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La Niña Santa
''The Holy Girl'' () is a 2004 drama film directed by Lucrecia Martel. The film was executively produced by Pedro Almodóvar and features Mercedes Morán, María Alche, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, and Julieta Zylberberg. Plot At the Hotel Termas, a dilapidated Argentine hotel in the small town of La Ciénaga, teenage girls and best friends Amalia and Josefina begin to explore their burgeoning sexuality while being fervently Catholic. Amalia lives with her attractive divorced mother, who owns the hotel, and her uncle Freddy. During this time, in Amalia's mind, spiritual and sexual impulses are getting mixed up with each other. A medical conference converges at the hotel. One day, in the midst of a large crowd watching the performance of a musician playing the theremin, Dr. Jano, a participant in the conference and hotel guest, rubs up sexually against Amalia. She is upset but takes his inappropriate action as a sign that her Catholic faith has given her a mission: to sav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter, and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals. Film scholar Paul Julian Smith wrote in 2015 that she is "arguably the most critically acclaimed auteur in Spanish-language art cinema outside Latin America" and that her " transnational auteurism and demanding features have earned her a hard-won reputation in the world art cinema festival circuit". Similarly, film scholar Haden Guest has called her "one of the most prodigiously talented filmmakers in contemporary world cinema", and film scholar David Oubiña has called her body of work a "rare perfection". In April 2018, ''Vogue'' referred to her as "one of the greatest directors in the world right now". Her 2001 debut feature film, '' La Ciénaga'' (''The Swamp''), about an indulgent bourgeois extended family spending the summertime in a decrepit vacation home in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salta
Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Salta Province, the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the List of cities in Argentina, 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Valle de Lerma Metropolitan Area (Spanish: ''Área Metropolitana del Valle de Lerma'', AMVL), which is home to over 50.9% of the population of Salta Province and also includes the municipalities of La Caldera, Vaqueros, Campo Quijano, Rosario de Lerma, Cerrillos, Salta, Cerrillos, La Merced, Salta, La Merced and Villa San Lorenzo, San Lorenzo. Salta is the seat of the Capital Department, Salta, Capital Department, the most populous department in the province. History Salta was founded on April 16, 1582, by the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma, who intended the settlement to be an outpost between Lima, Peru and Buenos Aires. The origin of the name ''Salta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Line Features
Fine Line Features was the specialty films division of New Line Cinema. From 1991 to 2005, under founder and president Ira Deutchman, Fine Line acquired, distributed and marketed independent films. In 2005, New Line teamed up with fellow Time Warner subsidiary HBO to form Picturehouse, a new specialty film label into which Fine Line was folded. Fine Line Features DVD releases were split between HBO Video and New Line Home Entertainment. When New Line Home Entertainment ceased to exist in 2010, it was folded into Warner Home Video. Selected films released Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ... owns the distribution rights to the Fine Line Features' films unless otherwise mentioned. 1990s 2000s Notes References New Line Cinema Def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mubi
Mubi (; stylized as MUBI; the Auteurs before 2010) is a global streaming platform, production company and film distributor. MUBI produces and theatrically distributes films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are exclusively available on its platform. The catalogue consists of world cinema films, such as Art film, arthouse, documentary film, documentary and independent films. Additionally, it publishes ''Notebook'', a film criticism and news publication, and provides weekly cinema tickets to selected new-release films through MUBI GO. MUBI's streaming platform is available in over 190 countries on the web, Android TV, Chromecast, Roku devices, Apple Vision Pro, PlayStation, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and LG Electronics, LG and Samsung Electronics, Samsung Smart TVs, as well as on mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and Android (operating system), Android. History The Auteurs was founded in 2007 by Turkish nationality law, Turkish entrepreneur Efe Cakarel, Efe Çakar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle International Film Festival
