Although there is no competitive section officially dedicated to them, Ecofilms International Films & Visual Art Festival held this year in Rhodes, Greece for the 6th time, features some shorts that have an outstanding aesthetic interest, even if not related to ecology.Kitchen (25’), the first film directed by young screenwriter Alice Winocour, a graduate from FEMIS, the best film school in France, is definitely one of them.In this short, a woman (Elina Lowensöhn) tries to cook two lobsters f...
Ecofilms, the International Films & Visual Arts Festival in Rhodes, Greece, opened its 6th edition with the screening of Echoes of War by Joop van Wijk from The Netherlands.As he presented his film to the audience of the Rodon open air theater, the Dutch director stressed on what a paradox it is to open a festival on ecology with a film about war. But the choice quite reflects the spirit of the festival, which is to tackle ecology from a wide range of perspectives, and to see it as the preservat...
Ecofilms, the international film festival on ecology which took place in Rhodes, Greece from June 21 to June 26, offered a broad perspective on how we protect and nurture life. Trying to capture what are really life and consciousness is part of that angle, and that's precisely the spiritual question the documentary Monte Grande by Franz Reichle tries to answer.In this film screened during the festival in the open air Rodon theater, the Swiss director follows philosopher and scientist Francisco V...
Criticizing the corporate world for unethical conduct has become a commonplace in documentaries these past few years, from The Big One by Michael Moore to the Corporation by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot, which won an award last year at Ecocinema in Rhodes, Greece. But to get a balanced opinion on this matter, we shouldn't leave so easily in the dark how some of these multinationals use their full clout to enforce a righteous behavior. That's precisely the fair spotlight offered by Ecofilms Int...
Golden Deers, the Prize statuettes of Ecofilms, were awarded on Saturday 25 June at the National theater of Rhodes, Greece. Feature filmsBest feature filmShipbreakers by Michael CotThe international jury awarded Michael Kot’s Shipbreakers the first prize. Set in the dramatic setting of a ship graveyard in Alang, India, the film follows the daily lives of workers and bosses who toil to break down a 30.000 ton vessel over a period of two months. Kot, a founding producer of CBC Newsworld, uses st...
The Ecocinema International Environmental Film Festival, which held its 4th edition earlier this year in Rhodes (Greece), has just changed its name. It is now called Ecofilms or "Rhodes International film and visual arts festival" and will be held next year on 21-26 June 2005, still on the sunny Greek island of Rhodes. The Ecofilms festival invites the participation of documentaries, shorts and features with environmental and ecology themes, encouraging conservation issues and issues related wit...
The closing ceremony of Ecocinema 4 th International Environmental Film Festival took place in the National Theatre in the city of Rhodes , Greece , due to a slightly windy weather that could have made the scheduled event in the Rodon outdoor theatre somewhat uncomfortable. Yet the indoor setting perfectly fitted the theme of the evening since the ceremony began with the screening of documentaries on Rhodes filmed by the Istituto Luce between 1924 and 1941. In fact, the theatre was built at the ...
