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- Giorgio Diritti - Director: “It was a massacre of innocents”
After his feature debut The Wind Blows Round, which benefited from unexpected word of mouth, Giorgio Diritti returns with an ambitious second film
- Frédéric Mermoud - Director: “Shattering the stereotypical image of the butch female cop in a leather jacket”
After several acclaimed shorts, Swiss-born, French-based director Frédéric Mermoud has made an impressive transition to features with a film presented at Locarno and lauded at Chicago
- Venice 2010 - Horizons
- A new, visual step forward
According to Venice Film Festival (September 1-11) director Marco Mueller, the new and improved Horizons sidebar will “stimulate attentive, vigil and passionate watching and offer in exchange a visual step forward”. The previously announced…
- Films - Turkey/Bulgaria - Erdem creates enchantingly bizarre world in Kosmos
One of Turkey’s most versatile directors, Reha Erdem, returns after My Only Sunshine with an even more demanding but also more engaging and impressive story, Kosmos, about a hobo, thief and shaman of the same name, which screened at the Sarajevo Film…
- Festivals - Norway - Hamer in competition at San Sebastian for first time
Bent Hamer’s Home for Christmas will be vying for a Golden Shell at the 58th San Sebastian Film Festival (September 17-25) in Spain. This will be the established Norwegian director’s first time competing at San Sebastian. Four of his five previous films…
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