Festival’s 26 th edition runs October 6-15.
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) is launching its On Screen section which will carry premieres of high-profile drama series that will later be streamed on Ott video platforms.
Biff, whose 26th edition will be held October 6-15, said the section “aims to precisely reflect the current state of the market, which is expanding multi-directionally, while embracing the extended flow and value of cinema” and should be “able to present more diverse and higher-quality works to the audience, whose range of fandom is expanding”.
The inaugural On Screen Section will launch...
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) is launching its On Screen section which will carry premieres of high-profile drama series that will later be streamed on Ott video platforms.
Biff, whose 26th edition will be held October 6-15, said the section “aims to precisely reflect the current state of the market, which is expanding multi-directionally, while embracing the extended flow and value of cinema” and should be “able to present more diverse and higher-quality works to the audience, whose range of fandom is expanding”.
The inaugural On Screen Section will launch...
- 8/26/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Festival
Taliban hostage drama “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead,” by Swiss filmmaker Michael Steiner (“The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch”) will open the 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23 – Oct. 3).
The film follows the story of Daniela Widmer (Morgane Ferru) and David Och (Sven Schelker), the Swiss couple were kidnapped and handed over to the Taliban in 2011 while traveling through Pakistan. The story kept Switzerland on tenterhooks. For eight months, the two were held as hostages until they managed to escape.
“I’m a storyteller and here I wanted to give a personal insight into the fate of the two hostages Daniela Widmer and David Och, so that the audience understands the context,” said Steiner.
The world premiere of the film will take place in the presence of Swiss Federal President Guy Parmelin and the Mayor of Zurich Corine Mauch. It will be the first screening in the newly renovated Convention Center,...
Taliban hostage drama “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead,” by Swiss filmmaker Michael Steiner (“The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch”) will open the 17th Zurich Film Festival (Sept. 23 – Oct. 3).
The film follows the story of Daniela Widmer (Morgane Ferru) and David Och (Sven Schelker), the Swiss couple were kidnapped and handed over to the Taliban in 2011 while traveling through Pakistan. The story kept Switzerland on tenterhooks. For eight months, the two were held as hostages until they managed to escape.
“I’m a storyteller and here I wanted to give a personal insight into the fate of the two hostages Daniela Widmer and David Och, so that the audience understands the context,” said Steiner.
The world premiere of the film will take place in the presence of Swiss Federal President Guy Parmelin and the Mayor of Zurich Corine Mauch. It will be the first screening in the newly renovated Convention Center,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This morning the Toronto Film Festival added several more films to their lineup including the world premiere of Thomas McCarthy's The Cobbler which stars Adam Sandler as a New York City cobbler who, disenchanted with the grind of daily life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. The film co-stars Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman. Additionally, Sundance standouts Infinity Polar Bear and Laggies starring Keira Knightley and Chloe Grace Moretz were added to the Gala selection. Joining The Cobbler as new additions to the Special Presentations field include Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria starring Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche and Two Days, One Night from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and starring Marion Cotillard. Both films made a splash at Cannes earlier this year,...
- 8/12/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Toronto film festival organisers have programmed features from 42 countries in the Contemporary World Cinema (Cwc) programme and unveiled eight South Korean selections in the City To City.
Cwc features latest work by Jessica Hausner, Rolf de Heer, Christian Zübert and Ryuichi Hiroki, among others.
For the third year, Tiff (Sept 4-14) has partnered with the University of Toronto’s Munk School Of Global Affairs on the Contemporary World Speakers series, pairing five films in selection with expert scholars.
The Contemporary World Speakers series is programmed in conjunction with the Tiff Adult Learning department.
Contemporary World Cinema
Wp = World premiere / Nap = North American premiere / IP = International premiere / Cp = Canadian premiere.
Aire Libre (Argentina), Anahí Berneri IP
Amour Fou (Austria-Luxembourg-Germany), Jessica Hausner Nap
Behavior (Conducta) (Cuba), Ernesto Daranas Cp
Bird People (France), Pascale Ferran Nap
Black Souls (Anime Nere) (Italy), Francesco Munzi IP
Breathe (Respire) (France), Mélanie Laurent Nap
Charlie’s Country (Australia), Rolf de Heer Nap
*John Stackhouse...
Cwc features latest work by Jessica Hausner, Rolf de Heer, Christian Zübert and Ryuichi Hiroki, among others.
For the third year, Tiff (Sept 4-14) has partnered with the University of Toronto’s Munk School Of Global Affairs on the Contemporary World Speakers series, pairing five films in selection with expert scholars.
The Contemporary World Speakers series is programmed in conjunction with the Tiff Adult Learning department.
