Thursday, March 11 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
After screening at the Berlinale, where it sold to 15 countries, the new film by Ferzan Ozpetek, Loose Cannons [trailer], will play in the main competition of the Tribeca Film festival, World Narrative Features.
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From March 13-20, the 24th Freiburg International Film Festival will open its doors and showcase treasures from faraway lands. For the past three years, Edouard Waintrop has headed this unmissable film lovers’ event, which presents a line-up of works from the “other world” of cinema. The festival’s success lies mainly in the way it boldly offers a web of “perspectives” whose common denominator is a passion for cinema and a desire to surprise.
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Wednesday, March 10 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
The 23rd Nordic Film Festival in Rouen opens today for almost two weeks of immersion in cinema from Belgium, Lower Saxony and the Nordic countries. Programme director Isabelle Duault has put together an eclectic offering spanning 12 sections.
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German audiences will once again get the chance to discover new Polish cinema at the 8th Filmland Polen Festival, whose 2010 edition will be held from April 13-21 in Hanover, Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen. The line-up includes 32 narrative features, shorts, documentaries and animated films.
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UK/Ireland premieres of Danis Tanovic’s Triage and Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro [trailer] will mark the opening and closing of the 10th Belfast Film Festival (April 15-30).
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Thursday, March 4 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
The Febiofest international film festival has unveiled the programme and international guests of its 17th edition, running March 25–April 3 in Prague.
The programme is rich with European films, including Giuseppe Tornatore's Baaria, Jane Campion's Bright Star, Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert, Marina de Van’s Don’t Look Back, Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, Duncan Jones' Moon, and Marco Bellocchio's Vincere.
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Tuesday, March 2 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
Ken Wardop’s documentary His & Hers has won the Audience Award at this year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The film also won best documentary in the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards and cinematographer Kate McCullough was awarded their inaugural Michael Dwyer Discovery Award.
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Thursday, February 25 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
Short Slovak documentary Arsy-Versy and Czech feature-length documentary Phantom of Liberty II have been selected this year's South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas (March 12–21).
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A total of 67 films from 26 countries are in the line-up for the 5th European Independent Film Festival (ECU), to be held in Paris from March 12-14, 2010.
The event headed by Scott Hillier will show documentaries, animated films, shorts, experimental works and titles tackling environmental issues.
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Thursday, February 18 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
Julio Medem will be in the spotlight at the 13th Malaga Spanish Film Festival, which will close with the world premiere of his film Room in Rome (see news). Moreover, the Basque director will receive the Retrospective “Malaga Hoy” Award, which will be accompanied by a retrospective of his works.
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Friday, February 12 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | one comment
This year’s Anima Festival, which kicks off in Brussels today and closes on February 20, should once again attract swathes of aficionados come to immerse themselves in cinematic worlds that are by turns fantastical, dreamlike, multi-coloured and visually pared-down. While the programme inevitably puts the emphasis on Oriental productions, it nonetheless includes a few recent European titles, in particular from the far north.
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Wednesday, February 10 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
Three Scottish Screen-supported films – Outcast, Crying With Laughter and Skeletons – have been selected to screen at the South By Southwest Film Festival (popularly known as SXSW) happening in Austin, Texas (March 12-20).
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Tuesday, February 9 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
Former Hungarian Shooting Star Zsolt Nagy starred in two very different films that premiered in this year’s Hungarian Film Week: the contemporary comedy-drama Team Building and the historical film Colorado Kid.
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Winner of the Golden Reel for Best Feature and the Gene Moskowitz Foreign Critics’ Prize, Szabolcs Hajdu’s Bibliothèque Pascal (see news) dominates the awards list at the 41st Hungarian Film Week, which was unveiled yesterday evening in Budapest.
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The Danish prison drama R by first-time directors Michael Noer and Tobias Lindholm, scooped the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) that ended this weekend.
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Monday, February 8 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
At the 41st edition of the Hungarian Film Week, which will conclude tonight with the awards ceremony in Budapest, several new films explored the odd behaviour of men in relationships.
In writer-director Denes Orosz’ high-concept box-office hit Poligamy, a thirtysomething screenwriter (Hungarian superstar Sandor Csanyi) is afraid of his girlfriend’s desire for a wedding ring and a child. One day he wakes up to find that his girlfriend has changed into a completely different woman, and each time he sleeps with her, she changes appearance again, though she maintains she is, in fact, his girlfriend Lilla.
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After several films with youths in trouble (see news), two films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which wrapped this weekend, showcased youngsters listening to their hearts.
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Paz Fabrega’s Cold Water of the Sea is one of the three Tiger Award winners of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, which ended Sunday.
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Friday, February 5 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
The 26th Mons International Love Film Festival (FIFA) will be held in Belgium from February 19-26. Having the freedom of a universal theme that opens up a range of possibilities, the festival aims to offer Mons and Belgian audiences unusual films from across the world.
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Wednesday, February 3 2010 By valerio5505 | Film Festival | no comment
Borders of all sorts are erected and torn down in films currently playing in the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
In the Spectrum section comes maybe its most straightforward example, Jaroslav Vojtek’s documentary The Border, which looks at the village of Slemence, which was cut in two after WWII, with half becoming part of Czechoslovakia, with the other half going to Ukraine. The villagers, of ethnic Hungarian descent, could only visit their relatives and neighbours on the side after obtaining a special visa in a town 150 kilometres away.
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