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9th Forum Expanded What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is?

52 works from 20 countries have been selected for the 9th Forum Expanded. The exhibition at ST. AGNES, the former parish hall whose church space is one of the key venues for this year’s Forum Expanded, is already being set up for the opening on February 5.

In one of the installations to be shown there, Clemens von Wedemeyer’s “Afterimage”, a camera feels its way through the props store at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. In the church tower, Malak Helmy’s sound recordings of a carrier pigeon that flew to previously important places on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast can be heard. Judith Hopf’s video piece observes the flooding of a neo-bourgeois family domicile that could be located anywhere, including in Kreuzberg, which forms the base for this year’s Forum Expanded alongside the Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz. These are just three examples of works exploring the question of what we actually experience about the world when we localise something at a particular place.

The mainly mid-length film and video works that make up the programme will be shown individually at Arsenal, thus giving each of them the space they require and permitting extensive discussions. The video works can also be seen at fixed times at the Videolounge in the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.

Two films celebrate their cinematic premiere on the big screen at the CineStar IMAX: Everything That Rises Must Converge by Omer Fast (Germany / USA) is a portrait of the day-to-day lives of four porn actors in split-screen. Yael Bartana’s Inferno (The Netherlands / USA) is a “historical preenactment” of striking impact – the 22-minute film will thus be shown by itself before being repeated daily at Arsenal 2.

At Delphi, we are presenting the film adaptation of a theatre production of Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire directed by Canadian Bruce LaBruce, who will be discussing the film together with lead actress Susanne Sachsse, conductor Premil Petroviç and Diedrich Diederichsen. 

For the first time, Forum Expanded will also be showing works by Austrian artist Friedl vom Gröller, who has been shooting short films on 16mm for over 40 years that attempt to capture different moments and feelings. Film scholar Christa Blümlinger will be discussing vom Gröller’s work together with the director herself.

The installation “Fictions & Futures #1 – Happiness in the Abstract” by Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector is being shown in the Arsenal Black Box and explores the trading of raw materials on the global stock market.

The question of “What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is?” is also to be pursued in three events exploring production locations and the cinematic construction of place: Filmmaker and critic Mark Peranson (La última película, Mark Peranson and Raya Martin, Canada / Denmark / Mexico 2013) and artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher (Standard Gauge, USA 1984) will be talking about the semantic charge currently attached to the increasing disappearance of 35mm film material and how this relates to the concept of both World and Structural Cinema. 

“Cairo - The Still and The Moving” is the title of a work in progress presentation followed by a panel discussion where excerpts of The Vote will be shown, the portrait of four presidential candidates during the first election following the start of the revolution in Egypt. Directors Hanan Abdalla and Cressida Trew (cinematographer of Forum special screening The Square) will discuss their work with Viola Shafik, whose film Scent of Revolution is also showing at the Forum as a special screening.

Stephan Geene’s new film umsonst paints a picture of Kreuzkölln, the Berlin neighbourhood that has emerged from Kreuzberg over the last 25 years following the fall of the Berlin Wall and has been subject to a generational change in the process. The film was produced in a collective context located in the same district, whose members include Karolin Meunier, producer Caroline Kirberg and cameraman Volker Sattel, both of whom will be taking part in the discussion.

The previously announced presentation of films and film fragments by queer icon Jack Smith made available by the Jack Smith Archive of the Gladstone Gallery, NY and Brussels, is showing at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1) and the Berlinische Galerie under the title of “Jack Smith: Beyond the Rented World”. Musician John Zorn will be playing records from Jack Smith’s collection at HAU 1 to accompany several films from the programme. Marc Siegel is chairing the discussions to be held with Jerry Tartaglia, who was responsible for restoring the films, John Zorn as well as Ken and Flo Jacobs, who are not just mere contemporaries of Jack Smith in this context: 3-D films by Ken Jacobs are also showing in the programme of both Forum and Forum Expanded, connecting early cinema to the cinema of the avant-garde and that of today.

