Six world premieres in the International feature competition.
Sarah Mallegol’s Kumva – Which Comes From Silence, is among the 10 features selected for the international competition of Germany’s Dok Leipzig festival, taking place from October 8-15.
Kumva is one of six world premieres in the section and sees children and parents who experienced the Rwandan genocide of 1994 speak about the atrocity which has traumatised generations.
Scroll down for the full list of features in competition
The film is in Kinyarwanda and French language; it is a debut feature for French director Mallegol.
The competition also includes the world premiere of Stillstand,...
Sarah Mallegol’s Kumva – Which Comes From Silence, is among the 10 features selected for the international competition of Germany’s Dok Leipzig festival, taking place from October 8-15.
Kumva is one of six world premieres in the section and sees children and parents who experienced the Rwandan genocide of 1994 speak about the atrocity which has traumatised generations.
Scroll down for the full list of features in competition
The film is in Kinyarwanda and French language; it is a debut feature for French director Mallegol.
The competition also includes the world premiere of Stillstand,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Six permanent roles at the festival were made redundant last month.
The leadership team of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has addressed the controversy surrounding the restructuring of the festival announced last month.
Speaking in Cannes, Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director at IFFR, and Marjan van der Haar, managing director, said the changes that saw six permanent roles at the festival made redundant were driven primarily by financial considerations. They pointed out similar streamlining has taken place at several other festivals.
All the members of the programming team are now on freelance contracts.
“We had to make hard choices,” Kaludjercic explained.
The leadership team of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has addressed the controversy surrounding the restructuring of the festival announced last month.
Speaking in Cannes, Vanja Kaludjercic, festival director at IFFR, and Marjan van der Haar, managing director, said the changes that saw six permanent roles at the festival made redundant were driven primarily by financial considerations. They pointed out similar streamlining has taken place at several other festivals.
All the members of the programming team are now on freelance contracts.
“We had to make hard choices,” Kaludjercic explained.
- 5/20/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
IFFR has unveiled a new team after facing “difficult questions” about its future.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled a new team and structure ahead of its next edition, after facing “difficult questions” about its future.
As IFFR adjusts after two years in which the festival took place online during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been confirmed that six permanent roles were made redundant but several familiar faces remain.
Inke Van Loocke has been named head of IFFR Pro, which oversees industry activities at the festival, having worked at its co-production market CineMart for close to a decade – the...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled a new team and structure ahead of its next edition, after facing “difficult questions” about its future.
As IFFR adjusts after two years in which the festival took place online during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been confirmed that six permanent roles were made redundant but several familiar faces remain.
Inke Van Loocke has been named head of IFFR Pro, which oversees industry activities at the festival, having worked at its co-production market CineMart for close to a decade – the...
- 5/19/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed its new team line up and structure as the festival revamps.
The selection committee for features consists of former IFFR programmers Stefan Borsos (South and South-East Asia), Michelle Carey (English speaking territories), Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Mercedes Martinez-Abarca, Olaf Möller, Lyse Nsengiyumva (Sub-Saharan Africa), Olivier Pierre (French speaking territories), and Delly Shirazi, former Shorts programmer Koen de Rooij, and new hires Rebecca Depas, and Kristína Aschenbrennerova.
The Shorts programme will be curated by the selection committee for shorts consisting of Rebecca De Pas, Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss, Lyse Nsengiyumva, Ivan Ramljak, Koen de Rooij, and Leonie Woodfin.
Rotterdam dedicated programme “Rtm”, which aims to encourage Rotterdam film talent development, becomes...
The selection committee for features consists of former IFFR programmers Stefan Borsos (South and South-East Asia), Michelle Carey (English speaking territories), Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Mercedes Martinez-Abarca, Olaf Möller, Lyse Nsengiyumva (Sub-Saharan Africa), Olivier Pierre (French speaking territories), and Delly Shirazi, former Shorts programmer Koen de Rooij, and new hires Rebecca Depas, and Kristína Aschenbrennerova.
The Shorts programme will be curated by the selection committee for shorts consisting of Rebecca De Pas, Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss, Lyse Nsengiyumva, Ivan Ramljak, Koen de Rooij, and Leonie Woodfin.
Rotterdam dedicated programme “Rtm”, which aims to encourage Rotterdam film talent development, becomes...
- 5/19/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Other winners at the 19th, online edition of the Kosovo event include The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Smog Town, Collective, Sun Dog, The Exit of the Trains, Radio Silence and Strike or Die. The 19th edition of Prizren-based event Dokufest, Kosovo's largest film festival, which is taking place online 7-25 August, announced its awards last weekend. Once Upon a Youth, the first feature-length documentary from Croatian filmmaker Ivan Ramljak, which had its world premiere at the festival, picked up the Balkan Doc award. Ivana Desivojević's short Doclisboa and Dok Leipzig entry Outside the Oranges Are Blooming (Serbia/Portugal) received a special mention. In the International Doc - Feature competition, Catarina Vasconcelos’ Berlinale Encounters title The Metamorphosis of Birds (Portugal) won the main award, while Isabel Pagliai's Tender (France) triumphed in the International Doc - Shorts section, with Randa Maroufi's Bab Sebta (France/Morocco) getting a special mention.
