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Festivals - UK - Edinburgh showcases homegrown talent
2008-05-28 15:21:43The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is continuing its tradition of showcasing Scottish talent. This year's edition will see several works from the Screen Academy Scotland and its component institutions Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) featured at the festival. The Trailblazers Section will premiere two short films by Screen Academy Scotland students: The...
Festivals - Romania - Transilvania IFF honours Catherine Deneuve
2008-05-28 15:21:43Right after winning Cannes 2008's Special Prize, Catherine Deneuve will also be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Transilvania IFF to start on May 30. The Great Lady of the French Cinema will claim the honours during the Festival's Closing Gala on June 7. Same day, she will also attend a special screening of Eight Women. “It is a great privilege for us to have Mrs....
Festivals - Switzerland - Two Swiss features at Brooklyn Festival
2008-06-02 14:06:17The 11th Brooklyn International Film Festival - which is being held in New York from May 30-June 8 - has selected two Swiss features to screen in competition: Fulvio Bernasconi's Out of Bounds (Ventura Film) and Lukas Erni's Save Angel Hope (Vanquish Alliance Entertainment) [www.saveangelhope.com]. Out of Bounds was unveiled last summer at the Locarno Film Festival, where lead actor...
Festivals - Spain - Madrid hosts 10th German Film Festival
2008-06-03 08:18:10The 10th edition of the German Film Festival in Madrid is about to kick off at the Cine Palafox on Calle Luchana. The event will open tomorrow evening with the comedy Rabbit Without Ears, the third directorial feature by Til Schweiger, in which he plays a paparazzo sentenced to 300 hours of community service. The protagonist finds himself being ordered around by a shy teacher who was once...
Festivals - Spain - Malaga Festival director resigns
2008-06-03 08:18:10Salomón Castiel has announced that he is stepping down as director of the Malaga Spanish Film Festival after 11 years at the helm of the event, which was founded in 1998. Castiel confirmed at a press conference held with Malaga's mayor Francisco de la Torre that the reasons for his decision are “of a purely personal nature”. Castiel's resignation also extends to his role as...
Festivals - Germany - German presence a powerhouse at Shanghai
2008-06-03 14:48:12Alejandro Cardenas-Amelio's Argentinean/German co-production Berlin-Buenos Aires will screen in competition at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (June 14-22). The film stars Fabian Busch as the son of Argentinean refugees who grows up in Berlin. For the fourth consecutive year, German Films is organising a Focus Germany in the festival's official programme and bringing...
Festivals - Belgium - Belgian documentaries showcased
2008-06-03 14:48:12Since the 1930s (thanks to the Belgian Documentary School headed by Charles Kekeukeleire and Henri Storck), Belgium has had a rich documentary tradition that is constantly renewed and regularly lauded at international festivals. The 1960s film From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom by Paul Meyer (who died last September) marked an entire generation and inspired directors such as the...
Festivals - Croatia - Split Makes Splash on Mediterranean
2008-06-04 12:00:12The first Split Festival of Mediterranean Film (SFMF) ended on Saturday, May 31, with another win for Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. A special mention went to The Yellow House by Amor Hakkar (Algeria/France), while in the short film competition Juanjo Gimenez's Nitbus (Spain) took the award. The jury consisted of Nina Pece, director of the Izola Film Festival Cinema...
Festivals - Italy - Bettini steps down as president but RomeFest continues
2008-06-05 12:00:06Goffredo Bettini, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, behind the RomeFilmFest, announced yesterday that he was leaving his position to "prevent any possible controversy and political exploitation" after the election of Gianni Alemanno, the new mayor of Rome. Bettini is coordinator of the opposing Democratic Party. After a meeting between the two, Alemanno said that the...
Festivals - Italy - Taormina's 54th edition packed with titles and events
2008-06-05 12:00:06The Taormina Film Festival has announced the line-up of its 54th edition, to be held June 15-21. Two European titles are part of this year's Mediterranea Competition: Love Me No More (France) by Jean Becker and Branko Djuric's Tractor, Love and Rock ‘n' Roll (Slovenia), making their international and world premieres, respectively. The jury will be headed by Turkish-born but...
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