Forum Expanded is also presenting the two-day conference “Think:Film No. 2 – What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is?” in collaboration with the Allianz Cultural Foundation. Gallery, museum, theatre or cinema – the discussion surrounding the relationship between film and the other arts has largely revolved around concepts of space and location. Where does a film come from and where is it shown? This question is relevant both with respect to artistic context as well as nation state attributions, even though finding an answer is hardly possible at a time of hybrid forms, transnational collaborations and historical and political shifts. The following participants have already confirmed their attendance: Vinzenz Hediger, Tarek Elhaid, Jahman Oladejo Anikulapo, Viola Shafik, Ute Holl, Rania Stephan, Laura Mulvey, Gertrud Koch, Gregor Stemmrich, Henriette Huldisch, Jörn Schaffaf, Heinz Emigholz, Ala Younis, Heba Amin, Malak Helmy, Marc Siegel, Roy Dib, Renate Lorenz, Bouchra Khalili, Dennis Lim, Irit Neidhardt, Maha Maamoun and Tamer El Said.

Finally, the first ever Think:Film Award will be presented during Forum Expanded. The jury consists of Mohamed Beshir, Marcel Schwerin and Ala Younis.

Forum Expanded is curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (head curator), Anselm Franke, Nanna Heidenreich, Bettina Steinbrügge and Ulrich Ziemons.

List of Artists / Film Programme

Gheith Al-Amine The Sheikh Imam Project (Lebanon)

Monira Al Qadiri Behind the Sun (Kuwait)

Kush BadhwarBlood Earth (India)

Wojciech Bąkowski Pogorszenie Widzenia (Poland)

Yael Bartana Inferno (The Netherlands / USA)

Mareike Bernien, Kerstin Schroedinger Rainbow's Gravity (Germany / United Kingdom)

Felipe Bragança, Helvécio Marins Jr. Fernando que ganhou um pássaro do mar (Portugal / Brazil)

Bruce LaBruce Pierrot Lunaire (Germany / Canada)

Roy Dib Mondial 2010 (Lebanon)

Omer Fast Everything That Rises Must Converge (Germany / USA)

Philipp FleischmannMain Hall (Austria)

Dani Gal Wie aus der Ferne (Germany / Austria)

Stefanie Gaus/ Volker Sattel Beyond Metabolism (Germany)

Stephan Geene umsonst (Germany)

Friedl vom Gröller: Ma Peau Precieuse/ Guilty until proven innocent/ 66, Rue Stephenson / Poetry for Sale/ Kirschenzeit/ Nec Spe Nec Metu/ Im Wiener Prater/ Das neue Kostüm / Warum es sich zu leben lohnt (Austria)

Juliane Henrich schleifen (Germany)

Margaret Honda Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (USA)

Shambhavi Kaul Mount Song (India / USA)

Chris KennedyBrimstone Line (Canada)

Marie LosierBim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas (USA / Denmark / Mexico)

Maha Maamoun Shooting Stars Remind me of Eavesdroppers

(Egypt)

Marcin Malaszczak Orbitalna (Germany / Poland)

Ahmed Mater Leaves fall in all Seasons (Saudi Arabia)

Laura Mulvey / Faysal Abdullah / Mark Lewis 23rd August 2008 (United Kingdom)

Jasmina Metwaly From behind of the monument (Egypt)

Joe Namy Half Step (Lebanon)

Jakrawal Nilthamrong Stone Cloud (Thailand)

Branwen Okpako Fluch der Medea (Germany)

Amie Siegel Provenance/ Lot 248 (USA)

The YoungrrrAnother Colour TV (Indonesia)

 

Jack Smith

Milkbath Scene from Normal Love / Boiled Lobster of Lucky Landlady Lagoon / In the Grip of the Lobster / Exotic Landlordism / Overstimulated / Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) / Gems, Clips and Shorts (USA)

Exhibitions

ST. AGNES

Heba Amin Project Speak2Tweet: Case Study #1 (Egypt)
Hannes BöckFünf Skulpturen aus den ägyptischen Heiligtümern im Museo del Sannio, Benevento: n. 252 Hockender Pavian, Diorit; n. 253 Falke, Amphibolit; n. 255 Falke, Gabbro; n. 256 Hockender Pavian, Diorit; n. 280 Apis-Stier, Diorit. (Austria)

Azin Feizabadi Chronicles from Majnun until Layla - Stage #1 & #2 (Iran / Germany)

Robert Fenz Tea (USA)

Malak HelmyMusic for Drifting (Egypt)

