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The International Festival of Movies of Sax (FICS) closes its VII edition with a successful public outdoor airing in the House (Casa) Alberto Sols (CEAHM). The journalist Ramón Bernabeu as showman enlivened the gala with black humor with the spectacular movies Jazz de Cine concert Sound Live Music accompanied by a film carried out by Sofía Herrero. Besides the awards ceremony of the festival and the projection of the winning short films, there was a presentation of Alberto Sols, ciencia y vida of Paco Amat that yields homage to the illustrious scientific natural one of Sax, Premio Príncipe of Asturias. The closure…

Sridevi’s big screen comeback English Vinglish will make its world premiere at the 37th Toronto international film festival along with Mira Nair’s Reluctant Fundamentalist and Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children. Directed by debutante Gauri Shinde, the film marks Sridevi’s return to the screen after fifteen-year. It is a funny and touching story about an Indian woman who struggles to learn the English to help provide for her family. Produced by R Balki and also starring French actor Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain and Priya Anand, the film releases on September 21. TIIF will have some 10 films from Mumbai as part of its ‘City-to-City’ program.…

Award winning writer/director Anne Émond exposes the dark side of modern life by pulling it inside out. Nuit #1 is essentially a dialogue of what in normal everyday life goes unspoken—a dialogue of subliminal fantasies, thoughts, urges, insults, confessions, harsh criticisms and observations, the stuff most of us don’t admit to ourselves or even have awareness of. It begins with a 12 minute sex scene. Clara (Catherine de Léan) and Nikolaï (Dimitri Storoge) arrive at Nikolaï’s “crappy little apartment,” sweaty and over-stimulated from the rave where they just met. They go at each other with all the animality and clumsiness…

Indonesia is a paradise of possibilities when it comes to filmmaking. Boasting rich cultural traditions, centuries of fascinating history and a dynamic political landscape, the country seems an ideal environment for spawning world-class films.With local wonder “The Raid: Redemption” on its way to racking up more than $4 million at the North American market, one can only wonder what took Indonesia so long to reach a commercial international breakthrough on this scale.Indonesian and international filmmakers attempted to answer this question and others in a recent workshop in Jakarta, titled “Bringing Indonesian Films to the International Market.” The event was a…

IBNLive – Mumbai: Whenever Bollywood stars indulge in philanthropy, they raise doubts of a personal motive. But actor-producer Ajay Devgn is emphatic that his short film on the burning issue of female foeticide has no commercial purpose. Ajay has teamed with his actress wife Kajol for the social message-based short, which is yet to be titled. “The film on female feoticide is not for commercial purposes. It is to create awareness. I think it’s our responsibility to do something that will create awareness about the issue of girl child and female feoticide,” Ajay told IANS in an interview. “I will do whatever I…

The Iranian star Leila Hatami won the Best Actress Award for her role in “The Last Step” at the closing ceremony of the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czech Republic on Saturday. She received the award for her portrayal of a beautiful and gifted Iranian film star named Leila in “The Last Step”, which has been directed by her husband Ali Mosaffa. The movie focuses on Leila’s recently deceased husband who becomes the somewhat unreliable narrator of a playful and delicately ironic story about a complicated but loving marital relationship. The film also won the festival’s Award of…

An Iranian short is slated to compete for the Grand Prix award of the 10th Tabor Film Festival which will be held in four Croatian cities. Kazem Mollaei’s Delete will be screened in the International Competition section of the festival due to be held from July 8 to 10. Delete is the story of a boy who experiences ‘Delet-ing’ his own life. Hieronim Neumann, Irena Krcelic and Robert-Jan Lacombe will judge the participating productions in the International Competition section of the event. Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the international short film festival will screen short films, animations, documentaries, experimental films and…

Tudor Giurgiu, the director of the Romanian short film “Superman, Spiderman or Batman,” received the best short movie award at the KALIBER35 Munich International Short Film Festival which took place between June 21-27. The prize consists of Kodak film reels for the director’s next project and Xpert-Design software. The competition included 35 films from 25 countries between June 21 and 27. Films were divided into five sections, inspired by flavors. This Romanian movie was in the ‘Sweet’ category. “Superman, Spiderman or Batman” is the story of a five-year old boy named Aron who, together with his father, hopes to save his…

The San Diego International Children’s Film Festival returns for its 9th season with the promise of over 100 short films (from 20 different countries) for the entire family. Programs combine animated, live-action, and documentary shorts and are arranged for different age groups from toddlers through teens. The selections, curated by Dan Bennett, festival founder and film critic for the North County Times, display inventive filmmaking and animation techniques. Many filmmakers will be in attendance to talk about their work and answer questions. The festival will take place July 15-22 at Comic-Con International and the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. Admission…

Edinburgh International Film Festival organizers said Thursday the Scottish shindig has secured the services of artistic director Chris Fujiwara for a further three years.Fujiwara’s first year in the hot seat at the festival just came to a close with the 2012 event posting 40,000 admissions over the event’s 12 days. Securing Fujiwara’s skills for a further three years after his debut efforts is a fillip for the Scottish event which found itself in turmoil two years ago amid management changes, key personnel departures and a decision to axe its competition sections. One of the first moves Fujiwara made when he took the…