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ADVERTISEMENT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL DAY 2 FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 2019 shooting at the Malta Film Studios 40% CASH REBATE [email protected] 0830 VD Malta_CVR1.indd 1 8/23/19 10:51 AM WATCH THE TRAILER Untitled-28 1 8/23/19 4:05 PM VENICE FILM FESTIVAL DAY 2 FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 2019 EXCLUSIVE ‘Story’ Time at Venice EXCLUSIVE MK2 Sets Women of the World Polanski’s Laura Dern and Scarlett Johansson chat on the Sales of red carpet before the ‘Spy’ Marks premiere of “Marriage Prestige Story,” in which they star. Strong Docs Sales By ELSA KESLASSY By ELSA KESLASSY paris-based mk2 films, although its inclu- which is in Venice with sion in Venice’s competi- three films including Rob- tion has stirred some con- ert Guédiguian’s competi- troversy, Roman Polanski’s tion entry “Gloria Mundi,” “An Officer and a Spy” has is bowing sales on a raft lured buyers in several of prestige documenta- key markets ahead of its ries, notably Jia Zhang- world premiere on Friday. ke’s “So Close to My Land” Since unveiling the and Jacques Loeuille’s film’s first footage at “Birds of America.” Cannes, Paris-based sales “So Close to My Land” company Playtime has marks the sixth collabo- pre-sold it to Japan (Lon- ration between MK2 and gride); Spain (Caramel the Chinese auteur. “So Films); Greece (Odeon); Close to My Land” is the Portugal (Midas Filmes); third installment in a tril- Israel (United King Films); ogy focusing on differ- Denmark, Finland, Nor- → MK2, P.11 → POLANSKI, P.11 MARKET OPENS VENICE COMPETITION REVIEW Al-Mansour Venice Offers Bigger Gray’s ‘Ad Creates Astra’ Decidedly ‘Candidate’ Bridge to Production Down to Earth for Change By OWEN GLEIBERMAN By NICK VIVARELLI sell-and-buy market, like Cannes and Ber- By NICK VIVARELLI lin,” said Diot. But Diot has built the mar- In the opening the venice production Bridge, as the ket by providing something for produc- sequence of “Ad Astra,” Trailblazing Saudi Venice Film Festival’s market is known, is ers at every stage of the development cycle. Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), a Arabian filmmaker Haifaa kicking off with more producers, distrib- There is the book adaptation rights mar- veteran U.S. astronaut, is Al-Mansour doesn’t want utors and sales agents attending this year ket “for the IP,” he says, and then the core on top of a space antenna, to talk politics. — especially from Asia, even though its gap financing platform for more than 50 an elaborate piece of tech- The oil-rich kingdom’s core remains firmly European. selected projects, including VR productions. nological scaffolding that first female director, who There are roughly 2,400 industry attend- And, finally, Venice provides post-produc- juts up from the earth in 2012 broke taboos with ees accredited, which is around 200 more tion support for select works from the Mid- into the outer void. Sud- WATCH THE TRAILER ”Wadjda,” about a 10-year- than last year. Market chief Pascal Diot not- dle East and North Africa region through denly, there’s a mysterious old girl who wants to flout ed that roughly half are from Europe. its Final Cut in Venice section. power surge, which sends the rules and ride a bicy- As in past editions, the main focus of Pics with roughly 70% of their bud- dozens of astronauts tum- cle, is back in Venice with the Venice market is production. get in place seeking partners at the Ven- bling off the antenna. competition pic “The Per- Due to scarce infrastructure and prox- ice Production Bridge include new works Roy bounds down a few → CANDIDATE, P.11 imity to Toronto, Venice “can never be a big → PRODUCTION, P.11 → ‘AD ASTRA,’ P.10 Untitled-28 1 8/23/19 4:05 PM VENICE FILM FESTIVAL | NEWS Lion of Cinema EXCLUSIVE Winged Victory Böss Heads to Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar holds his Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, which Constantin he received Aug. 29 at the Venice Film Festival. By LEO BARRACLOUGH rüdiger böss will join German giant Constantin Film. At Constantin, he will act as a producer of theatrical films, TV movies and TV series. He will also be joining the manage- ment team at Constantin Pic- tures, a subsidiary of Constan- tin Film Intl., and will be one of its managing directors. Until last year, Böss served at ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, one of Germany’s leading broadcast networks, as exec VP of group content acquisitions and sales, a position he held for 11 years. In recent years, Constan- tin has been ramping up its TV production slate. Among its TV lineup are “We Children From Bahnhof Zoo” for Amazon and Uli Edel’s “Master’s Butcher.” FOCUS ON WOMEN Karimi Defies Odds With Kabul Drama By CHRISTOPHER VOURLIAS Rasoulof to the world. enjoyed special access