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Prishtina International Film Festival
The Prishtina International Film Festival, also known as the Pristina Film Festival and PriFilmFest, is a film festival held annually in Pristina, Kosovo, that screens prominent international cinema productions in the Balkan region and beyond, and draws attention to the Kosovar film industry. It was created after the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. The first festival was held in 2009, and featured actress Vanessa Redgrave as the host. In 2015, the festival was cancelled due to a cut in funding by the Ministry of Culture of Kosovo. The 7th edition of the festival, which was scheduled to take place from 24 April to 1 May, was thus instead held in Tirana, Albania on 24 and 25 April and renamed to "PriFest in Exile". History After its independence in 2008, Kosovo looked for ways to promote its cultural and artistic image. Vjosa Berisha "designed a project on promoting Kosovo internationally and build a better image for Kosovo." The project became PriFilmFest; Berisha ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penal Reform International
Penal Reform International (commonly known as PRI), founded in London in 1989, is an international nongovernmental organization working on penal and criminal justice reform worldwide. Activities PRI's stated goal is to promote safe and secure societies where offenders are held to account, victims’ rights are recognised, sentences are proportionate and the primary purpose of prison is social rehabilitation not retribution. PRI has five offices worldwide. PRI’s Head Office in London (UK) leads and coordinates its cross-regional programmes, international policy and advocacy activities. Its regional offices in the Middle East and North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus implement practical programmes and provide technical assistance at a national and regional level. PRI also currently delivers programmes through partners in East Africa and South Asia. PRI has consultative status at the United Nations (ECOSOC), the Inter-Parliamentary Union, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia International Film Festival
Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) (Bulgarian: ''Международен София Филм Фест, София Филм Фест''), also known as Sofia Film Fest, is an annual film festival in Sofia, capital city of Bulgaria, taking place in March each year. It was established in 1997 and is the only film festival in Bulgaria recognised by FIPRESCI. History The festival was established in 1997, as a thematic music film festival. Since 2003, the festival has included an International Competition and has been included in the FIPRESCI calendar, and a regional and national competition for short films was introduced in the same year (the Jameson Short Film Award). In 2009 an international documentary film competition was added. In 2010, SIFF was accredited by FIAPF as a competitive specialised feature film festival, becoming the only Bulgarian film festival to gain such recognition. It is also the only Bulgarian film festival recognised by FIPRESCI. For its 10th anniversar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a (né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, nine César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. His Polish–Jewish parents moved the family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937.Paul Werner, ''Polański. Biografia'', Poznań: Rebis, 2013, p. 13. Two years later, the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany started World War II, and the family found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes, surviving the Holocaust by adopting a false identity and concealing his Jewish heritage. Polanski's first feature-length film, ''Knife in the Water'' (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanon (2009 Film)
Lebanon ( he, לבנון ''Lvanon''; called ''Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey'' in the UK) is a 2009 internationally co-produced war film directed by Samuel Maoz. It won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the first Israeli-produced film to have won that honour. In Israel itself the film has caused some controversy. The film was nominated for ten Ophir Awards, including Best Film. The film also won the 14th Annual Satyajit Ray Award. Maoz based the film on his experience as a young Israeli conscript during the 1982 Lebanon War.. The British newspaper ''The Guardian'' has described it as an anti-war film. Plot The film depicts warfare as witnessed exclusively from the inside of a Sho't battle tank. The crew's window to the outside world is a gunsight. As a way of adding realism to the effect, every change in the horizontal and vertical viewing directions is accompanied by the hydraulic whine of the traversing gun turret. The film is set during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Maoz
Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film, ''Lebanon'' won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010. Biography Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War.. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film and television productions. Film career As a director, Maoz was associated with the production of documentary films, directing the Arte production ''Total Eclipse'' (2000) with Evgenia Dodina. In 2007, Maoz began working on ''Lebanon'', his first feature film. The script, based on Maoz's personal experiences, describes the traumatic experiences of a four-man Israeli tank crew in a Lebanese village early in the war. At the end of July 2009, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxi To The Dark Side
