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New directors
Since 1972 the New Directors / New Films festival has been organized each year by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The festival has introduced to a discerning audience the most innovative new directors and new films, frequently showing the first or second feature of an emerging director. Held from March 15-26 its 46th edition the festival presented in 63 screenings 29 feature and 9 short films from 30 countries including the USA, France, Braz...
Today the selection of films in the New Directors section was announced. The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, together with Ander Aizpurua Kutxabank´s Wholesale Banking Director, revealed the titles of the thirteen films to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award, decided b...
Simple and classy, the 11th edition of FEST: New directors | new films festival opened last night at the Cento Multimeios de Espinho in Espinho, Portugal. With selected guests from Belgium, Greece, Germany and numerous more expected during the week, the festival promises another edition full of carefully selected films and workshops, masterclasses and talks as part of its Training Ground, kicking off today and featuring names like Fernando Trueba, Peter Webber, Guillermo Navarro and Peter Doyl...
In 2015 FEST is bringing to Portugal some of the most relevant short fiction films in the world. Thirty one films, from twenty one countries will be competing for the Best Short and Audience Awards.
With a wide array of styles and tendencies, the program includes some truly obligtory works, such as the much talked about Leidi, from colombian filmmaker Simon Mesa Soto, winner of the Palme D’Or in Cannes among many other awards, a film that shows us the daily life in a Colombian slum...
As in past editions, the 2014 New Directors/New Films series in New York, now in its 44th year, organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, offered a wide range of cinematographic and narrative approaches. From hundreds of films Dennis Lim from the Film Society and Rojendra Roy from Moma selected 24 feature and 16 shorts, mostly the filmmakers’ first or second productions. They covered superb traditional departures (Creation of Meaning), issue oriented ...
D&AD Next Director Award with YouTube & MOFILM
The Next Director Award is a brand new award set to unearth the best new directorial talent and promote it back to the industry. Both the winner and shortlisted directors will get incredible exposure at international screenings and through the D&AD and YouTube platforms. And to top that, mentoring from top production companies – which, for the right candidate, could turn into on-shoot experience or representation.
The competition is open to new directors with less than two years professional experience. Who knows, maybe you’re Next…
Director: Robin Das.
The protagonist of this film is a poet who though revolutionary in spirit, has to compromise with the wrongs in the society. His perturbed soul could not tolerate it much longer however. It possessed his body to govern his actions. Ectoplasm can give a spirit form, but can it make it humane? That was a question that the poet's late wife could never answer. While she had been alive, she was a mere love-interest of her husband! The poet's daughter is quite unlike both her parents. How can she defy this patriarchal society? The story of this film is all about the search of the soul to find the correct rhythm of life. Not a poem, not a folk-lore, not a social drama, what is the true identity of this film ? The individual search finds a universal resonance in the language of this film.
Opening Ceremony and Gala It is HBRFEST’s pleasure and honor to invite you to be part of this wonderful event!
We from HBRFEST invite you to participate in all of our activities: Film screenings, Receptions and Galas.Opening Ceremony Gala and opening filmWednesday June 1st, 2011 6:00Pm At the Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Boulevard ,Hollywood, CA 90028Thanks to LG, our lead sponsor, the whole festival is free and open to the public , except the Opening Gala which is by invitation only a...
El Cadáver Exquisito
by
Sombra
There are four elements that make up the foundation of my memories and of my present, that is to say, of me. They gave birth to and laced themselves through all the situations that mold my life.
Two of them arrived at the same time, while I was
still a child: my mother’s garden and my father’s library. I remember
the first one deeply; like a cloudy horizon: a forest of roses, with
stems that reached to the sky… and the secon...
Founded in 1957, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running
film festival in the Americas. Held each spring for two weeks, the
International is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and
innovation in the country’s most beautiful city, featuring some 150 films and
live events with more than 100 filmmakers in attendance and nearly two dozen
awards presented for cinematic excellence. The Festival attracts an annual
audience of more than 80,000.
