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...
If you are talking about Iranian film, the first thing on your mind are films about Iranian divorce, gender issue and very bad position of women in the countries like Iran. But film Ephemeral Weddings/Noces ephémères by Reza Serkanian is not about the position of women in this culture. It is about women, customs and mentality all together. I say women because the film discusses love and women in the focus via Iranian customs. Colorful representation of Iranian film director Reza Serkanian gi...
Rachel Rosen, director of programming for the San Francisco Film Society, Benoit Jacquot, director of FAREWELL, MY QUEEN, and Melanie Blum, SFFS interim executive director, arriving at Opening Night of the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 19, 2012. Photo © Pamela Gentile, courtesy of San Francisco Film Society
The longest-Running Film Festival in the Americas Enjoys a Spectacular Year with Superb Programming, Numerous Spe...
Belgrade’s Author Film Festival hosted Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon and gave a couple of screenings of The Fairy (La Fee) to a festival audience, including the screening of their previous film Rumba. The actually amazing Belgian based filmmaking trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy are back with their second (actually third) old school approach film The Fairy (La Fee). Even if the film is firmly grounded in dedication to the artwork of Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, authors here g...
le programme détaillé des 22e Rencontres cinématographiques de la Seine-Saint-Denis, qui se dérouleront dans 20 cinémas publics de ce département, du 16 au 27 novembre 2011. [cinepr.es/qxdO3X]Hal Hartley arrivera lundi 21 novembre (matin, tôt) et repartira vendredi 25 novembre à 13h45 ;Souleymane Cissé arrivera jeudi 24 novembre à 7h du matin et nous quittera lundi 28 novembre à 16h10 ;Paul Vecchiali sera francilien du jeudi 24 au dimanche 27 novembre inclus ;Luc Dardenne dimanche 20 ...
The exhibition of Nantes-born video artist Pierrick Sorin, currently
nestled in blacked out corners at Centquatre, is very much a one-man
sketch show. Practicing the method of autofilmage, Sorin often assumes
several roles simultaneously, with superimposition allowing for their
interaction. His characters are both comical and endearing, in scenarios
fictional yet relatable to real life. Though it may seem an
introspective technique, Sorin’s work looks into aspects related to...
The professional film winner of last year’s Driven Creativity Competition was Adrian Westbrook with the fantastically engaging ‘Et Miaow Alors‘ – a coherent, out-of-genre ‘hybrid’ short about some of the basic difficulties inherent in independent filmmaking; created using a DSLR shooting still jpegs over 24 hours at 1 minute intervals. We recently chatted to Adrian to get an insight into his creative mind…
Were you expecting to be revealed as the pro film category wi...
It has been quite a year for director Roman Polanski…..house arrest in Switzerland, Silver Bear at the Berlinale, legal victory and return to his adopted home of Paris, and film adaptation of the international theatre sensation “God Of Carnage”. Now, Polanski caps a year full of ups and downs with a sixtuplet win at the European Film Awards, held this evening in the Nokia Concert Hall in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn.
“The Ghost Writer”, Polanski’s adapta...
It has been quite a year for director Roman Polanski…..house arrest in Switzerland, Silver Bear at the Berlinale, legal victory and return to his adopted home of Paris, and film adaptation of the international theatre sensation “God Of Carnage”. Now, Polanski caps a year full of ups and downs with a sixtuplet win at the European Film Awards, held this evening in the Nokia Concert Hall in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. “The Ghost Writer”, Polanski’s adaptation of the Thomas Ha...
25th Mar del Plata Internacional Film Festival From 13th to 21st November, 2010 The only Latin American Film Festival with “A” status was conceived in 1954 due to the need to reflect the Argentinean Cinema universe, as well as the international cinematographic scenario. Year after year, the Festival established itself as a vital exhibition of the development and exchange of the film industry and audiovisual arts. Mar del Plata International Film Festival is today a must for filmmakers, acto...
Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma celebrates its 39th edition from October 13 to 24. Once again this year, the Festival will delight you with a spectacular lineup, more than ever in tune with real-life changes in the film landscape and new technologies. Features and shorts, fiction and documentary, animation, retrospectives, tributes, professional panels, outdoor interactive installations and events will be served up over 12 days, for all audiences. Over 295 films from 51 countries, inclu...
The opening film of the 37th Ghent Film Festival is director Hilde Van Mieghem’s new film, Madly In Love. In this romantic comedy Van Mieghem focuses on the turbulent love lives of four women living together, played by Veerle Dobbelaere, Wine Dierickx, Marie Vinck and Aline Van Hulle. Their male counterparts are Koen De Bouw, Koen De Graeve, Kevin Janssens, Jan Decleir and Huub Stapel. Madly In Love, a feel-good rom-com zooms in on the turbulent lives of four strong women: teenager Eva, her mo...
Ghent Film Festival Gent pays tribute to Tati in an exceptional exhibitionMore than 60 years after Jacques Tati’s first feature film, the Ghent Film Festival wants to give the French director, actor and comedian a worthy tribute. In order to bring the world of Tati fully to life, the Province of East Flanders is putting on the exhibition 'JACQUES TATI: In Double Quick Time' in the Caermersklooster - Provincial Cultural Centre on the initiative of and in collaboration with the Ghent Film Festiv...
