In two weeks time will be reporting live from San Sebastian all the photocalls, press conferences, awards and general events scheduled at the 59th edition.
At today´s press conference leaded by José Luis Rebordinos,the Festival Director, the latest edition of Zinemaldia was unveiled. Rebordinos and Joxean Fernández, member of the Festival Management Committee, announced the programme, activities,the names of the juries corresponding to the different sections and the latest additions to...
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury presided by Michel GONDRY will welcome Julie GAYET, Jessica HAUSNER, Corneliu PORUMBOIU and João Pedro RODRIGUES.
They will have to choose First, Second and Third prize winners from the sixteen final-year films featuring in the 2011 Cinéfondation Selection. These three films will walk away with prize money of 15,000€, 11,250€ and 7,500€ respectively.
The prizes will be awarded by the Jury on Friday 20th May during a ceremony in the Salle ...
Lourdes (Dir Jessica Hausner 2009 Austria)
Jessica Hausner's new film Lourdes may be the most mysterious film screened at this year's Tallinn film festival, one that takes a story of religious and spiritual import and casts that world and those themes down a gauntlet that suggests Hitchcock and Tati in its supremely calibrated conceptual suspense and encircling humor. The story finds a wheelchair-bound Sylvie Testud, whose character is suffering from multiple-sclerosis, traveling...
Aleksi Salmenperä from Finland won the prize for Best Director at the 12th Münster Film Festival in 2007. The prize worth EUR 10,000 was unanimously awarded to «Man’s Job» by a prestigious jury. The thematic competition which this year focussed on the subject of «Work! Don’t Work!» and consisted of eight European feature films selected by the Festival’s Director Barbara Fischer-Rittmeyer, is unique in Germany’s film festival scene. The marital drama about a Finnish man, who after l...
KVIFF CULMINATING IN A GIANTThe gala closing of the 39th Karlovy Vary IFF has included a screening of the film which was premiered at the Cannes film festival – the second part of the successful animated film SHREK 2, which will be launched into local distribution straight after the festival. The only thing this kind-hearted ogre longs for is to live in peace, far far away from people in his smelly swamp. Parents of Princess Fiona whose heart Shrek won in the first part change their mind and ...
Films Day 6In CompetitionFAHRENHEIT 911 by Michael MOORE (USA)WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN by HONG Sangsoo (South Korea/France) THE EDUKATORS by Hans WEINGARTNER (Germany/Austria)A Certain RegardHOTEL by Jessica HAUSNER (Austria/Germany)THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON by Niels MUELLER (USA/Mexico)Cannes ClassicsBEFORE THE REVOLUTION by Bernardo BERTOLUCCI VIDAS SECAS by Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS DEUS E O DIABO NA TERRA DO SOL by Glauber ROCHA ...
