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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…
33 MIFF presents: Russian premiere of Target
One of the most desired Russian films of the year, Aleksandr Zeldovich & Vladimir Sorokin's Mishen / Target will take part in Gala-screenings program of the 33 MIFF. The film, starring Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Danila Kozlovsky, Vitaly Kishchenko, Daniela Stoyanovich, tells the story which takes place in Russia in…
Art Film Fest to present the latest international films
Art Film Fest to present the latest international films, awards to Zuzana Kronerová, Emir Kusturica, among others Winning films from the most prestigious international festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno and Venice; exclusive premieres of long-anticipated pictures; the latest Slovak cinema; Asian blockbusters and tributes to cult figures of the…
CALL FOR ENTRY FORMS FOR 18TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ETIUDA&ANIMA
18th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima (18th - 24th of November 2011, Krakow, Poland) is starting to call for entries to the two short film competitions: ETIUDA COMPETITION (deadline is on 17th September 2011) - international film competition for student etudes made at film and fine art schools, and ANIMA COMPETITION…
EKOTOPFILM 2011 REGISTRATION IS STILL RUNNING !!!
The International Festival of Sustainable Development Films - ekotopfilm 2011 REGISTRATION IS STILL RUNNING!!!DOn`t miss your chance to SIGN your film! Latest news The 38th International Festival of Sustainable Development Films - Ekotopfilm 2011 will be held in October 17 – 21, 2011 in the capital city of Bratislava, Slovak…
Kaunas International Film Festival: Last chance to submit your film
Press release6 June, 2011 Last chance to submit your film for the 5th Kaunas International Film Festival Kaunas International Film Festival calls filmmakers to submit their films for this year's programme. Films fitting into one of the programme sections - "Identity", "All the Muses", "Music Moves the World" and the…
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 Moscow International Film Festival announces A Tribute To Rob Nilsson
The Moscow International Film Festival presents A Tribute to Rob Nilsson, a Retrospective of films by San Francisco director/writer/actor Rob Nilsson to be held during 33rd annual festival June 23-July 2, 2011. The Retrospective will feature NORTHERN LIGHTS, co-directed by John Hanson (Camera d’Or at Cannes, 1979); HEAT AND SUNLIGHT,…
33rd Moscow Festival announced this year’s competition program.
33 Moscow Festival announced this year’s competition program. This year the festival will take place at 23.06 with the world premiere Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. The closing film as was announced before - The Debt starred Helen Mirren. JURY Geraldine Chaplin Amos Gitai Arturo Ripshtein Nikolay Dostal PERSPECTIVES…
