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San Francisco. The oldest running film festival in the Americas highlighted current trends in international film and video production and honored Mike Leigh, Errol Morris, Robert Towne, Maria Bello and film critic Jim Hoberman. |
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Oberhausen. The International Short Film Festival explored the history of political cinema and discussed the question how artistic films look at history, by including works by Marcel Broodthaers, Ken Jacobs, Alexander Kluge. |
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Lisbon. IndieLisboa established itself as a platform for worldwide independent cinema. Directors in focus: Johnny To and José Luis Guerín. American Indie Momma's Man by Azazel Jacobs won the Critics' Prize. |
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Buenos Aires. An extensive showcase of independent films from all over the world, now in it's 10th edition (headed for the first time by former critic Sergio Wolf). Thorough retrospectives were dedicated to Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. |
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Istanbul. A meeting point between European and Asian cultures. The main competition focused on films about the relations between art and creativity, the national competition presented a diversified panorama of recent Turkish cinema. |
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Wiesbaden. The goEast Festival offered an overview on Middle and Eastern European Films, a symposium about Nation (Re-)Building and homages to Parajanov and Benedek Fliegauf. |
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Toulouse. An attractive meeting point for Latin American cinemas. The festival presented the recent production from the continent as well as some of the titles that marked the past two decades since its foundation. |
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Guadalajara. The festival, founded as a showcase of Mexican cinema, has grown considerably. It extended its conception to Ibero-American films and became an attractive center of, and meeting point for Latin American cinemas. |
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Sofia. The festival has grown as a focal point for films from the Balkan, "where Europe doesn't end nor really begins". New films from the region were indeed particularly interesting, among them Seamstresses (Lyudmil Todorov). |
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Thessaloniki Documentary. The festival "Images of the 21st Century" celebrated its 10th anniversary and presented an important selection of international and Greek docs. Our prizes went to Tanaz Eshaghian's Be Like Others and
Nicos Ligouris' The Lovers from Axos. |
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Berlin. Undoubtedly one of the biggest film events worldwide. Experienced and young critics write on various aspects of the festival and review films shown in the main sections Competition, Panorama and Forum. Fernando Eimbcke, the young Mexican filmmaker, was honored for his second film Lake Tahoe. |
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Cannes 2008 |
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Revelation of the Year. Every year, FIPRESCI presents its "Revelation of the Year" at a special screening during the International Critics' Week in Cannes. This year's Revelation is Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke's second feature Lake Tahoe (awarded at the Berlinale). His first film, Duck Season, had been revealed by the Critics' Week in 2004, and went on to have an impressive international career. This year, the screening will begin with Andrea Hydake's short film The Runt, which received the FIPRESCI Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The screening, followed by a q&a with Fernando Eimbcke, will take place on Saturday, May 17th, at 15 h at the Espace Miramar. Read more
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Best Latin American Film of the Year 2007. Mexican director Carlos Reygadas received the FIPRESCI Award for the "Best Latin American Film of the Year 2007" for his film Silent Light (Stellet Licht). The prize was presented by FIPRESCI vice-president Diego Lerer at the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI). The jury had been composed of Carlos Brandao (Brazil), Mario Naito (Cuba), Jorge Morales (Chile), Jorge Jellinek (Uruguay) and Diego Lerer (Argentina). Reygadas had received the same award already in 2002 for his first film, Japon. Last year's winner was the Brazilian Suely in the Sky (O céu de Suely) by Karim Ainouz. |
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