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Sergio Mario López of the 2013 Talent Press Buenos Aires reports from the BAFICI panel discussing the freedom and restraints of digital filmmaking with German director Christoph Hochhäusler.
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Eddy Báez of the 2013 Talent Press Buenos Aires reviews the romantic comedy MAPA, directed by León Siminiani.
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Santiago Gonzalez Cragnolino of the 2013 Talent Press Buenos Aires reviews the chilean movie NO by Pablo Larraín, which opened this year's BAFICI Film Festival.
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Raciel del Toro of the 2013 Guadalajara Talent Press reviews Martín Benchimol's and Pablo Aparo's documentary LA GENTE DEL RIO.
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Marianela González of the 2013 Guadalajara Talent Press reviews two takes on the Latin American family drama: Carlos Cuarón's BESOS DE AZUCAR and Marcelo Gomes' ERASE UNA VEZ YO, VERONICA.
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Lioman Lima Padrón of the 2013 Guadalajara Talent Press reviews Marcelo Gómes' poetic character drama ERA UMA VEZ EU, VERONICA.
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Danis Tanovic captures an intimate episode among a Roma family in Bosnia.
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Joshua Oppenheimer discusses with the Talent Press the impact generated by his astonishing documentary, THE ACT OF KILLING.
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“To what degree am I free to be a filmmaker and not an indigenous filmmaker?”, asks Andrew Okpeaha MacLean in the session “Indigenous Cinema: Beyond Tribe and Nation“.
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Holly Hunter graced the Campus with her reflections on her impressive acting career.
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Soderbergh’s latest is a tightly knit postmodern thriller.
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Matthew Libatique, renowned for his cinematography in BLACK SWAN, in an interview about how digital technology has effected filmmaking.
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The master sound designer and film editor Walter Murch reveals the secrets of good sound.
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Talent Press meets a working producer and director, with a particularly personal project in the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
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Talking-head documentary NO MAN’S LAND (Berlinale Forum) challenges traditional ways of turning outstanding life stories into history.
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Romanian drama CHILD'S POSE is a front-runner for the Golden Bear.
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Two documentaries similar in form but completely different in effect are part of the Berlinale Homage to Claude Lanzmann.
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The provocative Dutch director talks to the Talent Press about reconciling art and entertainment.
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Over a coffee with Campus alumna Neus Ballús who made it to Berlinale Forum with her debut feature THE PLAGUE.
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What is being? Is it just another form of acting? As in a Shakespeare play, everybody could be anybody in VIOLA.
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Boris Khlebnikov tells the story of a rural man with a dilemma that turns into an existential tragedy.
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Anne Kodura’s meticulously composed documentary struggles to outgrow its childlike gaze.
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Matthew Porterfield’s third feature is a melancholy, sympathetic, but ultimately shaky step into full-fledged fiction filmmaking.
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Film criticism in Croatia has an excellent tradition, providing an encouraging background for my activity. I try to put a spotlight on those films that expand our understanding of film language and offer an inspiring vision for perceiving the real.
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There are many ways of understanding films beyond the aesthetic of the New Romanian Cinema, with its international acclaim and revolutionary aesthetic. My role as a critic is to recognize as many of these forms and be able to describe them eloquently.
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I like the idea of a critic as a writing-inclined cinephile, using the exercise as an excuse to get smarter; to frame film consumption within a process of active investigation, research and potential (self-)discovery.
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Developing a career as a film critic in Britain is no mean feat. The competition is fierce, but becoming a film critic starts with assuming a vocation, rather than a job title.
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Claire Diao, participant of the 2012 Durban talent Press, interviews Nashen Moodley, who was the manager of the Durban International Film Festival for 11 years and is now the director of the Sydney Film Festival.
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2012 Durban Talent Press participant Katarina Hedrén interviews Rwandan filmmaker Kivu Ruhorahoza, the director of GREY MATTERS, whose first short film CONFESSION (2006) won the City of Venice Award at the Milan African Film Festival.
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Sihle Mthembu, participant of the Durban Talent Press, reviews Paddy Considine's TYRANNOSAUR at the Durban International Film Festival.
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Natalia Barrenha reports from the lecture Found Footage and Editing: Structural Film and History in the Films of Carlos Adriano at the Talent Campus Buenos Aires.
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Luciana Calcagno reviews Bruno Dumont's HORS SATAN, shown at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente.
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant Mayle González Mirabal reviews Alejandro Brugués' Cuban zombie parable JUAN OF THE DEAD at the Guadalajara Film Festival.
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant José Juan Zapata Pacheco reports from the Michael Nyman Gala evening. where Nyman's Film WITNESS I (2008) was screened alongside Jean Vigo's À PROPOS DE NICE (1930).
