All articles by Alexis Grivas – Page 5 2n5r3j
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Our Children wins at Athens Francophone festival 425w46
Festival guests include Alexandre Desplat and Carole Bouquet.
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Bird's Food wins Hellenic award 4f37a
Harsh criticism for the lack of state for film production and the downgrading of the ministry of Culture.
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Blood Brother wins at Thessaloniki 722n5n
The 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival-Images of the 21st Century (March 15-24) and its concurrent Doc Film Market drew to a close with a series of awards.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 1y6w5l
The 15th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival held its awards ceremony on Saturday [March 23], with Nikos Dayandas’ Little Land among the winners.
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Clandestine Childhood wins at Guadalajara 5b6662
Benjamin Avila’s debut feature scooped the top prize in the Iberoamerican competition at the 28th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG).
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Guadalajara International Film Festival 2z3c29
Photos from the 28th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, which ran March 1-9.
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Zappelphillip (The Fidgeter) wins Grand Prize at FIPA 145v5k
German drama Zappelphillip (The Fidgeter) has won the Golden FIPA Grand Prize at the 26th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz.
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Death of a Man in the Balkans wins Athens' 25th Panorama of European Cinema Festival 2w216h
Sandrine Bonnaire wins best director.
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Tobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking wins at Thessaloniki 17j31
Danish thriller A Hijacking (Kapringen) has won the Golden Alexander at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
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Thessaloniki fest awards production prizes b356x
Female film-makers won top prizes at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), where hefty sums were also handed to local productions by broadcaster ERT for the first time since 2010.
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Holy Motors to kick off Thessaloniki 1h6h1m
Expected guests include Bahman Ghobadi, Aki Kaurismaki, Costa Gavras, Cristian Mungiu and Andreas Dresen.
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Match Factory strikes co-production deal in Greece 4n3yt
Match Factory head Michael Weber is to be co-producer and world sales agent on Greek auteur Yannis Economides’ as-yet-untitled next feature, which is set to start shooting early next year.
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Greece submits Unfair World to Oscar race 2u1b11
Philippos Tsitos’ Unfair World (Adikos kosmos) is the Greek submission to the Foreign Language Academy Award race.
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Ursula Meier's Sister wins top prize in Athens 5w1fl
Other winners include An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Una Noche, Teddy Bear and Searching for Sugar Man.
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Athens festival kicks off today with 179-film programme 6b2p1n
Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone, starring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rising Belgian star Matthias Schoenaerts, and Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild will bookend the 18th Athens International Film Festival-Cosmote.
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Fortaleza festival 6e2n38
Images from the 22nd Fortaleza Iberoamerican Film festival in northeastern Brazil (Ceara state). All photos by Rogerio Resende.
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Fortaleza awards led by Violeta Went To Heaven 5q344f
Rat Fever, A Love Story, Bertsolari among other winners at the Brazilian festival.
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Meirelles plans October start of shoot for Onassis film 63h1c
EXCLUSIVE: Fernando Meirelles says that Nemesis, his film about tycoon Aristotle Onassis, will start shooting for 10 weeks in October in Croatia, where location scouting is actually under way.
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Greek crisis forces Thessaloniki to abandon cash prizes 4n3d2r
The Thessaloniki Film Festival (Nov 2-11) has been forced to cancel this year’s cash prizes for its Alexander Awards.
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Hellenic Film Academy honours go to Unfair World, City of Children, Christmas Tango 5j5q3j
Awards handed out amidst post-electoral uncertainties; Unfair World to be official Greek Oscar submission.
