Choke (Directors week)
Goooooood, that was dirty fun, Sundance folks loved it the audience here loved it a lot
Another story of the America of today. A former medical student, Victor, has found a way of paying for his Alzheimer afflicted mother's illness: he pretends to choke when dining in expensive reataurants. And there is always someone who feels responsible for his life and sends a cheque. Victor also goes to centers where he treats his addiction to sex while working in a thema...
Press release: 2009-02-11
The 44th annual of the international festival of popular-scientific films, which belongs among the most renowned events of its kind in Europe, takes place in Olomouc from the 14th through the 19th of April, 2009. Academia Film Olomouc – the unique platform where science and art meet – is, again, organized by Palacky University in Olomouc.
Following the pattern of the former annuals, the festival programme will be sectioned into several traditional blocks. Be...
One of the greatest actors of all times is Ernest Borgnine. He was the best heavy of his time.
A man who is decended from Italian royality, and an academy award winner, is going to be welcomed to our film, if he so wishes.
His part can not be discussed now for negotiations have just started for Laila Ali, Wayne Newton, Frank Sinatra Jr. and now Ernest Borgnine. I realize that Mr. Borgnine is 90 years old, but if he is willing, and his health is fine, he is welcome to join o...
Director: Huck Keppler.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
When Eva sees her sister’s murder in a dream she tries to warn her. But it’s not enough and her sister, Tereza, is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Wracked by guilt over the death Eva has visions of Tereza. After moving to Prague with her boyfriend Jan, the visions become more intense until another presence is felt, the Dark Spirit responsible for Tereza’s death has come for Eva.
Director: Amin Yoma.
Sophia is a young and beautiful journalist who gets her first job, covering a story in Dubai, thanks to her boyfriend and boss at a publishing house. When she arrives, she meets her driver, Carim, who starts to introduce her to Arab customs, but she wastes no time in corrupting their professional relationship by subjecting Carim to her wildest sexual desires. That is how Sophia reconsiders her troubled relationship with her partner. She risks her dream job opportunity tempted by a clandestine love affair that has no future.
The eighth Roma Independent Film Festival, March 19th – 27th, will present numerous European and world premiers!This year’s calendar is filled with feature length films, documentaries and shorts arriving from all over the world. Special attention is given to the Italian and International First Works.Our International Jury includes the actresses Valentina Cervi and Sabrina Impacciatore, producer, Umberto Massa, journalist, Ahmad Rafat, and Paul Zonderland, General Director of Walt Disney Stu...
During the IFFR 2009 Awards Ceremony on Friday, January 30, 2009 in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg, the winning films of the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam were announced. The three VPRO Tiger Awards were granted to the Hubert Bals Fund supported film BE CALM AND COUNT TO SEVEN (ARAM BASH VA TA HAFT BESHMAR) by Ramtin Lavafipour (Iran), to BREATHLESS (DDONGPARI) by Yang Ik-June (South Korea), and to WRONG ROSARY (UZAK IHTIMAL) by Mahmut Fazil Coskun (Turkey). On Saturday January 31st, 20...
Foreign media representatives based in Paris gathered at the Académie des Lumières to present the 2008 Lumiere Awards honoring the year’s most outstanding achievements in French and francophone films.
Paris, January 20, 2009. Foreign media representatives based in Paris gathered together at the Académie des Lumières last night, presented the 2008 Lumiere Awards, France’s answer to the Golden Globes, in recognition of outstanding achievement in the French and French-...
