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Sofia International Film FestivalFor 16th year Sofia International Film Festival will gather together in Sofia films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans from 9th until 18th March 2012. Featured in Variety’s Top 50 of cinema festivals, the event presents Bulgaria to the world as the host one of the important film festivals in Europe and takes place annually in March. What started as a thematic music film festival, went through 15 previous editions to become the cinema event of the year, bringing the current world cinema trends to the domestic viewers in Bulgaria and the latest in Bulgarian cinema to the rest of the world. Since 1997 more than 1,600 feature films and documentaries have been screened within the festival’s framework. More than 1,000 distinguished guests have attended, including established professionals such as Wim Wenders, Volker Schlondorff, Katja Riemann and Karl Baumgartner (Germany), Alan Parker, Peter Greenaway, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Tony Palmer and David Mackenzie (United Kingdom), Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Konchalovsky, Karen Shakhnazarov and Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (Russia), Jiri Menzel, Jan Sverak, Jan Hrebejk and Petr Zelenka (Czech Republic), Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia), Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland), Otar Iosseliani (Georgia), Jean-Claude Carriere, Agnes Varda, Siegfried and Jacques Dorfmann (France), Assumpta Serna (Spain), Bent Hamer and Unni Straume (Norway), Jafar Panahi and Babak Payami (Iran), Jerry Schatzberg, Michael Wadleigh and Lech Kowalski (USA), Jos Stelling (the Netherlands), Mika Kaurismaki (Finland), Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (Iceland), Lone Scherfig (Denmark), Kornel Mundruczo (Hungary), Goran Markovic, Goran Paskaljević, Radivoje Andric, Dusan Milic, Srđan Karanović and Srđan Dragojević (Serbia) and many others.
The festival is organized by Art Fest under the auspices of the Municipality of Sofia and in partnership with the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, the National Palace of Culture, the National Film Center and the Bulgarian National Television with the support of the MEDIA programme of the European Commission, national and foreign cultural institutes and sponsors.
For its 10th anniversary as an international cinema event in the year 2010 named Year of Bulgarian Cinema, Sofia International Film Festival received as present the recognition from FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) - it was accredited as competitive festival specialized in first and second films. Since its creation the director of the festival has been Stefan Kitanov. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson: "“Long winters in Iceland predispose to creative work"The Chairman of the International Jury Fridrik Thor Fridriksson is a phenomenal storyteller – not only in his films but also in an informal chat. On the day of the first show of his film Mamma Gogo at Sofia International Film Festival, we managed to have a ‘walk and talk’ at high speed through his works, which have enriched the history of the cinema with masterpieces like Devil’s Island, Cold Fever and the well-known in Bulgaria Angels of the Universe, Niceland and Children of Nature. But our talk is not only about the cinema in Iceland, this is impossible because cinema is not an isolated art or an expressive language, but a part of Everything. – Mr Fridriksson, I propose to start our talk from the well-known but still amazing fact what a big number of artists you have per capita – bearing in mind that the population of Iceland is not very big at all… Yes, in Iceland the artists are really a big number – over 500 active writers, music is very well developed too. As if the Iceland people have the need to express themselves by the means of art: that’s why our cultural life is so active. Our music is very popular in the world – bands such as Sigur Ros, who made the music to my film Angels of Universe or Mugison – the author of the soundtrack of another one of my films Niceland (2004) – he is already world famous. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the composer I’ve worked with mostly – he was a part of the rock-scene in Iceland, we’ve known each other since the college and in 1982 we made together the film Rock in Reykjavík. He also made the music to Mamma Gogo. Yes, the creative atmosphere in Iceland is very good. I do not know the reason for that but may be the long winters predispose to isolation and creative work.
You can read the whole interview on our festival's site www.siff.bg 13 March 2011 01.06.2011 | Sofia International Film Festival's blog Cat. : Angels of the Universe Author Chairman Cinema of Iceland composer Contact Details Employment Relation Entertainment Entertainment Europe Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson Iceland Iceland MAMMA GOGO Mugison Mugison Niceland Person Career Political geography Rock in Reykjavík Sigur Rós Sigur Ros, SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Thor Thor Fridriksson Thor FridrikssonThe www.siff.bg Interviews
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