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The Official Section Competition at 2006 Festroia

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Saturday, June 3----FESTROIA: The Troia International Film Festival, will present nearly 180 films, representing 48 countries, with a strong predominance of European cinema, during its 22nd annual showcase. The Festival, the oldest and most prestigious in Portugal, has several competition sections in its wide-ranging program. The Official Section, in competition for the Golden Dolphin Award, is made up of 14 films, from nations that produce fewer than 30 films per year. This is a unique approa...

Silverdocs Opens With Tales of Tinseltown

Friday, June 2---SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival opens on June 13 with the world premiere of the HBO Films documentary BOFFO! TINSELTOWN'S BOMBS AND BLOCKBUSTERS, directed by Oscar-winning documentary director Bill Couturie. The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the high risk world of Hollywood filmmaking, where all bets are off as to whether even the biggest budget film will not be a major box office bomb. Featuring candid, often amusing interviews, with such Holl...

SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival to launch June 13

SILVERDOCS: AFI/DISCOVERY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL has become one of the most prestigious events in the world of non-fiction film. The 2006 Festival, a mixture of film screenings, information seminars and special events, will take place from June 13 to 18, 2006 at the AFI Silver Center in Silver Springs, Maryland (USA). Return to this dedicated website to read articles, view photos, hear audio files and view video at North America's most intriguing festival devoted to the work of documen...

Silverdocs: AFI/Discover Channel Documentary Festival: June 13-18, 2006

SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival has become one of the most prestigious events in the world of non-fiction film. The 2006 Festival, a mixture of film screenings, information seminars and special events, will take place from June 13 to 18, 2006 at the AFI Silver Center in Silver Springs, Maryland (USA). Return to this dedicated website to read articles, view photos, hear audio files and view vide

Cannes is over

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After two crazy weeks, Cannes is now over. Most people are back home. A few are still there to finish editing their stories, videos, TV shows... I left Sunday to watch the award ceremony on TV. Awards, as always, were quite surprising. The Palme d'Or (see all videos) went to Ken Loach's the Wind that Shakes the Barley, not my own favorite. Surprisingly, no prize was awarded to Marie-Antoinette from Sophia Coppola nor for the Pan's Labyrinth from Guillermo Del Toro. See you soon... ...

Cannes 2006 Grand Prix: Flanders by Bruno Dumont

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The Cannes 2006 Grand Prix goes to Flanders by Bruno DUMONT Credits: Director: Bruno DUMONT Screenplay: Bruno DUMONT Cinematography: Yves CAPE Film Editor: Guy LECORNE Sounds: Emmanuel CROSET Sounds: Philippe LECOEUR Actors: Adelaide LEROUX Samuel BOIDIN Synopsis: Today, in Flanders, the local young men leave as soldiers to fight in a distant land. The story of soldiers going to the front, their march, the comrades, the misery of war. The wait for horror - the horror itself - and what...

Cannes 2006 Best Screenplay Award, Pedro Almodovar for Volver

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The Best Screenplay Award goes to Pedro ALMODOVAR for the film Volver: Director: Pedro ALMODOVAR Screenplay: Pedro ALMODÓVAR Cinematography: José Luis ALCAINE Set Designer: Salvador PARRA Music: Alberto IGLESIAS Film Editor: José SALCEDO Sounds: Miguel REJAS Actors: Penélope CRUZ Raimunda Carmen MAURA Grand mère Irène Lola DUEÑAS Sole Blanca PORTILLO Agustina Yohana COBO Paula Chus LAMPREAVE Tante Paula Synopsis: Three generations of women survive the east wind, f...

Cannes 2006 Best Director Award: Alejandro González IÑ

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The prize goes to Alejandro González IÑ ...

Cannes 2006 Best Actor Award, Jamel DEBBOUZE, Samy NACERI, Sami BOUAJILA, Roschdy ZEM, Bernard BLANCAN

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The prize goes to all actors from Indigènes from Rachid BOUCHAREB: Jamel DEBBOUZE Samy NACÉRI Sami BOUAJILA Roschdy ZEM Bernard BLANCAN Credits for Indigènes: Director: Rachid BOUCHAREB Screenplay: Olivier LORELLE Screenplay: Rachid BOUCHAREB Cinematography: Patrick BLOSSIER Set Designer: Dominique DOURET Music: Armand AMAR Music: KHALED Film Editor: Yannick KERGOAT Sounds: Olivier / Thomas HESPEL / GAUDER Synopsis: 1943. They had not yet set foot in France, but because it's war, Saïd...