Judith Hopf Lily's Laptop (Germany)

Ken Jacobs A Primer in Sky Socialism (USA)

Jakrawal Nilthamrong Hangman/INTRANSIT (Thailand)
Firas Shehadeh Guerilla 8-bit (Jordan)

Clemens von Wedemeyer Afterimage (Germany)

Embassy of Canada – Marshall McLuhan Salon

Tyler HaganIn the Similkameen (Canada)

Black Box at the Filmhaus

Minze Tummescheit / Arne Hector Fictions and Futures #1 - Happiness in the Abstract (Germany/Norway)

In 2014, the Berlinale’s “Flying Red Carpet” will again travel through the city and stopover for an evening at each of the following seven arthouse cinemas: Eva Lichtspiele (Wilmersdorf), Toni & Tonino (Weißensee), Adria (Steglitz), filmkunst 66 (Charlottenburg), Passage (Neukölln), Thalia Programm Kino (Potsdam-Babelsberg), and Eiszeit Kino (Kreuzberg).

Whether a 100-year-old movie theatre, film palace or small rear house studio, with the “Berlinale Goes Kiez” series the cinema as site takes centre stage at the Festival. Local cinemas are an integral part of Berlin’s cultural history and are deeply rooted in their neighbourhoods today.

From Saturday, February 8 to Friday, February 14, 2014, each of the above-mentioned arthouse cinemas will serve as an additional Festival venue for one evening and show films selected from the Berlinale programme. As in the past, many of the film teams will present their works in person at these local screenings. Afterwards they will answer questions and discuss their films with the audience. Besides these teams, cinema patrons will be on hand to welcome the public to the small Red Carpet: renowned film personalities will act as patrons at these locations and tell about their personal connections to them, and so support the cultural activities at their favourite neighbourhood cinemas.

“With the ‘Berlinale Goes Kiez’ special series, the Berlinale would like to honour arthouse cinemas and their audiences in this city,” says Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.

Eva Lichtspiele, Saturday, February 8, 2014

This special series will open with the silent film Faust (1926) from the Retrospective section. A film historian from the Deutsche Kinemathek will give an introduction to it.

6:30 pm Faust by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Retrospective)

9:30 pm The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson (Competition)

Toni & Tonino, Sunday, February 9, 2014

As the proprietors of Toni & Tonino movie theatre in Weißensee, Dr. Michael Verhoeven and Senta Berger are committed to promoting a cinema landscape that is rich in variety. Once again they will attend the screening as the theatre’s patrons.

3:30 pm Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu, Stéphane Berla (Generation Kplus)

6:30 pm Jack by Edward Berger (Competition)

9:30 pm My Brother's Keeper by Maximilian Leo (Perspektive Deutsches Kino)

Adria, Monday, February 10, 2014

The Red Carpet will be rolled out at the Adria for national and international film personalities, and audiences in the city district of Steglitz.

5:00 pm Beloved Sisters by Dominik Graf (Competition)

9:30 pm Watermark by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky (Berlinale Special)

filmkunst 66, Tuesday, February 11, 2014

After extensive renovations, filmkunst 66 presents itself in new splendour to the guests of Forum and Panorama Special.

6:30 pm Daughters by Maria Speth (Forum)

9:30 pm Things People Do by Saar Klein (Panorama Special)

Passage, Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Yasemin Şamdereli is expected to be on hand as patron of Passage cinema in Neukölln. In 2011, her film Almanya received much applause when it was screened in this neighbourhood.

6:30 pm In Order of Disappearance by Hans Petter Moland (Competition)

9:30 pm She’s Lost Control by Anja Marquardt (Forum)

Thalia Programm Kino, Thursday, February 13, 2014

On this evening, the “Flying Red Carpet” will travel beyond the city limits, taking the films and their teams to this arthouse cinema in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

6:30 pm The Way He Looks by Daniel Ribeiro (Panorama)

9:30 pm Stations of the Cross by Dietrich Brüggemann (Competition)

Eiszeit Kino, Friday, February 14, 2014

In collaboration with Culinary Cinema, “Berlinale Goes Kiez” will welcome moviegoers to the Red Carpet at Eiszeit Kino for the first time.

