The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 20th edition which runs August 15-23.
The 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced its official selection. Among nine films in the feature competition, there are three world premieres, including the new film by Kosovo veteran Isa Qosja, Three Windows And A Hanging. Qosja won the Special Jury Award at Sff with Kukumi in 2005.
Two other world premieres in competition are first feature films: Georgian director Lasha Tskvitinidze’s I Am Beso, and Song Of My Mother by Turkey’s Erol Mintas.
The list of debuts in the competition is completed with Berlinale titles Brides by Georgia’s Tinatin Kajrishvili, Land Of Storms by Hungary’s Ádám Császi, and Macondo by Sudabeh Mortezai from Austria.
Cure - The Life Of Another, the new film by Andrea Staka who won Heart of Sarajevo for best film in 2006 with Das Fräulein, will have its...
The 20th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced its official selection. Among nine films in the feature competition, there are three world premieres, including the new film by Kosovo veteran Isa Qosja, Three Windows And A Hanging. Qosja won the Special Jury Award at Sff with Kukumi in 2005.
Two other world premieres in competition are first feature films: Georgian director Lasha Tskvitinidze’s I Am Beso, and Song Of My Mother by Turkey’s Erol Mintas.
The list of debuts in the competition is completed with Berlinale titles Brides by Georgia’s Tinatin Kajrishvili, Land Of Storms by Hungary’s Ádám Császi, and Macondo by Sudabeh Mortezai from Austria.
Cure - The Life Of Another, the new film by Andrea Staka who won Heart of Sarajevo for best film in 2006 with Das Fräulein, will have its...
- 7/17/2014
- ScreenDaily
When a film widely seen as a dead cert to make the Cannes lineup doesn't ultimately appear, there can be any number of routine explanations, from shooting and editing overruns to inter-festival politics to the aesthetic whims of the selection panel – but it's unusual for a filmmaker to withdraw his own work for “personal reasons.” That's what's happened, however, with German-Turkish auteur Fatih Akin, whose first narrative feature in five years, “The Cut,” was on most Competition prediction lists. Akin has offered no further explanation for his decision to pull the film, which stars Tahar Rahim and is the belated final instalment in Akin's “Love, Death and the Devil” trilogy, with started with 2004's “Head-On” (a Berlinale Golden Bear winner) and continued with 2007's “The Edge of Heaven.” The latter premiered at Cannes and won the Best Screenplay award, so Akin has a history with the festival; two years ago,...
- 4/16/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Abbas Kiarostami to head the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury.
With the Official Selection of features for the 67th Cannes Film Festival set to be revealed tomorrow (April 17), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 3,450 short films, representing 128 production countries.
Ten films will compete in 2014 for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Abbas Kiarostami, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 24.
For the first time, an Azerbaijani and a Georgian film will take part in the Short Films Competition.
Short Films
Manhole
dir: Giovanni Aloi (Italy)
The Administration Of Glory
dir: Ran Huang (China)
Invisible Spaces
dir: Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia)
Happo-En
dirs: Sato Masiko, Ohara Takayoshi, Seki Yutaro, Toyota Masayuki, Hirase Kentaro (Japan)
Leidi
dir: Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/UK)
The Last One
dir: Sergey Pikalov (Azerbaijan)
The Execution
dir: Petra Szocs (Hungary/Romania)
Aïssa...
With the Official Selection of features for the 67th Cannes Film Festival set to be revealed tomorrow (April 17), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 3,450 short films, representing 128 production countries.
Ten films will compete in 2014 for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Abbas Kiarostami, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 24.
For the first time, an Azerbaijani and a Georgian film will take part in the Short Films Competition.
Short Films
Manhole
dir: Giovanni Aloi (Italy)
The Administration Of Glory
dir: Ran Huang (China)
Invisible Spaces
dir: Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia)
Happo-En
dirs: Sato Masiko, Ohara Takayoshi, Seki Yutaro, Toyota Masayuki, Hirase Kentaro (Japan)
Leidi
dir: Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/UK)
The Last One
dir: Sergey Pikalov (Azerbaijan)
The Execution
dir: Petra Szocs (Hungary/Romania)
Aïssa...
- 4/16/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Paris – A day ahead of the main competition films being announced for the Cannes Film Festival, the event's short film and Cinefondation juries, led by legendary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, on Wednesday unveiled their selections. The short films section in Cannes will feature Giovanni Aloi’s A Passo D’Uomo (Italy), Ran Huang’s The Administration of Glory (China), Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Invisible Spaces (Georgia), Simon Mesa-Soto’s Leidi (Colombia and the U.K.), Sergey Pikalov’s The Last One (Azerbaijan), Petra Szocs’ The Execution (Hungary and Romania), Clement Trehin-Lalanne’s Aissa (France), Laura Wandel’s Les Corps Etrangers (Belgium), Hallvar Witzo’s Yes We Love
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- 4/16/2014
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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