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Thursday, August 18th, 2011Talk about good timing: the awards ceremony at the VOICES festival in Vologda had just finished on the evening of July 9 when several of the guests were whisked off for a bite to eat before being brought to the station to catch the night train to St Petersburg for the next film festival – […]
Voices from Vologda
Monday, August 1st, 2011The Moscow International Film Festival had just come to a close when another cinema event – Vologda Independent Cinema from European Screens Festival (VOICES) – opened its doors on July 5th for the second year in a town half-way between the Russian Federation capital and St Petersburg. Part of the UNESCO’s world heritage list, Vologda […]
Cannes 64 (Teil 3)
Thursday, July 21st, 2011In einigen der eindrucksvollsten Beiträgen von Cannes wurden Lebenswege, Schicksale, Probleme von Knaben behandelt. Bereits der Filmtitel The Kid with the Bike, der auf Preise abonnierten Brüder Dardenne, sagt uns, worum es geht: Der 12-jährige Cyrill ist so unglücklich, wie man nur als Heranwachsender sein kann. Sein Vater hat nicht nur sein “Ein und Alles”, […]
Cannes 64 (Teil 2)
Friday, July 1st, 2011Le Havre von Aki Kaurismäki hätte von mir auch eine Palme bekommen. Ron und ich lieben ihn und seine Filme. 1992 schrieb Ron in KINO-German Film Nr. 45 u. a.: “Catch Aki’s latest cult film – La Vie de Bohême – at the International Forum of Young Cinema.” Nach 20 Jahren hat Kaurismäki wieder einen […]
Ten Years After – Transilvanian International Film Festival
Monday, June 27th, 2011How time flies. One can hardly believe that it’s now more than ten years since Cristi Puiu’s Stuff and Dough screened at the Directors‘ Fortnight in Cannes in 2001 and Cristian Mungiu’s Occident bowed in the same section the following year. The first edition of TIFF was then staged in 2002 at the beginning of a […]
Cannes 64: Regarding Un Certain Regard
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Apart from reporting on the remarkable success of Andreas Dresen’s Halt auf freier Strecke (Stopped on Track), which was awarded the Prix Un Certain Regard ex aequo with Arirang by Kim Ki-Duk, KINO – German Film remains true to its subheading of „International Reports“ by looking at some of the entries in this year’s Official Selection […]
64 Cannes (Teil 1)
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011Prelude: Report by Ron Holloway aus dem Jahre 2007, 60. Festival in Cannes “By all counts, the 60th Festival de Cannes (16-27 May 2007) will go down as one of the best in its distinguished history as the queen of international film festivals. Delegue Artistique Thierry Fremaux achieved a remarkable balance in the Competition, mixing […]
Timishort #3
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011The tickets had already been booked to attend the 10th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which opens in Cluj this coming Friday (June 3) with Francois Ozon’s comedy Potiche, when an invitation came to be a member on the International Jury of the Timishort Film Festival (May 4-8) in the Romanian city […]
Berlinale 61
Thursday, March 31st, 2011Ein Auftakt mit politischem Gewicht: Bevor die Internationale Jury vorgestellt wurde, brachte Dieter Kosslick einen leeren Stuhl auf die Bühne mit einem Schild auf dem der Name Jafar Panahi stand. Der iranische Filmemacher, sein Offside wurde 2006 auf der Berlinale mit einem Silbernen Bären ausgezeichnet, ein Mitglied der Jury, durfte sein Land nicht verlassen. Der […]
Bulgarian film wins Grand Prix at 15th Sofia International Film Festival
Friday, March 25th, 2011Dragomir Sholev’s feature debut Shelter became the first Bulgarian film to win the Grand Prix at the 15thedition of the Sofia International Film Festival’s (SIFF) . The drama about a 12 year-old boy prepared to run away from home after being neglected by his parents had premiered in San Sebastian’s New Directors competition last September. […]
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