All Festivals articles – Page 440
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      NewsCasey Affleck predicts “huge upswing” in quality of independent cinema
The filmmaker was in town with his second directorial feature ’Light Of My Life’.
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      FeaturesThe hot German films premiering at the Munich Film Festival 2019
Last year’s Munich break-out was Eva Trobisch’s ‘All Is Good’ .
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      FeaturesMunich’s new artistic director talks about the festival’s elevated international ambitions
An increased budget means new strands, more stars and a VR showcase.
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      FeaturesGerman Films MD Simone Baumann on how the agency is adapting to the age of streaming
”¨Many people in the German film business are now working on high-end series for these new players and we now have to find a way of including them.”
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      Reviews'Old-Timers': Karlovy Vary Review
A pair of ageing WWII veterans set out to exact revenge on the communist prosecutor who once jailed them
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      NewsMunich Film Festival should aim to "overtake" Berlinale, says Bavaria's prime minister
Filmfest director Diana Iljine emphasised Munich does not see itself in competition with Berlin.
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      News'Woman At War' director Benedikt Erlingsson blasts film industry's "carbon-farting crisis" in Karlovy Vary
Director said film festivals ”are part of the problem”.
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      News'Schemers' wins Edinburgh Film Festival audience award
The 2019 EIFF closed with Mrs Lowry & Son yesterday (June 30).
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      NewsBero Beyer to depart Rotterdam Film Festival to head Netherlands Film Fund (exclusive)
He will take over from Doreen Boonekamp in March 2020.
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      Reviews'What Might Have Been': Munich Review
A Budapest break brings the past back to life for two former lovers
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      FeaturesKarlovy Vary 2019: Hong Khaou talks about shooting his “off-kilter” new film 'Monsoon'
UK-based director Hong Khaou’s follow-up to Lilting is making its world premiere in the international competition at Karlovy Vary.
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      NewsFive buzzy titles from the Edinburgh Film Festival
The festival has assembled a strong programme for local audiences.
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      Reviews'Rescue The Fire': Munich Review
Devastating memorial of a Berlin ravaged by AIDS and the late photogapher who captured it
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      NewsKarlovy Vary head Karel Och on the challenge of hosting a festival between Cannes and Venice
Och was disappointed to miss out on Robert Eggers’ ‘The Lighthouse’.
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      FeaturesKarlovy Vary 2019: Lendita Zeqiraj on the energetic, emotional ‘Aga’s House’
The Kosovan filmmaker’s feature debut opened this year’s East of the West competition.
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      Reviews'Aga’s House': Karlovy Vary Review
A group of women live alone in a remote mountain location in Kosovo
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      Reviews‘Schemers’: Edinburgh Review
A concert promoter tries to stage an Iron Maiden concert in 1980s Dundee
 








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