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User login Username: * Password: * Create new account Request new password \|FRENCH VERSION\| RSS Feeds Martin Scorsese Masterclass in Cannes Active Members Tallinn Blac Editor Anna Polibin Siraj Syed Pierre Yves Newsletter European Fil Phillip Berg Lalit Rao Tokyo Intern ALEX FARBA Hollywood Re indieenterta Torino Film American Fil Bahamas Inte More blogs	> Your site > Search 4,000 festival directory Forums Members directory New films directory Pix Galleries Videos Awards Festivals Ambiance Fest. circuit Red carpet Travel & acc. Call for entry Film Animation Documentary Hollywood Independent Promo showcase Shorts Student Videos People Fest directors Honors Interviews Pros D cinema Markets News Home >> Soviet Union Soviet Union Thessaloniki to offer a tribute to master THEO ANGELOPOULOS The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, wishing to honor the memory of celebrated Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos, who passed away in January of 2012, organizes a tribute to his work. Angelopoulos was born in Athens in 1935 and studied Law in the University of Athens and the Sorbonne, from which he dropped out to study cinema in the University of Paris IDHEC. He started his career as a film critic and made his first –unfinished– film, Forminx, in 1965. Throughout his life, Angel... 11.09.2012 \| Editor's blog Interview with director ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY Director ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY, director of the Golden Globe winning film ‘RUNAWAY TRAIN’ (1986), held a master class on May 21st in Cannes. Read below interview with the director during the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Q: Was it easier to make your second film? Andrei: Easy? Nothing is easy. To make films is difficult anyway, even to make bad films. As a matter of fact, to make bad films its as difficult to make as good. The difference is very little and it&r... 10.06.2012 \| Vanessa McMahon's blog Interview with director ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY at Cannes Director ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY, director of the Golden Globe winning film ‘RUNAWAY TRAIN’ (1986), held a master class on May 21st in Cannes. Read below interview with the director during the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Q: Was it easier to make your second film? Andrei: Easy? Nothing is easy. To make films is difficult anyway, even to make bad films. As a matter of fact, to make bad films its as difficult to make as good. The difference is very little and it’s not money or�... 10.06.2012 \| Cannes's blog Generation "П" (GENERATION P, 2011), Russia and beyond! Generation "П" (GENERATION P, 2011) held its world premier this week at the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2012. Based on the book by Russian writer Victor Pelevin, the film is directed by American/Russian director Victor Ginzburg. The film is about Babylen Tatarsky, a copywriter for a major advertising company in the late 90’s in Post-Soviet Russia. Babylen is put to the test by the advertising firm to find the 'new Russian identity'. Well, what se... 17.01.2012 \| Vanessa McMahon's blog Generation "П" (GENERATION P, 2011), Russia and beyond! Generation "П" (GENERATION P, 2011) held its world premier this week at the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2012. Based on the book by Russian writer Victor Pelevin, the film is directed by American/Russian director Victor Ginzburg. The film is about Babylen Tatarsky, a copywriter for a major advertising company in the late 90’s in Post-Soviet Russia. Babylen is put to the test by the advertising firm to find the 'new Russian identity'. Well, what see... 17.01.2012 \| Palm Springs's blog Eisenstein’s October with Edmund Meisel’s Original Score to premiere in Berlin Premiere of the Newly Restored Version of Eisenstein’s October with Edmund Meisel’s Original ScoreOn February 10, 2012, the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival will present the premiere of the reconstructed version of October (Oktjabr, USSR 1928, directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein) at the Friedrichstadt-Palast. Conducted by Frank Strobel, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the original score as composed by Edmund Meisel. The screening is a Berlinale Special presentation and p... 17.01.2012 \| Editor's blog No one but us Director: Roman Shumunov. This is a story about the solitude of the new immigrants and their endless struggle to survive, to be accepted and to be a part of Israeli society. Andrei, the protagonist, a new immigrant from the former Soviet Union, discovers that in order to save his sick father’s life he must buy an expensive drug that is well beyond his means. At the same time, Andrei and his two best friends, Zura and Marat, also living alone in the country, try to