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VI Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF)

BIAFF 2011 PRESS CONFERENCES Press conference - BIAFF 2011 Jury (Doc and Feature film sections)18 September, 14.00-13.00 PMCinema “Apollo” Press conference - Otar Iosseliani, Alexander Rekhviashvili 19 September, 12.00-13.00 PMCinema “Apollo” Press conference – Dariush Mehrjui, Mohammad Attebai –Iranian cinema20 September, 12.00-13.00 PMCinema “Apollo” Press conference – Opening of BIAFF…
15-09-2011

BIAFF 2011 PROGRAM

BIAFF 2011 Program OPENING FILM - Midnight in Paris, by Woody Alen, USA, 2011; 94 min.CLOSING FILM - Way to home, by Alexander Rekhviashvili,1981; 76 min.
15-09-2011

48th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ready to begin

One of the most prestigious cinema events of Turkey’s arts and culture scene, the ‘48th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, will be held from 8th to 14th October 2011. With the support of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, the Festival is organized by the Antalya Culture and Art Foundation (AKSAV).
14-09-2011

ADANA METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY 18TH GOLDEN BOLL FILM FESTIVAL STARTS

Countdown has started for Adana Metropolitan Municipality 18th Golden Boll Film Festival which is to take place between September 17 and 25.The festival program which turns Adana into the heart of cinema every year is very rich this year as well.Finalists of National Feature Film, Mediterranean Short Film and National…
14-09-2011

JAMESON CINEFEST HUNGARY: HERE’S THE WHOLE COMPETITION PROGRAM

The list is ready: the competition program of 8th Jameson CineFest is complete. We can say that this year’s program, all the 14 movies, is much stronger than last year’s, moreover, it is going to be the strongest Hungarian festival competition program ever. Our aim is unchanged: to create the…
05-09-2011

International ecumenical jury, national ecumenical retrospective AT JAMESON CINEFEST

Jos Horemans, president of SIGNIS Europe is going to head the international ecumenical jury of 8th Jameson CineFest. ‘It is a great honour to be the president of the first international ecumenical jury in Hungary’, says Horemans, the leader of the European branche of the catholic world association for media…
02-09-2011

THE OTHER OLSEN GIRL AT JAMESON CINEFEST, BEFORE THE AMERICAN PREMIERE

Sean Durkin has been awarded for the best direction at Sundance for his film Martha Marcy May Marlene which is going to be screened in the competition program of the Miskolc International Film Festival in September. The Hungarian cinema-goers can watch the film, which appeared in the Un certain regard…
30-08-2011

11th WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film will take place 8 - 18.12.2011 in Warsaw

WATCH DOCS 2011 program includes among others: 1. Competition for feature-length, human rights – oriented documentaries from all over the world, of outstanding cinematic quality 2. Permanent repertoire section „I Want to See”, including documentaries about events, problems and people on whom the attention of human rights defenders is currently…
30-08-2011

The 5th Kaunas International FF to be opened by Mindaugas Survila’s film The Field of Magic

For the second year in a row, Kaunas International Film Festival will be opened by a Lithuanian film – this year it will be the documentary The Field of Magic by Mindaugas Survila. The premiere of the story about the people who have been living in the Buda Forest near…
26-08-2011

Sarajevo’s Best PICTURE on JAMESON CineFest

A few weeks ago in Sarajevo, Angelina Jolie handed over the award for Best Actor to Thomas Schubert, the young star of Atmen (Breathing). This is the first direction of Austrian actor Karl Markovics. In his homeland he is a very well known and popular artist, and the interational public…
25-08-2011

"Land of Oblivion", a Polish co-production with Olga Kurylenko and Andrzej Chyra, at the Toronto IFF

“Land of Oblivion”, a Polish co-production with Olga Kurylenko and Andrzej Chyra, at the Toronto International Film Festival “Land of Oblivion”, Michale Boganim, a French-German-Polish co-production with Andrzej Chyra in one of the leading roles and with music by the exceptional Polish pianist and composer Leszek Mozdzer, will be shown…
25-08-2011

Films in 2011 Golden Carpathian Competition

PÁLL ADRIENNAustria-France-Hungary-Netherlands 2010, 136 min. The story retraces the wanderings of a nurse who goes mad from being surrounded by death and sets off in search of a long-lost childhood friend. Gathering her recollections, she embarks on a journey full of paradoxes of her own memories and of the people…
23-08-2011

GOLDEN CARPATHIAN PLOIESTI EUROPEAN FILM & FAIR Ploiesti, 25 to 28 August 2011

FIRST ROMANIAN FAIR DEDICATED TO FILM INDUSTRY GOLDEN CARPATHIAN PLOIEŞTI EUROPEAN FILM & FAIR is the first Romanian fair dedicated to the film industry, organized in Romania by Ploiesti City Hall, Ministry of Culture, National Centre of Cinematography, RADEF Romania Film and the European Association for Cultural Integration. The first…
23-08-2011

IFF Cinematik: non-competitive section DoCma: Animated Reality

Dear colleagues,I would like to inform you about the non-competitive section "DoCma: Animated Reality" at the 6th International Film Festival Cinematik in Piestany, Slovakia, which presents the films that interconnect documentary and animation. I would be very glad if the topic attracted your interest and if you could inform your…
19-08-2011

4 Polish films at Montreal IFF

Czarny czwartek. Janek Wiśniewski padł (Black Thursday), the latest film from Antoni Krauze, will screen in Main Competition at the 35th Montreal International Film Festival. Black Thursday will compete for the festival's grand prize against Kret (The Mole) by Rafael Lewandowski. The Montreal screenings will also mark both films' world…
17-08-2011

LOCARNO'S BEST DIRECTOR IN MISKOLC

LOCARNO’S BEST DIRECTOR IN MISKOLC Adrian Sitaru’s Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii (Best Intentions) won the best director’s award of Locarno International Film Festival. The Hungarian premiere of the Romanian-Hungarian co-production will be in September at CineFest competition. Sitaru’s previous work, Pescuit sportive (Hooked), started its journey in…
17-08-2011

'In Darkness' by A.Holland among 5 Polish films at TIFF

Press release 17.08.20011 The viewers of the Toronto International Film Festival will get a chance to see five Polish movies. All of them were supported by the Polish Film Institute: In Darkness by Agnieszka Holland will screen in Special Screenings section which makes a World Premiere of the movie. It…
17-08-2011

CineClassics: Kieslowski Exhibition

"It gives me the creeps, and I have an impression that somebody is speaking through Kieslowski" , said Robert de Niro in 1989. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films have had huge impacts all over the world, and right at the time of the Central European regime changes. Signs and Memories, the joint…
16-08-2011

Slovak documentary films will compete at Cinematik

It is for the second time that within the IFF Cinematik a competition of Slovak feature-length (over 52-minutes) documentaries named Cinematik.doc takes place. 8 films released between September 2010 and September 2011 will compete for the Film Europe Award together with a financial bonus. The 6th annual IFF Cinematik will…
11-08-2011

DCI DIGITAL SCREENINGS: FIRST TIME IN HUNGARY ON JAMESON CINEFEST

For the first time in the history of Hungarian film festivals, some of the films in competition of Jameson CineFest are going to be screened with DCI, the most developed digital technology. Since the premiere of Avatar in 2009, the cinemas’ transition to digital technology is going on at a…
03-08-2011