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Monday, February 21st, 2011The Berlinale’s Golden Bear went this year for the first time in the festival’s history to Iran with the International Jury’s choice of Asghar Farhadi’s Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin: A Separation). The family drama had been a hot favourite for the top honours from the moment of its international premiere in the […]
Soul Boy by Hawa Essuman
Saturday, February 12th, 2011Last autumn’s Hamptons International Film Festival presented the US premiere of Ghanian-Kenyan first-time filmmaker Hawa Essuman’s Soul Boy which has been travelling the international festival circuit since the beginning of 2010. In fact, it turns out that the story behind the making of this film is just as interesting as the movie itself. In 2008, […]
Interview Marcin Wrona: »A special mission to change things in cinema«
Saturday, February 12th, 2011Polish director Marcin Wrona latest film The Christening – one of Warsaw’s competition films – is the first feature film to be co-produced by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Here he talks with Alexandra Buzas about how he developed the project and the current state of Polish cinema. Your movie is based on a real […]
Music documentaries at Warsaw Film Festival
Saturday, February 12th, 2011The extensive selection of documentaries unspooling at last year’s Warsaw Film Festival included several features devoted to music, be it one specific genre, artist, band or music scene. Most of them, however, steered away from a traditional approach to offer glimpses into music history of the past, present or possible future. The term of “taqwacore” seems like it […]
On The Edge with Uchitel
Saturday, February 12th, 2011Opening last year’s Warsaw Film Festival, Alexei Uchitel’s new film Kray (The Edge) is an epic story centring on a war hero, brilliantly portrayed by one of the biggest stars of modern Russian cinema Vladimir Mashkov, who comes to a post-war labour camp in Siberia. His passions are trains and speed. The story then receives a […]
Turkish Delight – Festival On Wheels 2010 in Artvin
Friday, December 31st, 2010Ron had always spoken warmly of Turkey’s Festival on Wheels – he had visited Bursa and Kars in 2005 and 2006, respectively (cf. reports in KINO – German Film of February and November 2006) – and so I gladly accepted the invitation from festival director Başak Emre and general secretary Dr. Ahmet Boyacioğlu to attend […]
Mannheim-Heidelberg Celebrates International Young Cinema
Thursday, December 9th, 2010A year ahead of its 60th anniversary the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (November 11-21, 2010) remained true to its reputation as a platform for the new generation of filmmakers and followed the adage that “small is beautiful”. “Compared to other film festivals, the trademark of Mannheim-Heidelberg is that we only show a limited number of […]
Warsaw Film Festival 2010
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010The music of Chopin was literally in the air during this year’s Warsaw Film Festival (8-17 October) which was held parallel with the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Strolling along Poland’s most prestigious street Krakowskie Przedemiescie near the festival hotel, visitors to the Polish capital could activate a […]
Locarno Continues to be a Home from Home for Films from Germany
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010The change of Locarno Film Festival’s artistic director from Frédéric Maire to Frenchman Olivier Père this year didn’t see any great change in the festival’s traditional support for films from Germany or made with German partners. No less than four of the 18 titles selected by Père for the International Competition were produced with German […]
ERA New Horizons Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Style
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010A cinematic feast of riches was served up this year by the ERA New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, from 22 July to 1 August as Poland’s biggest film festival entered its 10th year. Over 500 films from 50 countries, including 240 features, were shown over the 11 days, with retrospectives dedicated to the […]
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