212 feature films (110 world or international premieres)  16 medium length films (12 world or international premieres)  144 short films (94 world or international premieres)  60 films in the Canadian Student Film Festival   A Chinese film “Million Dollar Crocodile” for the opening                              ...

With 13 films, including three full-length documentaries and four full-length fictional films as well two sets of three medium-long films each, the programme of the 2012 Perspektive Deutsches Kino is complete (see also the first press release from Dec. 22, 2011). Section director Linda Söffker sums up the selection: “The GDR was colourful, adolescents are critical and good films end in our minds.”West Berliner Michael Schöbel and East Berliner Ronald Vietz launched Wildfremd Productions in...

Sharing loss may make you feel less lonely,like a warm embrace Through eyes of different ages Julia 33 - a radio presenter- creates a website www.holdme.gr and invites people to share stories of loss Julia had a strange upbringing. As a kid and mainly as a teenager she was exposed to several adventures trying to explore herself. A kid of divorced parents she often felt rejected and looked out for love. Her father died when she was 16. She looked out everywhere in almost everybody that coul...

The international film festival on ecology held each year on the Greek island of Rhodes has just changed its name from Ecocinema to Ecofilms International Film and Visual Arts Festival. The plural certainly better reflects the diversity of the lights cast on ecology at this annual event (June 21-26, 2005) which in more than 100 feature films and shorts from around the world covers a broad range of issues related to how we protect and nurture human life. In fact, its rich programming tackles this...

Ecofims International Film festival Rhodes 21-26 June COMPETITION FEATURE LENGTH FILMS A CRY FOR MADIOM, 63' - Erez T Yanuv Barzilay A DECENT FACTORY, 79' - Thomas Balmes BATTAGLIA, 58' - Daniela Zanzotto CARPATIA, 127' - Andrzej Klamt, Ulrich Rydzewski CITY OF PHOTOS, 60' - Nishtha Jain CONCRETE REVOLUTION, 60' - Xiaolu Guo CONTROL ROOM, 84' - Jehane Noujaim CZECH DREAM, 87' - Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak ILIAS PETROPOULOS: AN UNDERGROUND WORLD, 61' - Kalliopi Legaki INVISIBLE: ILLEGAL IN...