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Wednesday 23 January, the world premiere of 'De wederopstanding van een klootzak' ('The Resurrecntion of a Bastard') by Guido van Driel (The Netherlands) opens the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Van Driel’s fiction feature début, also selected for the festival’s Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, stars Yorick van Wageningen ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), Goua Robert Grovogui and Juda Goslinga. Recently deceased Dutch actor Jero...
The 25th European Film Awards Ceremony
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Marion Döring, Peter Busuttil
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Wim Wenders
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Anke Engelke, host
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2012 -
Prix EURIMAGES:
Helena Danielsson, Sweden
picture: EFA / Rene Rossigna...
Flicks International Student Short Film Festival
On 13, 14 and 15 March 2013, the fourth annual Flicks International Student Short Film Festival will take place in the lovely city of Groningen, the Netherlands. This festival, organized by students, promises to be a highlight for film buffs and film makers everywhere.
The festival will showcase short films of film academy students, film school students and other young film makers from around the world. Various themes and genres will be presented, so be surprised!
Flicks wants to provide film students and aspiring film makers the opportunity to show their work for a diverse audience: an audience that wants to be indulged by a great variety of short films. Prepare to be amazed by the early works of the great film makers of tomorrow.
Would you like to participate? Go to the website: http://www.usva.nl/flicksfilmfestival/ and fill in the entry form! Deadline is the 19th of January 2013.
If you have any questions you can always reach us at info@flicksfestival.com or find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/esnusvaflicks
We hope to hear from you soon!
The more than 2,700 members of the European Film Academy - filmmakers from across Europe - have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2012:
AMOUR
France / Germany / Austria, 127 min
written & directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan ...
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2012
THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS - LIVE!
There will be a live stream of the awards ceremony on www.europeanfilmawards.eu
Follow real-time postings of the winners facebook and twitter
Watch the European Film Awards on TV!
The 25th European Film Awards are broadcast across Europe and beyond. These are the times / dates:
TERRITORY
BROADCASTER
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Best Fiction Short Film for Ensemble which celebrates a third win after Cannes and IIDFF GREECE Ionian International Digital Film Festival
7.000 people participated in Amal during the official week.
After a week of projections at the Principal Theatre and the Hotel Eurostars Araguaney, in morning and afternoon sessions, we can say that the tenth edition of the Amal Festival has been a success. With 31 films in the official selection, 6 jury members, dozens of directors ...
Berlinale Retrospective 2013:
“The Weimar Touch. The International Influence of Weimar Cinema after 1933”
This year’s Retrospective is entitled “The Weimar Touch” and is devoted to how cinema from the Weimar Republic influenced international filmmaking after 1933. It will focus on continuities, mutual effects and transformations in the films of German-speaking emigrants up into the 1950s.
Weimar cinema flourished not least because of the democr...
Only nine more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 25th European Film Awards in Malta.
The venue for this year’s Silver Jubilee edition of the awards ceremony, traditionally opened by the President of the European Film Academy Wim Wenders, is the Mediterranean Conference Centre, a spectacular venue built on Valetta’s waterfront i...
53rd TIFF LINE-UP, JURIES & PARALLEL EVENTS This year’s 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicked off this Friday, November 2nd.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY:
Thomas Elsaesser, Film theorist and academic, Germany, Jury President Laufrey Gudjonsdottir, Programmer, consultant, founding director of the Icelandic Film Center, Iceland Ole Christian Madsen, Director, Denmark Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Director, Portugal Thymios Bakatakis, Cinematographer, Greece...
Valladolid (Spain, October 20–27, 2012). Prize: "The Fifth Season" (La cinquième saison) by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Belgium / Netherlands / France, 2012) and "Lapidation of Sain Etienne" (La lapidació de Sant Esteve) by Pere Vilè Barceló (Spain/France, 2012). Jury: Angelika Kettelhack, Germany ("Die Rheinpfalz"), Alexey Gusev, Russia ("Séance"), Joan Millaret, Spain ("Diari d'Igualada"). Print...
FIVE DEBUT FILMS NOMINATED FOR EFA DISCOVERY AWARD
The European Film Academy congratulates the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2012 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.
This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), EFA Members Pierre-Henri...
The 35th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF), sponsored by Starz Entertainment and produced by the Denver Film Society, announced today its full Festival line-up. SDFF will run November 1 through November 11 in Denver. The complete list of films can be viewed at denverfilm.org/festival.
"Election day is not the only big event happening this November. The Starz Denver Film Festival will celebrate its 35th edition with signature events and a diverse line-up of films from around the glo...
