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December 4, 2009 by GW Editorial Staff
Filed under CULTURE, FILM
"Home"
HOME by Ursula Meier
Finally the veil is lifted ! “HOME” by the young and talented Swiss Director Ursula Meier has been selected to compete at the Academy Award 2010 in the Best Foreign Language Film section. The film will be released in the USA on November 29th, 2009 in New York City and will be shown at the upcoming Palm Springs Film Festival on January 8th, 2010. No additional screening in Los Angeles has been confirmed yet but be sure that we will keep you posted on that.
Synopsis:
A family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment. They continue their happy-go-lucky routine despite the daily stress of hundreds of noisy speeding cars. But suspicions about the highway’s unknown long-term dangers cause family tension. Remaining in the disrupted household might not be so easy, but it’s still their home.
The Director: Ursula Meier
Born in Besançon (France) in 1971, part Swiss part French, from 1990 to 1994 Ursula Meier studied film-making at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Belgium, graduating with “Great Distinction”. The success of Le songe d’Isaac, her end-of-course project, then of Des heures sans sommeil, enabled her to pursue an independent career, while at the same time working as assistant
director on two films by Alain Tanner (Fourbi and Jonas et Lila, à demain). Ursula Meier’s films alternate between genre blurring works of fiction and documentaries as strange and different as Autour de Pinget
and Pas les flics, pas les noirs, pas les blancs. Her films have won many awards at international festivals: Tous à table alone has been shown at more than eighty festivals and taken more than twenty prizes. The enthusiastic reaction to her films has won this film-maker a growing reputation. As a result,
she was selected to contribute to the Arte series of television films Masculin Féminin, shot in video. For Arte, she made Des épaules solides (Strong Shoulders), which has been kinescoped and is now on the world festival circuit.
In spring 2008, she finishes her first feature-length fiction film, Home (selected for the 2006 Cannes Cinefoundation Award as part of the Festival Workshop, finalist in the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Price NHK/2007). She is a winner of the Prix de la Fondation Beaumarchais, the Prix Les Espoirs du Scénario au Manuscript de Vercorin, and the Prix du concours de scénario SSA. Home has been since selected for screening at the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and also won many prices in different festivals around the world.
Ursula Meier’s film has also been awarded with the Swiss Film Prize Quartz of the Best Fiction Film of 2009.
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