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Cinema Mundi International Film Festival
The Cinema Mundi International Film Festival was a film festival, held annually at the end of February, or beginning of March in Brno, Czech Republic, between 2010 and 2016. History The first Cinema Mundi International Film Festival took place in late February, early March 2010 in Brno, Czech Republic. The inspiration for the festival came from the tradition of Brno Exhibition Centre, which was established in 1928 and since then has been attracting international exhibitors to Brno. Josef Čadík, a film fan who has been operating mobile open-air cinemas in the Czech Republic and Central Europe since 1991, established the festival in the desire to create in Brno a similar platform for the world of film. He is the current director of the festival. The main partner of the festival is the South Moravian Region whose administrative body is seated in Brno. Program In addition to screening the most recent selection of films made in Europe and the US, the festival aims at scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the 100 largest cities of the EU. The Brno metropolitan area has almost 700,000 inhabitants. Brno is the former capital city of Moravia and the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region. It is the centre of the Czech judiciary, with the seats of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and a number of state authorities, including the Ombudsman, and the Office for the Protection of Competition. Brno is also an important centre of higher education, with 33 faculties belonging to 13 institutes of higher education and about 89,000 students. Brno Exhibition Centre is among the largest exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk's Not Dead (2011 Film)
''Punk's Not Dead'' ( mk, Панкот не е мртов, translit. Pankot ne e mrtov) is a 2011 Macedonian comedy film written and directed by Vladimir Blaževski. The film was selected as the Macedonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Cast * Jordančo Čevrevski * Flora Dostovska as Mimi * Kiril Pop Hristov as Pasha * Viktor Lazarevski as Slovenec * Jovica Mihajlovski as Guru * Toni Mihajlovski as Ljak * Emir Redžepi as Sali * Jordan Simonov as Mirsa * Kamka Točinovski as Nina * Vladimir Tuliev as Zuti See also * List of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Awar ... * List of Macedonian submissions for the Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Menzel
Jiří Menzel () (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Early life Menzel was born in Prague in 1938 to Josef Menzel and Božena Jindřichová. His father Josef was a journalist, translator and children's book writer. Menzel studied directing at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in Prague. His teachers at the academy included Czech Director Otakar Vávra. Career Menzel was a member of the Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s. His first feature film, ''Closely Watched Trains'', won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967. The film was a World War II drama based on a book by Bohumil Hrabal. His film '' Larks on a String'' was filmed in 1969, but was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Šulík
Martin Šulík (born October 20, 1962, in Žilina) is a Slovak film director. He studied film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava from which he graduated in 1986. His 2011 film ''Gypsy'' was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Martin Sulik is also an avid painter and has had his artwork shown in Bratislava Galleries. Filmography * ''The Position'' (1989) * ''Tenderness'' (1992) * ''Everything I Like'' (1993) * '' The Garden'' (1995) * ''Orbis Pictus'' (1997) * ''Landscape'' (2000) * ''The Key to Determining Dwarfs'' (2002) * ''The City of the Sun'' (2005) * ''Gypsy'' (2011) * ''The Interpreter ''The Interpreter'' is a 2005 political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, and Jesper Christensen. It was the first film shot inside the United Nations Headquarters, as well as the fin ...'' (2018) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Roden
Karel Roden (born 18 May 1962) is a Czech actor, popularly known for his roles in ''Hellboy'' and ''The Bourne Supremacy'', and his voice work in '' Grand Theft Auto IV''. Life and career Roden followed his father and grandfather into acting. Roden first graduated from the Comprehensive Art Secondary School for Ceramics before being admitted to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Roden's feature film career began almost simultaneous with his theatre work in 1984 as Honza, a medical student in the 2nd part of a trilogy entitled "How the poets are losing their illusions" (Jak básníci přicházejí o iluze), a lighthearted, comic look at life through the lives of young university students. Roden's Honza also appeared in the final installation of the trilogy, "How poets are enjoying their lives" (Jak básníkům chutná život). Other comic turns include Roden's Captain Tuma in '' Who's That Soldier?'', a humoristic look at life as a soldier in the socialist Czech army, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iveta Grófová
