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Secrets, Objects / Samoolui bimil
PerspectivesDir. Lee Young-miA woman in her forties, a university professor, is carrying out scientific research on a relevant theme: “Changes in female psychology following marital unfaithfulness”. The story of her unfortunate personal life (but that is a big “secret”) is told by… an inanimate object, by a copier, so let…
Huvelin street / Rue Huvelin
Perspectives Dir. Mounir MaasriAny director is flattered when he turns out to be a prophet. At a meeting some two years ago a young filmmaker was passionately insisting that the scenes with “bad cops” had been shot in that very precinct which later became notorious because of the major Yevsyukov’s…
Komasa awarded at Art Film Fest 2011
Jan Komasa awarded at ART FILM FEST 2011. The Blue Angel for Best Director went to Polish director Jan Komasa for his "Suicide Room" (Sala samobójcow). The five-member international jury summed up the picture as: "[a] violent film steeped in the loneliness of a young generation lost in modern technology,…
"Mother" by Jakub Piatek awarded in Bulgaria
The documentary movie "Mother" by Jakub Piątek won Best Documentry award during 9th In the Palace International Short Film Festival in Bułgaria, one of the biggest documentary event in Balcan region.In the Palace International Short Film Festival took a place in Balchik, Bulgaria between 18-25 June. 250 movies up to…
Escalation / Escalade
Competition Dir. Charlotte SilveraIn 2008 after a prolonged interval French cinema won back the Palme d’Or in Cannes with the movie “Klass”. The event was followed by an avalanche of movies about discontent at school, which – just to be objective – reflected the real importance of the problems in…
The waves / Las olas
Competition Dir. Alberto MoraisThe film by the Catalonian Morais is preceded by an epigraph of the legendary photographer Robert Capa. It is taken from his impressions of the inhuman conditions the prisoners of the French concentration camp of Argelès-sur-mer suffered in March 1939. For a non-Spanish viewer, who is nonetheless…
The perfect life / La vita facile
CompetitionDir. Lucio PellegriniTo the traditionally disturbing sounds of tango performed in an intentionally carefree way (bravo the composer Gabriele Roberto!) the white introductory titles speed away along the white separator (hello, Almodovar and the final titles in “Kika”) alternately chasing two vehicles. The cool shining auto with sleek doctor Mario…
Gakku
PerspectivesDir. Gaziz Nasyrov Certain year of the 2000s. A journalist of some big paper, Tamerlan finds himself tied to a battery in some basement premise, after he was taken and kept hostage by mysterious group of men in black masks with eye holes. Tamerlan is instinctively preparing himself to lie…
Foreigner / Lао wai
Perspectives Dir. Fabien GaillardThis is a movie about the guy who went too far in the direct and (as many would say) indirect sense of the word. Paul from Limoges is a young man of about 30. He has been living in Shanghai for a long time now, he speaks…
RETRACE/ VISSZATÉRÉS
CompetitionDir. Judit ElekAll happy families are happy in the same way, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. That is the case in Judit Elek’s movie. The Romanian and the Swedish families have very little in common. What could a Transylvanian forester and a respectable West-European lady…
Sneakers / Kecove
Competition Dir. Ivan Vladimirov, Valeri YordanovSix people escape from Sofia. Their flight is depicted humorously, dashingly and briefly: for example, the camera is watching trough the shop window how the 50-year-old drunkard slaps his woman across the face. The next moment a girl in working clothes runs into the café,…
The full retrospective of Béla Tarr
For the first time in Russia, a retrospective of Béla Tarr’s full body of work will take part at Pioneer and October venues as part of the 33rd MIFF.Tarr’s latest feature, The Turin Horse, based on an apocryphal story of Friedrich Nietzsche, was entered into the main competition at this…
Announcement for new International Short film Festival Cyprus - Call for Entries
ANNOUNCEMENT International Short Film Festival of Cyprus15 - 22/10/2011 Announcement for the new International Short Film Festival of CyprusCall for Entries The Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theater announce that the Short Film and Short Documentary Festival has been upgraded to the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus…
33 MIFF premiers
Day two of 33rd MIFF was full of events. First jury members of the three competitions – Main, Perspectives and Documentary – were introduced. On Friday first competing films were demonstrated.The main event of Friday was a meeting with 33rd MIFF jury which took place in the lobby of Khudozhestvenny…
John Malkovich received a world cinema contribution award
‘Being John Malkovich’ – what does it mean? Who knows. Anyhow the actor himself affirms that in the noted Spike Jonze’s picture, where his head was being turned into a virtual portal, he just played an odd role of the character with such a name, no way related to him.…
Moscow will host International Film Finence Forum
For the first time Moscow will host one of the most reputable events of world cinema industry - the International Film Finance Forum Moscow 2011, officially sponsored by Corporate Finance Bank. In the framework of the 33-th Moscow International Film Festival the Forum will be held on 24 June at…
”Heritage” and „Declaration of Immortality” in Competitions of the Karlovy Vary IFF
Two TVP's films: "Heritage" by Andrzej Barański and "Declaration of Immortality" by Marcin Koszałka have been selected for the Karlovy Vary IFF's competitions. The festival will present 179 feature films and will start on July 1. The brand new Andrzej Barański's film, to be shown in the Main Competition, has…
Socialis Avan-gardizm. Part 4
Probably the more hyped-up a brand is the further it is removed from the initially intended meaning and the more it reveals the meaning of the material itself.When we compiled the first programs in the series “Socialist Avant-gardism”, our guiding principle was the revolutionary form, which turned out to be…
Epic ending for the 10th Transilvania IFF - Newsletter June 12th, 2011
It was an epic night in Cluj for Argentinian Miguel Cohan: after having won the Best Screenplay Award earlier, he also went on stage to claim the Transilvania Trophy from the hands of Jacqueline Bisset, for his debut feature No Return / Sin Retorno. The Best Directing Award went ex-aequo…
Four Slovak film projects selected for MIDPOINT 2011
For the second edition of the MIDPOINT program, with the first session taking place during Art Film Fest IFF, 16 projects were selected from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Austria and Myanmar (Burma). In total, 36 young film professionals (writers, directors and producers) will take part in…
