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The MIAAC Indian Film Festival, sponsored by the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council, wrapped up five days of premiere screenings, special events, chic parties and industry networking events with a gala awards ceremony on Sunday night, November 15th at the Walter Reade Theatre at New York's Lincoln Center. The ceremony included the US premiere of Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s ANTAHEEN. Stars Rahul Bose and Kalyan Roy attended the premiere along with actors and filmmakers including Sh...
Producer Nial Fulton & Director Michael James Rowland
THE LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE WINS AT THE 2009 INSIDE FILM AWARDS
The 2009 Inside Film Awards - Awards Room
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 18: Michael James Rowland, Nial Fulton and Corrie Soeterboek
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Until December 31, 2009 we have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 10. This is the second year we request PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED. Access to the registration online clicking here.
DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will have four competitive sections:
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION
All films previously unreleased in Spain featuring an original or innovative perspective in terms of either form or content will be admitted for competition. This section has two categories: Fu...
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Charting the documentaries that will eventually will be tapped for Oscar gold is a sport popular in the world of non-fiction filmmakers and their devoted public. With documentaries showing considerable clout at the box office and responsible for adding to the public discourse about global warming, globalization and other 21st century vices, the announcements last week of nominees from the International Documentary Association holds special interest. Winners will be feted on December 4t...
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10th Student and Short Films Festival Sleepwalkes took place between 12.-15. November in 2009 in Von Krahl Theatre and Kinomaja. https://webmail.zone.ee/zjs/fckeditor/editor/dialog/www.poff.ee/sleepwalkers
10th Sleepwalkers is over. Main awards are from Kodak, Digital Film Finland and Finnlab. Best Estonian short film will receive a prize from Overall AS.
Jury awards for international student film competition programme:
Grand Prix - For best student film regard...
In a joint effort to high-light and promote new up-and coming acting talent from Sweden the Stockholm International Film Festival and L'Oréal Paris have initiated the L'Oréal Paris Rising Star Award. Actor Anastasios Soulis is the 2009 recipient.
The selection jury, consisting of representatives from Teaterförbundet, (Swedish Union for Theatre, Artists and Media) the Swedish Film Institute and the organization for Swedish Film- & TV-producers together with Swedish actors Marie Rich...
'LOURDES' WINS THE GOLD GIRALDILLO FOR BEST FILM
The jury emphasized the sensation of uncertainty given by Jessica Hausner's film and its ability to capture the audience's attention
The film 'Lourdes', by the Austrian director Jessica Hausner, has won the Gold Giraldillo for Best Film at the Seville Festival. The film tells the story of a young girl who, after spending almost all her life in a wheelchair, decides to travel to the French shrine with a group of pilgrims. Her sudden...
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La Guerra de Dios by Rafael Gil
Spain
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Sierra maldita by Antonio del Amo
Spain
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Giorni d'amore by Giuseppe de Santis
Italy
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Il ferroviere by Pietro Germi
Italy
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Oh! Sabella (La nonna Sabella) by Dino Risi
Italy
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Le coeur au poing by Charles Binamé
France
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The Nun's Story by Fred Zinnemann
United States
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Romeo, Juliet a Tma by Jiri Weiss
Czechoslovakia
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One-Eyed Jacks by Marlon Brando
United States
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2009 Precious
2008 Slumdog Millionaire
2007 Eastern Promises
2006 Bella
2005 Tsotsi
2004 Hotel Rwanda
2003 Zatôichi
2002 Whale Rider
2001 Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
2000 Wo hu cang long
1999 American Beauty
1998 La vita è bella
1997 The Hanging Garden
1996 Shine
1995 Antonia
1994 Priest
1993 The Snapper
1992 Strictly Ballroom
1991 The Fisher King
1990 Cyrano de Bergerac
1989 Roger & Me
1988 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
1987 The Pr...
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Union Pacific by Cecil B. DeMille
United States
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Torment (Hets) by Alf Sjöberg
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The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder
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The Red Meadows (De røde enge) by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Denmark
Brief Encounter by David Lean
United Kingdom
Portrait of Maria (MarÃa Candelaria (Xochimilco) by Emilio Fernández
Mexico
Neecha Nagar (नीचा नगर) by Chetan Anand
India
The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy p...
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One Summer of Happiness (Hon dansade en sommar) by Arne Mattsson
Sweden
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The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) by Henri-Georges Clouzot
France/Italy
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Hobson's Choice by David Lean
United Kingdom
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The Rats (Die Ratten) by Robert Siodmak
Federal Republic of Germany
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Invitation to the Dance by Gene Kelly
United States
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12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
United States
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Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) by Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
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Postman by He Jianjun
China
Fuyu no kappa by Kazama Shiori
Japan
Thalassa, Thalassa, Ruckkehr Zum Mmer by Bogdan Dumitrescu
Germany/Romania
1996
Sons by Zhang Yuan
China
Like Grains of Sand by Hasiguchi Ryosuke
Japan
Small Faces by Gillies MacKinnon
United Kingdom
1997
Last Holiday by Amir Karakulov
Kazakhstan
The Day a Pig Fell into the Well by Hung Sang-soo
South Korea
Robinson in Space by Patrick Keiller
United Kingdom
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Buttoners by Petr ...
