‘Events and Festivals’ Archives
Švankmajer in Manchester
Well, not the man himself, but a rare chance to see some of Jan Švankmajer's shorts in 35mm, preceded by a talk from yours truly about the use of movement in his films. It's part of the concurrent Moves09 festival, which this year is exploring the narrative possibilities of movement on screen. I'm still finalising the details, so I can't give [...]
The East End Film Festival
The 2009 East End Film Festival launches tomorrow - in the words of the organisers:The East End Film Festival showcases hot new talent and homegrown films alongside larger independent releases and special events, informing and inspiring a new generation of filmmakers and audiences from across London and beyond, and raising the profile of this [...]
Kinofilm Project
Now here's a very promising initiative - established in 2007, the Kinofilm Project is a Philadelphia-based organisation dedicated to, in their own words: screening and promoting independent East European film. Spotlighting feature length, documentary, and short films having a focus on East European themes, Kinofilm Project organizes film [...]
43.3km Transylvanian Timber
My second review for the London International Documentary Festival website is of Georg Tiller and Claudio Pfeifer's almost wordless Austrian meditation about two very diverse professions - logging and border patrolling - operating in the same remote valley in Romania, inaccessible except by narrow-gauge railway. Much of it played out to me like [...]
Karosta
I've just been commissioned to review various films for the London International Documentary Festival website, many of which fall within this blog's remit - an excellent example being Peter King's British-Latvian co-production Karosta. This is one of the most vivid portraits I've seen to date of the legacy of the collapse of communism - Karosta [...]
Kinoteka 2009
The Kinoteka Film Festiwal (or, more prosaically, London's seventh annual Polish film festival) has just announced its full programme - and very impressive it is too, offering a mixture of recent Polish films and important retrospectives, including the extraordinary Polish New Wave season at Tate Modern. I say "extraordinary" partly because it's [...]
40th Hungarian Film Week
The 40th Hungarian Film Week is running from 27 January to 3 February 2009, and Magyar Filmunió have just announced the final line-up. In total, 101 recent Hungarian productions are screening across five categories (feature, short, documentary, scientific, television), including 26 new feature films. Seven of the competition entries are by [...]
Gdynia garlands
One of these days I'll make it to the Gdynia Film Festival, the largest annual round-up of the Polish film industry's output - but in the meantime, these were the competition winners. Grand Prize (Golden Lion): Little Moscow (Mała Moskwa, d. Waldemar Krzystek - IMDB) Silver Lion: Before Twilight (Jeszcze nie wieczór, d. Jacek Bławut – [...]