achieve their dream to be heard and understood via their poesy music. Andrei decides to get the money for the medicine his father so desperately needs at all costs. Login or register to post comments Roman Shumunov's videoblog 4416 reads Berlinale Retrospective 2012: The Red Dream Factory The Retrospective of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival has rediscovered a legendary German-Russian film studio: Mezhrabpom-Film and its German branch Prometheus wrote film history from 1922 to 1936.Moisei Aleinikov, a Russian film expert and producer from tsarist times who had a great instinct for the right topics, and Willi Münzenberg, a German communist and “red media entrepreneur”, joined forces in 1922 to combine clever business ideas, a political mission and boundless enthusi... 24.10.2011 \| Editor's blog Make Me Man Director: Dmitriy Rozin. Make Me a Man is about a Russian immigrant family where the husband (and a father) is trying to prove his manhood, his ability to control the hardship the family is facing. Upon arrival to Brooklyn, USA, the father and the son are forced to look for work. Trying to “make a man” out of his son, the father takes him along to the gathering at the daily laborer location. Shortly, a Hassidic Jew, who needs his pool washed, drives in. The father suspects that the employer tries to molest his son at the poolside, but when they get home, it turns out otherwise. Login or register to post comments Kino Rozin's videoblog 2530 reads 51st Krakow Film Festival ready to open 51st Krakow Film Festival is due to begin next week. Besides the competing and premiere films, the audience will also have an opportunity to watch the films of “Festivals Laureates” and “Somewhere in Europe” sections, which have already gained viewers' love and jurors' acclaim.Krakow Film Festival's category of “Festival Awards Winners” is being created on the basis of the cooperation with other festivals focusing on documentary and short films, such as IDFA in Amsterdam, HotDocs in ... 17.05.2011 \| Editor's blog Minsk International Film Festival LISTAPAD The Belarus’ largest and most prestigious public film festival Listapad annually takes place at the beginning of November. The main purpose of the festival is to offer a wide selection of highly acclaimed feature films, documentaries from all over the world as well as new productions from Belarus. It screens recent titles and retrospectives. The Minsk International Film Festival program has three sections - feature, documentary and children and youth film festival Listapadzik. During a week cinema goers have a possibility to watch more than 100 movies in 5 venues. Also, special programs in focus, master-classes, seminars and other related events are presented annually. Filmmakers, actors and supporters have the opportunity to network at various events. Q&A sessions with directors and actors follow every screening giving moviegoers first-hand access to the filmmaking process. Around 12 outstanding films for the last two years from Russia, the Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics and Central-Asian countries comprise in Main competition. No less than 8 most notable first and second feature films for the last two years from all over the world comprise in Young Directors competition "Youth on the march". Documentary competition includes the main competition and young directors documentary film competition. No less than 20 full-length and short critically acclaimed films for the last two years are in the main program. Over 15 prominent filmmakers’ current films inspired by the idea of freedom and tolerance comprise in young directors documentary film competition. No less than 6 competing full-length feature films for Children and Youth for the last two years and non-competitive special programs including features, shorts and animation films from all over the world take part in the Children and Youth Film Festival Listapadzik. The out-of-competition programs present more than 50 titles of genre and independent movies made by cult filmmakers from all over the world. The last Festival edition was held on November, 5-12th in Belarus. The last year the Festival appeared in a completely updated format. For the first time the Festival competition program was as follows: - The Main competition, which was presented 12 feature films made in the former Soviet Union and the former socialist countries; - Young Directors’ competition (“Youth on the March”), which included 9 most notable feature debuts of emerging directors from all over the world; - Documentary films competition, which presented to the jury and the public 23 films created in the former Soviet Union and the former socialist countries; - Young Directors’ documentary films competition, which included the most notable debuts in documentary from all over the world. During the Festivalfour Juries worked: - the InternationalJury of the Main competition (Grand Jury): Head of