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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Nominees for BEST FICTION:
Joey ( dir. David Forster / Australia / 07'24'')
Guang ( dir. Shio Chuan Quek / Malaysia / 14'00'')
Short For Vernesa B. ( dir. Jons Vukorep / Germany / 10'47'')
The Factory ( dir. Aly Muritiba / Brazil / 15...
Human Rights Watch, in cooperation with The Film Society of Lincoln Center, presented the 23rd edition of its film festival from June 14 – 18. Headquartered in New York City the Human Rights Watch is a global non-governmental independent organization considered to be the leading force in protecting human rights and identifying their violations. By shifting the focus of media and policy makers to violations and to the need for corrective actions HRW prepares the ground for effec...
JAPAN CUTS
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CINEMA
July 12-28, 2012
"North America's premiere showcase for
Japanese film" (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS is an
inimitable platform for contemporary Japanese cinema, showing the diversity and
vitality of one of the most exciting world cinemas, and ranging from refined,
high-concept art house titles to popular and grindhouse genre movies. In its
sixth consecutive year, JAPAN CUTS 2012 includes close to 40
titles screening from July 12 to 28, with 12 co-presentations with the New York
Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, 11th edition), with which it forms a winning summer
fest combination that shows 100 films annually. As its centerpiece, this
year’s edition of the festival will highlight the career of living Japanese
film legend Koji
Yakusho. Visit the website for information and to purchase tickets!
Thursday,
July 12
6:30 - Asura
8:15 - Smuggler
Friday, July
13
6:30 - Hard Romanticker
8:40 - The Atrocity Exhibition (Let's Make the Teacher… + Big
Gun + Henge)
Saturday,
July 14
1:00 - Scabbard Samurai
3:15 - Tokyo
Playboy Club
5:30 - Gyo
7:15 - Love
Strikes! + Striking Love! JAPAN CUTS Opening Party!*
Sunday, July
15
1:30 - Ace Attorney
4:15 - Tormented
6:00 - Monsters
Club*
8:00 - Chips
Tuesday,
July 17
7:30 - Zombie Ass
Wednesday,
July 18
7:30 - Girls for Keeps
Thursday,
July 19
6:30 - Someday
8:30 - 9 Souls
Friday, July
20
7:00 - The Woodsman and the Rain, Centerpiece
Gala Presentation*
Saturday,
July 21
1:00 - Shall We Dance?
3:30 - Toad's
Oil
6:00 - Chronicle
of My Mother
8:20 - 13
Assassins*
11:00 - Cure
Sunday, July
22
1:00 - Love Strikes!
3:15 - No Man's
Zone*
5:20 - About the
Pink Sky
7:20 - Isn't
Anyone Alive?
9:30 - Roadside
Fugitive
Tuesday,
July 24
7:00 - Rebirth
Wednesday,
July 25
7:00 - Rent-a-Cat*
9:15 - Ushijima
the Loan Shark
Tuesday,
July 26
7:00 - Don't
Stop! + DON'T STOP! JAPAN CUTS Party*
Friday, July
27
7:00 – Leonie*
Saturday,
July 28
1:00 - A Gentle Rain Falls for Fukushima
3:00 - Women on
the Edge
5:00 - Lonely
Swallows
7:00 - The Brat!
9:00 - Space
Battleship Yamato
*Director or actor introduction and/or Q&A!
The 2nd Earth Summit of Rio de Janeiro, the so-called Rio+20 UN-Conference ended last Friday.
Next Thursday starts at 4 pm the second International Uranium Film Festival of
Rio de Janeiro. Like the parallel-events of the Rio+20 the Film Festival will
held in the famous Museum of Modern Art.
Until Saturday July 14th the festival will screen 54
films about the atomic and nuclear age: From Einstein to Fukushima, from the
first Atomic bombs thrown over Hiroshima and Nagasaki to t...
Program details for the 3rd annual Aruba
International Film Festival (AIFF), which takes place June 22-28, 2012, were
announced today. The Festival will showcase a diverse array of films from 18
different countries and feature several international and South American
premieres. The lineup was announced by AIFF
Artistic Director Claudio Masenza along with Festival founder Jonathan Vieira.
