Browsing: Feature Story

Veteran French docmaker Nicolas Philibert was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking the prize for his film “On the Adamant,” a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility. https://youtu.be/b43bHQb0UFE He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and…

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For our first edition of the I, Immigrant International Online Film Festival, organized by Cinema Without Borders Foundation,” we received 449 submissions. The CWBF Selection Committee chose 33 films and from those films, two programmers, assigned by CWBF, nominated 17 films to receive the “I, Immigrant’s Best Film Awards.” The jury awards of $1,000, $600, and $400 will be given to the top three I, Immigrant International Online Film Festival, respectively. The I, Immigrant International Film Festival  is a competition film series launched by the Cinema Without Borders Foundation, dedicated to social justice cinema. Beginning with Season One: I, Immigrant…

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Burbank, CA – January 16th 2023. Today Palm Springs International Film Festival announced its 2023 winners and Dirty Difficult Dangerous (France, Italy, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) directed by Wissam Charaf won MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award. The Honorary Mentions went to The Happiest Man in the World (Macedonia Belgium Slovenia Denmark Croatia and Bosnia) directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska The Borders Award  is presented by Cinema Without Borders and award sponsored and prize provided by MOZAIK  The winner of Bridging the Borders Award will receive a cash prize of $2500. In the following video message, Keely Badger the Executive…

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In World War III, Iran’s Oscar entry directed by Houman Seyedi,  Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes…

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In Look at me, a short film directed by Sally Potter,  a fundraising gala becomes the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director (Chris Rock) and the other, a failing rock drummer (Javier Bardem). As their battle for expression and control escalates, against a relentless rhythmic backdrop (featuring tap dancer Savion Glover) their public and private selves explosively collide. The following is our interview with Sally Potter about making of Look at Me: https://vimeo.com/771842658 Sally Potter made her first 8mm film aged fourteen. She has since written and directed nine feature films, as well as many…

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In Clarissa’s Battle, Social Justice Warrior Clarissa Doutherd leads a tenacious battle to build a coalition fighting for desperately needed child care and early education funding. Clarissa’s Battle will be screened in person at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York on Saturday, May 21, 8:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center and on Sunday, May 22, 5:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Digital screening is available any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival’s digital streaming platform. The following is our interview with Tamara Perkins, Director and Sara Maamouri, Producer…

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In November 2014, I was lucky to meet the great Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the Cinema Paradiso and a supporter of Cinema Without Borders Foundation mission, for the second time in Los Angeles and interview him. The occasion was celebration of the 25th anniversary of Cinema Paradiso release at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Mr. Tornatore was a kind and humble man, answering all the questions even he seemed to be very tired from his long travel from Italy to Los Angeles. He knew our International Editor, James Ulmer, himself a public figure, and he was aware of…

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As far as I Can Walk, from Serbia, Luxembourg, directed by Stefan Arsenijević, won MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award at the award ceremony of 17th Edition of the SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA  Also SUGHRA’S SONS from Azerbaijan and France, directed by Ilgar Najaf received CWB’s jury Honorary Mention MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award is offered by Cinema Without Borders Foundation and sponsored by MOZAIK Philanthropy.  The award ceremony was held in LA’s Fine Arts Theater and Bijan Tehrani, Vladek Juszkiewicz and Susan Morgan Cooper, MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award jury members announced the winning film: “We had…

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Cinema Without Borders is proud to present MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award for the 14  year at the prestigious SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA. MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award offered by Cinema Without Borders and sponsored by MOZAIK Philanthropy goes to a feature film that helps bringing people of our world closer together. Winner will be announced on May 4th during the closing ceremony of the 17th Edition of the festival at the Fine Arts theater. SEEfest will run from April 27th to may 4th. Jury members for MOZAIK Bridging the Borders Award are: Susan Morgan Cooper Susan Morgan Cooper…

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The Seventh Edition of ELAC International Animation Day was held on March 26th by focusing on Iranian Animation. Organizers of the event were East Los Angeles College, Cinema and Without Borders Foundation, and  Aduren Studio . In the first part of the program, nine short animated films were screened: Hajar’S Wedding by Mahin Javaherian 8 Min 2008 The Tree by Sare Shafipour 5 Min 2014 When I was a Child by Maryam Kashkoolinia 8 Min 2014 The Switchman by Mehdi Khoramian 10 Min 2016 The Fox by: Sadegh Javadi 10 Min 2017 Am I a Wolf? by Amir Houshang Moein 8…

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