• Reviews

    Blind Loves (Slepe Lasky)

    2008-05-18T15:54:00Z

    Dir: Juraj Lehotsky.Slovakia. 2008. 76mins.A film its actors will never see, Blind Loves traces four blind people in theSlovakRepublicand investigates, in a seamless meld of documentary and fiction, how they experience love. Touching and original, this first full-length outing from documentary and music-video director Juraj Lehotsky ...

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    67 countries submit titles for foreign language film Oscar

    2008-10-18T11:50:00Z

    A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards.Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.Click ...

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    Autlook takes world on Panorama doc War + Love

    2009-02-06T06:36:18Z

    Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook has swooped to take world rights on Berlinale Panorama entry War + Love in Kabul directed by Helga Reidemeister. 'This is an incredible Romeo and Juliet drama that feels like fiction, a very intimate love story in a country that only knows war...' Autlook's managing-director Peter ...

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    Dvortsevoy's Tulpan takes Discovery of the Year award at Reykjavik

    2008-10-06T17:32:00Z

    Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan has picked up the Golden Puffin award for Discovery of the Year at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (Sept 25-Oct 5).The film, which took the top prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes earlier this year, tells the story of a man trying to build a new ...

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    Peter Fonda to serve as jury president in Zurich

    2008-09-11T14:43:00Z

    Veteran actor-director Peter Fonda will serve as the president of the feature film jury at this year's Zurich Film Festival which will open on September 25 with the Swiss premiere of Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex in the presence of the director Edel, producer Bernd Eichinger, author Stefan Aust ...

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    Motovun festival focuses on Russia

    2008-07-07T06:25:00Z

    The 10th Motovun Film Festival (Jul 28-Aug 1) has announced competition programme, juries and this year's partner country- Russia, honouring 100 years of Russian film.The anniversary will be include a week of Russian Film in the Croation capital Zagreb, from Jul 5-11, presenting 10contemporary works, including films fromAlexei Balabanov, Sergei ...

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    Awards countdown foreign-language films - Strong language

    2008-11-27T18:55:00Z

    In June this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) announced it would be making yet another tweak to its foreign-language film category.In 2007 the process underwent a major revamp, seeing a shortlist of nine films drawn up by the foreign-language committee at large and then the ...

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    Cannes Buzz: Directors' Fortnight

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Each year, when the lights go down after every film at the Noga Hilton (now known as the Palais Stephanie), a history of Directors' Fortnight unfolds before your eyes.An inspirational montage of still photos and brief scenes skim through 40 years of talent discovery and championing of world-class film-makers.Key images ...

  • Karlovy Vary reveals Competition line-up
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    Karlovy Vary reveals Competition line-up

    2013-06-04T11:44:00Z

    Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England is to receive its first screening at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as one of the 14 titles in Competition.