The Arab Film Festival hold open the doors to Berlin’s Babylon Cinema this week, celebrating its fourth year offering a new lens through which to see the Arab world. In its Opening Night, Monday 5th October, we were welcomed by the warmly lit faces of the festival family to it’s beautifully subtle prologue, FIDAÏ by […]
Drive on, Grove: Elliot Grove’s Best of Berlin and how Berlin can do it better
Live! Ammunition! by Raindance Film Festival Sputnik Kino, 26 October 2012 Live! Ammunition! signaled our attention last Friday, stepping into Berlin’s Sputnik Kino, for a serious relay of 2 minute pitching. Screenwriters, directors or filmmakers of any calling were given the opportunity to lure the jury into their dream […]
Jury Member Jana Cisar on Warsaw Film Festival’s Future
Warsaw Film Festival 2012, 28th edition Jury member, Jana Cisar Documentary Competition Thanks to the team at the Warsaw Film Festival 2012, we were able to plan a quicky eastward to enjoy the final resolutions in its last days. Nested in the spaces between some fierce film competition, we met a few interesting people, […]
Israel Film Festival Berlin, ‘POLICEMAN’ and the stink of masculinity
Festival ground report. Israel Film Festival, 18 October 2012, 20:00 Moviemento Cinema Berlin, Germany The trial. Upon discovering the Israel Film Festival, I had to stop myself from glaring judgmentally into it’s flaws. It, and the Porn Film Festival Berlin shared the same format: 70 or so films all within four days at […]
He sleeps with Polanski: Marcin Łuczaj on his Polish love affair with Żubroffka
Taking place in a city which uniquely ‘hangs’ between Europe’s East and West, Żubroffka International Short Film Festival is an event we continue to check up on; always energized by it’s entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe’s festival circuit. With the major expansion planned for their seventh edition, 5-9 December 2012, we joined fresh faced programmer […]
DIE LETZTE STADT to Hollywood • 48 Hour Film Project • Berlin 2012
Festival ground report. 48 Hour Film Project 9 October 2012, 20:00 Babylon Cinema Berlin, Germany Hundreds of filmmakers. Running a little late, I screeched the back breaks of my bike to the racks footing Berlin’s Babylon, camera balancing in my fingertips, phone in the other hand (dialing our FFL camera […]
A List Festivals, a tightly curated list.
In your hot and clammy hands you need more tightly curated festival lists, relevant festival deadlines and a hell of a lot of time and patience. Here’s a A list film festivals we dedicated time to this week to add to your briefcase. As a result of the numerous festivals operating each year in the […]
DOK LEIPZIG – The Documentary and animation festival forum
[decoline]International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film: [details] [item title=”City”]Leipzig[/item] [item title=”Country”]Germany[/item] [item title=”Founded”]1955[/item] [item title=”Edition”]55th[/item] [item title=”Date”]10/29 – 11/04/2012 [/item] [item title=”URL”]DOK Leipzig[/item] [item title=”Entry fee”]none[/item] [/details] [decoline] As the oldest independent film festival in Germany, DOK Leipzig is a FFL Festival Member we have longed to speak with since the very beginning. […]
Encounters Short Film And Animation Festival – Gateway to something big
[decoline]Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival: [details] [item title=”City”]Bristol[/item] [item title=”Country”]United Kingdom[/item] [item title=”Founded”]1995[/item] [item title=”Edition”]18th[/item] [item title=”Date”]09/18 – 09/23/2012 [/item] [item title=”URL”]Encounters[/item] [item title=”Entry fee”]25€[/item] [/details] [decoline] UK’s longest running competitive short and animation film festival – the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival is in its final call for entries stage. Last year […]
CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTION 2012
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its full competition line-up for 2012! The festival is one of the most important and popular festivals worldwide and one of the circuit’s highlights for both film professionals and film enthusiasts. This year, Cannes kicks off on May 16th and ends on the 27th. Opening film of the 65th […]
Bao Nguyen • INTERVIEWED
[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]28[/item] [item title=”Country”]United States/Vietnam[/item] [item title=”City”]New York/Saigon[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Director and cinematographer[/item] [item title=”Website”]www.baominhnguyen[/item] [item title=”Latest”] WHERE HEAVEN MEETS HELL [/item][/details] [decoline] Please meet the great talent Bao Nguyen that we got to know during the Berlinale festival. The 28 year old photographer and filmmaker is currently based in both New York and Saigon. […]
Rafael Balulu • INTERVIEWED
[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]31[/item] [item title=”Country”]Israel[/item] [item title=”City”]Afula[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Director and screen writer[/item] [item title=”Website”]rafaelbalulu.tumblr.com[/item] [item title=”Latest”] BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT [/item][/details] [decoline] Today is the last day of the Berlinale Talent Campus! Israeli director Rafael Balulu won the Berlin Today Award, the prestigious Talent Campus prize for upcoming filmmakers! The short film, BATMAN AT THE […]
Amirah Tajdin • INTERVIEWED
[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]25[/item] [item title=”Country”]Kenya[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Screen writer and director[/item] [item title=”Latest”] FLURESCENT SIN [/item][/details] [decoline] It is Berlinale time and FilmFestivalLife would like to introduce you to one of its Talent Campus participants Amirah Tajdin. The 25 year old filmmaker was originally born and brought up in Nairobi, but spend her teenage years in […]
Deema Amr • INTERVIEWED
[decoline][details] [item title=”City”]Amman[/item] [item title=”Country”]Jordan[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Screenwriter/Director/Producer[/item] [item title=”Latest”] A 7 hour Difference [/item][/details] [decoline] Meet Deema Amr, a young Jordanian filmmaker. After attending New York Film Academy, she has worked for various film related organizations such as the Royal Film Commision – Jordan, Walk film festival and Casting Jordan for which she was the […]
The ANIMATION Film Festival List
The genre animation films is a limitless field for experimental art of every color, exciting and often unconventional, bold and passionate, more inspiring than live action films. Film festivals also know this and that’s probably why there are so many festivals, in all kind of variations, dedicated to animated film. There are so many animation […]