Jury Sharunas Bartas(Lithuania) - director, scriptwriter, director of photography, member ofEuropean Motion Picture Academy, international film festivals prize-winner Jury Janusz Kijowski(Poland) - director, scriptwriter Elena Koreneva(Russia) - actress, writer Tatiana Loginova(Belarus) - director of photography, laureate of State Prize of USSR,international film festivals prize-winner Kirill Razlogov(Russia) - director of Russian Institute for Cultural Research, programdirector of Moscow International Film Festival - the InternationalJury of Young Directors competition ("Youth on the March"): Head of Jury Ludmila Saenkova(Belarus) - film critic, candidate of philology science, head of literary andart criticism chair of Journalism Institute of Belarusian State University Jury Rodion Ismailov(Azerbaijan) - director Natalya Vorozhbit(Ukraine) - scriptwriter - the InternationalJury of Documentary films competition: Head of Jury Victor Asliuk(Belarus) - director, scriptwriter, member of European Film Academy, nationaland international film festivals prize-winner Jury Sergey Bukovsky(Ukraine) - director, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of National TarasShevchenko Award, international film festivals prize-winner Svetlana Bychenko(Russia) - director of documentary and animation films, scriptwriter,international film festivals prize-winner Veslav Romanovski(Poland) - director, scriptwriter, literary, deputy director of PolishInstitute in Minsk Anna Yerzinkyan (Armenia)- film critic, professor, pro-rector of Yerevan State Theatre and FilmInstitute - the InternationalJury of Young Directors documentary films competition: Head of Jury Aleksandr Kuprin(Russia) - director, scriptwriter, international film festivals prize-winner Jury Sergey Rybakov(Belarus) - director, international film festivals prize-winner, "For SpiritualRenovation" Award owner, laureate of national award "Televershyna" Toms Trеibergs (Latvia) - film critic, filmsubeditor of the newspaper "Cultural Forum" Also festival audiencecould participate in the viewer's jury. Everyone had possibility to rate foreach feature. Festival preferences rating was generated according to theresults of viewer's votes The Grand Jury awardedthe following nominations: - Grand-Prix For TheBest Film "My Joy",Ukraine-Germany-The Netherlands, director Sergey Loznitsa - Special Jury Award The Light Thief,Kyrgyzstan-France-Germany-The Netherlands, director Aktan Arym Kubat The Jury of the Youthon the March competition awarded: - Best Film Awardnamed after the people`s artist of USSR V. Turov "October", Peru,directors Daniel Vega, Diego Vega - Prize "For the dancewith reality" "You Are All TheCaptains", Spain, director Oliver Laxe - Prize "For therealization of the freedom's theme" "Udaan", India,director Vikramaditya Motwane The Jury ofDocumentary films competition awarded: - Grand-Prix for theBest Film "The Woman With FiveElephants", Switzerland-Germany, director Vadim Jendreyko - Best Full-LengthFilm Award "The Last Rope-WalkerOf Armenia", Armenia, directors Arman Eritsyan, Inna Saakyan - Best Short FilmAward "The Backwoods 35х45", Russia, director Evgeny Solomin The Jury of Youngdirectors documentary films competition awarded: - Best Full-LengthFilm Award "The Last Train Home",Canada-China, director Lixin Fan - Best Short FilmAward "The World Champion",Estonia, director Moonika Siimets - Prize "For thecreative search and active political fences" "Make Tea",Russia-Great Britain, director Olga Korotkaya - Prize "For theuniversality of director's profession" "Kill the Day",Belarus-Poland, directors Andrei Kutilo, Aleksandr Nalivaiko - Prize "For thesearch of new cinematographic language" "In Case Of LossPressure" (Belgium, director Sarah Moon Howe) The festival alsoestablished the following prizes: - Audience ChoiceAward "Brother", Venezuela,director Marcel Rasquin - Special Prize of thePresident of the Republic of Belarus "For Humanism and Spirituality incinematography" "Brother", Venezuela,director Marcel Rasquin - Special Prize"Together" of The Standing Committee Of The Union State "The Brest Fortress",Russia-Belarus, director Aleksandr Kott - Special Prize ofMinsk City Executive Committee for the Moral Ideals Embodyment "Street Days",Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili Prizes of the Guild ofscholars and critics of Belarusian cinematographers union - Best Fiction FilmAward "Street Days",Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili - Best Non-Fictional Film Award "Kill the Day",Belarus, directors Andrei Kutilo, Aleksandr Nalivaiko Minsk IFF LISTAPAD's videoblog 13347 reads 54TH SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WILL PRESENT MEL NOVIKOFF AWARD TO SERGE BROMBERG French Collector, Archivist and Showman Extraordinaire Will Present Retour de Flamme: Rare and Restored Films in 3-D at the Castro Theatre San Francisco, CA – The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5) will present