prize
Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon’s Syrian road trip “The War Show” wins the top prize at Venice Days, while Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson’s coming-of-age drama…
Usa, The Hollywood Reporter: Tom Ford’s second feature, Nocturnal Animals, won the Silver Lion prize
In his first film, A Single Man, Colin Firth won the Coppa Volpi for best actor, and Tom Ford won the Queer Lion that year…
Usa, The Hollywood Reporter: this year’s Queer Lion went to Heartstone
Filipino director Lav Diaz took home the Golden Lion for ‘The Woman Who Left.’ Filipino director Lav Diaz on Saturday won the top prize…
News: Venezia 73, Bruce LaBruce heads the jury of Venice Days Award
A thumbnail profile of a jury president who breaks the mold: Canadian, a photographer, writer, screenwriter and director. Plus a gay rights activist, a…
News: Venezia 73, Alberto Barbera Director of the Cinema Sector 2017-2020
After approving the four-year development plan for the Cinema Sector (organization of the Venice Film Festival, Biennale College – Cinema, Venice Production Bridge, Cinema…
News: Padova Pride Village 2016, 11 meetings with Queer Lion
Selection of art house movies in collaboration with Queer Lion Award, collateral award of the Venice International Film Festival 18 giugno Principe Maurice #Tribute by…
The Wrap: Eddie Redmayne’s ‘The Danish Girl’ Wins Venice’s Queer Lion Award as Oscar Buzz Mounts
Jury, headed by TheWrap film critic Alonso Duralde, also gave a special mention to Kuba Czekaj’s “Baby Bump” “The Danish Girl,” starring Oscar winner…
Queer Lion on foreign press
The articles dedicated to the birth of Queer Lion published on The Hollywood Reporter, Internet Movie Database, The Washington Post, Reuters, BBC, Miami Herald,…