Gone are the days when a feature length was precededby a handful of tasty film tit bits, bite size chunks of mini-flicks.These days, it's the trailers that are more like mini movies.  The‘short' is a mark of cinema's early days.  Butover recent years it has been redeployed as an ideal space in which to playwith distinct forms, from animation to documentary to experimental, all ofwhich the Chilean festival, Fesancor, includes in its programming.  Lastyear a new category, ‘Del Corto al La...

“The festival has grown up, but it still refuses to go feature-length.”Gone are the days when a feature length was precededby a handful of tasty film tit bits, bite size chunks of mini-flicks.These days, it's the trailers that are more like mini movies. The‘short' is a mark of cinema's early days. Butover recent years it has been redeployed as an ideal space in which to playwith distinct forms, from animation to documentary to experimental, all ofwhich the Chilean festival, Fesancor, inc...

The FESANCOR International Short Film Festival in Santiago, Chile ran October 18 -21“The festival has grown up, but it still refuses to go feature-length.” Gone are the days when a feature length was preceded by a handful of tasty film tit bits, bite size chunks of mini-flicks. These days, it’s the trailers that are more like mini movies. The ‘short’ is a mark of cinema’s early days. But over recent years it has been redeployed as an ideal space in which to play with distinct form...

A total of 87 unreleased films have been selected to participate in the Official Competitive Sections of Documenta Madrid 10, which will be celebrated from the 7th to the 16th of May.   The selected documentaries belong to 30 different nationalities; 33 of these films are Spanish productions. Some of the countries represented in the Oficial Section of Documenta Madrid 10 are: United States, France,Italy, Netherlands, United Kindom, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Argentina...