6:30 The Knights of the Lagoon by Walter Bencini (Culinary Cinema Goes Kiez– afterwards a meal will be served in Markthalle Neun)

9:30 pm Washingtonia by Konstantina Kotzamani, Three Stones for JeanGenet by Frieder Schlaich, To Thy Heart by Ewa Borysewicz, Optical Sound by Elke Groen and Christian Neubacher, As long as shortguns remain by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (Berlinale Shorts Go Kiez)

“Berlinale Goes Kiez” is supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

The complete programme of “Berlinale Goes Kiez” can be found at: www.berlinale.de. 

Poster Competition Winner by Jaime Carbo Marchesini

Festive, colorful, and dynamic! San Diego Latino Film Festival is proud to present this year's festival poster winner from Mexican artist Jaime Carbo Marchesini! We feel it perfectly embodies the playful and vibrant spirit of our 21st annual event. 

Bio: Mr. Carbo is a plastic/visual artist who has been working since youth in the Arts mainly in painting and sculpting but also in other art forms such as digital media and music. He has studied courses in Mexico city in schools such as the National Plastic Arts Academy and Real Academia de San Carlos. He has had several exhibitions collective and individual and has been working in painting and sculpting for films in the Baja Studios in the last years as a scenic artist. 

You can find more of Jimmy's work at his website here

Media Arts Center San Diego will be presenting the 21st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), March 13-23, 2014. This prestigious and internationally recognized festival celebrates films and videos by Latinos and/or about the Latino experience, screening over 150 works from across Latin America and throughout the United States. 

To see the other 2014 SDLFF Poster Competition finalists, click here

For any questions pertaining to the poster competition or the 21st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, please contact Festival Artistic Director, Glenn Heath Jr at gheath@mediaartscenter.org or 619-230-1938 ext. 106.

 Festival Program and Website coming soon! 

Cinequest's incredible celebration of film, artists, and innovators begins March 4th and runs through March 16th. Full line-up live. Please explore our most entertaining, engaging, and emotionally charged festival ever. Here are some not-to-be-missed highlights.

• OPENING NIGHT: THE GRAND SEDUCTION
  Cinequest opens in grand fashion as the lights dim, and we present an uproarious comedy from director Don McKellar (Last Night) and screenwriter Michael Dowse (Goon), starring a brilliant cast that includes Brendan Gleeson ("Mad-Eye" Moody from the Harry Potter films), Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) and Liane Balaban (Supernatural).
• CLOSING NIGHT: SMALL TIME
  Cinequest 2014 culminates with dynamic energy, excitement, and celebration. Join writer/director Joel Surnow (24, The Kennedys) and star Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU, True Blood) for a spectacular premiere screening of Small Time, also starring Dean Norris (Breaking Bad, Under the Dome), Devon Bostick (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods), Kevin Nealon (Weeds, SNL), Garcelle Beauvais (Flight), Xander Berkeley (Taken), and Amaury Nolasco (Transformers).
• MAVERICK SPIRIT AWARDS: Neil Gaiman, Matthew Modine& Father of the Cell Phone Marty Cooper.
• 300+ events, international film screenings, forums & parties.
• 84 World, North American and U.S. Premieres from 43 countries, including countless star performances.

How Strange to Be Named Federico! by Ettore Scola

All eyes are on Italian cinema this year as Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty not only wins the 2014 Golden Globe for best foreign language film, but also gets an Oscar nomination in the best foreign picture category. Cinema Made In Italy will keep Italian cinema firmly in the spotlight when this annual five day event makes a welcome return to the Ciné Lumière in South Kensington. This year’s Italian encounter will take place from 5 - 9 March, and once again, lovers of Italian cinema will have a chance to catch the latest cinematic gems Italy has to offer.

As in previous years audiences can look forward to another enthralling programme, as well as a series of lively and thought-provoking Q+A sessions with directors and actors alike. One of this year’s hot tickets will undoubtedly be How Strange to Be Named Federico!, Ettore Scola's affectionate tribute to Federico Fellini, which he came out of retirement to make. Released in Italy in autumn 2013 to mark the 20th anniversary of Fellini’s death, this film is a fascinating trip down memory lane, recalling the years shared by these two Maestros of cinema.

