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Friday, November 21st, 2008One glance at the portfolio of this year’s 51st Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Films (27 October to 2 November 2008)– aka DOK Leipzig – is mind-boggling! Even the most experienced festivalier would find it difficult to assimilate more than 320 films from 50 countries, all programmed within the short span of six […]
46th New York Film Festival 2008
Saturday, November 8th, 2008For the 46th outing, from 26 September to 12 October 2008, The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival offered the crème de la crème of world cinema to New York audiences. It was a real treat and a great preview of the upcoming slated art-house films. “Reality meets Fiction” seemed to be […]
Happy Birthday – IFP turns 30 – September 2008
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Between Sunday, September 14, and Friday, September 19, the Independent Feature Project (IFP) Market marked its 30th anniversary with a new name and a six-day celebration filled with tons of valuable industry information and new and exciting film projects. The newly christened Independent Film Week (IFW) is the United States’s biggest and most established film […]
42nd Hof Film Festival 2008
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Nicknamed “HOF – Home Of Films” by such festival stalwarts as Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, the 42nd Hof Film Festival (21-26 October 2008) has survived into its fifth decade due to the unwavering commitment of its founder director-programmer Heinz Badewitz to what was known back then as “New German Cinema” and today still prospers […]
29th “Manaki Brothers” ICFF in Skopje/Bitola 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The 29th “Manaki Brothers” International Cinematographers Film Festival (ICFF) in Skopje/Bitola (27 September to 4 October) was one for the books. Just a few days before the Madedonian festival opened in Bitola, a decision was embarked on a new image by shifting the entire festival to the capital in Skopje. The decision, though painful, was […]
57th Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale 2007
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Now in his sixth year as director of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival, Dieter Kosslick takes particular pride in changing the image of the festival each time around. This year, for the 57th Berlinale (8-18 February 2007), he expanded the European Film Market (EFM) beyond the environs of the roomy Martin Gropius Bau, a […]
20th Filmfest Dresden – Screenings in Berlin 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Filmfest Dresden Preview in Berlin Thanks again to Filmfest Dresden director Robin Malick, Berliners were treated on 1 April 2008 to a preview to the 20th Dresden International Short Film Festival (15-20 April 2008) in the Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen in Berlin-Mitte, a welcomed opportunity for cineastes and public alike to preview some of the […]
Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf in goEast-DVD-Edition
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf was honored at the 8th goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden with goEast-DVD-Edition. Benedek Fliegauf likes to observe colleagues of his own generation: young people, whose teenager years in Budapest had been changed by the political Wende.
Sergei Parajanov Retrospective at goEast Festival 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The 8th goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Films in Wiesbaden (9-15 April 2008) focused as usual on questions of current national sensibility and historical status. The complementary sidebar paid homage to the Armenian Sergei Parajanov: his masterful Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (USSR, 1964), Sayat Nova (USSR, 1969), The Legend of Suram Fortress […]
18th Tromsö International Film Festival 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Wacken is known the world over – thanks to Sung-Hyung Cho’s oft-awarded documentary Full Metal Village (Germany, 2007) about down-home inhabitants of a Schleswig-Holstein village that annually transforms itself for an August weekend into the capital of the Heavy Metal Scene. At the 18th Tromsö International Film Festival (15-20 January 2008), the world’s northern-most festival […]
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