All articles by Alexis Grivas – Page 5
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Greece guest of honour at Cannes
Nine young Greek producers selected to promote their projects at Cannes.
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FeaturesAthens Francophone Film Festival
Photos from the 14th edition of the festival, which ran April 4-14.
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NewsOur Children wins at Athens Francophone festival
Festival guests include Alexandre Desplat and Carole Bouquet.
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NewsBird's Food wins Hellenic award
Harsh criticism for the lack of state support for film production and the downgrading of the ministry of Culture.
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NewsBlood Brother wins at Thessaloniki
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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FeaturesThessaloniki Documentary Festival
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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NewsClandestine Childhood wins at Guadalajara
Benjamin Avila’s debut feature scooped the top prize in the Iberoamerican competition at the 28th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG).
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FeaturesGuadalajara International Film Festival
Photos from the 28th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, which ran March 1-9.
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NewsZappelphillip (The Fidgeter) wins Grand Prize at FIPA
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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NewsDeath of a Man in the Balkans wins Athens' 25th Panorama of European Cinema Festival
Sandrine Bonnaire wins best director.
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NewsTobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking wins at Thessaloniki
Danish thriller A Hijacking (Kapringen) has won the Golden Alexander at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
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NewsThessaloniki fest awards production prizes
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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NewsHoly Motors to kick off Thessaloniki
Expected guests include Bahman Ghobadi, Aki Kaurismaki, Costa Gavras, Cristian Mungiu and Andreas Dresen.
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NewsMatch Factory strikes co-production deal in Greece
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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NewsGreece submits Unfair World to Oscar race
Philippos Tsitos’ Unfair World (Adikos kosmos) is the Greek submission to the Foreign Language Academy Award race.
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NewsUrsula Meier's Sister wins top prize in Athens
Other winners include An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Una Noche, Teddy Bear and Searching for Sugar Man.
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NewsAthens festival kicks off today with 179-film programme
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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FeaturesFortaleza festival
Images from the 22nd Fortaleza Iberoamerican Film festival in northeastern Brazil (Ceara state). All photos by Rogerio Resende.
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NewsFortaleza awards led by Violeta Went To Heaven
Rat Fever, A Love Story, Bertsolari among other winners at the Brazilian festival.
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NewsMeirelles plans October start of shoot for Onassis film
EXCLUSIVE: Fernando Meirelles says that Nemesis, his upcoming film about tycoon Aristotle Onassis, will start shooting for 10 weeks in October in Croatia, where location scouting is actually under way.