• Academy Museum awards for Haile Gerima and Sophia Loren
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    Academy Museum awards for Haile Gerima and Sophia Loren

    2021-03-08T21:04:00Z

    The awards will be presented at the Los Angeles venue’s opening gala in September. 

  • Teza
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    Teza

    2008-09-02T14:38:00Z

    Dir-scr: Haile Gerima. Ethiopia-Germany-France. 2008. 140mins.Haile Gerima ambitiously attempts to put his native country’s tragic recent history into context in the sprawling Teza, which follows an Ethiopian intellectual through exile in Germany and return to his home village during the turbulent early years of the Marxist ...

  • Locarno’s Open Doors to showcase early films of Brillante Mendoza, Isabel Sandoval and Mouly Surya
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    Locarno’s Open Doors to showcase early films of Brillante Mendoza, Isabel Sandoval and Mouly Surya

    2020-07-16T11:41:00Z

    Screening of Brillante Mendoza’s The Masseur marks centenary of cinema in the Philippines 

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    Teza takes top prize at Spain's Tarifa African Film Festival

    2010-06-01T15:33:00Z

    Festival screened over 100 African films from by dozens of respected filmmakers and producers from Europe and Africa.

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    Match Factory closes Swiss, Italy deals on Venice winner Teza

    2008-09-06T22:40:00Z

    The Match Factory has sold Venice award winner Teza to Switzerland (Trigon) and Italy (Ripley's Film). On Saturday, Haile Gerima's feature won Venice's Special Jury Prize and the Osella for Best Screenplay (also by Gerima). On Friday, it also won the SIGNIS Award special mention and Cinema for UNICEF commendation ...

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    Match Factory handles Venice competitors Jerichow, Teza

    2008-07-31T06:00:00Z

    Cologne-based The Match Factory will handle international sales on two Venice competition titles - Christian Petzold's Jerichow and Haile Gerima's Teza - screening as world premieres at the festival.Jerichow marks The Match Factory's second collaboration with Petzold after his Berlinale 2007 competition film Yella which won lead actress and Petzold ...

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    Venice Film Festival reviews

    2008-09-01T06:43:00Z

    Click to see full reviewCompetitionAchilles And The Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)L'Autre (Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic)Birdwatchers(Marco Bechis)The Burning Plain (Guillermo Arriaga) Giovanni's Father (Pupi Avati)The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)Il Seme Della Discordia (Pappi Corsicato) Inju, The Beast In The Shadow (Barbet Scroeder)Inland (Tariq Teguia)Jerichow (Christian Petzold)A Perfect Day (Ferzan Ozpetek)Milk (Semih ...

  • Aronofsky's The Wrestler takes Golden Lion in Venice
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    Aronofsky's The Wrestler takes Golden Lion in Venice

    2008-09-06T20:56:00Z

    The Venice Film Festival wrapped on Saturday with a Golden Lion award to Darren Aronofsy’s The Wrestler, a film that provided a one-two punch finale for an edition that some considered lacklustre in respect to previous years. (Click here to see Screen review)At the awards ceremony, ...

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    Aan Ja (Over There) receives the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki

    2008-11-24T12:35:00Z

    Aan Ja (Over There) by Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani received the Golden Alexander and $47,000 (Euros 37,000) at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.Romanian production Pescuit Sportiv (Hooked) by Adrian Sitaru was awarded the Special Jury Prize, the Silver Alexander and $28,000 (Euros 22,000).Argentinian Celina Murga was named best director ...

  • Venice jurors to include Gina Kim, Ramin Bahrani, Stuart Gordon
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    Venice jurors to include Gina Kim, Ramin Bahrani, Stuart Gordon

    2009-07-23T17:30:00Z

    The Venice Biennale has announced the international juries for three sections.