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Author Film Festival- The Skin Dutch

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Keep Touch with The Skin Dutch    According of one of aspects of the The Festival of New Author Films www.faf.rs in Belgrade Serbia, festival’s policy of renewing classical patterns of film narrative in the changed technological and civilization context we had the pleasure to see sort of renewed films. One of such is “Skin” based on true events and set in 1979, and is the tragic story of a boy who fights with a father traumatized by the Holocaust. The first feature length movie won 2...

Author Film Festival- The Skin Dutch

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According of one of aspects of the The Festival of New Author Films www.faf.rs in Belgrade Serbia, festival’s policy of renewing classical patterns of film narrative in the changed technological and civilization context we had the pleasure to see sort of renewed films. One of such is “Skin” based on true events and set in 1979, and is the tragic story of a boy who fights with a father traumatized by the Holocaust. The first feature length movie won 2007 Berlin Film Festival Golden Berlin B...

Israel Film Festival in LA to open with Avi Nesher’s The Secrets

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The 23rd Israel Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States, will screen close to 60 Israeli features, documentaries and award-winning student films, including 13 U.S., West Coast and Los Angeles Premieres, in Los Angeles from June 12th – June 26th, 2008. In honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary, the Festival will host an unprecedented Retrospective of classic Israeli movies, including all seven Israeli films nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, it...

Israel Film Festival in LA hosts Gala Awards Dinner

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The 23rd Israel Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States, will screen close to 60 Israeli features, documentaries and award-winning student films, including 13 U.S., West Coast and Los Angeles Premieres, in Los Angeles from June 12th – June 26th, 2008. In honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary, the Festival will host an unprecedented Retrospective of classic Israeli movies, including all seven Israeli films nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, it...

The 20th European Film Awards : Hosts and Presenters

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In a truly European combination, the hosts fort his year's European Film Awards on 1 December will be the French actress EMMANUELLE BEART and German actor JAN JOSEF LIEFERS. They will be leading the 1,400 guests at Berlin's Arena through a celebration of the European Film Awards' 20^th anniversary.EFA President WIM WENDERS will welcome to Berlin founding members of the European Film Academy and two of the greatest faces on European screen - French actress JEANNE MOREAU and Norwegian actress/dire...

Ten Canoes wins at Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent

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Ten Canoes wins the 33rd edition of the Flanders International Film Festival - GhentTen Canoes by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr has won the Grand Prize for Best Film at the 33rd Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent. The international jury, under the chairmanship of Jan Harlan, announced the winner on Saturday evening. The ceremony was followed by a screening of the closing film Black Book in the presence of director Paul Verhoeven. The Festival was closed in style with a masked ball at ...

Perfume (Süskind’s best-seller) will open Ghent Competition

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Tom Tykwer (Lola Rennt, Heaven) will open the competition of the 33rd edition of the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent on Wednesday October 11. This film is based on Patrick Süskind’s best-selling novel of the same title from 1985, of which more than 15 million copies have been sold worldwide. The film attracted no fewer than 250,000 film lovers to the cinemas when it premiered in Germany.For 15 years, Patrick Süskind refused to sell the film ri...

Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2006

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The European Film Academy (EFA), United International Pictures and the Sarajevo Film Festival congratulate the winner of thePRIX UIP SARAJEVO 2006Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2006SRETAN PUT NEDIME (Good Luck Nedim)by Marko ŠantićSlovenia 2006, 13 min, fictionThe Prix UIP is an initiative by UIP and the European Film Academy in co-operation with fourteen festivals throughout Europe. Each prize includes a financial donation of EUR 2,000 and an automatic nomination in the s...

Gale Force 10 to open Flanders Festival Previews

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Gale Force 10, the new Flemish film by Hans Herbots, will have its world premiere on Friday, October 6 on the eve of the 33rd edition of the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent. Gale Force 10 will be the official opening film of the Festival Previews section. The opening itself promises to be an impressive spectacle, thanks to the cooperation of the 40th Sea King squadron.Gale Force 10 is the third feature film by the Flemish director Hans Herbots. Hans Herbots made his debut in 2001 wi...

World Soundtrack Awards are...

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The World Soundtrack Academy releases the list of nominees for the three principal categories in the World Soundtrack Awards, the most pre-eminent international prizes for the recognition of film music: Soundtrack Composer of the Year, Best Original Soundtrack of the Year - Orchestral and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. The names of the winners will be announced in Ghent on Saturday, October 14.Every year in Ghent, the World Soundtrack Awards (WSA) are presented by the World Soun...

The European Film Academy awards for shorts

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The European Film Academy (EFA), United International Pictures and the Curtas Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival congratulate the winner of the PRIX UIP VILA DO CONDE 2006Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2006BY THE KISSby Yann GonzalezFrance 2006, 5 min, fictionThe Prix UIP is an initiative by UIP and the European Film Academy in co-operation with fourteen festivals throughout Europe. Each prize includes a financial donation of EUR 2,000 and an automatic nomination in...

