By director Mariana Rondon and Marité Ugas. A large tidal wave will soon sweep the city on the coast. People try, panic-stricken, to flee the last judgement, but where can they go?...
By director Tony Pemberton. A young Russian woman, Pitsee, has just arrived in New York to start a new life there. She is pregnant and her boyfriend doesn't know yet that he will be a father......
Gilles Bedard and his Spanish wife Germaine are packing the family belongings onto a trailer to leave their home in Brussels. Their eldest daughter was recently found dead under an overpass and Gilles is convinced that she was murdered....
By director Ragnar Bragason. Pensioner Karl falls in love with a withered actress. but every time she see him, she can't remember who he is......
Somewhere in a Seoul apartment, three women are enjoying an evening meal together and talking, of course, about the one and only subject......
By director Julian Kemp. The "La Scala" in a small South Wales town used to be a concert hall, variety theatre and cinema. Now it's a "bingo palace" for the British numbers game, promising fabulous lottery winnings, or at least a harmless night out......
By director Lee Sang-in. Baram, Seung-hyun, San-jin and Sun-woo all go to the Freebird club. Baram, who dresses like a tomboy, works by day as a waitress, but is a passionate rock-music fan....
De plus en plus demandé par les productions anglo-saxonnes, Tcheky
Karyo est l'un des acteurs de la comédie typiquement British
Saving Grace signée Nigel Cole. Il y interprète une fois de plus
un méchant, mais cette fois un méchant au grand cour.
...
A high-octane caper film full of seamlessly outlandish performances, Snatch
proves that writer-director Guy Ritchie (who has garnered some attention as
the father of Madonna's second child two years after "fathering" Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels) has talent to burn. Snatch is bloody and
irreverent, which makes it, in the vernacular, bloody irreverent.
Represented at Dinard by Rade Sherbedgia who plays Boris the Blade....
Opening film at the Dinard Festival of British Cinema, Maybe Baby's director
Ben Elton presented his feature debut to those in attendance....
C'est en adressant un clin d'oil à Alfred Hitchcock que le Jury
du Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard à remis les différents
prix de cette 11ème édition. Et notamment le prestigieux Hitchcock
d'Or qui est allé tout droit à Billy Elliot, le film de Stephen
Daldry, qui remporte décidément un succès considérable partout
où il est présenté. Le film sort en France le 20 décembre.
...
Stephen Daldry's debut, Billy Elliot, was a highlight of Edinburgh, not
least because of its upbeat yet honest narrative and a startling performance
from Jamie Bell. Having wowed Cannes, Edinburgh and Toronto, the film took the FIPRESCI prize at Ghent and was named Best Film at the British Independent Film
Awards in October....
Wonder Woman, Foxy Brown and other female super-heroes are background figures in this expose of the female hero-figure. With loaded guns and an abundance of girl power, the chicks are ready to fight anytime, anyhow and anywhere. Jennifer Arnold was born in 1970 in Palm Springs, California. She graduated with a degree in African history at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, before concentrating on filmmaking back in her home state of California. Her latest film, Maid of Honor successfu...
A film about a woman with threatening … clouds? Whichever way she turns, clouds
of bitterness above her head. The film points to the accumulation of the past
in our senses, which hinders all future social success. In five minutes Svärling
manages to capture the essence of anxiety.
Lisbeth Svärling was born in 1963 and raised in Stockholm, Lisbeth
Svärling worked in elderly care for many years before starting her studies
in animation and graphic design at HDK in ...
An animation movie with a comical Pavlov theme. A film about the natural sciences,
instincts and animals' influence on concepts such as time, democracy and the
alphabet. The strangest educational film in a long, long time!
Gregor Stockmann was born in 1972 in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany. Works
closely with his old school friend Arne Zank from Hamburg.
...
The mantra 'Hare Rama, Hare Krishna' is chanted in tune with the washing machines
when two monks decide to wash every single robe in the area's ashram. Discussions
regarding the spacious washing machine from hell are mixed with persistent chanting.