Yesterday the organisers of the International Film Festival Tofifest revealed the last secrets of the 10th edition of the event, during a press conference. Zbigniew Zamachowski shall be the chairman of the Jury of the On Air Feature Films Competition section. Krystyna Janda shall be awarded the Golden Angel of Tofifest for Artistic Insolence and Jakub Gierszal shall receive the Flisak Tofifest Film Award. This year’s special retrospective will focus on blaxploitation films and the In...
OFFICIAL SELECTION
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
DANS LA MAISON, François Ozon (France)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
BLANCANIEVES, Pablo Berger (Spain-France)
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FILMS IN PROGRESS INDUSTRY AWARD
Daniel Goldstein, Deluxe-Spain, Dolby, Imasblue, Kodak (División de Cine Profesional), Laserfilm, Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Vértigo Films.
GLORIA, Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
NORTEADO AWARD
TANTA AGUA, Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge (Uruguay - Mexico - The Netherlands)
For further information:
www.sansebastianfestival.com ...
„Future of film festivals - between the Local and the Global": Film Forum guests list
The Forum is parrt of Ars Independent, organized by Anita Skwara for the Festival.
THE AGENDA
September 24th at Rondo Sztuki
10:00 - 10: 30 welcome speech Introduction during which the managers will present goals and ideas of the Forum and intro-duce the attendees.
"Authorial word&...
It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 47 films on this year’s selection list, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2012! With 31 European countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema.
In the 20 countries with the most EFA Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the list,...
Bangkok seems to have become a movie-hub, judging by the numerous film festivals that have been spinning in the city, almost back-to-back, this year.The Embassies have mostly been responsible for these , and deserve credit for whipping up the cinematic pulse of the city.Apart from the French, Italian and EU film festivals ,which have become regular events in the cinema-calendar of the country (they are held in both Bangkok and Chiangmai), this year, we had new festivals from ...
From the ninth edition of the course “DigiTraining Plus: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies”
Amsterdam, 29 August – 2 September 2012
http://www.mediasalles.it/dgt_online/index.htm
A sailing boat will accompany participants directly to the entrance of the Cinema Oostereiland, Hoorn’s new arthouse movie theatre.
Arising out of the restoration of an old prison, the complex comprises three fully digital auditoriums (seating respectively 110, 56 and 35), to whi...
'Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco' just announced its 2012 program set for September 8 & 9 at the San Francisco Art Institute.
The 5th Annual Iranian Film Festival will present 28 films from around the world, including England, Germany, France, Holland, Canada, USA, Australia, Denmark, Iceland...
There are fiction, documentary, animation, short...films among this year's selections with a wide range of topics.
This year's tribute is for the legendary composer, Esf...
212 feature films (110 world or international premieres)
16 medium length films (12 world or international premieres)
144 short films (94 world or international premieres)
60 films in the Canadian Student Film Festival
A Chinese film “Million Dollar Crocodile” for the opening
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She worked with the entrant Leonardo DiCaprio, the already recognized Andrzej Wajda, Gary Oldman, Jean-Claude Carriere, Gerard Depardieu, Hanna Schygulla, Albert Finney, and Ed Harris. She won the Golden Globe and she was awarded for the Academy Award three times (most recently in this February). Agnieszka Holland, one of the most determinative figure of European cinema is the 9th Jameson CineFest’s lifetime achievement award winner. Ms. Holland is giving master class on 16 September in Mi...
The "Horizontes Latinos" programmes at the 60th edition of the San Sebastian Festival includes the works of twelve filmmakers from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. A selection of films to have competed or been presented at important international festivals, but which have not yet been screened at a Spanish festival or commercially released in our country.
The latest work by Carlos Reygadas, one of the best known Mexican filmmakers on the international...
FULL LINEUP FOR 8TH ANNUAL HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED
300 Projects In-Competition, 50 World Premieres---Short Form Content Representing 20 Countries
2012 HollyShorts Visionary Award Honoree Joe Carnahan Set To Present Special Screening of his Paramount Pictures Acclaimed Feature Narc Preceded By the Showcase of His Short Film For Sale By Owner
Fest Unleashes It's 2nd Annual HollyShorts Indie Film Summit With Panels and Case Studies from Producers Guild of America, Int...
European Film
Melancholia Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany (130 min.) Director: Lars von Trier
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth
European Director
Susanne Bier In A Better World / Hævnen
European Actor
Colin Firth The King's Speech
European Actress
Tilda Swinton We Need To Talk About Kevin
European Screenwriter
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne The Kid with a Bike / Le gamin au vélo
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award
Manu...
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