Contemporary World Cinema
Wp = World premiere / Nap = North American premiere / IP = International premiere / Cp = Canadian premiere.
Aire Libre (Argentina), Anahí Berneri IP
Amour Fou (Austria-Luxembourg-Germany), Jessica Hausner Nap
Behavior (Conducta) (Cuba), Ernesto Daranas Cp
Bird People (France), Pascale Ferran Nap
Black Souls (Anime Nere) (Italy), Francesco Munzi IP
Breathe (Respire) (France), Mélanie Laurent Nap
Charlie’s Country (Australia), Rolf de Heer Nap
*John Stackhouse...
- 8/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The democratization of art—to continue recent preoccupations—has enabled a proliferation of essay films in recent years. It’s not difficult to see why: though anybody may now be able to pick up and point a camera, assembling the cast and crew, and securing the funding and resources, with which to complete a narrative film continues to be a whole other matter.
Consequently, there has always been a do-it-yourself aspect to the essay film, and many filmmakers have taken it up as a means by which to position themselves against a more vertically integrated industry. The essay film’s popularity among filmmakers of marginalized identity is no coincidence: female and feminist filmmakers, homosexual filmmakers, transgender filmmakers, filmmakers of color and other artists informed in some way by a political and/or social oppression. There’s something potentially radical about the essayistic form.
None of which is to say any...
Consequently, there has always been a do-it-yourself aspect to the essay film, and many filmmakers have taken it up as a means by which to position themselves against a more vertically integrated industry. The essay film’s popularity among filmmakers of marginalized identity is no coincidence: female and feminist filmmakers, homosexual filmmakers, transgender filmmakers, filmmakers of color and other artists informed in some way by a political and/or social oppression. There’s something potentially radical about the essayistic form.
None of which is to say any...
- 2/19/2014
- by Michael Pattison
- MUBI
Below you will find our total coverage of the 64th Berlinale by our three attending critics. As our last couple pieces are published, they will be added to this index.
By Adam Cook
Impressions Parts I-iv:
Personal Programming
On Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer
Journeys
On Tsai Ming-liang's Journey to the West, Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Time as Depth and Cinema-Space
On Ken Jacobs' The Guests, Nadège Trébal's Scrap Yard, Veiko Õunpuu's Free Range, Corneliu Porumboiu's The Second Game
On the Periphery
On Fruit Chan's The Midnight After, Diao Yinan's Black Coal, Thin Ice
New Spaces: A Conversation with Denis Lavant
By Yaron Dahan
The Fantastical Heart of the Old Continent That Was But Was-Not: Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sleepers, Robbers, and Superegos: An Interview with Benjamin Heisenberg
Baal, Resurrected
By Michael Pattison
Essayist,...
By Adam Cook
Impressions Parts I-iv:
Personal Programming
On Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer
Journeys
On Tsai Ming-liang's Journey to the West, Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Time as Depth and Cinema-Space
On Ken Jacobs' The Guests, Nadège Trébal's Scrap Yard, Veiko Õunpuu's Free Range, Corneliu Porumboiu's The Second Game
On the Periphery
On Fruit Chan's The Midnight After, Diao Yinan's Black Coal, Thin Ice
New Spaces: A Conversation with Denis Lavant
By Yaron Dahan
The Fantastical Heart of the Old Continent That Was But Was-Not: Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sleepers, Robbers, and Superegos: An Interview with Benjamin Heisenberg
Baal, Resurrected
By Michael Pattison
Essayist,...
- 2/19/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Other winners of the independent jury awards at the Berlin Film Festival include Stations of the Cross, At Home and documentary The Square.
Ahead of this evening’s glitzy Berlinale awards ceremony, when the winners of the coveted Golden and Silver Bears will be announced, the festival has revealed films chosen for additional prizes by the Independent Juries.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was shot over a 12-year period and topped Screen’s jury grid, picked up two awards: the Prize of the Guild Of German Art House Cinemas and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award.
The Ecumenical Jury named Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) best Competition film; John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary best film in the Panorama strand; and Athanasios Karanikolas At Home (Sto spiti) best Forum film.
Jehane Noujaim’s documentary The Square (Al midan), about the ongoing uprising in Egypt, added to its growing haul of festival prizes with the Amnesty...
Ahead of this evening’s glitzy Berlinale awards ceremony, when the winners of the coveted Golden and Silver Bears will be announced, the festival has revealed films chosen for additional prizes by the Independent Juries.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, which was shot over a 12-year period and topped Screen’s jury grid, picked up two awards: the Prize of the Guild Of German Art House Cinemas and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award.