Cannes 2006 Jury Prize: Red Road by Andrea Arnold

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Credits: Andrea ARNOLD Director Andrea ARNOLD Screenplay Robbie RYAN Cinematography Helen SCOTT Set Designer Nicolas CHAUDEURGE Film Editor Actors: Kate DICKIE Tony CURRAN Martin COMPSTON Natalie PRESS Synopsis: Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now sh...

Palme d'Or Cannes 2006, Short Films, Sniffer by Bobbie Peers

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Credits: Director: Bobbie PEERS Screenplay: Bobbie PEERS Cinematography: Jakob INGIMUNDARSON Set Desig: Guri GIÆVER Set Designer Music Evan GARDNER Film Editor: Pål GENGENBACH Film Editor Sounds: Thomas Angell ENDRESEN In a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor themselves to the ground via "gravitation boots". Devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratification. One day, however, ...

Cannes Film Festival 2006 Awards

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After 12 days of a rich Festival, the award sceremony took place at 7:30 pm on Sunday 28, 2006. And the winners are: - Feature Films Palme d'Or: the Wind that Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach Grand Prix: Flanders by Bruno Dumont Best Actress Award: Penélope CRUZ, Carmen MAURA, Lola DUEÑAS, Blanca PORTILLO, Yohana COBO, Chus LAMPREAVE for Volver Best Actor Award: Jamel DEBBOUZE, Samy NACERI, Sami BOUAJILA, Roschdy ZEM, Bernard BLANCAN for Indigènes Best Director Award: Alejandro González IÃ...

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Cannes Cat Calls: Booing As A Critical Sport

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As the Cannes Film Festival moves into its final weekend, it seems that the fine art of booing is still very much “en vogue ...

Tahiti Film Festival for Romantic Movies

The first Tahiti Film Festival is launched by our friend Pascale above. It will be held this October 21-29 in... Tahiti off course. In Cannes, the Tahiti beach already gives us a first idea of the coming event and ambiance. Enjoy the music and dance with this video. Who would not want to come to such paradise... ...

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The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Extract

An action packed scene where the tension has finally released but in a tragic scene. Not a clip for kids, this shows the consequences of social tensions. Directed by Ken Loach Writing credits Paul Laverty Synopsis: A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland. Credited cast: Cillian Murphy .... Damien Padraic Delaney .... Teddy Liam Cunningham .... Dan Gerard Kearney .... Dunica William Ruane .... Gogan Country: France / Ireland / UK Language: English

The Different Carpets at the Cannes Film Festival

Everyone knows about the fa,ous Red Carpet of the Fil, Festival. What a lot of people don' know is that not only is there a red carpet, but also a blue carpet, for films still entered into the festival but just in a smaller theater, as well as the theater for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Lets take a look at what all of these carpets are about...

Video Entrance to the Palais and the Cannes Market

Red carpet, stars, croisette, cocktail dress, limo... this is Cannes. The magic of the festival. But only the magic of it. Most of the professional here are part of the market. Buy and sell, looking at the next success, this is the fist of the International Festival of Cannes. There are not only movies. You can find everything about cinema. Some people sell chairs for theaters, video cameras, posters, everything can be found around here. This unknown part of Cannes looks more like a village market on a Sunday morning than like the perfect shiny dream we see on TV. Of course, all you thought about Cannes is real too but it's not the main part of it. The inflow of money is amazing and conduces to two opposite milieu. You can meet the first one during the night. Those crazy night birds spend millions euros in champagne, cars, suites, fake breast, drugs and so on. This is the shiny part. From the middle of the afternoon till the sunrise, in this happy-go-lucky wave of parties, rich people come to can to give a chance to the proletarian to have fun with them for the luckiest, or just to look at them for real for once for the most of us. The second milieu is everywhere; it's even part of the previous one. This is the hard-working milieu. 24/7 they meet as many people as they can, spread professional cards all around Cannes, go to the parties, conferences, theaters, everywhere there is someone with something to sell or to buy. Those people who literally make the festival own there headquarter. It's not hiding anywhere; this is here, right in the Palais des Festival. Its location is pretty relevant. Level -1. The only one underground, the one you're not supposed to see but as close to the main entrance as theaters and medias.

Code Of Confusion: The Critics Versus The Public

Well, if one needed further proof of how far apart most film critics are from the cinematic tastes of the general public, you need look no further than THE DA VINCI CODE. The film, which famously opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was practically laughed at by assembled critics on the Croisette, who had come to bury the film, not praise it. When the film opened internationally this past weekend, more film critics joined the chorus of nay-sayers, calling the film everything from “borin...

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