Geneva 2004

The festival "Cinéma Tout Ecran" is dedicated to a borderland between film and television. It "presents on big screen what has been produced for the small ones", write the organizers. It takes therefore account of the fact that nowadays a lot of films are made for television - but are made by filmmakers using the language of cinema. Some of them should and may find their way to the big screen, such as the winner of the Critics Prize, Bitter Dream by Mohsen Amiryoussefi from Iran. Details of our prize

Reports:

A Bridge Between Cinema and Television. Ramiro Cristóbal Muñoz finds encouraging signs of links and collaborations between cinema and television at the Cinema Tout Ecran festival in Geneva.

"God Is No Longer An Englishman" (on the Stephen Frears Retrospective in Geneva). His cinema blends humanistic compassion with social criticism. He tends to side with the outcast, the underdog, but surely he would be the last to emphasize it in a conversation. Laszlo Kriston, who interviewed Frears in Venice and also attended his masterclass in Cannes, profiles the "clandestinely sentimental" director, a rare type in today’s cinema.

Grave Humour. Ronald Bergan finds that Iranian cinema continues to surprise and astonish with the black comedy Bitter Dream (Khabé Talkh).

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