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	Film festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A film festival is a mostly annual festival showcasing films, usually of a recent date, sometimes with a focus on a specific genre (e.g.
		The world's first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932; the other major film festivals of the world (Cannes, Berlin, Moscow and Karlovy Vary) date back to the 1940s and 1950s.
		The festivals in Toronto, Venice, Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Moscow, (since 2002) Locarno and Karlovy Vary are listed as so-called "A festivals", or the most prestigious in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_festival (158 words)

	56. Locarno International Film Festival - Ökumenische Filmjury
		During the 56th edition of its film festival, Locarno proved to be a real hot spot and at the same time the location for a truly cool festival.
		Locarno’s film festival is relaxed, a festival for the people, where every night the viewers on the Piazza Grande are the first stars, recorded on film before the open-air screening begins and put on the big screen as they take their places.
		Among the nineteen films that were shown in the international competition, there were many images of families and of young people growing up in them, between mothers who were sometimes strong and sometimes overburdened and fathers who were often absent.
	www.kirchen.ch /filmjury/text_detail.php?nemeid=29999 (902 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival
		It was during the filming of Ossos in Lisbon, Costa's last film that was well received at Venice 97, that he met Vanda Duarte and decided to make his next film about her.
		The Locarno Film Festival inaugurated a new sidebar section, the King of the Bs, where the goal is to present innovative works that would qualify as B movies.
		At this year's Locarno he was recently dubbed King of the B's, a title he certainly deserves for his ability to constantly re-shape and revive the genre.
	www.filmfestivals.com /locarno_2000 (461 words)

	Description of Selected News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		TEHRAN - The Iranian film **I, Taraneh Am 15 directed by Rasoul Sadr Ameli was screened on August 8 in the competition section of the Locarno International Film Festival**.
		He went on to say that more Iranian films should be screened at international festivals, adding that the films actually carry the cultural message of the people of Iran to the world.
		Japanese critic Yuji Hiro, who is also attending the festival, believes that Iranian films use new ways to express things and encourage people to reflect on their lives.
	www.tehrantimes.com /archives/Description.asp?Da=8/11/02&Cat=10&Num=5 (211 words)

	Swiss Films News
		The Locarno International Film Festival is not only the largest and most important international film event in Switzerland, it also allows the best international exposure for Swiss films.
		Films accepted for the “Appellations Suisse” series are those which have been either screened in the cinema or invited to an important festival since the previous Locarno Film Festival.
		In addition, Georges Schwizgebel is celebrating international success with his new animated film “L'homme sans ombre” (with screenings and awards in Cannes (Critics’ Week), as well as in competitions at animated film festivals in Annecy and in Zagreb).
	www.swissfilms.ch /detail_n.asp?id=2137728708 (435 words)

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		Locarno is generous and inventive, which speaks to the world from the Canton Ticino, in the heart of Europe.
		International Competition: The competition section is for full-length features by both new and established directors, with a special focus on films which introduce new styles or models of representing reality and experiment with form.
		Films must not have been shown at other international festivals or distributed outside their territory of origin.
	www.afc.gov.au /marketingyourfilm/festivals/festival_22.aspx (966 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival
		The Dutch director of such famed films as Robocop and Basic Instinct went on stage to receive the 12th Leopard of Honour of the Locarno festival and addressed the audience with his usual sincerity and wit.
		Similar to Cannes Festival's International Critics'Week, the Swiss body is made of seven selectors (chosen from the 120 members of the Association of Swiss film critics) who select 7 films.
		The turn-of-the-century film The House of Mirth by Terence Davies was to have been the Piazza screening Saturday night, shown instead in the Rex and Fevi theatres to full houses.
	www.filmfestivals.com /locarno_2000/news.htm (982 words)

	53rd Locarno International Film Festival reviewed
		Locarno Film Festival, 53 years old this year, is the biggest of the small European festivals.
		Locarno, like any festival, is strapped for cash; accordingly, the organisation has been revamped over the last year under a new president, Giuseppe Buffi, who sadly died in July.
		Films with modestly starry casts who can be flown in for a few solid days of back-to-back interviews, thus ensuring some sort of media coverage down the track.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/00/9/liff.html (1231 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival
		The surprise film of the festival, Baba, ceased to be a surprise.
		If the film is to be given an existence abroad, it will be through this only copy," said the director who, unable to tame the censorship in 5 years, has since quit making films and devoted himself to writing and even acting.
		As the festival is coming to an end, rumours about the competition winner start to expand, and Naomi Kawase's beautiful Fireflies scintillate in many eyes.
	www.filmfestivals.com /locarno_2000/d9.htm (390 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival
		It was the Fox Annual Locarno Party that hosted the after-screening X-Men bash at the Lido nightclub, beachside on the Lake (Lago Maggiore), attended by Singer and his co-screenwriter Tom DeSanto along with the Swiss press and local guests.
		And the town folk don't take their festival lightly: Every shop window has its leopard (yellow with fl spot) decorations, from the candy and the street signs to the umbrellas for sale and the place settings on the restaurant tables.
		The unshaven Marco Muller, festival director, was clearly in mourning and dedicated the 53rd edition to the late president.
	www.filmfestivalspro.com /locarno_2000/d1.htm (451 words)

