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Festival Scope, the online platform providing professionals with online screenings of recent festival films, opens a FIPRESCI Label. A selection of films will be included which had won the FIPRESCI Prize. More arrow.

The "International Critics' Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (2011)" will be presented to one of the films submitted to the Foreign Language Academy Awards and shown at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, January 5-16, 2012).

 

 

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Eighty Letters.
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Thessalonikii: "Eighty Letters"
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El gusto.
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Abu Dhabi: "El gusto"

Stockholm. FIPRESCI Prize, Open Zone section: Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy by Tomas Alfredson (France-UK-Germany). More arrow.
Mar del Plata. Mexican documentary The Tiniest Place by Tatiana Huezo Sánchez won the Critics' Prize.
Thessaloniki. FIPRESCI Prize, International competition: Eighty Letters by Vaclav Kadrnka (Czech Republic). Prize, Greek Panorama: City of Children by Yorgos Gikapeppas (Greece). More arrow.
Geneva. Blowfish by Chi Yuarn-Lee (Taiwan) won the critics' appreciation.
Bratislava. FIPRESCI Prize: Las Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina, Spain).
Cottbus. The Critics' Prize went to Polish film My Name is Ki by Leszek Dawid.
Vienna. At Viennale the FIPRESCI Prize went to the Argentinean documentary Yatasto by Hermes Paralluelo.
Rio de Janeiro. At this family feast of Brazilian cinema, Southwest won the Critics' Prize, the debut of Brazilian Eduardo Nunes. More arrow.
Kiev: Breathing by Karl Markovics (Austria).
Valladolid: Monsieur Lazhar by Philippe Falardeau (Canada).
Leipzig, Documentary and Animation Film Festival: Work Hard — Play Hard by Carmen Losmann (Germany).
Abu Dhabi. The youngest international film event in the Arab world. Critic's prize: The music docu El gusto. More arrow.
Perm, Flahertiana Documentary Film Festival: Out of Reach by Jakub Stozek (Poland).
Warsaw. Avé by Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria). More arrow.
Oslo, Films from the South: On the Edge by Leila Kilani (Morocco). More arrow.
Busan. At this major Asian event in South Korea, the Critics' Prize went to the Iranian film Mourning (Soug) by Morteza Farshbaf. More arrow.
Reykjavík. FIPRESCI Prize: Volcano (Eldfjall) by Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson. More arrow.
Almaty. At the occasion of the Eurasia Film Festival, Salome Kikaleishvili talked to Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk. More arrow.
San Sebastian. One of the oldest film festivals in the world welcomed Jose Luis Rebordinos in his debut as fest head. More arrow.
Riga. The Arsenals Film Forum organized a Baltic competition and honored renowned documentarist Herz Frank. More
Toronto. The festival reputation as a rival for Venice is growing. More arrow.
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Theo Angelopoulos, the Greek filmmaker, was killed in a car accident on Tuesday, January 24. He was working on his new film The Other Side. He was 76.

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European Film Awards 2011
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Wim Wenders.
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Wim Wenders, President
of the European Film Academy,
receiving the Documentary Film Prize
for "Pina".
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More than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy — filmmakers from across Europe — voted for this year's European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin, Lars von Trier's Melancholia was awarded Best Film of the Year 2011. The Discovery Award / Prix FIPRESCI went to Oxygen (Adem) by Hans Van Nuffel, Belgium/Netherlands. More arrow.
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