AIFF will open with the international premiere of director Rob Reiner’s
...
The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP PARIBAS, Fay and Planter’s are proud to announce that the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival will take place from July 8th through the 15th on several of the most beautiful locations on Ischia, Italy’s renowned green island resort (www.ischiaglobal.com).
The Festival will launch with the European premiere of Rob Reiner’s latest movie, “The Magic of Belle Isle” starring Morgan Free...
The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP PARIBAS and Planter's are proud to announce that the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival will take place from July 8th through the 15th on several of the most beautiful locations on Ischia, Italy's renowned green island resort (http://www.ischiaglobal.com/). The Festival will launch with the European premiere of Rob Reiner's latest movie, "The Magic of Belle Isle" starring Morgan Fr...
2012 ISCHIA GLOBAL FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL TO LAUNCH JULY 8th WITH THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF ROB REINER'S THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE'Reiner To Receive Ischia Lifetime Achievement AwardFest Lineup Includes The Italian Premiere of ‘Snow White and the Huntsman'And a 15-Minute World Premiere of ‘Lovelace' Footage10th Edition of The Fest To Run From July 8th through the 15thCANNES, May 19, 2012 - The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP ...
Feature Films
Nespresso Grand Prize for La Semaine de la Critique Jury : Bertrand Bonello (president) and film critics Francisco Ferreira (Expresso, Portugal), Akiko Kobari (Yukan Fuji, Japan), Robert Koehler (Variety, USA) and Hanns-Georg Rodek (Die Welt, Germany).
AQUÍ Y ALLÁ Antonio Méndez Esparza
Visionary Prize France 4 Jury : Céline Sciamma (president) and young film critics Victor-Emmanuel Boinem (CineBel, Belgium), KIM Sehee (Cine21, South Korea), Ryan Latt...
The Ischia International Arts Academy along with American Express, BNL-Group, BNP PARIBAS and Planter’s are proud to announce that the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival will take place from July 8th through the 15th on several of the most beautiful locations on Ischia, Italy’s renowned green island resort (www.ischiaglobal.com). The Festival will launch with the European premiere of Rob Reiner’s latest movie, “The Magic of Belle Isle” starring Morgan Freeman and Vir...
Director: Jason Gray.
Kiku and Shunsuke are elementary school classmates. On their way home, they tease and threaten to reveal each others' secrets. As signs of childhood love begin to bloom with the chance for a first kiss, an unforeseen tragedy arises...
Retrospective of Solanas’ Work To Be Presented as Part of Festival’s Salute To Argentina
Famed Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician Fernando Solanas will receive a “2012 Ischia Legend Award” in recognition of his lifetime of outstanding contributions to the cinema of Argentina during the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Fest to be held from July 8th to 15th on the isle which is located off the coast of Naples. The announcement was made here today by actor ...
This year's Festival will screen a diverse slate of nearly 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, along with signature programs such as the Filmmaker Retreat, Poolside Chats, Coffee Talks, Music Events and more. Check back May 15 for the complete Festival schedule!
OPENING NIGHT:
To Rome With Love- (DIRECTOR/WRITER Woody Allen PRODUCERS Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum CAST Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz,...
The 12th Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection will run May 2-6, 2012, Frankfurt am Main
In just a few days, it will be "YOUKOSO!", and the Students' House at Bockenheim Campus in Frankfurt will become the center venue of an international film festival. From May 2-6, the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection will welcome cinema enthusiasts and friends of Japanese culture from Germany, Europe and the whole world in Frankfurt for the twelfth time. Be it ...
The 14th edition of the Far East Film Festival will run in Udine, from April 20th to 28th.
Key titles of this year's selection will be, from Korea, "Sunny" by Kang Hyoung-chul, the opening film, a national preview, on Friday April 20th, a collective moving ballad on female friendship, and "The Viral Factor" , directed by the king of action movies, Dante Lam, who will keep the audience at Teatro Nuovo "Giovanni da Udine" in suspense during Closing night...