Ghent Film Festival Gent pays tribute to Tati in an exceptional exhibitionMore than 60 years after Jacques Tati’s first feature film, the Ghent Film Festival wants to give the French director, actor and comedian a worthy tribute. In order to bring the world of Tati fully to life, the Province of East Flanders is putting on the exhibition 'JACQUES TATI: In Double Quick Time' in the Caermersklooster - Provincial Cultural Centre on the initiative of and in collaboration with the Ghent Film Festiv...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) announced today that Sylvain Chomet's magical animated feature film THE ILLUSIONIST will be the Opening Gala at this year's Festival, which runs from 16 - 27 June 2010.
Released in the UK by Warner Bros. Pictures UK on behalf of Pathe, THE ILLUSIONIST is directed, adapted and designed by Academy Award® nominee Sylvain Chomet (THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE / BELLEVILLE RENDEZVOUS), from the original script by comedy genius and French cinema l...
The IFI French Film Festival opens today with a stirring mix of a first look at the best new French films and a look at some classic films from the past. The opening gala screening of Micmacs is completely sold out but there are still tickets for many films in the Festival including Séraphine, winner of seven César awards; Bellamy, featuring Gérard Depardieu and a stunning new documentary on Henri-George Clouzot's unfinished masterpiece Inferno and much more.
Round Da Way; (27th and...
The IFI French Film Festival, the IFI’s annual celebration of Gallic cinema and a key date in Dublin’s film calendar, is perfectly timed to restore Franco-Irish relations in the aftermath of the World Cup playoffs. This year’s programme is packed with sneak previews of major new releases, fantastic revivals and a host of new French films that won’t be shown anywhere else.Launching the festival IFI Programmer Niall Macpherson said, ‘This year’s IFI French Film Festival aims, as ever, ...
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With the Competition feature The Time That Remains, Elia Suleiman is back on the Croisette two years after participating in the Out-of-Competition collective film, To Each his Own Cinema. This time the Palestinian director, who was on the Jury in 2006 and who received the Jury Prize for Divine Intervention in 2002, brings to audiences a sort of autobiography in four chapters revolving around his family, from 1948 until recent times. Mixing his own memo...
COMPETITION - Grand Théâtre Lumière
11:30 am et 10:30 pm : THE TIME THAT REMAINS by Elia Suleiman – 1h49
2:30 pm : ENTER THE VOID by Gaspar Noé – 2h30
UN CERTAIN REGARD - Salle Debussy
11:00 am et 5:00 pm: THE SILENT ARMY by Jean Van de Velde – 1h32
2:00 pm et 10:00 pm : MORRER COMO UM HOMEN (To die like a man) by João Pedro Rodrigues – 2h13
SPECIAL SCREENING
5:15 pm : PETITION by Zhao Liang – 2h04 (Salle du Soixantième)
8:30 pm: PORTRAIT DE GROUP...
While the beach is chock full of sun bathers and sand castles by day, it is transformed into a unique cinema by night! Lounge chairs are arranged in rows and viewers relax with their feet in the sand while watching a film on the large screen overlooking the ocean. Last night's showing of Lawrence of Arabia was fairly well attended despite the impending rain as viewers came in and out durring the long film. Free drinks and smoothies were also provided until 11. Sweat shirts and blanke...
Godard, Losey, Antonioni, Visconti, Tati, Franju et Sergio Leone once again in the Official Selection? Pierrot le Fou, Eyes Without A Face or Senso in Competition against L’Avventura or Once Upon A Time…the Revolution?
Martin Scorsese is the honorary President of Cannes Classics 2009, a
section established in 2004 to accompany the contemporary films of the
Official Selection with a program of restored and rediscovered films,
to be released theatrically or on DVD. The film...
Two Outstanding films from Mexico and Venezuela bagged top honors at 13th International Film Festival of Kerala 2008 awards ceremony.Mexican film “Parque Via” directed by Enrique Rivero was declared best film. His film is a sad tale of loneliness experienced by a caretaker of a large mansion in Mexico City. Enrique Rivero had already won prizes at Locarno and Nantes for this film. Venezuelan filmmaker Mariana Rondon was chosen as best director for her film “Postcards from Leningrad”. Thi...
On 6th Zagreb Film Festival (www.zagrebfilmfestival.com) on the merit of this years Jury (Marit Kapla-Director of the Goteborg Film Festival, Sejla Kameric-film director and Nadine Luque-film producer) this year’s programme for feature and shorts offered hilarious Belgian Chaplin style feature “Rumba”. This film won The Golden Pram Award for Best Feature Film and it is directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. It’s a choreographic and physical movement film that resemble...
FEATURE FILM AND SHORTS OF ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL As the speciality of the 6th Zagreb Film Festival, this young and charming international film festival closed Oktavijan Miletic’s film “Agram die Hauptstadt Kroatiens”, documentary film made during the II World War and Nazi occupation, in Zagreb. The festival also previewed the oldest preserved film made in Croatia, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, “The Grand Duke’s Financies” shot in Dubrovnik, Split and Rab in a year of 1923. The...
The HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is proud to announce the films, programs and special events which will make up the 2008 season. Now in its 16th year, this East Coast favorite comes to life against the fall back-drop as talent, industry and audiences participate in what has now become one of the leading international film festivals of the world. The 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival runs October 15th through 19th, 2008, in East Hampton, New York with additional venues in Southa...