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is a film festival held annually in Seattle, Washington, United States, since 1976. It usually takes place in late May and/or early June. It is one of the largest festivals in the world, and features a diverse assortment of predominantly independent and foreign films, and a strong contingent of documentaries. SIFF 2006 included more than 300 films and 160,000 attendees; also it was the first SIFF to include a venue in neighboring Bellevue, Washington Bellevue ( ) is a city in the Eastside (King County, Washington), Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, and the f ..., after an ill-fated early attempt. However, in 2008, the festival was back to being entirely in Seattle, and had a slight decrease in the number of feature films. The 2010 festival featured over 400 films, shown primarily in downtown Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, NYFF is one of the longest-running and most prestigious film festivals in the United States. It is a non-competitive festival centered on a "Main Slate" of typically 20–30 feature films, with additional sections for experimental cinema and new restorations. Dennis Lim is the Artistic Director for NYFF. Kent Jones was the festival director from 2013 to 2019. Sections the festival program is divided into the following sections: Main Slate The Main Slate is the Festival's primary section, a program typically featuring 25–30 feature-length films, intending to reflect the current state of cinema. The program is a mix of major international art house films from the festival circuit, new discoveries, and studio releases targeting awards sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavík International Film Festival
Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF; ) is an international film festival held annually in Reykjavík, Iceland. The festival lasts 11 days each year and emphasizes young talents. One way of doing so is having a competitive category (named ''New Visions'') exclusively limited to a director's first or second feature-length film. At each festival, a number of awards are given out. The main award is the ''Discovery of the Year'' award, also called Golden Puffin, given by an international jury. The international federation of film critics FIPRESCI send a jury to RIFF from 2006. Also, the audience can vote for their favorite film from the whole programme. Lifetime achievement awards and creative excellence awards are given to well-known film directors who have achieved excellence in their work. History 2004–2009 Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF) was founded in 2004 by a group of film enthusiasts and professionals with the goal of creating an annual international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Hong Kong International Film Festival
The 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival () took place from 30 March to 10 April 2023, both online and in-person in Hong Kong. Soi Cheang was selected as the Filmmaker in Focus for this edition and masterclasses led by Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng were featured. The festival opened with the Hong Kong mystery thriller '' Mad Fate'' by Soi Cheang and the documentary ''Elegies'' by Ann Hui, and it closed with the Hong Kong drama ''Vital Signs'' by Cheuk Wan-chi. This year, 197 films from 64 countries were screened, including nine world premieres, six international premieres, and sixty-seven Asian premieres. Aaron Kwok returned as the ambassador of HKIFF, marking his fifth year in this role. Background The 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival was the first edition to return to normalcy following the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme of this edition is "Never Stops". The festival poster was designed by Frank Chan, who also created the posters for the previous two editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in London, England, in collaboration with the British Film Institute. Founded in 1957, the festival runs for two weeks every October. In 2016, the British Film Institute, BFI estimated that around 240 feature films and 150 short films from more than 70 countries are screened at the festival each year. History At a dinner party in 1953, at the home of film critic Dilys Powell of ''The Sunday Times'', attended by film administrator James Quinn (film administrator), James Quinn, guests discussed the lack of a film festival in London. Quinn went on to start the first London Film Festival, which took place at the new National Film Theatre (now renamed BFI Southbank) from 16 to 26 October 1957. The first festival screened 15–20 films that were already successful at other festivals, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Throne of Blood'' (which opened the festival), Satyajit Ray's ''Aparajito'', Andrzej Wajda's ''Kanał'', Luchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki International Film Festival
The Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy () is a non-competitive film festival held since 1988 in Helsinki, Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ..., yearly in September. It is the biggest film festival in Finland. In 2015 the festival attracted over 61 000 visitors. In 2024 the festival had nearly 55 000 admissions, which was the best result in any Finnish, post-pandemic film festival. The festival was named after the 1973 Lina Wertmüller film '' Love and Anarchy''. The current executive director is Pauliina Ståhlberg, former producer of Deadwind TV series.https://hiff.fi/en/2024/11/29/pauliina-stahlberg-named-as-executive-director-of-helsinki-international-film-festival-rakkautta-anarkiaa/ References External links Helsinki Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
