Kino Otok Isola may offer new experience of film reviewing, chill out spirit and direct contact with the audience, celebrating the originality of cinematic language, radical contents or unconventional forms. The picturesque ancient town center of Izola in Slovenia is reborn as a true cinema island with its romantic Manzioli Square, with open cinema at its centre emerges as the festival's main attraction. Its thorough selection of the films and an interesting experience of the open cinema within...
The 27th Midnight Sun Film Festival (13.-17.6.2012) will be graced by the presence of two female actors who began their career in the 1950s: Finland's only Hollywood star Taina Elg, and Ingmar Bergman's protégé Harriet Andersson. Of directors, together with their productions, the American cult movie maker Alan Rudoph, Hungarian Béla Tarr, whose quite personal films never fail to cause a stir, two Swedish talents of a younger generation - Ruben Östlund and Axel Petersén - and the Portugues...
IFFR to honor Finnish film maker, film historian and festival director Peter von Bagh The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012 will pay tribute to Peter von Bagh by presenting a selection of his films, as well as showing three rare classics from Finnish cinema history that have been essential in his oeuvre. The tribute program, with Peter von Bagh in attendance, will be part of IFFR’s main Signals section.With over fifty film titles under his belt, Peter von Bagh may still be the better ...
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam
27 January - 7 February, 2010
As part of its main Signals section, the International Film Festival Rotterdam honors Japanese filmmaker Sai Yoichi with a tribute program that includes many of his works including his latest, brilliant ninja action movie Kamui.
Furthermore, Signals presents the thematic program ‘After Victory' with recent war films as well as seven works by legendary master of the postwar Japanese cinema Yoshida Kiju.
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International Filmfestival with a wide selection of film of all genres. Thís years edition covers retrospectives from Korean Director Lee Myung Se to a Selection of Italian Neorealism.
INDIELISBOA - FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH NEW AWARDS AND JURIESThe International Jury of IndieLisboa's second edition will be composed by Ilda Santiago, Rio de Janeiro's International Film Festival director, by Portuguese actress Beatriz Batarda, by Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso (who will also be in the festival within the hommage to Argentinean independent cinematography), by German critic Olaf Möller (European editor of the prestigious magazine Film Comment), and by British journalist Kieron...