''Taxi to the Dark Side'' is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghanistan, Afghan Taxicab, taxi driver named Dilawar (torture victim), Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated at a black site at Bagram Airfield, Bagram air base. It was part of the ''Why Democracy?'' series, which consisted of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy. As part of this series, the documentary was broadcast in over 30 countries from October 8–18, 2007. The BBC showed the film in its ''Storyville (TV series), Storyville'' series. Overview ''Taxi to the Dark Side'' examines Torture and the United States, US policy on torture and interrogation, specifically the U.S. Army and CIA interrogation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Orner
Eva Orner is an Australian Academy Award, Academy and Emmy Award-winning film producer and director based in Los Angeles. Her works include ''Untold Desires'' (winner of Best Documentary at the Australian Film Institute Awards, the Logie Awards and the Australian Human Rights Awards), ''Strange Fits of Passion'' (nominated for the Critics' Award at the Cannes Film Festival), ''Taxi to the Dark Side'' (winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary), and ''Gonzo, The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson''. Orner's directorial debut, ''The Network'', a feature documentary set behind the scenes of Afghanistan's largest television station, premiered in the US in March 2013. Career Orner grew up in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, and was educated at Mount Scopus Memorial College and Monash University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993. Orner, along with actress Cate Blanchett, was one of only two Australians nominated for an Oscar in 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Nero
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film '' Django'' (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes. During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including ''poliziotteschi'', ''gialli'', and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include '' The Bible: In the Beginning...'' (1966), ''Camelot'' (1967), ''The Day of the Owl'' (1968), '' The Mercenary'' (1968), ''Battle of Neretva'' (1969), ''Tristana'' (1970), '' Compañeros'' (1970), ''Confessions of a Police Captain'' (1971), ''The Fifth Cord'' (1971), ''High Crime'' (1973), '' Street Law'' (1974), ''Keoma'' (1976), ''Hitch-Hike'' (1977), ''Force 10 from Navarone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Of The Comet
) , narrator = , starring = Blerim DestaniMasiela LushaXhevdet FerriThomas HeinzeVlado JovanovskiÇun Lajçi , music = Nexhat Mujovi , cinematography = , editing = , studio = , distributor = , released = 2008 , runtime = 104 minutes , country = Albania , language = Albanian , budget = $2 million , gross = ''Time of the Comet'' ( sq, Koha e Kometës) is a 2008 Albanian historical drama/black comedy film adapted from the 1985 novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare titled ''Black Year'' ( sq, Viti i Mbrapshtë). The film was directed by Fatmir Koçi, while Blerim Destani and Masiela Lusha starred in the leading roles. German bodybuilder and actor Ralf Möller also appeared in the film. Plot The film takes place in 1914 when William of Wied was enthroned as Prince of Albania, and the Principality of Albania was occupied by all the neighbouring countries. Shestan (Blerim Destani), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labina Mitevska
Labina Mitevska ( mk, Лабина Митевска) (born 1975 in Skopje, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian actress. Career Mitevska began her acting career aged 19 after studying in Skopje, Denmark, and the University of Arizona. She starred in Milčo Mančevski's 1994 Oscar-nominated film '' Before the Rain''. Mitevska went on to play the supporting role in ''Welcome To Sarajevo'', directed by Michael Winterbottom, and had the lead role in the Czech film ''Loners''. She also played the lead role in the 2006 film ''Warchild''. She has two siblings, brother Vuk Mitevski and sister director Teona Strugar Mitevska, who directed her in the film ''God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija''. Filmography * ''God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija'' (2019) * ''When the Day Had No Name'' (2017) * ' (2015) * ''The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears'' (2012) * ''Footsteps in the Sand'' (2010) * '' 9:06'' (2009) * ''7 Avlu'' (2009) .... Selma * ''Ofsajd'' (2009) .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Living And The Dead (2007 Film)
''The Living and the Dead'' ( hr, Živi i mrtvi) is a 2007 Croatian action horror film directed by Kristijan Milić. It tells the story of Bosnian Croat ( HVO) fighters who, while fighting in the Croat–Bosniak War (1992–1994), face something not entirely of this world. The film was released in 2007. It was filmed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at a small town known as Prozor-Rama. In 2007, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the Pula Film Festival. Plot In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddiq Barmak
Siddiq Barmak ( fa, صدیق برمک, born September 7, 1962) is an Afghan film director and producer. In 2004, Barmak won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for his first feature film, '' Osama''. He received an M.A. degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987. Osama There is a stylistic echo in ''Osama'' featured in Afghan films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty. Barmak directed ''Osama'' with significant funding and assistance from Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The Iranian director invested in the film, lending Barmak his Arriflex camera and encouraging him to send the movie to international festivals, which eventually generated further funding from Japanese and Irish producers. Barmak received "UNESCO’s Fellini Silver Medal" for his drama, ''Osama'', in 2003. Afghan Children Education Movement Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement (ACEM), an association that promotes literacy, culture and the arts, which was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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