The Ecumenical Jury named Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) best Competition film; John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary best film in the Panorama strand; and Athanasios Karanikolas At Home (Sto spiti) best Forum film.
Jehane Noujaim’s documentary The Square (Al midan), about the ongoing uprising in Egypt, added to its growing haul of festival prizes with the Amnesty...
- 2/15/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Early on in A Dream of Iron, a new documentary premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival this year, director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park shows us images a whales moving through the vast blue expanse of the ocean - enormous creatures that were once considered grand and mysterious. Soon after, Park brings us to the expansive Posco steel-making plant on the coast of Southern Korea and proceeds to show us the process of shipbuilding through a series of arresting visual tableaux. Gargantuan in size, these vessels demonstrate the soaring ambition of the human race, as enormous components are each readied for assembly with minuscule laborers dotting their surface. In a brave new world with seemingly limitless access to information, it takes a lot to stimulate...
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- 2/9/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Above: Rinko Kikuchi in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent."
The Airstrip (Heinz Emighol), Germany - World Premiere
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) (Corneliu Porumboiu), Romania - World Premiere
Le beau danger (René Frölke), Germany / Italy - World Premiere
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker), USA - World Premiere
Casse (Scrap Yard) (Nadège Trebal), France - International Premiere
Castanha (Davi Pretto), Brasil - World Premiere
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park), Republic of Korea / USA - World Premiere
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) (Saodat Ismailova), Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France - World Premiere
The Darkside (Warwick Thornton), Australia - International Premiere
L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping...
The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent."
The Airstrip (Heinz Emighol), Germany - World Premiere
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) (Corneliu Porumboiu), Romania - World Premiere
Le beau danger (René Frölke), Germany / Italy - World Premiere
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker), USA - World Premiere
Casse (Scrap Yard) (Nadège Trebal), France - International Premiere
Castanha (Davi Pretto), Brasil - World Premiere
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park), Republic of Korea / USA - World Premiere
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) (Saodat Ismailova), Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Netherlands / Germany / France - World Premiere
The Darkside (Warwick Thornton), Australia - International Premiere
L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping...
- 1/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Berlinale’s Forum line-up includes new films from Corneliu Porumboiu, Denis Côté and Guillaume Nicloux.
The strand will include 28 world premieres and eight international premieres from every continent.
Porumboiu’s Al Doilea Joc (The Second Game) follows a football match between top Romanian teams Dinamo and Steau and the experience of the director’s father who refereed the game.
In L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), French director Guillaume Nicloux has brawny gangsters kidnap controversial writer Michel Houellebecq, where he is held captive for days in a house outside Paris.
Canadian director Cote was last year nominated for the Golden Bear for Vic + Flo Saw a Bear.
Ken Jacobs’ The Guests is an expanded one-minute film turned into a 70-minute black-and-white silent film in 3D.
The strand’s Special Screenings will be announced soon.
Forum
Wp = World premiere, IP = International premiere
The Airstrip by Heinz Emigholz, Germany - Wp[p...
The strand will include 28 world premieres and eight international premieres from every continent.
Porumboiu’s Al Doilea Joc (The Second Game) follows a football match between top Romanian teams Dinamo and Steau and the experience of the director’s father who refereed the game.
In L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq (The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq), French director Guillaume Nicloux has brawny gangsters kidnap controversial writer Michel Houellebecq, where he is held captive for days in a house outside Paris.
Canadian director Cote was last year nominated for the Golden Bear for Vic + Flo Saw a Bear.
Ken Jacobs’ The Guests is an expanded one-minute film turned into a 70-minute black-and-white silent film in 3D.
The strand’s Special Screenings will be announced soon.
Forum
Wp = World premiere, IP = International premiere
The Airstrip by Heinz Emigholz, Germany - Wp[p...
- 1/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Directed by: Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
With the grind of metal and arbitrary piano keystrokes, we’re thrust into an experimental amalgam of sound and color to accompany the recollection of a dream that could easily be interpreted as a nightmare within Cronenberg’s “Crash.” From this esoteric opening, we’re off to the streets of Korea, escorted by weird sounds, industrial noise and classical violin, and with the medley of music and moving images, we come to realize the nature of the movie, a strange collection of transitioning parts, of daily motion and ritual, an artistic exploration of the mundane exigencies of daily life within Cheonggyecheon’s metal-working classes.
A poetic narration personalizes the piece, which is billed as a letter to director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s dead grandfather. What unfolds is a collection of...
