Tom Jobim
This year's Festival celebrates 50 years of Bossa Nova, the famous musical style that traveled the world with tunes such as "The Girl from Ipanema".
In 1989, Tom, (Antônio Carlos Jobim's nickname), explains: "In Portuguese, a bossa means a 'boss', a protuberance, a hump, a bump. Like you have th...
Fareast wrap On its final day, the Far East Film Festival, awaits announcement this evening, May 2nd, of its 3 prizes, THE AUDIENCE AWARDS. Will it be a film from Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines - some of the featured works this year. The event has come a long route from its early beginnings eleven years ago, when it specialized only in films from Hong Kong. Initiated and organised by the Associazione Culturale Centro Espressioni Cinem...
The Million Yen Girl shown at Udine Far East Festival involves a 21 year old student who heads for the road after experiencing disappointment with her family and disillusionment with the difficulty of earning a living in Tokyo. Wanting to become independent, she co-rents an appartment with a total stranger who throws out a kitten she adopted, after which she tosses all his ownings out the window and gets the book for alientation of private property. After a short term in jail, he...
Right after Mao, in Communist China early 1980s, director Buming XU recalls the situation in most households where a standard toilet was a luxury and people used "potties". A young Chinese girl Dan, lives in a stifling environment with her family in a house without toilet and has to empty her obnoxious younger brother's waste after he spends most of the day sitting on the loo. When she finally has a flush toilet closestool installed next to her bedroom, she suddenly finds ...
Forbidden Door
BEHIND THE FORBIDDEN DOOR
Indonesian Cinema was supposed to be dead ! After a flourishing of interesting films in the sixties in that country, little has been known about the sector, but the presence of several NEW WAVE filmakers in their 30s at Udine FarEast Festival
with their latest features, sparks new interest by their unexpected avant garde styles.
One of these is the quirky thriller THE FORBIDDEN DOOR by Joko Anwar.
After some colourful pinki...
Frozen Flower, an epic blockbuster of a love triangle involving the King and Queen of the Goryeo Dynasty with a General, directed by young Korean, YOO HA, takes you into a world of betrayal, honour and feudalism in ancient Korea, at war with China.
With 364 young lads raised at the Castle stronghold to be trained as soldiers for the Palace Guard to protect the young King (Joo Jin-mo), it is little wonder that the King is gay, entertaining an over 10 year romantic relationship with his ch...
ACADEMY-AWARD WINNER For BEST FOREIGN FILM 2009
It was full house yesterday at the 1200-seater Teatro Giovanni Theatre in Udine for the European premiere of DEPARTURES.
After an introduction on duplex from Japan by Yojiro TAKITA, the Director, who called attention to the producer Yasuhiro MASE, seated in the theatre,
who would report to him following the screening, the audience was drawn into the s...
Part of her Hong Kong Stories by respected filmaker Ann Hui, dealing with different problems in Society is one television show on drugs in that city : The Road.Three women set out on the road to rehab in Ann Hui's incisive look atHong Kong's drug problem. After elderly drug user Mrs Choi (Huang Man)checks herself into a treatment center, her hooked daughter Fong (CarolCheng) is aided by a social worker (Gigi Wong). Meanwhile, hostess SiuLai (Idy Chan) realises she too must go clean. The counse...
One of the most significant Asian "New Wave" film directors, Hong Kong filmaker, Ann HUI, is present this year, at Udine Far East Festival to talk about her beginnings in the cinema industry of that country. Commissioned by the national broadcaster and ICAC, the anti-corruption entity to create a series of shows on various aspects crime prevalent in the 1970's such as bribery of government officials, kickbacks, corruption of innocents and minors e...
Only
12 men in history have walked on the moon and yet there is no personal
account of how these historical missions affected each man personally.
The Wonder of it All recounts the narrative of their journeys from
childhood to the present. The story unfolds as each astronaut talks
candidly about his adventure, with never heard statements until now.
This
film has been in the making for 2 years. Our goal is to make a
humanistic story t...
[ Director’s Statement ]
I traveled to the Brazilian Amazon on several occasions between 1987-1990 to assist on
television documentaries. During my journeys, I had the opportunity to visit many Indig-
enous communities, always with my camera by my side. What caught my eye were the
children. Born to parents who had relied on the rainforest for their survival, these children
were growing up surrounded by new ways—ways that were destroying the forest.
I was also drawn to the child...
Denise Zmekhol writes from Paris on AWARDS NIGHT of the Jules Verne Adventure Festival April 27th, 2009 :
Children of the Amazon got two awards last night!!!
Jules Verne Award for Best Picture
Jules Verne Youth Choice Award
Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a
modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenou...
