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This years edition of the Bucharest Film Festival will take place from June 28 to July 6, 2008. Following the success from last years initial festival, this cinematic event again focuses on Central and South East European regions. The programmers consider cinema as a mirror reflecting the needs and mentalities of different societies. One of the main principles of selecting films is drawing special attention to new filmmaking including their own ways of expression. The aim is to promote talents, ...
On April 5th, the 27th iteration of the International Istanbul Film Festival runs kicks off its 15-day run, screening 200 feature films in 20 categories. Festival-goers seeking alternatives to the flickering dark will find a robust program of seminars, workshops, concerts, exhibitions and parties. The Festival culminates on April 20th with the coveted Golden Tulip Award for the International Competition, juried by an elite force of cinema professionals led by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. Fe...
ECU took place March 14-16 at Paris BNF Herewith the letter from ECU Founder Scott Hillier"It’s all happened far too quickly, but it’s only a couple of days to go before the third edition of The European Independent Film Festival kicks off. We’ll be showing 103 films that have come to us from 28 countries and it promises to be an incredible event. Not only will we be screening some of the very best indie films from around the world, we have a full schedule of workshops that cover everythin...
On Tuesday, March 11, at the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace hotel, the directors Necati Sonmez (To make an example of), Krzysztof Kopczynnski (Stone Silence), Buthina Canaan Khoury (Maria's Grotto), Mary-Ellen Davis (Territories), Sarah Singh (The sky below), Sibel Bilgin & Floor Kooij (Burhan Uygur: Passion of an artist), Pola Rapaport (Hair let the sun shine in), Sotiris Danezis, honoree of the Festival, and the distributor Sirkka Moeller from the German company Deckert, participated...
A press conference was given on Tuesday, March 11 at the Olympion's Green Room, by the directors of the documentaries To make an example of, Necati Sonmez, Maria's Grotto, Buthina Canaan Khoury and Territories, Mary Elen Davis. To make an example of, which is included in the Human Rights section of the Documentary Festival, deals with the subject of the death penalty in Turkey. "The main purpose of the documentary is to communicate the last moments of the condemned, just before the executio...
The theme of this year’s festival which is going to be happen on the 14th March – 22nd of March, 2008 is “Women’s History: Obedience, Rebellion, Feminism”. Films from women’s history, which is also the history of rebellion, dreaming another world as well as obedience, stories of women’s existence and resistance, women’s dreams… 46 films from 13 countries is with you in the 6th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival…This year’s Filmmor International Women’s which wi...
The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting approximately 160 films by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program. A record number of 35.000 viewers and 450 guests attended last year’s Festival, demonstrating the increasing interest of the public and industry professionals in documentaries and the TDF’s success in attracti...
Sunday, February 10---------The Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival is recognized as the "cutting edge" program at the Berlinale, with films that embrace politics, sexuality and social upheaval. Longtime Panorama chief Wieland Speck has been a consistent curator at the Berlinale over the past 20 years, bringing his own sensibilities to the programming of what is, for me, the Festival's most consistent and uplifiting film showcase. To start things off this past weekend, the P...
A tendency to decline but not everywhere: this sums up the 2007 trend as regards cinema audiences. The exact opposite of 2006, where the plus sign was the general rule, although, there again, with some exceptions.This is the picture that emerges from the data collected by MEDIA Salles who, as last year, have anticipated the announcement of the 2007 figures on cinemagoing in Europe to the Berlin Festival, during the presentation of the "European Cinema Yearbook - 2007 final edition"...
A tendency to decline but not everywhere: this sums up the 2007 trend as regards cinema audiences. The exact opposite of 2006, where the plus sign was the general rule, although, there again, with some exceptions This is the picture that emerges from the data collected by MEDIA Salles who, as last year, have anticipated the announcement of the 2007 figures on cinemagoing in Europe to the Berlin Festival, during the presentation of the “European Cinema Yearbook – 2007 final edition” , whi...
Armenian church in Turkey
A new short documentary TRANSFORMATION, shot in Kars, Eastern Turkey, is ready to unreel at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
Dedicated to the great Armenian lyrical poet Yeghishe Charents, true to its title, the film explores cultural changes imposed on Armenian structures throughout time.
Conceived by a young artist-painter, Arman Tadevosyan, native of Gyumri, Armenia, in collaboration with German Cameraman and filmmaker Thomas Balkenhol, who teaches cinema art at the An...
