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Sofia International Film FestivalFor 16th year Sofia International Film Festival will gather together in Sofia films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans from 9th until 18th March 2012. Featured in Variety’s Top 50 of cinema festivals, the event presents Bulgaria to the world as the host one of the important film festivals in Europe and takes place annually in March. What started as a thematic music film festival, went through 15 previous editions to become the cinema event of the year, bringing the current world cinema trends to the domestic viewers in Bulgaria and the latest in Bulgarian cinema to the rest of the world. Since 1997 more than 1,600 feature films and documentaries have been screened within the festival’s framework. More than 1,000 distinguished guests have attended, including established professionals such as Wim Wenders, Volker Schlondorff, Katja Riemann and Karl Baumgartner (Germany), Alan Parker, Peter Greenaway, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Tony Palmer and David Mackenzie (United Kingdom), Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Konchalovsky, Karen Shakhnazarov and Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (Russia), Jiri Menzel, Jan Sverak, Jan Hrebejk and Petr Zelenka (Czech Republic), Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia), Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland), Otar Iosseliani (Georgia), Jean-Claude Carriere, Agnes Varda, Siegfried and Jacques Dorfmann (France), Assumpta Serna (Spain), Bent Hamer and Unni Straume (Norway), Jafar Panahi and Babak Payami (Iran), Jerry Schatzberg, Michael Wadleigh and Lech Kowalski (USA), Jos Stelling (the Netherlands), Mika Kaurismaki (Finland), Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (Iceland), Lone Scherfig (Denmark), Kornel Mundruczo (Hungary), Goran Markovic, Goran Paskaljević, Radivoje Andric, Dusan Milic, Srđan Karanović and Srđan Dragojević (Serbia) and many others.
The festival is organized by Art Fest under the auspices of the Municipality of Sofia and in partnership with the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, the National Palace of Culture, the National Film Center and the Bulgarian National Television with the support of the MEDIA programme of the European Commission, national and foreign cultural institutes and sponsors.
For its 10th anniversary as an international cinema event in the year 2010 named Year of Bulgarian Cinema, Sofia International Film Festival received as present the recognition from FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) - it was accredited as competitive festival specialized in first and second films. Since its creation the director of the festival has been Stefan Kitanov. Selim Gunes: I have been influenced by the new trends in cinemaThe director's debut film White as Snow confirms the strong presence of recent Turkish films in SIFF international competition’s selection. Influenced by his own childhood, the snow and the story "Ayran" on Sabahattin Ali, Selim Gunes takes very high risks. He stands behind the camera as a director after a long and successful career as a photographer, working in difficult weather conditions, and even taking more risk with a child actor with no experience. Succeeds, thanks to collaboration with his wife Nur Gunes, which assumes the role of producer. You are an experienced photographer, what is the influence of photography in your debut feature film White as Snow? Plans, in which I considered the visuality to be sufficient to tell the story, I did not use any dialogues and voices. This made the visual language of the movie more important. And I think, that as a result of my experience in photography had positive affect in creating this language. Which part was most difficult for shooting? We had to use the sleds pulled by oxen to carry the material to the village Maden Köy (it is a village in the mountains) where the shootings took place. Also it was very difficult to reach the shooting place for plans to take the sunrise at the village. Beside this, the shootings about the mother in the truck haulage were quite exhausting.
Read the whole interview as well as the interview with the producer of the film Nur Gunes on our festival's site www.siff.bg
10 March 2011
01.06.2011 | Sofia International Film Festival's blog Cat. : actor CDATA Contact Details Director Entertainment Entertainment Films Nur Gunes Nur Gunes Photographer Producer Selim Gunes White as Snow www.siff.bg
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