Other highlights in the programme include Roberto Andò’s Viva La Libertà starring Toni Servillo and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Matteo Oleotto’s Zoran,My Nephew The Idiot, winner of the Critics’ Week Public’s Prize at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival; and The Fifth Wheel, directed by Giovanni Veronesi, and starring Elio Germano, one of Italy’s finest young actors who won the Best Actor award at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival for his role in La Nostra Vita. For a full list of titles please see below.

Cinema Made In Italy is organised by Istituto Luce - Cinecittà’s promotional department in Rome (Filmitalia), and the Italian Cultural Institute in London. This year’s line-up includes ten feature films and one documentary: eight titles chosen by Titta Fiore, film critic and Head of Arts and Culture for the Italian daily newspaper Il Mattino, and a special selection of two films by Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London. For further details on Istituto Luce - Cinecittà, please go to: www.filmitalia.org.

VENUE AND BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:

Screenings 5 – 9 March:

Ciné Lumière, 17 Queensbury Place, London SW7 2DT

Tickets £8-10 plus booking fee

Booking information: T 020 7073 1350 / https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/online-booking/

(Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie) 11-18th of February 2014

THE PRESS KIT CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

The festival will present 100 short, long fiction and documentary features. 

The official competition includes 20 previously unreleased titles in France from such different countries as China, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Iran, Turkey and many more... Filipino director BRILLANTE MENDOZA (DIRECTOR'S PRIZE at Cannes Film Festival in 2009 for KINATAY) will be head of the jury, also including Iranian actress TARANEH ALIDOOSTI, Chinese director WANG CHAO and Singaporean film critic PHILIP CHEAH.

Amidst other guests will attend Turkish director Deniz Akçai, Iraqi director Amer Alwan, Thai director Lee Chatametikool, Japanese director Kanai Junichi, Japanese director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, Korean director Lee Yong-seung, Iranian actor & director Payman Maadi, Filipino director Eduardo Roy Jr, Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab, Indian director Anup Singh, illustrator & painter Marcelino Truong, Chinese director Shi Wei and many more...

A FOCUS ON THE CINEMA OF PHILIPPINES from 1975-2014 will include 21 features with several new restored classics. Cult actress and Queen of the independent Comedy EUGENE DOMINGO will attend along producer JOJI ALONSO and documentary filmmaker DITSI CAROLINO.

This year's Cultural Season focus on VIETNAM is a perfect opportunity to show 15 rarely-seen Vietnamese long-features, documentaries and 4 exceptional animation movies. Amidst many guests, we are proud to welcome Dang Nhat Minh, new young talent Bui Thac Chuyen and documentary filmmaker Lê Hong Chuong.

This year's main topic BEING 20 will present 20 movies from all over Asia to deal with the tender age of 20 – from first passions, first errors, the obligatory military service up to the sensible topic of becoming an adult.

The WIDE WILD CARD features 20 very own personal choices of the two directors, Martine & Jean-Marc Therouanne of older and brand-new beloved Asian titles never shown before in Vesoul.

The festival will also feature many, many other pleasant events, such as exhibits, debates, round tables, parties, as well as tributes to some of our invitees.

20 years of FICA Festival means more than 1.200 screened movies and over 300 guests amidst them Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhang-ke, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Tran Anh Hung, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Amos Gitaï, Jeon Soo-il, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Yoshida Kiju, Semih Kaplanoglu, Viet Linh, Elia Suleiman, Asoka Handagama, Auraeus Solito, Joana Hadjithomas, Stanley Kwan, …

COME & CELEBRATE THE BEAUTY OF ASIAN CINEMA with us.

Information : FICA – Festival International des Cinémas d’Asiede Vesoul

25, rue du docteur Doillon - 70 000 Vesoul - France

           Tel : 0033 3 84 76 55 82 – 0033 6 84 84 87 46 - Fax : 0033 3 84 96 01 43

Mail: festival.vesoul@wanadoo.fr Website: www.cinemas-asie.com

The time has come to raid the closets and prepare the most glamorous of frocks, because the 21st Annual Mardi Gras Film Festival is just two weeks away, kicking off on Thursday 13th of February at Event Cinemas on George Street, Sydney.

Sure to put the "fabulous" into film, Queer Screen will be celebrating their 21st anniversary in style with the launch of a pop-up film festival bar that will serve as the hub of Queer entertainment this February.