	Fajr International Film festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Set in the 60s, the film tells the Story of Lieutenant Danial who becomes seriously wounded during he uprising by Colonel Ghyas, and is secretly sheltered by Runak, a simple-hearted girl who imagines Danial is her Scarecrow.
		He is also active as a screenwriter, and was jury member for the competition of first and second films at the 9th Fajr International Film Festival, and the competition Iranian cinema at 15th Fajr International Film Festival.
		Her films like "The chamber strork", "The Maiden and the soldier" and "The Country doctor" have won several international prizes and awards (e.g silver Bear in Berlin 1996).
	www.fajrfilmfest.com /competition/far/international-film-detail-eng.htm (3522 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Swiss film festival's Indian summer
		The festival has attracted more than 500 films from across the world for the 56th festival, with 27 of them world premières and 19 in competition for the main prize, the Golden Leopard.
		The 38-minute film, which is not in competition for the main prize, is about a young boy's fight to save his family during the bitter civil war in the breakaway Russian republic.
		As Locarno swelters in the sun, and its film fans seek shelter in the air-conditioned cinemas, Ms Bignardi said the festival was building a real bond with film-lovers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3141831.stm (683 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival
		The recent edition of the Locarno Film Festival inaugurated a new sidebar section, the King of the Bs, where the goal is to present innovative works that would qualify as B movies.
		Rather than being faithful to the goal of seeking the newest in the genre, festival organizers opted instead to open King of the Bs to already established directors and producers.
		This first edition of the King of the B's certainly gave the Locarno audience a better exposure to an otherwise unknown genre (and one which is usually forgotten entirely at such large festivals).
	www.filmfestivalspro.com /locarno_2000/kingB.htm (515 words)

	GFC News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Penny Panayotopoulou's film Hard goodbyes: MY FATHER is a tender and deeply emotional film that deals with loss, death and the difficulty of parting as seen through the eyes of a child who suddenly loses his father.
		The film will be presented in Locarno on 7 August and it has already been selected to participate in the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
		It should be noted that the Locarno Film Festival is a major international festival, first in line after Cannes, Berlin and Venice.
	www.gfc.gr /8/81/news.asp?id=192 (632 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival 2002 supplement
		Longley's film conveys the urgency of the situation in a way that has nothing to do with the melodramatic entertainment on TV.
		It is true that certain propagandistic fairy-tales seem totally discredited: Palestinian parents don't send their children to throw stones, and on the contrary, may even tie them up at home to keep them from being fired upon.
		The film closes on the silent gaze of an elderly man. His eyes are fl like suffering, eyes which have witnessed too much.
	www.littleredbutton.com /gaza/webdo.html (725 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival:<br>3 - 13 August 2005 - Switzerland Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Locarno International Film Festival in one of the world top cinematic all-feature event where experimentation and entertainment, the cultural and spectacular, meet and mix successfully.
		Traditionally, Locarno aims to promote personal filmmaking of artistic merit, to provide a showcase for major new films of the year from around the world and to take stock, in its competitive section, of the new perspectives of filmmaking expression, concentrating especially on such new film directors and industries as command international attention.
		Moreover, the Locarno Festival has established itself in recent years as an important industry showcase for auteur filmmaking, a perfect networking opportunity for distributors, buyers and producers from around the world.
	www.myswitzerland.com /html/navpage-Events-Top_Events-8603.html (310 words)

	Locarno International Film Festival
		Today was Swiss cinema day in Locarno, with an award ceremony and a midnight swinging party held in its honour.
		His half-hour 35mm film Sanyu, presented in Locarno in the Filmmakers of the Present section, is about a close friend who died 40 years ago in Paris, the Chinese painter Sanyu.
		Terence Davies' new film, an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, The House of Mirth, is a romantic tale set in early 20th century Glascow-on-Hudson in which a woman risks losing her chance for happiness with the only man she has ever really loved.
	www.filmfestivalspro.com /locarno_2000/portraits_interviews.htm (1206 words)

	FILM: Film Resources Online: Festivals
		The homepage for the Berlin Film Festival, one of the oldest film fests in the world, taking place each February.
		An annual, international festival of fantasy and action cinema, held in Montreal each summer.
		Now more than 50 years old, Switzerland's annual film festival held in August is one of the longest-running in the world.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /phillips-film-1e/festivals.htm (254 words)

