Japanese film director Naomi Kawase, who competed for a Palme d'Or at the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival with her film Hanezu no Tsuki (2011), will be the Guest of Honor at the second edition of MAPFRE FOUNDATION's 4+1 Film Festival. This competition, which is held simultaneously in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro from October 26th through October 30th 2011, will honor this filmmaker's prolific career by screening the key titles in her filmogr...
IFA FILM FESTIVALJanuary 2- February 20, 2011Venue: National Gallery for Modern Art (NGMA)Manikyavelu Mansion49 Palace Road, Bengaluru 560 052Contact: 080 2234 2338 January 2, 2011, Sunday, 3 pmBISHAR BLUES, 1 Hour 16 minutesBy Amitabh Chakraborty It is a 90-minute film based on the fakirs of Bengal, exploring their music and their deeply spiritual everyday life as a living practice of radical syncretism. In this film, Amitabh Chakroborty talks about music as an integral part of their mytholog...
Friday, November 16-------Although every Friday sees a glut of film openings making their way to film theaters, the truth is that a large number of worthy films never find traditional theatrical distribution. That is one of the reasons that the brave new worlds of internet downloads and other non-traditional distribution methods hold such promise. However, until these new methodologies take hold in such a way that they can generate the same or similar revenue, theatrical distribution remains t...
interfilm : 22 nd International Short Film Festival Berlin November 7 - 12, 2006 Over 4,000 films and videos from 94 countries were submitted to the interfilm offices in Berlin for the 22 nd International Short Film Festival. 500 entries from diverse genres - feature, animation, documentary, children's film, music clip - were selected for competition or for special programs. In addition to the International and German Competitions, the festival will again include special Country Focus programs, ...
