There is excitement in the International Village this year for eight countries who have teamed up and launched a new pavilion. Two years ago, at the Sarajevo Film Festival, talks began in order to create a collaboration of countries from South East Europe. The origional intention, which remains the same today, is to create visability for the countries in this region pertaining mainly to their films, filmakers, and distributors. Early talks included other countries in the surrounding region, bu...

The FESTIVAL DE CINE AFRICANO DE TARIFA (FCAT – Tarifa African Film Festival), one of the biggest African film festivals in Europe, is about to start its seventh edition on May 21st in Tarifa, the closest Spanish town to Africa on the Andalusian coasts of the Strait of Gibraltar (www.fcat.es).PLEASE, FIND PRESS PACK IN THE ATTACHMENT.This year the FCAT presents, from 21st to 29th May:• 113 movies from 36 countries, out of which 33 films are national premieres in competition• dozens of resp...

The world premiere of a new film, particularly one from Romania, which has had a very high international profile of late, is a major event for a film festival. And here at POFF, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the arrival of a new Romanian talent, in a co-production that includes Romania, Moldova and Luxembourg, is an event worth noting. Napoleon Helmis (born in 1969, Topana, Romania) graduated the National Theater and Film's Art University in Bucharest  in 1996, where he c...

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Feature Film Awards 2009Best Picture Aspettando Il Sole/Waiting for the Sun (Italy)Best Director Aspettando Il Sole/Waiting for the Sun ~ Ago Panini (Italy)Best Script Baghdad Texas ~ Shaneye Ferrell, David H. Hickey, Al No'mani (USA)Best Actor The Vicious Kind ~ Adam Scott (USA)Best Actress Der Mond und Andere Liebhaber/The Moon and Other Lovers ~ Katharina Thalbach (Germany, Turkey/Germany)Best Supporting Actor Boppin' At The Glue Factory ~ Conrad Roberts (USA)Best Supporting Actress Anywhere,...

Presented in part at the Turkish Pavillion reception at the Cannes Film Festival, THE LOST SONGS OF ANATOLIA, on a background of clips of peasant musicians from Eastern Turkey featured a modern rock quartet accompanying beautiful authentic shots taken on the spot. The effect was surrealistic and highly original. A musical voyage among exotic places and people of Anatolia, unique host of ancient civilizations, empires as well as mythologies and glory of 10 millennia. The fruit...

                        Prague Castle : Guard The THREE Brothers Studio is located less than 10 kilometers outside the center of Prague at Hlubocepska, where you can see rugged cliffs not far away, in an enclosed farmstead, restored to its 14th century original state. The 7000 sq meter studios are equipped with 26 different spaces for shootin...

Cucurital River In the background, the Auyán-tepui Amazonian Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) Lowland Forest In the background, the Auyán-tepui Coporito (Cyphocharax meniscaprorus) DEEP INTO CANAIMA (50') Directed by: Ana Cristina Henríquez Available on DVD: • CreateSpace...

Cutting edge, inimitably South African films have travelled abroad to win Oscars, Golden and Silver Bears and a golden Stallion. But nothing makes a film more relevant or poignant than seeing the flickering images of South Africa’s contemporary reality reflected in the eyes of local residents from the sleepy hamlet of Victoria West.Deep in the heart of the Karoo lies a little gem of tranquillity. Set to the rhythms of Merino sheep grazing, the dorp of Victoria West is definitely the place wher...

The second edition of the Latin American Film Festival will be in Oaxaca from April 15th to 20th this year. Chile is the invited country and in addition to the normal activities with long and short features and documentaries, we are introducing two new aspects.Cinema in Construction: In this section, the audience will be able to appreciate Latin-American films which won’t be screened in its final or edited version and films that are in post-production process.A Perspective from Latinos in Worl...

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"...

             Film treasures under the sea for the Bahamas Festival taking place at the Atlantis : watch out under the feet for sharks and ruins from lost city ...

First ever film festival to take place on a deserted island in the Bora Bora Lagoon, French Polynesia, showcasing romance films from around the world With a reputation as one of the most romantic places in the world, Bora Bora will be home to the first annual Tahiti Film Festival for romance films. The week long Festival premieres on December 2, 2006 on a deserted island in the Bora Bora lagoon, with outdoor screenings every night under the stars on a giant inflatable screen set up on the beach...

ANNOUNCING THE 2005 AWARD WINNERSMontreal, October 31, 2005 — The nine (9) 2005 ADVENTURA Prizes were awarded yesterday at the closing ceremony of the 4th Montreal International Adventure Film Festival (also know by its French acronym FIFAM). Over 170 films from the four corners of the world had been submitted in preselection and 38 of them were retained for the official selection presented to the Montreal public over 4 days, namely from October 27 to 30, 2005. This year, the prizes are reward...

The first edition of Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina between september 22 and 24th 2005. ModalitiesThere are two modalities: Screenplay Modality, in which will be able toparticipate unpublished screenplays in documentary and fiction categries; and Realization Modality, in which will be able to participate short-films in all categories (documentary, fiction, animation, experimental and others). Deadline is August 25th.PrizesThe prizes consist o...

A typical day for Fernando Pena, the Artistic Director of the BAFICI, the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, begins routinely at 8:00am, when he comes into his office to deal with the mass of emails and phone messages from around the world.This early morning hour is the only time in the day when his phone is not ringing off the hook. Buenos Aires, famous for its nightlife and parties that last until the first rays of the morning sunlight, is not a town for early risers, b...