	FINDING PICTURES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Geissler, 37, had come to research a film on Schulz, a tragic figure who, it was once said, was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died as a Jew.
		Filmed in six countries with interviews done in various languages of the Jewish diaspora, the film is a montage without a narrating voice, punctuated with readings from Schulz's published works.
		Interesting is the first phase of the inquiry, with the father of the film director f accompanied by Alfred Schreyer, who moves around the small Ukrainian village between phone calls and visits 'With the local inhabitants, capturing at the same time interesting moments of daily life and testimonials on what was happening 60 years ago.
	members.aol.com /GeisslFilm/Bilder-e.htm (5304 words)

	Girish Karnada will be a jury for Locarno film fest
		The Locarno International Film Festival aims to promote personal filmmaking of artistic merit; to provide a showcase for major new films of the year from around the world; to take stock, in its competitive section, of the new perspectives of filmmaking expression, concentrating especially on such new film directors and industries as command international attention.
		A minimum of five and a maximum of seven personalities from the world of cinema and culture will be invited by the Director and President to form the Festival's international Jury.
		The Locarno Film Festival is organized by the Festival Association.
	www.viggy.com /english/chow_girish_karnad.asp (341 words)

	Antar Mahal at Locarno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Rituparno Ghosh's Antar Mahal has been selected in the 'competition section' of the 58th Locarno International Film Festival.
		Screening his films on International platform is not new for this talented filmmaker, as his previous Choker Bali was selected for Locarno last year besides 17 other film festivals.
		"Locarno is a perfect platform for showcasing Indian films globally as Indian films are very well treated here," he adds.
	www.indiafm.com /scoop/05/may/2705antarmahal/index.shtml (107 words)

	PARDO: 49th Locarno International film festival
		Ever conscious of its tradition of innovation, the Locarno International Film Festival has decided to refine its competitive sections, to maintain its reputation as the festival at which new talents are discovered.
		Locarno has always had a mission to showcase the most contemporary forms of cinema, works which often defy conventional categorisation, and which are made on video.
		In parallel to the international competition films, for the past six years the Locarno festival has organised another competitive section devoted to short films, the 'Leopards of Tomorrow', whose programmes are regular sell-outs.
	www.pardo.ch /1996/main17.html (2062 words)

	Thessaloniki Festival to Host Two Iranian Films
		The two films will be screened at the New Horizons section putting special emphasis on all that is new, dynamic and radical in the world cinema.
		Iranian female star Niki Karimi was one of the members of jury in the 43rd festival.
		The film also attained the special award of Jury in the 56th Locarno International Film Festival on
	www.mehrnews.com /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=35274 (154 words)

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		In 1989 he moved to Milan, and after acquiring vast experience in the field of television in the early 90s, in 1995 he began to write as an Entertainment jourmalist.
		He is now in the process of producing the film with Nicolas Cage.
		While still in graduate film school at UCLA, David produced the romantic comedy "Shooting Lily" directed by Arthur Borman, which won the1996 South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
	www.miffmilanofestival.com /giuria_3_c.shtml (653 words)

	MCN Press Release: Chicago Film Fest Awards
		CHICAGO - October 17 - The 40th Chicago International Film Festival, the oldest competitive film festival in North America, brings 109 feature films and 54 short films from 44 countries to Chicago, Oct. 7-21.
		Today, the Festival is proud to announce the results of this year's film competitions.
		Also, the jury unanimously recommends that the Festival give a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ousmane Sembene, whose first film appeared in the same year as the first Chicago International Film Festival.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Notepad/2004/041017_pr.html (1115 words)

	Festival Details: Locarno International Film Festival
		Locarno, Switzerland is the picturesque site for the first of the major August European festivals.
		The 58th Locarno International Film Festival will open with Indian director Ketan Mehta's story of India's first rebellion against foreign rule in the mid- 19th century "The Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey," preceded by short film "Village Football by Sainath Coundhury" (India).
		Festival organizers have announced the lineup for the 57th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival, which will be held in the Swiss town from August 4-14.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/festivals/locarno_international_film_festival.html (307 words)

	Vietnamese International Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Non Song had the opportunity to interview Minh Nguyen Vo (who, by the way, was UCLA VSA President in the early 80s) at the Seattle Film Festival in January 2005.
		It’s also a period film set in the 40s, so there is a lot of background noise from cars and motorboats that is not supposed to be in this movie.
		I don’t think of making this film for the Vietnamese audience or the American audience in particular, I just wrote something that I feel is closest to me and moves me the most.
	www.vietfilmfest.com /minhnguyenvo.html (1408 words)

	Fespaco 2005 \| Special Features \| South Africa at the festival \| BBC World Service
		The film uses a unique stop motion animation technique known as Junkmation to create the different worlds that the film inhabits.
		In a period of three years, twelve digital films are being made to strengthen the basis for independent cinema in the country.
		In the film, an ex-cop played by Arnold Vosloo granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission seeks out the family of one of his apartheid-era victims to ask them for forgiveness.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/fespaco2005/special_features/festival.shtml (464 words)

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