The 55th New York Festivals® International Television & Film Awards™, announced this year’s winning entries at the 2012 awards ceremony Tuesday, April 17th at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas. The Grand Jury honored the World’s Best TV Programs & Films™ and awarded three prestigious Grand Trophies to the following companies: ESPN, USA; Temolo Productions for BIO, The Biography Channel, USA; and ReelzChannel, USA.
ESPN earned the title of Broadcast...
Whereas the Official Selection for feature films will be presented on Thursday 19 April, the Official Selection for short films is being unveiled in an exclusive preview.
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided over by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, will reward the best films from the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection.
Short Films Competition
Competing for the 2012 Short Film Palme d'or, ten films have been selected from among the 4,500 films that were submitted...
YESTERDAY AT THE FESTIVAL (11.04.2012)
• PROGRAMMES WERE MADE IN ADVANCE There were a number of events in the festival yesterday. Festival audience who determined their priorities not to get lost in the programme had another amazing day!
• MUSIC AND CINEMA WORKSHOP AT SALON A workshop was given by the acclaimed film music composer Nathan Larson, whose filmography includes a number of soundtracks, together with renowned Turkish contemporary and electronic mu...
YESTERDAY AT THE FESTIVAL
• MORE EXTENSIVE PROGRAMMES FROM THE FESTIVAL EVERYDAY!!! Festival audience had another tiresome but enjoyable day. It was a day full of presentations and events!
• PRESS MEETING WITH THE JURY National Competition Jury met with the press yesterday at 10.00, and afterwards the International Competition Jury was before the press at 11.00. During the press meeting with the moderator Azize Tan, Istanbul Film Festival director, questions w...
2012 Titanic International Film Festival has a very strong selection of tour docs.
Neil Young Journeys is the third documentary Oscar-winner director (The Silence of the Lambs) Jonathan Demme has made with his old friend, genius of American folk rock, Canadian Neil Young, on his solo tour in 2011. Never Make It Home documents Kirk Rundstrom's last months. The hell-raising lead singer/guitarist of Wichita "insurgent country" band Split Lip Rayfield was diagnosed with termin...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is pleased to present a Retrospective of Japanese director Shinji Somai’s work as part of the 2012 programme. Greatly admired in Japan, Somai is only beginning to receive international recognition, as is highlighted by the fact that many of Somai’s films will have their first UK screening at the EIFF, and several will be European premieres. The EIFF runs from 20 June to 1 July 2012.The films of Shinji Somai (1948-2001) are a constant source o...
The Terracotta Far East Film Festival will take place from 12th to 15th April 2012 at the Prince Charles Cinema.
With a stunning line-up of films hand-picked from the
best of the region, encompassing diverse genres from comedy to drama to horror
and everything in between, the festival will continue to hold exclusive
Q&As, masterclasses and fabulous parties.
Each year the festival strives to improve on last year
and to discover new talent and fans of Japanese c...
TERRACOTTA FESTIVAL 2012, the 4th edition of the London Far East Film Festival, is proud to welcome some very talented actors and directors from Japan, Taiwan and China: Denden, Da Ching, Toshiaki Toyoda and Guo Xiaolu for a weekend of movies, Q&As, Masterclasses and parties at the Prince Charles Cinema in London, on 12th - 15th April 2012
DENDEN - HIMIZU ACTOR - will hold a Q&A after the screening of Himizu.
Most well-known in the UK for his award-winning
performance as...
OPENING FILM MY WAY
In recent years, cross-border productions have been flourishing and Terracotta are thrilled to be opening the festival on Thursday 12th April 2012 with one of the most high-profile and ambitious examples to date, the Korean war epic MY WAY.
From Korean cinema's box office champion Kang Je-Kyu who also directed ‘Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War' and ‘Shiri', MY WAY tells the story of two marathon runners, one Korean and one Japanese, duri...
By Liza Foreman
GRAND PLANS FOR OKINAWA: AMERICAN BASES TO BECOMEPOSSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY VILLAGES?
OKINAWA
They say that laughter is the best medicine and thepeople of Okinawa should know.
The southern outpost of Japan is famous for the longevityof its inhabitants, many of whom flocked to the 4th OkinawaInternational Movie Festival (March 24 – March 31, 2012), where the core themeswere laughter and peace.
The peace section is for good reason. Here o...
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