“Dreaming Walls: inside the Chelsea Hotel” was released in UK cinemas and became available on demand from the 20th of January. The Guardian spoke with directors by Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier about their film, read through this link.
Young Plato receives the Karama Feather Award for Best Feature Documentary at Karama Human Rights Film Festival in Amman, Jordan
The International Migrants Day was celebrated in Chisinau with a screening of “Love is not an Orange” on the 16th of December 2022. At the initiative of IOM Moldova and support from Centrul Naţional al Cinematografiei din Republica Moldova, 300 seats were filled at the Odeon Cinema. This was a long-awaited opportunity to share the […]
Young Plato qualified for both the Academy & Bafta Awards 2023 and was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards. Deadline wrote a compelling piece about the movie; read it here
London Film Week presents the UK Premiere of Love is not an Orange by Otilia Babara. Through the use of intimate private archives, Otilia Babara depicts the fragility of family bonds through the eyes of a generation of Moldovan mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart in order to survive. While doing […]
VOLKSKRANT https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/het-legendarische-chelsea-hotel-is-nu-gewoon-een-hip-hotel-behalve-op-de-eerste-verdieping~b4bfb8ae/ CINEVOX https://www.cinevox.be/fr/amelie-van-elmbt-deconstruire-le-mythe-pour-en-observer-les-fondations/ & https://www.cinevox.be/fr/dreaming-walls-ghost-story/ DE MORGEN https://www.demorgen.be/tv-cultuur/docu-over-legendarisch-new-yorks-logement-hoe-zou-het-nog-zijn-met-het-chelsea-hotel~b21a89ae/ Immerse yourself completely in the atmosphere of the legendary Hotel Chelsea by watching the movie “Dreaming Walls”, in which the last residents of the hotel take you to a mythical place. 🎬 Cinéma Vendôme 9/11, 10/11, 11/11, 12/11, 13/11, 14/11, 15/11 🎬 Cinema ZED […]
Congrats to director Otilia Babara !
Very honoured to present Vida Dena’s My Paper Life at the upcoming IDFA Best of Fest Selection. We hope to meet you there.
Very pleased to present Dreaming Walls, a documentary written and directed by Amélie van Elmbt & Maya Duverdier, at the upcoming IDFA Film Festival in the category Best of Fest. Congrats to both directors and the whole team involved.
We’re very honoured to announce that Otilia Babara first feature documentary LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE is premiering at Dok Leipzig. A delicate documentary about a generation of girls who grew up with absent mothers, economic migrants to Western Europe after the Soviet Union’s collapse. A ritualised mail exchange took place: mothers sent money and […]
Young Plato has been shortlisted for the very prestigious 2022 Grierson Awards, run by The Grierson Trust in the UK. Our ‘wee film’ about principal Kevin Mc Arevey and his excellent team’s work at Holy Cross Boys’ PS is one of only 8 films shortlisted from around the world in the Best Cinema Documentary category, […]
Today is the US release date of Dreaming Walls. #DreamingWalls “is a multi-dimensional cinematic requiem for the Hotel Chelsea as it once was—the epicenter of a Bohemian New York that now exists only in memory.” — Martin Scorsese #DreamingWalls is now playing in theaters and on demand.