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Mit der Preisverleihung und dem Screening von Mati Diops „Dahomey“ geht heute Abend die 62. Viennale zu Ende. Schon jetzt konnten die Veranstalter eine erfreuliche Bilanz ziehen.

„The Village Next to Paradise“ wird heute Abend mit dem Wiener Filmpreis ausgezeichnet (Credit: Doris Erben/Freibeuterfilm)

Mo Harawes „The Village Next to Paradise”, der auch auf der Liste der möglichen Filme für eine Nominierung für den European Film Award steht, wird heute Abend zum Abschluss der 62. Viennale mit dem Wiener Filmpreis ausgezeichnet.

In der Jurybegründung heißt es dazu: „Die Jury verleiht den Wiener Filmpreis 2024 an einen Film, dem es mit eindrücklicher Offenheit gelingt, eine Realität zu zeigen, die aus europäischem Blickwinkel häufig abstrakt bleibt – oder in Form von Newsberichten zur Schlagzeile verkürzt wird. In Somalia, und großteils mit lokalem Team und Set-unerfahrenen Schauspieler:innen gedreht, erzählt ‚The Village Next to Paradise‘ zuvorderst vom Alltag einer Familie. Einstellung um Einstellung verschiebt sich unsere Wahrnehmung der mehrschichtigen Verzweigungen,...

The 20th Camden International Film Festival has wrapped the in-person portion of the event in coastal Maine with the announcement of awards in several categories, including one that will launch a filmmaker into the Oscar race.

Kix, a documentary shot in Budapest, Hungary, won Ciff’s prestigious Harrell Award. Bálint Révész and Dávid Mikulán directed the film that charts the trajectory of Sanyi from “unruly” 8-year-old to young adult in need of a second chance.

“While there are many impressive films that give us a bird’s eye view of the failure of institutions and society, [Kix] showed us what it was like from the ground,” the Harrell jury, comprised of Poh Si Teng, Bing Liu and Courtney Sexton, wrote. “It was delicate and raw, and captured humanity over time.”

The jury also awarded a special mention to Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller, which made its U.S. premiere at Camden...

Another exceptional discovery from the 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival - the Czech documentary I'm Not Everything I Want To Be. This film originally premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier in the year, and also played at Cph:dox, Docs Against Gravity, and IndieLisboa before finally heading to Czechia for its jubilant premiere in its home country at Kviff. It's a ravishing, intimate, affecting look at the life of one Czechoslovakian photographer named Libuše Jarcovjáková. If I must describe this film in one simple sentence to explain what it is: I'm Not Everything I Want To Be is an awe-inspiring photographic version of the classic story of how it takes an entire lifetime for an artist to finally be properly recognized. The doc is a look back at Libuše's life, told entirely through her photographs with her words and her voice recalling every major moment that defined her – from her early...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 58th edition, including new features by Mark Cousins, Noaz Deshe, Oleg Sentsov and Beata Parkanova.

The festival, which runs from June 28-July 6 in the Czech spa town, has selected 34 films for its official selection, which spans the main Crystal Globe Competition, the Proxima Competition and Special Screenings.

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There are 11 world premieres and one international premiere in the Crystal Globe Competition. UK director Cousins world premieres A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things, a documentary portrait of British painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a leading figure in...

”The only way to survive is to take photos,” declares Libuše Jarcovjáková, the iconoclastic star/narrator/guide of Klára Tasovská’s visually arresting (and eye-catching titled) I’m Not Everything I Want to Be. Nominated for the Teddy Documentary Award at this year’s Berlinale, the all-archival film is a globetrotting, black and white trip back in time (primarily to the 80s and 90s) viewed entirely through the rebelliously inquisitive eyes of this “Nan Goldin of Soviet Prague” (in the words of curator Sam Stourdzé). And words. For not only did Jarcovjáková obsessively collect images of both her defiantly unglamorous self and her decidedly adventurous life, […]

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”The only way to survive is to take photos,” declares Libuše Jarcovjáková, the iconoclastic star/narrator/guide of Klára Tasovská’s visually arresting (and eye-catching titled) I’m Not Everything I Want to Be. Nominated for the Teddy Documentary Award at this year’s Berlinale, the all-archival film is a globetrotting, black and white trip back in time (primarily to the 80s and 90s) viewed entirely through the rebelliously inquisitive eyes of this “Nan Goldin of Soviet Prague” (in the words of curator Sam Stourdzé). And words. For not only did Jarcovjáková obsessively collect images of both her defiantly unglamorous self and her decidedly adventurous life, […]

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The 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 – July 8) came to a close this evening with an awards ceremony that bestowed two key prizes to contemporary Bulgarian drama Blaga’s Lessons (Urotcite Na Blaga) by director Stephan Komandarev.

The third film in the director’s trilogy about his country’s social ills focuses on an old woman duped by a telephone scam.

Also among winners on the night were Vincent Perez’s The Edge of the Blade (Une Affaire D’honneur), which took home the audience award, and filmmaker Babak Jalali, who took home the best director prize for the film Fremont.

There were two prizes on the night for Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis (Hypnosen) while the top industry award of 90,000 euros went to Czech film I’m Not Everything I Want to Be, which is currently in post.

As previously revealed, Russell Crowe...