The doors will swing open with all the romance of the Valentine's Day "Traffic Light Party" on Friday, February 14th with DJs George Rousso and Sveta.

The party will continue each night from 6pm for 10 days of the Festival. Inspiring performances from the crème of Sydney’s Queer scene, DJ sets from the likes of Kitty Glitter and Mark Alsop, special events in partnership with community groups, free talks and of course a bar overflowing with the only the finest of drinks.

But not all this excitement is kept to the nighttime. On Wednesday, 19th February, the bar will open up early for afternoon tea with Aunty Mavis following the screening of Gerontophilia and on Sunday, 23rd February, the final day of the festival and pop-up bar will kick off from noon with Harbour City Bears social drinks with djmikeyb. 

That's but a taste of the 10 days of fun and frivolity that the Mardi Gras Film Festival pop-up bar will have to offer. For full details of the pop-bar program head to www.queerscreen.org.au/mgff/events/

Sitting at Event Cinemas on George St alongside the film festival itself, everyone is invited to come along after work, before a movie or after a late night screening to ensure this oh-you've-grown-up-so-fast 21 year old is given the party she deserves.

You don't want to miss this.

Tickets for Mardi Gras Film Festival films can be purchased at www.queerscreen.org.au

By Maria Esteves – February 1, 2014
The 23rd New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYJFF 2014) Closing Night New York Premiere of IDA, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski commenced Thursday, January 23, at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center. A special Q&A session with director Pawlikowski moderated by director of cinematheque programming, Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center, immediately followed the premiere. IDA in Theaters May 2014. View Trailer

Questions posed to director Pawlikowski by NYJFF moderator Lim and the audience included: What inspired the making of the film; were you drawing on first hand memories at the time? The younger actress (Agata Trzebuchowska), I understand never acted before, how did you find her?

NYJFF 2014 Closing Night New York Premiere of IDA Q&A Session, NYJFF moderator Dennis Lim, right, with director Pawel Pawlikowski.

NYJFF 2014 Closing Night New York Premiere of IDA
Q&A Session, director Pawel Pawlikowski.

NYJFF 2014 Closing Night New York Premiere of IDA
Q&A Session, NYJFF moderator Dennis Lim.

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Poster Competition Winner by Jaime Carbo Marchesini

Festive, colorful, and dynamic! San Diego Latino Film Festival is proud to present this year's festival poster winner from Mexican artist Jaime Carbo Marchesini! We feel it perfectly embodies the playful and vibrant spirit of our 21st annual event. 

Bio: Mr. Carbo is a plastic/visual artist who has been working since youth in the Arts mainly in painting and sculpting but also in other art forms such as digital media and music. He has studied courses in Mexico city in schools such as the National Plastic Arts Academy and Real Academia de San Carlos. He has had several exhibitions collective and individual and has been working in painting and sculpting for films in the Baja Studios in the last years as a scenic artist. 

You can find more of Jimmy's work at his website here

Media Arts Center San Diego will be presenting the 21st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), March 13-23, 2014. This prestigious and internationally recognized festival celebrates films and videos by Latinos and/or about the Latino experience, screening over 150 works from across Latin America and throughout the United States. 

To see the other 2014 SDLFF Poster Competition finalists, click here

For any questions pertaining to the poster competition or the 21st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, please contact Festival Artistic Director, Glenn Heath Jr at gheath@mediaartscenter.org or 619-230-1938 ext. 106.

 Festival Program and Website coming soon! 

3rd Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF)  
(18-24) March, 2014

79 films from 41 countries in the 3rd edition of Luxor African Film Festival taking place (18-24) March, 2014 in Luxor, Egypt. 

In the Long Narratives Competition, fourteen films will be screened.

They include Bastardo (Tunisia), Battle of Tabato (Guinea-Bissau), Black Diamonds (Mali), Durban Poison (South Africa), Dust and Fortunes (Zimbabwe), Horizon Beautiful (Ethiopia), Rooftops (Algeria), Imbabazi (Rwanda), Kadjike (Guinea), Kampala Story (Uganda), Yam-Dam (Burkina Faso), Mice Room (Egypt), They Are the Dogs (Morocco), Tall as Baobab Tree (Senegal) and Rock the Kasbah (Morocco).