My Happy Family also wins two awards at Wiesbaden festival.
Bojan Vuletic’s second feature Requiem For Mrs J. has become the first Serbian film in the history of the goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film’s 17 years to win the top award, the €10,000 Golden Lily, for best film in Wiesbaden’s competition.
The co-production between Serbia’s See Film Pro, Bulgaria’s Geopoly Film, Fyr Macedonia’s Skopje Film Studio, France’s Surprise Alley and Russia’s Non-Stop Production had had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February and is in the sales line-up of Belgrade-based Soul Food Films.
Vuletic, who had attended his film’s screenings and last night’s awards ceremony with lead actress Mirjana Karanovic (both pictured, top, alongside filmmaker Hana Jusic and festival director Gaby Babic), is no stranger to goEast after his feature debut Practical Guide To Belgrade With Singing And Crying had its...
Bojan Vuletic’s second feature Requiem For Mrs J. has become the first Serbian film in the history of the goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film’s 17 years to win the top award, the €10,000 Golden Lily, for best film in Wiesbaden’s competition.
The co-production between Serbia’s See Film Pro, Bulgaria’s Geopoly Film, Fyr Macedonia’s Skopje Film Studio, France’s Surprise Alley and Russia’s Non-Stop Production had had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February and is in the sales line-up of Belgrade-based Soul Food Films.
Vuletic, who had attended his film’s screenings and last night’s awards ceremony with lead actress Mirjana Karanovic (both pictured, top, alongside filmmaker Hana Jusic and festival director Gaby Babic), is no stranger to goEast after his feature debut Practical Guide To Belgrade With Singing And Crying had its...
- 5/3/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Four world premieres among line-up.
Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the documentary films that will play in competition at its 22nd edition.
The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues ranging from personal identity, national identity, emigration and social justice to family secrets, political mysteries and economical crises.
Competition Programme – Documentary Filmworld Premieres
Borders
Slovenia, 2016, 10 min.
Director: Damjan Kozole
The Heart Of Wood / Srce Od Drveta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 36 min.
Director: Namik Kabil
Scream For Me Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 100 min.
Director: Tarik Hodžić
Svetlana
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 25 min.
Director: Pero Pavlovic
International Premieres
Baglar
Turkey, 2016, 81 min.
Director: Berke Bas, Melis Birder
The Beast Is Still Alive
Bulgaria, 2016, 91 min.
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Down There / Unten
Austria, 2016, 87 min.
Director: Đorđe Čenić, Hermann Peseckas
Drums Of Resistance / Daullet E REZISTENCËS
Kosovo, 2016, 65 min.
Director: Mathieu Jouffre
Four Passports / ČETIRI PASOŠA
Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, 83 min.
Director: Mihajlo Jevtić
Islands Of Forgotten Cinemas / Kino Otok
Croatia, 2016, 35 min.
Director:...
Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the documentary films that will play in competition at its 22nd edition.
The programme consists of 21 films that examine issues ranging from personal identity, national identity, emigration and social justice to family secrets, political mysteries and economical crises.
Competition Programme – Documentary Filmworld Premieres
Borders
Slovenia, 2016, 10 min.
Director: Damjan Kozole
The Heart Of Wood / Srce Od Drveta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 36 min.
Director: Namik Kabil
Scream For Me Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 100 min.
Director: Tarik Hodžić
Svetlana
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016, 25 min.
Director: Pero Pavlovic
International Premieres
Baglar
Turkey, 2016, 81 min.
Director: Berke Bas, Melis Birder
The Beast Is Still Alive
Bulgaria, 2016, 91 min.
Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Down There / Unten
Austria, 2016, 87 min.
Director: Đorđe Čenić, Hermann Peseckas
Drums Of Resistance / Daullet E REZISTENCËS
Kosovo, 2016, 65 min.
Director: Mathieu Jouffre
Four Passports / ČETIRI PASOŠA
Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, 83 min.
Director: Mihajlo Jevtić
Islands Of Forgotten Cinemas / Kino Otok
Croatia, 2016, 35 min.
Director:...
- 7/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 7th Libertas Film Festival is off and running through Sunday in the beautiful old Croatian town of Dubrovnik and we're teaming up with the festival to present a selection of new Croatian short films for free, viewable around the world. View our offerings here.
Casual sex meets casual deceit in Irena Škorić's March 9th. Petar Orešković's Get Up Miro! is indeed a wake up for its title character. In Saša Dodik's That's Life, young Josip struggles to make ends meet in Zagreb. The tagline for Ivan Ramljak and Marko Škobalj's In Utero: "Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback." In Igor Bezinović's Naked Hours, a father and son drink milk together for the last time. Barbara Vekarić's Nina, Please (image above) depicts a marital crisis following the birth of a couple's daughter.
Casual sex meets casual deceit in Irena Škorić's March 9th. Petar Orešković's Get Up Miro! is indeed a wake up for its title character. In Saša Dodik's That's Life, young Josip struggles to make ends meet in Zagreb. The tagline for Ivan Ramljak and Marko Škobalj's In Utero: "Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback." In Igor Bezinović's Naked Hours, a father and son drink milk together for the last time. Barbara Vekarić's Nina, Please (image above) depicts a marital crisis following the birth of a couple's daughter.
- 4/13/2011
- MUBI
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