Iveta Grófová (born 31 October 1980) is a Slovak film director. She studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Her directorial debut was the 2012 film '' Made in Ash'', which was nominated as Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Grófová's second film, ''Piata loď'', was screened at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as President of the Jury. '' Django'', directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the .... It went on to be nominated in 10 categories at the 2018 Sun in a Net Awards. Selected filmography Director *'' Made in Ash'' (2012) *''Piata loď'' (2017) References External links * 1980 births Living people Slovak women film directors People from Trenčín Slovak screenwriters {{Slovakia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lordan Zafranović
Lordan Zafranović (born 11 February 1944) is a Czech-Croatian film director. He was a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Early life Lordan Zafranović was born in 1944 in Maslinica, island of Šolta, Dalmatia, during the fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. He spent the first two years of his life in the El Shatt refugee camp together with his mother Marija and his older brother Zdenko. After the war, the family reunited with father Ivan and moved to Split, where younger brother Andrija was born. He graduated in ship-engineering from the Split Marine School in 1962 and continued with studies in literature and fine arts at the Split Pedagogical Academy (later University of Split) from 1963 to 1967. Work Zafranović belongs to the Prague wave (sometimes also called Praška filmska škola), a generation of acclaimed Yugoslav directors who had studied at the Prague Film School ( FAMU) around 1968. His peers were Rajko Grlić, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević, Srđan Karanovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srđan Karanović
Srđan Karanović ( sr-Cyrl, Срђан Карановић, , born 17 November 1945) is a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1968. His film '' Miris poljskog cveća'' won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, '' Nešto između'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. '' A Film with No Name (Za Sada Bez Dobrog Naslova)'' won the Golden Tulip Award at the Istanbul International Film Festival in 1989. His 2009 film '' Besa'' was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. In 2017, Srđan Karanović has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Marković
Goran Marković ( sr-cyr, Горан Марковић, ) (born 24 August 1946) is a Serbian film and theatre director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright. He has directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. He has also written five books. Marković is one of the few directors from the former Yugoslavia credited with popularizing Yugoslav films, as well as achieving success domestically and internationally. Career Marković was born in Belgrade to Rade and Olivera Marković, both established Serbian actors. He finished 5th Belgrade Gymnasium prior to attending FAMU at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Marković is the winner of more than 30 Yugoslavian, Serbian, and international film and theatre awards, the most significant of them being two Pula festival "Zlatna arena" awards, an award for the best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the film ''Tito and Me'', Grand Prix of Americas at the Montreal World Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjergj Xhuvani
Gjergj Xhuvani (20 December 1963 – 14 August 2019) was an Albanian film director, screenwriter and producer. His 2001 film ''Slogans'' was Albania's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. His 2009 film '' East, West, East: The Final Sprint'' was selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the January shortlist. Death Xhuvani died from complications of diabetes Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ap ... at age 55. References 1963 births 2019 deaths Albanian film directors Albanian screenwriters Albanian film producers People from Tirana Xhuvani family Male screenwriters {{Albania-film-directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Sprint
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Schmitz
Oliver Schmitz (born 1960) is a South African film director and screenwriter. His film ''Mapantsula'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film ''Life, Above All'' was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and it was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. It made the shortlist of nominations announced in January 2011. Selected filmography * ''Mapantsula'' (1988) * '' Hijack Stories'' (2000) * ''Paris, je t'aime'' (2006) * '' Deadly Harvest'' (2008) * ''Life, Above All'' (2010) * ''Shepherds and Butchers'' (2016) Awards * Black Reel Awards 2012 Nominated * Black Reel Outstanding Foreign Film * Dubai International Film Festival2010 Won * Durban International Film Festival The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Founded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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