The Long Documentaries Competition includes Aliens (Somalia), Angola Ano Zero (Angola), The Devil's Lair (South Africa), Emirs in Wonderland (Tunisia), Nana Benz (Togo), The River (Algeria), Small Small Things (Liberia), The Teacher's Country (Tanzania), Touba (Senegal), Tough Bond (Kenya), William and the Windmill (Malawi).

The Short Narratives and Short Documentaries competition includes Behind the Word (Rwanda), Haunted Souls (Uganda), His to Keep (Kenya), Homecoming (Algeria), Jours d'avant (Tunisia), The Other Woman (Senegal), Projectionist (Morocco), Shoeshine (Tanzania), To Repel Ghost (Cote D’Ivoire), We Meet in Peace (South Sudan), Wooden Hand (Tunisia), Welcome Home (Burundi), Sedhom, Elbostan Elsaid St (Egypt), ABC (Guinea), Anima (Burkina Faso), Au nom du frère (Morocco), Light and Dark (South Africa), Made in Gougou (Tunisia), Upright Men (Benin), Madame Esther (Madagascar), Sidhom (Egypt), Tao Tao (Burkina Faso),  We Meet in Peace (South Sudan), Welcome Home (Burundi), Wooden Hand (Tunisia), To Repel Ghost (South African), ABC (Guinea), Anima (Burkina Faso), In the Name of Brother (Morocco), Azul (Tunisia), Erkie (Egypt), Lettre du Voyant (Ghana), Light and Dark (South Africa), The School (Nigro), Jambo Amani (Congo), Upright Men (Benin).

The International Freedom Competition will include Azu (Venezuela), Behind the Smoke Screen (Iraq), Bledo (Serbia), Fuelling Poverty (Nigeria), Logical Revolt (Egypt), My Stolen Revolution (Iran), Story of Mount Elgon (Kenya), Red Moon (Morocco), Black Page (Iraq).
 

The Official Out of Competition Section includes Diego Star (Cote D’Ivoire), Late for My Mother’s Funeral (Algeria), I am the film director (Egypt), Wavumba (Sierra Leone), Women in Politics (Sierra Leone).
 

Johannes Holzhausen’s new documentary film The Great Museum portrays one of the preeminent museums of the world: the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (KHM). The film undertakes an extended journey behind the scenes of this fascinating and unique institution with its multifaceted day-to-day life and its rich cast of characters. Holzhausen’s portrait frames the KHM as a prism through which to reflect upon cultural policy, the institutionalized industry of art and culture and the role of museums. Following its premiere at the Berlinale Forum, The Great Museum will be celebrating its Austrian premiere at the Diagonale. Watch teaser.

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Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters, Jury President James Schamus, and Festival Director Dieter Kosslick will open the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast at 7.30 pm on February 6. During the Opening Gala, the International Jury will be introduced. In addition to James Schamus (USA), its members are Barbara Broccoli (USA), Trine Dyrholm (Denmark), Mitra Farahani (Iran), Greta Gerwig (USA), Michel Gondry (France), Tony Leung (People’s Republic of China), and Christoph Waltz (Austria). Anke Engelke will again host the evening. This year’s music will be provided by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour. The event will be broadcast live on television by ZDF/3sat.

Following the Opening Gala, Wes Anderson’s TheGrand Budapest Hotel will have its world premiere. The American cult director has brought together an array of stars in the ensemble of his new comedy, and many of them have announced their arrival: Wes Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saiorse Ronan, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Léa Seydoux, Willem Dafoe, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, and Jeremy Dawson will all be on hand to present the film in Berlin.

