Apart from many competitions and out-of-competition screenings Plus Camerimage Festival program includes numerous film reviews of our special guests and award laureates. This year five retrospectives will be presented. Michael Ballhaus Retrospective - Review of the German cinematographer, the recipient of this year's Golden Frog - Lifetime Achievement Award and a Jury Chairman for the Cinematographers' Debutes Competition. Michael Ballhaus was a cinematographer on fifteen films b...

The AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL (AFF), the first film event in Eastern Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema, has announced the American Documentary Features that will compete for an Audience Award, with a cash prize of USD$5,000 and a chance at Eastern European distribution. The program in the AMERICAN DOCS section of the Festival is drawn from films that made strong impressions at such film festivals as Cannes, Sundance, South By Southwest (SXSW), Tribeca, L...

  The AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL (AFF), the first film event in Eastern Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema, has announced the American Documentary Features that will compete for an Audience Award, with a cash prize of USD$5,000 and a chance at Eastern European distribution. The program in the AMERICAN DOCS section of the Festival is drawn from films that made strong impressions at such film festivals as Cannes, Sundance, South By Southwest (SXSW), T...

Directors Naomi Kawase, Bent Hamer, Peter Mullan and Victoria Galardi will compete for the first time at San Sebastian Festival alongside John Sayles, Raúl Ruiz and Daoud Aoulad-Syad, all repeat contenders for the Golden Shell.The Japanese moviemaker Naomi Kawase will present Genpin. Kawase won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes with Moe no Suzako (1997) and was the first woman to win the Special Jury Prize in Cannes in 2007 for Mogari no More (The Mourning Forest). The British director, screenwriter...

John Sayles, Naomi Kawase, Bent Hamer, Raúl Ruiz and Peter Mullan in the Official Selection Directors Naomi Kawase, Bent Hamer, Peter Mullan and Victoria Galardi will compete for the first time at San Sebastian Festival alongside John Sayles, Raúl Ruiz and Daoud Aoulad-Syad, all repeat contenders for the Golden Shell. The Japanese moviemaker Naomi Kawase will present Genpin. Kawase won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes with Moe no Suzako (1997) and was the first woman to win the...

The feature film jury for the second edition will be chaired by director, screenwriter and actor : OLIVIER MARCHAL “Given the names of my renowned predecessors, I could not turn down the invitation to chair the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival. When you love cinema and Burgundy wine, there are some pleasures you just cannot decline. I get “from a reliable and undisclosed source”, as cops say, that Brian de Palma and Oliver Stone have emptied out wine cellars in Cognac. Chan...