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Istanbul
International Film Festival
15
- 30 April
The
19th annual event is featuring 180 films from five different continents,
bringing the films by a new generation of directors together with
the classic works by master filmmakers that over time have become
the gems of cinema history. Twelve films are screening in the
International Competition and eight in the National Competition.
Within the "Tributes" section of the Festival, works by world-renowned
directors such as Süreyya Duru of Turkey, Theo Angelopoulos of
Greece, Takeshi Kitano of Japan, and Ken Loach from England will
be screened. A myriad of programs are to be presented: Young Stars
of the World Cinema, From the World of Festivals, Women's Stories,
Cinema, the Mirror of Our Times - Human Rights, 2000: At Their
Golden Fifties, Erotic Tales and From the World of Animation:
United Kingdom. Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented
to Youssef Chanine and Theo Angelopoulos.
Istanbul
Brasilia
International Film Festival
19
April - 1 May
Known
as FicBrasilia, the second edition
dedicated to
the discovery of young directors and is a platform for emerging
talents of cinema worldwide.
Besides the traditional sections, the festival will include a
parallel exhibit of Scandinavian New Wave cinema, with an ample
overview of the vigorous cinematography produced in the Nordic
countries over the last years. This production is virtually unknown
to most Brazilians. In all, seven films from Sweden, Finland,
Norway and Denmark will be exhibited. The FicBrasilia is also
promoting a series of parallel activities - debates, lectures
and meetings between the public and moviemakers - in order to
demonstrate that a film festival should never limit itself to
movie exhibition. (http://www.ficbrasilia.com).
Roger
Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival
26 - 30 April
 The
famed film critic at Chicago Sun-Times has created a festival so
as to screen 10 films that he considers overlooked by the general
public, critics and distributors. Being held in the Champaign, IL
Virginia Theatre, the films are Dance to my Song by
Rolf de Heer, Autumn Tale by Eric Rohmer, Surrender
Dorothy by Kevin DiNovis, Hamsun by Jan Troell,
Maborosi by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, The Battleship
Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, Household Saints
by Nancy Savoca, Shiloh by Dale Rosenbloom, Thirteen
by David Williams and the Disney feature Tron.
To round out the event, Q&A sessions will be held after the
screenings with the directors, actors and producers and complementing
the program are panel discussions, workshops, and visits to classrooms.
http://www.ebertfest.com
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