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
With the grind of metal and arbitrary piano keystrokes, we’re thrust into an experimental amalgam of sound and color to accompany the recollection of a dream that could easily be interpreted as a nightmare within Cronenberg’s “Crash.” From this esoteric opening, we’re off to the streets of Korea, escorted by weird sounds, industrial noise and classical violin, and with the medley of music and moving images, we come to realize the nature of the movie, a strange collection of transitioning parts, of daily motion and ritual, an artistic exploration of the mundane exigencies of daily life within Cheonggyecheon’s metal-working classes.
A poetic narration personalizes the piece, which is billed as a letter to director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s dead grandfather. What unfolds is a collection of...
- 6/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Directed by: Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
With the grind of metal and arbitrary piano keystrokes, we’re thrust into an experimental amalgam of sound and color to accompany the recollection of a dream that could easily be interpreted as a nightmare within Cronenberg’s “Crash.” From this esoteric opening, we’re off to the streets of Korea, escorted by weird sounds, industrial noise and classical violin, and with the medley of music and moving images, we come to realize the nature of the movie, a strange collection of transitioning parts, of daily motion and ritual, an artistic exploration of the mundane exigencies of daily life within Cheonggyecheon’s metal-working classes.
A poetic narration personalizes the piece, which is billed as a letter to director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s dead grandfather. What unfolds is a collection of...
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(June 2011, screening at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
With the grind of metal and arbitrary piano keystrokes, we’re thrust into an experimental amalgam of sound and color to accompany the recollection of a dream that could easily be interpreted as a nightmare within Cronenberg’s “Crash.” From this esoteric opening, we’re off to the streets of Korea, escorted by weird sounds, industrial noise and classical violin, and with the medley of music and moving images, we come to realize the nature of the movie, a strange collection of transitioning parts, of daily motion and ritual, an artistic exploration of the mundane exigencies of daily life within Cheonggyecheon’s metal-working classes.
A poetic narration personalizes the piece, which is billed as a letter to director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s dead grandfather. What unfolds is a collection of...
- 6/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
In the Cheonggyecheon district of Seoul, merchants started casting metal from military war scraps after the Japanese occupation. Generations later, iron workers continue their labor by hand in an era where technology has far surpassed their industrial skills. Filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park locates his experimental fever dream in this waning world, composing a letter to his deceased grandfather who once ran his own scrap metal business. His stream-of-consciousness narration, ...
- 6/10/2011
- Indiewire
In the Cheonggyecheon district of Seoul, merchants started casting metal from military war scraps after the Japanese occupation. Generations later, iron workers continue their labor by hand in an era where technology has far surpassed their industrial skills. Filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park locates his experimental fever dream in this waning world, composing a letter to his deceased grandfather who once ran his own scrap metal business. His stream-of-consciousness narration, ...
- 6/10/2011
- indieWIRE - People
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
- 5/30/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
- 5/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
- 5/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Film Independent Announces First Round Of Us & International
Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,
Presented By The Los Angeles Times - 19 Films Chosen for Narrative & Documentary Competition - - International Spotlight to Focus on Cuba -
Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...
Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,
Presented By The Los Angeles Times - 19 Films Chosen for Narrative & Documentary Competition - - International Spotlight to Focus on Cuba -
Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...
- 5/3/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here is a little round-up of a few films from a smaller strand. Forgive the relative brevity, but I don’t want to fall behind and have this stuff still to right about tomorrow:
This maybe the Berlin Film Festival’s 61st year, but it is also the 41st year of the event’s interesting and diverse strand of smaller features known as the “forum” – or the “international forum of new cinema” to those less keen on brevity. And it is indeed an interesting and eclectic mix on show this year, ranging from Richard Ayoade’s Toronto smash Submarine (which is brilliant by the way) to small documentaries like the Korean Cheonggyecheon Medley: A Dream of Iron directed by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park.
A Dream of Iron is a lo-fi (in other words very cheap looking) elegy for a passing way of life: that of steel workers in the centre of Seoul,...
This maybe the Berlin Film Festival’s 61st year, but it is also the 41st year of the event’s interesting and diverse strand of smaller features known as the “forum” – or the “international forum of new cinema” to those less keen on brevity. And it is indeed an interesting and eclectic mix on show this year, ranging from Richard Ayoade’s Toronto smash Submarine (which is brilliant by the way) to small documentaries like the Korean Cheonggyecheon Medley: A Dream of Iron directed by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park.
A Dream of Iron is a lo-fi (in other words very cheap looking) elegy for a passing way of life: that of steel workers in the centre of Seoul,...
- 2/12/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Berlinale 2011 poster
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
- 1/18/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media events has just announced their complete lineup for the Forum program this year, and it looks incredible once again.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
- 1/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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