The 27 th Durban International Film Festival Award Night took place at NuMetro Cinecentre on Saturday 24 June, honouring 18 of the best films in the festival and the people who invest their creative capacities into the filmmaking process. The main awards were in the form of bronze mythical sea-creatures handmade by innovative Durban artist Andries Botha, set against bead and embroidery citations created by the Zamukuziphilisa Community Project in Umlazi. Fantastic Asian films were some of the hi...

New Directors/New Films, one of the most anticipated film events on the New York film calendar, opens this week end. The program, jointly presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Department of Film and Media of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), will unspool 25 feature films and 5 shorts from March 22 through April 2, 2006. The program opens with the East Coast Premiere of HALF NELSON, a Sundance sleeper about a committed teacher in New York’s public schools, played by rising star...

The Award Winners of the 54th International Filmfestival Mannheim-HeidelbergInternational Jury: Claudia Bedogni (Italy), Miguel Pereira (Argentina), Dr. Veit Heiduschka (Austria), Micha Schiwow (Switzerland), Alexander Bohr (Germany)Main Award of Mannheim-Heidelberggoes to Igor Sterk from Slovenia for the film Tuning / Feinabstimmung”For the precise use of film language in the construction of a powerful visual narrative about the deconstruction of a middle class family.“ Rainer Werner Fassbi...