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   * Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blood Simple
   * Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Seventeen
   * Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Almost You
   * Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Killing Floor
   * Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Stranger Than Paradise
   * Special Jury Prize: Documentary - America and Lewis Hine
   * Special Jury Prize: Documentary - In Heaven There Is No Beer?
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Award-winners at 19th FilmFestival Cottbus
ORDINARY PEOPLE | OBICNI LJUDI from Serbia is the winner of 19th FilmFestival Cottbus: The International Jury awards director Vladimir Perisic as well as the producers Anthony Doncque and Milena Poylo with the LUBINA - the Main Prize for Best Film. The award is endowed with 18.000 Euro, donated by Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten (GWFF). ORDINARY PEOPLE is about a special operations unit in an unnamed war-zone, who ...
Six young actors and actresses from six countries in Middle and Eastern Europe have been nominated at FilmFestival Cottbus for their outstanding performance: Anna Karczmarczek in GALERIANKI | MALL GIRLS plays Alicja, a teenager torn between monetary and love affairs. Russian actress Elena Liadova in BUBEN BARABAN shines as young bibliothekcary who witnesses the love affair and constant book thefts of her older collegue. Kati Farkas maneuvers between different relationships in the Hungarian dra...
 AFI AWARD FOR BEST TELEFEATURE, MINI SERIES OR SHORT RUN SERIES
* 3 Acts of Murder. Sue Taylor. ABC1
* False Witness. Greg Haddrick, Peter Andrikidis. UKTV
* The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce. Nial Fulton. ABC1
* Saved. Michael McMahon, Tony Ayres. SBS
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ENTRE NOS, a hard-hitting drama of an illegal immigrant and her childrens' struggle for humanity on the mean streets of New York City, swept the top awards at the Fort Lauderdale International (FLIFF) , which ends its three-week run today with a marathon screening of award winners. Awards were announced on Sunday at the Festival's Closing Gala at its home base o the Cinema Paradiso. FLIFF President Gregory von Hausch hosted the presentation, honoring both American and international...
Scandar Copti, Amanda Palmer and Robert De Niro on DTFF's wonderful Closing Night
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At the Closing Ceremony of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival on November 1, DTFF Executive Director Amanda Palmer and Robert De Niro handed out two Audience Awards, worth $50,000 each, aimed at helping filmmakers and filmmaking in Qatar and the region. And the winners are...
Liz Mermin's documentary Team Qatar, following the creation of the country's first debate team, was awarded Best Festival Film.
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V - Animation International Festival ran from 2 - 7 November in Cordoba | Spain
Animacor'09 jury was composed by Juan Padrón, Arthur Qwak, Ricardo Ramón González y Jez Hall gave the following prizes
Best feature film to Immigrants-L.A. Dolce Vita, from Gà bor Csupo;
First short film award to Mei Ling, from Sthéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy;
Second short film award to Madagascar, carnet de voyage, from Bastien Dubois
Third short film award to Ex - E.T, from BenoÃ...
On Sunday 8 November the 25th International Short Film Festival Berlin came to a celebratory end after a successful week. More than 500 films from 49 countries were shown in 16 competition programmes and 22 special programmes. In the competition programmes prizes were awarded with a total value of 31500 €. All winners were announced on Sunday 8 November.
13,000 visitors came to the festival this year, of which 2,200 attended the 2nd International Short Film Festival for Children and Y...
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 22nd European Film Awards. At the same time, the new EFA-website with lots of information about the Awards went online at http://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/
The more than 2,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners which will be presented during the Awards Ceremony on 12 December in Bochum. Nominated are:
EUROPEAN FILM 2009
Fish Tank, UK
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Best Feature film: A boyfriend for Yasmina
Best Documentary: ex-aequo The one man's village and Checkpoint Rock. Songs from Palestine.
Best Fiction Short Film: The north route
Best Documentary Short Film: Stranger in my home
Best Director: Rashid Masharawi for Laila´s birthday
Best Actress Award: Suheir Hammad for Salt of this sea
Best Actor Award: José Luis GarcÃa Pérez for A boyfriend for Yasmina
Television de Galicia Prize: Pommegranates and myrrh
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UK film WHITE LIGHTNIN' wins the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for the First Feature Films of Directors with a cash prize of Rs. 50 Lakh ~
LA PIVELLINA (THE LITTLE ONE) wins the Jury Grand Prize along with cash prize Rs. 25 Lakh ~
An incredible end to an exceptional start! The curtain closed on the 11th edition of Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) at Mumbai amidst the who's who of the of Indian and World cinema gracing the closure of the event ...
MEN ON THE BRIDGE
The London Turkish Film Festival (LTFF) is delighted to announce that the Festival Jury has awarded Asli Özge's MEN ON THE BRIDGE the inaugural Golden Wings Award. The prize, awarded at the Opening Gala on the evening of the 5th November, is a Digital Distribution Contract worth £15,000 and will support the film's release in the UK and Ireland.
MEN ON THE BRIDGE was chosen by the LTFF Jury ahead of other nominees Reha Erdem's MY ONLY SUNSHINE, Mahmut Fazul ...
