ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2010 April 8 - 16, 2010 Call for Entries Deadline: December 15, 2009 Apply online Contact Info RIFF - ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Fabrizio Ferrari (Art Director of the Festival) Piazza Buenos Aires, 5 Roma 00198 -Italy Tel. 06 45425050 - Fax. 06 23319206 http://www.riff.it info@riff.it 2010 Roma Independent Film Festival RIFF AWARDS July 29 - 31, 2010 The Roma Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is Rome 's first independent a...

ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2010 April 8 - 16, 2010 Call for Entries: Deadline: December 15, 2009 Apply online Contact Info RIFF - ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Fabrizio Ferrari (Art Director of the Festival) Piazza Buenos Aires, 5 Roma 00198 -Italy Tel. 06 45425050 - Fax. 06 23319206 http://www.riff.it/ info@riff.it 2010 Roma I...

CineMart has selected 39 projects out of a record number of 550 entries. The 25th edition of the first and largest co-production market for low and medium budget feature films includes projects by Abbas Kiarostami, Sophie Fiennes, Cristi Puiu, Jafar Panahi and Alex van Warmerdam. CineMart 2008 further presents new projects by former Rotterdam competition filmmakers Koen Mortier (EX DRUMMER) and Pia Marais (THE UNPOLISHED). Films launched at CineMart and now in official Rotterdam 2008 selection a...

Thursday, June 8-----Every major film festival has its specific focus. At the Troia International Film Festival, first works by up-and-coming directors is a major part of the Festival, having its own competition section named Primeiras Obras. This year, the section boasts 13 films of diverse genres and geographic origins. Films from Europe represents the lion’s share of the section. A SOAP is an unusual love story between an independent woman who has just split with her longtime boyfriend and...

Tuesday, June 6----The Troia International Film Festival is presenting a celebration of the 100th anniverary of Norwegian cinema. The program, which is sponsored by the Norwegian Film Institute in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy in Portugal, is showcasing 10 films, which range from an early silent gem to two films from the current Norwegian auteur Bent Hamer. The Tribute program began on the Festival opening night, with the rare screening of the 1917 silent film TERJE VIGEN, directed b...

OPENING RIFF AWARDS: FRIDAY APRIL 7 at Cinema Embassy, Via Stoppani, 715:30 – OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL A New Wave (USA 2005) – Debut feature of the independent director Jason CarveyFollowed by: Eva Affittasi (Italy 2005) – A documentary of Armando Prieto Perez And the shorts:Contratto a termine, Il produttore, Soltanto uno, Sotto le foglie, Il nostro segreto, In controtempo, Lu non fa miracoli @ 20:00 - OPENING NIGHT RIFF AWARDSShort Order (Ireland, 2005) – Directed by Anthony Byrne Wit...

From the 7th to the 14th April 2006 at the Embassy Cinema, via Stoppani 7 - RomeThe RIFF (Roma Independent Film Festival), supported by Rome’s Municipal Department of Cultural Policies, is glad to invite you to its 5th edition. The festival will display a selection (among the over 1,000 works sent from 70 countries) of 75 FILMS including features, shorts and documentaries. Several Italian and foreign premieres are among the features: the world premiere Il Segreto di Rahil (Rahil’s Secret) ...

Over a thousand filmmakers, guests and festival-goers filled the California Theatre in downtown San Jose for the Cinequest 16 closing night gala on Sunday, March 12. Cinequest co-founder Kathleen Powell introduced the jury members to present the awards. Film critic Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews announced the winners of the feature competition, including Sören Senn’s KUSSKUSS (Maverick Spirit Winner) and Jan Martin Scharf and Arne Nolting’s WAHRHEIT ODER PFLICHT/TRUTH OR DARE (Best First ...

The RIFF (Roma Independent Film Festival), supported by Rome’s Municipal Department of Cultural Policies, will officially open its 5th edition on 7 April. The event will close on 14 April. RIFF is becoming more and more internationally oriented: the 2006 edition is especially focussed on independent film-making, characterised once again by its strong interest in ‘beyond borders’ cinema. Indeed, the programme features 5 film reviews dedicated to as many countries (Norway, Canada, Spain, F...

The 47th Nordic Film Days Lübeck will open on November 3rd, screening a total of 130 films from the Nordic and Baltic countries between November 3 and ­ 6, 2005. The feature film competition has a very strong line-up, including such works as 'Manslaughter', the third part of the trilogy on Danish society by two-time top prizewinner Per Fly; 'Mother of Mine', the moving story of the evacuation of Finnish children to Sweden during World War II by Klaus Härö, whose Finnish children's film Elina...

BRUSSELS EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL (July 1-9, 2005) The Brussels European Film Festival closed today on the 9th of July at Flagey with the prize ceremony, presented by Dominique Janne (Festival Director) and Jan De Clercq (Programme Director) and followed by the screening of the film «Douches Froides» by Antony Cordier.Organized from the 1st to the 9th of July, the Festival for the first time joined forces with Cinédécouvertes, the summer event of the Belgian Film Museum. During these nine days...