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant Luis Vaca reviews Eryk Rocha's debut film PASSERBY.
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant Jose Juan Zapata Pacheco reviews Raul Fuentes' debut film EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMEBODY... NOT ME.
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Lucía Salas of the 2013 Talent Press Buenos Aires reports from the BAFICI panel discussing the history, present and future of Chile's film industry.
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Lucía Salas of the 2013 Talent Press Buenos Aires reviews the LEVIATHAN by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel from the Avant-garde and Genre Section.
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Liomán Lima of the 2013 Guadalajara Talent Press reviews Raúl Ruiz' unfinished film project LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE.
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Marianela González of the 2013 Guadalajara Talent Press reviews Juan Carlos Maneglia's and Tana Schembori's 7 CAJAS.
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Raciel del Toro Hernández of the 2013 Guadalajara Talent Press reviews Patricia Correa's and Valentina Mac-Pherson's documentary LAS MUJERES DEL PASAJERO.
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By celebrating the everyday over the epic, STEPPING ON FLYING GRASS becomes an epic in its own right.
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Spirits from LEVIATHAN are frozen in time on the walls of a crematorium.
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Jane Campion comments on her career with her usual modesty.
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Three filmmakers from Southern Europe report on their experiences making art in a time of crisis.
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Israeli director Tom Shoval talks about the relationship between film and viewer and the filmmaker’s means of controlling it.
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Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel on the power of language and reality.
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Legendary avant-garde playwright and theatre director Richard Foreman returns to filmmaking with the astounding ONCE EVERY DAY.
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Ulrich Seidl sits down with Ariel Esteban Cayer to discuss PARADISE: HOPE.
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African filmmakers discuss their urban realities in the Campus' “Set in the City“ session.
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Max Ophüls’ THE TROUBLE WITH MONEY might have failed at the box office, but certainly not on the artistic front. It’s a gem waiting to be rediscovered.
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Denis Côté’s elegant film reveals unsuspected levels of cruelty in human nature.
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Interview
What made LES MISÉRABLES the trail-blazing musical it has become?
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Sexual minorities in Cameroon pour their hearts out to open-minded foreign audiences.
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The ever-charismatic Joseph Gordon-Levitt crafts an engaging and amusing directorial debut.
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Orson Welles’ TOUCH OF EVIL treats moral uncertainty as a bleeding wound.
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Since 2005, the Robert Bosch Stiftung has been associated with Eastern Europe, this year its mission expands eastward to the Arab world.
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South African drama ELELWANI raises the pertinent argument of tradition versus modernism, but loses steam on the way.
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Inspired low-budget filmmaking in this Berlinale Panorama entry: A knight in shining armor-story with a twist.
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In India, film criticism in its strictest definition doesn’t adequately exist. But I’m very comfortable with the professional identity of a film critic, which is that of an opinion-shaper. I recognize the impactful nature of my writing, and the decisive role it plays in shaping the perspective of readers.
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Public enlightenment is the name of the game now, and I certainly don’t want to be left out. Indonesian cinema desperately needs a second chance from its own public. I must contribute, one article at a time.
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The times are changing in Peru. Old and useless ideas have started to fade away and a new generation of filmmakers, producers, actors and critics are leading cinema in the country with things we had never seen before.
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Talent Press Durban 2012 perticipant Katarina Hedrén talks to Alain Gomis's about his latest film TEY, in which death is polite enough to announce its arrival.
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Talent Press Durban 2012 participant Claire Diao shines a light on the polyinguistic nature of African cinema and the state of its film and festival landscape.
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Durban talent Press 2012 participant Sihle Mthembu reviews Micha X Peled's latest documentary BITTER SEEDS, which explores the epidemic of farmer suicides in India.
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Talent Press Durban participant Claire Diao reports from the opening ceremony of the 2012 Durban International Film Festival and reviews its opening film ELELWANI.
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Fidel Intriago reports from the first lecture of the 2012 Buenos Aires Talent Campus: Beatriz Sarlo’s take on History and Film.
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An interview with Celina Murga, whose documentary feature ESCUELA NORMAL is presented at a special screening at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente.
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Talent Press Guadalajara participantMabel Machado reviews Raul Fuentes' debut film EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMEBODY... NOT ME.
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant Luis Vaca reviews Kai Parlange's INNER SPACE (ESPACIO INTERIOR).
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant Luis Vaca reviews Alejandro Brugués’ Cuban zombie parable JUAN OF THE DEAD.
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Talent Press Guadalajara participant Mabel Machado reviews Eryk Rocha's laureate first film PASSERBY (TRANSEUNTE).
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