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On May 17th a new exhibition opens at Tara Gallery, to learn more about this event we talked to Homa Taraji, Director of Tara Gallery. Cinema Without Borders:  Please tell us about Tara Gallery, its background and your involvement with it. Homa Taraji: Tara gallery came to being 7 months ago under the sponsorship of the American foundation for contemporary Iranian art (AFCIA) which is a nonprofit, 501 c(3) organization for promotion of Iranian art. I am the cofounder and president of AFCIA and owner and director of Tara gallery. Most of the work presented in Tara gallery is by…

NEW YORK – Building on 35 years at the Museum of Modern Art, KINO! reboots at new locations –bringing the latest of German cinema to New York audiences. Programmed by an independent jury, KINO! presents ten films, four of which are North American premieres. Selected by New York industry professionals Denise Kassell, Ian Stimler and Karl Rozemeyer and organized by Munich-based German Films, KINO! kicks off with the June 12 opening night gala screening of WEST by the critically acclaimed director Christian Schwochow at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens. Having won the FIPRESCI award and the Best Actress…

Chytilova stood at the birth of the new wave of Czechoslovak film in the 1960s. She amply used satirical hyperbole in her films that took no pity on the state of society and interpersonal relations.Chytilova became famous for her films Daisies, The Apple Game, The Very Late Afternoon of the Faun, The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodbye or Panelstory.Some of her films were awarded at international festivals. These include “Something Different” that won the 1963 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival Grand Prize and “Daisies” that aawon the Bergamo Film Festival Grand Prix in 1966. Though her post-communist productions were not praised as much…

12 Years a Slave, the Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards, is a 2013 British-American historical epic drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup’s memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate.This is the third feature film…

Tonight, The Great Beauty, the Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, received the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Other nominees for the Best Foreign language Film Award were The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium), The Hunt (Denmark), The Missing Picture (Combodia) and Omar (Palestine) The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia ForteJournalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and social circles, but when…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kamran Shirdel’s films have been censored, banned and celebrated for documenting hidden parts of Iranian society — the plight of Tehran’s prostitutes, the desperation of female prisoners, and the reality behind false heroes.Now he’s visiting the U.S. for the first time, speaking about his art and what it took to make it as a socio-political documentary filmmaker, first under the Shah then under Islamic rule.Shirdel, 75, began filming poor and working-class Iranians in the 1960s. Early documentaries such as “Women’s Quarter” established Shirdel as an uncompromising artist — and got him fired from a job in the…

Berlinale 2014: Crystal Bears and the Awards by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) in Generation 14plusThe members of the Youth Jury in Generation 14plusSimon KalmbachLuca KokolKarla LaitkoLeonie Mo MunderPaula NoackNicola ScholzFlorian StündelAwards:Crystal Bear for the Best Film: 52 Tuesdaysby Sophie Hyde, Australia 2013The situation is exceptional but familiar. This year’s winning movie is both suprising and touching. It is a movie about family and the quest for identity, and despite all the conflicts, the protagonists stay connected through their love to each other. The moving story is presented in a fascinating structure and convinces with…

ShortsHD™, the world’s only Short Movie Channel in high definition (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will open “The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2014” in over 250 theaters across the United States, Canada and Europe on Friday January 31, 2014, with more than 400 theatres slated to screen the films during its theatrical release. In its 9th year, “The Oscar® Nominated Short Films” showcase the Live Action, Animation and Documentary nominees as three separate theatrical events. This will be the only opportunity for audiences to watch the nominated shorts prior to the 86th Academy Awards® ceremony on Sunday, March 2, 2014.…

The Fifteenth Anniversary Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. continues at the Writers Guild Theater, Beverly Hills over thia weekends: January 25-26, 2014. The yearly showcase of Nordic films and filmmakers, launched in 2000, screens the year’s Scandinavian films submitted to the Academy as nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film as well as other current feature, documentary, and short films.In 2014 the new BALTIC FILM EXPO @SFFLA brings cinematic offerings from the three Baltic nations – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.Festival Program for the first weekend (January 25-26) Saturday January 25 10:30 THE HOUR OF THE LYNXI Lossens Time, Denmark, 2013, 92 min., Søren…

The Fifteenth Anniversary Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. comes to the Writers Guild Theater, Beverly Hills over two weekends: January 18-19, 25-26, 2014. The yearly showcase of Nordic films and filmmakers, launched in 2000, screens the year’s Scandinavian films submitted to the Academy as nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film as well as other current feature, documentary, and short films.In 2014 the new BALTIC FILM EXPO @SFFLA brings cinematic offerings from the three Baltic nations – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.Festival Program for the first weekend (January 18-19) Saturday January 18XL10:30 amEx-family man, avid womanizer, heavy-drinking, parliamentarian, Leifur, is forced to go into…