The members of the International Jury and the Best First Feature Award Jury are all expected on the Red Carpet. Other international and national guests are also anticipated: Bradley Cooper, Denis Dercourt, John Hurt, Nazif Mujić, David O. Russell, Taika Waititi, Jasmila Žbanić, Aziz Zhambakiyev, Maren Ade, Mario Adorf, Feo Aladag, Thomas Arslan, Harry Baer, Marie Bäumer, Meret Becker, Bibiana Beglau, Iris Berben, Christian Berkel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sebastian Blomberg, Matthias Brandt, Anna Brüggemann, Dietrich Brüggemann, Ingrid Caven, Henriette Confurius, Pepe Danquart, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Andreas Dresen, Katja Eichinger, Lars Eidinger, Hannelore Elsner, Stipe Erceg, Veronica Ferres, Florian David Fitz, Inka Friedrich, Maria Furtwängler, Florian Gallenberger, Bruno Ganz, Martina Gedeck, Matthias Glasner, Herbert Grönemeyer, Philip Gröning, Michael Gwisdek, Monika Hansen, Corinna Harfouch, Benjamin Heisenberg, Karoline Herfurth, Hannah Herzsprung, Nina Hoss, Henry Hübchen, Sandra Hüller, Hannes Jaenicke, Julia Jentsch, Vanessa Jopp, Sibel Kekilli, Friederike Kempter, Burghart Klaußner, Herbert Knaup, Sebastian Koch, Juliane Köhler, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Nicolette Krebitz, Joachim Król, David Kross, Maren Kroymann, Günter Lamprecht, Dani Levy, Jan Josef Liefers, Peter Lohmeyer, Anna Loos-Liefers, Florian Lukas, Heike Makatsch, Mišel Matičević, Eva Mattes, Ulrich Matthes, Elyas M'Barek, Jeanine Meerapfel, Michael Mendl, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Anna Maria Mühe, Sandra Nettelbeck, Christiane Paul, Milan Peschel, Franziska Petri, Christian Petzold, Katja Riemann, Max Riemelt, Armin Rohde, Saskia Rosendahl, Udo Samel, Clemens Schick, Frieder Schlaich, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans-Christian Schmid, Maria Schrader, Katharina Schüttler, Jessica Schwarz, Peter Simonischek, Florian Stetter, Lena Stolze, Ernst Stötzner, Jasmin Tabatabai, Aylin Tezel, Anna Thalbach, Jördis Triebel, Tom Tykwer, Idil Üner, Andres Veiel, Justus von Dohnányi, Vera von Lehndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Nora von Waldstetten, Mark Waschke, Hans Weingartner, Ina Weisse, Franziska Weisz, Lavinia Wilson, Gustav-Peter Wöhler, Ronald Zehrfeld, Hanns Zischler as well as many others.

A number of prominent German politicians have also announced their attendance, including: Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament; Federal Foreign Minster Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière; Mayor of Berlin and Senator Michael Müller as well as many others.

A number of ambassadors are expected as well.

The recipient of the Vision Award will be Oscar prize-winner Garrett Brown, creator of the revolutionary Steadicam®.

Following the award to special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull in 2013, the Festival continues its dedication to distinguishing those who, through their inspirations and technical knowledge, have left their mark on film history. The 67th edition of the Festival will pay tribute to the American cameraman Garrett Brown, who, in the 1970s created and perfected the famous Steadicam – the camera support that enables shooting movement fluidly while retaining a stabilized image – and thus revolutionized thinking about and the practice of cinematography.

Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian comments: “It is both an honor and a pleasure to welcome Garrett Brown to Locarno; he is one of those artists who has enabled cinema to make a giant step forward, and for reality to be explored in a new way. Both fluid and muscular, nimble and precise, his Steadicam has made its mark on the horizons of cinema from the 70s to this very day, and in its various patented versions seems an essential tool when both movement and definition are required. Yet choosing Garrett Brown as the recipient of this award is not only to pay tribute to an invention but also to the man behind it. A brilliant cameraman, Brown’s filmography contains so many titles that constitute much of the cinematic heritage of the last forty years.”

Garrett Brown – who won an Oscar in 1977 for the invention of Steadicam – was involved with such classics as Rocky (1976), Star Wars – Return of the Jedi (1983), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Philadelphia (1993), as well as Stanley Kubrick’s TheShining (1980), a film designed to fully exploit the artistic potential of the Steadicam: those images in the labyrinthine corridors of the Overlook Hotel remain engraved in the collective memory.

The major directors with whom Brown has developed close working relationships include Warren Beatty, Jonathan Demme, Frank Oz, John Schlesinger, George Miller, Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, as well as Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.

His experimentation did not stop with the invention of the first Steadicam, and Brown now holds 50 patents for devices that include the Steadicam Merlin – a miniature version for camcorders – and numerous award-winning cameras for sporting events, such as the agile wire-suspended Skycam.

The 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will take place 6 – 16 August, 2014.

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