Part of a series of short films called Observations In Holland.
Britta Hosman was born in Utrecht in 1967. She has been a radio presenter
for Amsterdam FM and VPRO Radio. She has made short TV-features for Waskracht,
a controvers...
Love at first sight on two trains standing still at a German train station
leads to a struggle against timetables, senior citizens on the stairs and irritating
ticket-collectors in a film filled with speechless and sweaty separation anxiety.
Philipp Wohlleben was born in 1972 in Bonn, Germany. He has worked for
several advertising agencies in Cologne. He moonlights as a dj and music producer
in the band LSD Proton.
...
Meet the housewife from hell! A cleaning instruction video in a gothic environment,
combined with Mario Bava horror, Latin-American psychedelia, Wolfgang the Cat
and the not so easily removable brain-matter of the husband. Successful play
with genres with photo tricks not seen since the days of Lars von Trier's 35-mm
films.
Jessica Nilsson was born in Sweden in 1965. After seven years at the
Royal Academy of Art she graduated in 1995 from the Academy of Film in Denmark.
...
A rioter in a middle-European town throws a cobblestone against the opposition.
He misses his goal and the stone continues around the world, ending where he
least expects. A fast-paced comment on the stone as the oldest weapon and the
coherence between human conflicts all over the world.
Susanne Horizon-Fränzel was born in 1959 in Bad Godesberg, Germany.
Since 1985 she has directed several acclaimed short films with political messages.
35 mm etching, pixelation, doll-films...
Filled with references to Matt Groening, Jim Henson and Nick Park, this masterpiece
without dialogue is the best thing that has happened to poultry since the Green
Party. An extraordinary animated short about broilers, deprivation of liberty
and melancholy.
Luis Briceno was born in 1971 in Osorna, Chile. Has lived in France
since 1992. he works, besides the making of short films, as a DJ and making
hot Chilean dishes. Caged birds cannot fly is his first short within the profession...
The Battleship Potemkin in a shoot -em-up tale of armed sailors fighting for
a liberated Russia against the evil Tsarist regime. Graphic design by Sergei's
greatgrandson Sean Eisenstein results in some of the most inspiring and revolutionary
video montage ever.
Endan Hughes is northern ireland's most popular short film director
who has received a lot of international attention for two pop-culture short-film
experiments Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll and Comm-Raid on the Potemki...
A fascinating and spectacular computer-animated silent film about the always-bad
combination of weapons and drugs. Big beat accompanies Junky's nightmarish trip
in the rough junkie pad, at the same time as his girlfriend knocks on the door...
Resident Evil meets Requiem For A Dream.
Shimogiri Nozomu was born in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a computer
animator with several computer game animations to his credit. Comments on the
growing drug-problems in the home country with t...
Award-winning Scandanavian stage and screen star (born in Tokyo
to Norwegian parents), Liv Ullmann is best known for her ground-breaking work
with Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Beginning with Persona (1966) and
her own personal favorite Bergman film, Scenes From A Mariage(1974),
Ullmann has grown not only as an actor, but in the last ten years as a film
director, most recently with a Bergman-scripted examination of marital
infidelity, named Faithless. Interviewed by Lisa Nessels...
An overview of the career of Laurence Fishburne as part of a tribute
honoring his acting career. The festival featured his directorial film debut
with the screening of Once in the Life.
...
Academy-award winning cinematographer for Who's Afraid of
Virginia Wolf?(1966) and Bound For Glory(1976) as well as approximately 50
other feature films including John Sayles' Matewan and more recently
Limbo, Wexler produced, wrote, shot and directed Medium Cool (1969). A
native of Chicago, he directed several documentaries including Bus Rider's
Union, presented at this year's festival. Haskell Wexler is the president
of the jury for the Chicago Film Festival 2000. Ray Privett and...