“Few festivals are more suited to their city than the International. It’s clearly a
festival programmed by those who love film for people who love film.” — Alex
Romanelli, editor, Variety
Director: Nikos Labot.
A middle-aged father lives with his daughter, whom he treasures more than everything else in the world. He has one aim in life: to protect her, whatever the cost, and anyone who dares approach her will have him to deal with. When a young tramp wandering the area with his dog dares just that and the girl and the youth fall in love, it means war
We are proud to present you the new and unique Grenoble International Film Festival of Geopolitics.
Come and discover our selection of independant films from all over the world on March,the 23rd 2011 !
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The FIFGG (Grenoble International Film Festival of Geopolitics) is a festival unique in the world, devoted to fictions and documentaries dealing with the current state of the world. This festival invites both worlds of the cinema and geopolitics to get together and debate in front of an interested public. Crossing artists’, specialists’ (researchers, journalists, politicians, NGO’s activists...) and citizens’ points of view, to humanize our perception of the world. Thus, the FIFGG wants to use this event to give artists from many backgrounds the chance to expose their own worldview.
For its first edition, the FIFGG will take place from the 23rd to the 27th of March 2011 in Grenoble (Isère, France). During these 5 evenings, 10 films and documentaries will be screened.
Grenoble Ecole de Mangement (GEM), a leading French business school, is the major partner of the festival. The art house cinema Club and La Cinemathèque de Grenoble participate in the festival program and welcome the films and documentaries. The French international news channel France 24 and Radio RFI are the first global media partners of the festival.
Ali Laïdi is the director of the International Film Festival of Geopolitics of Grenoble (FIFGG) and a team of ten students from Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is responsible for the organization.
On behalf of the Cape Winelands Film Festival, I want to take a moment to formally thank all of our sponsors, volunteers and staff that put forth the effort in this year's 2010 Festival to help make it as successful as it was. This year'sevent that was held from 17 – 27 March at the beautiful Spier Amphitheatre, Labia Theatres, Iziko Museum, and CityVarsity Theatre and was financially sponsored and supportedby : The City of Cape Town, The Spier Wine Estate, The Brazilian Consulate Ge...
Taipei Film Festival is an annual multi-cultural event containing film festival and other film culture-related activities. With approximately 200,000 attendants each year, TaipeiFF has become one of the most influential film festivals in the Chinese-speaking world.
5th edition of Latin America's most prestigious animation festival, open to feature and short films produced for theatre, TV, video or the Internet. Special interest: independent animation, school productions, Latin American films. No entry fee.
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ARVANDAN Directors Heading for Cannes Short Film Corner 2006
Heading for the next Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 are the following three creators to present their works in person and hoping to establish contacts for distributing their quality art-house works to savvy viewers :
- Ziya HOMAYOON, with his 37-minute avant-garde short action film `RAZOR, CLOUD, MOUSE`
Born March 11, 1976, Ziya Homayoon entered the artistic arena in 1995. So far, he has made seven movies, including two documentaries, one docudrama and three short action movies.
The film is about a young filmmaker who wanders around the town to find the right subject and we see the film through his camera. There, he comes across a young girl who is determined to commit suicide. He follows her. She fails to commit suicide three times. The fourth time while she is about to jump off the roof of a building, he arrives and tries to prevent her. They talk to each other and meanwhile he finds out that she has problem with men, all men, her father, brother, her boyfriend and all others and that she is fed up with people's attitude towards girls like her. At that moment, we see them swap places and the young filmmaker is in front of the camera. Then, he talks about his own problems which seem very similar to the girl`s and now he wants to jump off the roof. She runs to him and we see the boy being hurled down the building. The boy dies. The girl edits his film, registers it at some festivals and wins several awards. In an interview, she claims that she has gone through so many hardships to make the film.
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