YATTERMAN (YATTAMAN)
FROM THE CELEBRATED CARTOON,
COMES THE LIVE ACTION FILM
OF THE GREATEST POP-ROBOT
ADVENTURE IN THE WORLD!
…a film already destined to become a cult…
The European Premiere of the highly anticipated blockbuster, directed by the legendary MIIKE Takashi, will close the eleventh edition of Far East Film.
UDINE, 9th April 2009
UDINE – A truly sensational event, on Saturday 2nd May, will close the eleventh edition of...
Valiant French actress ROSINE Deréan - from "Douce France to Ravensbrück
On April 25th, 2009, in the tiny village of Genillé (Indre-et-Loire), where she lived and died, a tribute will be held to the stylish '30's French actress and several films she starred in will be shown in 8 mm.
Rosine Deréan was born in 1910 and began acting in 1930 directed by major French cinema director Julien Duvivier appearing with such legendary sta...
FEEF 11: AN EXTRAORDINARY EDITION!!!
FOR THE OPENING NIGHT ON FRIDAY 24TH APRIL, A FANTASTIC DOUBLE-BILL OF
EUROPEAN PREMIERES: ACTION MOVIE ONG BAK 2 AND THE BRILLIANT BLACK
COMEDY CRAZY RACER!!
TWO GOALS SCORED BY THAILAND AND CHINA…
For Far East Film, number 11 is truly… an extraordinary edition!!!
Having already reported on a decade of Asian cinema, up until the year 2008, historicallywitnessing and travelling through the unique richness ...
Transformation
A Film About Armenian Culture
Helen Dobrensky and Arman Tadevosyan, a native of GYUMRI, Armenia are pleased to invite you to see a short documentary online at :
http://www.onlinefilm.org/-/film/28682
ONLINEF...
Gibara, Cuba
Over a Hundred Films Will Compete at the International Non-Budget Movie Festival.
As always, the Festival will be held at the small, beautiful northeastern city of Gibara.
The Late Humberto SOLAS, Founder & Creator Humberto Solás. Photo Archive.
Mildrey Ponce
The...
Brazilian Film festival in Paris. Spring is around the corner, bringing with it the eleventh Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris to be held as usual in the Latin Quarter at Nouveau Latina theatre from 29 April through 12 May, 2009.
Discover new fiction film from 29 April to 5 May) and documentaries (May 6th-12th).
Fiction Awa...
Far East Festival building at Udine
UDINE WELCOMES THE PRODUCERS OF THE
FUTURE
26/28 APRIL – first intercontinental training
workshop
for cinema producers
Far East Film and Eave sign an
important collaboration
[UDINE]
Far East Film and Eave (European Audiovisual
Entrepreneurs) signed an
important collaboration which will bring to Udine the CINEMA PRODUCERS OF THE FUTURE. ...
Departures
2009 Far East Film Festival in Udine
Best Foreign Film
2009, DEPARTURES will celebrate the return of Takita Yojiro to Udine,
whom the Far East Film Festival had already discovered in the year 2000, and
brought to Europe (where he presented his much appreciated film Secret)
UDINE - After defeating the
Israeli film Valzer con Bashir (the bookies absolu...
Ong Bak 2
Legend of Ong Bak 2
WAVING THE FLAG FOR THAI ACTION:
THE LEGEND OF ONG BAK 2 COMES TO UDINE TO BE SCREENED IN EUROPE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!
Far East Film 11: the countdown plus sneak previews
With the much-awaited cult movie, and a special focus containing 4 other titles, this celebrated Udinese festival will chronicle the latest ...
Far East Festival in UDINE
UDINE FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL, April 24th - May 2nd , 2009 -11° Edition -Premieres, Discoveries, Tributes, Retros
The World's Largest Showcase of Popular Asian Cinema
Far East Film Festival 11 is approaching!
Join the official Far East Film 11 group, and you'llsoon be receiving exciting previews about the biggest Festival dedicated toAsian Cinema in Europe....
Prague Castle : Guard
The THREE Brothers Studio is located less than 10 kilometers outside the center of Prague at Hlubocepska, where you can see rugged cliffs not far away, in an enclosed farmstead, restored to its 14th century original state. The 7000 sq meter studios are equipped with 26 different spaces for shootin...
Prague
World Content Market: February 2009, Prague
Recently held for the second time at the Moewenpick Hotel in Prague, 100 meters away from Mozart's house in that city, this small but concise market gathered together pros from over 50 countries in a relaxed atmosphere in the beautiful venue of the Czech Republic's capital (the Sleeping Beauty of the East).
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