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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…
'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…
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…
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…
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…
POLISH FILMS AT THE VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Carnage by Roman Polanski / Main Competition Three Polish accents appeared in the line-up of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Bóg zemsty (Carnage) by Roman Polanski was selected to the main competition and will fight for the Golden Lion. The film will have its premiere at the Venice Film…
11. New Horizons IFF results
The 11. New Horizons International Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday, 31 July with the Polish premiere of Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live in. During 11 festival days 483 movies (of which 228 were full-lenght) from 44 countries were shown. 240 of them had their Polish premieries in Wrocław.…
Polish Films at Locarno
Two Łódź productions: Opowieści z chłodni by Grzegorz Jaroszuk and Bez śniegu by Magnus von Horn will screen in the Pardi di domani / Leopards of Tomorrow short film competition of the 64th Locarno International Film Festival, one of the key film events in the world. Locarno's International Competition lineup…
PRESS RELEASE: The 58th Pula Film Festival Prize Winners
16-23 July 2011 National Festival 9-23 July 2011 International Festival Prize winners of the 58th Pula Film Festival (www.pulafilmfestival.hr) National Competition Programme Jury Jury: Živorad Tomić, film critic and director - president, Goran Dević, screenwriter and director, Stanko Herceg, cinematographer, Nataša Janjić, actress, Vladimir Tadej, screenwriter and director NATIONAL PROGRAMME…
New Horizons IFF and London Film Academy start a partnership
London Film Academy teams up with the Wrocław-based event on the programming and sponsorship side. The New Horizons IFF is the biggest film festival in Poland. The 11. Edition will take place in Wrocław, Poland on 21-31 July 2011. London Film Academy (www.londonfilmacademy.com) is an innovative film school offering professional…
'Do You Have a Story?' by Dario Juričan in Locarno Competition Programme
The short film Do You Have a Story? by Dario Juričan, produced by Blank filmski inkubator, was included in the competition programme of the 64th International Film Festival in Locarno (3-13 August 2011, Italy), where it will participate in the short-film programme Leopardi of Tomorrow (Concorso Pardi di domani).Do You…
”Venice” Honored with the Children Jury Prize for the “Wisest Film” in Ukraine
"Venice" by Jan Jakub Kolski received the Children Jury Prize for the "Wisest Film" at the 19th Artek International Children Film Festival that took place in Ukraine between July 3 - 9, 2011. The prize has been voted for by over 3000 children that participated in this the biggest and…
Pula Film Festival 58th Edition programme
PULA: The 58th Pula Film Festival (9-23 July 2011 www.pulafilmfestival.hr) brings together the best in international film and a national programme of new Croatian films in its National Programme (16-23 July). The Croatian programme will showcase 19 films, ten Croatian films and nine Croatian minority coproductions. This year for the…
11th New Horizons IFF Programme Announced
The winner of the 2011 Golden Bear in Berlin, Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi will open the Wrocław-based event on the 21st July. The second opening film will be Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. The closing film on the 31st July will be…
CONNECTING COTTBUS GOES INTO ITS 13TH ROUND
Project selection started – Receptions in Karlovy Vary and Sarajevo – New award for postproductionBerlin, July 1 2011- November 3 and 4 will see the 13th edition of the East- West-Co-production market Connecting Cottbus in the context of FilmFestival Cottbus. 13 East European feature film productions will be presented with…
My Sex Life / Viata mea sexuala
PerspectivesDir. Cornel George PopaA very tired woman strolls before the video camera in the Budapest park with the microphone attached to her skirt from behind. She is a single mother of 26. A guy whom she knew in the nursery school and has completely forgotten since, learns that she is…
Snowchild
PerspectivesDir. Uta ArningWhen there is a multi-storied parking on the screen, the viewer has good reason to expect a car chase in the near future and almost certainly there will be a shoot-out. In the same way a lonely hotel or house spells imminent death at the hands of a…
Undercurrent / Brim
PerspectivesDir. Árni Ólafur ÁsgeirssonIt is rewarding to observe that the invigorating winds of political correctness have penetrated the territories which were earlier off limits to them. Like, for example, a frail Icelandic fishing vessel where the sturdy crew should be sure that a woman on board forebodes trouble. But far…
Anarchy in Zirmunai / Anarchija Zirmunuose
Anarchy in Zirmunai (Anarchija Zirmunuose) PERSPECTIVESDir. Saulius Drunga The detective-like plot development is what fuels our interest in the movie, the title of which includes the word “anarchy” and the name of the dormitory district in Vilnius dating back to the late Soviet period. On the soundtrack we hear the…
