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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. Rousy Chanev: Kamen Kalev is a very open person and therefore all the actors invaded with their ideasThe Island will be screened today at Theatre Croisette in Hotel Marriot at 14 and 22h as part of the "Directors Fortnight" programme. Rousy Chanev, one of the film's Bulgarian main actors, gave an online interview for the Sofia International Film Festival website.
- What is your role in The Island and what attracted you to the project in the first place? It was the summer of 2005, Kamen Kalev wanted to shoot his first film, he had a final script – a fantasy which explored themes of ‘past traumas and fear of the future’, it had a strong scent of sea and cinema and it offered me a lead role in two different time dimensions. It turned out that he wanted to shoot on the island and although I was born in Burgas, I had only seen it in Rangel’s film. Therefore I told myself: next summer I’m going to be visiting my brother and I could stay a bit longer, so why not. However, a couple of summers went by and things just weren't working out for my friend in regard to various commissions and this made me angry and fueled my obsession for the project even more. - In Advantage, Measure According to Measure and the television version of 'Hushove', you took part as co-writer as well as an actor. Did you also contribute to the script of The Island and how did you develop your role? Kamen Kalev is a very open person and therefore all the actors invaded with their ideas all those spaces which are usually closed off by other directors. This kind of relationship truly works for me. As I said, my role was a leading one, but we did all we could to turn it into a an episodic one, almost unnoticeable - this was a long process which took months, but now we know everything about this atom. You can read the whole interview on our festival's site www.siff.bg
16 May 2011 01.06.2011 | Sofia International Film Festival's blog Cat. : Advantage Burgas Burgas CDATA Cinema of Bulgaria co-writer as well as an actor Contact Details Entertainment Entertainment Films Hotel Marriot Kamen Kalev Kamen Kalev Rousy Chanev Rousy Chanev Technology Technology The Island The Island the Sofia International Film Festival www.siff.bg Interviews
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