the 2011 Mel Novikoff Award to the extraordinary showman Serge Bromberg for his invaluable work as a collector, preservationist, exhibitor, programmer and enthusiast of cinematic treasures, Sunday, May 1 at 5:00 pm at the Castro Th... 15.03.2011 \| SanFranciscoFilmSociety's blog Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards AARP The Magazine to Recognize Film Icon Robert Redford With Lifetime Achievement Award at Its 10th Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 7th It's awards season and AARP The Magazine has once again picked the best films for the older audience with its annual Movies for Grownups® Awards. Robert Redford is the recipient of the Movies for Grownups Lifetime Achievement Award and Tom Hooper's The King's Speech nabbed this year's top honor for overall "Bes... 18.01.2011 \| Editor's blog Symposium on creative producing ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS AND CILECT ASIA PACIFIC ASSOCIATION PRESENT 2010 SYMPOSIUM ON CREATIVE PRODUCING The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) will partner with Asia-Pacific’s regional arm of CILECT, the association of the world's major film and television schools, to present a symposium on creative producing curricula ahead of the fourth annual APSA Ceremony on December 2.Leading professionals and educators across Asia-Pacific will meet in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast for the CILECT Asia... 22.11.2010 \| Editor's blog Israel Fest film slate Enriching the American vision of Israeli life and culture through the powerful medium of film, the Israel Film Festival has definitively become the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States. 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of this much acclaimed Israeli showcase that celebrates a quarter-century of Israeli cinema in the United States, and today the film festival announced its most dynamic program since its founding. Encompassing over 30 titles, including award winning features, do... 05.10.2010 \| Editor's blog Arpafilm festival in LA focuses on film from Armenia 13TH ARPA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN L.A."AGHET, a German View of a Turkish Genocide"by Alex Deleon, for ARPA is the name of the river that flows through Yerevan, the capital of the free Armenian Republic, which until 1991 was part of the former Soviet Union. Consequently, it is not surprising that an international film festival so-named is primarily (although not entirely) concerned with the presentation of films from Armenia, films dealing with Armenian topics, and/or films made by Armen... 01.10.2010 \| Editor's blog One lucky elephant at the L.A. Festival "ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT" is a unique documentary starring elephants, one female in particular, who will break your heart if nothing else. The fortunate elephant in question is Lorna, a lovable pachyderm who was released from a life sentence as a St. Louis circus slave at the age of seventeen by her keeper and trainer who had fallen deeply in love with her -- and turned over to an Elephant refuge where she could live out the rest of her days free to roam greener pastures in the company of other four ... 02.07.2010 \| Editor's blog LA Fest documentaries reviews Feuding Anthropologists, an Elephant who got away, The abuse of Vlast, and Rich space cadetsThis year's LA Film Festival had a particularly strong slate of documentaries.and the following are a few mini-reviews of the creme-de-la-creme. "SECRETS OF THE TRIBE" compiled and directed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha, is a very thought-provoking documentary focusing on the interference of academic anthropologists in the life of an extremely primitive tribe in the Amazon jungle, the Yanomami, in... 02.07.2010 \| Editor's blog Documentary Deluge At New Directors New Films For the first time in memory (if my faulting memory serves me well and it increasingly does NOT), the New Directors New Films showcase opened last evening with a documenary feature. This annual rite of the Spring film season, co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art, was ushered in by BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK, a fascinating look at the New York Times photographer and his love/hate obsession with the city he calls both his mu... 26.03.2010 \| FilmNewYork's blog Kathryn Bigelow: Poised To Make History With the announcement of Oscar nominations this morning and a definitive win at last weekend's Directors Guild of America Awards, helmer Kathryn Bigelow is poised to make history as the first women director to win a Best Director Oscar for her work on the intense Iraq War drama THE HURT LOCKER. Bigelow is only the fourth woman director ever to be nominated in the 85 year history of the awards (her predecessors included Italian director Lina Wertmuller for SEVEN BEAUTIES, Amer... 03.02.2010 \| AwardsWatch's blog Bush was most dangerous president in history: Oliver Stone BANGKOK ~ Oliver Stone said he’d seen the lies of the Reagan administration in the ‘eighties, and how the USA had intervened in 60 or 70 countries, but nothing had prepared him for the Bush years. “This has been the worst decade of my life” Stone told reporters in Bangkok yesterday. The film-maker, in Thailand to deliver a series of talks organised by the International Peace Foundation, said “Bush was the most dangerous president in history,” because of his policy on ... 