ISTANBUL: The top prize in the international competition at the 33 Istanbul Film Festival (5-20 April 2014) went to Blind directod by Eskil Vogt, a Norwegian film which has already won prizes in Sundance and Berlin earlier this year.
Film New Europe salutes the Polish Film Institute on its 10th anniversary with a series of articles this week looking back at the work of the institute over the past ten years.
Polish Film Institute Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Interview Agnieszka Odorowicz General Director
Poland 22-04-2014The Polish Film Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. General Director Agnieszka Odorowicz has been at the helm of the Polish Film Institute since the beginning. FNE spoke to Ms Odorowicz about some of the major achievements of the past ten years at PISF.
VENICE: One of the new partners of Venice Days this year at the Biennale Film Festival was Toscana Resort Castelfalfi.
BERLIN: Levan Koguashvili made his feature debut with Street Days which was a hit on the festival circuit. With the accomplished Blind Dates he stakes his claim as perhaps the hottest of Georgia’s new generation of young directors.
BERLIN: Paris based director Rachid Bouchareb presents a remake of the 1973 thriller Duex homes dans la ville which was originally written and directed by novelist Jose Giovanni.
BERLIN: Cypriot born director Yannis Economides shows us the world of post economic melt-down Greece where economic misery and betrayal of civilized values are telescoped into this gangster tale as a metaphor for a much wider malaise throughout Greek society where the refrain “what can we do we need the money” is justification for any indecency or brutality.
BERLIN: Alain Renais the doyen of French cinema continues his love affair with British playwright Alan Ayckbourn with a successful adaptation of his stage play for his Berlin competition contender Life of Riley.
BERLIN: Fans of Wes Anderson rejoice. This might just be the film that he has been moving towards making since the beginning of his career. It works on every level and entertains as well as never ceasing to be a work of cinemagraphic art.
BERLIN: As Georgian film continues its return to the international scene there seems to be no shortage of young, talented Georgian directors emerging from this small country. The latest new talent from Tbilisi is director Tinatin Kajrishvili who arrives in Berlin with her debut feature, Brides, which screens in Panorama.
