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“Traveller”, the first major screen credits of “The Crying Games” Neil Jordan, the first feature film by Canadian Denis Coté “Drifting States” and Arturo Ripstein’s “The Place Without Limits,” a 1977 Mexican LGBTQ film, are 3 titles featured in the inaugural heritage of the Heritage Online segment of the Locarno Festival.
Another 1954 Egyptian transgender comedy, “Miss Hanafi,” highlights the richness of discoveries presented through Heritage Online, a virtual database and a screening room that combines the main points of old film catalogs around the world, facilitating the paintings of buyers, especially studying VOD platforms. holders of property titles.
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Heritage Online launches its full launch on Saturday with the distribution to its subscribers of a newsletter in which corporations detail their offer on the site, as well as a panel on the distribution of heritage films.
With the aim of “creating a loop between the heritage industry and broadcast platforms” by clarifying the ownership of rights, the site is launched with the main film-to-film points of approximately 20 old film catalogs and a screening room with approximately forty-five titles, Markus explains. Duffner, Director of the Heritage Online program and co-founder of the VOD spamflix.com platform. The site will remain open to subscribers throughout the year.
Directed through Joe Cornerford and winner of a special mention at the Locarno Festival in 1982, “Traveller”, a peculiar mystery with political nuances, follows a couple of young Irish travelers whose smuggling adventure from Limerick to Strabane turns into robbery and murder. The film is presented at Heritage Online through the British Film Institute.
The film that introduced Coté’s career as a foreign filmmaker, and won the Golden Leopard in the Locarno video segment in 2005 (“I’m Nobody in 2005,” says Coté) “Drifting States” has been restored through Elephant, the background backed by the state of Quebec. aimed at rediscovering, preserving and restoring the history of Franco-Canadian cinema.
The film was released on VOD platforms in Canada on August 6, and Heritage Online hosted the overseas recovery premiere.
“Hopefully, some online platforms will be interested. I am very pleased that this very low budget film, made in MiniDV at that time, is now being upgraded to HD: new appearance, new DCP, new facelift,” Coté told Variety.
Beyond is such a strange country. Decades ago, remote filmmakers were already exploring sexual diversity, for example. Some of his films seem to have stood the test of time. Presented through Ripstein’s Imcine of Mexico, “The Place Without Limits,” about a gay brothel that Madame terrorized and fell in love with a male truck driver, it’s “one of the great jewels of Mexican cinema, I think everyone would agree on that,” a film. that defies the [conservative] morality of the time,” says Fernanda Rio d’Imcine.
Written and produced through Galil al-Bendari, directed through Fatin Abdel Wahab, and presented at Locarno through the Arab Film Center, 1954 The Egyptian comedy “Miss Hanafi” lights a boy who undergoes an urgent sexual replacement operation, Miss Hanafi. friends are now fighting for Hanafi’s love and hand.
Heritage Online’s first diversity covers a wide diversity. Some titles are well-known classics: Oscar-nominated James Ivory, “The Bostonians,” a component of Cohen Media Group’s Merchant Ivory Productions Library; “Distant Voices, Still Lives” through Terence Davies, controlled by BFI; “In the White City” through the Swiss Alain Tanner in 1983; and new restorations to the Cohen film collection, produced through Cineteca di Bologna, “College” and “Go West” through Buster Keaton.
Other HO titles come with lesser-known films or little views of high-level authors, such as “The Terrorizers,” Edward Yang’s third feature film, a four-story cryptic tale of urban unrest, crime and maximum violence from one of Taiwanese fashion leaders.
True Colors / Glorious Films presents the 1984 mystery comedy “Bianca” through Italian director and actress Laura Morante before her collaboration with the 2001 Palme d’Or at Cannes, “The Son’s Room”.
Other titles of his time caused a sensation, such as “In the Name of Christ” by the Ivorian director Roger Gnoan M’Bala, a satire of the devout African cults co-produced through the Swiss Amka Films, which won the film at the Fespaco Film Festival in 1993.
Heritage Online, a new tool for the old film industry, also suggests that the old film industry continues to grow. Much of this expansion is now being positioned outside its centers in the United States and France, in territories such as Latin America, the Arab world and Eastern Europe.
“Miss Hanafi” comes from the Arab Radio and Television Library (ART) presented at Locarno through the Arab Film Center, whose partner, Mad Solutions, recently signed contracts with ART and the pan-Arab multinational Rotana.
Highlights come with 1971’s “Chitchat on the Nile” about the novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
The Mexican film institute Imcine also intensifies its program of digitization and recovery, with its diversity of 27 Locarno titles adding six titles through Arturo Ripstein, adding the jewel, “El Castillo de la Pureza”, “Under the Angels Machine Gun” of 1983, through Felipe Casals. , a director admired through Alfonso Cuarón; and “The Passion of Berenice”, a gruesome dramatic mystery that is digitized through Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, who died on January 13.
Knowing the call for titles serves as a thermometer to know what to restore, says Jannike Curuchet de Imcine.
The big question, which will be discussed in a moderate discussion panel through Variety’s Nick Vivarelli, is whether the advent of a panoply of new VOD platforms can also be a really long setback for traditional film rights holders.
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