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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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Thessalonikii: "Eighty Letters"
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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.
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Berlinale (February 9-19, 2012). The Jury of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Jury) presented three prizes: to Tabu by Portuguese Miguel Gomes (shown in competition); to Atomic Age by Héléna Klotz (Panorama); and to Hemel by Dutch Sacha Polak (shown in the International Forum of New Cinema). Details arrow.
    The "Talent Press", an initiative within the Berlinale Talent Campus, allows young critics to attend the festival, and to win experience in writing. Supported by renowned film-critics, they write reviews on films presented in various sections of the festival, compose features and report about the atmosphere of the Campus and interview both talents and experts. Five days of heaven arrow.
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Theo Angelopoulos
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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 Sea. He was 76. He was without any doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of our times, writes Dan Fainaru in his obituary. Read his view on the filmmaker and his work arrow.
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