ALEX'S FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS -- ANNO 2005 WITH A MERRY X-MAS TO ALL! 1.TROMSO, January -- A fantastic place to open the festival year if you love snow and don't mind fifteen minutes of daylight, MAX ...in January. That was just a joke, folks -- by late January you get almost a whole hour of sunlight -- around eleven AM -- but really, who needs it? ...when fest topper, irrepressible Norskie-American MARTHA OTTE, is guaranteed to provide a slate of such interesting films that you'll spend th...
Charent's House in kars, Turkey
The 2008 Park City Film Music Festival is held across the street from the Egyptian Theater on Main Street in Park City in the Main Street Mall on the second floor. The festival runs January 17-27, 2008—concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival. "Films you can get into." This year's lineup consists of 127 films. Submissions for the 2008 PCFMF came from the United States, Australia, France, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Germany, Russian Federation, Canada, United Kingdom, Croatia, Turkey...
In its feature film selection, the 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam will include fifty world premieres, thirty international premieres and twenty-five European premieres. International sales agents to bring world and international premieres to Rotterdam include Fortissimo, Memento, Wide Management, Trust, Match Factory and newly formed Elle Driver. Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund adds an enticing harvest of 22 new films to the festival. All of these are nominated for the newly installed...
On a quiet pedestrian street in KARS, is the run-down delapitaded house where Yeghishe Charents, (1897 - 1937) one of the greatest Armenian poets was born and lived.Both his primary and secondary schooling took place in KARS
His patriotic pleas to unite Armenians against Stalinism ended him in prison, where he died at the age of 40.
His poetry reflects his love and revolt for ARMENIA, in the throes of a turbulent period under Russian occupation.
Yeghishe Charents...
Listen and SEE Erkan Ogur - Bulbulum Altin Kafeste : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21FHBHPQE94
and
Hear ZEYNEP here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAOTzzb6nk
One of the biggest highlights at the Kars stop of the Festival on Wheels in Turkey in November 2007 was the last night performance of Erkan Oğur and İsmail H.Demircioğlu in the bustling Bolero Club in KARS, Turkey. Genial, warm and unassuming, performing his traditional folk repertoire before mesmer...
Beyond the Lake Cildir, Turkey
Last years audience tally of 13,000 was beaten by a large margin, as was the number of international guests.Films were discussed and cheered, programs, parties and special events were celebrated, and the festival atmosphere was fantastic. 550 films from 55 countries were screened in 16 competition programs and 50 special programs on eight different screens. Prizes were awarded with a total value of € 43.000. And here they are:THE WINNERS OF THE 23rd. INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN T...
The Isak Pasha Palace in Dogubeyazit, Turkey overlooks a deep valley and the mighty Mount Ararat. The fortress goes back to the 17th-century and was constructed by Isak Pasha, then governor of the area. A spectacular mixture of Seljuk, Ottoman, Persian, Georgian and Armenian architectural styles, the inside still boasts sculptured marble, limestone floors and the 2 doors were originally made of gold. Mosaics, the
Magificent Sarıkamış Toprak Hotel located in Northeast Turkey welcomed a busload of 'Festival on Wheels Guests'. This is a new ski resort entirely built by a Turkish architect and boasts the longest ski track in the country with excellent dry, powdery snow.
The pists lead through pine forests and the views, which festival attendees saw from the chairlift were breathtaking.
The tracks rise to altitudes over 8,530 feet above sea level and include Turkey's longes...
The 48th Installment of the Thessaloniki Film Festival will take place in Greece's Second City from November 16 - 25, 2007. Thessaloniki, also known by the shorter name of "Saloniki" is next to Athens the largest city in Greece and, in many ways, a more cosmopolitan city in terms of non-Greek ethnic minorities and foreign influences. Situated on the Thessaly extension of the Greek mainland, at the crossroads of Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia and boasting the busiest Gre...
The 48th Installment of the Thessaloniki Film Festival will take place in Greece's Second City from November 16 - 25, 2007. Thessaloniki, also known by the shorter name of "Saloniki" is next to Athens the largest city in Greece and, in many ways, a more cosmopolitan city in terms of non-Greek ethnic minorities and foreign influences. Situated on the Thessaly extension of the Greek mainland, at the crossroads of Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia and boasting the busiest Greek port in the a...
To acquaınt ınternatıonal and Turkısh festıval attendees wıth the ancıent cıvılızatıon ruıns at ANI. near Armenıa, the Festıval on Wheels toured two hours out of KARS to the former capıtal of Armenıa.Ani is the ruins of the capital of medieval Armenia. near the Arpaçay River (a branch of Aras River). Arpaçay river constitutes the border between Armenia and Turkey. It takes its name from ancient Urartian fertility goddess Anahid. The city collapsed d...
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