The 25th International Short Film Festival’s best-of-shorts party closed with the awards ceremony on sunday night in Metropolis cinema. A total prize money of 30.000 Euros was distributed, and more than 14.000 guests and visitors enjoyed the films in cinemas across Hamburg and the festival club nights.International CompetitionJury: Asitha Ameresekere, Chris Bohn, Jing Haase, Urszula Skassa, Pim ZwierHamburg Short Film Award (Jury Award of the International Competition, 3000 Euros):Letünt Világ (Lost World)Gyula Nemes, Hungary 2008, 20:05 min, documentaryFrançois Ode Award (Special price of the Jury, 1500 Euros):Farseh Chob (The Wooden Carpet)Abdolrahman Mirani, Iran 2008, 19:15 min, documentaryInternational Competition Audience Award…
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Aspen Film announced today that film festival professional Michael DeVous Jr. has been named Communications Manager. Mr. DeVous will be responsible for Aspen Film’s external communications, including proactively managing Aspen Film’s brand and all marketing and public relations initiatives. “We have a diverse slate of festivals and film series throughout the year, along with the desire to deepen our reach and scope in the Roaring Fork Valley. We are pleased to welcome a seasoned professional who intimately understands the unique challenges of marketing and publicizing a non-profit film arts organization. Michael’s expertise and enthusiasm for film are key qualities that…
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival will once again present award-winning films from the top world festivals in its Horizons, Another View, and Open Eyes sections. Horizons is one of viewers’ favorite festival sections, and, given this year’s programming choices, it will probably remain so. As an example, the Karlovy Vary IFF has succeeded in obtaining virtually all the winning films from February’s Berlinale. “We have the movies from the Berlinale mainly thanks to our foresight in requesting them during the festival, in some cases without knowing whether or not they would win,” explains Karlovy Vary IFF artistic director Eva Zaoralová.…
Film Movement, the North American film distribution company announced today their acquisition of , Danish and Dutch co-production from Director Hans-Christian Schmid. This powerfully emotional political thriller explores issues of memory and healing, and is filmed primarily in English with select portions in German, Bosnian and Serbian. The film will open in theaters in the late fall of 2009 and be available nation-wide via Cable Video on Demand. Synopsis of STORM: Hannah Maynard (Kerry Fox), prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused…
The Palme d’Or was awarded to Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon. Michael Haneke accepted the distinction from the hands of Isabelle Huppert with these words: “Thank you very much. Sometimes my wife asks me a very feminine question: that is, am I happy. Well, let me say that at this moment in time, I am very happy. Much thanks also to Thierry Frémaux for including me in this prestigious competition; to my producers, for letting me do what I wanted; to the funding sources which financed the film, and to the children, who were an enormous gift to me.…
Cinema Without Borders BLOGS – Hollie Miller – Following up to the latest post highlighting the plight of young Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, now homeless after his shanty town was demolished by Indian officials, his 9 year old co-star Rubina Ali, who played the young Latika is in the same situation.This time , it has been reported the government demolition team used force to remove residents of the slum village. Rubina’s father Rafiq Qureshi was allegedly beaten with bamboo sticks and needed hospital treatment. This situation is a rough injustice for any human being, and yet these children quite cruelly got…
Burbank, California, May 24th 2009 – Cinema Without Borders announced that Hollie Miller, a CWB film critic, will be running Cinema Without Borders’ BLOGS as CWB BLOGS Editor.“We had been lucky to have such a great writer as our Blogs Editor. Hollie Miller’s BLOGS has interesting and challenging subjects and she has a very good understanding about what film related Blogs should be. Hollie’s love for international cinema and BLOGS medium makes her a unique blog editor” Says Bijan Tehrani, Editor In Chief of Cinema Without Borders.Hollie Miller is a copywriter by trade, graduating in 2006 with an Honors BA…
The Competition feature Map of the Sounds of Tokyo by Spanish director Isabel Coixet tells a story of love and vengeance in the Japanese megacity. Coixet recalls the genesis of her film: “Films, like tunes or poems, spring from strange encounters, from odd associations that can be completely incongruent but full of magic. In the case of Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, I “saw” the story (I don’t want to sound like some kind of visionary, but this is how I felt it happen) at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. I suppose the smells of fresh tuna, seaweed and…
Palestinain director Elia Suleiman, presenting his feature The Time That Remains in Competition, gave a press conference about the film today. Selected excerpts.Elia Suleiman on the meaning of the title:”The Time That Remains is linked to the narrative of the film, it’s linked to the narrative of the global situation that we live in. It is linked to the very personal story that the film tells. The subtitle of the film [Arab-Israelis] is a political term that describes the Palestinians who remained on their own land, who were considered as absentees while they lived on their own land after 1948.…
Screening in Un Certain Regard Wind Journeys is the second feature-length film by Ciro Guerra. Born in Rio de Oro in 1981, he studied cinematography at the National University of Colombia. At the age of 20, after having directed multi-award-winning shorts, he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature, The Wandering Shadows, acclaimed at festivals all over the world. “This is the story of a journey,” Guerra begins. “A journey towards the beginning, towards the spirit. Towards our soul. For centuries, we’ve asked ourselves: What keeps up apart? Now it is time to ask what brings us together.”Ignacio Carrillo travelled…