from vil- wishes, about their dreams.” Inspired by a longing to deep- lagers who “were so happy some- With peace talks between the As the daughter of refu- en her understanding of Afghani- body different came from out- U.S. and Taliban under way to gees who fled Afghanistan for a stan, where she has also shot two side” to listen to them. end the nearly 18-year war, the new life in Iran, Sahraa Karimi documentaries, the film reflects The experience was cathar- filmmaker said “it’s an important never lost touch with her par- Karimi’s desire to “go beyond tic for many. “Women don’t share time” to show movies like hers in ents’ homeland, whose culture [Western] clichés, and to find new their secret lives with their fam- the country. and traditions were kept alive in stories, new perspectives” about ilies or their communities, “We don’t want to return to her Tehran household. But as the life as an Afghan woman. because they’re scared of rumors, that dark time [under Taliban years passed, and her pursuit of “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha” is a gossip,” said Karimi. But with rule],” she said. “We don’t want a career in filmmaking took her triptych of loosely connected sto- the director, they began to speak Afghan women’s stories to be to Europe, the distance between ries about three women living in “about their suffering, about their invisible.” Karimi and Afghanistan grew. Kabul — it’s a statement about Suddenly, the director was faced the universal challenges facing with a difficult choice. women in Afghanistan. “Those “Somehow, from a storytell- women that are able to bring ing perspective, I don’t belong to some significant changes in their this part of the world,” she said, lives, they’re not welcome very recalling her studies in Slovakia. much there,” said Karimi. “I belong to Afghanistan.” Karimi collected the sto- Karimi returned to Kabul to ries that inspired her film after VARIETY.COM shoot “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha,” more than two years of traveling her fiction feature debut that has around the country while work- its world premiere in the Hori- ing with UNICEF. “All the wom- zons section of the Venice Film en, especially all the village wom- Festival. The film is produced en, they really welcomed me, and Take Flight by Katayoon Shahabi (Noori Pic- they really wanted to speak about Sahraa Karimi’s “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha” AUGUST 30, 2019 AUGUST tures), who has helped intro- their stories,” she said. As an explores women’s lives in duce Iranian filmmakers such as Afghan woman who was raised contempo Afghanistan. 2 Asghar Farhadi and Mohammad and educated abroad, Karimi ONORATI/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK; CLAUDIO ALMODOVAR: Untitled-26 1 8/23/19 4:02 PM Untitled-26 1 8/23/19 4:02 PM VENICE FILM FESTIVAL | NEWS What are the styles of ani- making the film, Cinestaan mation and art that you stood by steadfastly and we have explored in “Bombay managed to complete it in Rose”? two years. With regards to The film has four styles challenges during produc- that seamlessly merge into tion, the task of creating each other. The reality is such a huge volume of work constructed in an impres- and to keep to its quality sionistic style characteristic in such a small time (yes 21 of my earlier short film months is small for anima- “TrueLoveStory.” But within tion) was a mammoth one. Gitanjali Rao that I go into the mindscape But my team at Paperboat of my protagonist Kamala, Animation Studios, and who hails from Madhya everyone involved in its ‘Maybe [this film will] make Pradesh, using the Kangra production, gave it their miniature painting style. For everything, so the challeng- Salim, the hero of the film es became surmountable people more open to Indian who hails from Kashmir and and even enjoyable. Toward is a truck driver’s son, I have the end, the last three or used the truck art style of four months, the team was stories in animation.’ Pakistan. The other import- working Sundays and even ant character in the film nights to complete in time. indian filmmaker Gitanjali Rao found global fame when she won is an Anglo-Indian woman Life and leisure was sacri- three awards at Cannes for her 2006 animated short “Printed Rain- who used to be an dancer in ficed by one and all. bow.” Another animated short, 2014’s “TrueLoveStory,” also received Hindi films from the 1950s, considerable festival play. In 2018, she debuted as an actress with so for her my style changes You made quite an impact “October.” And now, her feature debut, “Bombay Rose,” the story of a into the black-and-white with your performance in flower seller who has to make the choice between protecting her fam- vintage style of an older “October.” Did the experi- ily or allowing herself to fall in love, opens Critics’ Week at the Venice Bombay.