26.01.2010 \| Jeremy Colson's blog Rotterdam announces 2010 Competition lineup Fifteen films have been selected for IFFR's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2010. The lineup, like always comprising first or second feature films concurring for three equal top prizes of each 15,000 euro, includes five world premieres. For the first time the Rotterdam festival welcomes films for its main competition from Costa Rica and Georgia. Four competing films have been supported by Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund. Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique has picked up world sales for competit... 07.01.2010 \| Editor's blog POFF Film In Focus: WEDDING IN BESSARABIA The world premiere of a new film, particularly one from Romania, which has had a very high international profile of late, is a major event for a film festival. And here at POFF, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the arrival of a new Romanian talent, in a co-production that includes Romania, Moldova and Luxembourg, is an event worth noting. Napoleon Helmis (born in 1969, Topana, Romania) graduated the National Theater and Film's Art University in Bucharest in 1996, where he c... 03.12.2009 \| Tallinn Black Nights Film Fest's blog All Eyes Turn To Tallinn In the year-round film festival circuit, a roundelay of more than 2000 individual film events held in almost every corner of the globe, one moves as if part of a gypsy caravan, lingering in one place before taking up stakes for the next location. For me, it is a lateral move across Europe from Amsterdam, where I have been attending the IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and the host of the 13th annual POFF, Tallinn Black Nights F... 28.11.2009 \| Tallinn Black Nights Film Fest's blog All Eyes Turn To Tallinn In the year-round film festival circuit, a roundelay of more than 4 000 (as in this website's festival directory) individual film events held in almost every corner of the globe, one moves as if part of a gypsy caravan, lingering in one place before taking up stakes for the next location. For me, it is a lateral move across Europe from Amsterdam, where I have been attending the IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and the host of the 13th ann... 28.11.2009 \| Editor's blog 1 2 3 next › last »	Links The Bulletin Board > The Bulletin Board Blog > Partner festivals calling now > Call for Entry Channel > Film Showcase > The Best for Fests > Meet our Fest Partners Following News Interview with EFM (Berlin) Director Interview with IFTA Chairman (AFM) Interview with Cannes Marche du Film Director Filmfestivals.com dailies live coverage from > Live from India > Live from LA > Beyond Borders > Locarno > Toronto > Venice > San Sebastian > AFM > Tallinn Black Nights > Red Sea International Film Festival > Palm Springs Film Festival > Kustendorf > Rotterdam > Sundance > Santa Barbara Film Festival SBIFF > Berlin / EFM > Fantasporto > Amdocs > Houston WorldFest > Julien Dubuque International Film Festival > Cannes / Marche du Film Useful links for the indies: > Big files transfer > Celebrities / Headlines / News / Gossip > Clients References > Crowd Funding > Deals > Festivals Trailers Park > Film Commissions > Film Schools > Financing > Independent Filmmaking > Motion Picture Companies and Studios > Movie Sites > Movie Theatre Programs > Music/Soundtracks > Posters and Collectibles > Professional Resources > Screenwriting > Search Engines > Self Distribution > Search sites – Entertainment > Short film > Streaming Solutions > Submit to festivals > Videos, DVDs > Web Magazines and TV > Other resources + SUBSCRIBE to the weekly Newsletter + Connecting film to fest: Marketing & Promotion + Special offers and discounts + Festival Waiver service Deals + Special offers and discounts from filmfestivals.com + Festival Waiver service + One month festival promotion + The Bulletin Board service + Become a festival partner Selected fun offers JUST FOR FUN > Bonus Casino > casasapuestasdeportivas.es > Casinoonlineespaña.es > Casinos online > Festival offers > Rahapelit The Editor + Get the Editor's picks and news + Promote your line up during AFM - Cannes - Berlin + The editorial festivals and markets partners + Contact the Editor + The Editor's pick 'BEST FOR FESTS' Poll Dear filmfestivals.com Visitor: can you please tell us which is your profession? 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