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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Will it ever end? During his seven years as Berlinale director, Dieter Kosslick’s festival tenure is annually boosted by success at the box office. Following the close of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2008), bonanza statistics were promptly released to the press. The 58th Berlinale recorded an overall audience of 430,000, of […]
39th Hungarian Film Week – Budapest 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Budapest celebrated far more than just the internationally popular 39th Hungarian Film Week (29 January to 5 February 2008), attended this year by circa 100 journalists and guests from around the globe, the majority of whom then leapfrogged from Budapest to Berlin to attend the Berlinale. Just a week before the opening of the Hungarian […]
12th Sofia International Film Festival 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Ask Stefan Kitanov, director of the 12th Sofia International Film Festival (6 16 March 2008), if he feels that “New Bulgarian Cinema” had now officially come of age, he will cite the premiere screening of Stefan Komandarev’s Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakad (The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner). “We […]
27th Istanbul International Film Festival 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Ask festival director Azize Tan why she was using every opportunity available to celebrate the current revival of Turkish cinema at the 27th Istanbul International Film Festival (5-20 April 2008), and she would tick off any number of reasons. Last year, for instance, Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, served on the […]
11th Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films – Graz 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The 11th Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films in the university city of Graz (1-6 April 2008), the last to be programmed under a team headed by Birgit Flos, celebrated at its outset the recent Oscar by Stefan Ruzowitzky for Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters), an Austrian-German coproduction. Even though this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign […]
17th Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema 2007
Monday, August 18th, 2008With a record turnout of 16,000 spectators, the 17th Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema (6-10 November 2007) under its enterprising director Roland Rust confirmed its status as a leading event on the international circuit.
Berlin Film Festival Boom – Art Houses & Cinematheques
Monday, August 18th, 2008The current Berlin Film Festival Boom owes its vitality to cinematheques in Filmstadt Berlin – like Kino Arsenal in the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, the venue of the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek programmed by a team headed by Ulrich and Erika Gregor. Another is the Filmmuseum Potsdam, programmed by Bärbel Dalichow in the Marstall […]
12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2008
Monday, August 18th, 2008Asked by a Korean colleague if I would be willing to serve on the international jury for the 12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (18-27 July 2008) – “PiFan” for short – I responded that I wasn’t quite sure what a “fantastic” film is in the first place. Not a problem, he said, for he […]
43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008One glance at the lineups of the top A-category competition film festivals, and you can rate and measure – even criticize – them for their respective portfolios carried proudly on their backs. Cannes is honored as an authentic “auteur festival,” respected each May for discovering new directorial talent while furthering the careers of past auteur […]
Filmfest Dresden Sommernacht in Berlin 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008Robin Malick, director of the Dresden International Short Film Festival, is always on the lookout for more film friends in Berlin. Last April 1st, he presented a preview of the 20th Filmfest Dresden (15-20 April 2008) in the Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen in Berlin-Mitte. Then, on April 26, he returned to Berlin to present a […]
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