Prestigious Stanley Kubrick Exhibiton attends Ghent

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Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Melbourne, Ghent, London, Paris - which city does not belong in that list? The answer is: they all belong. Although Ghent may not be a world city, thanks to the coöperation between the Flanders International Filmfestival-Ghent and the province of East-Flanders ‘little’ Ghent (rather than Amsterdam) was granted the exclusive right to host the prestigious, world-renowned Stanley Kubrick Exhibition in the Benelux, following recent highly successful showings of the ex...

Soundtrack Composer of the Year Award to Angelo Badalamenti

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32nd Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent11-22 October 2005 - www.filmfestival.be World Soundtrack Awards 2005: Badalamenti awarded Best Composer 2005 Angelo Badalamenti, for his score for Un Long Dimanche de Fianciailles is the winner of the 'Soundtrack Composer of the Year' Award. These prestigious film music prizes were distributed this Saturday October 15, for the fifth time on a row during the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent. The music of War of the Worlds by John William...

Ghent opens in a week with focus on Russia and Activism

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This year's Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent is proud to announce David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen (History of Violence), François Ozon and Jeanne Moreau (Time To Leave), and Mike Leigh, one of contemporary Britain's most renowned directors, as expected guests. Leigh makes remarkable films, known for their levelheaded, unsensational portrayals of topics that would become four-hankie "message" melodramas in the hands of mainstream directors. This "slice-of-life" realism of Leigh ...

Nobody Knows wins at Flanders

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NOBODY KNOWS wins the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent On Saturday October 16, 2004, the list of prizewinners for the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent was announced by Maurice Jarre, President of the Festival Jury. Once again, this 31st edition was an outstanding event, graced by the presence of Lord Richard Attenborough, Jonathan Pryce, David Carradine, Romain Duris and many other celebrities. On a sadder note, in a series of moving tributes, the Festival al...

Nobody Knows by Kore-Edawins at Fanders

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NOBODY KNOWS wins the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent On Saturday October 16, 2004, the list of prizewinners for the 31st Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent was announced by Maurice Jarre, President of the Festival Jury. Once again, this 31st edition was an outstanding event, graced by the presence of Lord Richard Attenborough, Jonathan Pryce, David Carradine, Romain Duris and many other celebrities. On a sadder note, in a series of moving tributes, the Festival al...

Winners Joseph Plateau Awards

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The Alzheimer Case Best Belgian film 2003.With four Awards (out of five nominations), and the Box Office Award THE ALZHEIMER CASE by Erik Van Looy is the great winner of this year’s Belgian Oscars, the Joseph Plateau Awards. All films released between January 1st and December 31 2003 were eligible for nominations. The Joseph Plateau Awards Ceremony is an organization of the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent. Nominated in four categories, The Alzheimer Case won just as much Joseph Plat...

Hower Shore scores double

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The Canadian composer Howard Shore has won two Oscars for The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King at the 76st Annual Academy Awards ceremony last night. On April 16th Howard Shore will conduct his Lord of the Rings symphony in six movements in the Antwerp sportpaleis.Howard Shore was awarded two times at the 76th Oscar ceremony: best original song Into the West, performed by Annie Lennox and best original score. Earlier this year, Shore won two Golden Globes for the same categories. The L...

Nominees for the Joseph Plateau Awards

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Today the nominees for the Joseph Plateau Awards 2003 were announced. All Belgian short and feature length films released in Belgian theatres between January 1st and December 31st, 2003 were eligible. These are the nominees BEST BELGIAN FILMANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS (Corridor)LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE (Vivi Films)THE ALZHEIMER CASE (MMG)BEST BELGIAN DIRECTORLUCAS BELVAUX (Cavale, Un Couple Epatant & Apres La Vie)STIJN CONINX (Sea Of Silence)ERIK VAN LOOY (The Alzheimer Case)BEST BELGIAN ACTRESSN...

Howard Shore wins two Oscars

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The Canadian composer Howard Shore has won two Oscars for The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King at the 76st Annual Academy Awards ceremony last night. On April 16th Howard Shore will conduct his Lord of the Rings symphony in six movements in the Antwerp sportpaleis.Howard Shore was awarded two times at the 76th Oscar ceremony: best original song Into the West, performed by Annie Lennox and best original score. Earlier this year, Shore won two Golden Globes for the same categories. The L...

Howard Shore live LOTR concert in Antwerp

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Howard Shore presents The Lord of the Rings symphony in six movements for orchestra and chorus in sportpaleis of Antwerp on April 16th. The concert is a one-time European première. Once again Shore is nominated for the coming 76th Academy Award ceremony at the end of February. He is nominated for best score and best song (Into the west) for The Lord of the Rings - the return of the king. In 2002, he won an Oscar for best score for The Lord of the Rings - the two towers.Academy Award winning co...

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