If we are talking about British film shown on Kino Otok Isola, then we are talking about minor English films definitely worth mentioning. That would be Archipelago by Joana Hogg and Two Years at Sea by young film director Ben Rivers. But first thing first!
Joanna Hogg is a woman, a friend of great late British film director Derek Jarman and a filmmaker coming from the middle higher class in England, which is very obvious in her films. This is the second one. So this is how her seco...
“Mother tongue comes with birth!”
Where is My Mother Tongue?, in the National Competition, is
the first film by Veli Kahraman who worked as art director for many
films in the sector. Kahraman’s parents play themselves in the film
which follows the Zazaki language threatened with extinction, and
resists use of language as a political tool.
Where is My Mother Tongue? will be screened on Tuesday, April 10 at 13.30 at Atlas Movie Theatre.
Interview: Ceyda Aşar - 09.04...
photo still from film TWO EYES STARING (2010) At this year’s ‘Ground Zero’ for fantasy ‘funtastic’ film festival FANTASTIC ZAGREB, the frightful, fearsome, fanciful and freaking fantabulous film to open it with a big bang was the very much talked about new supernatural thriller TWO EYES STARING (2010) by the bold and brilliant Dutch director Elbert van Strien. And what a film to open with! If you have a taste for the paranormal and love a good ghost story, well this is one that will...
At this year’s ‘Ground Zero’ for fantasy ‘funtastic’ film festival FANTASTIC ZAGREB, the frightful, fearsome, fanciful and freaking fantabulous film to open it with a big bang was the very much talked about new supernatural thriller TWO EYES STARING (2010) by the bold and brilliant Dutch director Elbert van Strien. And what a film to open with! If you have a taste for the paranormal and love a good ghost story, well this is one that will keep you quivering long after you’ve seen the ...
Suddenly, everything's coming up doc-fests. Munich's has just ended (a well-run event organised in the famous Film Museum and other gemuetlich venues around the Bavarian capital since 1991), Sheffield's has just announced the complete programme for its event which moves dates from autumn to next month, and the now stand-alone Edinburgh International Film Festival, with its new team and slenderer budget, returns to its post-war orgins with a strong focus on the documentary for its 65th...
Probably the most successful of the still-sustained 'national' film festivals that flourish, with greater and lesser degrees of success in London and around the British Isles (dare I still call them that without fear of political uncorrectness?) is Kinoteka, which celebrated its 9th edition from 24th March to 13th April, 2011.(Since the German Film Weeks are now but a fond memory, this Polish filmic-extravaganza now surely takes the crown, in the face of all kinds of film 'festivals' that vie...
Director: ALEX QUIROGA.
Five Colors es gente andando por el mundo y cada uno de ellos es una pieza que encaja a la perfección. Las historias de las vidas entrecruzadas de los protagonistas de Five Colors son guiadas por una santera que les ayuda a encontrar su camino.y narrada por una radio
Director: ALEX QUIROGA.
Madrid, a young Colombian woman consults a priestess on its future, this tells you which should help seven strangers, in very different ways, so that your life is heading, though they share without knowing the same place and same time.
These seven different stories speak of love, pain, friendship, envy and hatred of ways.
The screenplay is based on poems by Adan Quiroga.
The film will open in 2010.
Madrid; una joven colombiana consulta a una santera sobre su futuro, ésta le dice que deberá ayudar a siete extraños, de formas muy distintas, para que su vida se encamine aunque todos comparten, sin saberlo, un mismo espacio y un mismo momento.
Estas siete historias diferentes hablan del amor, el dolor, la amistad, la envidia y el odio de distintas maneras.
El guión está basado en poemas de Adan Quiroga.
