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Theo Angelopoulos. The Greek filmmaker died on the set of his last film, The Other Sea, on January 24, 2012. He was no doubt, one of the greatest filmmakers of our times, writes Dan Fainaru in his obituary.

European Film Awards 2011. Lars von Trier's Melancholia was selected best film of the year. The Discovery Award / Prix FIPRESCI went to Oxygen (Adem) by Hans Van Nuffel, Belgium/Netherlands. More Steven Yates attended the Ceremony

Festival Scope opens FIPRESCI Label. The online platform Festival Scope (www.festivalscope.com) known for providing film professionals with online screening of films from more than 60 of the most prestigious international film festivals (including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Venice, Cannes' Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week, Toronto & San Sebastian) has developed a new section. The section is called "Labels" and is aimed at providing additional visibility to the films awarded in festivals or selected by partner organizations. The "Labels" will be launched with a special partnership with FIPRESCI, The International Federation of Film Critics. On the FIPRESCI page Festival Scope will present a selection of films that have been awarded the FIPRESCI Award in 2011 and the selection will be enriched along the year. Klaus Eder, General Secretary of FIPRESCI says: "Our aim is not only to present, at festivals, the critics' prize to the films we like. We also wish to help them getting a bigger audience. Festival Scope offers a wonderful chance to make our engagement better known to the professionals of cinema and to provoke the interest of other festivals and of buyers". Alessandro Raja, founder of Festival Scope, says: "We are thrilled to widen the scope of our activities with the creation of the "Labels" and equally proud to start with the very prestigious FIPRESCI. We will soon announce other partnerships under this brand, it's additional way for us to contribute to the promotion for the films presented on Festival Scope".
Publicity contact for Festival Scope: mathilde@festivalscope.com

Marlen Khutsiev, the Russian filmmaker, was honored for his outstanding contribution to world cinema. At the closing ceremony of the "St. Petersburg Kinoforum 2011" (July 15), FIPRESCI's Honorary President Andrei Plakhov handed the Prize over to the 85-year old director. "Over a 55-year career", writes Alexei Gusev in his appreciation of Khutsiev's work, "he has only made six films, and each of them became a divider which cinema historians later used to mark the end of one stage and the beginning of a new one. But cinema is not the only point: the country's history itself is lined with films by Khutsiev, with a supernatural sense of time probably the most outstanding gift of this filmmaker." Read more

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