28-06-2010

FNE at MIFF 2010: Polish Films Take Home Two Silver Georges’

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    {mosimage}MOSCOW: Films from Central and Eastern Europe has a major presence at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival (www.moscowfimfestival.ru) held from 17 to 26 June. Jan Kidawa-Blonski's Little Rose took home the best director's prize in the main competition while Reverse directed by Borys Lankosz won the prize for best film in the Perspectives Competition. Festival selectors will have their eyes on the annual Festival of Polish Film in Gdynia as both films were winners of the top prize there in 2009 and 2010. The Czech film An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes directed by Irena Pavlaskova garnered a Silver George for best actress for Czech star VIlma Cibulkova.

    Moscow is becoming increasingly integrated into the mainstream of the European film industry with the newly minted Moscow Coproduction Forum an initiative of the Baltic Event and Moscow Business Square supported by MEDIA International.

    Supported by EU MEDIA International. The event was designed to encourage coproductions between Russia, Ukraine, Baltic and Scandinavian countries. A delegation of 18 Baltic and Nordic film professionals attended the event together with their Russian counterparts. Four film projects were presented: Finnish directors Pekka Lehto's comedy Ordinary Capitalist and Peter Lindholm's thriller The White Reindeer, Estonia's Erna's Journey, directed by Valentin Kmik and produced by Reet Sockmann, and from Latvia director Boris Frumin's Siberian Triangle. Speakers included In attendance from Estonia were Marge Liiske head of the Estonian Film Foundation (www.efsa.ee) and Baltic Event (http://be.poff.ee)helmer Riina Sildos. Estonia played a key role in coordinating the event.

    Another MEDIA International supported project making its debut at MIFF was the East European Film Alliance (EEFA) (http://eefa-eu.org) a four country training project for film professionals. In Moscow the project kicked off with a scriptwriting workshop over three days designed for 14 participants. However organiser Catalin Leescu said the event was so popular that a total of 21 participants showed up.

    The EEFA training roadshow will continue with a coproduction workshop on 14-16 July in Yerevan followed by a workshop on the legal aspects of film production in Iasi Romania in October and finally a workshop on marketing and distribution in Tallinn in December.

    THE 32 MOSCOW FILM FESTIVAL PRIZES

    THE MAIN PRIZE "GOLDEN GEORGE" FOR THE BEST FILM

    HERMANO / Brother

    director Marcel Rasquin

    Venezuela

    THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE "SILVER GEORGE"

    DER ALBANER / The Albanian

    director Johannes Naber

    Germany, Albania

    THE PRIZE "SILVER GEORGE"FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR

    JAN KIDAWA-BŁOŃSKI

    Rózyczka / Little Rose

    Produced by the Documentary and Feature Film Production Company (www.wfdif.com.pl) in co-production with Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (www.tvp.pl) and Monolith Films (www.monolith.pl). financing from the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl). Poland, 2010

    THE PRIZE "SILVER GEORGE"FOR THE BEST ACTOR

    NIK XHELILAJ

    Der Albaner / The Albanian

    Germany, Albania

    THE PRIZE "SILVER GEORGE"FOR THE BEST ACTRESS

    VILMA CIBULKOVÁ

    Zemský ráj to na pohled / An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes

    Produced by Cineart, Prague

    Czech Republic

    THE PRIZE "SILVER GEORGE" FOR THE BEST FILM OF THE "PERSPECTIVES" COMPETITION

    REWERS / Reverse

    director Borys Lankosz

    Produced by Studio Filmowe KADR (www.kadr.com.pl) in co-production with The Documentary and Feature Films Studio (www.wfdif.com.pl, WFDiF) and Syrena Films Poland

    THE SPECIAL PRIZE FOR AN OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD CINEMA

    CLAUDE LELOUCH

    France

    THE SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE CAREER OF ACTING AND DEVOTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF K.STANISLAVSKY'S SCHOOL.

    EMMANUELLE BÉART

    France