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A Week of Lebanese cinema
With this year’s A Week of Lebanese cinema, the KVIFF ties in with its successful series of previous years (Young Greek Cinema or A Female Take on Russia) and presents a programme of eight titles filmed over the last 25 years in a country with one of the longest cinematic histories in the Middle East. Read More...
A retrospective of an iconic female-director
The life of the legendary director of Ukrainian-Iranian origin Larisa Shepitko (1938 – 1979), whose student film Heat (1963) won the prize for best debut at the 14th Karlovy Vary IFF, ended all too soon in an automobile accident. The five films that Shepitko managed to make in her lifetime nonetheless made her an icon among female directors. Read more...Tributes to John Cazale and Chris Penn
The 50th KVIFF will be remembering the masterful work of two actors and outstanding figures of American cinema who died before their time, and who would otherwise have celebrated significant jubilees of their own this year. Read more...
